The "Independent Movie" Business is very difficult and demanding. People engaged in this business are usually dedicated to the finished product, thinking that "this movie will be the greatest", or not! In Woodstock, New York, in the spring of 2016, with many scenes to be shot in Chatham, New York, and Cobleskill,N.Y., we will be embarking on a new type of production style. This style has never been used on the big screen. It was originally adapted by Jackie Gleason in the 1950's, and proved successful for him. We are not trying to say that our yet to be completed cast, can be as good as the "Honey Mooners" but we can learn from "the great one" and attempt to add natural movements and situations in the picture. Jackie Gleason was a "comic wizard", in that he did not use a script. He made everyone in the cast use situation cards, (cue cards), to set up the next scene. (We will be using television big screens, Cue Cards,  and a master computer operator). Jack was so quick that Art Carney, himself a comic wizard, had a hard time following Jackie Gleason. They were a great duo until they had a falling out. It is terrible that these great acting partners had falling outs. Whether it was Lucy & Desi, Gleason & Carney, Martin & Lewis, or just the Beetles! The greatest partnerships sometimes fail, as in normal life. This Production shall be mostly shot in Woodstock/Cobleskill and Saratoga, during the 145th running of the oldest race meet in the Nation. It will be shot at the Harness Track and the Casino, also! The "Movie" will be Produced by Dr. Mike Craft Sr. D.D. and his Associated Company, and will be cast by the same. The film crew and associate producer are previously with FOX! Because this "Indie Film" has a "musical score", BMI shall of course be notified. All music Copy Rights and Film Copy Rights have been secured! There will be quite a few scenes filmed in Chatham, New York, because of the beauty of the main street and the warmth of the people! Open call auditions shall be held in the early spring of 2016. We can not give out the scripting/layout details due to the extensive secrecy/copyright standards of the production! We have discovered a fabulous new young Model in Albany, New York! Ashley O is one of the most off the cuff talents we have ever seen! She is beautiful also! We look forward to our Premier in Woodstock N.Y., in our own Venue, during The Woodstock Film Festival of 2016, and the Film Columbia, in 2016! We shall be premiering this movie in the Hamptons also, in our own Venue, plus Independent Movie Houses all over New York, New England, and the Middle Atlantic States. The rest of the nation shall follow! We want the Public to view our Production in all 5 days and nights of these Film Festivals! We are grateful to the Frank Sinatra Invitational Golf Tournament and Ms. Barbra Sinatra, for the nice letters and up to the minute postings on the Tournament. Ms. Sinatra is a real lady. Dr. Mike Craft Sr. was a night club friend of Frank Sinatra Sr.'s, in Vegas, during his time with the Lansky Group! We will be dedicating this film to the Barbara Sinatra Foundation, The Food Banks of America, Catholic Charities, and The New Upstate Junior College which is now forming! The casting of this movie will proceed, and hopefully with the help of Bruno Chatlin at www.fest21.com, it will be a good cast! We will be having an open casting call in April, and hope to benefit from the local talent. In discussing the upcoming film, Dr. Craft Sr. "had" decided to go to the birthday party for Bob Dylan, in Hudson, New York, at the Helsinki Restaurant and Night Club, back on May 24th, 2014. Mike had been a fan of Bob Dylan since the early sixties, and actually has "Positively Forth Street" as one of his most favorite songs. Mike had recorded, as a studio singer, in the 60's! Like a lot of club singers, in their youth, Mike laughingly says, "I was a better gangster than singer, but I was not too bad"! "I just hated the road, I hated 5 sets a night, so my music career ended in 1968, with the first pay check (cash in an envelope) from Meyer Lansky's associate in Saratoga, Doc Farone". The Film has great promise! It is being shot with a new 3 camera system, utilizing 3 separate computers and 3 computer programs, devised by Dr. Craft Sr's Film and Production crew. A new type of digital sound system will be used, saving more than $140,000.00 in 7 weeks. The Saratoga Raceway and Casino has expressed interest in allowing much of the Race Track scenes to be shot at the 'Harness Track"! Dr. Craft Sr. is very excited and has decided to utilize the "Harness Racing Aspect" rather than the Flat Track, for the Racing background! The Casino Management has spoken to Dr. Craft Sr. and asked to be personally kept up to speed! Ms. Nora Berringer, of Lyon, France, has committed to a lead supporting role, as a show girl, and love interest! She is our Kim Kardasian look alike. Wait until you see her! Nora is great! The new addition of computer technician/web developer and 2nd assistant transportation director Mr. Brian Browski is met with lots of enthusiasm! Dr. Craft Sr. has secured a special acting coach and advisor for his actors, and actresses, and will also hold an "Acting School" for the entire cast, for 1 week, with the full 7 week version of filming, before the production begins! Dr. Craft Sr. would like to explain to the audience that this movie is being shot in only 7 weeks, plus a 1 week acting school, and not the usual 30 weeks. Dr. Craft Sr. will also be shooting feature length, short time limit filming, weekend films, to complement the feature films! These special projects are shot in 3- 10 hour days, using scene specific sets and actors! Yes, it is new, but so are we! The pay scales are limited by that fact and a real tight budget! The movie is dependent on our stars accepting their full service contracts and rider clauses for at least 3 more movies, without monatary deposit until the first day of shooting!  We hope to have all our supporting actors and actresses on board soon. The Company would also like to announce the acceptance, in pro-forma form, and media release, of Joe Calderone. Joe, as upstate New York knows, was a YNN Sports/person/sports editor. He has done a few pre-trailers with photo models!! Joe was great in these trailers as was Dr. Craft Sr.! Joe is a natural actor and maybe should have been a "Gangster", he did so well. The company is very happy to have Joe on board! The Company, which has not accepted one nickle of cash, due to the high interest rates, from alternative lenders, as they are politely called, is operating on a wing and a prayer, and is starting the crowd funding platform on www.indigogo.com ! Dr. Craft Sr. does not receive one cent, as of yet! Dr. Craft Sr. D.D. (which means Doctor of Divinity) and his associate director are scouting for the proper cast members all over the web and on the street! Beautiful girls go hand in hand with a romantic R rated feature length film! We again welcome all our new actors and actresses to the Fabulous Woodstock Action Drama! FOR ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL chathammovies@aol.com  Yes, that is chathammovies@aol.com  Good life to all! 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This Production Company is owned by Dr. M.Craft Sr. (bigmikecraft), a former owner of a restaurant chain through out New York State. Dr. Craft was a former General member of the Meyer Lansky Organization from 1968 to 1983. He became an acting boss, of his own group after Meyer's death but could not hold the group together! He is also a former full International member of the NCS (National Crime Syndicate)! Dr. Craft managed one hundred rock and roll bands in his career and owned many Disco's and Rock and Roll clubs. All his clubs were licensed with the New York State Liquor Authority from 1971 to 1999.  Dr. Mike Craft Sr. was an international racketeer, with both Meyer Lansky, and Tony Brown, of Chicago, as was his father, Mr. William A. Craft Esq.  Mike Craft Sr. was also suspected of many international operations on the Canadian border. Dr. Craft Sr. (bigmikecraft) was the syndicate boss of Vermont, New Hampshire, Upstate New York to Syracuse, and the Provence of Prince Edward Island for the National Crime Syndicate! Dr. Craft Sr. only used the Canadian Border for the Transfer of "contraband" and other illegal activities. Dr. Crafts father,  The Honorable William A. Craft Esq., ran the New York State Supreme Court Reporters, from 1953 to 1978. He fixed the bench trials that the Syndicate wished fixed. William A. Craft Esq. worked personally for both Meyer Lansky and Mr. Tony Brown, boss of the Mid-West, and was Governor Nelson Rockefellers bag man in the "Courts"!  Mike Craft Sr. has more than 35 years in both entertainment management, Night Club Management/Ownership and Corporate Management. Mr. Craft Sr. was taken into custody by the United States Federal Government's IRS-CID in 1987. He agreed to act as a consultant on corporate cases only. He demanded contracts be signed or he would stand trial on the income tax evasion charges. Mike often laughes and say's " I should have done the lousey 4.5 years, for the lousey 10 million dollars, It would have been better than working with the lousey creepy governmental employees. They screwed me anyway, because I am the only ex-gangster in the world to not turn in his organization, or any business associates or friends! I was also reputed to have been Meyer's Last Enforcer(Toronto Star-Jan 3rd, 2008), but still did not turn in my friends. I can tell the story now, because all my close partners are dead and buried plus my underling's knew nothing about me" Mike Craft Sr. (aka-bigmikecraft) and www.myspace.com/bigmikecraft  can walk the world proud. He only acted as a corporate consultant and got screwed by the IRS-CID for that also. The FBI was also in the screwer end of the business, by protecting the illegal actions of the IRS/CID! The Movie and Movie shorts, with trailers, being produced in both Woodstock, Cobleskill and Saratoga, New York, USA, in the summer of 2016, are actual real life stories of Mike Craft's life in the rackets. The Company and Mr. Craft Sr. are looking for new and beautiful girls from the United States and Latin America to have co-staring roles in these pictures. There is a budget on the Film, but the exposure of the film in New York City is going to be great. The Film, and it's shorts, will also be on the United States Film Festival Tour with a 5 day Premier in both the famous Woodstock, New York Film Festival and both the Las Vegas and Palm Springs Film Festivals.  For the enrichment of Latin America, a Premier will be set up in Mexico City for our beautiful, special, Latin American Actresses. This production is important to the American People because it also shows how corrupt the individual agencies of the Federal and State Governments are. Welcome to the search for our actors and actresses! Welcome to The Woodstock Film Company. We have discovered a great high school singer in Fort Ann, New York and we hope to have a working relationship with her on contract! PLEASE CONTACT  chathammovies@aol.com    That is again chathammovies@aol.com     That email is chathammovies@aol.com

The Producer/assistant director, Dr. Mike Craft Sr. D.D. would like to wish Bob Dylan a Happy Birthday on May 24th, 2016. Bob will be 74 years old and has been a favorite for 50 years in America. Dr. Mike Craft Sr. was present at Mr. Dylans birthday party in 2012, and was very happy to be there!  The Movie encompasses the lives of some of the most ruthless gangsters in America. The Bob Dylan's Classic "Positively Fourth Street"  is just perfect for the lead Score. Whether we secure the copy rights is another matter! To have a great song writer and performer in any film is wonderful. Most song historians fight over the music of Bob Dylan. Mike Craft Sr., who owned many many Rock and Roll Clubs, so much so that he also owned a few Rock groups, knows as much about music as any Night Club Owner in the World. Dr. Mike credits Bob Dylan with personally altering the course of Folk Music with his song "Positively Fourth Street"! That song was so positive a message that the likes of the Seekers, Peter Paul and Mary, and others were replaced by Bob Dylan and soon to come Janis Ean!  Bob Dylan asked the most important musical question of that age and even today, "you got a lot of nerve, to say you are my friend" This line has resonated down through the last 50 years and is as relavent today as when Bob sang the song during the step up of the Vietnam War! Bob Dylan is a relevant figure in the pre and post Vietnam Era! Bob was relevant before any other music performer in America. So much so that Richard Nixon had Bob on his "watch list" not his enemies list! Trust me, that was a worse list to be on, but Bob Dylan took the FBI watch list and The J. Edger Hoover's watch list  with a grain of salt. His strong sense of right and wrong will be needed again, to defend freedom in America. 'Positively Fourth Street" again! The Production would like to announce that as of October, 10th., 2015, Full Discussions are under way, for a beautiful latin night club singer, to sing the theme songs for the film, and to act in a very high profile supporting actress position!  Dr. Craft Sr. has a history of more than 55 years going to the "Saratoga Harness Track"!  His father, the Honorable William A. Craft Esq. of the New York State Supreme Court and Governor Nelson Rockefeller's "bag man", along with Meyer Lansky's New York State And Federal Court System "FIXER", was always at the night track! The Late Earnie Morris and his associates were very close to "$50.00 Bill Craft" and his young son, (Dr. Mike Craft Sr.) was taken a least once a week to the night track, by his father. His father, of course, was compted for everything, and given the fixed race of the night! Dr. Craft Sr. has said, "I wish somebody would give me a fixed race today?" Saratoga Springs was the home of America's early organized crime families in August. The National Casino's did evolve to almost year round in the early 1900's but the historic Saratoga Flat Track was a yearly" August Event" for the American "Who's Who" of society! It was at the Flat Track, right at the end of World War 2, that Dr. Craft's father, "Bill Craft" met Meyer Lansky and went to work for him. The production Company is hard at work securing full finance for this project and the 6 movie projects attached to this series, by crowd funding! This movie is a full seven part series and the primary players will be asked to sign an option agreement, for the sequel! Good Luck to "Film Columbia" Film Festival. The great people of Chatham, New York have been wonderful to Dr. Craft Sr. and he shall film a 'Soft Drink Ad" during the 'Film Festival" We would like to thank the newspaper "The Chatham-Courier" for the wonderful front page articles they had written for Dr. Mike Craft Sr. D.D. (Big Mike Craft) and the very informative and complimentary article on the movie preparation! Thank you Chatham-Courier!  We all love Chatham, New York! Please go to our latest "Front Page" for the 'Film Columbia Film Festival, on The www.registerstar.com website by hitting the articles for "The Chatham Courier, a sister news paper. It was a fine and amusing article! (search articles/2011/10/23/chatham_courier/news
Thank You to all; and please go to Indigogo for our fund raiser!.