LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mike the Pike Productions, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MIKP) (www.mtpprods.com) and Ryan Colucci’s* Spoke Lane Entertainment proudly announce that the partners have secured industry favorite Filmworks FX (www.filmworksfx.com) for its recently announced high concept sci-fi thriller, ‘White Space’.
Colucci notes, “We’re keeping a lot under wraps in line with announcement strategy, but the project is set in a visually stunning deep space, 2150 AD.”
Filmworks will provide comprehensive services including visual effects and state-of-the-art digital intermediate, “with significant in-kind savings on services which could normally run most projects millions of dollars,” states MTP CEO/President, Mark B. Newbauer, “and with potential production value for ‘White Space’ in excess of $25,000,000.00. We are thrilled to have officially launched this project with principle photography set for Los Angeles, California, June 2011.”
Filmworks FX is home to a production and complete post-production pipeline that includes pre-visualization and planning, visual effects, digital intermediate, editorial, animation, digital and film acquisition, and more. Filmworks/FX routinely works with major commercial and motion picture companies including Sony Pictures, Fox Searchlight, Walden Media, Mandate Pictures, and Lionsgate. The visual effects team has provided high-end work on such films as Red Riding Hood, Knight and Day, The Terminal and Apocalypto, to name a few.
As well, Filmworks/FX, Inc. has strategically partnered with New Deal Studios to widen its offerings to include miniatures, set construction, design, rapid prototyping, shooting stages, a back lot, digital effects, motion control, and miniature photography. New Deal Studios’ credits include Inception, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Watchmen. The companies’ demo reels can be viewed on www.filmworksfx.com and www.newdealstudios.com, respectively.
Principle photography commences on June 6, 2011 and the company will announce principle cast, above the line crew and significant assets on board for the project prior to.
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MTP Producers Ryan Colucci, Beth Newbauer and Mark B. Newbauer present: George R.R. Martin’s THE SKIN TRADE: From the best-selling author behind HBO’s Game of Thrones comes this white knuckle chiller with a string of unsolved murders immersed deep in lycan lore. When a series of grotesque killings strikes her small hometown, private detective Randi Wade becomes suspicious. The grisly murders remind her all too much of her own father's death nearly 20 years ago. Now there is a killer in town who not only slays his victims, but also takes their skin. Undaunted, Randi takes the case head-on as the murders continue, each more brutal than the last. When a close friend suddenly becomes a target, he is forced to reveal a startling secret about himself and Randi is quickly pulled into a dark world within her own town where monsters do exist and even they have something to fear...
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*Ryan Patrick Colucci (born 1978) is an American feature film producer and writer. Colucci was born in Levittown, NY and later moved to Syosset, NY. After graduating from USC's Peter Stark Producing Program, he worked at Snoot Entertainment, where he was a producer on the CG-animated feature Battle for Terra. That film premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and was released on May 1, 2009 from Lion’s Gate and Roadside Attractions, in both 2D and 3D. It was on the Academy Award short-list for the Best Animated Film Oscar in 2009.
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