Not just crying wolf.

An old friend, Jeff Wadlow, will have his first full-length feature film open on 1,600 screens across North America tomorrow. Cry_Wolf is a 90-minute thriller that he filmed in Richmond on a $1M budget, only to have it picked up by a major studio, have all kinds of companies pitch in some bad-ass post-production work, and make it so great that it’s going nationwide. Oh, and it stars Jon Bon Jovi.

Jeff WadlowJeff and I took a filmmaking class together when we were in high school. A dozen of us would get together every week, taking trips around Charlottesville making mini-documentaries, learning interview techniques, editing, etc. It was really a lot of fun. Jeff was a total bad-ass. The rest of us would come to class having done nothing since we walked out the previous week, and he’d have been in there every night, storyboarding and editing. It was thanks to him that we ended up with a documentary of the class when all was said and done — he took hours of our crappy footage and turned it into something really nice. I need to track that down so I can eBay one day when Jeff is really famous and I’m sleeping in a gutter.

(I can’t imagine that Jeff would remember me, incidentally. This was a long time ago.)

The Charlottesville Daily Progress has the story about the movie’s opening here in Charlottesville, for which Jeff will be present, using it as a fundraiser for the UVa Cancer Center. (Jeff’s widely-loved mother, Emily Couric, died of pancreatic cancer four years ago next month.)

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4 replies on “Not just crying wolf.”

  1. Interesting post, Waldo. I was in a hotel in Anchorage, and this film is being promoted heavily on that in-room premium movie service.

    Some of these connections are amazing. I found out a few years back that Greg Kinnear and I played together as toddlers (so I’m REALLY sure he wouldn’t remember me); turns out my parents rented an apartment from his grandparents about the time I was born. It was a real thrill for my mother, who saw them (his mom’s name was Suzie) on the Academy Awards broadcast when Kinnear was nominated for “As Good As It Gets.”

  2. Great news, it is opening all over Richmond. (http://www.fandango.com/MoviePage.aspx?date=9/16/2005&mid=90839&source=moviesearch) We’ll make sure to see it.

    I don’t know if you knew this, but my husband and I met through acting. (And on the Internet. It is a long, tangled, romantic, high-tech, long distance love story.)

    I had hoped that my “time off” would give me a chance to get into acting in Richmond again. I keep forgetting that sick leave, by definition, means I’m not up for the rigours of acting. (A 16 hour day on a set would wipe me out right now.)

    But maybe, one of these days, I’ll be able to tell you that I’m in something , or my husband is, that’s been filmed
    in Richmond. Maybe not soon *sigh* but one of these days…

  3. Waldo, I only just noticed that you don’t have trackbacks. How can that be?

    Anyways, FYI, I linked to this post on BOP today:
    http://www.bopnews.com/archives/004960.html#4960

    Thank you again for the heads up on the movie. I was very pleasantly suprised–it was better any anything I’ve seen come out of Hollywood in ages. GREAT casting (Jon Bonjovi as a slightly gormless teacher was entertaining, and he put in a solid performance), a deliciously opaque plot, solid direction/acting, and the overall production quality was excellent. Oh–and scarey as hell.

  4. Waldo, I only just noticed that you don’t have trackbacks. How can that be?

    I do have trackbacks, but I also have overly-aggressive trackback spam filtering. :) I haven’t yet figured out the happy medium, but I’ve clearly swung too far to the filtering side of things!

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