Actor and director Paul Sorvino, who is probably best known for his iconic role as a mob boss in Goodfellas, has partnered with controversial comedian Katt Williams , to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a feature film titled, ‘Christmas in Beverly Hills.’ The crowdfunding campaign has targeted a raise of $1,000,001.00.
‘Christmas in Beverly Hills’ is a comedy about a wealthy, well-respected Beverly Hills couple, who are both having affairs, and they accidentally find themselves together – along with their respective lovers – under one roof on Christmas Eve.
“A typical Hollywood film, large or small budget, takes three to five years of shopping, pleading and hoping,” said Sorvino. “It doesn’t matter who the cast and crew are, we must all do the same song and dance to get funding and blueprints for the film.”
“We expect that the Kickstarter campaign will be a huge success,” Sorvino continued. “Our film is a
classic farce comedy. Contributors who love cult classic movies that give you stomach cramps from laughter would support this film.”
Katt Williams added, “My job as a consulting producer is to take the funny and put it in the script. So you know it’s going to be funny if nothing else.”
Inspired by the success of such high profile crowdfunding efforts like Zach Braff and Veronica Mars, the team decided to try their luck at crowdfunding a film.
“Paul and I have had this project for almost five years,” Virabov said. “ We always knew we would make it, but we didn’t want to take the traditional route. We have a very funny script and a great team of incredibly talented artists. When you have the King (Katt Williams) stamping the script with ‘funny’ then you don’t have much to worry about. With such a great team in place and with Dale (Resteghini), who is known for making a $20,000 video look like a $2 million video, we can’t go wrong.”
“It’s all about rewards,” Resteghini said. “It’s a two-way street. We have rewards from ‘Thank You’ in
your native language to tickets to an exclusive Beverly Hills Christmas Mansion party and more. It’s all about Christmas, it’s all about funny and it’s all about great holiday spirit.”
The rewards for the campaign start at $1 and go up from their. For $10,0000 – or more – you can pick up a bit role OR get product placement to promote your business.
The script was written by Mara Virabov, Chuko with help from Sorvino and Williams. Sorvino will direct and star in the comedy, Williams is the consulting producer while Virabov and Dale “Rage” Restighini will produce it.
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