Okay, here's the complete PA Up in Lights movie section:
Frank Zollo Productions has offered Victoria Winslow, author of Reality of You a movie deal. In addition to being credited as the film's screenwriter, Ms. Winslow will also work as one of the film's producers.
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Coming Home Again by Peter Riddle has been optioned by actor/producer Andrew Jackson for a feature film, scheduled to be shot in the summer of 2009.
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After his previously expected Invisible Ink movie deal with Dare 2 Dream productions fell through, Carl Veno wrote a screenplay and is producing a movie called Little Chicago, which is based upon a chapter in Invisible Ink.
Actors and the director are being chosen for the movie this summer and filming is expected to begin in October 2007.
Little Chicago the movie is based on a true story about a businessman-turned-gangster during the Prohibition era. The scenes are set in Olean, New York, Niagara Falls, New York, and Bradford, Pennsylvania.
The movie will incorporate the spirit and music of the 1920s, when Al Capone spent a night in the small town of Olean, New York.
The movie will be in shot primarily in Western New York and northern Pennsylvania.
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The book Vortex of Revelation by A.B. Keller, which is stocked in a whopping 42 bookstores spanning 21 states, has entered production for a movie! Filming for Vortex of Revelation will begin in June 2007, and the movie will be shot on-location in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Some members of the crew at Kodron Productions have won, or been nominated for, Emmy, Cleo, and Cloney awards in their careers.
Over 1000 people from 24 states are involved in this massive grassroots effort to film Vortex Of Revelation, and the music soundtrack of the movie now has 17 different Christian recording artists from all over America including the Philadelphia Boys Choir, who will perform several choral pieces.
PA Books Become Movies!The independent film based on A.J. Conley's The Monster's Mind earned an average score of 4.55 out of a possible 5.0 at the Rome International Film Festival in Georgia. This score, based on audience reviews, ranked The Monster's Mind fifth out of the approximately 35 feature films competing at the festival.
Due to its high score at the Rome festival, The Monster's Mind will be shown at festivals across the country, and has been entered for consideration at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival!
Way to go, A. J. Conley!
PA Books Become Movies!Congratulations are also in order for author Benjamin Frazier! His PublishAmerica book, Shelly’s Diary –a fictional account of isolation, southern charm, and murder in Appalachia- is now a feature-length film that stars Stella Parton (Dolly’s sister) and Traci Dinwiddie (of Dawson’s Creek and The Notebook). Expect to see Shelly’s Diary in a theatre near you.
Okay, taking them one at a time.
"Ms. Winslow will also work as one of the film's producers." That means that the filming is coming out of her pocket.
No hits for Frank Zollo or Victoria Winslow at IMDB.
This newspaper article (dated August 31, 2008) says that "Production for the film is slated to begin in the next couple of months." Well over a year has gone past, with no hint that production on this film ever took place.
This supposed film was discussed
here earlier.
There are no hits for
Coming Home Again or for Peter Riddle at IMDB. There are, however, entirely too many Andrew Jacksons there. Twenty-two of them. Of them, none were producing/directing/acting in a feature film in 2009.
Little Chicago apparently is moving forward. At the very least,
they have a web page. The
trailer looks really good. Carl Veno, the author, is the executive producer. Which means that he's paying for it.
An article in the
Olean Times Herald, quoted on the movie's website, dated September 27, 2009, starts out:
"With all the activity surrounding the production of the 'Unstoppable' movie currently being filmed in the area, producer of another film, 'Little Chicago,' say they continue to hold hope that their movie will get off the ground."
The article quotes Mr. Veno as saying, "The movie will be made, I promise you that."
Clearly, they did not make the October 2007 date. The film is not currently listed at the IMDB.
Shelly's Diary,
A Monster's Mind, and
Vortex of Revelation have already been discussed.