New Audience-Owned Motion Picture Studio
KIETH MERRILL ANNOUNCES FIRST-EVER AUDIENCE-OWNED MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STUDIO
Park City, Utah -- On Friday, November 17th, 2006, Kieth Merrill announced the world's first, audience-owned, motion picture studio -- Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studio (AAMPS), to a packed room of nearly one hundred people, including AAMPS Advisory Board member, Sheri Dew; AAMPS CEO, Peter Rancie, from Australia; and mega-manager of countless Hollywood entertainers and AAMPS Advisory Board member, Ken Kragen.
With headquarters in Hong Kong, Australia and the United States, Merrill's announcement was presented to members of the community and such notables as Park City Mayor Dana Williams and well-known businesswoman, Joan Blodgett. Blodgett wrote out a check to become the first studio member, "Because I have been a fan of Kieth Merrill's movies for a long, long time and have never been disappointed by any of his projects."
The studio is value-based and will be making movies, "Everyone wants to see," says Rancie. "For about the price of a movie ticket per month," people become members of this new studio. Members then receive their first script. The studio's first movie, Christmas Jars, is scheduled to be released in 2007. Members are invited to read the script, give their input, view the shooting of this film on location via website
portal, and be able to visit the set if possible. In the end, members receive a DVD of their studio's movie. Two movies will be made the first year, four the next year, six the next year, all the way up to thirty-nine movies being made by the year 2012. Members can submit screenplays, communicate with the studio, and receive discount movie theater tickets. Group fund-raising is also available with $5.00 from each sign-up going towards that group's specific charitable cause.
Says Sheri Dew, President of Deseret Book, "They have developed a way for movie-goers like you to participate directly in the selection and production of "feel good again" movies -- movies that have great stories, plenty of heart, and the values and virtues you'd like to reinforce with your children and grandchildren."
Adds Hollywood manager Ken Kragen, who is half Jewish and half Protestant, "The idea of Audience Alliance and its Academy is simple but overwhelming in its power and implications. The audience is the most important part of the movie industry but until now has been the least considered. That is about to change."
And what does Kieth Merrill have to say about all this? "Of all the movies I've ever made and the significant projects I've done, Audience Alliance is the most important because it goes so far beyond the impact of a single film or the influence of a single
moviemaker."
For more information about Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studio, visit www.audiencealliance.com.
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Park City, Utah -- On Friday, November 17th, 2006, Kieth Merrill announced the world's first, audience-owned, motion picture studio -- Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studio (AAMPS), to a packed room of nearly one hundred people, including AAMPS Advisory Board member, Sheri Dew; AAMPS CEO, Peter Rancie, from Australia; and mega-manager of countless Hollywood entertainers and AAMPS Advisory Board member, Ken Kragen.
With headquarters in Hong Kong, Australia and the United States, Merrill's announcement was presented to members of the community and such notables as Park City Mayor Dana Williams and well-known businesswoman, Joan Blodgett. Blodgett wrote out a check to become the first studio member, "Because I have been a fan of Kieth Merrill's movies for a long, long time and have never been disappointed by any of his projects."
The studio is value-based and will be making movies, "Everyone wants to see," says Rancie. "For about the price of a movie ticket per month," people become members of this new studio. Members then receive their first script. The studio's first movie, Christmas Jars, is scheduled to be released in 2007. Members are invited to read the script, give their input, view the shooting of this film on location via website
portal, and be able to visit the set if possible. In the end, members receive a DVD of their studio's movie. Two movies will be made the first year, four the next year, six the next year, all the way up to thirty-nine movies being made by the year 2012. Members can submit screenplays, communicate with the studio, and receive discount movie theater tickets. Group fund-raising is also available with $5.00 from each sign-up going towards that group's specific charitable cause.
Says Sheri Dew, President of Deseret Book, "They have developed a way for movie-goers like you to participate directly in the selection and production of "feel good again" movies -- movies that have great stories, plenty of heart, and the values and virtues you'd like to reinforce with your children and grandchildren."
Adds Hollywood manager Ken Kragen, who is half Jewish and half Protestant, "The idea of Audience Alliance and its Academy is simple but overwhelming in its power and implications. The audience is the most important part of the movie industry but until now has been the least considered. That is about to change."
And what does Kieth Merrill have to say about all this? "Of all the movies I've ever made and the significant projects I've done, Audience Alliance is the most important because it goes so far beyond the impact of a single film or the influence of a single
moviemaker."
For more information about Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studio, visit www.audiencealliance.com.
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