Coming Soon!
Lady Magdalene's
starring Nichelle Nichols
as Lady Magdalene
Produced, Written, and Directed by
J. Neil Schulman
Executive Producers:
J. Neil Schulman & Nichelle Nichols
Co-Executive Producer:
Betty Schulman
Line Producer: Pierre Lorillard
Consulting producers: Sky Douglas Conway
and Sascha Schneider
Associate Producers: J. Kent Hastings
and Randall N. Herrst
Cast/Credits
Start Date: May 23, 2006
Wrap Date: June 14, 2006
Shooting Locations: Pahrump, NV; Las Vegas, NV;
Front Sight Resorts, NV; Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Gambling Hall, NV
Status: COMPLETED (Producer's Theatrical cut) October 30, 2007
Premiere: February 2, 2008, San Diego Black Film Festival
Tag Line: "I'm from the government ... and I'm here to help you."
Log Line: In this action comedy, an IRS agent on loan to the Federal Air Marshal Service is relieved of field duty after insulting a powerful U.S. Senator, and finds himself exiled to a humiliating desk job in Nevada as the federal receiver managing a legal brothel in tax default, where -- with the help of the brothel Madam, Lady Magdalene -- he uncovers an Al Qaeda plot to unload a nuclear-bomb-sized crate at Hoover Dam.
Alongside Night
Screenplay by
J. Neil Schulman,
from his acclaimed novel
Official Website
Had a TV on recently? Read a newspaper? Markets are in chaos, the economy is in freefall. People are losing their jobs, their houses, their security. The federal government is taking over banks and the President is going on TV trying to calm everyone down and telling them everything will be all right. Who could have predicted this?
Award-winning novelist and filmmaker, J. Neil Schulman, that's who, in his 1979 novel, Alongside Night.
Now J. Neil Schulman has completed a feature-length screen adaptation of Alongside Night.
Read the press release.
Additional links:
Alongside Night on Amazon.com
Alongside Night on Wikipedia
Alongside Night on Google Books
Dave Schwartz:
Firsthand from
the First Stand
Dave Schwartz: Firsthand from the First Stand circles around an extensive HD video interview with 92-year-old David Schwartz, lead violist in Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band, principal violist with the Cleveland Orchestra, member for seven seasons of NBC's orchestra for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, and a Hollywood musician whose violia solos can be heard in The Godfather and many of John Williams's movie scores.
In this interview Dave Schwartz reminisces about his career and talks intimately about musicians, and other famous people he's met and worked with, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Jascha Heifetz, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Steven Spielberg, and many others.
One section of our documentary focuses on Dave Schwartz's World War II experience with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, from its formation through the end of World War II, and he speaks about Glenn Miller's disappearance over the English Channel in December 1944 as if it were yesterday.
Start Date: August 19, 2008
Currently in Production
Shooting Location: Santa Barbara Polo Club, Carpinteria, CA
Dave Schwartz:
Firsthand from
the First Stand
Dave Schwartz: Firsthand from the First Stand circles around an extensive HD video interview with 92-year-old David Schwartz, lead violist in Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band, principal violist with the Cleveland Orchestra, member for seven seasons of NBC's orchestra for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, and a Hollywood musician whose violia solos can be heard in The Godfather and many of John Williams's movie scores.
In this interview Dave Schwartz reminisces about his career and talks intimately about musicians, and other famous people he's met and worked with, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Jascha Heifetz, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Steven Spielberg, and many others.
One section of our documentary focuses on Dave Schwartz's World War II experience with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, from its formation through the end of World War II, and he speaks about Glenn Miller's disappearance over the English Channel in December 1944 as if it were yesterday.
Start Date: August 19, 2008
Currently in Production
Shooting Location: Santa Barbara Polo Club, Carpinteria, CA
Escape from Heaven
screenplay by J. Neil Schulman,
from his acclaimed novel
to be directed by
J. Neil Schulman
starring Nichelle Nichols
In this edgy and outrageous, but ultimately reverent, comedy, a top-rated radio talk show host is called to Heaven to meet God, buddies up with Jesus, and returns to earth on a mission to save Jesus from being seduced by Jesus' ex-wife, Satan, and manage Jesus' election campaign to win back the earth.
No Strings Attached
an original screenplay by
J. Neil Schulman
A young classical violinist injures his hand in a misunderstanding with airline security, and finds a new way to play violin with the help of a gorgeous rock diva, a maverick electronics engineer … and the ghost of his famous grandfather.
A Thing for Me
to be written and directed by
J. Neil Schulman
A 15-year-old girl is charged with murder and tried as an adult, leading to a legal wrangle over the arbitrary and capricious legal divisions between childhood and adulthood ... and a surprising turn of events.
Executive Producers:
J. Neil Schulman & Nichelle Nichols
Figure 8
story by J. Neil Schulman,
screenplay by John DeChancie
With the help of an eccentric scientist, a geeky science-fiction fan travels back in time to meet a supermodel before her career begins ... and accidentally causes Al Gore to win the 2000 presidential election.
Anarquia
screenplay forthcoming
by Brad Linaweaver,
from the acclaimed alternate history novel by Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings
With the help of movie-star Hedy Lamarr, rocket-scientist Werner von Braun applies his talents during the Spanish Civil War to foil the evil plans of both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.