Exclusive: Comedy troupe The Dress Up Gang are currently filming their inaugural feature film, The Dress Up Gang Movie. Tideline Entertainment and Mountain Top Pictures are producing.
LA is scheduled for camera testing.
Established in 2008, The Dress Up Gang comprises Robb Boardman, DeMorge Brown, Kevin Camia, Donny Divanian Christian Duguay Kirk Fox Cory Loykasek Frankie Quinones and Brent Weinbach.
Loykasek, Boardman, and Divanian’s comedy adventure explores our relationships to houseplants, nature, and each other. Blurb: Cory lives a quiet existence at home until he meets an eccentric character known only as “The Plantman,” an underground vigilante known for breaking into people’s houses to rescue plants that are being neglected or unwatered. Cory finds himself immersed in an underground world of plant lovers and secret greenhouses; along with hardware store employees willing to go the extra mile in saving dying city plants from neglectful plant owners. But when an angry mob of negligent plant owners forms to hunt Plantman down and hunt him down for revenge, his allegiances become tested – leading him to face an important question: just how far would you go to save dying plants?
Boardman directs this movie starring Quinones (What We Do in the Shadows and This Fool), Loykasek (Physical Dope State), Divinian (Physical Corporate) and Fox (Reservation Dogs/Jury Duty).
Quinones expressed her passion for telling stories with The Dress Up Gang since beginning working together over 10 years ago. Now we’re thrilled that we can present this film to a larger audience thanks to Tideline and Mountain Top Pictures who believe in our vision and aesthetic. Together we transport audiences into The Dress Up Gang’s world of plants while reminding people what’s truly important through The Dress Up Gang’s lens.”
Hannah Pillemer, EVP and Head of Creative & Production for Tideline parent MarVista Entertainment exclaimed in excitement at working alongside The Dress Up Gang team on their very first film: “It has been my absolute pleasure collaborating with Frankie Cory Robb Donny et al on The Dress Up Gang’s first feature film! These comedic forces are shaping contemporary comedy that fits seamlessly with what Tideline provides: engaging entertainment.”
Mark Ankner of PONYBOI fame, Ben Wagner from Dead Within and Adam Karm from Dead Within are producers for Dead Within while Jay Patumanoan from The Dress Up Gang serves as executive producer on set with Fernando Szew, Tony Vassiliadis, Pillemer Ani Kevork Kevin Mann EPing on their projects respectively.
Tideline was co-created by FOX Entertainment and MarVista Entertainment earlier this year and offers projects spanning feature films, independent movies, limited series content creation and cross-genre formats. Dress Up Gang Movie marks an expanding slate for Production Label’s films, joining such classics as First Time Female Director (produced with Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and available streaming on Roku), written, directed, starring Chelsea Peretti; Ponyboi written, written by River Gallo himself with premiere at Sundance Film Festival last January; Beacon featuring Oscar nominee Demian Bechir and Julia Goldani Telles making its world premiere at Tribeca Festival this June; among many others.
