Brian McQuery

Filmmaker who loves movies, TV, comic books, Pearl Jam, Howard Stern, Andrew Vachss, Italian beef & Chicago style deep dish pizza! Watch PLEA on Amazon or TUBI!

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How far would you go to find the truth?

Plea is coming soon from Bayview Entertainment.

Directed by: Brian McQuery

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TUNER is a terrific picture!
The cast absolutely kills it.
Funny, charming, dramatic, intense.

Glad I saw this on the big screen.

@blackbearpics

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@aakashgupta This IP may have some value.

But it’s astonishing that execs thought risking $300M on a big movie version of THIS IP made economic sense.

Based on the trailers, it appears they made this movie for an audience that doesn’t exist.

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@TheCinesthetic I arranged for Claudia Wells to do a Q&A for BTTF trilogy at New Beverly Cinema years ago.

She was lovely!

2 great nights celebrating a classic trilogy.

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@TomAandTom1 I’ve made 11 shorts. 1 feature: @PleaFilm
All Ultra Low Budget
I worked as a 1st AD or 2nd AD on indies for 10 years.
I know how to work efficiently and treat people well.
Happy to offer advice from my experience if you want to reach out.

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@AliZYousuf @VanTheBrand Exactly.

People fall asleep behind the wheel after all those hours.

I’ve dozed off several times.

It’s a very scary thing.

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@ChadMeise She could connect with support groups for people with chronic illness and tailor an approach for them.

She could hire an editor & cut an undeniably good 1-minute trailer out of her short film.

Bottom line: she needs to reach FAR beyond her X universe for financial support.

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@ChadMeise There are many things she could try that may or may not work.

But every few months it’s the same campaign on a new platform. Sometimes they overlap! And the same cut & paste X posts for the month.

She doesn’t appear to have a budget, because the goal is always a random amount.

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@OliverJia1014 They have been trying to make He-Man for years. Even though the 1987 movie was a flop that killed Cannon Films.

Not every IP warrants a $170M film.

It seems like they made this movie for an audience that doesn’t exist.

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@QTarantino_ You have tried crowdfunding for this film on multiple platforms with the same basic approach and the same, repetitive posts on X and have not come close to reaching your goals.

Clearly you need a new game plan.

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@tomlinsoncooper @FreddyInSpace I have loved Little Toni’s for 20 years!

Celebrated my birthday there once when my parents visited LA.

Just picked up takeout from there for Mother’s Day.

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@benjaminluk Me too.
But we are in the minority.

On all my low budget shorts when I lived in Chicago 20+ years ago, I made Special Edition DVDs for all cast & crew.

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@horrormuseum So we should all be cowards and put up with whatever happens in the workplace?

Remember that Greg Allman movie?
No one spoke out.
A woman died.
Others were injured.

How about RUST?
Conditions were poor.
A woman died.
A man was injured.

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@GwenLovesMovies On a similar note, it’s terribly sad when working class comic book creators become ill and resort to GoFundMe’s to pay medical bills while corporations make billions off their creations.

A corporation who pays that 6-figure medical debt would get so much free publicity.

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@dodgerbluemyslf @missmayn @EclecticRadShow If the only way to make your movie is to take advantage of the people you hire, society will continue on just fine without your movie.

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@jakeures Ultra low budget film sets are run by random individuals. Sometimes totally under the radar without permits or SAG-AFTRA actors.

So how could they ever be regulated or forced to offer ownership stakes?

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@jayson_smiley @PleaFilm is not about me but it was fueled by my experience of almost being killed in a violent crime in 2016. The trauma & advocacy from that incident informed my original screenplay.

Rent on Amazon or watch on @Tubi

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@GwenLovesMovies If there was a steady stream of non-union films that paid reasonably, fed us well & treated us professionally, there would be nothing to talk about.

Most people with opinions have no idea that the reality is it is a hustle from 1 clown show to another with the occasional gem.