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

*Titles, Shooting Dates and log lines subject to change*
Copyright 2008 PhillipsFilms and Cohen Phillips.

Well we're one month into 2008 and I thought I would go ahead and release news of the first few films of the new year I'm hoping to produce soon. These films are for all ages.
If they were going to 'rated,' they would all be PG. The films are as follows....

Terror Highway(Shooting February/March)- A horror short about a mother and daughter and what they encounter on a cross county trip. Malice endures!

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Yellow Polka Dot Bikini music video(Shooting May/June)-You've heard the swinging song now see the story come to life! Shot in groovy 60's style.

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What a way to start off my 15th year of film making!
We've got lots going on this year for everyone so stay tuned for more info/pics/silly stories from set!!

-Cohen Phillips
Director/Producer

Labels: 2008, Cohen Phillips, new projects, PhillipsFilms

*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

5 years ago today we were out at night shooting woods scenes of Laura Bilecki getting attacked by veins and pulled through the woods. I remember it was pretty nice out that night not to humid. Laura was the only one in the scene so Steven,
Anthony and myself stayed behind the camera. Laura was a real trooper and got right out there and did everything. No complaining. I haven't worked with any actresses like her that would let us tie veins around her and let us drag her through the woods.
Anthony's dad came and gave us power with the generator that night as I didn't have a power inverter at the time.
So now with Laura's attack all finished up(we had to do some re-shoots later on but more on that when the date comes around) we were almost complete with the outside shooting. We still hadn't found an interior set for the cabin. But we would find one soon enough and it would prove a great place for the rest of our film shoot. Till n(axe)t time...

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

(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: chainsaw, Cohen Phillips, PhillipsFilms

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

I'm going to be interviewed on a radio program, The Christian Comedy Show, this Saturday June 2nd at 10AM EST. Hope all my friends can listen in. :) Feel like you don't know me well enough? Well I bet you you'll find out some interesting things about me and hopefully it'll put a smile on your face!

See graphic for more info...
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Labels: blogtalkradio, Cohen Phillips, PhillipsFilms, The Christian Comedy Show, Tom Panavando

See it all together! Lip-Stick is now on Google Video for your viewing pleasure.
Click here to see the short silent film.

Labels: Charlie Chaplin, Damian Blake, Lip-Stick, old time movie, PhillipsFilms, silent film, slapstick