"Ever wonder what love does to a memory? How about what a memory does to love?" Check out this new Valentine's Day romance horror short if you're in the mood for something a bit scary. Cautionary Tale is a 15-min short made by up-and-coming filmmaker J.L. Topkis and it is, well, a cautionary tale about being addicted to your phone. Starring Larkin Bell and Carlie Young, with an innovative glitch art editing style by Scott Morris (you have to watch to understand what this means). Text messages from beyond the grave reshape a woman’s life by warning her whenever she’s done something for the last time. This goes hand-in-hand with the trailer that also debuted on the same day for Love Again, about a woman who texts her dead fiance. What an eerie coincidence! This is a pretty trippy short, the editing is a bit jarring at first...
- 2/14/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Gray Ghost : The Lost Reel from Jake Topkis on Vimeo. Heart-Beat Productions presents a short film Directed by J.L. Topkis and Written by Matt Landsman. We are filmmakers with a life-long passion for Bruce Timm’s Batman: The Animated Series. “Growing up Batman was our childhood hero, therefore we made a short piece about Batman’s own childhood hero - The Gray Ghost.” Based on the classic 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Beware, The Gray Ghost,’ our film chronicles the live-action adventures of The Gray Ghost aka Simon Trent. In the animated series, Trent (voiced by Adam West) is depicted as a down-on-his-luck actor who was typecast for life playing a masked avenger on a black-and-white serialized TV show. In the classic episode, Batman was searching for a lost reel the TV show in order to solve a copycat crime. Our film presents The Gray Ghost as...
- 9/2/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
Gone Girl
Empire's winter preview issue showcases some new photos from David Fincher's thriller adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel "Gone Girl" starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Fincher calls it a date movie that will "end 15 million marriages," and we'll see for ourselves in early October. [Source: Empire]
Release Date Changes
Warner Bros. Pictures have moved up the release of the "Magic Mike" sequel by two days. The film is now slated for release on July 1st 2015.
The Jason Bateman-narrated "Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary" has been slated for an April 24th 2015 release.
Finally the rom-com "Love, Rosie" starring Sam Claflin and Lily Collins is set to score a theatrical release in early 2015 in the United States through distributor The Film Arcade.
The Gray Ghost
One iconic element of "Batman: The Animated Series" was The Gray Ghost, a TV superhero character played by an actor named Simon...
Empire's winter preview issue showcases some new photos from David Fincher's thriller adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel "Gone Girl" starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Fincher calls it a date movie that will "end 15 million marriages," and we'll see for ourselves in early October. [Source: Empire]
Release Date Changes
Warner Bros. Pictures have moved up the release of the "Magic Mike" sequel by two days. The film is now slated for release on July 1st 2015.
The Jason Bateman-narrated "Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary" has been slated for an April 24th 2015 release.
Finally the rom-com "Love, Rosie" starring Sam Claflin and Lily Collins is set to score a theatrical release in early 2015 in the United States through distributor The Film Arcade.
The Gray Ghost
One iconic element of "Batman: The Animated Series" was The Gray Ghost, a TV superhero character played by an actor named Simon...
- 8/29/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Why Watch? Batman has probably inspired more fan films than any other character, but I appreciate this short film from J.L. Topkis and Matt Landsman because it moves beyond the typical cosplay action sequence by channeling a Batman television show that channeled the Batman serials. They take their inspiration from a 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series (aka the best Batman TV show ever) where young Bruce Wayne is shown watching a show called The Gray Ghost and, in the present-day as Batman, has to find a copy of the show in order to solve a copycat crime. As a bonus, Adam West voices the actor who plays the Gray Ghost in the Animated Series episode. Here, Topkis and Landsman have imagined the show within a show as a real adventure series, crafting a live-action hero who leaps into young Bruce Wayne’s life at exactly the right moment (with some Sin City-style CGI to help...
- 8/28/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
"Remember kid: this is the only law left in this town." Damn this is cool. A couple of friends, who grew up with Batman as their childhood hero, have decided to make a short film inspired by the classic 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series, 'Beware The Gray Ghost'. Titled The Gray Ghost, this short film chronicles the live-action adventures of "The Gray Ghost" aka Simon Trent. In the original animated series, Trent (voiced by Adam West) is depicted as a down-on-his-luck actor who was typecast for life playing a masked avenger on a black-and-white serialized TV show. This short film plays like a "lost reel" from the old serialized show, and it's very well done for something some friends made in their spare time. Check this out! From their Vimeo page: Heart-Beat Productions presents a short film Directed by J.L. Topkis and Written by Matt Landsman. "We are filmmakers...
- 8/27/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Heart-Beat Productions has created a live-action short inspired by the Batman: The Animated Series episode titled “Beware The Gray Ghost.” The episode reveals that Bruce Wayne’s childhood hero was The Gray Ghost and that the fictional TV show character might be connected to a string of recent heists in Gotham. Fans will remember that The Gray Ghost was voiced by '60s TV Batman star Adam West.
Directed by J.L. Topkis and written by Matt Landsman, The Gray Ghost : The Lost Reel is a fun noir adaptation of what it could have been like if it were an actual show. It would be great to see someone do a whole web series based on “lost episodes” of The Gray Ghost.
Directed by J.L. Topkis and written by Matt Landsman, The Gray Ghost : The Lost Reel is a fun noir adaptation of what it could have been like if it were an actual show. It would be great to see someone do a whole web series based on “lost episodes” of The Gray Ghost.
- 8/27/2014
- by Free Reyes
- GeekTyrant
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