We’re moving forward with our next project – a web series in the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars titled The Secret Files of Lucy Chandler. If you’re an actor in or around Chicago, someone who might want to help out on the crew side, or if you just want to stay up-to-date with behind-the-scenes information and sneak peeks, be sure to like our Facebook page or follow us on our new Twitter account. We’ll be announcing casting info in the coming months and we’re planning on posting vlogs throughout production.

If you haven’t seen our latest film The Surprise Party, you can still stream it in its entirety and check out some bonus material for absolutely no charge.

If you haven’t checked out our new film The Surprise Party, you can watch it in its entirety right here.  In addition to making the movie and its bonus content available for no charge, we’re also now offering free downloads of the score album. Please note – this is NOT the soundtrack (which you can find information on here). This is the composed music that appears in the film and all eight high quality MP3s have been compressed into a single .zip file to help reduce the download time*.

The Surprise Party – Original Motion Picture Score
(right click, ‘save as’)

The score contains the following tracks:

1. Natalie & Nick (:56)

2. Jacob Knows (2:08)

3. He’s Not Outside (3:27)

4. Jackie (4:28)

5. Down The Hall (4:12)

6. Aftermath (1:41)

7. Tonight I’ll Take Her From You (3:26)

8. End Credits (3:31)

*You’ll need software like WinZip or WinRAR to unzip the MP3s. Most computers already have one or both of these installed, but if yours doesn’t you can always use a free alternative like ZipWiz.

Also – if you haven’t checked out The Surprise Party‘s Blooper Reel, you can find it in our Extras section. And finally, we want to say thank you to everyone who’s helped us promote the movie. We’re extremely grateful and we’ve definitely been paying attention to who’s supporting us!

In addition, we’d also like to extend our thanks to Rogue Cinema for their incredibly nice review of the film!  Click here to read it.

A director’s commentary track and  other bonus content will be making its way online in the coming weeks so follow 27th Letter on Facebook and Twitter to stay up to date!

The Surprise Party premieres this Friday, January 28th – but you can get a sneak peek by watching the first six minutes of the film right now. Warning – this clip is NSFW.

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more exclusive content as well as updates on this movie and other future projects.

Our new film – The Surprise Party – will debut on Friday, January 28th at 7:00 pm CST. If you haven’t already, join our fan page on Facebook where we’ll be counting down to the release with exclusive new content related to the film.

For more information on the movie, click here.

I also wanted to take a moment to give you a status update on our current list of projects since we haven’t been able to drop in as much as we would have liked the past few weeks.

So the unfortunate news is that things are just not moving along as quickly as we’d like them to. I’ve been absolutely buried in freelance work and putting in up to 12-15 hours a day seven days a week on that stuff. It hasn’t left a whole lot of time left over for other projects. Especially when we’re determined to hit maintain our schedule with the comic every week.

“The Surprise Party” is 75% done. I need to clean-up some of the scenes and do a final mix and that’s about it. That last 25% is so crucial though that there’s just no way I’m going to rush through it so that I can be done with it. I’m determined to deliver the best possible film that I can and sometimes getting there involves a lot of trial and error. So we’re close… very close. It’s not for lack of passion, I have to make that clear. What we’ve got so far is looking fantastic. I want to make sure the remainder is equally as strong.

The delays on that film have obviously affected our next project, “Legion“. So the bad news there is that we’re not going to be able to move forward on that as soon as we wanted to. The good news is I just worked out a brand new treatment for the film that has a slightly different take than previous versions and WE FREAKING LOVE IT. Seriously. I cannot wait to get started on it. It’s going to be totally unlike anything we’ve ever done and if it comes together the way we’re hoping it will then it’ll be worth the wait.

So I apologize profusely for the long road we’ve found ourselves on. I just need to keep my head above water and power through some other obligations before I can get everything here back on track.

The question isn’t “if”, it’s “when”. You have my word.  I hope there’s some solace in that.

Everything should be up and running again in a few hours.

Update: Looks like everything’s good to go. I think the only thing that’s missing are the downloadable commentary tracks for Batman. They’re being uploaded now and will be online again later tonight.