Mick Foley Lends Voice to Hellevator Man
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Blanc/Biehn Productions Continue Hellevator Man Anthology with FX Master Vincent Guastinis’ “The Future Executive”
Mick Foley signs up to take you on the ride as the MAN himself! First-Time Director Vincent Guastini Brings Special Eye for Detail to Project
LOS ANGELES, CA, August 11, 2014 – Jennifer Blanc-Biehn and Michael Biehn’s indie production company Blanc/Biehn Productions (BBP) has just completed principal photography with first-time director Vincent Guastini on the short horror film “The Future Executive.” This is latest installment of BBP’s elevator-themed anthology, Hellevator Man, which was filmed in Los Angeles. The film is set for completion of all segments in 2015.
See the teaser at Hellevator – Man The Future Executive segment.
Blanc-Biehn tapped longtime special effects makeup/prosthetic/animatronics whiz Guastini – who also serves as the film’s Special Effects Supervisor – to direct the tense thriller. The production duo fell in love with Guastini after working with him for several years and entrusting his vision to make a compelling short film.
Guastini’s credits include Dogma, The Last of the Mohicans and Requiem for a Dream and BBPs Hidden in the Woods the remake.
“The Future Executive” centers around Devi (Sushi Girl’s Cortney Palm), a powerful young CEO that enters her office’s empty elevator for an important meeting as a gloved hand stops the doors from closing. Andy Mackenzie (Shoot ‘Em Up) plays Jack, a delivery man that follows Devi into the tiny space; the elevator doors part one more time for Liam (Donnie Darko’s James Duval), a mild-mannered office worker with an unrequited crush on Devi. A sudden power outage sets the stage for a nightmare ride ahead for the trio.
“It’s a benign everyday thing; you get onto an elevator with strangers, barely acknowledge them, get off at your floor and leave,” says Jennifer Blanc-Biehn. “But what if that elevator stopped suddenly and you’re forced into a confined situation that gets increasingly more intense as the hours pass?”
Blanc-Biehn and Blanc is in post on the Hellevator Man compilation, the Patrick Reas’ “It’s Hell Getting Old,” will accompany “The Future Executive” with more elevator-centric segments set for production in the months ahead. More will be announced, along with Frozens’ Scott Shirmer doing his entitled TEAR and Mick Foley (MANKIND) coming on board as The Hellevator Man and storyteller himself.
“With Hellevator Man, we want to capture that primal feeling of being trapped in this small box,” said Blanc-Biehn, “yet explore the open possibilities beyond it.”
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhmcc-gYK34
Also stay tuned for a teaser for the other segments and more fun behind-the-scenes as each one comes together and more directors and segments get announced.
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ABOUT JENNIFER BLANC-BIEHN:
Actress, producer and director Jennifer Blanc-Biehn has been working steadily in show business since she was a child, studying Drama at NYC’s Professional Children’s School. At thirteen, the New York native landed her breakout role in Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and has since appeared in dozens of television shows and movies over the past thirty years such as Dark Angel, Party of Five, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and CSI. Blanc-Biehn was Kendra on James Camerons’ Dark Angel and currently this year co stars in Wrong Cops with Maralyn Manson as well as coming out and in the pipeline cos stars with Julie Benz in Havenhurst and with Salma Hayek and Gabriella Wright in Joe Lynchs’ Everly being released soon by TWC and Radius and Dimension films she also runs her own production company Blanc/Biehn Productions, with her husband, actor Michael Biehn.
ABOUT BLANC/BIEHN PRODUCTIONS:
Blanc/Biehn Productions (BBP) is the partnership of married actors Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, merging their passions for acting and filmmaking into a full-service production company that caters to their diverse tastes in movies. The duo produced and starred together in Biehn’s directorial debut, THE VICTIM, a grindhouse film featuring scream queen Danielle Harris; recently finished post-production on TREACHERY and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn’s directorial debut THE NIGHT VISITOR and Brianne Davis’ directorial debut The Night Visitor 2 and are currently in post-production on HIDDEN IN THE WOODS remake starring William Forsythe and THE GIRL, starring Biehn and Tia Carrere as well as Evie Louise Thomspn from the new film BOYHOOD. Films in various stages of post and release and prep and development include ALTERED PERCEPTION, SHE RISES, PYSCHOPHONIA, The Lincoln and FEMBOT. For more information on upcoming BBP films, go to www.TheBBBasement.com and sign up for news and updates.
