Hey everyone, just added some great new photos to our page so go check them out.

Hello everyone, Ben here.

So we finished shooting… kinda.

Wrapping the film happened in many stages. We wrapped principal photography Sunday the 21st. But we then picked up some pickup shots on Monday that we had missed during production. So *then* we were done. Yay! We had our wrap party Monday, and drank MGD late into the night eating burgers and seitan from separate veggie and meat grills at the home of producer Charles Smith and Sound Mixer John Paul Golaski.

Except we had second unit photography at 9am the next morning. So not *quite* done shooting. 

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Lebanon director Ben Hickernell spent Wednesday with the camera crew in Lebanon, Pa., picking up some last second-unit shots on location. While they were there, they had the chance to sit down with a reporter from the Lebanon Daily News. Read her piece here.

Click here to read an interview with Lebanon’s director, Ben Hickernell, managing to talk sense about the film’s subject-matter despite this week’s chronic shoot-induced exhaustion. (Via Haverford College’s news room.)

Besides the many — many! — of you I know have been visiting this site regularly, I also know there’s a small army of you who’ve given your time and lovely faces to work as extras on Lebanon.

It’s thankless, we know. (Yes, guys, we heard you loud and clear.)

But to just give a little collective shout-out –as we WRAP – we wanna hear from you if you stuck it out. (After all, we’ve seen a couple of y’all posting.) This post’s an open thread: Tell us who you are — and where you snuck into shot…

In return for your hard work, you have our undying gratitude. Aww.

And I never thought it would come…

Yes folks, yesterday was our last day of principal photography.  It was a day that I never saw coming.  With all the vehicle breakdowns (and break-ins), the mental breakdowns, the weather mishaps, the amount of locations that had cats and our crew’s apparent deathly allergic reactions to cats… well the list could go on and on.  But not only could the list go on and on… we could and did go on and on.  After all the long days (and nights) we emerged with some fantastic footage and some wonderful performances.  So as I write this trying to make arrangements to get our generator picked up so I don’t have to see it ever again I feel good knowing we have a great film on our hands.  We just now need to put it all together.  So to all of you that worked so hard on this film I will see you at the wrap party tonight!

Cheers,
Jason

  

Shannon showing off her Madonna/Pirate look., originally uploaded by Lebanon Movie.

A new batch of BTS photos have been added to Flickr. Check em.

Fewer blog posts last week translate to a busy time on set: Apologies to all, but please skim through the photos to see how the hard work paid off with gorgeous footage…

Like last Wednesday, where Vicki (Samantha Mathis) taught Will (Josh Hopkins) how to play darts, at The Rusty Nail in Ardmore…

Or CJ (Rachel Kitson) learning the hard way about the bitchiness of high school, in Thursday’s scenes shot inside the now-defunct W. S. Peirce middle school in South Philadelphia…

And an appearance by Pete Pryor — Philly theater all-star, and lead of Hickernell’s previous film Cellar — as he breaks up the party for Will and Vicki, in a climactic scene shot Friday…

Like we’re sayin’, it’s all there in the photos. Get to it.

You know you want to… Click here to visit Lebanon on IMDb.

Hi all, Jason here, one of the producers of “Lebanon”.  Sorry I haven’t blogged until now, but I have a good excuse.  See, we all have been super busy with production.  Honest.  I posted some new pictures from the bar and high school locations for you to check out.  So go check them out, and comment.  We love comments.  Things are going amazingly well with production.  We have a talented cast, a wonderful crew and despite some weather mishaps (we had two rainy days that we had to make look sunny and one clear night we had to make rainy) we are very pleased with the footage we have gotten.   I’m sure you will be pleased too when you see it.  Everyone is working incredibly hard and we are in the home stretch.  We have six more days of principal photography so wish us all luck. 

Cheers,

Jason