PRESS RELEASE
There is a new Sound Stage in Palm Beach County, Florida for Filmmakers to use for FREE!
The G-Star School of the Arts and the G-Star Studios is building the largest state-of-the-art motion picture sound stage in south Florida and one of the biggest in the entire state. Greg Hauptner, G-Star Founder and CEO/CFO, signed the construction loan with Orion Bank on Friday, September 25th. Saltz-Michelson is the architectural firm; the construction company is DooleyMack; and the legal work was performed by Carlton-Fields. This was the final step in the process that began almost three years ago. The G-Star Sound Stage is now funded! This 45' high sound stage, a copy of a Warner Bros.-LA sound stage, is also the only sound stage anywhere built to be convertible into a theater for live performances and movie premiers. It has special waterproofing and drainage for hurricane-type scenes and a dynamic smoke elimination system for forest fire-type scenes. Included in the floor plan is a two-story atrium area for theater/premier receptions with wet bar and a new adjacent stand-alone Key West-style house with changing rooms, full bath, kitchen and business/computer rooms and lounge for use as a green room for major movie stars and their staff. The new sound stage will combine with the already existing 93,000 sq. ft. G-Star Studios movie studio complex which is offered for NO CHARGE to Filmmakers. For information, please visit our website at www.gstarstudios.com. G-Star has just added a brand new 5-ton grip package for rent at one-half price of other rental houses. Why does G-Star make this offer? Our mission is to provide our students with real-world hands-on experience in the film industry by interning on the sets of feature films, commercials and music videos.
The property acquired by G-Star three years ago for the sound stage is contingent to the G-Star Studios where over 40 feature films, music videos, commercials and major magazine photography shoots have taken place. From its inception, the G-Star Studios has been set up for the production of feature films in the $10 million and under budget range. With the new sound stage that budget range is now up to $25 million to $50 million. The G-Star sound stage is the same size sound stage as those in LA that were used for the filming of Jurassic Park III, The Incredible Hulk I&II, and where Two and a Half Men and Desperate Housewives are shot today.
The G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting is a charter high school. G-Star’s academic mission has been accomplished via a graduation rate of 96% and with 95% of its students attending colleges with premier film programs such as USC, UCLA, NYU, FSU, etc. G-Star’s artistic mission is to create a film industry to employ its students after they graduate from college. This past summer the G-Star Foundation created a new scholarship program that funded the school’s first feature-length film, It’s a Dog Gone Tale: Destiny’s Stand, starring Golden Globe and Tony winner Barry Bostwick and Ron Paolillo, star of Welcome Back, Kotter and 150 TV shows and feature films; LA and NY film industry professionals including Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco, Co-writer & Co-producer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby, and Dean Lyon, Special Visual Effects Supervisor on all three Lord of the Rings movies; plus 125 G-Star graduates from college and present high school students. G-Star eventually will fund up to four feature films per year, thus creating a self-sustaining film industry at its Studios located in Palm Beach County. The new sound stage grand opening is slated for April, 2010 featuring the world premier of Destiny's Stand.
Contact:
Greg Hauptner
561-386-6275
greghauptn@aol.com
www.gstarstudios.com
www.gstarschool.org
www.gstarfoundation.org
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
GREG HAUPTNER, G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FEATURE FILM DESTINY'S STAND
The following is a letter to the cast & crew of the feature film It's a Dog Gone Tale: Destiny's Stand from the Producer.
To the Destiny's Stand Cast & Crew,
I want to thank all of you for the excellent job you did on our film. When I say "our film" I mean your film. You did it. It couldn't have happened without you. We had many seasoned film veterans on set during the shoot. The following gave rave reviews on how the set was run and how well you performed your jobs: Barry Bostwick (The Hannah Montana: The Movie, Spin City), Ron Palillo (The Guardians, Welcome Back Kotter), Ruth Paul from SAG, Academy Award winner Dean Lyon (Lord of the Rings trilolgy, Armageddon, Independence Day, Air Force One), Academy Award winner Beau Rogers (Gods and Monsters), Hollywood Props Master Art Shippee (The Sixth Sense, Disturbia, Without a Paddle, Pretty in Pink) and Susan Jackson from American Humane Film & TV Unit (she flew directly from monitoring the set of the $250 million remake of Ben Hur in Morocco to our set). These people have been on some of the biggest Hollywood films ever made and know what a true movie set is like. Star Barry Bostwick had this to say about the film in an email to the Producer. "Greg, the photos look great and it obviously looks like everyone had a great time...nobody more so than me...keep me posted with updates and gossip...thanks for everything you did to make my short stay so memorable and comfortable...Barry"
Every movie has obstacles to overcome, especially in the first week of the shoot. As Joe Reilly has said, "True professionalism shows itself when dealing with obstacles and making it work, not when everything is simply going smoothly."
You, the cast & crew of Destiny's Stand, hung in there and excelled at your jobs. You dealt with the obstacles and over came them. I am very proud of all of you. You have worked on a SAG union film. You now can call yourselves true professionals in the film industry. You earned it. You earned your Destiny's Stand T-shirt. Only those of you who made it to the end will have your names in the credits of the film and on IMDB.com. Thank you for your hard work and your faith in G-Star and Destiny's Stand. Somewhere down the road you will know that you were in the first film to start a true film industry in Palm Beach County!
Greg Hauptner
Producer
The following is a letter to the cast & crew of the feature film It's a Dog Gone Tale: Destiny's Stand from the Producer.
To the Destiny's Stand Cast & Crew,
I want to thank all of you for the excellent job you did on our film. When I say "our film" I mean your film. You did it. It couldn't have happened without you. We had many seasoned film veterans on set during the shoot. The following gave rave reviews on how the set was run and how well you performed your jobs: Barry Bostwick (The Hannah Montana: The Movie, Spin City), Ron Palillo (The Guardians, Welcome Back Kotter), Ruth Paul from SAG, Academy Award winner Dean Lyon (Lord of the Rings trilolgy, Armageddon, Independence Day, Air Force One), Academy Award winner Beau Rogers (Gods and Monsters), Hollywood Props Master Art Shippee (The Sixth Sense, Disturbia, Without a Paddle, Pretty in Pink) and Susan Jackson from American Humane Film & TV Unit (she flew directly from monitoring the set of the $250 million remake of Ben Hur in Morocco to our set). These people have been on some of the biggest Hollywood films ever made and know what a true movie set is like. Star Barry Bostwick had this to say about the film in an email to the Producer. "Greg, the photos look great and it obviously looks like everyone had a great time...nobody more so than me...keep me posted with updates and gossip...thanks for everything you did to make my short stay so memorable and comfortable...Barry"
Every movie has obstacles to overcome, especially in the first week of the shoot. As Joe Reilly has said, "True professionalism shows itself when dealing with obstacles and making it work, not when everything is simply going smoothly."
You, the cast & crew of Destiny's Stand, hung in there and excelled at your jobs. You dealt with the obstacles and over came them. I am very proud of all of you. You have worked on a SAG union film. You now can call yourselves true professionals in the film industry. You earned it. You earned your Destiny's Stand T-shirt. Only those of you who made it to the end will have your names in the credits of the film and on IMDB.com. Thank you for your hard work and your faith in G-Star and Destiny's Stand. Somewhere down the road you will know that you were in the first film to start a true film industry in Palm Beach County!
Greg Hauptner
Producer
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Academy Award Winner Gives Seminar at G-Star School of the Arts by Greg Hauptner
PRESS RELEASE
Academy Award Winner Gives Seminar at G-Star School of the Arts!
By Greg Hauptner
Bobby Moresco won the Academy Award for Co-Writing the Academy Award winning film Crash, which he also Co-Produced. In addition, he Co-Wrote and Co-Produced the previous year’s Oscar winner, Million Dollar Baby. Mr. Moresco recently visited the G-Star School of the Arts to give a seminar on writing, directing and producing motion pictures to the students. He also brought with him two attorneys from one of the largest entertainment law firms in Hollywood, Leob & Leob, to discuss the business of filmmaking and entertainment law. Mr. Moresco spoke before 230 students in a three-hour seminar. He announced that he does not give speeches, he only answers questions. The student’s questions finally had to be cut off at the end of the three hours. Mr. Moresco and the attorneys were amazed at the level of questions asked by the students. “I have given this same question-and-answer seminar at Harvard, Yale, USC, and UCLA and have never had more intelligent and insightful questions asked of me from any university student body,” remarked Mr. Moresco after the seminar. “These are the brightest and the most well-trained students I’ve seen anywhere.” Mr. Moresco indicated that he would like to shoot a film at G-Star Studios. “This is an amazing school. I haven’t seen anything like it. I want to come back with two films and shoot here.”
Mr. Moresco is the Executive Consultant on new professional/student cooperative film to be produced this summer at G-Star funded by the new G-Star Career & Education Scholarship Program where G-Star graduate students in college return to the school to produce a professional feature-length film. The film is entitled, Destiny and the Bulldozers. A second Oscar winner, Dean Lyon, is joining Mr. Moresco on the Destiny film as Special Effects Supervisor. Mr. Lyon won the Academy Award as Visual Special Effects Supervisor on all three Lord of the Rings movies. He also applied his craft to Independence Day, Armageddon and Air Force One. Mr. Lyon attended Mr. Moresco’s seminar also.
G-Star is the largest Film, TV Production and Acting high school in the nation; and the only high school in the world with a motion picture studio on campus. G-Star is building the largest motion picture sound stage in South Florida that will open in December of this year.
Contact:
Greg Hauptner
561-386-6275
Academy Award Winner Gives Seminar at G-Star School of the Arts!
By Greg Hauptner
Bobby Moresco won the Academy Award for Co-Writing the Academy Award winning film Crash, which he also Co-Produced. In addition, he Co-Wrote and Co-Produced the previous year’s Oscar winner, Million Dollar Baby. Mr. Moresco recently visited the G-Star School of the Arts to give a seminar on writing, directing and producing motion pictures to the students. He also brought with him two attorneys from one of the largest entertainment law firms in Hollywood, Leob & Leob, to discuss the business of filmmaking and entertainment law. Mr. Moresco spoke before 230 students in a three-hour seminar. He announced that he does not give speeches, he only answers questions. The student’s questions finally had to be cut off at the end of the three hours. Mr. Moresco and the attorneys were amazed at the level of questions asked by the students. “I have given this same question-and-answer seminar at Harvard, Yale, USC, and UCLA and have never had more intelligent and insightful questions asked of me from any university student body,” remarked Mr. Moresco after the seminar. “These are the brightest and the most well-trained students I’ve seen anywhere.” Mr. Moresco indicated that he would like to shoot a film at G-Star Studios. “This is an amazing school. I haven’t seen anything like it. I want to come back with two films and shoot here.”
Mr. Moresco is the Executive Consultant on new professional/student cooperative film to be produced this summer at G-Star funded by the new G-Star Career & Education Scholarship Program where G-Star graduate students in college return to the school to produce a professional feature-length film. The film is entitled, Destiny and the Bulldozers. A second Oscar winner, Dean Lyon, is joining Mr. Moresco on the Destiny film as Special Effects Supervisor. Mr. Lyon won the Academy Award as Visual Special Effects Supervisor on all three Lord of the Rings movies. He also applied his craft to Independence Day, Armageddon and Air Force One. Mr. Lyon attended Mr. Moresco’s seminar also.
G-Star is the largest Film, TV Production and Acting high school in the nation; and the only high school in the world with a motion picture studio on campus. G-Star is building the largest motion picture sound stage in South Florida that will open in December of this year.
Contact:
Greg Hauptner
561-386-6275
Monday, March 9, 2009
2nd Academy Award Winner Joins G-Star Feature Film!
Hello G-Star Graduates,
The G-Star School of the Arts feature-length film, Destiny and the Bulldozers, keeps rolling on! Principal photography will begin on June 8, 2009 as slated. Several new developments in recent days have enhanced the production. We have signed our second Academy Award winner to work on the film. Dean Lyon won the Oscar for Special Visual Effects Supervisor for all three Lord of the Rings movies. In addition, his film resume includes Armageddon with Bruce Willis, Independence Day with Will Smit, and Air Force One with Harrison Ford. Dean is now the Special Effect Supervisor on Destiny. Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco (Co-writer & Co-producer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby) has been on-board from Destiny's inception as Executive Consultant and his daughter, Amanda Moresco (Crash, The Black Donnellys), continues in LA as the Writer of the film. The script is being developed in New York by veteran screenplay writer Ron Palillo, famous as the character Horshak from Welcome Back Cotter. Our star player is Tony and Golden Globe winner Barry Bostwick, best known as the Mayor on the TV show Spin City with Michael J. Fox for five years, and Brad in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Barry, who lives in Malibu, has given a verbal OK to star in the movie based on the treatment. He is awaiting the final script to sign on the film. Actress Jo Ann Pflug (MASH, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) is also waiting on the final script to commit to the film. Joining the cast is another veteran actor, Renny Roker (Dark Waters, Honky Tonk Freeway), cousin to Al Roker (they look like twins). Director Joe Reilly (The Prince and the Pauper, Kings of Appletown) is bringing in a Disney player to whom the High School Musical franchise has been handed to (she starred in High School Musical III). A lock on her contract should be forthcoming in about two weeks. Joe is also bringing in a professional Director of Photography. With this cast, Joe believes he can guarantee distribution for direct to DVD and foreign sales, which means Destiny is now positioned to turn a profit which will go to the school for future films produced for our college students.
Bobby Moresco will be giving a seminar to our students at the school Monday, March 23rd. He is bringing several well known people in the industry with him to also give seminars to our students including Nilo Cruz, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play, Anna in the Tropics, which Bobby intends to produce as a play in our new sound stage/theater and then produce the film version of the play at G-Star Studios; one of the top attorneys from a big LA entertainment law firm; and tentatively the top talent agent (Bobby's own agent) from United Talent Agency (UTA), one of the largest talent agencies in LA.
You may read the treatment on the home page of our website at: www.gstarschool.org. We want all of our G-Star graduates who are in college to work on the film. Please contact Mr. Plumb to sign up at w_plumb@bellsouth.net. You can also call me on my cell at 561-386-6275 or email me at greghauptn@aol.com. We need you here by June 1, 2009 for pre-production. Again, the shoot starts June 8th and wraps June 27th (three weeks, 18 day shoot). Speaking parts are available. If you are interested in acting in the movie, please let Mr. Plumb know. He will inform you when the auditions will be held.
Sincerely,
Greg Hauptner
Founder
The G-Star School of the Arts feature-length film, Destiny and the Bulldozers, keeps rolling on! Principal photography will begin on June 8, 2009 as slated. Several new developments in recent days have enhanced the production. We have signed our second Academy Award winner to work on the film. Dean Lyon won the Oscar for Special Visual Effects Supervisor for all three Lord of the Rings movies. In addition, his film resume includes Armageddon with Bruce Willis, Independence Day with Will Smit, and Air Force One with Harrison Ford. Dean is now the Special Effect Supervisor on Destiny. Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco (Co-writer & Co-producer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby) has been on-board from Destiny's inception as Executive Consultant and his daughter, Amanda Moresco (Crash, The Black Donnellys), continues in LA as the Writer of the film. The script is being developed in New York by veteran screenplay writer Ron Palillo, famous as the character Horshak from Welcome Back Cotter. Our star player is Tony and Golden Globe winner Barry Bostwick, best known as the Mayor on the TV show Spin City with Michael J. Fox for five years, and Brad in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Barry, who lives in Malibu, has given a verbal OK to star in the movie based on the treatment. He is awaiting the final script to sign on the film. Actress Jo Ann Pflug (MASH, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) is also waiting on the final script to commit to the film. Joining the cast is another veteran actor, Renny Roker (Dark Waters, Honky Tonk Freeway), cousin to Al Roker (they look like twins). Director Joe Reilly (The Prince and the Pauper, Kings of Appletown) is bringing in a Disney player to whom the High School Musical franchise has been handed to (she starred in High School Musical III). A lock on her contract should be forthcoming in about two weeks. Joe is also bringing in a professional Director of Photography. With this cast, Joe believes he can guarantee distribution for direct to DVD and foreign sales, which means Destiny is now positioned to turn a profit which will go to the school for future films produced for our college students.
Bobby Moresco will be giving a seminar to our students at the school Monday, March 23rd. He is bringing several well known people in the industry with him to also give seminars to our students including Nilo Cruz, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play, Anna in the Tropics, which Bobby intends to produce as a play in our new sound stage/theater and then produce the film version of the play at G-Star Studios; one of the top attorneys from a big LA entertainment law firm; and tentatively the top talent agent (Bobby's own agent) from United Talent Agency (UTA), one of the largest talent agencies in LA.
You may read the treatment on the home page of our website at: www.gstarschool.org. We want all of our G-Star graduates who are in college to work on the film. Please contact Mr. Plumb to sign up at w_plumb@bellsouth.net. You can also call me on my cell at 561-386-6275 or email me at greghauptn@aol.com. We need you here by June 1, 2009 for pre-production. Again, the shoot starts June 8th and wraps June 27th (three weeks, 18 day shoot). Speaking parts are available. If you are interested in acting in the movie, please let Mr. Plumb know. He will inform you when the auditions will be held.
Sincerely,
Greg Hauptner
Founder
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