Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

Small City Canada, Big Screen Premiere
Canada is a large, beautiful country. If you haven’t been I highly suggest you someday pay a visit. When people think about Canada, the cities most likely to pop up in an Internet search are Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Though those cities are fantastic, I

Why 50 Kisses has given my music career a boost, by Fuzzy Jones
50 Kisses has given me the boost and confidence I needed to launch my music out into the world of film. A track I sing on and wrote the lyrics for, ‘Swans’, is being used in the end credits of 50 Kisses (track below). After

Welcome to 50 Kisses Training Day, Feb 1st 2014
Do you want a free one day training course of distribution and marketing? Do you want to support 50 Kisses? Date: Feb 1st 2014 (9.30am to 4.30pm) Venue: Ealing Film Studios Price: FREE This one day event will train you in marketing and PR so

Help! I can’t make it all the way to the premiere for 50 Kisses!
I get it, for many it’s too far to come to London. While we will miss you on the red carpet, we REALLY want you to stay part of the process. Do you want to hold your own local premiere on the 13th or 14th

50 Kisses FINAL Films Revealed
I am delighted to announce that we have locked the 50 Kisses feature film – and it’s running to 90 minutes almost to the second! The team and our post production volunteers have been working through the holidays to overcome some technical challenges and get

50 Kisses… run up to the premiere
First of all, my apologies for not making the final announcement before Christmas as promised, we had some technical issues that are now resolved, and I got hammered by the flu and am only just recovering. So here’s what you need to know about what’s

Final Mastering for 50 Kisses
We are completing the final mastering of 50 Kisses right now and have hit a whole pile of technical niggles, but we have time to work through these before the premiere on Feb 13th 2014. I can also announce that ALL films that all films

Save the date! The World Premiere of 50 Kisses will be February 13th 2014
The 50 Kisses team just spent theday working out all of the logistics for getting the final movie out there in 2014. So save the date for a swanky London Premiere on February 13th 2014 – posh frocks and dickie bows! February 13th will

Rhys Howell on writing his 50 Kisses script ‘Boxes’ – interview by Michelle Goode
Then someone said, again on Twitter I think but not directed at me, that if you weren’t able to complete a 2 page script which could be made and released theatrically, how serious, really, were you about this writing malarkey? This hit a nerve with

’50 Kisses’ UK Cinema release strategy and plan…
We now have a fine cut of the movie with around 26 films included. This is still in slight flux for a few reasons, but essentially we are there. The running time is around 90 minutes. I can confirm that all filmmakers that responded to

The end titles for 50 Kisses are running at fifteen minutes!
Editor and VFX master Ricky Milling has been working hard on the end credits – and they are running at 15 minutes, complete with clips from films. It’s been quite a challenge to corral writers and filmmakers into sending their stuff, but I think we

Dream Date Cannes, Poster and Festival Update
We’ve been very busy with Dream Date over the last few months. We had this poster designed by talented Kaya Simson using the fantastic photo taken by stills photographer Veronica Trickett. We are really pleased with how it has turned out. We also took Dream

What is the REAL value in entering 50 Kisses?
When 50 Kisses offered the opportunity to be included in the making of a feature, and particularly one with a theatre release, I jumped at the chance. The concept was that Chris called for 2 page scripts loosely based on ‘a kiss’. From over 2000

50 Kisses WILL be released in the Cinema in the UK
Today we reached an exciting agreement with a UK distributor. I am not going to reveal any details just yet, for reasons that will become apparent later, and we will be contacting 50 Kissers over the coming weeks to explain ‘in secret’ what our plan

A Kiss In Cannes by Kulvinder Gill
As our registration was completed so close to the deadline, finding accommodation – let alone reasonably priced accommodation – proved to be a challenge with most hotels rooms and apartments already spoken for. In the end, we booked rooms at the first place we found

Creating the 50 Kisses end title sequence
Over the last few days, our fabulous editor Ricky has been wading through what feels like a zillion credits, and has spent days building and rendering in After Effects in order to create the end title sequence for 50 Kisses. To be clear, every one

50 Kisses Promo Released
TO LEAVE A COMMENT: CLICK ON COMMENTS BELOW We are delighted to release the 50 Kisses promo today. Please share with everyone you know on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest – everywhere! Embed on your site and get it out there for the world to see.

50 Kisses promo music winner announced…
Earlier this year we ran an initiative to find music tracks for 50 Kisses. Thank you to everyone who entered their songs. We had great fun listening to them, and were quickly able to make a shortlist. The shortlist ended up playing more like the

Listen to the filmmakers and screenwriters ‘chat track’ for ‘50 Kisses’ and find out how they did it
We released ’50 Kisses’ online last week and today we are releasing the official DVD chat track for the movie. On this version of the film, over 30 of the filmmakers and writers discuss their experiences of ’50 Kisses’ and just how it all came together for them. The film is played in slow motion

50 Kisses Will Premiere Online on Xmas Day 2014
Following the news that 50 Kisses has been rejected from Sundance (thanks LA based Marlowes for chasing it), we can announce that there is no reason to hold back the movie from the internet. On Xmas day, you will be able to watch 50 Kisses online, download an MP4 (for your own device) and embed

50 Kisses Success Story from Nick Grills
The other day I was at work doing my boring supermarket job when I looked across to the book section and saw The Guinness Book of World Records 2015. It gave me a surge of excitement to know that I had some small part of page 165. My script Last Chance was one of those

50 Kisses in the Guinness Book Of Records
I just got my copy of the 2015 Guinness Book Of Records and can confirm that yes, 50 Kisses is listed on the bottom right of page 165 in the movie makers section. We are in very good company sharing the page with Steve Spielberg, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Junior and Stan Lee.

50 Kisses on London Live with the World Record
As with most media exposure, you get a call, jump in a cab and 30 minutes later you are on TV – and it happened again just now, with 50 Kisses being featured on London Live to help publicise the launch of the new Guinness Book Of World Records today, now in its 60th edition.

Phil Peel takes 50 Kisses to the Rhode Island Film Festival
50 Kisses with extra Love wows America Well that was quite a journey.. From filming our short film Love in London …to Edinburgh, New York, Genesis Cinema, and finally Rhode Island International Film Festival. …and being applauded by 3000 people. 50 Kisses – the Directors Cut …or as I like to call it 50 Kisses

50 Kisses wins the Rhode Island Film Festival
Great news, 50 Kisses has won the Rhode Island Film Festival in Providence, RI. Filmmaker Phil Peel and actress Holly Jacobson (from the segment ‘Love’) were there to collect the award on all our behalf’s. We actually created a ‘directors cut’ of 50 Kisses reinstating ‘Love’ for this North American premiere and by all accounts

Closed Captions and subtitles in 35 degree heat for 50 Kisses
We have been working hard for the last few days creating subtitles / closed captions for VoD platforms. Hannah Mark who is working with us right now has been stuck in a tiny office, diligently working through the film with a program called Subtitle Workshop. You would think you could just use the scripts, but

50 Kisses selected for the Bay Street Film Festival, Ontario
We just got this email about the Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario! Congratulations! Your film 50 Kisses has been officially selected for this year’s 10th annual Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The festival runs from September 3th to September 7th 2014. We’d like to invite you to attend our

50 Kisses Gets North American Premiere at Rhode Island Film Festival
GREAT NEWS! We have a North American Premiere for 50 Kisses at the prestigious Rhode Island Film Festival! Site HERE. Dates: August 5th to 10th 2014 This is a GREAT festival, I went about five years ago (video blog here) – the venue and audiences are outstanding and I am really amped that we have

50 Kisses on Turkish TRT TV
Another Kiss? Here’s some related posts 50 Kisses Masterclass 1 – recutting your film 50 Kisses The Feature Film Enters Post Production From 50 Kisses to 2 Pages a Week by Robert J. Lee Why 50 Kisses has given my music career a boost, by Fuzzy Jones Don’t miss out on the big publicity opportunity

50 Kisses on BBC WM with Noreen Khan
Tracey Flynn, screenwriter of Poster Boy and Anil Rao, filmmaker of Neil, both joined me for a chat on BBC West Midlands Saturday Radio show with Noreen Khan ahead of the screening tonight on the Giant Screen here in Birmingham. It’s still quite amazing that 50 Kisses is going to play on an iMax screen