Shane Woodson and Phil Cherry preview '7 Days to Hell'

Writer/director/actor Shane Woodson and actor Phil Cherry previewed the movie "7 Days to Hell" and gave details on how you can see if at the Baxter Aveneue Theaters...

Episode Transcript

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I got actors in the studio today. I love when the actors show up
on my broadcast. Actors, producers, directors, writers, these guys do
all that stuff. Phil Cherry,welcome back to you. Thank you,
thank you. It's always a pleasure. I just al would like to hear
your voice on the air. You'reborn with those pipes. Ah, yes,
that's a good way to be.Thank you. Do people ask you
to do voiceovers? Oh? Sure, all the time, all the time

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they hear that voice. Shane Woodson, you're a Louisvillion as well. Yes
i am. Yes, this ismy hometown and I'm in town from Los
Angeles to share Seven Days to Hellwith the Louisville audience. Good people Louisville,
who funded the film. So we'revery excited. The Baxter. It's
a lot of sevens, lucky numbers. Seven Days to Hell, seven pm

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on Saturday at the Baxter in theaternumber seven, and Orson Wells is winking
at us in the corner. OhI love that. Yeah, yeah,
a lot of sevens involved in this. All right, So tell me about
this horror film, Seven Days toHell. Phil. Did you write this
or did Shane? Shane is thewriter Shane is all So the producer,
director, and lead actor in themovie. It was. It was a

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lot of fun making this. Icouldn't have made it without Phil's help.
We produced it together, We raisedthe fines and it's a sequel to Eight
Days to Hell. Eric Roberts AcademyAward nominee, was in that film.
He plays a cameo in this one. We've got a terrific cast. It's
a wonderful time. Julia Roberts brother, Yeah, Julia Roberts brother. Yes,
He's been in a lot of projects, over six hundred films, but

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he did a great job in thelast film. This is the best film
I've made to date. I've madesix features, and I'm so excited for
Louisvillians to see this Saturday night.It was. I wrote the script in
seven days, so a lot ofsevens and you add him up and you
get twenty one blackjack. So,hey, that's good call on that.

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So there's a bunch of Louisville peopleinvolved in it. But it was all
done in the other LA, theLos Angeles instead of Louisville area. Yeah,
it was. It was film filmedon location in Los Angeles. I
like to use real locations as opposedto soundstages because it's more authentic. And
we shot it on the red camera, the camera that shot Guardians of the

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Galaxy got Zeis lenses, a great, great crew. My DP has shot
over forty one features a lot ofLionsgate films, b Et films, and
wonderful old director of photography go yeah, yeah, you talking about that movie
Lingo. Here, it's Andrea GarcisLopez. Our female lead was just in

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Griselda and that was that was agood one on Netflix. Sophia Vergara Denise
Milford is flying in from Los Angeles, as is Andrea for the premiere.
They'll both be in attendance and Philwe're the four leads, So basically Louisville
will get to meet the four leadsof the film Saturday night. Which is

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exciting is we're all here in oneplace. It'll be the first time the
Denise and Andrea have been in Kentucky. So excited to have them here.
And we've got a lot of interestin the film from distributors already and I
haven't even shopped it yet and shownit. This is the world premiere in

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Louisville. All right, Phil,tell me about your role in this film.
And am I going to see youbloody up? Because I love you
too much to see you. Idon't want to give it all away.
But yes, answer question. Yes, I get a little bloody, A
little bloody. That's fun working likethat, though, isn't it. Yes?
And I happen to be working withsome of the best, most beautiful

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women around Hollywood. The casting isamazing, yes, and it's It's been
a real pleasure working with Shane.We've been working together in various projects over
a thirty year period of time,but this is the most significant and so
thank you Shane, Thank you PhilTerry. We watched it the other day.

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We previewed the film at the It'son a DCP Digital cinema projector like
the big Hollywood films, just tomake sure it played okay, played beautifully.
Could not be happier with the soundand picture quality. And we will
absolutely have a full house. Themanager at the theater informed me he anticipates
a sellout based array on ticket sales, and we might we might have back

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to back screenings depending Oh cool thatnight. This is this Saturday night.
We're talking about seven pm. BaxterAvenue Theaters, the Louisville premiere of Seven
Days to Hell you got it sevenDays there or B Square and you shot
this win a couple of years ago. It's usually when people tell me it's

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two years ago. Oh, thisone quick turnaround. We filmed it last
September. We filmed it in ninedays, quickly took it through post production,
had the edit done in two months. Hired a fantastic composer who mainly
is he's playing the instruments himself ratherthan computer animation. So that's in a
critical part of a horror film aswell. The music is the music moves

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it and intensifies it. Yeah,and it is the best soundtrack we've ever
had on any of the six movies. It is so good. And what
do you do? You stand overthis musician's shoulder and tell them in backseat
drive on them say well I wantthis here. Well it was a good
it was a good collaboration. Whatwhat I did? We had a lot
of lengthy conversations and I told himwhat I wanted to accomplish in each scene,

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what I wanted to make the audiencefeel, and in great detail,
like the emotional beats of the scene, what the character's thinking, what the
other characters are reacting to, whento make people jump, when to when
to lull people, and do youthink it it's okay? And then another
big surprise. That's what though,That's why movie making is magic. Yeah,

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that's right, absolutely, because yeah, exactly you're talking about, you
know, manipulating people's emotions. That'sfun. Fun. The most fun that
I had on the project was whenI was acting on set, because I
play the main role, and whenI was acting with all the actors,

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when I was working with Phil.Phil gave a brilliant performance in this movie.
I always did happier he was.No one could have played it better.
His performance is stellar and but thefun, the most fun I had
on seven Days Dell was in postproduction with the score, with with the
sound design, with the levels ofwhen to make it more intense and when

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to drop it off, with theediting, and the visual effects. I've
got to say the visual effects,we did a lot of things practically.
I don't like a computer to createthe stuff. I like to do it
the old fashioned way, the waythey used to make horror films. You
built the practical effects because it looksmore realistic. Cameras are so powerful these
days. I find that if youdo it the old fashioned way, because

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the image quality is so intense,it misses no details. It'll see an
ant thirty feet away going across thewall. Which, hey, did that
ant sign his release for him tobe in the movie. I don't know.
Let's talk to that little guy becausehe gave a great performance. Imprompt
too, But it's a lot offun. It's I wouldn't I wouldn't trade
it, you know. I loveto create. Don't wait? Create if

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if you've got the time, whenI'm not working as an actor, I'll
make one of my own films.How does a director act in a film?
And then who directs you? Oryou just know what you're doing?
Who tells you? Go? Andall that business? Well, what I've
done it so much. What Ido. I only give myself one take.
And what I do is I watchplayback on the first shot setup of

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what I'm in. I ask mycameraman to rewind it so I can evaluate
my performance. If I'm happy withit, I just move on. But
it's I direct myself that way.Sometimes I have a stand in to be
where I'm going to be in thescene positionally, so I can look at
the frame and make sure everything's prettyin the shot, everything the lighting.

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I'm meticulous about details, and thenI just run in and do it.
Unfortunately, and I rehearse myself.I started off as Phil. I met
Phil as a stage actor, youthperforming arts school graduate from Atherton. So
I rehearse my actors like we wouldrehearse a play. So everyone's very well
prepared for any curve balls or whatevercan come our way. And that's what

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works for me. It's splendid.All right. This is the Louisville premiere
of Seven Days to Hell this Saturdaynight, seven o'clock Backster Avenue Theater.
Tickets you can get at the doorand go Toillygate dot com. Yeah,
that's the website and it will takeyou to the link for ticket sales.
Or folks can just show up atthe box office there at the Baxter right
behind Mid City Mall. Okay,and there could be a second showing if

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this one fills, Yes, asecond showing, and that would be at
ten pm. That one would goin the movies an hour and a half.
Phil, tell me about this projectthat's coming up down the road.
About your auntie from Hancock County.Yes, I'm happy to talk about that.
Shannon and I are putting together thisdocumentary on my great aunt's life.

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She was born in eighteen sixty three, you know, the same time that
President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. She was born enslaved on the Beauchamp
plantation. It's a great story.I've visited the plantation several times now.
The plantation's owner now is Senator RonBoswell from Davies County, and he has

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given me permission to come down andfilm the documentary on the plantation. And
the previous owners were the Beauchamp family. Margaret Beauchamp gifted me all of the
artifacts that are currently in the house, and so I've got a lot of
artifacts down there. To figure outwhat I'm gonna do with it. We
discussed that before, but this iscool. So when when would this filming

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occur? We plan to begin filmingat some point this fall. That's what
I ideally would like to do.Keep me updated on because it's a great
story. Her life is well.You know, she went on to become
the first black educator in Louisville andChristy Brown devised a wonderful mural around the
corner at fifth and uh Muhammad Aliof her on the Republic Building. And

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Christie's been a big supporter of HenriettaUniversity Louisville, started the Scholarship Fund along
with Christy Brown. And so we'vegot major players in our corner. Fantastic,
It's going to be a great storytold. It needs to be told.
Yes, it's a great Louisville story, and it's a great Kentucky story.
And you know, Shane and Ihave got wonderful team people, the

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team would and the lady to comein and do the filming and all of
that. I'm going to good foryou, Phil. I know you've been
working on us a long time,long time, long time Phil Charring actor,
all around good guy, writer,director, and he does it all.
He's Captain Hollywood. Yeah you two, Shane Woodson, good to have
you back home. Thank you Ramiirof their their film Seven Days to Hell.

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Saturday Night at the Baxter, sevenpm. You get tickets right at
the door. Great CFLs. Thanks, thank you, thank you to all
right back on news radio eight fortyw u H A s