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Nail House

Created by RocketJump

The creators of Video Game High School and co-hosts of Dungeons and Daddies, Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold, are bringing you their next feature film - a high-octane martial arts action comedy called Nail House.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Chef’s Special Secrets + The Daily Giveaway
9 months ago – Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 03:24:58 PM

Big update today -  $285K, a secret menu reveal, and another prop giveaway!

Let's get into our little secret: The Chef's Special Secret Tier 🤫

If you've seen  this tier, congrats - you’re already part of the super awesome inner circle. The Chef’s Special Secret Tier is a Patreon-only tier available exclusively to our supporters over there.

All the behind-the-scenes action - the filming updates, set building deep dives, and more happen through Patreon. But this tier gives you the real-world goodies to go with it.  The Chef’s Special Secret Tier includes everything in the Takeout tier plus:
🥢 Your choice of the Mama Wong’s T-Shirt or Hat
🍥 Both enamel pins and a full sticker pack
📜 A movie-accurate print of the restaurant menu
🥟 Mama’s Secret Dumpling Recipe Card
🥢 Custom chopsticks
🎲 And a $25 savings on the Dumpling Dice Set


First up - huge congratulations to LazyDroid, winner of Danny’s Hat! 🧢 The hat will be added to your pledge - wear it well!

  Now for today’s drop - The vital lifeline of every Chinese restaurant:

Here’s Freddie with some pertinent information about this giveaway:




To claim the phone: Drop your ultimate Chinese takeout combo - entrée, side, and drink. 

275K and another Prop Giveaway!
9 months ago – Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 03:48:02 PM

Hey everyone,
We just crossed $275K today! The support you’ve shown continues to blow us away.

🍜 Campaign Swag: Mama Wong’s T-Shirt & Hat
When Creator Clash 3 imploded and Freddie lost his chance to promote Nail House on the back of his robe after beating up (or getting beat up by) an animation YouTuber, many of you offered to carry the Mama Wong’s Dumpling House name in his honor. Now’s your chance.



Introducing the Mama Wong’s T-Shirt and Hat - campaign-exclusive merch designed just for backers. You can grab them in the Chef’s Special tier and above, or as add-ons if you’re pledging at any level.


Yesterday’s winner is Samuel Borgen, who’s taking home Mama Wong’s Shrine - one of the most memorable props from the film. Congrats! It’ll be added to your pledge.


This isn’t just any hat - it’s Danny’s Hat. And soon, it can be YOUR HAT.  To enter today’s giveaway, leave a comment below and tell us: The hat has been cursed. What’s the curse? 

Keeping the Wok Hot - $250K and Counting!
9 months ago – Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 02:50:52 PM

Thanks to you - we've officially passed $250K raised!  The more we raise, the more creative control we maintain, which means the movie you’ll see is the one we’ve dreamed of making from the start - so thank you for that!

 🎨 Artist Spotlight: Kenny Leoncito

We have teamed up with Kenny Leoncito for the artist collab poster you can find in the Banquet Tier!

Kenny is a Filipino-Canadian illustrator and art maker based in Canada, specializing in character design, illustration, and visual development for animation. He brings a deep love for representative media and Asian Canadian visibility to everything he does - so we're VERY excited to see what he has in store for Nail House.


First up - congrats to Ariana Keller, who won Mama Wong’s Restaurant Miniature!
Matt will personally paint this piece before delivery, and it’ll be added to your pledge. If you have any questions, just shoot us a message!


One of the centerpiece props from the film, this shrine stands in Mama Wong’s restaurant as the boys pray to their mother.  It’s a heartfelt piece that carries real emotional weight on set… and yes, Freddie might have cried near it.

For a chance to win the shrine, let us know: If you were building your own shrine, what item would you put at its center?

🥢 Still Steaming Ahead
9 months ago – Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 02:04:43 PM

Hey everyone! 
We’re still trucking along and just surpassed $243K - thank you all for the incredible support.

🎲 Today’s Highlight: The Dumpling Dice

We’ve partnered with our friends at FanRoll Dice to bring a little Mama Wong’s to your tabletop. These are sharp-edge resin dice with a dumpling inclusion inside, housed in a miniature steamer basket dice case, because what else would we store them in?


Congrats to Kyle Adamson, who won the Cigarette Prop, and Kyra Walsh, who took home the Placemat!


Today's Prop Drop is a test sample from our upcoming miniature restaurant/pit set! It will be painted by Matt himself before delivery. It’s the very first glimpse of the miniature world we’re building, and you can own a piece of it. Here's a video of Matt showing it off!



For a chance to win the prop - tell us what slogan would be under Mama Wong's restaurant sign in the comments!

A House That Refuses to Be Hammered Down
9 months ago – Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 01:08:13 PM

Happy Halloween, everyone! It seems fitting for Halloween to talk about the most haunted house of all - the one that refuses to die. The name of the film is inspired by the real-life Nail Houses in China.

A “nail house” is a home whose owner refuses to vacate it for property development - leaving it standing alone like a stubborn nail no one can hammer down. The term comes from China, where it’s used to describe homeowners who hold out against developers or government projects, often out of pride, protest, or principle.

In Chongqing, one couple refused to sell their property as a shopping mall was being built, and for weeks, their tiny brick house sat perched on a lone mound of dirt in the middle of a construction pit. In Zhejiang province, another family’s home stood isolated on a raised column of earth while an entire highway curved around it. These “nail houses” became powerful symbols of standing your ground.

That refusal to give in is what drives Dicky & Danny's story in Nail House.



Yesterday’s challenge was to write a fortune cookie message that would make Freddie immediately drop the cookie and stare into the distance.

We got some very hilarious answers - and we decided to let YOU vote for the winner! 

🗳️ Vote in the poll at the bottom of this update.
Poll closes at midnight tonight, and whoever wrote the winning fortune will get the prop cigarettes.

For full context on what’s at stake here, please enjoy this completely serious educational video from Freddie and Matt about the prop cigarettes.
 


🍽️ Today’s Prop Drop: The Placemat
A classic Mama Wong’s mainstay - exactly like the ones Freddie and crew grew up eating off of.

For a chance to win Mama Wong's Placemat - let us know the RocketJump one-liner you still quote to this day in the comments!

💬 About Our Funding Goal
A quick note before we close: Nail House has already hit its base goal - but that number only covers the groundwork. Every dollar we raise beyond that allows us to build the film the way it’s meant to be made, with more control in the hands of the creators and fewer compromises to outside investors or platforms.