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May 13, 2005.
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Below
you’ll find film
summaries and
reviews, trailers, links, and photos to some of Richard Brandon
Johnson’s work.
Enjoy!
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PASSING BY
Director and Producer:
Kaspar Munk
Synopsis
A short film about love and hate, commitment and distance. And about
the ever present fear of losing. In the opening of the film we meet a
young woman walking in the busy streets of New York City. She discovers
a young man in the distance. Images of a past relationship starts
running through her mind as they move closer to each other in the busy
street.
- Brandon Johnson plays
the role of Peter.
Produced by: No Sun
Productions
Duration: 15 min.
Year of production:
2001
Information taken from the
following:
Love Square
 
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Written, Directed and Edited: Shin
Sonoda
Produced: Dimitris and Shin Sonoda
Synopsis
"Karen is looking for a new
roommate because she broke up with her boyfriend. After interviewing
some applicants, she chooses a girl named Michelle as her new roommate.
After that, a man named Scott who is an applicant visits her. She likes
him and double books the room. When Michelle and Scott move into the
apartment, Charlie who is Karen's ex-boyfriend comes back to the
apartment. They bump into each other at the apartment. They start
sharing the room. Love Square starts."
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of Charlie.
Additonal
Information
Writer and Director Shin
Sonoda was born in Japan on January 19th 1978. Graduated from Rikkyo
University and went to New York to study film making. His first film
titled "Private Eyes" won great appreciation at some independent film
festivals and his next film titled LOVE SQUARE got GRAND PRIX at Yubari
International Film Festival student film division. After that, "Private
Eyes" and "LOVE SQUARE" were officially selected for exhibition in New
York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2002. LOVE
SQUARE was nominated for BEST SHORT FILM of NYIIFV 2002 but instead it
won the FILM MAKER AWARD.
Cast: Harrison Butler, R. Brandon
Johnson, Sarah M. Scott, Brenda McEldowney
Category: Drama
Year of production: 2002
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Evidencia
Invisible (Invisible Evidence)
Directed by/Dirigida por: Alejandro Castillo Close
Producer / Productor: Hallam Chow, Alejandro Castillo Close
Synopsis
American journalist Marcel
(Brandon Johnson) is searching for his missing colleague, Jorge, in
Guatemala but his adventures along the way will lead him to find out
much more. His quest takes him on an unexpected journey of personal
growth and enlightenment as he come across several people who will help
him along the way: a priest deluded by the pervasive power of religion;
a shoeshine boy who saves him from an attack by gangsters; his cynical
co-worker Pablo; an old wise man; and Veronica, Jorge’s sister,
who shows Marcel love, hope and despair in a chaotic world of violence
and hatred.
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of Marcel.
Additonal
Synopsis / Sinopsis
Visiting American
journalist finds more than he's bargained for. His reporter
contact is missing and nobody's looking for him; his first assignment
is to meet with priest Jorge Pupo, so fevered with the advent of Satan
that he clobbers an altar boy he fears is possessed; but there's also
love, in the form of nurse Arloa Reston but who is she meeting in the
jungle? Cosmic discussions of good and evil, with Pupo and a nihilistic
colleague, turn into a battle for survival with the still-lurking
forces of repression.
El periodista de Estados
Unidos, de visita en Guatemala, encuentra más de lo que
esperaba. El reportero con quien iba a hacer contacto ha desaparecido y
nadie lo está buscando; su primera asignación es reunirse
con el padre Jorge Pupo, tan obsesionado con el advenimiento de
Satán que golpea malamente a un monaguillo por temer que
esté poseído. También hay amor, en la forma de la
enfermera Arloa Reston, pero ¿con quién se está
reuniendo en la selva? Discusiones cósmicas sobre el bien y el
mal, con Pupo y un colega nihilista, que se convierten en una batalla
por la supervivencia, con las fuerzas represivas aun al acecho.
Additonal
Information
Invisible Evidence by
Alejandro Castillo Close is the first independent feature film shot
entirely on location in Guatemala, the movie features cultural
monuments such as Le Merced Church in Guatemala City that have never
been seen in film before. Castillo Close has worked extensively as a
freelance cameraman on various projects around the world, including
documentaries and investigative news programs such as 20/20, 60
Minutes, 48 Hours and Dateline. He served as cinematographer for the
film Collect Call which was shown at the Cine Vegas International Film
Festival in 2002 and the Chicago Latino Film Festival in 2003.
Cast / Elenco: Brandon Johnson, Arloa Reston, Jorge Pupo,
Giacomo Bounafina and Herbert Meneses.
Genre / Género: Drama
Country / País: Guatemala
Language / Idioma: Español / Spanish
Subtitles / Subtítulos: English
Year / Año: 2003
Length / Duración: 102 Minutes
Production/Producción: White & Case
Editor / Montaje: Ezequiel Sarudiansky
Screenplay / Guión: Alejandro Castillo Close
Cinematography / Cinematografía:
Rene Sosa, Edgar
Osoño
Filmography / Filmografía: Invisible Evidence is Alejandro Castillo
Close’s first feature film.
Information taken from the following:
Trailers:
Movie Poster:
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LITTLE
ERIN MERRYWEATHER
Director: David Morwick, Mike
Civille,
Producer: Jason Miller, David
Morwick,
Synopsis
Suspense thriller filmed in
Southeastern Massachusetts about a victim of child abuse whose rage
finally comes to the surface and wreaks havoc on a small New England
college town in the form of a female serial killer who adopts the
persona of her doll - Little Erin Merryweather.
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of Teddy McGovern.
Cast: Vigdis Anholt, David Morwick,
Liz Callahan, Brandon Johnson, Jillian Wheeler
Genres: Suspense
Year: 2003,
Length: 83 min.,
Shot on: Super 16mm/color,
State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Script: David Morwick,
Photography: Michael Pessah,
Composer: Paul Cristo
Production Company: Three Stone
Pictures, Inc.,
Festivals (Prizes): New England 03,
Woods Hole 03 (Best Feature Film)
Information
taken from the following:
RICK
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim
Czarnecki, Sofia Sondervan
A deliciously bitter tale of
lust and betrayal among dog-eat-dog Wall Street bigwigs, this grim
fairy tale marks the feature-directing debut of veteran film editor
Curtiss Clayton and was written by Daniel Handler several years before
his transformation into children's publishing phenomenon Lemony
Snicket. Steeped in a poisonous atmosphere of testosterone-fueled greed
and vicious competitiveness, the film opens as middle-aged executive
Rick O'Lette (Bill Pullman) turns a job interview into an exercise in
humiliation. His victim, Michelle (Sandra Oh), has applied for an
assistant position at Image Corporation, whose prominently displayed
motto — "We Can Do This!" — gives no clue as to what,
exactly, they do. But whatever it is, Michelle won't be doing it.
Fueled by the ever-simmering fury of someone who spends his days
sucking up to a sleazy hotshot young enough to be his son (Aaron
Stanford), Rick mocks Michelle's ambitions, education, family
background and interpersonal skills, then delivers the coup de grace.
He knows she's all wrong for the job without even looking at her
résumé, he says with an oily smile, because he's a people
person. Rick wraps up the day by getting Michelle fired from the trendy
Remote Lounge, where she works as a waitress, but this time she goes
out with a flourish. "I curse you, Rick," Michelle hisses, each word
etched in acid. "You're an evil person with an evil soul and it will
come back to you." And it does. Within a matter of days, Rick is
watching helplessly as his life slaloms into the abyss. He succumbs to
the blandishments of a corporate hit man (Dylan Baker) who offers to
kill Duke; learns that his beloved teenage daughter, Eve (Agnes
Bruckner), has been conducting a sordid online correspondence with Duke
through the XXX-rated NaughtyChat.com; and realizes that he scarcely
recognizes the despicable tool he's become. Rick's decline and fall
culminate at the Image Christmas party, a holly-jolly orgy of insincere
corporate cheerleading, forced merriment and drunken despair. A tart
bonbon in a shiny tinsel wrapper, Clayton's darkly stylish fable,
driven by Pullman's no-holds-barred portrayal of Rick, unfurls to the
bleak strains of Ted Reichman's lacerating variations on traditional
Christmas tunes. If the plot sounds vaguely familiar, it's because
Handler reconfigured Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto for the big business
set, proving if nothing else that in matters of base human nature,
little has changed since the 16th century. — Maitland
McDonagh
A.K.A.: RRRRRICK
Country of Origin: U.S.
Genre: Crime; Drama
Year of production: 2003
Color or b/w: Color
Production Co(s).: Ruth Charny
Productions; The 7th Floor
Released By: Content Films
MPAA Rating: R
Parental Rating: Cautionary; some
scenes objectionable
Running Time: 92
- Brandon Johnson
plays the Fawning Executive.
Information
taken from the following:
CABIN
FEVER
Director: Eli Roth
Producer: Evan Astrowsky, Sam
Froelich, Lauren Moews, Eli Roth
Five attractive, newly minted
college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and very bad things happen
in writer-director Eli Roth's sharp homage to low-budget thrillers of
the 1970s and '80s. The set up is EVIL DEAD meets DELIVERANCE: Callow
friends Jeff (Joey Kern), Marcy (Cerina Vincent), Paul (Rider Strong,
of TV's Boy Meets World), Karen (Jordan Ladd) and Bert (James DeBello)
— the group's token unregenerate jerk — decide to vacation
in an isolated cabin deep in redneck country. After offending the
proprietors of the nearest business, a down-home general store, the
snotty city slickers prepare for a week of drinking, doping and
horseplay. Jeff and Marcy immediately get to heating up the sheets,
Paul shyly puts the moves on Karen, his friend since childhood, and
boorish Bert heads into the woods with a beer and a bb gun to shoot
squirrels. He instead accidentally shoots a hermit (Arie Verveen) whose
face and hands are covered with a bloody rash; afraid of catching
something, the selfish Bert ignores the man's pleas for help and flees.
Later that night, the desperate hermit makes his way to the cabin and
tries to take the car while the callow friends squabble about what to
do. Panicked and more than a little drunk and high, they attack him.
When the chaos subsides, the unfortunate interloper has been beaten and
burned half to death and the car is trashed. And their troubles have
only begun: The hermit was infected with a virulent strain of
necrotizing fasciitis — flesh-eating virus — and one by
one, they get it too. Without a working car or a phone (Roth carefully
dots the i's and crosses the t's — their cell phones are out of
range) they're thrown on their own resources, which prove painfully
inadequate to dealing with the rapidly escalating crisis. Given Roth's
enthusiasm for the early Sam Raimi school of no-holds-barred horror
filmmaking, the most surprising thing about his debut feature is its
restraint. Bloody effects notwithstanding, Roth's focus is the
degeneration of relationships under pressure — it's more STRAW
DOGS than NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), the film's
twist-of-the-knife penultimate sequence notwithstanding. While many
films of this kind are undermined by amateurish performances, the main
cast is solid and some of the supporting performances (many from
non-professionals) are small gems. — Maitland McDonagh
Country of Origin: U.S.
Genre: Horror
Year of production: 2003
Color or b/w: Color
Production Co(s).: Black Sky
Entertainment; Deer Path Films; Down Home Entertainment; Tonic Films
Released By: Lions Gate Releasing
MPAA Rating: R
Parental Rating: Cautionary; some
scenes objectionable
Running Time: 94
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of Ray Shawn.
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following:
MALEVOLENCE
Director: Stevan Mena
Producer: Stevan Mena
Writer-director-producer-editor-composer
Stevan Mena bypassed the self-referential jokes and homages that suck
the life out of many post-SCREAM (1996) horror pictures, instead
crafting a straightforward throwback to old-school slasher movies that
wears its influences on its bloody sleeve and delivers a solid ratio of
suspense to shocks. 1989: Six-year-old Martin Bristol (David K. Guida
II) is kidnapped and forced to watch his abductor murder a captive girl
in a dark, cluttered basement. Ten years later: Somewhere in semi-rural
Pennsylvania, Kurt (Richard Glover) and Max (Keith Chambers), who's
fresh out of jail, plan to rob a small-town bank. Max's sister Marylin
(Heather Magee) and her normally law-abiding boyfriend, Julian (Brandon
Johnson), who's deep in debt to some bad types, complete the gang. The
plan is to get in and out in two minutes, escape in two cars and meet
up at an abandoned house on the outskirts of town to divide the loot
and go their separate ways. But a badly wounded Max winds up in Julian
and Marylin's car, losing blood at a frightening rate, while Kurt is
forced to carjack single mom Samantha Harrison (Samantha Dark) and her
adolescent daughter, Courtney (Courtney Bertolone) after his car blows
a tire. The bank robbers may think everything that could go wrong
already has, but they're very, very wrong. Kurt and his hostages get to
the rendezvous first and discover that while their hideaway is indeed
uninhabited, the equally abandoned-looking house behind the ramshackle
abattoir down the road isn't. Mena conceived this stripped-down feature
as the centerpiece of a trilogy after combining two screenplays in
progress — one about a heist, the other a straightforward
stalk-and-slash picture — produced an overlong script jammed with
back story and follow-up material. His debt to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW
MASSACRE (1976) is evident, as is the low budget: Mena financed much of
the project out of pocket, and the 30-day shoot was spread over two
years. But he successfully evokes the atmosphere of dread and anxiety
that suffuses TCM and its better imitators, never letting excessive
gore effects, gratuitous nudity or comic relief sequences distract from
his single-minded efforts to give viewers the willies. The performances
are better than one might expect from a cast of first-timers and
lightly employed professionals, and Mena's characters rarely do the
sort of spectacularly stupid things that provoke derisive laughter from
seasoned horror-moviegoers. — Maitland McDonagh
Country of Origin: U.S.
Genre: Horror
Year of production: 2004
Color or b/w: Color
Production Co(s).: Anchor Bay;
Caffeine Entertainment; Magnetic Media Productions; Painted Zebra;
Solari Group
Released By: Anchor Bay Releasing
MPAA Rating: R
Parental Rating: Cautionary; some
scenes objectionable
Running Time: 85
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of Julian.
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Reviews:
FABLED
Director: Ari S. Kirschenbaum
Producer: Peter I. Sabat
A stylish but unsatisfying
psychological thriller about a hard-drinking, casual-drugging office
drone who's either coming undone or under attack by unseen tormentors
out to punish him for something. The film's tone is established by a
little girl's voice reciting a fairy tale about the battle of wits
between the devious crow Ravetti and the wolf Lupold, whose good
intentions are at war with his feral nature. Joseph Fable (Desmond
Askew) is going through an extended rough patch: His girlfriend, Liz
(Katheryn Winnick), left him and he's sure she was having an affair
with her shrink, Dr. Frumkes (Michael Panes), while they were still
officially a couple. His dog has run away and he's haunted by some very
bad thing of which he and his partner in crime, Alex (J. Richey Nash),
speak only in the most roundabout, evasive terms. Fable is becoming
increasingly convinced that his coworkers are ganging up against him
and that someone — or worse, something — is stalking him.
His psychiatrist gently suggests that people who think they're being
followed often also have guilty consciences, and that Fable's heavy use
of alcohol and drugs may play some part in his increasing paranoia. But
since Fable has never bothered to find a new doctor, instead going to
Dr. Frumkes — hardly a healthy situation, given his suspicions
about Frumkes and Liz — he has little faith in the doctor's
professional opinion. And as every naturally suspicious person knows,
just because you're paranoid doesn't necessarily mean no one's
conspiring against you. First-time writer-director-editor Ari
Kirschenbaum is talented and ambitious; despite a clearly limited
budget, he and cinematographer Yaron Orbach effectively alternate
harsh, fluorescent-lit everyday scenes with richly colored, nightmarish
images dappled with ominous shadows, and Jack Lingo and Simple Simon's
bass-heavy, electronica-inflected score is darkly spooky. The
fairy-tale voice-over is a serious misstep; the correlation between the
fable and Fable's disintegration isn't apparent until the end, by which
time little Della Askew's childish piping has become so grating that
many viewers will have tuned it out. The murkily revealed final twist
is probably more effective if you haven't seen Brad Anderson's
similarly themed THE MACHINIST (2004), which was made after FABLED but
released first. — Maitland McDonagh
Country of Origin: U.S.
Genre: Thriller
Year of production: 2004
Color or b/w: Color
Production Co(s).: Fabled LLC;
Simian Tales Productions
Released By: Indican Pictures
MPAA Rating: R
Parental Rating: Cautionary; some
scenes objectionable
Running Time: 84
- Brandon Johnson
plays the role of James.
Information taken from the following:
"One Life to Live" (1968)
ABC
Television Series
Last air date: February 2004
Richard Brandon
Johnson’s first appearance on One Life To Live was November 3,
2003 (though some sources say November 11th). R. Brandon Johnson played
a hospital intern named Michael McBain. When Al returns to Earth, he
inhabits the body of Michael McBain. He was seen only
a handful of times before Nathaniel Marston took over the role when Al
and Michael merged on February 16th, 2004.
- Brandon Johnson
played the role of Dr. Michael "Mike" McBain (November 2003-February
2004)
Information taken from the following:
Photos - Many Thanks to
Kim over at PapayaKiller.com,
for providing me with photos from Brandon's appearance on the ABC
Television series, One Life To Live:
 
 
 
Cool In Your Code (2004)
TV Series
on NYC TV
Producers: Trevor Scotland, Hank
Wasiak, Mike Aspite, Will Morrison.
Cool In Your Code travels the
City by zip code, exploring what makes each neighborhood unique. Each
episode will explore what's cool, new, undiscoverd, and different
throughout New York's 200 plus zip codes. From fashion to film,
celebrities and more - it's the City, from the inside out.
NYC TV 25 (WNYE
Channel 25)
Premiere:
Tuesdays from 8:30pm-9:00pm
Encore Presentation:
Wednesdays from 10:00pm-10:30pm
Saturdays from 8:00pm-8:30pm
NYC TV 74 (Cable channel 74)
Premiere:
Sundays from 8:00pm-8:30pm
Encore Presentation:
Thursdays from 2:00pm-2:30pm
Fridays from 11:00am-11:30am
- Brandon Johnson
is one of the Show Hosts for Cool In Your Code on NYC TV.
Hosts: Jamil Mullen, Shirley
Rumierk, and Brandon Johnson visit local eateries, check out historical
landmarks, and tour attractions.
Information
taken from the following:
Trailers:
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Fox Soccer USA (2005)
Series
on the Fox Soccer Channel
Producers: ''Fox Soccer USA'' is
being produced by New York-based Brighton Entertainment in
collaboration with the Fox Soccer Channel. Brad J. Fuss, President and
Executive Producer of Brighton Entertainment will oversee Fox Soccer
USA's production along with Supervising Producer Jeff Strauss and
Coordinating Producer Suzie Paxton.
''Fox Soccer USA'' is a new 30-minute weekly series on the Fox Soccer Channel. The series will focus on the
youth
and amateur soccer scene in the United States, and roam the nation
profiling trends in American youth soccer culture.
According to the
press release:
FOX
SOCCER USA
Brighton Entertainment is proud to be the
producer and packager of FOX SOCCER USA a new half-hour series on Fox
Soccer Channel, a channel launched this February to 20 million cable
and satellite subscribers nationwide. FOX SOCCER USA taps into
America’s rising pop soccer culture in a weekly format that's
filled with news and features about what’s happening with
Generations X, Y and Z on and off the field. From the game itself to
its fashion, music and the newest tech must-haves, FOX SOCCER USA
profiles trends in the emerging soccer nation to engage viewers in
everything they need to know about the beautiful game. For more
information, visit Fox Soccer Channel online at www.foxsoccer.com.
“Fox
Soccer USA”
debuted on Tuesday, April 5th at 8:00 p.m. ET and will air weekly at
8:00 PM Tuesday on the Fox Soccer Channel. The show re-airs up to 6
times each week.
The Fox Soccer Channel is available through affiliated cable systems,
and through DirecTV and Dish Network satellite providers. Check your
cable listings or visit Fox Soccer Channel online at www.foxsoccer.com
or www.foxsports.com/foxsoccer for the re-air schedule.
- Brandon Johnson
is Co-Host for ''Fox
Soccer USA'' on the
Fox Soccer Channel.
Hosts: Brandon Johnson and Lisa
Mollick share the hosting duties for ''Fox Soccer USA.'' Brandon and
Lisa will intersperse their dialogue with in-depth profiles and
interviews of athletes, coaches and mentors, plus offer informative
reports about top soccer schools and youth programs.
Information
taken from the following:
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