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Trailers Galore!

We’ve posted a whole bunch of new trailers on our Homepage.

Most of them are sneak preview teasers unavailable anywhere else.

Enjoy!

Our First Curse!

Pre-Production has started on ABRAHAM LINCOLN VS ZOMBIES in Savannah and our production team received this cryptic email:

I place the “Curse of Savannah”  upon your head and may it follow you the rest of your life if you make this film here. You have been warned.

How could anyone possibly object to filming a movie about Abraham Lincoln in Georgia?

Oh…

From the Set: American Battleship

The first stills from AMERICAN BATTLESHIP can be seen here.

Johanna Watts (left) plays Navy Lieutenant Caroline Bradley, who along with Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers, must use the United States last remaining battleship to fight an elusive and powerful enemy that threatens the entire planet.

AMERICAN BATTLESHIP will premiere on DVD/Blu-Ray/VOD on May 15, 2012.

End of Year Odds and Ends

As 2011 comes to a close, we’d like to thank everyone for helping make this the best year in the history of The Asylum.

Before I head off to spend time with family on the east coast (“slow and steady drinking, slow and steady drinking”), I thought I’d share some various links and postings that we’ve been collecting over the last few weeks:

Here’s an Interview with Liz Adams, writer/director of the upcoming AIR COLLISION.

Some reviews of 11/11/11 and A HAUNTING IN SALEM.

And a fun one for BORN BAD from the Movie Boozer.

Here’s a site in case you need another forum to talk shit about us.

Proof that even big networks sometimes use clips without permission (but that’s okay… any publicity is good publicity, right?)

When they aren’t busy poaching our production staff, Funny or Die even mentions us.

Mega Shark can never die.

 They still publish Rolling Stone?

And let’s close 2011 with some hate mail:

I’m sending this email in hopes that the folks at The Asylum will remember that they, too, are human beings. Please, for the love of all that is holy, can you cease making such incredibly shitty films? You guys are parasites, living off of the success of more talented and competent filmmakers. As soon as Hollywood releases a film and it makes big bucks, you guys immediately release another film with a similar title that’s a horrifically terrible knock-off. I mean, if you’re going to rip everyone off, at least make films that don’t suck this bad. Your graphics department looks like it’s composed entirely of three-year-old finger-painters. Seriously, I can’t suspend disbelief THAT MUCH to believe any of your on-screen “creatures” are real. It ruins the entire viewing experience if the entire time I’m thinking to myself “it looks like a blind autistic child made these graphics.” I mean, how much money could you possibly be making with these films? I don’t know a single person that runs to the video store to buy an Asylum release. In fact, most people I know only rent your films by mistake thinking they are the big-budget films you rip off. Is that your marketing strategy or something? Seriously, guys, give it up. You obviously were never meant to be in the film business. Your pictures suck, plain and simple.
Regards, Kevin Johnson

Enjoy your holidays everyone!

See you in 2012… the 15th Anniversary of The Asylum (sorry, Kevin…).

Paul

From the Set: Nazis at the Center of the Earth

Principal photography has just wrapped on NAZIS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and the first production stills can be seen here.

Dominique Swain and Jake Busey play researchers in modern day Antarctica who discover a secret Nazi base hidden in the center of the hollow Earth.

NAZIS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH marks the directorial debut of our own VFX Supervisor, Joe Lawson, from a script by yours truly.

The Nazi Invasion (of DVD/Blu-Ray/VOD) begins on April 24, 2012.

Mega Shark 3?

A fan sent us this link to a petition he started to convince us to make a third MEGA SHARK film:

Mega Shark Petition

I don’t know… 71 people is kind of impressive… but I don’t know if we can green light a second sequel… yet.

What do you think?

Amityville Haunting Trailer

Earlier this year we were contacted by the estate of the Benson family (pictured left) who had briefly rented the infamous house on Long Island, New York.

The family has since disappeared and the estate is determined to prove that the Bensons did not abscond to avoid paying their debts (as their banks and other creditors have claimed).

Watch THE AMITYVILLE HAUNTING on December 27, 2011 and decide the truth for yourself.

In the meantime, you can watch the trailer here.

Zombie Apocalypse Airs Saturday

The long-awaited television premiere of ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE starring Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Johnny Pacar, Eddie Steeples, Gary Weeks, Anya Monzikova, Gerald Webb, Lilan Bowden, Robert Blanche is this Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 9 pm EST (check your local listings) only on Syfy.

We’re hoping for our best rating yet on this one, so tell all your family, friends, and followers to tune in.

I can’t think of better way to celebrate Halloween weekend.

Now Accepting Pitches

As I’ve mentioned before, we get dozens of emails every day from writers asking how they can submit screenplays and ideas to The Asylum. Most of these emails go right into the trash because we almost never make movies based on outside material. The movies we make are very specific and the ideas usually come from our buyers. And, until now, we’ve been able to fulfill the demand internally.

Well, that has changed.

We are in need of some very specific pitches and have decided to open the process up to anyone interested in participating.

If you would your ideas considered for possible production, please read the submission requirements and guidelines here.

Good luck!

UPDATE: Some of you have mentioned problems submitting your pitches. If you receive an error message when sending your pitch, please email your name, email address,  the text of your pitch, and the web browser you’re using to productions@theasylum.cc so we can try to resolve the problem. Thanks!

Mega Shark Makes You Feel Good

The fine folks at Rochester Institute of Technology are holding a Wellness Event for their students next week and decided that nothing says healthy like MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS.

The school will be screening the “Dive-in Movie” and created this awesome poster for the event.

If you’re a RIT student, we hope you’ll come out, get healthy, and watch a movie about giant fish.

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