Seasons & a Muse Entertainment and multi-hyphenate artist Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, producers of the award-winning motion pictures The Scarapist and Night Rain, are bringing their very first original series, #VAMPOUT. The campaign for the pilot episode will launch on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo in February 2025.
#VAMPOUT is a hybrid origin story of the historical Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler, prince of Romania, and Spicuzza’s real-life relationships with friends Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero of The Disaster Artist and The Room.
“It’s a remarkable experience that has to be revealed,” said Spicuzza.
The project draws from her 2024 one-woman show, Textative, structured from text exchanges and related poems and writings. #VAMPOUT was also inspired by a walk she took with Wiseau back in 2018.
“[Tommy] told me, if I make his vampire movie, he’d buy me a house,” Spicuzza said. “But there’s so much great material, it spun into a series. I described it to Greg, and he loved it.”
Recently, Spicuzza met with Doug Petrie of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Horror Story to discuss the project.
The pilot for #VAMPOUT will shoot later this year in and around Los Angeles. Local production will support the community and aid recovery from the wildfires that have damaged or destroyed more than 50,000 acres and over 12,000 structures.
With the repeal of the Paramount Decrees during the pandemic lockdowns, Spicuzza implemented the distribution arm Seasons & a Muse Studios, or SAAM, and The Studio Club streaming service. Named for the famed Hollywood residence and training facility that housed Golden Age actresses like Linda Darnell, Marilyn Monroe, and Kim Novak, The Studio Club is the first-ever fully woman-owned membership streaming platform. It debuted at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with a special presentation by writer-historian Mary Mallory of Hollywood Heritage Museum. #VAMPOUT will stream exclusively on The Studio Club platform.
The most recent releases to The Studio Club include a teaser for Making Angels, an upcoming dramedy from SAAM Studios, and the director’s cut of Night Rain, a taut narrative thriller about Los Angeles filmmakers hired by their stalker to make a low-budget period movie about Elizabeth Short, victim of the Black Dahlia murder.
Publicity for Seasons & a Muse Studios is handled by Deborah Gilels of LA Media Consultants.
