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!

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.

MLA congratulates our clients headed to Sundance 2012

Congratulations to "Filly Brown" and "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie"! Both films were selected last week to premiere at next month's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Filly will screen in the U.S Dramatic Film Category and Billion Dollar Movie as part of the Park City at Midnight series... Complete audio post on both done at Monkeyland. Also headed to Sundance in dramatic competition is the film "Safety Not Guaranteed", which came to Monkeyland for their ADR recording needs. Kudos to everyone involved.

Check out the latest trailers for these films here: Filly Brown Sundance Teaser | Billion Dollar Movie Trailer

Other previous Sundance films mixed at Monkeyland include "An Inconvenient Truth", "The Kids Are Alright", "Dig!" (Feature Doc Grand Jury Prize), "The Woman", "Climate Refugees", "Sergio", "American Son", "Smiley Face", "Adventures of Power", "Mysterious Skin" and "But I'm a Cheerleader"...