Jesulu Productions' new suspense-comedy affection film, Lady Magdalene's, has been called as one of alone 5 narrative-features, out of over 3,000 submissions, to be a finalist that will awning Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 4:45 PM, at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival, to be captivated September 29th to October 1st, 2008, at the AMC Universal City Walk, abutting to Universal Studios.
Admission to all Cinema City International Film Festival screenings, including the screening of Lady Magdalene's, is free.
Lady Magdalene's will be alone alien by its writer/director, acknowledging actor, and controlling producer, J. Neil Schulman.
Following the screening, at 7:00 PM, Schulman and Lady Magdalene's brilliant and added controlling producer, Nichelle Nichols ("Lady Magdalene"), will accommodated the columnist on the festival's red carpet, as will added Susan Smythe, who plays Agent Cynthia Seagate. The afterward day, October 1st, Nichelle Nichols will be a presenter at the festival's black-tie bright and accolade ceremony, a alms fund-raiser for acutely austere and afflicted American soldiers abiding from Iraq.
This will be the fourth blur anniversary Lady Magdalene's has played at back its premiere at the at the fifth anniversary San Diego Black Film Festival on February 2, 2008, area Lady Magdalene's won that festival's "Best Cutting Edge Film" award.
Nichelle Nichols is the iconic added who played "Uhura" on Star Trek, as able-bodied as accepting a accompanist apparent at age 16 by Duke Ellington.
Beginning in Fall 2007, Nichelle Nichols began actualization as "Nana Dawson," a alternating amateur on the NBC blockbuster television series, Heroes. In addition, Nichelle appeared in the 2008 blur Tru-Loved, stars in the accessible films The Torturer and This Bitter Earth, and is about to activate filming on the blur David.
As able-bodied as starring in Lady Magdalene's, Nichelle Nichols contributed her talents abaft the camera as choreographer, and artisan of two aboriginal songs for the film, which she performed as well.
Lady Magdalene's writer/director/producer, J. Neil Schulman, was ahead accepted as an award-winning biographer and journalist, whose aboriginal cine "Profile in Silver," is one of the best-remembered episodes of CBS's 1980's Twilight Zone series. He's currently alive on the new feature-length documentary, Dave Schwartz: Firsthand from the First Stand. A examination is on YouTube.
Schulman aswell contributed music and lyrics to 5 songs in the film, as able-bodied as arena the role of Ali the American, an al-Qaeda terrorist.
The Cinema City International Film Festival was founded in 2007 by adept director/writer/producer Suzanne DeLaurentiis. The first-annual Cinema City International Film Festival was called as a Top 25 blur anniversary by MovieMaker Magazine.
Lady Magdalene's star, Nichelle Nichols is an figure to millions of women, minorities,and science-fiction admirers for her groundbreaking role as "Uhura" on the archetypal TV alternation Star Trek and in six blockbuster affected appearance that followed. With bisected a dozen Star Trek TV alternation still in common alliance and a new above affection blur now in assembly by Paramount, Star Trek has become the a lot of assuredly acknowledged science-fiction authorization in history. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., alone assertive Nichelle not to abdicate the aboriginal series, adage her accepting a role archetypal as a chief arch administrator on Star Trek fabricated it one of the few TV alternation he'd acquiesce his own accouchement to watch.
In the backward 1970's, beneath arrangement to NASA, Nichelle Nichols took on the alarming assignment to auspiciously recruit the aboriginal women and boyhood astronauts for the United States Space Shuttle program, for which she accustomed NASA's Distinguished Public Service Award for her beat efforts. It was Nichelle Nichols who brought America its aboriginal six changeable astronauts including Dr. Sally K. Ride and Dr. Judith Resnick, and the aboriginal three macho African-American astronauts, Dr. Ronald McNair, Col. Guion S. Bluford, Jr., and Frederick D. Gregory , after NASA Acting Administrator. The aboriginal African-American changeable astronaut, Mae C. Jemison, MD, was anon aggressive to administer to NASA's amplitude flight affairs because of Nichelle's role as Uhura on Star Trek.
On January 9, 1992, Nichelle was awarded her much-deserved brilliant on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Just a few weeks before, she'd become the aboriginal African-American to abode her handprints and signature in the adhesive airing of the world-famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
In 2004 Nichelle Nichols was called as one of the International Human Rights Consortium's Fete d'Excellence laureate's. The acclamation reads: "You accept been called for the Medaille d'Excellence 2004 in the chic of 'Edutainment.' This is in acceptance of your accepting a accurate innovator, a woman of adventuresomeness and charge to the centermost ethics of arete through your ability aural the apple of ball and aswell as an avant-garde drillmaster and angel to acquirements and alarming the beginning minds and hearts of youth."
Lady Magdalene's has accustomed absolute babble reviews and accolades. Robin Rosenzweig autograph in the Beverly Hills Outlook describes Lady Magdalene's as "hilarious entertainment." Lee Michael Cohn in the Santa Monica Mirror calls Lady Magdalene's "an offbeat, adult comedy."
Steve Miller, autograph in a Rotten Tomatoes review, describes Lady Magdalene's as "a fun, fast-paced action comedy" that is "built like the archetypal comedies of the 1940s-1960s, complete with a agreeable number." Miller writes, "If writers of the avant-garde thrillers could appear up with twists and misdirections even a division as able as Schulman does here, I wouldn't acquisition myself apprehensive if the abstruseness is a asleep genre." Miller aswell writes that Nichelle Nichols "gives a achievement that is aces of an added of her adept status. She is adorable in this film."
Bestselling author, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, in an advanced review, writes that Lady Magdalene's is "action-humor evocative of a Bob Hope cine ... The casting is outstanding... The Software had all the twists in the appropriate places...powerful and so cautiously written... It is absolutely appearance apprenticed -- and that's what I admired about it. Definitely one that will compose itself into memory. It grows on you afterwards you accomplishment seeing it. I was still cerebration about it a anniversary later."
Tay Zonday, singer/songwriter of the hit song, "Cherry Chocolate Rain" writes on Youtube: "I adulation seeing Nichelle in a added textured role."
Tom Long, autograph in his Detroit News column, says Lady Magdalene's "stars Nichelle Nichols from Star Trek. Talk about anyone who can accessible a movie."
Rounding out Miss Nichols accomplished achievement is a beginning casting with backgrounds in movies, music, TV, modeling, and stage, including Groundlings alum Ethan Keogh (Bedazzled, Able Edwards) as Agent Jack Goldwater, Susan Smythe ("Best Actress" Award at the NY International Independent Film and Video Festival) as "Angel," Persian pop angel Claudia Lynx (West Wing, Legion of the Dead) as Scheherazade, above Calvin Klein archetypal Alexander Wraith (Hitch, Royal Kill) as Yassin Salem, London Drama Centre alum Mark Gilvary (Puritan, The Bard: The Story of Robert Burns), acceleration both as the Director of al Qaeda and as FBI abettor Curtis Broderick, Mara Marini (Darkworld, Porntourage) as Nurse Gretchen, Miss Teen All American Hope McBane (MTV's TRL and Housebroken) as Sinead, and Michele Redmond (HBO's Cathouse) as Eden.
Lady Magdalene's log band is, "After a prostitute's murder, a ashamed federal abettor buddies with a Nevada amazon to break an al-Qaeda plot."
More advice on the Cinema City International Film Festival on its official website at http://www.cciff.com/.
Contact:
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Monday, December 21, 2009
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.
"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.
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