Thanks to a huge outpouring of support, we are thrilled to announce that our Season Two Kickstarter campaign has broken $100,000, which means that our second season will be feature length!

Once we consider that we’re adding Fran Kranz (Dollhouse), Bob Sapp (Conan), and Jen Page and Scott C. Brown (The Gamers: Dorkness Rising) to the cast, we get downright giddy.

So, to everyone who has contributed via PayPal or Kickstarter, thank you! To everyone who has helped spread the word, thank you!

And to anyone who hadn’t heard about the Kickstarter until this minute, definitely check it out—we have some awesome, exclusive rewards available for contributors, including a limited-editing Supporters DVD, a full size movie poster by Wayne Reynolds, copies of the Orcish/English Dictionary, and even the opportunity to appear in the film.

You can view our Kickstarter page right here—Kickstarter—and we’ve embedded our campaign video below. Remember, if you want any of the cool rewards, this is your last chance for the exclusives!

Preorder the digitally re-dungeon-mastered special edition Dorkness Rising DVD today! This all-new edition, full of special features, ships soon from Strowlers.biz (our online store) and Paizo.com.

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5/14/11 Seattle, Washington – McSterlingthong offers Sneak Peak of “The McSterlingScenes”

Our friends at DTwenty Games, in conjunction with The McSterlingTeam, is proud to present a sneak peak reading and signing of the new anthology “The McSterlingScenes” with the Master himself; R.L. McSterlingthong. Featuring scenes from such genre-defining novels as “Unicorn Fall”, “Faery Hunter 880BD”, “Darkness: The Fall of Butterwick”, “The Vomitarium” and many more, this Earth-shattering volume offers you immaculate insight into the mind of R.L. as he presents his favorite scenes from his own books, hand-selected by himself. This unique literary masterpiece will change your life.

Prepare to be disemboweled with entertainment and knowledgery!

When: R.L. Will be appearing on Saturday, May 28th at 6PM.

Where: D20 Games 17849 1st Ave S, Normandy Park, WA (206) 274-6070

Food and Drink: Snacks, coffee, beer and wine will be available for purchase. We hope to see you all there!

-The McSterlingTeam and DTwenty Games

Goddess … it does exist! The first season of JourneyQuest is now on DVD, in beautiful High Definition!

This region0 DVD includes the movie version of JourneyQuest, several cast & crew commentaries, outtakes, fan art, subtitles in eight languages, deviously hidden easter eggs, and a special appearance by R.L McSterlingthong himself!

The JourneyQuest: Season 1 DVD is available for purchase at Paizo, Amazon, and the Strowlers Cooperative web store. International fans are encouraged to order from Paizo or Amazon for the most affordable shipping.

Our most heartfelt thanks go out to everyone whose support and encouragement has helped us reach this milestone. We wouldn’t be here — and on the verge of Season Two — without your support. Thank you for supporting independent film!

Onward!

The JourneyQuest Team

Dead Gentlemen Announces a New Edition of THE GAMERS: DORKNESS RISING

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is coming back to DVD! Featuring multiple commentary tracks, subtitles in many languages, outtakes, and deleted scenes in an all-new special edition, the DVD will be released region-free for sale worldwide.

Dorkness Rising DVD Cover

For the new release, Dead Gentlemen Productions is partnering with sister company and distributor Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (ZOE). ZOE will release the DVD under their FAN SUPPORTED, CREATOR DISTRIBUTED model (link). This includes a broad non-commercial Creative Commons license (link), a copyleft approach to file-sharing and “piracy”, licensing the property for third-party commercial derivative works via the Creator Endorsed trademark (link), a digital release through distribution partner IndieFlix, and distribution to the worldwide hobby market through Paizo Publishing.

“ZOE is a company that believes in building long-term, sustainable relationships with a passionate fan base,” says Ben Dobyns, founder of Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. “Dorkness Rising is a fantastic fit for our approach to distribution and we look forward to helping the film continue to grow as we empower its fans to download, share, and remix the project.”

“We at DG are just really excited about what Ben is doing with ZOE,” said Don Early, President of Dead Gentlemen Productions, LLC. “Having direct interaction and access to our fan base has always been at the top of our priorities. With traditional distribution, you lose a lot of that. With ZOE, the fans get to directly support and participate in what we’re doing, and we get to stay connected. That’s what we’re all about.”

“We’re also excited about this new release of Dorkness Rising,” continues Ben Dobyns, “because this distribution model will help make a Gamers sequel happen much sooner. Our biggest sequel roadblock has been recouping Dorkness Rising’s budget. With the increased dollar value of direct distribution, we’ll be able to recoup and start work on a sequel much sooner than we could while waiting for traditional distribution models to pay out.”

The new DVD of The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is expected to release in April 2011. Fan content and submissions will be encouraged!

Based on a concept by Kat Ogden and Dead Gentlemen’s Matt Vancil and Ben Dobyns, and developed by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, Strowlers is an alternate-history set in modern Seattle.

And now, it’s also a nationwide gathering of Makers, Circus Performers, Musicians, Dancers, Gamers, and Costumers.

This October, join us at Strowler Nights, a two-night Halloween Masquerade featuring live music, fire shows, circus arts, a Maker Showcase, and a Chrononaut’s Masquerade.   This is the halloween celebration you don’t want to miss. We will be appearing at the show as featured guests—signing DVDs, promoting JourneyQuest, and enjoying the costume ball—but you’ll also want to catch musical performances by Tricky Pixie, Sharon Night, Heather Dale, and many more.

Where: Magnuson Park Workshop 30 – 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
When: Halloween Weekend – October 30th and 31st, 2010
Tickets: $35 discount weekend passes are available until August 30th, 2010 (the discount has been extended!)   Weekend passes will be $45 after August 30th.

What is PaizoCon? From the PaizoCon website:

PaizoCon returns in 2010 bigger and better than ever! Officially sponsored and run by Paizo Publishing, LLC, PaizoCon 2010 brings together dozens of hobby gaming’s veteran authors, artists, publishers, and designers and gives YOU the opportunity to meet, greet, and game with some of the best and brightest that the hobby gaming industry has to offer. PaizoCon 2010 is three non-stop days of gaming, panels, workshops, banquets, and (most importantly) fun! Rub shoulders with your favorite Paizo Publishing employees and freelancers and game with your favorite people from the paizo.com online community.

Don Early and Jen Page will be at PaizoCon tonight, showing:

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising

We will be doing Q&A and in general having a crazy time with our friends at Paizo!

If you’re in the area, you should come to this con!

Jen Page has an all-consuming passion for film acting. She is open to exploring all genres but there is a special place in her heart for sci-fi, fantasy and action films. Among others, Jen has played a chaotic sorceress rogue, a rebellious alien, a vampire and a godling. She loves the opportunity to work with a creative, passionate crew and take on characters that challenge her emotionally and physically.

Jen Page herself is a bit of a bohemian/geek/artist/nonsensical/tough girl/gamer/fey who really digs pixels, nerds, roller coasters, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, music, and squirrels.

But not necessarily in that order.

You can find more about Jen Page at JenPage.net, and join her Facebook community at Facebook.com/TheJenPage

Don Early is the director of Dead Gentlemen Productions, a group of filmmakers located in the Seattle/Tacoma area of the Pacific Northwest, as well as Los Angeles, CA. Their recent film The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, is currently distributed byAnthem Pictures and Paizo Publishing. Dead Gentlemen met each other over 1996–97 while attending Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. Between 1998 and 2000, the Dead Gentlemen filmed two feature films: Demon Hunters, and its sequel, Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake. The films were met with great acclaim on campus. In 2001 they shot what would be their flagship property for many years to come, a 45-minute featurette called, The Gamers. With the success of The Gamers, in 2002 the group founded Dead Gentlemen Productions, LLC. Since then, Dead Gentlemen Productions produced several comedy sketches and short films, the high definition feature The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and co-produced with Margaret Weis Productions, creating the Demon Hunters Roleplaying Game, containing the newly canonized world of their original Demon Hunters and a short film entitled: The Brotherhood Orientation Video. To this very day the Dead Gentlemen exercise their super power of unmatched collaboration to create projects together.

Our great friends over at Midnight Syndicate are releasing a special edition DVD of their film The Dead Matter, directed by our buddy Edward Douglas, President of Midnight Syndicate.  Check out the press release below and go buy their movie! You get two bonus CDs of awesome music for Halloween… and gaming… and Thursdays!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Midnight Syndicate Films
Contact: Sarah Mann
Email: sarah@midnightsyndicate.com
Phone: +1 (440) 286-1494

Special edition The Dead Matter DVD set including two bonus Midnight Syndicate CDs available at all HOT TOPIC stores nationwide on July 30th.   New The Dead Matter trailer released.

May 26, 2010 (Cleveland, OH) Midnight Syndicate Films has announced plans to release a special edition of The Dead Matter DVD that will include two bonus CDs by gothic Halloween music artists Midnight Syndicate.  It will be available at all Hot Topic stores nationwide on July 30th.  The specially-priced set will include The Dead Matter DVD, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD by Midnight Syndicate, and a new Midnight Syndicate 13th Anniversary greatest hits CD entitled Halloween Music Collection.   Midnight Syndicate Films has also released a new official trailer for The Dead Matter movie which can be viewed at the film’s revamped website,www.TheDeadMatter.com and YouTube.

The Dead Matter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD contains the score composed by the film’s director, Edward Douglas of Midnight Syndicate, as well as several limited-edition remixes of Midnight Syndicate songs and other music that appears in the film from bands like Lazy Lane, HipNostic, and Eternal Legacy.   Midnight Syndicate’s Halloween Music Collection CD features over 60 minutes of songs hand-picked by Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka to celebrate the band’s first 13 years.   Both new CDs will also be available at Halloween retailers nationwide in August.

The Dead Matter trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liAifLs_8zk

The Dead Matter motion picture: www.TheDeadMatter.com

Midnight Syndicate Halloween Music Gothic Soundtracks: www.MidnightSyndicate.com

Hot Topic – Everything about the music: www.HotTopic.com

About The Dead Matter movie:
A guilt-ridden young woman desperate to contact her deceased brother discovers a powerful ancient relic that controls the dead.  Her dark obsession drags her into the tangled world of two warring vampire lords (Andrew Divoff of Lost, Wishmaster and Tom Savini ofFriday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead) each with his own sinister plans for the artifact and a vampire hunter (Jason Carter of Babylon 5) who will stop at nothing to destroy it. This chilling gothic dark fantasy co-produced by Robert Kurtzman (creator of From Dusk Till Dawn, KNB FX) features a haunting score by Halloween musicians Midnight Syndicate.  It’s a mix of classic horror themes with modern twists and a touch of dark humor that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

About Midnight Syndicate:
Midnight Syndicate has been creating instrumental Halloween music and gothic horror fantasy soundtrack CDs for the past thirteen years.   The group’s music has become a staple of the Halloween season worldwide as well as a favorite in the haunted house, amusement park, role-playing game, and gothic music industries.   From Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights and Hugh Hefner’s Halloween parties to Monday Night Football, X-Box games, the classic Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, and Barbara Walters specials, their CDs are designed to take listeners on a journey into the darkest corners of their imagination.

That’s right, you can see Scott C. Brown in the play “Doubt”. See below for details.

RUNNING FOR 3 WEEKS!
May 20 – June 6

Thurs – Sat at 8PM; Sun at 2PM

(Doors open 1 hour in advance)
In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. Certainty, doubt, and duty struggle for the upper-hand, and what is “right” is as elusive as the truth.

What has the press said about Shanley’s Doubt?

“It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama… It sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. It is tight and absorbing.” — Ben Brantley, New York Times

“#1 show of the year. Gripping. Impressive! Doubt takes the stuff of headlines and turns it into deeply moving drama.” — Howard Kissel, Daily News

And the rave reviews go on and on.

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visit www.goldfromstraw.org

or call Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 BOX OFFICE at 1-800-838-3006

Tickets also available at the door.