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WALLS GOING UP AT G-STAR STUDIOS SOUND STAGE

2/12/2010

G-Star School of the Arts is the largest Film, TV Production and Acting high school in the nation; and the only high school in the world with a commercial movie studio, the G-Star Studios, on its campus where students intern on multi-million dollar feature films.

Presently, the film Code Red is in production at the G-Star Studios; the feature film It's a Dog Gone Tale: Destiny's Stand is in post-production; and MacBEAT: The Musical is in pre-production and will be the first feature film to be shot in the new sound stage. The Grand Opening for the new sound stage will be May 22, 2010.

MacBEAT: The Musical is the script that finished second to High School Musical at Disney that has been rewritten for G-Star by the original scriptwriter Michael Candela. It is about a high school for film that is producing a feature film of a musical version of Shakespeare's Macbeth - complete with a ghost to fulfill the ancient curse on the play.

"For our starring role we have a letter of interest from a well known young actress who recently starred in Fame and has a regular role on CSI: Las Vegas, as well as having appeared on many shows including Two and a Half Men, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, and the film Monsters, Inc.," says Producer Greg Hauptner, who is also the Founder of G-Star Studios and School. "We have Beyonce's choreographer, Kriyss Grant (Michael Jackson's This Is It), a G-Star graduate, doing the choreography," states Hauptner.

Appearing in the film will be Sally Kellerman (M.A.S.H.), Ron Palillo (Welcome Back, Kotter), and veteran TV actor Monte Markham. Producing and editing will be Dean Lyon (Special Visual Effects Supervisor for all three Lord of the Rings movies, as well as Armageddon, Apollo 13, Independence Day, Quantum of Solace, Air Force One, G-Force, King Kong, Mighty Joe Young). Principal photography for MacBEAT: The Musical begins on June 7, 2010.

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