Between wrapping photography on The Basement and the Kitchen and finishing post, a little movie came out called The Blair Witch Project. The handicam-horror smash changed the conversation in Hollywood, and suddenly, David Fickas’s independent feature – which he had gone to great effort and expense to shoot on 35 mm film – looked “too […]
If you love handyman Kirk Zipfel‘s bite-sized tutorial videos… then you’ll love HousePlace EVEN MORE as a full-length home renovation show! It was just about a year ago that Drama 3/4 first premiered this HousePlace pilot with a major screening event at the Garry Marshall Theatre. There were, like, a hundred people in the same […]
Here’s one we know you haven’t seen… because few people ever have. While D34 was developing The Iceman Chronicles at Fox Television Studios in 2008, FTVS was also looking to adapt a Bolivian series for American TV, a sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm about a former child actor trying to escape his outdated image. Well. […]
Look, you know our M.O. by now. Clearly, parody is right up D34’s alley. We kicked off this whole 34 Days with Arcadia High Drama 3/4’s version of Terminator 2. We got Offline Movie Night rolling with a sendup of Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood. We gave a whole day (well deserved, we think) to […]
“It’s March 23rd. Something bad is going to happen.” …Okay, it’s really April 20th. But that’s still a good opening line. Until he graduated from USC, Drama 3/4 was just a name behind David Fickas’s student stage productions and grade-saving short films. Afterward, however, Fickas began looking for a way to put his Theatre degree […]
This was an important one for Drama 3/4. After the success of The Iceman Chronicles stage play at USC, David Fickas decided to take it up a notch and mount his elaborately-original, somewhat-musical and mostly-abstract Alex in Wonderland. It was an ambitious undertaking, using the familiar world of Wonderland to tell the story of Alex, […]