I made a movie called Point Man and it finally released today

[TheRumGone]

18 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

i do! it hasn't been officially announced yet but we'll be shooting in south america next spring, hopefully with woody harrelson in tow.

God damn that’s badass. I have a friend of a friend who worked on that movie that was in Sylva, NC. Said woody was a really awesome, nice guy. Good luck philly!

[Skack25]

Congrats @PhillyB 

[JARROD]

1 hour ago, PhillyB said:

i do! it hasn't been officially announced yet but we'll be shooting in south america next spring, hopefully with woody harrelson in tow.

Wow are you writing, producing and directing?  

It’s too bad that I’ve become much more obsessed with movie making in my 40s. If I had known that I love the process like this 20 years ago I may have studied movie production instead of business.

 

 

[Chaos]

We need a thread on Woody Harrelson's greatest roles so as not to hijack this thread.

[trueblade]

14 minutes ago, Chaos said:

We need a thread on Woody Harrelson's greatest roles so as not to hijack this thread.

While not his greatest, Tobias Beckett is still one of my favorite of his roles.

Congratulations @PhillyB. Not my usual genre (as my previous statement might indicate), but I might check it out.

[saints4lifeagain]

Congrats man. That’s awesome. Next time I’m in WalMart I’ll pick up a copy. 

[Devil Doc]

Congrats bro, I haven't been on enough to follow the whole process. Who is in charge of wardrobe and props, they did a good job making it period specific. I think I contacted you about my friend who acts on an PM, he is decent and cheap.. lol. I'll make sure to check it out. I can tell the movie isn't an typical era flick. 

[Ted Ginn Jr.'s Hands]

Congrats man, I'll check it out this weekend

[frash.exe]

this is fuging awesome. i’m happy for you, phil.

[4Corners]

Might watch it this weekend 

[Carl Spackler]

23 hours ago, PhillyB said:

After three years of constant work, four threads on the huddle, two huddlers cast in roles, and wearing on everyone else's nerves talking about it, I can finally announce that Point Man is complete and has been launched in the U.S. and Canada. As of this morning it's available for streaming on Amazon and iTunes and it's stocked at every Walmart in the nation. I waltzed my happy ass in the morning to buy my own copy and stood there with goosebumps staring at it for a solid five minutes.

 

This thing has the Huddle's fingerprints written all over it. Many years ago I posted my travel photos here and @Jeremy Igo told me I had an eye for photography - the first time a professional had told me such a thing. It gave me the confidence to pursue something visual of this nature. Ditto the shot at writing articles for the site in 2015. I learned people liked my writing and maybe I could do something big with it.

When I started Point Man it was just a backyard summer project. I was going to shoot it in North Carolina and enter it in a couple of festivals. The fundraising went far better than expected and changed all that. Kind folks like @RoaringRiot, @cookinwithgas, @ARSEN, @Chaos, @Cary Kollins, and @Captroop selflessly donated to the upstart campaign. It was all enough to rent a Huey helicopter for our first production dates, which gave us the production value boost needed to get investors on board. @Paa Langfart kindly milled a prop for us. Casting gave us Charlotte native and Panthers fan Chris Long in the lead role, and the Huddle's own @OneBadCat in a supporting role, with @Moorgan and a number of others joining us on set in background roles.

Investment dollars gave us a shot at making a film that could get distribution and reach the world. On an unbelievably small budget we moved principle photography to Cambodia, providing us a world-class shooting location with unmistakably Southeast Asian topography as the backdrop for our film. We filmed over half the movie there, and later in the year ducked across the border and officially became the first original narrative Vietnam War film in American cinematic history to shoot on location in Vietnam. Big deal for a little shitcan production and a rookie director.

 

We returned home to film domestically. @arbnranger set us up with some studio housing for a scene. @KJ89 did all our background photography and got us the shots needed for Sony to do our film poster. Speaking of Sony... last summer we inked a contract with Sony Entertainment and Vision Films to represent Point Man as our global distributor. They made some edits and we kicked off our world tour: a premiere back in Phnom Penh, a cast-and-crew premiere in Greensboro ( @Cat, @Johnny Rockets, @Floppin, @cookinwithgas, and others attended) and an award-winning circuit in Australia. We closed it out at the Academy Award qualifying St. Louis Int'l Film Festival last year and buckled in for the release.

And that day is today.

 

Point Man showing up in fuggin Walmart is an inextricable product of the kindness of the Huddle community, many of them strangers to me before this unexpected and incredible journey began. I am grateful to be able to present it here now and finally stop making these goddamn Point Man threads. Thanks to everyone who was a part of all this - you have my undying gratitude.

Now go buy my fucking movie!

Stream it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Point-Man-Christopher-Long/dp/B07NBRWYRJ/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/point-man/id1448565221

Walmart DVD: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Point-Man-DVD/770242663

 

 

Congrats, Phil! This is really cool and totally justifying of spending a lot of time in Cambodia

[carpanfan96]

awesome. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but I'll be buying it through Amazon when I can. 

[SOJA]

yes Philly! This is fuging awesome!

[Newtcase]

@PhillyBDang man your movie is already pirated.