Shooting Star Creativeworks LLC

28/10/2024

Bye-bye, Amazon. You made life easy. You saved us some bucks. And we enjoyed the entertainment. But we cannot morally support the business of a morally bankrupt billionaire. In this exceedingly crazy world – a line MUST be drawn.

02/10/2024

27/04/2024

Here's hoping composer extraordinaire of WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG – and all-round great human being – Nick Nicassio had a wonderful birthday!! (His score for our film is absolutely gorgeous!)

03/04/2024

Director, Co-Producer, Writer – Bill Jacobs – lining up a shot on the set of WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG.

30/03/2024

Wishing Paul Hickert the Happiest of Birthdays ... you world traveler you!

21/02/2024

Later this year, the wait is finally over … and the journey begins.

13/02/2024

[From Bill Jacobs, the director of WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG:]

"Hey, gang! Kirkie here!!"
Those words fondly ring in my ears, echoing back from the days of my youth, listening to the radio in Kettering, Ohio. To me and so many others, Steve "Kirkie" Kirk was THE radio DJ – with his high energy delivery, laugh-out-loud stories, and beyond hilarious on-air crank phone calls. HE brought pop culture into our homes. HE got us up in the mornings. HE brought The Beatles to Cincinnati!

So, you can imagine my sheer joy, as a college filmmaker, striking up a friendship with the man and being invited to his home for one of his personally-made spaghetti dinners. Of course, the fact that we both then had and loved English Bulldogs didn't hurt much either.

Fast forward to the present: I'm completing our first big feature film – and Steve Kirk graciously says "yes" to reprising his days as a DJ, and records a specially-scripted radio show broadcast to be heard in the 1969 half of our film. Talk about being over the moon...

So, with a hurting but gratitude-filled heart, thank you, Kirkie, for all your many hours brightening our mornings on the radio, for your constant giving of time and energy for community charities, for your friendship, and for lending your voice to our movie – adding that extra flicker of nostalgia for all of us who long to once again hear...
.."Hey, gang! Kirkie here!!"

13/02/2024

"Hey, gang! Kirkie here!!"
Those words fondly ring in my ears, echoing back from the days of my youth, listening to the radio in Kettering, Ohio. To me and so many others, Steve "Kirkie" Kirk was THE radio DJ – with his high energy delivery, laugh-out-loud stories, and beyond hilarious on-air crank phone calls. HE brought pop culture into our homes. HE got us up in the mornings. HE brought The Beatles to Cincinnati!

So, you can imagine my sheer joy, as a college filmmaker, striking up a friendship with the man and being invited to his home for one of his personally-made spaghetti dinners. Of course, the fact that we both then had and loved English Bulldogs didn't hurt much either.

Fast forward to the present: I'm completing our first big feature film – and Steve Kirk graciously says "yes" to reprising his days as a DJ, and records a specially-scripted radio show broadcast to be heard in the 1969 half of our film. Talk about being over the moon...

So, with a hurting but gratitude-filled heart, thank you, Kirkie, for all your many hours brightening our mornings on the radio, for your constant giving of time and energy for community charities, for your friendship, and for lending your voice to our movie – adding that extra flicker of nostalgia for all of us who long to once again here...
.."Hey, gang! Kirkie here!!"

29/12/2023

The Expleo gas station set from WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG, all decked out for the holidays on the Shooting Star backlot.

14/11/2023

WE BUILT THAT!
The Expleo gas station set (on the backlot of Shooting Star Creativeworks), as seen in 1969 and 2009 in WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG.

14/11/2023

We built that!
The Expleo gas station set (on the backlot of Shooting Star Creativeworks), as seen in 1969 and 2009 in
WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG.

10/11/2023

The reporter was nice enough to quickly make corrections to an article that came out yesterday about our film…

New movie, "When the Moon Was Twice as Big," continues a string of movies that were filmed in Bucks County.

09/11/2023

We DO appreciate receiving press for our film, WHEN THE MOON WAS TWICE AS BIG, but I DO need to correct a few things in an article that came out today (see my redline!), firstly, that it is NOT being premiered next month! I also appreciate the line "There have been other great movies filmed in Buck County..." I certainly don't mind being included in "other great movies"! 😁

02/09/2023

Happy Birthday to the one, the only, the most-marvelous Mary Jo Catlett!! May your day truly SHINE — just like YOU! ❤️