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

PhillyB

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On 2/5/2019 at 12:05 PM, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS DUDE

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On 2/5/2019 at 3:05 PM, PhillyB said:

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

Good for you!  I'm proud of you.  You stuck through the ups and downs and hopefully, I'm sure of it, you'll do well and continue to build on this.

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17 hours ago, SmittysLawnGuy said:

Your fugged up. Im making love on your copy or your firestick!

Not mine bro, but make all the love you want~ I'm just curious how the OP feels about it? Yes, its a production and money needs to be made. Yet its on one of the largest streaming sites in the world front page. People don't go to walmart to browse new titles. I'm curious how PhillyB feels about this robbery wearing the mask of advertising.

for the record, i wasn't the one to pirate it. 

 

P,S shout out to ninjavideo! Icefilms took over after ninjavideo got shut down!

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1 hour ago, coralreefer_1 said:

Not mine bro, but make all the love you want~ I'm just curious how the OP feels about it? Yes, its a production and money needs to be made. Yet its on one of the largest streaming sites in the world front page. People don't go to walmart to browse new titles. I'm curious how PhillyB feels about this robbery wearing the mask of advertising.

for the record, i wasn't the one to pirate it. 

 

P,S shout out to ninjavideo! Icefilms took over after ninjavideo got shut down!

 

“Hey OP, how do you feel about people stealing your work and money out of your pocket?”

 

Fwiw I don’t have a MBA or business degree but I imagine Wal-Mart wouldn’t sell DVDs if it didn’t make them money.

 

 

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I'm of the thought process that any exposure is good exposure.

Some people would never hear about this film if it wasn't pirated at some point, being brutally honest.

I'm not sure how PhillyB feels about it, but, ultimately it gets him exposure.

I'll buy the hard copy from Wally World this weekend probably.

@PhillyB Do you know if this will be optioned to Netflix at some point? I thought in the past you said it would. I'd love to push others I know to go stream it that don't have the Amazon option.

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7 hours ago, Bronn said:

I'm of the thought process that any exposure is good exposure.

Some people would never hear about this film if it wasn't pirated at some point, being brutally honest.

I'm not sure how PhillyB feels about it, but, ultimately it gets him exposure.

I'll buy the hard copy from Wally World this weekend probably.

@PhillyB Do you know if this will be optioned to Netflix at some point? I thought in the past you said it would. I'd love to push others I know to go stream it that don't have the Amazon option.

losing money to pirates is always a bummer, but luckily the market for pirating has been dramatically reduced over the past couple of years. we won't really lose that much from it.

netflix adjusted its model last year by yanking 90% of its acquisitions funding to put towards their own productions. they're no longer starving for content and don't plop six figures on films anymore. that said, if the amazon release goes well and it gets trending, it's very likely they snatch it up along with hulu. we're in the mix for some tv channels as well.

as of today it's on spectrum on demand, for those of you with a spectrum package you'd prefer to use:

 

 

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