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“We put Mikesell’s in Mercy Christmas with their permission. The dad character eats from a bag of chips in one scene. We also put them in a couple short films we did before Mercy,” Nelson, a Centerville grad, said via email. “I loved Mikesell’s bar-b-cue and groovy chips growing up. I plan to put them in every project my production company does, sorta my Easter egg for Dayton.”
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Mercy Christmas is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures and will be released on iTunes, Amazon and other video-on-demand services starting Nov. 28. Pre-order sales have already started.
Born in Indianapolis, Nelson moved to Centerville in the fourth grade and graduated from Centerville High School in 1998.
Nelson and his wife, Beth, are writing "Margo Lives," a vigilante/dark humor movie to be filmed in Centerville about a woman fed up with the opioid crisis. She goes after drug dealers.
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Daniel W. Mikesell started Mikesell's 1910 on the back of a bike.
Roughly 20 million pounds of potatoes are transformed into Mikesell’s potato chips each year at 333 Leo Street, the company’s plant, warehouse and headquarters.
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