Award-Winning Comic Thriller, Lady Magdalene's, Released By Amazon.com Video On Demand

Lady Magdalene's -- the banana abstruseness starring Star Trek's aboriginal Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, that won "Best Cutting Edge Film" and "Audience Choice" awards in its film-festival play -- has just been appear by Amazon.com Video On Demand.

"The accommodation to absolution Lady Magdalene's for Video on Demand wasn't an simple one," said Lady Magdalene's writer/producer/director, J. Neil Schulman. "I still feel Lady Magdalene's has affected box-office potential, and afterwards the $11,000-unknown-actors abstruseness Paranormal Activity's gross of over $100 actor at the box appointment I don't anticipate any above indie affection should be accounting off as unreleasable, no amount how low its account or its abridgement of alleged A-list stars. But I charge to body audience-support for our cine and alternating with blur anniversary play I see Video on Demand as addition way of accomplishing that so distributors can admit our ample bartering abeyant both in affected absolution and after on DVD/Blu-Ray."

Lady Magdalene's tells the adventure of Jack Goldwater, a federal abettor who gets in agitation when, on a jetliner, he searches the violin case of a adolescent Arab-American he suspects is an al Qaeda operative, and as abuse for ancestral profiling is assigned to be the federal receiver in allegation of active a Nevada brothel in tax default. There he meets the brothel's bright owner, Lady Magdalene -- played by the iconic Nichelle Nichols -- and his appointment takes a larboard about-face when, with her help, they ascertain that one of the alive girls is allotment of a calm al Qaeda corpuscle with affairs to bootleg in a crate from Mexico that's declared to be unloaded at Hoover Dam. It's a plot-driven anxiety abstruseness with lots of banana abatement and able appearance interplay.

Why hasn't Lady Magdalene's begin a bartering benefactor to put it into brick-and-mortar venues yet?

"Some studios will not even attending at an indie blur not accent by stars on their white-list," said Schulman. "Other studios will not accede distributing indie films anymore, period. I anticipate the botheration is that a lot of indie films are fabricated for specialized audiences, admitting -- even with our account limitations -- I wrote, directed, and cut Lady Magdalene's to absorb as advanced an admirers as we could get in foreground of. But studios accept gotten into the mindset of cerebration that if they don't accept an aloft the band of $20 actor and a special-effects account of $40 actor again audiences will not buy tickets. Steven Spielberg -- by absolution Paranormal Activity -- has already afresh accepted why he knows added than all the blow of Hollywood's active put together. I'm just acquisitive that we'll bolt the absorption of some flat advisers who ambition to prove themselves as acute as Spielberg."

"Then again," Schulman says, "these days, any time you accomplish a cine that has al Qaeda characters in it, you're accused of accepting either left-wing anti-American or a bourgeois NeoCon. It's harder for a filmmaker like me to argue the studios that I was just aggravating to acquaint a acceptable adventure with abreast capacity that are in the account every day."

"Reviewers accept alleged Lady Magdalene's a comedy," Schulman continues, "but it's absolutely added in the brand of a 50's Hitchcock cine like North by Northwest area you accept a beeline anxiety artifice with common banana relief. This blueprint was connected in the 60's with the Bond films. Of advance I was cutting a cine for a bisected actor instead of studio-level budgets, so I had to be decidedly artistic in how to accord audiences the consequence they're seeing lots of action. I've been cogent humans that I fabricated a Jerry Bruckheimer covering pole on an Ed Wood budget. It helped a lot that I had acceptance to abundant Nevada locations. The point is, admitting my low budget, I was aggravating to acquaint the best adventure I could with the best actors I could get, and use every ambush in the book to accomplish the admirers discount that I couldn't acquiesce to blast or abstract something up every 5 minutes. But in accession to some abundant performances I aswell anticipate we accept a kick-ass agreeable soundtrack -- with aboriginal songs and performances, including three by Nichelle Nichols -- that can battling movies fabricated for fifty times what ours cost."

Full advice on Lady Magdalene's -- including trailer, buzz, reviews, photos, and music videos -- are on the movie's official website at http://www.ladymagdalenes.com.

Lady Magdalene's can be begin by analytic on Amazon.com Video on Demand as either a auction or rental.

Lady Magdalene's: The Musical Soundtrack can aswell be begin on Amazon.com as either a two-CD set or as MP3 downloads.