Halestorm Entertainment

Halestorm Entertainment is a film production and distribution company based in Orem, Utah.[1] It was founded in January 2001 by Kurt Hale and Dave Hunter,[2] who were both film majors at Brigham Young University.[1] Halestorm films are largely created by, for, and about Latter-day Saints, and usually contain a high amount of clichés and stereotypes about Mormon behavior and culture. Because of that, their films are mostly shown in first run movie theatres in the Western United States, where most American Mormons live.[1]

The company started with a successful first film, The Singles Ward, released in 2002.[3] However, with a major box office failure in The Home Teachers it faced a declining market for explicitly Mormon-themed comedy films.[4]

Feature films

Divisions
  • HaleYeah! Records: the music division at HaleStorm [5]
  • Stone Five Studios: a sister company of HaleStorm, whose purpose is to produce family-friendly films not in the LDS genre
  • HaleStone Distribution: distributor of films and DVDs of other, smaller studios

Production studio

In May 2005, HaleStorm broke ground on a full-service production and post-production facility in Provo, Utah. The studio will be the only commercially available studio soundstages in the state since the Osmond Studios.

References
  1. Bauer, Carlene (July 31, 2005). "The Cinema of Latter-Day Saints". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  2. About Halestorm from Halestorm's official website
  3. Chandler, Michael Alison (January 26, 2006). "Big-Screen Religion". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  4. Bennett, Jim (25 April 2014). "What happened to the wave of Mormon movies?". DeseretNews.com. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  5. "Hale Yeah! Records (Firm) : Overview". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 January 2019.


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