The johnnygothisgunthemovie.com site has been updated. The DVD of the film is now on sale.

This DVD is an educational/institutional version that was made primarily for use in high schools, colleges and universities, and for community libraries with film collections. a portion of each DVD sold is being donated to THE FALLEN PATRIOT FUND, assisting families of fallen or seriously injured veterans.

The site also has a featurette that you can watch online. The featurette includes interviews with Ben Mckenzie, the director Rowan Joseph, playwright Bradley Rand Smith, and Christopher Trumbo, the son of Dalton Trumbo. It has footage of the rehearsals and scenes from the film.

Click on “featurette” on the upper part of the screen: http://www.johnnygothisgunthemovie.com/

SouthLAnd star Ben McKenzie appeared on local Dallas/Fort Worth television show Good Morning Texas to promote the premiere of the show on TNT next Tuesday, as well as his appearance at tonights screening at The W Hotel in Dallas.

Amy Adams (Ben’s co-star in the movie ‘Junebug’) also did an interview that day and she mentioned Ben. You can watch Amy’s interview here.

The solid performance of NBC’s “Southland,” starring Benjamin McKenzie, has carried over to Alexander Poe’s new short film, “The Eight Percent” — which last night won the Delta Airlines Fly-in Movie Contest and will now be entered in the Tribeca Film Festival.

McKenzie, who plays Ben Sherman on “Southland,” also stars in “The Eight Percent,” a romantic comedy about two ex-high school sweethearts who meet for an “awkward” date 10 years later (his ex is played by Ashley Williams).

The New York Post

Congrats Ben and Alexander! We’re all very happy for you.

Pictures from the set of Ben’s new short movie; “The Eight Percent”, were added to the gallery (all the photos were taken by Joanna Foster Wilson).

More in the gallery – The Eight Percent (2009)

I would like to remind everyone that the movie is at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Delta’s Fly in Movies Competition and would like to encourage everyone to vote for it here.

Voting continues until April 12th so keep visiting the site, you don’t need to log in and you can vote as many times as you like.

If you want to know more about the movie, be sure to check out the movie’s Facebook

Ben is in a short film called “Eight Percent” which is at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Delta’s Fly in Movies Competition.

You can view the film on the site as well as vote for it here

The competition was announce on the Tribeca Blog:

From March 1 to April 12, travelers on Delta can watch the films onboard selected flights, and everyone can find them online at delta.com. After you screen each movie, channel your inner movie critic. Considering their originality, creativity and technical merit, rate each film from 1 to 5 stars (5 being the best). Your ratings will determine the winner, which will be screened at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

We’ve seen them all, and there are some fabulous surprises: one features the excellent Benjamin McKenzie (The O.C., Junebug), and we several will pull at your heartstrings.

I was able to upload the movie to youtube for you guys, but don’t forget to vote for it here

Have you ever sat in a movie theater staring at a blank screen after the credits had completed their roll? Stunned silence. You You look around and people are staring straight ahead. Among a crowd, they are alone with their thoughts. No one gets up to leave when the lights come on. I look to my right and Rosie is staring straight ahead with tears coming down her face. On my left Pat is sobbing. Two seats down Ron sits staring forward, perhaps engaged in a losing bout to control his anger. I don’t know. Finally the surreal daze is broken when the director of Johnny Got His Gun, Rowan Joseph, goes to the head of the theater and asks if anyone has any questions.

Johnny Got His Gun is not a movie. It’s an experience. I confess I didn’t know what to expect when friends Ron and Rosie (CS2 Single-Payer Healthcare Advocates) invited my wife and me to join them at the GoggleWorks in downtown Reading to see this picture. When I read that the star of the show was Ben McKenzie from the Fox TV show The O.C., my level of expectation was lower still. The O.C. is one of those titillating prime time smash series that enables TV to earn the reputation as the veritable wasteland that it is. Totally vacuous characters, one more slimy than the next. So what could I expect from an actor who dishes up this kind of fare on a regular basis? Not much. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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