Halo-8 News

Your Lobbyist Kills Free Speech

2007-11-14T10:31:00.000-08:00

The Man is trying to vivisect our favorite protest documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals! Read about it at Cinematical and MSNBC. Never fear, true believers... you can get your grubby lil mitts on the YMKA DVD right here!

H8ers hit the Alt Film Fest

2007-11-12T23:35:00.001-08:00

We're uber proud of our filmmakers Curt Johnson, Esther Bell, and Matt Pizzolo who will be joining Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, Iraq For Sale) and James Spooner (Afro-punk) for the Alt-Film Fest's "Alternative Filmmaking Panel" at Borders Books in Westwood this Friday Nov 16. Get your asses down there, sip a latte, and get schooled on how to make movies without having to picket like some fakeass coalminer. http://www.altfilmfest.com

Your Mommy is breakin' rekkids!

2007-08-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

We suck at math, but according to Variety Your Mommy Kills Animals had the highest per-screen opening weekend of July 2007. Who shot who in the whatnow?? Check it out right here. Turns out people dig puppies and freedom of speech after all... who knew?

2007-07-24T13:07:00.000-07:00

San Francisco's Roxie Cinema has added another week to its current run of Your Mommy Kills Animals. Woo hoo! If you live in the Bay and have ever thought an animal was too cute and cuddly to torture or electrocute, then run on over to the Roxie and see this movie before The Man yanks it out of our cold, dead hands.

2007-07-10T16:56:00.000-07:00

We're excited to announce that Halo-8 kicked a couple of major studios in the teeth during the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and won a bidding war for worldwide rights to the fantastic documentary "Your Mommy Kills Animals." If you have any interest in animals or freedom of speech, then you're gonna flip for this doc about the ALF and the SHAC-7. Hits theaters in September, DVD in November... just in time for Thanksgiving!

2007-05-02T16:11:00.000-07:00

Threat won the "Best First Feature - Special Mention" award at the Rome Independent Film Festival! Thanks be to all our paisans!

2007-03-30T08:54:00.000-07:00

Check out the newest review of Threat over at Blogcritics.org! Apparently the reviewer Georgette Nicolaides teaches Statistics at Syracuse University and is pondering her next tattoo. Talk about a jury of our peers! (...except for the teaching statistics part)

2007-02-27T18:48:00.000-08:00

There's an interview with Threat director Matt Pizzolo in the new issue of Lollipop Magazine, and it's also online.
Here's a bit of what Lollipop editor-in-chief Scott Hefflon had to say about Threat: "Buy it, steal it, do whatever ya gotta do to see it, then wonder why so many other movies are so timid and lame."

2007-02-27T11:02:00.000-08:00

Threat's been invited to the Miami Underground Film Festival! If it doesn't win, you'll know it's because they didn't count the ballots. Florida rules. Check in later for pics of Judge Seidlin weeping at the after-party.

2007-02-20T16:38:00.000-08:00

Our new label DiY-Fest has launched a MySpace page for its first two titles "Yoga For Indie Rockers" and "Pilates For Indie Rockers." Now you can reach spiritual enlightenment and get six-pack abs without having to listen to shitty techno or fuckin' Enya. Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/forindierockers

2007-02-20T16:35:00.000-08:00

Threat's been invited to the Estonia Film Festival! Just hop on the N train to Ditmars and... wait, not Astoria... Estonia? Where the hell is Estonia? Yay Estonia!

2007-02-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

All our paisans in Italy will be stoked to hear that THREAT has been invited to the 2007 Rome Independent Film Festival! And with THREAT's 3-Disc Deluxe Edition hitting streets March 20th, looks like the DVD Release Party will be moved to... The Coliseum??

2006-10-27T01:58:00.000-07:00

There's a kickass 3 page feature on THREAT in the new issue of GOTHIC BEAUTY (#21)! Give it a read right here

2006-10-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to THREAT for winning the Grand Prize for Best Picture at The Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival!!!

From Matt: "We're truly honored to have been included with so many amazingly talented filmmakers and musicians at the LUFF 2006. The prize was very unexpected since the caliber of all the films was incredibly high. The LUFF mixed vintage Cinema of Transgression with some of the most cutting-edge new films... it is a bastion for underground cinema in an increasingly WalMart-ized world. Thanks so much to the festival organizers and volunteers for putting on a fantastic event and for including us."

2006-08-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

If you happen to live in the Swiss Alps then you're about to be psyched!
THREAT has been invited to the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Oct 11-15)... and here we thought Switzerland was neutral! Matt & Katie will be guests of the fest - so come on out, kick it Euro-style, and let THREAT's subtitles teach you how to say "bombin' shit, wreckin' shit" in French.

2006-08-12T15:32:00.000-07:00

The BEER boys hit the road this week on their Search For The Best Bars In America Tour... a coast to coast journey of drunken debauchery that will be documented on the upcoming DVD "BEER THE MOVIE 2: Leaving Long Island."

Come on out and party like a drunken fool... you might just see yourself inebriated and immortalized on DVD! Parties will feature contests & giveaways & any sort of mayhem the BEER boys can dream up!

BEER "Search For The Best Bars In America" TOUR

14 August
BALTIMORE MD
Party at Fletcher's

15 August
BALTIMORE MD
In-store signing at The Sound Garden

16 August
LEESBURG FL

18 August
NEW ORLEANS LA
Party at Tropical Isle - Bourbon Street

19 August
AUSTIN TX
Party at The Dizzy Rooster

21 August
TEMPE AZ
In-store signing at ZIA Records
Directly followed by huge BEER bash at ASU and a Search For The Best Bar In Tempe!

22 August
SAN DIEGO CA
Party at Plum Crazy

23 August
HUNTINGTON BEACH CA

24 August
HOLLYWOOD CA
Search For The Best Bars In Hollywood

25 August
LAS VEGAS NV
In-store signing at ZIA Records
directly followed by
Party at Hogs & Heifers

26 August
HOLLYWOOD CA
Party with Wanted List.com

30 August
LEVITTOWN NY
Party at Mr. Beery's

2006-07-26T12:46:00.000-07:00

: Taking The Lord's Name In Vain At VSDA...
Well we just unveiled the key art for GODKILLER at VSDA and I gotta tell you: it wasn't the heat makin' everybody sweat in Vegas. Kings Mob's post-nuke follow-up to THREAT is an eagerly anticipated mix of gore, heresy, shock, and sedition. Website will be up soon, we'll keep you posted.

: BEER THE MOVIE
The boys of BEER are hitting the road August 13th on their nationwide search for The Best Bar In America. Think your local watering hole has what it takes? Email beer@unitshifter.com with your favorite bar, pub, or stoop littered with 40 oz's... and be sure to lock up your bicurious boyfriend when the BEER boys hit the road.

The wunnerful Alternative Press has featured BEER: THE MOVIE in their August issue. Take a peek here if you're living under a rock and missed it.

: Big Announcements Coming
There are some major changes going on here at Halo8 and we have some big announcements coming... stay toon'd.

2006-06-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new website for HALO 8 Entertainment, complete with this handy new blog to keep you constantly updated on what we've got cookin' in the lab...

* UPCOMING PRESS *

BEER: THE MOVIE
Those crazy comic geniuses behind BEER: THE MOVIE were just interviewed for a feature to run in the August issue of ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Keep an eye out for that!

THREAT
Check out the June 18th edition of the Indie Film Nation podcast for an interview with Matt Pizzolo and Katie Nisa about the making of THREAT.

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