Megalodon

Mgalodon is Leighanne Littrell's new movie,here are some articles about this new movie. credit for these articles goes to Kate at Leighanne fans.if u wanna use these,ask Kate herself.

Note from Kate:
Originally we said that the movie was based on the book "Meg" but we have now found out that the movie is not based on the book.  Actually, Disney owns the right to the book and their movie based on the book is on hold right now.  We are very sorry for the error.

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Source: 100% Entertainment
Megalodon is the story of an oil exploration submersible that encounters the direct ancestor of the great white shark, supposedly extinct for fifty million years. Megalodon was written by special effects wizard Gary J. Tunnicliffe (Within the Rock) & Stanley Isaacs. Tunnicliffe will direct. Production is scheduled to begin October 2000. Gary's special effects work has also been featured in Sleepy Hollow, Blade, Mission: Impossible 2, and the upcoming Dracula 2000.

 

Source: American Film Market briefs
(Friday., Feb. 23, 2001)
John Fremes' Fusion International, launched 18 months ago, has returned to the AFM with three films in tow: the teen sex comedy "Repli-kate" and the thrillers "Megalodon" and "Dead in the Water." "Repli-kate," from "American Pie" producers Warren Zide and Craig Perry, is in postproduction and has been presold to Helkon Media in Germany, Redbus in the United Kingdom, Leone in Italy, RCV in Benelux; Sandrew Metronome in Scandinavia, Long Shong in Taiwan, Cathay Pictures in Singapore, Odeon in Greece, Camila in Indonesia, Samfilm in Iceland and Suraya in Malaysia. "Megalodon," about scientists on a deep-sea oil rig encountering an extinct great white shark, is shooting on location in New Jersey. "Dead in Water" is in postproduction. Footage of both films will be shown during the AFM. Fremes shares executive producer credit on "Repli-kate" with the late Werner Koenig, Christian Halsy Solomon, Lee Solomon and Stan Wertlieb.

 

Source: Moondance Film Festival
Sherri James, In June 2000, Producer Sherri James began laying the groundwork for her most ambitious undertaking to date--creating South Street Studios-a full service production company that supplies programming for the film, television, internet and video game markets. Previously, James served as a development executive for Codikow Films and The Walt Disney Company. As Vice-President of Development for Codikow Films, James developed IN SEARCH OF JOHN CUSACK. As a development executive for The Walt Disney Company, James developed HARLEM BOYS CHOIR, MEGALODON, and BLACK DIAMOND. Most recently, James produced the stirring supernatural drama GABRIELLE, which will be screened in film festivals early next year.

 

Source: Sci-Fi
Crush Depth, a thriller movie about undersea aliens, and Megalodon, about a giant prehistoric shark, are among the slate of low-budget genre films to be touted at the upcoming American Film Market. The films will be produced by 100% Entertainment and Corbitt Digital Films Llc. and will be sold through Fusion International Sales, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movies will be budgeted at less than $3 million each and shot on high-definition video on stages in New Jersey. Crush, written by J.P. Donahue and Kevin Polay, goes before the cameras in April. Special effects veteran Pat Corbitt will direct. Megalodon is written and directed by Gary Tunnicliffe, who did special effects for Sleepy Hollow, Blade and the upcoming Mission: Impossible 2.

 

Source: 100% Entertainment
Oil...the quest for it is unrelenting. The search for new reserves of the 'black gold' never-ending and leading the search Nexecon Petroleum and its flagship, the largest drilling and refining platform ever constructed, 'Colossus" located in the freezing North Atlantic waters off the coast of Greenland.

'Colossus' will drill deeper than any rig ever has, a fact that gratifies Nexecon CEO, Peter Brazier, but that has geologists the world over up in arms, concerned that delicate ocean floor fault lines could be disturbed with catastrophic effects. Skeptical news reporter Christen Giddings and her cameraman Jake Thompson are invited by Brazier to document the safety of
'Colossus.'

The powerful drill tears through the seabed, striking a rich oil deposit. As the drill penetrates further, it ruptures a fissure that reveals a second 'mirror' ocean that has existed beneath ours for millions of years. An ocean teeming with prehistoric life. As the choking oil poisons the water, the frenzied creatures swarm for the surface. Colossus buckles under the onslaught. Brazier, Christen, and a team of engineers descend in Colossus' glass elevator to assess the damage and come face to face with the most powerful oceanic predator that ever lived. Carcharodon Megalodon. The giant ancestor of the Great White Shark.
This eleven-ton 'killing machine' quickly stakes its territory in the waters surrounding Colossus with disastrous and horrific consequences, destroying and devouring anything in its path. Now fate will pull them together as they wager their changes of survival against the most fearsome creature that ever dominated the ocean, and pit the technology and machinery of man against beast. Megalodon...sixty feet of prehistoric terror.

 

Megalodon Credits
Directed by
Pat Corbitt
Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Writing credits
Stanley Isaacs
Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Production Notes/Status:
Status: Post-production
Status Updated: 7 May 2001
Note: Since this project is categorized as being in
production, the data is subject to change or could be
removed completely.
Credited cast overview:
Mark Sheppard .... Mitchell Parks
Robin Sachs .... Peter Brazier
Al Sapienza .... Elliot
Leighanne Littrell .... Christen Giddings
Jennifer Sommerfield (I).... Maz Zablenko
Evan Mirand .... R.P. McGinnis
Steve Scionti .... David Collen
Fred Belford .... Jake Thompson
Gary J. Tunnicliffe .... Grady Harper
Stanley Isaacs .... Robert Armstromg

 

Movie monster invades studio
By David Koch
Register-News
Friday, March 9, 2001

BORDENTOWN CITY- The world's largest oil rig has just been built off the coast of Greenland in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. A one-man submersible doing repair work beneath it is violently hit on its side. The operator turns the craft and faces "60 feet of prehistoric terror." Megalodon has awoken, and he's mad. Movie-making has come to Bordentown City, where some scenes from the new major motion picture "Megalodon," are being shot at Riverview Studios. The film is being produced by Pat Corbitt, owner of the Old Bridge-based Corbitt Design, Inc., and Stanley Isaacs. "Megalodon" is an action-adventure picture about an oil rig that causes a fissure into another sea beneath the ocean floor. The sea contains prehistoric fish, including the 60-foot man-eating Megalodon, which causes havoc on the oil rig. Some movie scenes that take place inside the submersible sub were filmed last week in a warehouse at Riverview Studios. The shark, along with the oil rig, the ocean, and the exterior of the submersible are all being created with a computer. "Megalodon" is being shot in HDTV format, the same format George Lucas is using for the next "Star Wars" movie. Computer animators Brian Dean and Dan Dipiero then take the finished film and create the computer compositing work. They will take real people and put them in front of synthetic backgrounds. "When you take all the real actors and helicopters and add the synthetic scenes, it looks like a big environment," said Mr. Corbitt. The film is directed by Mr. Corbitt and Gary Tunnicliffe, who wrote the screenplay with Mr. Corbitt's co-producer, Mr. Isaacs. Mr. Tunnicliffe has been a special effects designer on such movies as "Sleepy Hollow," "Blade" and "Mission Impossible 2." The script for "Megalodon" was inspired by the fictional great white shark "Jaws" and the true story of a prehistoric fish, previously thought to be extinct, that was caught off the coast of Madagascar. The Megaladon was the largest ocean predator that ever existed on Earth until it became extinct millions of years ago. It was longer than a school bus and had teeth the size of human hands. "The prehistoric aspect of these movies has always interested me," said Mr. Tunnicliffe. The cost of the movie is under $1 million. The production crew was already into the third day of shooting on March 1, and is expected to be finished in a month. Computer imaging and preparation has been going on for a year. Actor Al Sapienza, who plays sub operator Eliot Ross, was attracted to the movie because he considers it "ground-breaking." "Three-fourths of this movie is created through computer-generated imaging such as the whole ocean and the shark," said Mr. Sapienza. "It's the first in a certain kind of movie." Mr. Sapienza is best known for playing Mikey Palmice on HBO's "The Sopranos." Mr. Sapienza's co-star is Jennifer Sommerfield, who plays his love interest, Maz, also a submersible operator. Ms. Sommerfield has appeared in the movie "The Perfect Storm" and an episode of TV's "Friends." Along with the submarine scenes, a TV newscast scene is also expected to be filmed at Riverview. "Riverview offers us the perfect creative environment to shoot our sub scenes, and a TV production facility environment already exists," said Mr. Corbitt in a press release. A scene involving a helicopter was filmed last Wednesday at Allaire Airport in Wall. Shooting is also scheduled at an old BP Refinery in Paulsboro for scenes on top of the oil rig. The background for both scenes will be computer generated. Jim Parker, president of Riverview Studios, says the movie is "a nice change of pace from the day-to-day corporate type of things that we do." This is the first movie ever shot at Riverview. Mr. Parker and his staff have done short films for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. His studio is also where "Catholic Corner" and "Bishop's Appeal" is shot for the Archdiocese of Trenton. "This is a nice opportunity for Bordentown," said Mr. Parker. "You got a crew here of 40 to 50 people, who have to eat and sleep. We're glad to be a part of it." Mr. Corbitt has been working in computer animation for the past 25 years. He was one of the first to help television stations install green screens in weather forecasts for news shows. He plans on doing five other movies, all to be shot in New Jersey. The next production will be "Crush Depth," written by Mr. Corbitt, about an alien warrior who has been trapped underneath the ocean since the 1950s. Mr. Corbitt ultimately hopes to help make New Jersey a movie-making center. "What we're trying to do is work with the New Jersey Film Commission and the government and try to bring some of that new wave in synthetic technology back home," he said. New Jersey is where the movie camera was invented, and the first silent films were produced in the Garden State. "Megalodon" is expected to be completed in the next couple of months and released theatrically late summer or early fall.

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