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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS MICHAEL BAYOUTH & RYAN BALL & FELLOW FILMMAKERS ADVANCE SON OF JASON’S SLATE OF FILMS Son of Jason Films founder Michael Bayouth is the son of legendary Hollywood stuntman Ted White, who portrayed Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, doubled for John Wayne and appeared in many other films and television shows. Well, the corpse didn't fall to far from the coffin because Michael has now started his own production company, teaming up with fellow filmmaker Ryan Ball to launch a variety of exciting film properties. Bayouth and Ball update us on the status on several of the company’s projects: Sam Hell This supernatural killer thriller is now being marketed in foreign territories by friend and fellow filmmaker Albert Pyun (Sword and the Sorcerer). Albert is casting Sam Hell’s Osa Wallender in two of his films, Tales of an Ancient Empire ( http://www .talesofanancientempir e .com ) starring Kevin Sorbo, Christopher Lambert, Melissa Ordway and Whitney Able, and Road To Hell ( http://www .roadtohellmo vie .com ) starring Michael Paré, Clare Kramer, Courtney Peldon and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. Pyun comments: “Pre-sales in these territories are sure to elevate Osa’s status and raise her profile in the indie markets for Sam Hell. Tales has pre-sold to Germany, Portugal, Eastern Europe, CIS, Scandinavia, Indonesia, Singapore, South America, Middle East and Turkey."

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PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release

INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS MICHAEL BAYOUTH & RYAN BALL& FELLOW FILMMAKERS ADVANCE SON OF JASON’S SLATE OF FILMS

Son of Jason Films founder Michael Bayouth is the son of legendary Hollywood stuntman Ted White, whoportrayed Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, doubled for John Wayne and appeared inmany other films and television shows. Well, the corpse didn't fall to far from the coffin because Michael hasnow started his own production company, teaming up with fellow filmmaker Ryan Ball to launch a variety ofexciting film properties.

Bayouth and Ball update us on the status on several of the company’s projects:

Sam Hell This supernatural killer thriller is now being marketed in foreignterritories by friend and fellow filmmaker Albert Pyun (Sword and the Sorcerer).Albert is casting Sam Hell’s Osa Wallender in two of his films, Tales of anAncient Empire ( http://www.talesofanancientempire.com ) starring Kevin Sorbo,Christopher Lambert, Melissa Ordway and Whitney Able, and Road To Hell ( http://www.roadtohellmovie.com ) starring Michael Paré, Clare Kramer,Courtney Peldon and Deborah Van Valkenburgh.

Pyun comments: “Pre-sales in these territories are sure to elevate Osa’s statusand raise her profile in the indie markets for Sam Hell. Tales has pre-sold toGermany, Portugal, Eastern Europe, CIS, Scandinavia, Indonesia, Singapore, SouthAmerica, Middle East and Turkey."

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TAKE 22 Producer/Editor Aaron Borrocas (Producer of TV’s The Soup) has masterfullyedited a gem of a funny movie.

Some filmmakers burn through a lot of film to capture that one moment of cinematicmagic. For producer Todd Hunter (Chris Pina), that magic proves to be as elusive as afree lunch in Hollywood. This documentary in the tradition of This is Spinal Tap andBest in Show takes a hilarious look at the world of independent filmmaking as theproduction on a film titled Sequestered spirals out of control and its producer findshimself struggling with difficult actors, an eccentric director, an angry screenwriter,dwindling production funds and the mob, among other things.

Heading up a cast of leading improv actors are Rick Overton (The Informant, EightLegged Freaks) Dave Thomas (SCTV, Strange Brew), Tom Wilson (the Back to the

Future films), Archie Hawn (This is Spinal Tap) Gary Anthony Williams (Malcom in the Middle, Reno 911),Rodney Lee Conover (Bachelor Man) and The Groundlings alumni Ben Falcone, Mitch Silpa, KevinKirkpatrick, Beth Burns, and Wendie Jo Sperber (the “Back to the Future” films) Wendie Jo Sperber lost herbattle with breast cancer at the age of 46. “Take 22” was her last film. Sperber founded the WeSpark CancerSupport Center in 2001. Her Bosom Buddies co-star Tom Hanks says, “The memory of Wendie Jo is that of awalking inspiration. She met the challenges of her illness with love, cheer, joy, altruism through WeSpark, andan unstoppable supply of goodness. We are going to miss her as surely as we are all better for knowing her.”

Overton plays Miles Tenant, an out-of-control theater director given the chance to helm a feature film.Following a casting session debacle, Miles decides to bring in his off-Broadway cast from New York. Thesesensitive thespians begin to unravel when next-door neighbor Mr. Finney (Thomas) shows up and reveals thattheir shooting location was the site of a mass murder. Further complicating matters is a menacing screenwriter(Wilson) who keeps showing up despite being banned from the set for threatening the producer with violence.

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OUT THERE Insurmountable odds tend to paralyze the common man. Frank Bennettis about to rip through the curtain of commonality. A year after Frank lost his wife tocancer, he finds out that his son, Ryan, has a terminal, inoperable tumor. Desperateto keep what is left of his family, he makes a bold decision to travel deep into thePeruvian Rainforest where Ryan undergoes an ancient and dangerous ritualperformed by a native Shaman. But Frank encounters much more than he bargainedfor in this mystic tale of hope, redemption, and tenacious love. Penned by GregSolomon, a twenty-year entertainment industry veteran, the screenplay deliverspassion, grit and edge-of-your-seat excitement with the story of a determined fatherfaced with the inescapable question, “How far would you go to save your child?”

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1013 BRIAR LANE In 2008, a real-life mystery began to unfold when a real estatecompany (name withheld by request) discovered video footage shot in one of its vacantproperties. The tapes have been acquired by local documentary filmmakers JarrodRogan and Haman Movafagh, who set to work piecing together a series of bizarreinstances recorded by a man living in the house. Apparently waiting for his wife anddaughter to join him form out of state, the man began documenting paranormal activitythat kept him from sleeping for days on end. The eerie recordings have become thesubject of much controversy among the world’s top paranormal investigators, and arefinally being released to the general public. This first documentary from Son of JasonFilms challenges audiences to explain what happened in the house on Briar Lane.

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SNARL is being co-produced by the Chiodo Bros., makers of the cult classic KillerKlowns from Outer Space. They are also a world-renown visual effects andanimation shop whose credits include such hits as Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Elfand Team America: World Police. The brothers will be handling visual effects forSNARL in addition to contributing their production expertise.

Also attached to the project is accomplished British director Nick Copus, who iscurrently in post-production a remake of the sci-fi classic Day of the Triffids forthe BBC. His extensive work in television includes episodes of the highly regardedscience fiction series The 4400 and The Dead Zone.

SNARL is a fun thrill ride that takes place during a massive traffic jam. As the body count rises, a disgracedmotorcycle cop seeks redemption by leading a rag-tag crew of civilians in stopping a mysterious threat tohuman lives.

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