PHILIP NUTMAN LAUNCHES NEW WEB MAGAZINE AS JACK KETCHUM’S “THE GIRL NEXT DOOR” FINALLY SHOOTS IN NEW JERSEY.

For Immediate Release, 07/31/06

Critically acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and producer Philip Nutman, author of the cult apocalyptic zombie espionage novel, WET WORK, is launching a new pop cultural web-based magazine, UP AGAINST THE WALL, on August 1st, 2006 -- UpAgainstTheWallmag.com

“I spent so much of the last year working on movie projects and putting together two short story collections, I decided I wanted to get back to my journalistic roots,” Nutman said.

UP AGAINST THE WALL will feature celebrity interviews and reviews of a diverse selection of books, movies and music. The first issue features an exclusive interview with three-time world champion wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, who speaks candidly about his starring role in director Tim Sullivan’s forthcoming ghost story, DRIFTWOOD, and his new calling as a yoga guru; renowned Atlanta-based writers Kevin Madigan and Al Kaufman look at the current state of protest music with an interview with James McMurtry and an overview of Neil Young’s latest work, respectively; and British-based anthropologist and musicologist Piers Locke will be contributing a monthly column on unusual CDs.

“UP AGAINST THE WALL has been designed to be an eclectic mix of material the contributors deem cool, hip and unusual – if it’s good, you’ll find it covered here, whether it’s an Italian horror movie, a French art house flick, avant-garde jazz, world music, pulp fiction or an academic study on forensic pathology,” Nutman added.

Future issues will feature exclusive interviews with Rob Zombie, legendary photographer Mick Rock, musician/actor Paul Williams, and many others. “I love interviewing, and there’s a long list of interesting people we want to talk to. Our promise is to never bore you,” he said.

UP AGAINST THE WALL will be “published” the first of each month.

Concurrent with Nutman’s new web venture, his adaptation of the infamous Jack Ketchum novel, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, which he co-wrote with Daniel Farrands (HALLOWEEN 6: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS), is now half way through filming on locations in New Jersey. “It took nearly nine years to get made, but it’s finally happening,” Nutman announced.

Produced by Andrew van den Houten and William M. Miller of Modercine Productions, the filmmakers company responsible for the soon-to-be-released, award-winning horror film, HEADSPACE, the film is being directed by Gregory Wilson, who helmed the Spike Lee-executive produced HOME INVADERS. The film stars up-and-comer Blythe Affarth (VERONICA MARS, LAW & ORDER) as Meg, Daniel Manche, one of the actors who plays young Tarzan in the Disney Broadway hit, is David Moran, the hapless teenage narrator of Ketchum’s story. Emmy award-winning actress Blythe Baker (HOLOCAUST, SIXTEEN CANDLES), the daughter of ‘50’s legend Carroll (BABY DOLL) Baker, essays the demanding role of Ruth Chandler, the deranged single mother who orchestrates the emotional and physical torture of Meg and her younger, crippled sister. Austin Williams, the young buzz-worthy actor who co-stars alongside George Clooney in the forthcoming MICHAEL CLAYTON and who plays the young incarnation of Matt Damon’s character in the Robert De Niro-directed THE GOOD SHEPHERD, has been cast as Woofer, Ruth’s youngest homicidal child. Veteran actor William Atherton (DIE HARD), has also signed on to play the adult David in the contemporary scenes. Grant Show (MELROSE PLACE) and Catherine Mary Stewart (NIGHT OF THE COMET) round out the cast as young David’s parents.

Signed, numbered copies of WET WORK are still available but selling fast. To order go to Overlook Connection.