Eric Forsberg’s MEGA PIRANHA Chews Itself Into 2.2 Million Homes!
May 13, 2010And The Hollywood Sharks Take Notice
Chicago native Eric Forsberg has made quite a splash with his movie Mega Piranha which hit the big time on Syfy on April 10th, drawing the cable channel’s largest audience of 2010. Forsberg’s film is a campy, fun, action packed creature feature starring 80s pop sensation Tiffany, B-movie action hero Paul Logan, and 70s TV icon Barry Williams (aka Greg Brady of The Brady Bunch).
“Hail the power of Mega Piranha! Saturday night is fun again,” says the online magazine, Monsters and Critics. The Huffington writes, “Mega Piranha is the most entertaining and enjoyable live-action movie I’ve seen this year.” Eric Forsberg’s Mega Piranha has set the new trend for Syfy’s Saturday night lineup – with the word from the top being ‘give us more just like it.’
Forsberg’s is considered one of the masters of the “Mockbuster” films that have similar titles to big budget Hollywood movies and are released near the same time. The phenomenon was begun The Asylum, a production company for which Eric Forsberg has written and/or directed nine movies including the 2006 hit, Snakes on a Train.
The roots of Eric Forsberg’s fun filled action productions like Mega Piranha go back to his work writing and directing for the Chicago stage, where he helmed his own adaptations of The Ramayana and Beaowulf, as well as musicals like Knat Scatt Private Eye starring Steve Carell, and improv comedy revues at the Second City training center where he directed Stephen Colbert.
In 1997 Eric moved to Los Angeles, taking every film job he could get, from PA up, until in 2004 when he got a break, writing and directing a low budget science fiction movie. Eight movies, a roller coaster ride of ups and downs later, Mega Piranha, which drew and unprecedented 2.2 million viewers, has put Eric Forsberg on the Hollywood map. Mega Piranha shows again on SyFy on May 30th, at 9 p.m. EST.
