As we move into "delivery" mode for the WILDFIRE movie to our major studio distribution partner, it's exciting to see how well the final movie turned out! As many shareholders know, the film was forced into a shut-down mode for almost two years due to the COVID pandemic and talent scheduling issues... and then the film had to be re-shot in 2021 and 2022 to accommodate "changing looks" for the teenaged and pre-teen performers over the two-year delay! Quite an ordeal. But the final product is what matters - and there's no doubt that we earned our "major studio" distribution status with this production! The distribution advances are significant - and these funds will pay off HHSE debts and settlements. But, we would be surprised if the film does not generate significant royalty "overages." It's simply that good!
"WILDFIRE" is one of three, simultaneous major ventures for HHSE... the other two being our imminent Form 10 registration and our MyFlix site launch... the "holy trinity" of major, corporate achievements. And it's all in motion right now, when so many of us could appreciate a big boost going into the new year.
One of the Major Studio delivery issues is to provide approved images from the film for potential use in poster art, packaging and ads. Below are 100+ images that are part of our publicity images delivery package, provided herein for shareholder review. Lots in motion, very exciting times...
Happy Holidays / Hanukkah / Merry Christmas & New Year from your friends at HANNOVER HOUSE!
Greetings HHSE Friends - What a simple pleasure to be returned to the world of the living - after seven days of COVID hell that hit HHSE C.E.O. Eric Parkinson. Despite having two vaccines and two boosters, the newest variant of this virus hit him like a freight train on Thanksgiving, requiring hospitalization, supplemental oxygen and lots of rest. The fever broke on Tuesday, and although he is still testing "positive" - Parkinson is back at work again. The new reality is that we will all have to get used to living with COVID as new variants emerge. So, please be safe out there!
As requested by some longs, listed below is a short summary of the current status of key issues of interest:
1). FORM 10 - Write-ups have been updated to reflect the current status of settlements and ventures. There are some legal, tax and audit costs still being juggled, but these do not pose a threat to the timely release of this registration.
2). WILDFIRE - Picture editing continues on a parallel path with the music edit (from the original soundtrack by Michael Martin Murphey), and sound editing. The film looks fantastic and we believe that this truly sets the bar for HHSE to facilitate future productions. Despite internet trolls inventing release dates (and posting them to IMDB), there is not a formal release date yet publicly announced.
3). LAST DAYS OF BELLE STARR - The film's formal submission for competition at Cannes was made yesterday. The acceptance will be conditioned upon delivery of a rough-cut assembly to the festival team by March 11, 2023. If accepted, the film is expected to premiere at Cannes (fully completed / fully mixed) on May 23, 2023... as one of three "pro-Indigenous-themed" features.
4). PRODUCTION FINANCING VENTURE - HHSE is finalizing a venture with an investment group for $5-million as a "production fund" for HHSE-facilitated productions, to bridge those portions of major features otherwise not covered by Incentives or Presales. This off-balance-sheet fund will be a powerful tool for HHSE to help move high-profile features into production - which will feed the MyFlix service as locomotives (and in some cases, "exclusives"). There is no stock-conversion option or stock dilution impact to the manner in which this off-balance-sheet financing is being structured.
5). MYFLIX - Titles continue to be added to the revamped (unpublished) website; promo ads and videos will be ready by mid-December at which time the company will determine the marketing launch for the site. The timing of the MyFlix launch is likely to support the momentum from the Form 10 filing - as opposed to distract - so, the company is coordinating both of these major items to be in synch.
6). OFFICER SHARES - During the 90-day period from Feb. 1, 2023 to April 30, 2023, HHSE C.E.O. Eric Parkinson will have an active Form 4 blind sale of stock shares conducted under S.E.C. Rule 10b5-1, and administered solely and exclusively by a registered broker. This registered sale of 7.5-million officer shares will have a minimum sale price of $.035 / share and a maximum daily volume of 10% of the total stock transactions per day. This advanced notification to shareholders is intended to eliminate any false narratives that investors were not provided sufficient, prior notification, or that the C.E.O. is divesting. Parkinson has not sold any HHSE officer shares since November 2013 - approximately ten years. If for any reason the share price does not meet the minimum sale floor of $.035 during this offering window of time, then the broker will not be empowered to sell any of the shares.
7). STOCK PROMOTION / INVESTOR RELATIONS - As requested by key shareholders and advisors, over the past two years, HHSE has kept a low profile in terms of general publicity outreach. The consensus was that the promotion of activities would fall on deaf-ears until the registration is filed, and/or the launch of MyFlix. Accordingly, the release of news and publicity items supports the company's overall credibility boost from the registration, and each news item can achieve a positive impact. It is the company's goal to create tremendous publicity chatter, awareness and interest in the next few weeks - in part due to the large number of traders with extra time over the holidays - but also in general support of the completion of these key ventures.
Greetings HHSE Friends & Followers - Management received quite a few emails over the weekend from shareholders who were concerned about a "big seller" of HHSE stock on Friday (over 8.5-mm shares), and whether this represented something more than bad-timing or tax loss planning for the seller?
The company will not be able to verify the seller for several weeks (requires running a shareholders list report, which usually involves Broadridge review). But we were informed that this was indeed a former "long" with tax issues for 2022. "The absurdly low price at present for HHSE assisted a tax situation" which does not make great sense in terms of timing (except that there would be no tax loss if the sale were made next month / post Form 10). Most investors would rather sell post Form-10 and just pay the capital gains tax.
Regardless, we may be in the season of some tax loss sales... which may be a lucrative early holiday present for those in a position to buy at the current, absurdly low price.
Management has also been asked about "Investor Relations Outreach" - which some feel will generate fresh attention to the value of HHSE. We agree... but we also feel that the timing of such activities is best when timed with our Form 10 filing (and other material news, such as: Delivery of WILDFIRE, Major Cast filming in BELLE STARR and the Launch of MYFLIX). Investor Relations Outreach PRIOR to any of these key achievements would have limited impact to supporting the company's credibility.
The change-over from Daylight Savings Time reminds one of the popular adage that "it's often darkest before the dawn." We're in the final days for the completion of each of these corporate endeavors - and if HHSE were allowed to buy-back our stock off the open market, we would be doing so. As the Price Per Share may still see some wild fluctuations pre-Thanksgiving, all we can advise is that when the price is down, the only losers are the sellers... not those who push for that extra few yards to cross the finish line...
More to follow...
HHSE is fielding licensing offers from International Buyers for "WILDFIRE" - including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, U.K., Poland (and surprisingly, RUSSIA, which market still has great demand for new programming). The ANNE HECHE music video tribute has worked well as a teaser-trailer to show scenes from the movie.
(Link to IMDB Music Video Trailer - WILDFIRE / ANNE HECHE)
Greetings HHSE Friends & Followers - there's truth to the adage: "The harder I work, the luckier I get," especially when it comes to feature film production. We are honored to have received an invitation to submit "The Last Days of Belle Starr" for competition in the Festival de Cannes (2023). The film's screenplay was submitted as a project "now in production," and was determined to be suitable for an indigenous theme of films participating in 2023 (including Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon.").
Our film tells the story of the weeks leading up to the "Oklahoma Land Rush," told - for the first time - from the perspective of the tribes and the Cherokee Nation residents of 1889. While the infamous Ron Howard "Far and Away" scene portrayed the Oklahoma Land Rush... it did not address that this historic event was created as a result of a total disregard and breach of the treaties which created the Indian Territory.
As part of the diligence in preserving the news value of this film, our cast and our production activities, we continue to operate under a closed set with a full and complete press and social media moratorium. Accordingly, the photos we are sharing today are of locations without actors, and film equipment... but nothing that will betray the moratorium that has been implemented to protect the message track of the film.
We realize that our refusal to over-share cast and production information has been annoying to some shareholders... and even more so to the "critics" (including one who was captured and clearly identified on security video last week, trying to break-into the film's production office in Tahlequah, OK!!). But suffice it to say that we are ecstatic with our cast, and with our production progress.
For clarity, "The Last Days of Belle Starr" has not yet been selected for competition into Cannes 2023. In order to go from "invitation" to "competition," we must submit a rough cut of the full feature by March 11, 2023. We see no issues in meeting this deadline. Regardless, it's hard to envision competing with - and then beating - the $267-million dollar Scorsese feature, which addresses issues in 1924 affecting the Osage tribe. But if the HHSE film is selected for competition, that is a tremendous honor, a huge publicity boost for the release, and a great credibility boost for our company.
Forward progress continues with the Company's other critical endeavors - including the Form 10 filing, the launch of MyFlix and the upcoming deadline for Q3 reporting to the OTC Markets. Stay tuned....
April 22, 1889 – Not as famous of a DATE as November 11, 1918
(Armistice Day) – but in the history of the colonization of the
continental United States, it was a profoundly impactful day.At High Noon, at strategic points along the
border to the INDIAN TERRITORY, cannons fired to announce the beginning
of the “land rush” for persons to make claims on 160-acre plots of land.
This action was an addendum to the Dawes Act of 1887, which in many respects
was built upon the previously passed Homestead Act of 1862.
But there was a big difference in 1889. The land being given
away had already been deeded to the “Five Civilized Tribes” in a series
of treaties and actions (such as the “Indian Removal Act” that created the
deadly and forced “Trail of Tears” march).
The land being “given” away by the United States in 1889 belonged
to the tribes – and they were not happy about this major treaty
violation.
Our current feature production, “The Last Days of Belle
Starr,” is all about this treaty violation and it’s impact to the tribes
and to the Cherokee Nation.In the weeks
before Congressional approval of the Dawes Act addendum, Belle Starr came out
of a self-imposed exile of three years (following the death of her Cherokee
husband, Sam Starr), to speak against this plan. As a white woman living on
Cherokee Land (and then living with Jim July Starr), Belle was the ideal
spokesperson to garner support from the residents of Fort Smith and other
border communities to oppose the take-away of tribal lands. But just one week
after her most persuasive, public speech,
she was shot dead in a murder that the authorities in Arkansas chose to not
investigate.Alas, despite her valiant efforts
and martyrdom for the tribes, the “land rush” proceeded… and it is
therefore an important element in our film.
The “Oklahoma Land Rush” was featured in the 1992 Ron
Howard film, “Far and Away” – starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. But
the worldview of that movie was to show what a GREAT idea it was to give land
to immigrants and would-be farmers. There is scant mention that the land was
being stolen back from the tribes – it was presented as just a big, happy, Hollywood
ending.
Not so happy for everyone. What about the 100,000+ tribal members that
lost their land and became homeless? What about the Communal Hunting Grounds
that provided habitat for the wildlife that sustained the tribes? What about
the concept of tribal sovereignty that was ignored and expelled as Senator
Dawes moved on to become the “Chairman of the Commission of the Five
Civilized Tribes?” April 22, 1889
was not a happy Hollywood ending for the tribes who lost over90-million acres of land and nearly all of
their sustenance hunting grounds.
Reality does not always deliver a happy ending, but reality
often makes for a more powerful and successful movie. That’s what we believe
and why “The Last Days of Belle Starr” has the potential of becoming an
important and commercially successful feature film.It’s also what has allowed
us to attract multiple “A” stars to the project – critically praised movie
stars with a cumulative worldwide box office of more than $10-Billion dollars.
So, here we are, right in the middle of production on this
exciting, major movie. For security reasons (and for “message track
control”) we are filming with a closed set and without promoting the involvement
of our principal stars until the filming is completed.But it’s been an exciting, exhausting and
exhilarating adventure… including our OWN recreation of the Oklahoma Land Rush
of 1889.
Granted, we do not have the $100-million budget that Ron
Howard had thirty-years ago for his Land Rush scenes. But we’re giving him
quite a challenge with our impressive coverage:six cameras plus a drone coverage of twelve horse drawn wagons, forty-two
horses with riders, and the official government stand with soldiers and
cannons.It’s amazing how “big” a scene
with that many horses appears on screen – enhanced to a degree with long-focal
length lenses that compress the space between the wagons and riders and create
a visual explosion of motion, dust and excitement. Big stuff… shots that will definitely
“make the trailer,” as they say.
Making a movie – ANY movie – requires tremendous work,
clarity of mind, dedication and commitment. It’s likely one of the hardest
creative endeavors of all… involving telling a story, engaging quality
performers to act it out, quality crew and gear to record the performances,
and all of the insane logistics of feeding cast, crew and hundreds of
background extras, having location generators and porta-potty service, fenced-in areas to house the horses (and water and feed for the horses), and the complex
logistics of flying and driving in dozens of people from different locations –
trying to get everyone in the same place at the same time to collectively make magic.
That’s why it’s so amusing when persons who have never
produced a film try to comment on those who are actual creators.Truly, if it were easy, everyone would produce
movies.Only people who have actually PRODUCED
or DIRECTED a major feature film understand the complexities… so the rest of
the wanna-bees (or “never will bees”) would be best advised to just
quietly sit back, watch and learn. The commentary in this paragraph is NOT directed at our legitimate HHSE shareholders... but is addressing the four or five chatroom naysayers who do nothing more than sling mud and fabricate consistently wrong prognostications and criticisms of HHSE and its management. HHSE will not apologize for succeeding and ruining a naked short-sell position. The bashers / short-sellers want nothing more than to scare longs into selling to them now, well below book value, so that THEY become the beneficiaries of the stock's meteoric rise.
Based on our star casting, there is a reasonable expectation
that “The Last Days of Belle Starr” will be licensed to nearly all of
the major territories and media, worldwide.
Accordingly, and based on the deal
structure of fees and profit participation for Hannover House, Inc. (HHSE), it’s
obtainable that the net income for the company could reach $10-mm…
which is approx. $.01 per share in earnings. Current Price-Earnings ratios for
entertainment companies suggests that this production alone could support a PPS
of over $.25 / share.
But “The Last Days of Belle Starr” is just one
element of three that has the likelihood of a combining for an immensely powerful
impact to HHSE this year. The others, as our shareholders know well, are
the basic registration filing (which will allow many traders and funds to
finally support the HHSE stock), and the launch of our own multi-studio
streaming service, MYFLIX.It’s the “Holy
Trinity” of major events that collectively could propel HHSE into a
legendary league.
So much more that we’d love to share now… but our discretion
is for the benefit of our shareholders.
A small army of Animal Wranglers are working on "The Last Days of Belle Starr" - to assure safety for the cast, crew and animals in the film. The production also has a major studio Stunt Team - as well as weapons experts and pyro-technicians (for "faked" bullet hits and blood-bag effects). For insurance and safety reasons, the weapons utilized in this film are all NON-FIRING REPLICAS, designed to be visually consistent with the pistols (Peace-Makers), Rifles and Shotguns of the era.
"FAR & AWAY" Oklahoma Land Rush sequence (1992) - courtesy of YouTube.
Greetings HHSE Friends, Followers, Shareholders & Team - Management has received several emails in the past week inquiring about the status (and "stars") for the current "Belle Starr" production. At one point in time, today (Monday, Sept. 26) had been listed as the "start" date for Principal Photography - so there were questions about that status as well as about the absence of "A" talent on current and prior announcements.
Firstly, today is not the start of principal photography. Today was to have been the first day in which scenes with our lead actress portraying the lead role were slated to commence. Due to scheduling issues that often occur with high-profile / high-demand performers, the availability for this performer commences Oct. 10. This does not impact our wrap date for the film in October - it just moves some of the "Belle Starr" performer scenes further into the film's production schedule.
Next, some shareholders have lamented that none of the principal performers (and big-name stars) currently have been added to the film's IMDB page. This is due to approval restrictions with big-name stars, which limit the use of their name and images without prior / coordinated publicity consent. Obviously, the right to use these star names in the marketing, advertising and artwork for the film will be obtained well prior to such needs. Meanwhile, we have avoided showing unauthorized images on our BLOG and on any cast / crew social media posts.
Thirdly, there seems to be some confusion about whether or not having management forge ahead on projects and activities (such as MyFlix and feature productions) is a "good use of time" in respect that the company's Form 10 registration is not yet published. This comment presupposes that HHSE management has not previously completed all tasks for the Form 10 - and that all required items are not already in the hands of the outside suppliers to complete. Rest assured: if there were anything still remaining for HHSE Management to complete for the registration, it would be our sole focus.
And lastly, some have asked about a tweak in the "Belle Starr" title on IMDB. Previously, the film had been listed as "The Legend of Belle Starr." However, the film is not a full retrospective on the colorful life of this woman, but is instead a focus literally on the last few weeks of her life. By tweaking the title to "The Last Days of Belle Starr," we not only focus on the subject that this movie covers, but we're also suggesting to the audience that a dramatic conflict is imminent. The tweaked title is more specific and more active.
On other fronts - we have agreed to move into a soft-launch of MyFlix, utilizing the titles already fully cleared / onboarded / ready-to-stream. There will be a few days in which the MyFlix.com site will be "down" (but replaced with a "Coming Soon" style home page) - as well as a revamp of the HannoverHouse.com site (which has not had a full revamp in over four years). It is our belief that the launch of MyFlix, combined with the registration filing, the major release of "WILDFIRE," the studio-level production of "BELLE STARR" and three other big news items, will drive awareness to HHSE and traffic to the HannoverHouse.com website to learn more. The could be a significant spike in curiosity, interest in the company and new shareholders. That's certainly our expectation.
More to follow.... meanwhile, to our Jewish friends, Shana Tova!
The National Parks Service granted "BELLE STARR" with access to shoot scenes inside the actual JUDGE PARKER COURTHOUSE in Fort Smith - which is the first time ever that a feature film has been allowed to film in this authentic setting (previously, only educational / documentary projects were granted a filming permit).
Seen in this behind-the-scenes still is screen veteran ROBERT RUSLER as Prosecutor W.H.H. Clayton, 2022 Tony Award Winner JASON VEASEY as Bass Reeves, and ERIC PARKINSON as Marshal Heck Thomas.
Greetings HHSE Friends & Followers - in respect of the boom-time at present for video-on-demand streaming services (and as we start to move into colder weather months in which more programming is consumed via V.O.D.), we have been encouraged to proceed with a "soft" launch of MyFlix - rather than wait for the majority of the service's available titles to be live for streaming.
We have previously been resistant to launching without mega-dollars for ad support... and without some of our key program suppliers (who prefer or require that the company be fully registered for credibility). But industry data is showing that huge revenue dollars are accessible WITHOUT major titles and WITHOUT major advertising support. A soft-launch will enable any operational kinks to be adjusted or procedures to be tweaked.
