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"GET MARRIED OR DIE" a New Film written by Rob Tobin
Distributed by Media108. USA release today on VOD. WATCH
TRAILER HERE (you may receive a “mature audience” content warning prompt):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UniRKxMNQnc
You’ll be given the option of buying or renting the film at the end of the trailer.
OR, you can BUY OR RENT THE FILM on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/get-married-or-die/id1325592448
PLEASE SUPPORT INDIEFILM and have a great
time watching this funny, heartfelt, surprising film, featuring an amazing cast of Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy nominated
actors! With your help we can make this GO VIRAL!
Thank you!!! Feel free to contact Rob with questions at: scripts90@gmail.com
Rob's script "Chasing
Spielberg" just won the prestigious Director's Choice award at the Austin Revolution Film Festival.
Rob is in active negotations
for the sale of his spec screenplay "Face Time" to a Canadian production company.
Rob is in active negotiations for the sale of his spec screenplay
"Chasing Spielberg" to an Irish production company, which is putting together an international co-production deal
with a Canadian production company.
Rob has completed the script for a $35 million, English language animated feature for a Chinese studio.
Rob has completed rewriting the script for a
$3 million feature film for a Canadian production company.
Rob has completed the adaptation of two novels for a client.
In the last year Rob's spec screenplays have won or placed in the following screenplay
competitions:
- CHASING SPIELBERG: 2017 DIRECTOR'S CHOICE
AWARD AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL
- CHASING SPIELBERG 2017 FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM
FESTIVAL
- SPRING TRAINING 2016 FINALIST Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
- BACH ROCKS 2017 SEMI FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL
- BALLS OF DIFFERENT SIZES
2017 SEMI FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL
- FREEDOM CAFE 2017 SEMI FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION
FILM FESTIVAL
- SPRING TRAINING 2017 SEMI FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL
- THE MAGIC RAIN 2017 SEMI FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL
- BALLS OF DIFFERENT
SIZES 2016 FINALIST LiveRead/LA
- FREEDOM CAFE 2017 FINALIST AUSTIN REVOLUTION
FILM FESTIVAL
Surf City Films Founder and CEO
ROB TOBIN
• 714-717-4289
• scripts90@gmail.com
• surfcityfilms.net
• https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm2599619
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BIO
Rob is a produced, award-winning screenwriter, published
novelist, former motion picture development executive, and author of two well-known screenwriting books (“The Screenwriting
Formula” and “How to Write High Structure, High Concept Movies.”). He is featured in the upcoming book "The
Top 50 Indie Writers In The World" by Del Weston, Theresa Weston, and Nabi Zee.
Rob is currently
working on a three-book adaptation, and is doing a rewrite for a Canadian/Chinese production company.
Rob’s feature script “Storefront”
is in post production with Russian Media, featuring a cast of Golden Globe-wining, and Oscar-and-Emmy nominated actors.
Rob was a contributing writer on
the English language Indian thriller “Dam 999,” which was released by Warner Brothers and shortlisted for a Best
Picture Oscar.
Rob
co-wrote “Broken,” produced for the PGA Make Your Mark film competition. “Broken” made the semi-finals
(top ten) of that prestigious competition, judged by Michael Douglas, Kathy Bates and Danny Devito.
Rob wrote the Iraq War drama “The Camel Wars”
on assignment, which John McTiernan (“Die Hard,” “Predator” “Hunt for Red October”) attached
himself to direct.
Rob’s
screenwriting books “The Screenwriting Formula” and “How to Write a High Structure, High Concept Movies”
have led to speaking appearances at film festivals and writing conferences from Los Angeles to the south of France.
“I’m blessed,”
Rob says, “I’ve got it all – friends, family, and my writing.” Rob's boundless talent, energy, and
passion for writing and film guarantee him continued success.
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SPEC SCREENPLAYS
Available for submission
(Drama) “Freedom
Cafe,” A wounded Iraq War veteran's terrible childhood secret is slowly revealed as he undergoes psychotherapy
as part of his rehabilitation.
(Drama, Low Budget) “Face
Time,” A beautiful reporter becomes fascinated by a brilliant but grotesquely disfigured man who may have won
the biggest lottery in history.
(Sports/Fantasy) “Spring Training,” What happens if Babe Ruth shows up for spring
training… in 2013? With Negro League legend Josh Gibson? The two greatest players in the history of the game cross
time and space to face 99mph fastballs, steroid monsters, their own legends and each other.
(Coming of Age, Sports Dramedy) “Balls of Different Sizes,” A dyslexic teenaged boy
with a tough-guy attitude joins a girls’ softball team only to discover that the girls are tougher than he is, that
it’s okay to ask for help, and that there is crying in softball.
(Rom Com) “Bach Rocks,” A rock star is stranded at a classical music conservatory
while being taped 24/7 by a reality TV show crew. He falls in love with the school's beautiful dean, who hates his music,
his lifestyle and isn't crazy about his supermodel girlfriend either.
(Dramedy) “The Life and Times of Lesbian, Alien, Opera
Singers,” A billion dollar budget, every superstar in town, the
worst script ever written, and a drunken screenwriter who refuses to write anything but technical manuals. Yup… par
for the Hollywood course.
(Rom Com) “Love on the
Adriatic,” A widowed American painter searches for a new life on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
(Drama) “Old Blood,” A dying old man is given a second chance
at “life” when he’s bitten by a vampire.
(Urban Fantasy)
“The Magic Rain,” A teen wizard from a sword and sorcery world is chased by an evil sorcerer
into modern day Montana.
(Urban Fantasy) “Making Gone,” A woman awakes with the power to make
bad things and people disappear, and she doesn’t know where to stop.
(Drama) “Performing Love,” Two estranged daughters of an abusive father meet
for his funeral to try to resolve the anger they feel toward him and each other.
(Sci Fi, Action) “Humalien,” Hunted
by a race of alien assassins, a half-human, half-alien Earth woman is tasked to pick 1,000 humans worth saving from an impending
holocaust that will destroy every living being on Earth. NOTE: Also a one hour televison pilot
complete with additional episodes and bible.
(Sports/Fantasy) “Spokes,” "Ghost"
meets "Sideways" in this "Sleepless in Sonoma" romantic comedy. A billionaire widower trying
to cope with his grief by obsessively riding his exercise bicycle, is invited to compete in the Tour de France.
(Urban Fantasy) “Not Another
Body Switching Movie,” What happens when two friends switch bodies
and don’t switch
back… ever?
(Fantasy) “Hank
and the Fairies,” A mentally challenged, small-town man is chosen by fairies to save them from a coldhearted
developer who wants to destroy their magical garden.
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WRITING SERVICES
- Story Notes
- Consultation
- Script Doctoring
- Script Polishes
- Script Rewrites
- Screenwriting from concept or treatment
- Adaptations
For a current fee schedule, contact Rob at scripts90@gmail.com
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REPRESENTATION
Eleni
Larchanidou, LLM.
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