Friday, July 13, 2012

Tentative shooting schedule

July 28/29 - Peel/The Fan
August 4/5 - Peel/The Fan

Saturdays and Sundays in August/September: Monster of Party Beach

Wanna be famous?

Well, I can't guarantee that, but I can guarantee you'll have fun being in one of our movies. We want you!
Sounds like fun! How can I get in on this action?

CASTING CALL! 

Cyclops Movies wants YOU for a role in MONSTER OF PARTY BEACH!

There are both speaking and non-speaking parts. It's a beach movie, kids, so you'll need some sweet 60s dancing skills and will rockin' a bikini, bathing suit, or surfer shorts!

If dancing in a bikini and getting killed by a rubber-suit monster sounds like your idea of a good time, email me at cyclopsmovies.mark@gmail.com


Feel free to send a pic or two if you'd like. No previous experience required. We're just going to have fun!

You KNOW you want to be in one of our movies!

Monster of Party Beach is being written as we speak. It's going to be funny and gory, the best of both worlds.
We're excited to be getting some talented and enthusiastic people who want to be part of what we're doing! We're looking for a few more people - if you'd like to have fun, join us!
Hope to see you soon... at Party Beach...

email me at cyclopsmovies.mark@gmail.com

Attention, musicians!


Looking for some surf-rock music for part of the musical score for Monster of Party Beach. If you know a cool surf-rock band or have some original music that you'd like to have considered for our movie, send it our way!

email me at cyclopsmovies.mark@gmail.com

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Ever since I was a kid...


Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. Perhaps I was influenced too much by the Little Rascals’ lavish musical productions. Those poor kids never seemed to need money or anything. They just decided to put on a huge musical number, and voila, there they were, on a lit stage, in full costume, playing to a packed house. Watching those shorts always made me believe I could the same exact thing.
I know how ridiculous as that sounds. Maybe it’s just me, but I always have dreamed and planned things on the grandest of scales and honestly believed I could attain everything I dreamt. Why not?
In my 5th grade English class, we got divided into small groups and had to put on a play for the class. I wanted to do Star Wars. The whole movie. While the other groups were squandering their time trying to find the easiest thing to do, I was figuring out how I, as Darth Vader, was going to pick up the Rebel Soldier by the neck as I try to choke some information out of him.
Ultimately, we ran out of time and weren’t able to perform Star Wars, so in a moment’s notice, we switched gears and acted out The Three Little Pigs. My teacher was less than impressed, and I was utterly disappointed. Why did no one else care to do this grand thing? Was there no one else who wanted to enact an elaborate spectacle that would surely make the Little Rascals proud? Did no one else share my vision, passion, or enthusiasm?
I remember this event like it was yesterday and still feel both the sense of spectacle that I wanted to create as well as the inexorable encroachment of time and smack of ultimate failure to produce my baby. It’s a good thing I’m not bitter about it.
This lone event, several lifetimes ago, is a driving force behind Cyclops Movies. I want to create and produce grand spectacles the kind of which that 5th grade me would have peed his pants to do. Cylops Movies works with the same kind of budget that the Little Rascals had to work with, next to nothing, but we’re going to have a blast making our movies. We hope you have just as much fun watching them.