Well, here it is, the day that every filmmaker dreams about, huh? CHOP is available all over North America today and that means that it's probably already available for illegal download, as well. But I'm hoping that those of you who know me and visit the site will if not buy it, then at least rent it on iTunes or order it on VOD today ... CHOP is an example of truly independent filmmaking and no one will be "sticking it to The Man" by downloading it off of Bittorrent ... It's readily available on iTunes, Amazon, Target, WalMart, and other retailer's websites and conveniently on VOD if you're so inclined:
It was a little over two years ago that I called "that's a wrap" on CHOP and a lot has happened since then, but I just wanted to take a moment to thank EVERYONE that was involved in the film ... screenwriter Adam Minarovich (without whom there would be no movie), Executive Producer Pan Dongming (there would SERIOUSLY be no movie without his generous input and trust in me), Producers Jeff Hamilton and Chad Ferrin and the rest of the crew, my awesome cast - in particular Timothy Muskatell and Billy Bakshi, who were there every day. Also all of the festivals that played the film (too many to mention individually), and of course Bloody Disgusting Selects/Salient Media/The Collective for picking up the film.
I'm hoping that some reviews start to go up this week ... I'm quite curious to see how actual paying customers respond to the film. But in the meantime, I'm gonna throw up a few significant links right here along with a few behind-the-scenes shots ...
RYAN'S REVIEWS is a site that's been super-supportive of the movie and did three interviews for the release:
Ryan's Reviews Interviews Lead Actor Billy Bakshi
Ryan's Reviews Interviews Producer Jeff Hamilton
Ryan's Reviews Interviews Director Trent Haaga
Like I said, I hope to put up some links to some reviews this week (and I also plan on another festival announcement, if you can believe that!), but in the meantime, here's a new and (almost ridiculously) positive review that went up this week:
IGOR'S LAB Reviews CHOP
Well I guess that's it for now, but I'll be back several times in the next week ... Gotta do my end of the year "Best and Worst of" list and I'm planning to do a pretty ridiculous giveaway very soon. But you'll have to come back here to find out what it is!
Oh, and go purchase a copy of CHOP, whydontcha?
-T
2 comments:
Congrats on the big release, Trent. Went out and picked up my copy this morning. Very exciting to see it sitting on the shelves when I walked into the store (Wal Mart, of all places!). Now that this one is behind ya, get ta crackin' on another one soon!
Thanks for the support, man, and happy upcoming b-day! I'm making the steps to shoot another one very soon - stay tuned!
T
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