The BreakOut Music Movie Journey From Quarantine To Netflix
As Hollywood was gripped with Covid-19 quarantine chaos, Miriam Bavly and JayQ The Legend (Peter Q. John) were equally focused on staying safe and stepping up to the blockbuster streaming movie standard. “We were walking inuncharted territory” said Bavly, the co-CEO of Breakout Music,a music, movie and media company founded by Bavly in January 2019. Bavly, a Harvard graduate and Boston native, reflecting on the enormity of the post–production challenge said,“we finished shooting at the end of 2019, but editing and bringing this magical film to fulfillment, during the chaos of the uncertain pandemic, was tricky and replete with its own uncertainty.”
Miriam Bavly and JayQ The Legend, who together wrote the screenplay, financed and produced the movie, knew they wanted to create a classic family–values narrative that incorporated the challenges in society, but also elevated our communities. “The idea to make a Christmas movie actually came from our consultant, Amber Ravenel, of The Ravenel Agency.” said Bavly. Ravenel also tapped first–time director, Monica Floyd, to direct the soon-to-be classic.
“The App That Stole Christmas” is a title hook created by JayQ The Legend, who wore several hats from script to screen. Healso wrote and performed many of the songs on the soundtrack, including the unforgettable Body Talk and 4U, bringing a hip vibe to the soon–to–be franchised film. According to Bavly, “The App that Stole Christmas” is currently part of a trilogy of holiday films, our niche genre, with an additional 4th screenplay for Halloween in process. The line written by JayQ The Legend and elevated by Ray J and Jackie Long’s characters, “Christmas is about presence, not presents” is a theme for the holidays that is bound to resonate for generations to come. The movie represents the reality of our times, says JayQ The Legend, “’we all love how technology is putting everything at our fingertips…’, `But’” says Bavly “we all also know how technology is disrupting our human interaction and diminishing communication, often not for the better.”
Bavly and JayQ The Legend, a formidable but unlikely team, built Breakout Music as a Music Movie and Media company,able to deliver quality entertainment talent and productions in under two years. JayQ The Legend (Peter Q. John), an African American with West Indie roots, trained as a trial lawyer, MBA, musician, and actor and Bavly, Jewish, trained as a management & strategic consultant, with degrees in literature and public health, combine their talent and demographic differences toestablish a unique, content creation company. “It is a crazy combination”, but it works because incredible differences can create powerful material” says Bavly, “we relish collaboratingand learning from others, including editing genius and Oscar winner, Richard Hasley (Rocky), Leslie Small (Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey), and musical aficionados Wolfgang Amadeus Aichholz (Paula Abdul, Jennifer Holliday), and Eric Bavly, MIT educated Jazz Pianist, who both contributed to completing the films big classic and thematic music score.
Bavly and John bring the reality of gender communication challenges to their stories via detailed attention to vernacularand body language. In fact, one of the famous songs in themovie, “Body Talk”, written and performed by JayQ The Legend, is an exposé on the differences of women and male communication. The eclectic soundtrack for John and Bavly’s movie mix tape includes iTunes newest phenom, GiGi Vega, whose Mistletoe Kiss single debuted at number nine on the US iTunes Dance Chart on Nov. 13th, (ahead of Fever single by Dua Lipa & Angele). The music on the “The App that Stole Christmas” soundtrack has traditional, pop, and New Orleans bounce pizzaz on it. Don’t miss it and don’t miss this incredible, fun, sentimental film “The App that Stole Christmas”. You will have an “elfin good time”.
Featured actors: JayQ The Legend, Ray J, Jackie Long, Elise Neal, Diane Marie Howard, Miguel Nunez, J Anthony Brown, Torae Carr, DreamDoll, and Jalyn Hall.
Coming 2021 “The Drone that Saved Christmas”, screenplay byMiriam Bavly and JayQ The Legend.