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Joshua Morris has worked in the entertainment industry for over fifteen years, in positions ranging from pre-production through exhibition; his career began in theaters then expanded to studio lots, sets, and film festivals.

Since 2009, Joshua has worked on the marketing side of entertainment: he is a certified consumer insights professional who has conducted market research on hundreds of TV episodes and films, partnering with directors, producers and writers to strengthen their creative content. He is currently “INternational Consumer Insights Lead” at Pilotly, the first research platform built for creative content.

From 2012-2019, he also wrote as an entertainment journalist for The Henderson Press, Klas-tv, and The Las Vegas Informer where he interviewed Oscar-winning artists and penned dozens of reviews. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Film at Unlv, during which time he Pa’d for the MTV series Video Game Reunion and authored, directed, or performed in multiple student...

Parody, video games and the internet have always been a three’s company of buddiness. CollegeHumor’s Dorkly, YouTube 8-bit parodies, and of course Atom’s long-running and recently ended Zelda spoof, The Legend of Neil all feasted from the table of viewers nostalgic for the video games of their youth. Creator Matt Lewis still saw plenty of flesh on this comedy bone, crafting an elaborately detailed parody of over a dozen video game characters in what would become his first leap into web series with Video Game Reunion, set to bow March 8th on Atom and GameTrailers. The series opts for the lighter, familiar mockumentary riff on the idea of the real lives of game characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser and Mega Man—not as dark as the neo-noir sendup of the Mario Bros. and the Koopa Kingdom in 2008’s There Will Be Brawl. The main conceit of...

“The idea came to me a few years ago when I began writing a feature horror/comedy around a young female who drives a hearse,” writer, producer, and director Chris Ackerman told Dread last Saturday night on the set of his then-shooting short film Hell’s Belles. “The main character, ‘Adria Blackmoor’, lives a sheltered life as a morgue technician at her grandfather’s cemetery when unfortunately the gates of hell open, and she’s forced to battle a strange assortment of creatures to save her town.”

Hollywood being Hollywood, however, burgeoning filmmakers are keenly aware of the distinct lack of imagination most suits have during the pitching process (a manuscript seldom cuts it any longer in communicating one’s vision), so Ackerman, who previously served as an associate producer on Yossi Sasson’s 2008 horror feature Dead and Gone, took it upon himself to helm a shortened version of his script,...