Fourth Coast Films Anticipates Major Film Projects in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, WI (August 21, 2023) — Fourth Coast Films, a Milwaukee-based film production agency, announced owner William Curley’s upcoming screenplay projects and aspirations to turn Milwaukee into a “Hollywood East” of film production.

Fourth Coast Films specializes in employing local talent to explore the nuances of living in Milwaukee with creativity, using the lens of the horror and thriller film genres. William Curley is a screenwriter and Milwaukee native passionate about the community.

“I love my hometown. I was born and raised here. Educated locally as well, in such places as Whitefish Bay High School, UWM, and even MATC,” said Mr. Curley, who has completed several screenplays and is working on many others for release in the coming years, “Getting a film shot in Milwaukee is, to say the least, a herculean task. Yet it has been done numerous times. Jeff Gendelman shot ‘The Surface’ here, as did Milwaukee native Joel Blasberg with his ‘Family of Cops,’ starring the late Charles Bronson. Mr. Gendelman and I are both graduates of Whitefish Bay High School; we are both Blue Dukers for life.”

Two of Mr. Curley’s screenplays are under review by Voyage Media in Burbank, CA: The Exterminator, a noir thriller, and Invasion of the Brewery Slugs, a horror film. Disturbances in the natural world feature heavily in many of Mr. Curley’s screenplays, from an army of mutant geese in “Quack Quack You’re Dead” to “Cane,” in which a climate disaster destroys Florida and turns Earth’s climate to a Mesozoic hothouse not seen in 70 million years.

Mr. Curley would like to see a renewal of the Madison tax credits eliminated under the Walker tenure and hopes that the City of Milwaukee will devise financial incentives to film major projects locally.

About Fourth Coast Films

Fourth Coast Films is a Milwaukee-based film production agency specializing in employing local talent to explore the nuances of living in the Good Land. Its films ask a singular question, with wildly creative and entertaining responses: How can life in Milwaukee be interpreted as an interaction with the horror and thriller film genres?

For more information: https://fourthcoastfilms.com

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.