INNOCENT GUN - October 2013 to January 2014

         The idea of a film based on our "Life Will be Hell" concept started in April 2013 during the filming of the "Life Is Hell - Short film." The "Life  is Hell" Tv series concept is a series that has two shows in one. The comedy portion which is titled 'life Is Hell" & the action portion titled "Life Will Be Hell." Both "Life is Hell - Short Film" & "Life Is hell 2: The Injured Man" feature prequels to a "Life Will Be Hell" film. When we began writing a script (for which is now titled "Innocent Gun" apposed to "Life Will be hell"), we had a completely different story. Originally it was going to be a film where Spear trains a rookie operative known as Stone for a potential suicide mission where they're going after a USB that a villain named Smith had. Agent Hunter was not in the original draft. Half way through the writing of the draft I had an idea. I thought to myself, why don't we do a film where Spear is a rookie and at some point he's forced to work with Hunter? I liked that idea and i went ahead with it. When I told Aramis Neal Pacitto about it, he thought it was good, as long as we could cast someone to play Hunter.

         So I began writing the script and I kept the USB storyline and modified it in a way where the USB is something that could get majority of corrupt criminals world wide behind bars. Smith was going to use it as leverage. Aramis thought that we should name it something different than "life Will be Hell" since it was too close to "Life Is Hell." I agreed and we came up with "innocent Gun." The film basically became a prequel to the "Life will be Hell's" that were featured in the "Life Is hell films." So its still a "Life Is hell" spin-off, but its more of a loose spin-off. On October 22, filming began in downtown Toronto. We used Toronto but made it double for New york. It was pretty much a day where we filmed all the exterior scenes with Spear talking on the phone with Cutter in New York. For close to a month we didn't film anything until we casted Kendall H as Hunter. Since September we were trying to find someone to play Hunter and we had a little bit of trouble finding someone who fit the role and who wanted to do it. But luckily we found a good actress who was able to pull her off. On November 16, Kendall made her debut as Hunter. We wrapped all her scenes in one day and it turned out better than expected. The film wouldn't have been the same without Hunter thats for sure.

               Our next filming day was November 22 with a new cast member Alex Stacey as a thug named Matthew and Darius Ban (known for Lucas Wolf in "The Challenger Short Film, The Challenger 3 & 'The Challenger 4") as Stone. Darius plays a thug named Stone that eventually will become a operative for the USA government. Our original script had Stone in that position. The scene we filmed that day is my favourite fight scene that we've ever done... Well not my favourite, the one in "The Challenger 4: Urban legend" is. But you'll have to wait until June for that... But that scene that we filmed on the 22nd was our most brutal fight scene with Spear. He shoots two people and then hits a guy over the head with a gun.  A few days later, we filmed a scene where Spear enters an Italian restaurant and we hear him basically beating information out of people. That scene was very "Person Of Interest." On November 29 we filmed a scene where Spear took out two thugs. Dominic Licorish & Marc Samuels played those two guys and pulled it off well.  After that we took a few days off to begin filming "The Challenger 4: Urban Legend" & "The Challenger 5: Dark Triad," we were back filming 'Innocent gun' on December 9. That was the day I made my acting debut as Smith the antagonist in the film.

                Smith is a cross between Elias from "Person Of Interest," Silver from "Skyfall (007)" & Ricci from "The Challenger." It was a fun role to play, very different from Andrew DiNardo (Comedic version of myself in "Life Is Hell") & Ronny Gunnerson ( Detective in "The Challenger"). It was fun to play and not particularly as hard as i thought it would be. A few days later we were supposed to film the opening scene of the film, but the camera fell of the tripod and filming was cancelled. We quickly bought another camera and filming was back on December 12. We filmed the opening scene with Chika Mafiana (known for Walker in "the challenger 2: Unlimited" & "The Challenger 3: Urban outlaw"). Chika played a agent known as Patrice who (SPOILER ALERT), got killed in the first scene. Matthew Quan- Yin acted as 5 thugs that day and filmed the climax between Spear & Smith. Filming was complete, Aramis Pacitto edited it and it was released on January 11. The future of "Innocent Gun" is still in question. A sequel is possible as the script is currently being written by me, but threes no guarantees.

You might also be wondering, whats next for Suit & Stubble. Next is "The Challenger 4" & "The Challenger 5" which will feature new cast members in Kendall H. from "Innocent Gun" as detective Savanna & Liia Kajak joining the crew for the first time as Brookyln. "The Challenger 4" will debut on June 6 2014.


- Andrew Di pardo



Life Is hell films:

"Life is hell - Short Film (Innocent Gun prequel included):" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ87m94biDQ&list=PLRP2JYMLvhzcPAN-tHL0Hr3x8uvQXJ-FY

"Life Is hell 2: The Injured Man (After credit scene ft. a "Innocent gun" prequel):" http://vimeo.com/81253888

THE CHALLENGER 3: URBAN OUTLAW - July to October 2013

             Since the beginning of "The Challenger 2" film sessions, Aramis Pacitto and I had no doubt in our minds that there would be a third Challenger film. So I had an idea about how we could do a sequel that picks up from where the second one left off. I wrote the first draft of the film and I wanted to make this film more of a drama than an action film. I accomplished that in Draft 1, but once Aramis got a hold of the script he said that we should add some more action. He did that and it made the script more interesting. Once the script was complete by mid-July, Aramis and I had an idea for a new character. We decided to take one of the characters we have and make him into a Vigilante called "The Lawman." The Lawman is someone who is trying to give criminals a chance to confess to their crimes, and if they don't... They get killed. I play "The Lawman" in the film and this character has a small scene that's setting up something bigger for "The Challenger 4 & 5."

            On July 22nd 2013, it was the last day of filming for "The Challenger 2:UNLIMITED" and it was the first day of filming for "The Challenger 3." We filmed a flashback scene where, The Challenger slams Walker into a wall and gives him a warning. Walkers role in this film is to play a villain who has been defeated and depressed and its the Don's role to give him the confidence to take down "The challenger" once again.  On August 5th, we filmed our opening scene of the film with a motorcycle. This scene features james DinElla as Mr.V. Frank Pacitto doubled as Sledge on the bike. One of our most iconic shots in this scene was when Mr. V came out of the shadows.Our next filming day was our toughest day on set. It was Mike Covello's day to shine in his role as Captain Mora. This scene was somewhat of a comedic scene where Sledge has to pick up the captain of the LAPD and bring him to work. Mora's job in this scene is to remind Sledge that he has to take down "The Challenger." There was a tone of bloopers in this scene. Mike Covello, due to his heavy Italian accent has a hard time saying some of the words. But after two hours of filming, we got through it and got a good light hearted scene out of it.

            Then on August 10th, we filmed our best scene yet. I call this scene the disappearing act. Dino Mazza reprised his role as Ricci, the head of the mafia. The scene starts off with Ricci pulling at the chains from which "The Challenger" escaped from in the second film. Dino pulled so hard on the chains that he broke the shelf it was hanging on (See our bloopers for details). It was one of the funniest bloopers we had. Onto the scene. Aramis Pacitto once again acting as "The Challenger" gives Ricci a warning to stay on the straight and narrow. Anthony Digiovanni returned for this scene as Baily. He runs in and gets shot. By the time Ricci looks back, The Challenger is gone. The next day, Aramis and I filmed our first ever scene in what we call the Cellar. The Cellar is where Sledge & Gunnerson do their workouts and their training.  In those scenes we show, Gunnerson boxing, Sledge doing cinder block push ups, pull ups and target practice.

        On August 18th, we filmed the final scene of the movie where Sledge & Gunnerson pay their respects to Amanda Sledge (Who got murdered by Ricci). After that scene we took a week off to continue filming "Man Of War." Then on August 26, we got back to work on "The Challenger" and we filmed a scene featuring Mikayla Pacitto as Barbra. Barabra is a character who works for big criminal enterprise which is not explored during the film. She works for a man called "The Ring Lord." The Ring Lord will appear in "The Challenger 4." Mikayla's scene was tough because she seemed a little nervous while acting with Chika Mafina (Walker). So it took over a hour for her to get it right, but just like Mike's scenes it turned out good at the end. Our next filming day was September 3rd. We filmed the final battle between The Challenger, Ricci & Walker. This is when you see Walker return with the confidence he had in "The Challenger 2." He nearly kills Sledge, but Ricci gets in the way and spoils the party.

      Ricci ends up getting arrested and Walker has now turned on him. What will this lead to in the future? Time will tell... With less than a month until "Man Of War" gets released, we once again took a break from "The Challenger" to finish that film off. A month after filming the Ricci scenes we filmed the debut scene of The Lawman... This scene is just a basic introduction to a new character that will be a main role in future films. Two days later it was the last day of filming for "The Challenger 3." It was Sledge, a green beret VS Wolf, a Mercenary. Darius Ban played Wolf in a epic fight scene that we believe was our best fight scene in all of our films. It was Bourne style camera work on that scene. After that it was onto post production. Aramis Pacitto edited everything and released the film on November 15th ( 1 month early.)

      So whats in store for the future of "The Challenger" you ask? Well "The Challenger 4" has begun filming and all I can tell you is that Lucas Wolf is the major villain and the Lawman's identity will be revealed. I can also tell you that "The Challenger 4" & "The Challenger 5" are continuous stories that conclude our Film series at 5 films. "A hero will fall." Who will it be and when? "The Challenger 4:urban Legend" will be released in the summer of 2014 and "The Challenger 5: Dark Triad" will be released in the winter of 2014.


     - Andrew Di Pardo

Soundtrack for "The Challenger 3" provided by the Audio Network & Duran Duran



 

THE CHALLENGER 2:UNLIMITED - February to August 2013

                    In early February, Aramis Pacitto and I decided that we would do a sequel to "The Challenger - Short Film." We had a few variations of the story, but after several re-writes we decided that we wanted to take "The Challenger" film series in a totally different direction than the first one. "The Challenger" is meant to be a drama not a comedy and we wanted to make sure that we really showed that in the second one... Because face it, the first Challenger was a better comedy than both our "Life Is hell" films. So we continued to talk about a interesting and dramatic (but not over the top) story. We looked back at the scrapped variations of "The Challenger 2" and pulled ideas from it and shaped it into something we could use.  Our main story idea that we had in those scripts was that Ricci JR was out for revenge against Sledge for the murder of his father... We kept that idea and decided that Ricci would hire a hitman. But who is this hitman? Aramis came up with a interesting name for the hitman, Walker.

        Then we thought about how this character would be... We wanted him to be a tough guy who could pretty much kill Sledge by himself.  Aramis's main goal for this film was to show the difference between Sledge as the vigilante known as "The Challenger" & Sledge as a cop. As for my goal... I wanted to move my character, Gunnerson away from his comedic/goofy version that we saw in the first one to more of a serious cop. Aramis also wanted to show Mora in this film apposed to me doing the sound over voice like in the first one...I was fired. But before we got to who would play who, we needed a script...Aramis insisted on writing it on his own and by the end of March we had a script ready to go. Our next step was casting... We casted Dino Mazza as Antonio Ricci JR, Mike Covello as Mora, Chika Mafina as Walker and a few more people for minor roles.

         By April 28th we were ready to film. The first scene we filmed was the cold open with Matthew Quan Yin & Pranavan Seleve. They both had to play 3 different people each. But since Sledge was taking them on one by one, we were able to pull it off. I was behind the camera for this scene.The scene was a big action scene and it took 5 hours to film and by the time it was done and edited we thought to ourselves, "Wow, this is way better than The Challenger One." We believed it was the best scene we ever filmed, but little did we know that it was just going to get better. The next thing we filmed was "The hostage situation" scene on May 5th. James Dinella starred in the scene as Enzo (Hostage taker) along with Anthony Digiovanni as Baily. This is the scene where Sledge gets taken for the first time by Baily. Later that day we also filmed scene 5, where Gunnerson finds Sledges Gun and we also filmed Gunnerson on the phone with Mora by the pond.

       On May 19th it was the day where we were going to debut Mike Covello as Mora with a Lamborghini. In the script this scene was supposed to be a serious scene, but once we let Mike do improve it ended up becoming a funny scene. Thats fine, there's always room for comedy in drama shows. Mike was good, I will always remember filming that scene... Especially since Mike put his reading glasses under his sun glasses, a moment Aramis and I refer to as the "double glasses" scene. Mike was good and funny which works for the Mora we are displaying in this film. The scene was basically about Mora telling Sledge about Ricci and that the Challenger vigilante is a killer. You guys can expect to see more of Mike in "The Challenger 3." On May 27th, it was Gunnersons turn to become the Vigilante. I acted as Gunnerson on the edge as he was out looking for Sledge. A week later, it was the highlight of filming... Chika Mafiana as Walker. This scene we have Sledge chained to the wall and Walker is torturing him and killing people in front of him. Chikas performance in that scene was some of the best acting I've ever seen. He reminded me of Django mixed with the Joker from Batman.

          After that scene we took a week off and got prepared to film the final battle between Walker and Sledge on June 17th. This scene just like the prologue took a while because it was a big action packed battle. Chika and Aramis were both great in that scene, but I can't revel much about the content at the moment... All I will say is that its a great ending to "The Challenger 2" that will set up "The Challenger 3" in a way. On June 25th we were back and filming this time with Dino Mazza as Ricci along with Chika Mafiana and Angelo Di Pardo as Provinzano.This scene introduces the new mafia don, Antonio Ricci Junior... But throughout the film he's refereed to as just Ricci. Dino pulled off the mob boss in a Elias (from Person of Interest)/ Tony Soprano fashion that was believable for this kind of movie. After completing the filming for that scene, Aramis went on vacation to Miami to film most of  the first installment of our new film series titled "Man Of War" which will debut in October.

     When he got back on July 14th we filmed a scene where Baily (Anthony Digiovanni) kidnapped Sledge and tied him up with twist ties in the middle of nowhere... My favorite moment of that scene is while Baily's tying up Sledge, Sledge looks to the camera with a look that says, "is this guy serious?" After completing that scene we had just two more scene to film. We started with Walker, where  he introduces himself to Sledge and the last scene we filmed was on July 28th with Sledge and Gunnerson driving to the mansion in the dodge Charger. On that day we also began filming "The Challenger 3," but the details of that story will remain unknown for now.... Filming for "The Challenger 2" is done, editing is done, all is left is to release it at 12:01am on Sunday August 8th. This film is the best film we've done so far and it's only getting better.

- Andrew Di Pardo

THE CHALLENGER 2 - CAST: 
Aramis Neal Pacitto (Jim Caviezel look a like) as Detective Rick Sledge / The Challenger Andrew Di Pardo as Gunnerson Mike Covello as Mora Chika Mafiana as Walker Dino Mazza as Ricci Angelo Di Pardo as Provinzano Mikayla pacitto as The Hostage James DiNella as Enzo Anthony Digiovanni as Clifton Baily Matthew Quan Yin as Thug 1 Pranavan Selve as Thug 2

The Challenger by Andrew Di Pardo

            Over the course of the last 7 months, my cousin, Aramis Pacitto and I had decided to make short films based off the Tv Shows we created. It all started in December 2012 by sitting down and getting our laptops and keyboards ready to write a script for our concept for the drama series we made titled “The Challenger.” We tossed a few ideas around and then decided that we would write a script based off the pilot script that Aramis wrote. But we took a few liberties on the script and made it a little funnier than we would have liked. Our next step was casting which took about two days as we only needed three extra people aside from ourselves. Then we began to film.

            The first photo shows our character detective Richard Sledge (Played by Aramis Pacitto) on the roof with a gun. This photo is a screenshot of one of the most cinematic scenes in “The Challenger,” as he looks out at the city of Los Angeles wondering what crimes he will have to solve today. Detective Richard Sledge is well known and a well-liked detective at the LAPD, he has two sides to him. One side of Sledge is a side that all his fellow cop friends see, that side is a cop that follows the rules of the law. But the darker side that they don’t see is that he is a vigilante known as “The Challenger” who drives a 1973 Dodge Charger and he shoots first and asks questions later. In the first Challenger we don’t see the good cop side of Sledge as we made it more like a comedy about a cop takes down everyday type criminals with excessive use of force. We are currently filming “The Challenger 2:Unlimited” and we have scenes that show the good cop side of Sledge when he’s with his captain known as Mora and we see the dark Challenger side for when he’s the vigilante.

            The third photo shows me, Andrew Di Pardo as detective Ronny Gunnerson on the phone talking to his boss, Captain Mora in “The Challenger 2: Unlimited.” The character Gunnerson is a perfect example of a guy who shouldn’t be a detective. Gunnerson and Sledge are detectives that work together on most cases, but when push comes to shove it’s always Sledge that does the hard work.  In “The Challenger 2: Unlimited,” Sledge is taken hostage by one of Ricci’s (Mafia don) hitman known only as Walker. So it was up to Gunnerson to find out where Sledge is located, so he calls Mora and lets him know that he needs backup. Along the hunt for Sledge, he finds his gun and decides to take on the “Challenger” vigilante role to find him.

            The fourth photo shows Sledge hanging from the ceiling chained up by Walker the hitman. The whole purpose of this kidnapping of “The Challenger” was for Ricci to get revenge on Sledge for killing his father. This particular scene with Walker (played by Chika Mafiana) was the funniest and best scene that I ever had to film. Chika is an amazing actor and it shows in the scene that we filmed, he reminds me a bit of Django and the joker from Batman “The Dark Knight.” Chika went according to the script and even came up with a few lines of his own. For example he would tell Sledge “who’s coming to save you?” Which preluded the next scene with me as Gunnerson interrogating a guy named Baily.

            Overall, my experience in acting/filming/directing in these short films have been great.  The first Challenger we filmed was a little rushed and not down to concept, but overall it was a good experience. Acting as Gunnerson for me was tough the first time around because I didn’t know how to play the Character right, but now I got the hang of it.  Finding great actors has always been a challenge, but now we got a great actor in Chika Mafiana who we will bring back for future films. I hope I can continue to have great experiences in making these short films for years to come.

STORIES & TIPS FROM TONY "the big man" RISI

Tony Risi & Aramis Pacitto from the feature film: "THE MAN WITH NO BRAIN"

"THE GREAT TORONTO TENNIS MATCH!"

by Tony Rockin Risi on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 6:26pm ·

I was walking downtown,when I noticed a Tennis match was going on. Thank God!!!!!!!!!!! I brought my Racquet! For reasons I will not disclose.

SO PICTURE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The guy was just about to serve until I stepped on the court and said: "My name is Tony Risi. And i'm here to win!"

So it was me verses the lot of'em!
 i lost.

But I left with my head held high, with a black eye and an extra racket.

If your interested in a racquet let me know.

"Its Just Big Man Talk"

by Tony Rockin Risi on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 11:52pm ·

I went to the supper market today and saw my friend joe. Then we went to a homeless shelter and had free food.


IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They gave you such small plates! It was ridiculous.

 "10 Life Lessons from the Big Man:"
1) Working hard is over-rated.
2) Bald is the new Cool.
3) If you think you can, you probably can't.
4) Crazy people are normal too.
5) Scales aren't indestructible.
6) Candy should be the 7th food group.
7) If you're dancing, its because you've have too much to drink, why stop now?
8) I'm big, bald, got glasses and have no job or prospects, but still as cool as the underside of a pillow.
9) A meal isn't complete without breakfast.
10) It takes too long to write 10 rules.

" TROUBLE AT THE BANK!"
 So I was walking down the street and I hear alarm bells, I rush to the scene. I see a crook running for it with bags of cash, stumbling down the street he could hardly run!
I took to my heels, I caught the guy....

And asked him to help carry the cash!

I ran the opposite way, I got all the cash in the world! 

 New socks here I come!!! HE HE!

"Burning in Hell" by Andrew Di Pardo

"Life Is Hell" By Andrew Di Pardo

"This ain't a Logo" by Andrew Di Pardo

THE CREATION OF THE LOGOS

"The Classic"  by Andrew Di Pardo

           In 2009, while working on the early drafts of the Pilot, I decided that we should make a logo. I had this vision of our opening title sequence where fire would go across the screen like Ghost Rider on a bike and then light up like a match that says "LIFE IS HELL." So with that vision I told Aramis about the idea and he decided that he could make the logo on a business card program. So with his prototype that looked like a business rather than a show, I added fire all around the wording, at the top, the bottom, the sides, anywhere you could think of. It came out exactly the way I wanted it to. Aramis agreed at the time, but as of late hes had a change of heart.

"Hell in Heaven" by Andrew Di Pardo & Aramis Pacitto

       So in September 2012, with that change of heart, we decided to do many different variations of the logo. The first new logo was done by me, instead of Fire around the wording I had overcast clouds. But we decided after some input from my father that we should not have the creators names in the logo. So we re-did the overcast clouding and we still weren't satisfied. So we kept the cloud concept and added fire at the beginning and end of the logo. It became a fan favourite on Facebook. But Aramis wanted to do more. So we did, we did some with fire all around the wording and we did some with just the writing. The one with just the writing was made by Aramis its his personal favourite.As for the Life Will be Hell logos, those were all created by Aramis Pacitto. So I think I'll leave it to Aramis to talk about them.

- Andrew Di Pardo

"The New One" By Aramis Pacitto

"Death Trap" By Andrew Di Pardo & Aramis Pacitto

"Into the Fire" By Aramis Pacitto & Andrew Di Pardo

"Keeping it Simple (1)" By Andrew Di Pardo

     

"Keeping it Simple (2)" By Aramis Pacitto

"Life Will Be Hell" By Aramis Pacitto

"The New One" By Aramis Pacitto

"The Classic" By Aramis Pacitto

LIFE IS HELL: Former Article from Wikipedia

(This was an Article that was removed from WIKI due to it being an AD)

LIFE IS HELL (TV Show)

Life is Hell is Created by Andrew Di Pardo & Aramis Pacitto

Life is Hell is a heavy-hitter, containing both: a contemporary sit-com and a super-stylized/ realistic and yet humorous (non-satiric) take upon the espionage game with office antics and uncalled for wit in the field. Life will be Hell stresses and capitalizes, uniquely, upon the fact that these spies who perform extraordinary feats are normal people, vulnerable to love, fear, and varying personalities.^[1] "Life is Hell was a always going to be a different show, it's a reflection of me & Andrew--- of action & comedy," Aramis said."It was never going to be conventional, never going to be restrained to labels, or whatever else. Life is Hell tells the story of the past--- the comedy--- we than flash forward into my insistent brain child--- Life will be Hell -- the still light hearted, but fiercely deadly future. "^[2]

Enter New Show Studios

^[3]On June 18th 2012, Aramis and Andrew went to Pittsburgh to get interviewed by New Show Studios. The interview was about Life is Hell. "We met Chad at 1:00 in the afternoon and we went on a tour of the studio, signed contracts that stated we will not steal ideas from other shows and we had an interview with Tony from New show Studios. Tony asked us about our Pilot episode, characters and so on and so forth," Andrew Said. " Chad kept on saying "I don't want to tweak your guys own horn but you guys have a show like none others." He would say this in almost every conversation and every phone call and just now I'm starting to think it was to keep us on as customers. So once that was done, the next step (so we thought) was to pitch our show to networks. But it wasn't. This is when the whole project fell apart. Chad kept insisting on a $14,00 "New Show Concept Package." We didn't want to pay that money, but Chad kept saying we can't move on without it. So we told him we will let him know our decision in July."

The creators then decided to cut off all ties with "New Show Studios" and went solo. Life is Hell is now being considered by 5 companies and things could not look better.^[4]

Main Characters

- Almorindo Bosi
- Tony Risi
- Andrew Di Nardo
- Aramis Spear
- Stone
- Hunter
- Cutter

Season 1 Episode list

1. Hell of a Pilot^[5]
2. The Maple Leaf^[6]
3.Innocent Gun^[7]
4. T-TOWN^[8]
5.Nightmare on Plesent street^[9]
6. The Great Escape^[10]
7. To Die For^[11]
8. Pyschos & Gigolos^[12]
9. Sundays are Hell^[13]
10.Tony & The Wild Boys^[14]
11. The Invasion^[15]
12. No Chance Pt. 1^[16]
13. Flamin' Sand With the Big Man^[17]

Scrapped Episodes

1. NYPD 123
2. The Cable Guy
3. Pink Men
4. Are you Sure about that Andrew?
5. Hot Town

Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because its about a TV show that is being considered by Networks

NEW SHOW STUDIOS - April to September 2012

The Creators: Andrew (Left), Aramis (Right)

           On April 1st, Aramis and I decided to go on a hunt for a manager that can put "Life Is Hell" on the air. So I found a company called "New Show Studios."  I notified Aramis about this company. We decided that its worth a shot to summit it to them. So I went onto New Show Studios website and I submitted our show to them. They got back to us on April 18th .It was an early morning call to Aramis's cell phone at approximately 8:00 am. Aramis answered the phone and was surprised to hear that it was about "Life Is Hell." Aramis had no idea who he was talking to and he didn't care because it was about "Life Is Hell."So at the end of the phone call, Aramis had set a over the phone meeting with the unidentified man for 2:45 pm on April 19th.

         So Aramis came over to my house the following day for the meeting, not knowing who we are meeting with or what its about. The only thing we knew was that it had something to do with "Life Is Hell."  Before the call came in, I had thought since we don't have any experience in the TV show field that we get my mom, Angela (a project manager at TD Bank) to sit in on the call with us.It was 2:45 pm on the dot and the phone rang. The unidentified man on the other line was Chad Murray from New Show Studios. He called basically to see what our show is about and if we are ready to take it to the next level.

         He also got around to saying that his starting fee to work with us was $795. It was not a bad price compared to other companies. so after the call ended at about 3:40 pm we sat down to talk about the price. Angela said that we shouldn't rush to make a decision and Aramis agreed. So we sat on it for a few days and think long and hard before we jump into anything. To be honest I got a little excited and I wanted to sign him as soon as possible, but the right thing to do was to think before we act and thats what we did. By April 25th, we had decided to sign Chad to this 4 month contract. Chad's job was to find out which networks our show can go on, see what genre it falls under and see what age group it apply's to.

         What Chad also needed from us was to take a trip down to the studio (which is in Pittsburgh) to sign more contracts and interviews. So we decided to go to Pittsburgh in June. But before that time came around we would touch base with Chad weekly. Most of our conversations with Chad were very meaningless. Chad mostly called us to tell us stories about how his kids like baseballs and make more appointments. On June 17th we drove down to Pittsburgh and met with Chad Murray on the 18th. We met Chad at 1:00 in the afternoon and we went on a tour of the studio, signed contracts that stated we will not steal ideas from other shows and we had an interview with Tony from New show Studios.

        Tony asked us about our Pilot episode, characters and so on and so forth. Chad kept on saying "I don't want to tweak your guys own horn but you guys have a show like none others." He would say this in almost every conversation and every phone call and just now I'm starting to think it was to keep us on as customers. So once that was done, the next step (so we thought) was to pitch our show to networks. But it wasn't. This is when the whole project fell apart. Chad kept insisting on a $14,000 "New Show Concept Package." We didn't want to pay that money, but Chad kept saying we can't move on without it. So we told him we will let him know our decision in July.

      Before our next call with Chad, Aramis spoke to his cousin Lisa (who worked on "Total Recall" in the editing room) about this package and she never heard of it. "This isn't necessary," She said. "I never even heard of anything like that."  It seemed to us that Chad and his company wanted to make an extra buck on something that is not needed.So at that point we knew we were done with Chad.So we spoke to him again towards the end of August and he wouldn't let us go. So we set a meeting with him for October 4th. But we knew we weren't going to do a meeting. So through all of September he was secretly fired until we sent him an email on the 21st.  The email stated that we were cutting off all ties with him and he services will no longer needed. Need some advice? I would say that if you have a show idea do not take it to "New Show Studios," its just a waste of time and money. I know from experience.

     

- Andrew Di Pardo