Day 3 of shooting on the comedy pilot was fun! We had Charla Phillips Roller and Carlea Stafford back on set today for filming. Plus Kathy Phillips made her acting debut as well in a fun bit cameo role. Below are photos from the 3rd day of shooting. It looks like one more day of filming is needed and then we'll be wrapped on this movie. Enjoy the photos!

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Sam,getting chocked,(Cohen Phillips) and Jack(Anthony Myers) run into a angry business manager(Kathy Phillips).

Cinematographer Dan Phillips keeps the production looking classy. Charla Phillips Roller is holding the boom mic in background.

And now for some portraits of some of the characters...
JACK
SAM
MISTY
JANE
Here's the crazy bunch! :P

And a normal picture of all of the cast on set today.

Labels: Anthony Myers, Carlea Stafford, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, comedy film, filming location, independent film, Kathy Phillips, PhillipsFilms, short film

"HEAT ON THE STREET" is our latest film that is currently in production. The story covers two detectives in the late 50's on a case of jewel thieves. But sometimes you have to play both sides if you want to get what you want, right?
Find out in "HEAT ON THE STREET" starring Charla Phillips as Victoria Halliwell and Cohen Phillips as Slade Farrow. Below is the the first two official pictures from the movie. Enjoy and stay tuned for more updates right here on the PhillipsFilms blog!

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Labels: 1950's, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, film noir, independent film, PhillipsFilms, Slade Farrow, Victoria Halliwell

*This is my latest short film that is now online for all to view!!*
This short film, Classroom Liaisons, I did for a contest on filmshooting.com
You had to follow a theme which was..

"Two people meet. Things are unsaid and it's obvious that one of them is waiting for something. Suddenly a third person arrives, and everything we've come to expect is turned upside down."

Plus the film had to be under 5 minutes so to squeeze all that in was hard but I think it turned out quite well. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2KuARSFLw0

Stars Charla Phillips, Autumn Lindsay & Anthony Myers.
Directed by Cohen Phillips

Labels: Anthony Myers, Autumn Lindsay, Charla Phillips, Classroom Liaisons, Cohen Phillips, drama, PhillipsFilms, short film

On this date in 2002 we were shooting the first of the basement shots for Return to the Woods. The basement wasn't apart of the cabin set interior we used. The basement is the one we have under our own house. In the 5 years that have passed from shooting this it could still be used as nothing much has changed down there. Well maybe a few more cobwebs.
The scenes only involed myself, Cohen Phillips(playing the charcter of James) Anthony Myers(Derick) and Charla Phillips(Geri). Laura Bilecki came and helped behind the scenes for this scene as well serving as script girl. Here is the group below from that night of filming.

The shooting went fairly smoothly from what I can remember. The basement isn't a full basement it's dug out. So getting down there can be tricky. I know Anthony bumped his head once on a pipe. It was so good and he thought it would be funny that we did a take with him hitting his head. This didn't make it into the final cut but with the re-edit coming soon I think I'm going to put it back in. In this scene also we find the Book of the Dead and famous tape player with the translations sayings on it that awake the dead. We had a few hints and nods to the Evil Dead series and creators in this scene. Some of the takes with alterative lines will be used in the re-edit of the film that will be coming soon and that will be up on the net.

I've had some people email me asking me if Return to the Woods is on the net and it is. Just go here to view the film online. Below are a few more photos from that night's worth of filming.


Anthony Myers as Derick in Return to the Woods


Cohen Phillips as James in Return to the Woods


Ehhhh...a cobweb disrupts are filming!


A nutty cast indeed!

Labels: Anthony Myers, Book fo the Dead, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, Evil Dead, fan film, Laura Bilecki, Return to the Woods, tribute film

(The first cast photo from Aug 7th 2002.)

August 8th 2002 we were out shooting Return to the Woods! We didn't have any interior cabin set at the time so we shot all the outside woods scenes first. I remember it was a pretty hot day out. And from filming on the 1st day(Aug 7th 2002) and this day I knew we had a great cast together and it was going to be a lot of fun shooting this. On this 2nd day of filming we shot 'the evil force' slamming into a tree and knocking it down almost crushing poor Derick(Anthony Myers) Everyone did all there own stunts here folks! haha Even Anthony peeing his pants, but more on that later.

The shoot would go into several weeks in production. With a week or two that went by with nothing done because school started back in session. And all of us were in school at that time. :) So here are are few "flashback" photos from our 1st and 2nd day of shooting Return to the Woods. As more dates come along we filmed on I'll post a mini-retrospective of that day plus photos ect. So stay tuned for an 'axe'clusive look back at the making of Return to the Woods and what's to follow.


(Shots from Aug 7th and Aug 8th 2002 shooting)

Labels: Anthony Myers, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, Evil Dead, fan film, Laura Bilecki, PhillipsFilms, Return to the Woods, Steven McClurg, tribute film

The hype is finally over and the cat is out of the bag. Return to the Woods 5th Anniversary teaser is now up on the net.

You can find the video above or go here.

This special teaser trailer marks the 5th Anniversary of Evil Dead:Return to the Woods a non-profit fan/tribute film. Production started on August 7th of 2002.
Could there be more out there in the woods?
Keep your Axe sharp and stay tuned!

Labels: Anthony Myers, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, Evil Dead, fan film, horror movie, indie film, Laura Bilecki, PhillipsFilms, Return to the Woods, Steven McClurg, tribute film

Labels: Anthony Myers, Charla Phillips, Cohen Phillips, evil, Laura Bilecki, PhillipsFilms, Steven McClurg

OnSuper8.org has featured Lip-Stick on there blog! They are also hosting the film on there podcast in HD!!! The direct link to the film is here.
The film really looks great on here.
They also had a Q&A with me. You can find all this at the this link.

Thank you OnSuper8.org for keeping Super 8 alive in the 21st century!

Labels: 16mm, Charla Phillips, Charlie Chaplin, Cohen Phillips, Damian Blake, onsuper8.org, silent film, Super 8mm