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Corporate Slave Productions
Corporate Slave Productions is located in Detroit, MI. Owned and operated by Richard Edwin Hardacre, it has produced two independent feature films; ''The Rest Stop! (2005) and Automatic Gratuity (2010)''. After graduating Center For Creative Studies (C.C.S.) in the spring of 2000, Rich continued to live in the Detroit area, turning down several offers from graphic design houses, he remained an independent freelancer. Corporate Slave Productions was created in 2004. After finalizing a nasty divorce Rich found himself on the brink of bankruptcy. Determined to pick up the pieces, he decided to start over as a filmmaker.

The Rest Stop!
While traveling out of state for work, driving down to Florida, Rich started to recall all the stories he had heard as a child about murders in Rest Areas that had taken place. He started researching the internet and discovered thousands of unsolved murders that have taken place in Rest Areas, all over America.

Rich quit his job during the Florida trip and started writing The Rest Stop!, which became the first film Corporate Slave Productions would produce under the helm of Richard E. Hardacre. Having written the screenplay Rich decided to direct and produce the feature as well. Upon one of his many adventures backstage with fellow artist Todd Harrell of 3 Doors Down, Rich met fellow wannabe filmmaker Lance Pettis. Lance, of Aeromaxx Productions, contributed the equipment and helped pull permits, enlist the owners of old renovated cars from the 80's and was able to solicit investors for the 32,000 dollars it would take to produce The Rest Stop!.

Rich and Lance pulled a permit for a Rest Area in Howell, MI., not far from Aeromaxx Productions' offices, and filmed the first two murder scenes of the film. Rich went into the editing room, cut together a teaser and Lance presented the teaser to investors and raised the funds necessary to film The Rest Stop!.

Wanting the film to have it's own unique look for the individual states the film takes place in, Rich pulled permits and traveled to Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and various locations in Michigan, filming in a multitude of Rest Areas.