Monday, January 16, 2012

Monkeyland Audio Update: January, 2012

The first few weeks of the year have been exciting ones for us, as the fruits of our hard work have really begun to blossom. Several projects we’ve had the pleasure of sound designing and mixing have secured solid distribution and are awaiting their theatrical debuts, while others are getting ready to impress on the festival circuit. Here’s a brief Monkey update:

The Devil Inside kicked off the year with an impressive opening weekend, bringing in over $50 Million in just over two weeks. Not bad for a low-budget horror flick! The Monkeyland sound editors, designers and mixers are excited to have been part of this intense job.

The Sundance Film Festival is currently hosting two projects fully mixed and edited at Monkeyland Audio. The first is Hip-hop family saga Filly Brown, which has made a spectacular debut in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Secondly, the raunchy, laugh-out-loud comedy Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie will be sure to have people talking for years to come! Billion Dollar Movie will stream on Demand on January 27th, followed by a theatrical release on March 2, 2012.

Also premiering at Sundance are Safety Not Guaranteed, Smashed, and Nobody Walks (ADR shot at Monkeyland) and Celeste and Jesse Forever (mixed by our friend Dave Barber on Monkeyland’s Dub Stage F). Best of luck to everyone!

Three films we designed and mixed will make their big stateside theatrical debuts this Spring: Valerie Weiss’ romantic comedy Losing Control, My Uncle Rafael (featuring a wonderfully fun performance by Vahik Pirhamzei as the titular main character), and the gritty Bangkok boxing drama, Knockdown aka The Bad Penny.

Spanish-language festival favorite Aqui Entre Nos will also be released theatrically this March across Mexico. We’re hoping this hilarious family dramedy will get U.S. distribution soon!

The next installment of David Jaffe’s Twisted Metal video game franchise hits stores on Valentine’s Day. The Monkeyland Audio crew was hired to provide full sound editorial and mix for the combat demolition game’s cinematic sequences. Thanks to Bruce Greenspan and Charles Maynes for jumping in and helping on some of the design!

Lastly, but certainly not least, we are extremely excited for the Monkeyland Sound Editorial crew for their 4 recently-announced Golden Reel nominations in three categories! The nominated projects are: Harlistas: An American Journey (Television Long Form Documentary), Koran By Heart (Television Long Form Documentary), Aim High (Computer Episodic Entertainment), Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure (Direct to Video). Wow! What an incredible way to start the year!

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/Monkeylandaudio) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/monkeylandaudio), or visit our website for the latest in Monkey news. We wish you all a prosperous 2012!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Monkeyland Starts New Year "Jewtopia" Style

Congratulations to director Bryan Fogel on the completion of his comedy "Jewtopia", based on one of the longest running off-Broadway plays of the same name. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Peter Stormare, Rita Wilson, Jon Lovitz, Wendie Malick, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Ivan Sergie and Joel David Moore.

All post production sound editorial and mixing completed here at Monkeyland. For more behind the scenes with the cast and crew on this and all our projects, check out the Monkeyland Facebook Page.

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