Around the Town
By Lucian
What’s New At The Museum
Serious renovations have taken place at HTG Museum (click on the tinkier statur near the middle of the map). In addition to a spiffy new layout we now have items from 2006 films on display!
First in the list is a Spacesuit, complete with labels, from Flip Brother’s current release Logic Problems. Though the suit did not feature prominently in the action the prop department took great care to make it as realistic as possible.
If you weren’t paying close attention you might think the next object on display was just left by a janitor but it turns out to be a prop from Eat **** and Die! It’s Jizzmopper’s mop! I didn’t get close enough to sniff it.
Two items from DC Comics based films are side by side. The first is Jade’s Mask from Green Lantern it’s a very cool item and replicas should be sold somewhere. This is of course from Green Lantern. And from Flip Brother’s superman: Last Son of Krypton is a chunk of Kryptonite. It’s cool looking but not marketable except as a paperweight.
The final item is also superhero themed. It’s from Aaron Rowland’s Independent release The Darker Side of Superheroesand it’s the nefarious joint box that figured into the villain’s master plan. I won’t comment on how useful it would be as a piece of merchandise.
So what about merchandise? Glad you asked! The Museum Gift shop is also open with 3 cute items. At 3 million there is the safari hat and the incredibly cool Viking helmet. A steal at 2.9 million is the museum t-shirt. These items aren’t just good looking either. Each adds $100,000 to all future museum donations; though it is only possible to own one of each.
More is on the way at the museum as we’ve been promised “Coming this weekend to the Museum is 25 new posters on display from throughout the virtual Hollywood History, dating as far back as Virtual Producer.”
So check out the museum, remember to donate props and posters and say hi to the cutie at the merchandise stand for me!
Ship of Fooles Expands!
Ship of Fooles has announced it will be adding a Comedy/Drama backlot to its Arthouse studio allowing Studio Head Lucian greater flexibility in the films he can release either for himself or for other writers.
And speaking of other writers Ship of Fooles has a landmark deal to announce. Ship of Fooles has inked a deal with Edward Havens to land the VP/FM legend’s first H:TG film. Details are few at this moment except that the film will be a full Drama, Ship of Fooles’ first full film to be announced and the release date is planned to be in September. Brian DePalma and Jack Nicholson, both of whom have been seen hanging around Ship of Foole’s Casting agency lately (http://hollywood.spirit-of-the-air.net/htg2/town/specialbuildings/offices/office11.htm) are thought to be prospects to become involved.
“Obviously we’re very pleased to land such a name given we’re the new kid on the block.” Lucian commented “But it goes to show that personal relationships are also very important in virtual Hollywood. It wasn’t my bank account or my film library that landed me this deal it was my own good past relationship.”
That relationship was built on past co-productions such as Alpha Centauri, Zombies Must Live!, and its musical sequel Zombies Must Paint! Ship of Fooles has shown an interest in zombies since could these films be re-released some day under the H:TG banner? Only time, and re-release award availability, will tell.
Meanwhile Ship of Fooles launches its first film not written in-house on July 28th when Bennyman’s horror film Zest hits theaters.
“While I am an admittedly prolific writer,” Lucian adds “I don’t want my studio to be built almost entirely around me. Like The Times is.”
