Beanywood, Imagine News, Image Icon Entertainment and Midnight Chimes Productions, are teaming to bring one of the best known movie directors in the New England-area to Boston. On May 18th, Michael Corrente is releasing his new Alec Baldwin-starring film "Brooklyn Rules" in New York, Boston, and LA. The movie as many of you known also stars Freddie Prinze Jr and was written by the author of the Sopranos, Terence Winter. We're bringing Michael Corrente to join us on Sat, May 19th, after the first showing where you'll have the chance to connect, have a Q/A with its star director, have fun, and meet other great people. We're also providing discount tickets to watch the film in either opening location... the West Newton Cinema and/or Kendall Square.

Aside from this being a unique opportunity, by providing a very strong show for the opening weekend (and it's the opening weekend that matters) we can have an impact in increasing the sale numbers and pushing the film closer towards national and international distribution. This is the major way in which Independent Films can reach broad audiences, and amazingly enough you can have a great impact by just going to the movie at the right time. You can have an even bigger impact by spreading the word about this film release, discounts, party, etc. with some of your good buddies.

Meet and Greet/After party details:
Date/Time: May 19th, 2007, 8:30 PM
Location: Tommy Doyle's in Kendall Square, 1 Kendall Square #100, Cambridge, MA
Cost: FREE! (with screening ticket stub from either Kendall or West Newton Cinema)

If you're interested in the exclusive discounted tickets to the Kendall Square show on any of the dates, please contact midnightchimes at gmail dot com or beanywood.com/midnightchimes.

If you're interested in the discounted tickets at the West Newton Cinema, just click on and print the below coupon:

The list of film-makers who have confirmed for our our Evening with Film-makers on Friday just keeps getting better.... it now includes:

On Broadway - Dave McLaughlin
Punk's Not Dead - Susan Dynner
Monster Camp - Cullen Hoback
The Back of Her Head - Josh Safdie
Kamp Katrina - David Redmon
Hannah Takes the Stairs - Joe Swanberg
and a very successful producer from Boston, now established in LA, who will also be joining us - Labid Aziz
and more.

If you're interested in coming, you need to RSVP.

This is the inaugural posting on the Beanywood blog. Most of us are right now at the Independent Film Festival of Boston 2007 which has started with a great, long, bang that weaves together multiple genres.

The opening film last night, Fay Grim, a sequel of Henry Fool, was screened to a packed audience. For those who had seen the original, it brought the original team of director Hal Hartley, and actors Posey, Urbaniak, Aiken, among others. This time around Jeff Goldblum was also present, as an intrepid CIA agent.

The story places a small town, neurotic wife, who thought her now disappeared husband was a garbage-man, in the midst of a hilarious, action-packed, espionage thriller which never grows too serious of itself. The piece was a blend of espionage thriller, drama and comedy, drama, all matched perfectly for flavor.

The whole theater could be heard enjoying itself throughout. About the three fourths of the audience remained (many hard-core Henry Fool fans) for the Q&A with James Urbaniak.

The after-party at Orleans restaurant was a great time. More pictures to come throughout the day.