Welcome to the first issue of Whatever's Happening!

Permanent Vacation is Whatever Entertainment's first feature, written and directed by W. Scott Peake. From the suspense of the shoot between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita to the excitement of winning awards and attending film festivals, this time culminates here. We have exciting news to share with you!

Permanent Vacation has found a distribution home at Vanguard Independent Cinema in Buena Vista, CA. Permanent Vacation will be available internationally on DVD in the coming months. Vanguard will also sell rights to TV and other digital media worldwide. Please see below for more about Vanguard Independent Cinema and our new sales partners Freyr Thor and Betty De Anda.

If you worked on the film or helped the script come to screen, congratulations! We would like to thank everyone involved in the making of the film, the cast and crew, our investors and our friends and family. Whatever Entertainment and Permanent Vacation would not have come this far without you. A special thank you to our sales agent, Glen Reynolds of Circus Road Films for putting this deal together.

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Please have a look at our Projects in Development section and check back often!

All the best,
Diane Clemenhagen and W. Scott Peake

And now more about:

VANGUARD INDEPENDENT CINEMA

http://www.vanguardcinema.com

QUALITY
A vision of representing the best of independent filmmaking, critically acclaimed, festival award winners, featuring up-and-coming stars and directors that would otherwise go unnoticed by the public.

INDEPENDENT
A commitment to the independent filmmaker and the independent audience alike, serving as a portal through which a heightened awareness of a thriving independent film community enriches all involved.

CINEMA
A strategy of building a higher entertainment industry profile and greater market presence with continuous, diversified and voluminous releases of the best quality, maximizing all existing and merging media venues.

MISSION CONTROL
Vanguard is committed to releasing the quality filmmaking and filmmakers that otherwise would go unnoticed by the public eye. Vanguard brings forward festival award winning US independent feature films and contemporary foreign movies, all of critical acclaim featuring up-and-coming stars and directors. Vanguard has often promoted the career starting films of current major stars and directors.

QUALITY #1
With an eye on production value Vanguard's presentations are of the highest possible technical quality promoted with acclaimed quality packaging. The industry agrees that Vanguard releases its motion pictures only with the highest possible quality of packaging and print.

RELATIONSHIPS RULE
The home entertainment industry relies on continuing relationships between filmmakers, producer, studios, distributors, retailers and the public. Vanguard has from its inception in 1993 continued to build strong, long-term relationships in all directions understanding its place in a co-dependent world. Vanguard always has its eyes on the future of entertainment and is proud of its efforts in pioneering new forms of relationships such as revenue sharing and internet delivery agreements.

WITH AN ATTITUDE
With focus on aggressive marketing and great customer service Vanguard has enjoyed a consistent growth of 15-20% annually each and every year from its formation. In an industry sometimes quoted the worlds most volatile and cut throat, Vanguard has managed to consistently nurture and grow its brand name recognition and reputation for quality. Always setting its standards of excellence higher than that of the competition, Vanguard has naturally adopted an attitude of optimism.

IT'S ALL IN THE NAME
Vanguard was the name of the foremost knight leading his men to battle of yore. Vanguard is the bird flying at the tip of a "V" formation. It means leading the way and getting there first.

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Welcome to Whatever's Happening! Issue 2

JUST ANNOUNCED!!

Permanent Vacation has been selected as the Closing Feature for the First Annual West Hollywood International Film Festival. We are thrilled to be part of a ground breaking local international film festival.

Please join us:

Date: Friday, August 1, 2008
Screening Time: 6:45pm
Theatre: Regency Theatre 7907 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048

http://westhollywood.bside.com/2008/films/permanentvacation_westhollywood2008

Permanent Vacation, written and directed by W. Scott Peake stars a great British cast including Frank Harper (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels), Gina Bellman (Coupling - BBC) and 2 newcomers as the children Phoebe Thomas & Jonathon Bailey. The American cast includes David Carradine (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), Michael Bowen (Kill Bill), Charles Shaughnessy (The Nanny) and Kamala Lopez Dawson (I Heart Huckabees, Medium). Two great comedians Victor Varnado (the Black Albino) and Alex Reymundo (Bad Boys of Comedy) round out the cast! Music by Skeeter Truck, PigeonHed and the Low Fidelity Allstars. Past Festival Wins: Best Actor, Socal Indie FF, FRANK HARPER, the Pensacola FF Jury Award, PERMANENT VACATION.

Hard working Eric takes his family on a long overdue holiday in hopes of making happy memories. In this dark comedy, Eric is thrust into a world of sexual decadence, religious ecstasy, headless corpses, sadistic policemen, human sacrifice and two motor cycle riding dwarves. A philosophizing old man helps put it all into perspective.

See the trailer:

http://www.permanentvacationmovie.com/trailer/trailer2.mov

http://www.whateverentertainment.com

Please share this exciting event with your friends and family!

All the best,
Diane Clemenhagen and W. Scott Peake

And now more about:

WEST HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

http://www.whiff2008.com

The West Hollywood International Film Festival (WHIFF), in its inaugural year, is soon to be West Hollywood's premier festival destination. Filmmaking, by nature, is an intensely collaborative, creative, and communicated art form. It takes a diverse range of personalities and talent to see a film to completion. Filmmaking is a dream of many around the planet, regardless of race, nationality, color or language. Filmmaking transcends and seeks to eliminate the barriers of society.

What started as a local industry in Southern California emerging from a new and exciting technology that captured motion on film, has blossomed into a worldwide interconnected web of positive collaboration. WHIFF is a celebration of our shrinking global village. Visually, film speaks in all languages, to all people, of all ages. Film shows us who we are as a global culture, what goals we share, what triumphs we have together, and the tragedies we stoically face.

WHIFF is here to celebrate that triumphant rise of Hollywood as a leader in filmmaking, its influence on filmmaking around the world, and now, with WHIFF, its celebratory return to the stage that made it famous. By bringing filmmakers and their films from around the world to West Hollywood, the WHIFF shows its support and dedication to the world being created all around us, an increasingly connected world.

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Whatever’s Happening October Edition Issue 3

Incredibly, it is October already, just three months left in 2008 and no, you didn’t miss the September Edition. We have been working so hard developing our three new films, the month slipped by before we knew it. Whatever Entertainment’s three new films are exciting and diverse. Two screenplays are optioned and the third is an original screenplay by W. Scott Peake.

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – PERMANENT VACATION

Permanent Vacation is slated for release on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 through Vanguard Cinema International. We will update you when it is available on our website and at your local DVD retailers. We will unveil the DVD cover artwork just after Thanksgiving.

WHATEVER’S in DEVELOPMENT

The Stringman Incident

If you liked Superbad you are going to love the teen comedy The Stringman Incident. In a case of mistaken identity, Nathan, Lindsay and their cliquey friends spend 24 hours chasing, being chased and finally leading the police to the bad guys to save their own lives. During their intense night, they realize they might know each other from somewhere or is it love at first sight?
Screenplay by Tim Stubinski and Mike Markus.

Karolina

A thrilling drama set in a small town, its main attractions the rodeo and the state penitentiary. Cal’s parents are in law enforcement as the Sheriff, Reid and prison therapist, Caroline. When Caroline goes missing everyone blames them self but who is really to blame for her disappearance. Is she ever coming back?
Screenplay by Baron Ginnetti.

Hell or High Water

An Oedipal tale of love & murder set in the west. When Josie gave birth to Eddie, Larkin, his father, took him to the desert and left him for dead. The midwife, Mary, followed Larkin and rescued Eddie. The boy was raised to be hers and husband Paul’s son in a house filled with love. In a nasty turn, nefarious men destroyed Eddie’s home, beat his father & raped his mother. Eddie heads to Hell or High Water to seek revenge for his family’s pain.
Screenplay by W. Scott Peake.

WHATEVER’S CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Permanent Vacation’s costars Kamala Lopez-Dawson and Alex Reymundo.

Kamala Lopez Dawson’s film A Single Woman about the life of Jeannette Rankin, America’s first Congresswoman and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union is complete. For information click and screening click http://www.asinglewomanmovie.com

Alex Reymundo took home an ALMA Award for “Outstanding Comedy Special” for “Alex Reymundo’s Hick-Spanic Live in Albuquerque”. For more information about Alex’s self produced one hour comedy special click http://www.alexreymundo.com

All the best,
Diane Clemenhagen and W. Scott Peake

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