Wonderfilm CEO Kirk Shaw Releases Thank You Letter to John Travolta as FANATIC Movie Launches This Weekend
August 30 2019 - 11:51PM
via NEWMEDIAWIRE – The Wonderfilm Media Corporation (TSXV: WNDR)
(OTC: WDRFF), (“Wonderfilm” or the “Company”), a leading
entertainment company with offices in Beverly Hills, United States
and Vancouver, Canada, released a Thank You John letter to John
Travolta, who stars in their newly produced movie "The Fanatic",
which opens this weekend at the box office.
Kirk Shaw, CEO of Wonderfilm and Executive Producer wrote:
Thank You John,
“August 30th the Wonderfilm produced, “The Fanatic” opens in US
theaters. The star, John Travolta, is a refreshing pleasure to work
with and a true Hollywood legend. An Artist through and through,
over the course of his career John’s cleverly reinvented his on
screen persona several times by taking risks. Most of us first met
John as his TV character, Vinnie Barbarino. From that success he
jumped right into iconic 70s musicals, “Grease” and “Saturday Night
Fever.” I remember sitting in the audience, never in my wildest
imagination thinking I’d be given an opportunity to work with John
years later.
"In the 80s and early 90s John reinvented himself as a light
comedy actor with “Look Who’s Talking” and its sequels. Then his
career took another 180 with his very memorable character from
“Pulp Fiction.” John continues to create memorable characters like
his recent portrayal of the crime boss, Gotti and the character
Moose in “The Fanatic.”; Gotti, a biographical film detailing the
life of mobster has a scene in which Gotti had lost his son. John’s
co-star was his real life wife, Kelly Preston. John and Kelly have
also lost a son so this emotional scene was not just art imitating
life, it was two people expressing on camera a devastating shared
life experience. I couldn’t imagine psychologically going to the
place these two went both as actors and as a mother and a father
feeling loss. It was truly an amazingly intense scene. It’s this
fearless expression of character that allows John’s performance to
shine in the film.
"Roles like Gotti and Moose are not paydays for John. Rather
he’s at a point where he is challenging his craft with risky
characters he is interested in exploring. John carefully chooses
the films he wants to do so I’m very grateful he chose to do “The
Fanatic” since you rarely meet actors of his level ready to explore
characters that so powerfully challenge the artist and the
audience. Although the character of Moose is based on a real
person, John delved inside himself, creating a unique
interpretation. Moose as a leading character certainly breaks the
movie storytelling norm. Travolta seamlessly breathes life into the
character’s quirks to create a unique on-screen presence. John
brings to Moose a likeable quality with an intense personal passion
that eventually leads him to cross the line.
"The Fanatic at its core is an anti-Hollywood exploration of
people existing on the fringes of the glitz and glitter. It’s a
film that we knew from the outset would leave some of the audience
frustrated while others are enthralled. In fact, the Fanatic script
and character had been written with actor Bill Paxon in mind.
Bill’s untimely death led to the coincidental meeting of John and
Director Fred Hurst. This meeting was followed later with
discussions that eventually circled back to John being cast as
Moose. John’s career is vast and varied, his depiction of Moose in
the Fanatic is the artist in John once again expressing a singular
talent for creating memorable characters on screen we all will
remember years later. On a personal level, I respect John
more each time I see him interact with crew, cast and his fans.
During “the Fanatic” shoot, John arrived on set like a refreshing
ocean breeze. He acknowledged every single person and then went out
of his way to introduce himself to anyone new on set. He was never
the star, but always one of the team. As a producer, I admire his
talent, but I’m impressed with how he puts his heart completely
into promoting small independent movies like The Fanatic. We don’t
have a huge budget and I’ve never worked with an actor who put so
much effort and time into promotion as John. Whether it’s a spot on
the Tonight Show or a private screening, John is an enthusiastic
supporter of his films and his fans, including me, love him for
it.”
Thank You John.
Kirk Shaw
Executive Producer
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entertainment company with offices in Beverly Hills, Vancouver,
Canada and Seoul, South Korea. Wonderfilm’s main business is the
production of high-quality feature films and episodic television
that offer international appeal through the Company’s guiding
philosophy of bringing new financing solutions to an entertainment
industry increasingly looking for funding and co-production
alternatives. Wonderfilm is a producer and distributor only for the
projects disclosed. The legal ownership of movie productions is
held in a special purpose legal entity held at arm’s length to the
Company to facilitate for the qualification of various levels of
domestic and foreign government tax credit incentives that are
customary in the film and production business.
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