Sabotage Film Group

21/06/2024

The final episode of “Who Killed WCW?” is this tuesday night.

In 2001,WWE bought its competitor WCW for pennies.

We were there to document this historic moment.

Vice TV has distributed an amazing 4 part series, Produced by the Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) and from the same team that created the award winning “Dark Side of the Ring”.

In the late '90s, three years after achieving the unthinkable by becoming the biggest wrestling company in the world, WCW would self-destruct. Now, the accus...

06/06/2024

06/06/2024

When ViceTV does it BIG.

https://x.com/therock/status/1798117723131486642?s=46

04/06/2024

Watch “Who Killed WCW?” on Vice TV by producer Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tonight at 10pm. The Trailer is below. We were there.

link:

https://x.com/darksideofring/status/1796251489637122250?s=46

12/04/2024

From the people who brought you ELECTRIC JESUS — COME AND SAVE ME is a short music-film by Danielson and writer-director Chris White. Film and Digital 7" str...

11/04/2024

Unable to coordinate the edit time for this, we were excited to do the promo :30 coming out this week. Thank you Studio 15!

Former SNL actor Fred Armisen visited Greenville and Camperdown to shoot a music video directed by Chris White for "Come And Save Me" by the band Danielson.

07/03/2024

After many years away from TCM,Sabotage had the absolute pleasure of returning to promotions with producer Scott Mcgee on a mini doc with Directors Steven Spielberg & Martin Scorsese titled

“Out There in the Dark”.

The piece was about the directors first experience as children at the cinema.
Mr. Mcgee got to interview both these legends. There was one catch,final approval was not only a requirement but a necessity by both directors. No problem…Gulp.

We thought it only right to shoot at our most cherished movie theater in Atlanta,The Plaza; The theater where cinefiles, young & old continue to experience movies on the larger than life silver screen.

Owner Chris Escobar, who’s spent countless hours and money revitalizing this space to be a continued sanctuary for Atlanta, loved the idea and made space in the theater’s renovation schedule to have us.

It only made sense to hire the most talented person I’ve every known, my mentor and friend Willie Giles. He compiled his amazing crew to shoot in a highly compressed work day…because we had to move fast and get it right.

Willie Giles- DP
Sam Zeilender- AC
Robin Bellury-LD
Markham Badim -Jenkins-AC
Sekou Lenta AD
Scott Lansing- AC,Director, Editor
Jen Lansing- Sabotage Producer
Julie Bitton - TCM
Scott Mcgee- TCM Producer
Allison Firor-TCM
Charlie Tabesh-TCM
Matt Melberg- Sound Design
Cheeky Monkey Post- Color

A little doc, a little “This Month on TCM.”
Here is “Out There in the Dark”.

…And yes we were approved.

Hopefully the nostalgia of the theater will call you back too

Legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese share their love of the movies, movie theaters, and telling stories in this TCM Original Production...

11/01/2024

This was THE dream project.
Thank you TCM.
Thank you Scott Mcgee.
…And thank you Mr. Spielberg.

06/01/2024

TCM Remembers is an annual tribute to the film industry's dearly departed. Somehow, these videos manage to strike just the right balance between sentimentality, fond remembrance and aesthetics.

29/04/2023

MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTED BY SCOTT LANSING FOR BLUE TAPE RECORDS.Looking out upon On the road I treadBodies strewn and piled up dead.It is a spiritual warA war th...

15/04/2023

Eighteen years old and a senior at Paul Duke STEM High School, Sarah Jane Von Hagen has plenty in common with the Indigo Girls, not least her striking resemblance to a young Amy Ray—a role Von Hagen recently found herself playing, opposite the real, adult Amy Ray, in a music video for Ray’s new ...

31/03/2023

While DeSantos wars with Disney…

The study by the Environmental Integrity Project analyzed biennial pollution reports sent by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

24/03/2023

The Independent Critic offers movie reviews, interviews, and festival coverage from award-winning writer and film journalist Richard Propes.

22/03/2023

Abigail!!! We are so proud of our amazing Intern! Its not often you meet a student and are immediately taken back by the way they process the world. It has been an absolute joy having her coming in to work with us all year. A key assist on the”Subway” music video for Amy Ray, Abigail always was willing to get in and work hard for the project at hand. Great luck in your future endeavors!

15/03/2023

The historic Rialto Center for the Arts, which began as a Downtown Atlanta movie theater in 1916, has modernized its projection system and added a 35-foot motorized screen to make it easier to host film screenings and movie premieres.

11/02/2023

Great Article on Amy Ray, her music, and the background to “Subway” song,the music video we did with her!

One half of the Indigo Girls processes the last years of life in America on her new album and talks about the different kinds of songwriting before playing New Orleans.

03/02/2023

“’Don't take the subway, baby, let's just walk,’ we'd say, 'til our longing turns to day / Remember when Alphabet City was a wilderness to you and me, before Rudy had his way,” musician Amy Ray sings with sweet longing for another time in her song “Subway," off of her 10th solo album, If I...

02/02/2023

We are extremely excited to have branstormed with Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls)for this vision of “Subway”, her new song. Thanks to our amazing actresses and our killer crew, listed in the article.

“’Don't take the subway, baby, let's just walk,’ we'd say, 'til our longing turns to day / Remember when Alphabet City was a wilderness to you and me, before Rudy had his way,” musician Amy Ray sings with sweet longing for another time in her song “Subway," off of her 10th solo album, If I...

01/02/2023

15,000 stills, 15 years ago.

Trances Arc. Birds Collide.

Sabotage Film Group / Scott Lansing's music video for Trances Arc's "Birds Collide" from "XOXOX". The video follows the unsupervised exploits of a neglected ...

11/11/2022

Interviews Next to Supreme Court today.

15/10/2022

We loved seeing this play last weekend and greatly support the judicial efforts of Village Theater. Parody and comedic commentary is a key component to supporting freedom of speech. The importance of this case was a predecessor to the Andy Warhol Prince case in the Supreme Court this week. As someone who spent the first part of there career creating post modernism based music videos ads from previous art for TCM, let freedom ring!
Fight the good Fight, and go support this hilarious little play.

26/06/2022

Sad to see you go

18/05/2022

Cut this TCM original with freelance producer Tim Riley a few months ago, on a general historical perspective of “The Beauty Black & White” as an aestetic choice. Fun piece as both a mini doc and editorial freeform narrative.

This is "THE BEAUTY OF BLACK & WHITE" by Sabotage Film Group on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

09/02/2022

One of the greats who’s work formed our dreamscapes.
RIP Douglas Trumbull.

The world of cinema lost a giant today in Douglas Trumbull (pictured here with a young Steven Spielberg). His visual effects work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters, Star Trek - The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner (among others) set the gold standard for the industry.

20/01/2022

What a voice.

1964... (RIP Ronnie Spector 1943-2022) #1 US Cashbox Top 100 #2 US Billboard Hot 100 #2 New Zealand Charts #4 UK Singles Chart #4 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.. ...

10/11/2021

Great to see Brian Baumgartner on a Morning show in NBC New York!

Brain Baumgartner talks with Joelle Garguilo about “Electric Jesus” and a new book about “The Office.”

10/11/2021

“EJ” Review.

No, really — a hilariously honest snapshot of an insular musical community

08/11/2021

“Electric Jesus” Theatrical Showing this Friday @ Rome Film Festival, Rome, GA!