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Hey Guys!

Took a long time but our Final Fight film: "The Broken Gear" is now live! Have fun playing Cody in SFV this week, then check out the prequel film staring him and the other Metro City natives, Guy and Haggar!

The Mad Gear gang has pushed their city wide oppression to it's limit -- now Haggar fights back against them politically while Cody and Guy meet the gang head on -- for the very first time...

Enjoy!

The Broken Gear: A Final Fight film When the suffering citizens of Metro City have all but lost hope against the constant threat of violence and crime put upon them, two Metro City natives rise...

Wanted to wait till after April Fool's to let you all know this is real. The Broken Gear Trailer is here. Final Fight project coming soon... Mike Haggar is Metro City.

The Broken Gear Trailer (Final Fight) When the suffering citizens of Metro City have all but lost hope against the constant threat of violence and crime put upon them, two Metro City natives rise...

Happy New Year Everyone!

We wanted to start 2018 off strong by showing one of our new projects and hangin’ with you all at MagFest 2018.

Not looking forward to how cold the east coast will be but Brendon Huor, Chris Cowan, Sam Puefua, and I (Haile Lee), will all be out to give people a very special sneak peak of “The Broken Gear”. If you can’t make it out to Magfest -- no worries, we will release the trailer at the end of the month so you all can see how it’s shaping up. (Followed by a solid release date)

If you can make it out on Thursday, January 4th, please hit up the Games on Film – Chesapeake J,K,L location at 2:00pm.
Q and A after if you all got them, but either way looking forward to showing this bit off and gaming with you all real soon.

P.S.
More updates about Clandestine and a few more new things later this month!

Hey All,

So keeping on the train of good news -- we’re finally ready to announce a new project that a lot of us have been working on in secret for a while now.

Here is a first look at our Final Fight pilot -- "The Broken Gear"

Staring: Don Frye, Vonzell Carter, Mason D. Davis,Yoshi Sudarso and Sam Puefua

We will have a trailer out for everyone around mid-January but before that, we would also like to announce we will be attending MAG fest 2018 this year and you can get a special sneak preview of the project @ the Games on Film festival.

More info coming shortly! Thanks everyone!

Hello all!

Haile Lee here - First and foremost, on behalf of the Thousand Pound/ Epic Rival teams I would like to sincerely thank everyone who have supported our work over the years. Through our fan films, commercial projects and even original works like Clandestine -- we’ve grown substantially as filmmakers and performing artists, all thanks to the boost you guys continuously gave us early on in our careers.

I want to deeply apologize for being social media absent throughout our transitional times and before the new year gets here, I would like to address a few things so we can all move towards 2018 in a positive light. No, we are not dead -- far from it.

First, the dark horse

Clandestine

How we (Chris and myself) personally handled the Clandestine project wasn’t fair to everyone, especially those who supported our vision and just wanted us to see us do our “thing” on a bigger scale. The main condition I want to everyone to understand is that we were NOT the sole owners of Clandestine. In the beginning this seemed like the best option, to team with a very supportive advertising agency to spread the word about our new creative baby and help us get into doors where even millions of views on Youtube didn’t completely matter. Early on we found that creatively and business-wise, all parties were pulling in different directions, which is understandable now but at the time, I must say we were naive about the whole process. What was also frustrating to realize was that we wrapped our fans up into this demoralizing process as well, and I had NO answers. We couldn’t make more content, we couldn’t pivot because of ownership issues, and we couldn’t prove ourselves to the few that were interested in taking the project to the next step.

Lastly, one of the biggest failures of Clandestine was, to be honest -- was that we were waaaay too ambitious. Even with the money donated and some of the support we received, our idea and dream was too big for the budget we had. It came down to us being new and excited about everything but in hindsight -- if we took what we had and only decided to make one polished and professional pilot piece instead of stretching it into two episodes with several background story shorts -- it would have made the difference.

Now -- with all that “post-mortem” out of the way, let’s talk about new life.

We are now the sole owners of the rights for Clandestine. I repeat because this changes everything, we own Clandestine once again. Now that this is done we will pivot and revamp the project, reflecting all of our personal growths, and hopefully begin the long journey to deliver the Clandestine that everyone has wanted since the beginning. No matter how long it takes, I’m sure Chris is in the same state of mind in saying that we personally won’t give up on making this project. I physically can’t, especially seeing how many of you threw in your support while even now sending us passion filled messages of encouragement and criticisms on wanting to see it come to life. We will make good on these investments given to us early on while keeping in mind versions of the desired deliverables everyone wants as the Clandestine project, lore, and story changes. Just -- bare with me as I figure out the next steps...

The Future

Just because we hit a hiccup with Clandestine doesn’t mean we’ve been sitting around doing nothing. The majority of our group has continued to either work in the industry (meaning you’ve probably seen Thousand Pound / Epic Rival work in a few of your favorite blockbusters) or continued to work with each other on full Indie projects. Yes, that also means we have a new project that is finishing up post production shortly and we’ll be ready to announce that very soon. Some great things are on the horizon and I appreciate everyone being as patient as they’ve been. We will be more active on our social media platforms starting in 2018, and I am personally willing to field any questions you all have about Clandestine and our future. We will update everyone on where to reach us individually (if interested) soon.

To sum up
1.) Clandestine is with us again and back at the beginning stages --
2.) We have a lot of new projects coming just around the corner, with one just about ready for release
3.) 2018 you all will hear a lot more from us. We promise to be more communicative now that we have a solid plan of action that took us a few years to sort out.

Happy Holidays Everyone -- and thanks again. Please enjoy as much food, family and gaming as humanly possible!

Epic Rival releases a new short live action ad (with a little bit of tokusatsu flare) for the upcoming release of Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive on Playstation 4. Be sure to check out the game when it becomes available on July 21st!

Find out more at: http://5pb.jp/games/pbbgod/en/
Make your own 16-bit brawler at: http://phantomize.me

Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive (Live Action) -- Yuzuha's Fight Can't a ninja girl take a peaceful walk in the woods? Not when you're the star of the upcoming side-scrolling brawler, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdr...

Hey all,

Here's an old concept short that we did 4 years ago in conjunction with Jace Hall and HD Films. More brutal and gritty than our other pieces on this page but we hope you enjoy!

Warning: Contains graphic violence

Amy vs 7 (Conceptual Action Piece) - Thousand Pounds http://www.hdfilms.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ThousandPoundsActionCompany An old concept short that we did 4 years ago in conjunction with Jace Hall and H...

Hey guys,

In an attempt to let everyone in on more behind the scenes videos, we'd like to start sharing some of our concepts and previz's with you all. This particular video was shot back in 2013 and was a concept piece for a live action trailer for the video game Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z.


This was created purely to show tone and concept. Ultimately, our idea wasn't picked and they chose to go in a different direction, which can be seen here: http://youtu.be/rr4A2YcFJsg


We'll be releasing other small content like this to you all throughout the month!


**Warning -- Language & Suggested Violence**

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z -- Concept Previz https://www.facebook.com/EpicRival Shot back in early 2013, the following video was a spec, proof of concept pre-visualization for a live action trailer for ...

Hey all,

We extremely apologize about the delay. But we're very proud to debut to you all Epic Rival's short film -- "Naruto Shippuden: Dance of War"

Unfortunately due to technical setbacks, we've only been able to add English captions. We haven't be able to implement the other language translations just yet. But we'll keep adding those on in the background. Rest assured.

We hope you all enjoy!

Naruto Shippuden: Dance of War - Short Film https://www.facebook.com/EpicRival The 4th Great Ninja War is near. Two Hidden Leaf ninja say goodbye to where they grew into ninja, by holding a ceremony to...

Hey all,

So Good news and bad news…bad news, we missed our original release date, good news… Dance of War will be out today. (Feb 17th)

So after we overcame technical issue after unforeseen mishap, it seems like we still missed our original Feb. 16th release date. We appreciate everyone donating their time and effort in translating the project in hopes of making it on time but it looks like we still have some of translation documents rolling in past our original upload plan. We have changed gears and will upload subs continuously after release so please be patient in that regard. We extremely apologize about the delay for “Dance of War” and will make the project public for all to see before long. Stay tuned guys, it’s coming. Thanks again for your patience.

Hey everyone!

We're super excited to premiere Dance of War to you all. Don't worry, it's still coming today :) We're just adding in all the subtitles translations that we received from fans. We ended up with a TON of language options (way more than we had expected) so it's pushing back the release time to later this evening. But rest assured, the short will be online later!

And thanks so much to all of you who helped up with the translations. You all are awesome!