Wingmen Incorporated this Friday! + new logo pic!

Dear Whomever Is Bored Enough To Read This,

Big week coming up. First off, we'll be launching a short trailer & website for our film Wingmen Incorporated on Friday, March 1st.   DVD's and Downloads will be available for purchase.  Downloads (film only) will be $2.99 and DVD's with bonus material will be $11.99 (plus shipping).


This is our new logo. Pretty sweet!

Wingmen Incorporated: Bonus Material
Sober Commentary with Ken Gayton & Bethany Carol
Drunken Commentary with Jason Schaver & Friends
7+ minutes of bloopers
8+ minutes of outtakes
Deleted Scenes

We're hoping that people who are on the fence about buying a DVD will buy a download of the film and then hopefully fall in love with it & want to buy a DVD that is loaded with bonus material.  Downloads of our first two films (The Truth About Average Guys & S.O.L.) will also be available for $2.99.  So hopefully fans of the new film will want to go and check out our earlier work.  DVDs of the first two films will be available on the website as well.

We'll also be releasing a longer trailer on March 15th.  Just felt that two was the way to go.  The first trailer will be about a minute forty-five.  And the long trailer will be about 3 minutes.

What else?

Will be starting a weekly podcast with my buddy Evan Atherton and my girlfriend Kate. It's called The Moped Jones Drunken Podcast. We'll try to put those out every Friday.  Topics will include:  random crap, song and movie recommendations by myself, Evan, and Kate, and news about Moped Jones' upcoming projects and screenings.  The podcast is unrated, and is put on by immature people, so somehow that means you have to be "mature" to listen to it.  There will be more info on all that fun stuff on the Moped Jones website (www.mopedjones.com) once it goes live this Friday.

Any more news?

Oh yeah, will be doing a short film this June entitled No Regrets. The film is uncharted territory for me as I've never made a short film or a drama before. While comedy is my bread and butter, I am very anxious to start this new project to see if I've got the chops to pull it off. The first part of the story is based off something that happened to me, and the ending is something that could happen to me as a result of it (I'm hoping it doesn't b/c it doesn't end well for my character!)

Hope all is well with everyone!  I am so ready for spring.  We got dumped on last Friday and we're getting dumped on right now.  Hopefully this is the last significant snow storm of the winter and we get start seeing 50 & 60 degree temps very soon!

Can't wait for Friday!  I think people are really going to enjoy my new film. Very proud of what we accomplished despite our limited budget.

Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment

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Know Your Rights Kids!

Dear Whomever Is Bored Enough To Read This,

So I was at Walmart today and this kid (who looked to be about 4 or 5) was misbehaving a bit and his mother said to him "If you don't behave I'm going to leave you here."  Part of me really wanted the kid to say "From a legal standpoint you would be in a whole mess of trouble if you knowingly left me in a public place as you are legally responsible for my well being until I am 18 years of age".   Of course, little kids don't know the whole "I'm gonna leave you here!" is just an empty threat.  I wanted to pull the kid aside and explain this to him, but it's never wise to be a stranger and pull aside a child b/c then you look like a creepy weirdo perv, and that's not really what I was going for. 

This made me think of all the times as a child my parents tried to scare me with empty threats.  I wish we'd get to redo our childhoods with our adult brains inside our kid bodies so we could call adults on their bullshit just to see the looks on their lying faces.

Know your rights, Kids!

Anyway, now for the Wingmen Incorporated updates....

1.  My buddy Kyle is feverishly working on the DVD art work for the film.  I saw a rough sketch and I liked what I saw.

2.  Just sent out screeners to couple of Film Critics. We're hoping to get the reviews back in time to have some quotes in the trailer and on the DVD artwork.

3.  I sent out a copy to the Cedar Rapids film festival.  The festival is in April.  Hope we get in (I'm feeling optimistic about our chances b/c The Truth About Average Guys got in and won "Best Pro-Am" in 2011.  Wingmen Incorporated is a much better film and less controversial. But if the film industry has taught me anything it's that you should never take anything for granted and keep your expectations low.  Far less disappointment that way.

4.  Getting things ready so I can record my drunken commentary for the film.  It's looking like I'll be doing that next Friday night or Saturday during the day.  My friend Evan and my girlfriend Kate will be joining me for that. Should be a lot of fun.  Kate is pretty funny for a girl, and Evan is pretty funny for a guy that used to be a girl.

Anyway, that's all I got for now.  Still looking like we'll hit our March 1st deadline, but it will certainly not be easy.

Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment

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Haven't Blogged For While....

Dear Whomever Is Bored Enough To Read This,

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!  Oops, I mean Big Game Sunday since we're not allowed to say Super Bowl because of the Nazi's over at the No Fun League.  God, my sports teams suck right now.  The Cubs are rebuilding b/c of a century of losing. The Bears started 7-1 and didn't make the playoffs. The Illini suck at football and are in the middle of another 2nd half collapse in basketball.  What do I have to look forward to from a sports standpoint?   I wish I liked NASCAR or tennis or something stupid like that.

So it's been a while since my last post.  Felt like writing something, even if it wasn't very interesting. 

Wrote another scene for my new screenplay. So now I'm up to 7 pages.  Only 83 more to go! So far so good.  All kidding aside, I think this thing could be one of the best things I've ever written.



Yup, that's their logo!

Been working on the Wingmen Incorporated website. I'm really impressed with the website that we're doing the site through. It's mainly for bands, but people with films use it as well.  A lot of cool features, plus the sites look pretty sharp. I will be doing a Moped Jones website through them as well once I start that back up.  These sites even have a feature that allows you to do a podcast.  I'll be doing one for Moped Jones with my friend Evan.  So that should be fun.  And if it sucks we can always quit.  Anyway if you are a musician or filmmaker looking for a cheap way to have a professional looking website, I definitely recommend them.

 Also, will be getting a final cut of Wingmen Incorporated here within the next day or so.  I have to burn 3 copies of it to send out to some critics. We're hoping to have some nice quotes to put on our DVD cover and in the trailer. I need to also burn a copy to send to the Cedar Rapids Film Festival. They have to have it by the 8th so I need to get that out ASAP. My first film, The Truth About Average Guys, won Best Feature there in 2011. I will admit, I've been to many film festivals and have seen a lot of really bad indie films, but Cedar Rapids had some very entertaining films there in 2011.

So everything is still launching on March 1st. 

Website
Trailer
DVD's to sell
Downloads to sell

My buddy Kyle is working hard on getting the DVD artwork done.  Still a lot to do, but we should have it done in just the nick of time.  I have never been this optimistic about any of the film projects I've done and cannot wait to see/hear people's reactions to this film. I just have this feeling that it's going to take off and open a lot of doors for me.

Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment

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