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Last Updated: 11/30/2009

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Monday, September 21, 2009 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, filmed in three of the five NYC borrows at end of 2007, edited there in 2008 and toured around the US in 2009 is finally returning home for sneak preview at the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival before it’s official release in early 2010.

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September 26th, 2009, Saturday afternoon at 5:30, in the Paley Center for Media (25 W 52nd St – you might recognize that as the Museum of TV and Radio) will mark the New York City premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, a vampire comedy that was conceived and realized in the big apple.

Click here for tix.


The Friars Club, famous for its rowdy celebrity roasts, first televised in the late 1960s, as part of the The Dean Martin Show. From 1998-2002, the roasts were broadcast on Comedy Central.


A bit of trivia: In 2001,  Hugh Hefner's roastat The Club was the scene of Gilbert Gottfried's public telling of the Aristocrats joke, made famous by the documentary of the same name.


Past members include Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Marx Brothers, Sammy Davis Jr., Billy Crystal, and Johnny Carson among many others.


So, to celebrate this momentous occasion – and because we sold out our first batch of T-Shirts – we’ve designed a new, softer t-shirt, available on-line at the undead store.

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For more info and pictures check out our blog: Undead News.

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 
The 2009 Strasbourg International FIlm Festival has nominated “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” for Best Production Design and Best Wardrobe. 

We’re all very proud, over here at Undeadflick.com (and the "Rosencrantz World" in general) because when we set out to make a film about Shakespeare, Vampires and the Holy Grail, we wished we had a bazillion dollars to make it look like Coppola’s “Dracula,” Herzog’s more natural “Nosferatu” and Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” – meets “Shakespeare in Love” and a sprinkling of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.”

But we soon realized 97.4 percent of the budget was going towards other things. Like the camera and lights, for instance, and a little thing called “food.” But when I saw Production Designer Darsi Monaco, turn cardboard, paint and styrofoam into gold and with the help of her awesome, hard working art department, bring the sets to life in a mix of vibrant antiquity and eerie, vampiric majesty – I was one thankful, joyous director. 

And words cannot describe the magic worked by Costume Designer Cameron Folan , who, with help of Denise Maroney and Lisa Henessy, provided such a gorgeous wardrobe that to the untrained eye it would appear that they probably stole it from the Costume Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I still wonder…

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 
We’re excited to announce that Sean Lennon’s brilliantly composed, masterfully arranged, delicately executed, sexy, humorous, and other worldly soundtrack to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead” will be released worldwide through Chimera Music in the fall.
 
US release date will be Tuesday Oct 28.
Oct 27 UK / Europe
Oct 29 France
Oct 31 Germany
November TBA Japan

There is an exclusive preview of music and scenes from the film at
 chimeramusic.com
 
The score adds to a long list of collaborations between Sean Lennon and Jordan Galland over the past decade, which includes co-writing the script of Galland’s awarding winning short film  “Smile for the Camera” (2005) as well as touring, performing and writing music and lyrics for the rock band Dopo Yume and Lennon’s critically acclaimed solo record “Friendly Fire”(2006).

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
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Currently reading:
A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond
By Christine Vachon
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 
Monday, March 16, 2009 
My friend, Jansen Cinco, a multi-talented musician, accompanied me to Toronto this past weekend to play keyboards at an acoustic showcase at the Canadian Music Week Conference right after the screening of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead at the National Film Board. Armed with Mac’s Flip camera he captured some scenes from the trip. We joked about one of us trying to film the show while it was happening, but we couldn't balance the cameras on our toes. The screening went really well thanks to Todd Brown, the brilliant man behind the program.