Belltower Entertainment Receives "Smokescreen" Screenplay

Belltower Entertainment Corp. (OTCBB:BTOW) announced today that it has received the completed first draft screenplay for the company's feature film entitled "Smokescreen" and will begin pre-production on the film project this summer in the US and South America. An action-adventure,“Smokescreen” tells the unbelievable “true life tale about Allen Long, a frustrated American documentary filmmaker who began smuggling pot out of Mexico and then Colombia in the seventies, featuring countless near-death episodes, in a rickety marijuana stuffed DC-3.” (The New Yorker).

The company acquired the motion picture, literary and life rights to produce "Smokescreen," based on Robert Sabbag's best selling book of the same name, in August of 2009 and will work closely with the book's main subject, Allen Long, who will act as consultant and co-producer on the film. "Allen is a real-life Butch Cassidy/Indiana Jones type of person," says Belltower CEO Donald Bell, who has spent a lot of time with Allen over the past year while meeting on a regular basis with screenwriter Paul Cushieri and the film's other Producers to ensure that Belltower stays true to the story as it played itself out in real life for Long in the Seventies and Eighties. Long's unbelievable, and often hilarious, journey through New York and Hollywood dealing with Producers and other industry types is documented in a weekly blog entitled "Mis-Adventures on Mullholland: The Smuggler's Tour of Hollywood" and can be viewed at http://smugglerstour.blogspot.com/.

The company has been in talks with a Major South American distributor and production partner and will be scouting locations in Colombia and Puerto Rico this summer, with filming to commence this winter.

Belltower Entertainment Corp. is a fully integrated film entertainment company based in Los Angeles with a satellite office in Shanghai, China complemented by strategic production and finance partners throughout the world. Our goal and focus is in securing ownership of film projects to be developed and packaged in-house, which attract premier talent from both behind the camera and in front of it, while keeping costs down through tax friendly production territories and other soft money avenues. Belltower creates favorable studio participation for distribution and P&A funding with critically acclaimed screenwriters and top talent attachments. With a focus on Asia and Latin America, Belltower is strategically positioned to produce high quality content at cost-effective budgets while maximizing profit margins and upside potential for both the company and its shareholders by retaining control and ownership of its feature film projects.

This release may contain statements that are forward-looking. Such statements are made based upon current expectations that are subject to risk and uncertainty. Belltower Entertainment Corp. does not undertake to update forward-looking statements in this news release to reflect actual results of and changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting such forward-looking information. The actual future plans and results of the company could differ significantly from such forward-looking statements.

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