Rockhouse Pictures Video Interview
24/09/08 17:50
Rockhouse Pictures was recently featured in a news segment for News9.com. Click the link below to take a virtual tour of the studio and hear us talk about our upcoming projects.
News 9 Interview
News 9 Interview
Daily Oklahoman Article
24/07/08 17:52
By Jim Stafford
Business Writer
Kenny Phillips opened his Rockhouse Cinema studios in far northwest Oklahoma City to a one-man tour Monday, showing off a vast array of editing equipment in what once was nothing more than a, well, rock house.
The facility offers editing equipment, sound booths, a recording studio with a new Steinway piano, computer equipment and a new mission for its owner: theatrical film production.
The studio is now home to Rockhouse Pictures, a new film production company created as a result of a partnership between Phillips and Austin, Texas, independent film producer Christopher Sharpe.
Phillips, 55, is a long-time professional musician who toured with various rock bands in the 1970s, then became a Grammy-award winning sound engineer.
In a 30-year career, Phillips has done lights and sounds for many performers, including, U2, Nirvana and comedian Robin Williams. He designed sets and lighting for Rob Becker’s Broadway show “Defending the Caveman,” as well as lighting, sound, video presentation, props and set pieces for Eric Idle’s live stage show, “Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python.
Phillips bought the old rock house that was next door to his own residence in 2004 and remodeled it into a professional-quality recording and engineering studio.
“I gutted it all the way to the rock on the outside and started over,” Phillips said of the studio project.
The Phillips-Sharpe partnership started in 2004 with the production of a feature film called “Sex Machine,” which claimed the Best Film prize at the 2006 dead-CENTER film festival in Oklahoma City. It’s a story of a Frankenstein-like creature that has a “sex machine” tattoo on its arm.
“Christopher Sharpe is an artist when it comes to video, so between his talents and mine combined, we can make a beautiful looking and sounding project,” Phillips said.
Oklahoma’s advantages
Sharpe was present Monday via a live computer video link from his Austin office where he was busy working on a script. The first production from Rockhouse Pictures should begin shooting this fall, he said.
“It’s an action-adventure movie about a punk rock band,” said Sharpe, 35. “We’re still working on a title, but it’s going to be fast paced, in-your-face type action adventure.”
Also, an Oklahoma City native, Sharpe is dividing his time between Austin and Oklahoma City and plans to relocate to his hometown.
Oklahoma offers some definite advantages over Austin, he said. The state has created tax advantages for production companies to film in the state, but there is more.
“Here in Austin there has been so much film production that it’s harder to get a location here,” Sharpe said. “So many of them have been used in productions…it’s just so much more expensive to get locations.”
Plus, Oklahomans are eager to help the state’s film industry grow, Phillips said.
All of which means that actors and a film crew will be setting up scenes in Oklahoma locations this fall. The production is financed by unnamed investors who are eager to be associated with something “cool,” Phillips said. As for distribution of the completed project, the pair described a new “distribution model” without providing details, except that the Internet will play a key role. “We have a business plan in place that will be really, really exciting,” Sharpe said. “The way we are going to release it is going to be the real news.”
For more on the new film production company, go to www.rockhousecinema.com.
Business Writer
Kenny Phillips opened his Rockhouse Cinema studios in far northwest Oklahoma City to a one-man tour Monday, showing off a vast array of editing equipment in what once was nothing more than a, well, rock house.
The facility offers editing equipment, sound booths, a recording studio with a new Steinway piano, computer equipment and a new mission for its owner: theatrical film production.
The studio is now home to Rockhouse Pictures, a new film production company created as a result of a partnership between Phillips and Austin, Texas, independent film producer Christopher Sharpe.
Phillips, 55, is a long-time professional musician who toured with various rock bands in the 1970s, then became a Grammy-award winning sound engineer.
In a 30-year career, Phillips has done lights and sounds for many performers, including, U2, Nirvana and comedian Robin Williams. He designed sets and lighting for Rob Becker’s Broadway show “Defending the Caveman,” as well as lighting, sound, video presentation, props and set pieces for Eric Idle’s live stage show, “Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python.
Phillips bought the old rock house that was next door to his own residence in 2004 and remodeled it into a professional-quality recording and engineering studio.
“I gutted it all the way to the rock on the outside and started over,” Phillips said of the studio project.
The Phillips-Sharpe partnership started in 2004 with the production of a feature film called “Sex Machine,” which claimed the Best Film prize at the 2006 dead-CENTER film festival in Oklahoma City. It’s a story of a Frankenstein-like creature that has a “sex machine” tattoo on its arm.
“Christopher Sharpe is an artist when it comes to video, so between his talents and mine combined, we can make a beautiful looking and sounding project,” Phillips said.
Oklahoma’s advantages
Sharpe was present Monday via a live computer video link from his Austin office where he was busy working on a script. The first production from Rockhouse Pictures should begin shooting this fall, he said.
“It’s an action-adventure movie about a punk rock band,” said Sharpe, 35. “We’re still working on a title, but it’s going to be fast paced, in-your-face type action adventure.”
Also, an Oklahoma City native, Sharpe is dividing his time between Austin and Oklahoma City and plans to relocate to his hometown.
Oklahoma offers some definite advantages over Austin, he said. The state has created tax advantages for production companies to film in the state, but there is more.
“Here in Austin there has been so much film production that it’s harder to get a location here,” Sharpe said. “So many of them have been used in productions…it’s just so much more expensive to get locations.”
Plus, Oklahomans are eager to help the state’s film industry grow, Phillips said.
All of which means that actors and a film crew will be setting up scenes in Oklahoma locations this fall. The production is financed by unnamed investors who are eager to be associated with something “cool,” Phillips said. As for distribution of the completed project, the pair described a new “distribution model” without providing details, except that the Internet will play a key role. “We have a business plan in place that will be really, really exciting,” Sharpe said. “The way we are going to release it is going to be the real news.”
For more on the new film production company, go to www.rockhousecinema.com.