Videos
Bill Oberst Jr. in Jason Zada’s “Take This Lollipop,” the most popular application in Facebook history.
Director Jason Zada’s interactive short horror film starring Bill Oberst Jr, Take This Lollipop, is still the world’s fastest-growing Facebook application, and is now officially the most popular in Facebook history. Since its debut on Oct 17, 2011 Take This Lollipop has generated 12.5 million “likes” and over 60 million unique hits. The viral sensation has [...]
Bill Oberst Jr. Horror Reel
Director Drew Daywalt saw this reel and tweeted “@billoberstjr’s horror reel gives new meaning to the phrase let’s do lunch” before booking Bill as an 18th-century German orc-hunter (which led to a subsequent role on MTV’s Death Valley.) Director Gabriel Sabloff saw it and booked him as a demon who torments Robert Loggia (which led to Loggia’s [...]
Bill Oberst Jr in The Hallmark Channel’s The Shunning
Danielle Pannabaker stars as Katie Lapp with Bill Oberst Jr. as her father Samuel in director Michael Landon Jr.‘s adaptation of Beverly Lewis’ The Shunning for The Hallmark Channel. To see behind-the-scenes footage of this scene being shot click here. Bill’s long-suffering Amish wife is played by Sandra Van Natta. The 2011 film was a ratings winner [...]
Bill Oberst Jr. & Keir O’Donnell in Civil
Bill and Keir O’Donnell (of Wedding Crashers and Paul Blart: Mall Cop) in a scene from Civil. Oberst’s Union sniper character becomes obsessed with hunting O’Donnell in the ensuing scenes.
Sympathy for Bill Oberst Jr.
Sympathy for a devil…a mash-up of Bill being Bill with a little help from Mick. Clips from Nowhere Mary, Catch, Deer Boy and Dismal (to read what Dismal’s Executive Producer Bo Buckley says about working with Bill click here.)
Bill Oberst Jr. Film Reel
Bill Oberst Jr. film reel: a sampling of Bill’s work from various film projects. The voice-over prayer he recites at the top of the reel is from Loneshark’s Nowhere Mary, in which his character is an avenging angel (to see the trailer click here. ) Among the films represented here is Bill’s first big horror [...]
Bill Oberst Jr. & Amy Lyndon in Grooming Giselle
Bill Oberst Jr. with the great Amy Lyndon in raw footage from director Kate Cohen‘s upcoming feature film Grooming Giselle. The film is in post-production. Lyndon repeatedly made the usually stoic Oberst laugh during takes of this scene. This is a good example of how a scene looks in picture-lock stage, but before color correction, [...]
Take This Lollipop: TV news coverage
Director Jason Zada’s interactive short horror film starring Bill Oberst Jr, Take This Lollipop, has been the subject of coverage from Forbes, CNN, Ad Week, Ad Age, Germany’s Spiegel TV, the U.K.’s Daily Mail, The New York Times and hundreds of blogs and sites from around the world. It is the world’s fastest-growing Facebook application, and the most popular in [...]
Take This Lollipop: fan reactions
Million of fans worldwide have posted reactions to Bill Oberst Jr.’s work in director Jason Zada’s viral Facebook ap, Take This Lollipop. Some viewers know the “cyber-stalker” is actor Oberst, but many do not. The ambiguity was built in to the project and is a large part of the scary fun. Here’s a tiny sampling of Twitter, Tumblr [...]
Take This Lollipop: “Dude it’s Daniel Craig!”
Director Jason Zada’s Take This Lollipop is not only the most successful scary viral video in web history, it has prompted viewers to film their reactions as they “take the Lollipop.” As web guru Porter Gale wrote at AdAge.com, ”a viral video is, in essence, sparking viral videos.” Take This Lollipop’s millions upon millions of viewers [...]
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