AT BEST DERIVATIVE - PREMIERE!

[Ryan Pierson]

Friar's Lantern Entertainment, the AZ based independent film company, announces the limited theatrical release of their feature farce comedy, AT BEST DERIVATIVE, a self conscious hommage to spoofs such as Naked Gun and Hot Shots. Locally cast and produced on a micro budget, the film has gathered a great level of attention in local film circles. The film will be shown for the first time in it's entirety on March 6th 2009 at the Tempe Center for the Arts (Main Theatre) to an audience of 600.

Tickets to the event will be available December 24th 10am by way of the Tempe Center for the Arts Box office, or online at the following website:
http://tca.ticketforce.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=66
http://www.friarslantern.net

This event is expected to sell out, so get your tickets early!

Tempe Center for the Arts
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway
Tempe AZ 85281
Phone [phone]TCA (2822)
Fax [phone]
E-mail [e-mail]





AT BEST DERIVATIVE Logline: A band of fledgling criminals plan to sell the story/movie rights to a crime they have yet to commit.

AT BEST DERIVATIVE was written by AZ native Jeremy K Clayton in 2005 while working as a bank teller. He was introduced to director and co-producer Ryan M Pierson in Late 2006. The pair began principle photography in September of 2007 with the help of Light Pulse Studios and veteran producer/cinematographer Chuck Harding.

AT BEST DERIVATIVE boasts an all Arizona cast, including but not limited to the late Barry E Wallace (who passed in December of 2008) as "Max Heavy", Robert Friedlander (The Kingdom, The Handlers, I'm Voting Republican), runway modeling phenom Noelle Wheeler, Damien DeChurch, and front man Adam Pierson who was chosen from 2 dozen auditionees despite having never acted before.

With a speaking cast of 53, a non-speaking cast of over 200, 57 unique locations and only weekend availability for most talent and crew, AT BEST DERIVATIVE was an extremely complicated and laborious project.

AT BEST DERIVATIVE LINKS:
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26QyvSh2obE or www.friarslantern.net
Website: www.friarslantern.net, www.myspace/com/atbestderivative
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185040/
Indiewire: http://www.indiewire.com/movies/2008/03/indiewire_produ.html
Phx Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-1682-Phoenix-Travel-Examiner~y2008m12d19-Tempe-Tickets-Make-Great-Last-Minute-Gifts

CONTACT:
Dir. Ryan M Pierson [e-mail] 480-649-2686
Jeremy K Clayton [e-mail] 480-227-7088

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AT BEST DERIVATIVE Logline: A band of fledgling criminals plan to sell the story/movie rights to a crime they have yet to commit.

Synopsis:
True crime is big nowadays. Nobody knows that better than the truest of criminals, Waffle House, and his band of ill-to-doers who have a plan to knock off the local bank on spec. All they need is an inside man, Edwin Sage, to help iron out a few of the details.

Edwin, an aspiring screenwriter/bank teller, is happy to help, especially because he thinks the group’s front man is a rep from Miramax looking for creative advice on how to make a big screen robbery look “real”.

Everyone is blissful in their ignorance until Edwin, a tinge insecure about his ability to deliver, consults his cousin, and head of the local anti-robbery task force, Max Heavy.

Oppressed by the disdain of his social circle, the sheer listlessness of his existence, and enough script “how-to” literary principles to fill the vault he’ll probably die in, Edwin is not only a failure, he’s an accessory.

At Best Derivative is a self-conscious farce comedy that sets out to prove that it is always best to be yourself, even when “yourself” is a pathetic loser with no chance at any real accomplishment.