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Welcome to the FIlm and Television Department of HIP FILMS. Our staff has over 40 years of industry experience on making films and television shows. Pre-production, Post-production, Screening and Distribution can all be handled through HIP FILMS and our industry partners. We have films on your shelves at Blockbuster, and continue to develop films and television in all genres. If you have a Film Project or TV Show we can, and have helped people just starting out with an idea. Please look below at our body of collaborative work and consider us to advance your production. We are centrally located within Hollywood and our staff includes Sound Stages, Camera Packages, Grip & Lighting, Production Crew, Talent, Edit Baysm Telecine, Screening Room and an accomplished Art Department.

Currently, we are renting Production Office Spaces at the renowned Columbia Square in Hollywood located on Sunset Blvd. and El Centro Ave.
(map) near AMETRON, The Gower Gulch Mall, and 1 1/2 blocks east of the ARCLIGHT DOME. Please call (323) 467-2897 for questions about our office space rental.



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FILM PROJECTS

"PLAYERS"                                           **WATCH TRAILER**

Genre (dramatic Thriller)
Director: Lee Madsen
Writer: Lee Madsen
Dir. of Photography: Ben Kufrin

PRODUCERS
Richard Harrington .... Executive Producer
Robert Taleghany .... Producer
Rick Spalla .... Producer
David Ghegan .... Co-Producer
Matt Stenerson .... Co-Producer
Melissa Balin .... Co-Producer

SYNOPSIS: Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), and his high-school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do what ever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off  there turf. This Friday Night Lights meets Casino story is filled with perfect combination of nonstop action, violence, lust and greed.

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Starring: Freddy Rodriguez, Carmine Giovinazzo, Melissa Marsala, Jason Loughridge, James Duval, John Doe, James DeBello, Joe Bologna, Peter Dobson

"DRAIN BABY"     

Genre (Horror)
Director: Rick Spalla
Writer: Rick Spalla
Dir. of Photography: Rick Spalla

Production Design by
Michael S. Fitzgerald
 
Art Direction by
Rodrigo Cabral
Naoko Inada

PRODUCERS
Rick Spalla .... Executive Producer
Jason Loughridge .... Producer

For 25 years an unspeakable evil has waited beneath the Pleasant Mountain Sanitarium. When a group of architecture students arrive, they uncover the secret behind the now abandoned facility and must use all of their mental abilites to escape from a hideous creature.

Starring: Ryan Blakeley Smith,Nic Nac,David Alan Graf, Todd Veneman, Parisse Boothe, Brian Drolet, Trever Wyatt Hopper, Declan Joyce, Scott Krinsky, Moksha McPherrin, Joanna Sims, Geneva Somers, Natalie Stone, Ryan Easton

Currently in Post Production.
drainbaby
"THE SINATRA CLUB"

(Genre:Drama Thriller, Action) 
Director: Gabriel Bologna
Writer: Salvatore Polisi

SYNOPSIS: It's 1972 and the Mafia crime families are at war, but that isn't enough to stop a young, unknown John Gotti, who has big ideas and even bigger ambitions. In order to put an end to a two decades' conflict, Gotti pulls together an unlikely crew made up of one member from each crime family to pull off a silver bullion heist. If Gotti can keep these criminal misfits from killing each other and succeed with this problem-riddled heist he will secure himself a spot in mafia history. Gotti's gang of misfit gangsters, hijackers and wanna-bees, all in their late 20's, hangs out playing cards at a gambling den known as the "Sinatra Club" owned by Crazy Salvatore Polisi, the narrator of our story. At the time nobody is getting "made" because all the families are at war. What's worse, the bosses have no idea who John and his underlings are and John doesn't have the patience to wait around for them to figure it out. Determined to make a name for himself, John masterminds a scheme that will either squash the beef among the five families or get him and his whole crew killed. First he has to get his mentor and idol Charlie Fatico, a powerful captain in the Gambino crime family, to get the go ahead from the big boss Carlo Gambino. With the old man's blessing, the wheels are set in motion for a heist like no other. The plan is simple: use a guy from each family known to John through the Club, hijack an armored truck loaded with silver bullion, and give each boss a piece of the action. What could be simpler? At the end, every Mafia boss will know who John Gotti is and, more importantly, owe him for helping end the bloodshed while enriching their coffers. He will be in the bigs and finally be a "somebody." The only problem with this simple plan is that it is anything but simple. As the clock ticks, John and his crew find more holes in the plan than in the mobsters who are getting whacked all over town. With the bosses of all five families waiting for their piece, the boys are off the poker table and on the street literally playing for their lives!



             ****Currently in Pre-Production****

"THE TRENCH"

(Genre: Drama, Action) 

Status: Finished  (Trailer)

SYNOPSIS: World War 1, Belleau Wood, France. Who Is your Enemy? What is his name? Does he have a wife and children? Is he fighting for your freedom or his own?
Director Gabriel Bologna brings you an epic death match of seconds where the fine line between warfare and murder is blurred. Jason Loughridge stars.



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TELEVISION PROJECTS

THE ARCHIVES OF HOLLYWOOD SERIES:   

"HOLLYWOOD NOW & THEN"
                                     

Genre (documentary)
Director: Rick Spalla

Look back into the annuls of the Hollywood mystique. Our partners at the Hollywood Newsreel Syndicate have released extremely rare and some never before seen footage of Hollywood's biggest stars at feature events and candid moments when the press had a profound, mutually supportive relationship with the stars. The moments captured are honest and revealing, showing a rarely personal side never seen before of some of Hollywood's legendary stars. Miles of Industry Awards footage has been scanned and thoughtfully selected to bring you this rare look into Hollywood's star studded past.

 

Call (323) 833-5920 or e-mail us for details on this show.


DVD now available
                              

THE ARCHIVES OF HOLLYWOOD SERIES:   

"HOLLYWOOD BACKSTAGE: The Swinging 70's"
                                     

Genre (documentary)
Director: Rick Spalla

The Swinging 70's. The Hollywood Newsreel Syndicate and HIP releases 39 shows of behind the scenes footage and exclusive backstage footage shot exclusively by the Syndicate. These shows place you a few feet away from the decade's biggest and notorious stars as they attend opening night movie premieres, festival parties and those highly coveted awards ceremonies (Oscars). Enjoy this look back into the bizarre period in our nations' culture that was the 70's and how it affected the actors of screen and stage.

 

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DVD now available
                              

THE ARCHIVES OF HOLLYWOOD SERIES:   

"HOLLYWOOD BACKSTAGE: The Sensational 60's"
                                     

Genre (documentary)
Director: Rick Spalla

The Sensational 60's. The Hollywood Newsreel Syndicate and HIP releases 115 shows of behind the scenes footage and exclusive backstage footage shot exclusively by the Syndicate. You have never seen some of these moments that didn't make the nightly newsreel. Look back and enjoy the youth and glamour of the stars dining, dressing and laughing on the red carpet and behind the stage as we take you backstage into the Sensational 60's.

 

 

 

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DVD now available
                              


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TELEVISION PROJECTS


                                     

"CINETECHS"

Genre (Entertainment News Show - Special Effects)

Host: Madison Michele
Entertainment news show.

 

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Up CLOSE :  TV GUIDE  
                                   
Genre (Entertainment news show)

Host: Madison Michele

Informative and fun one hour biographies on your favorite TV and film stars.


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