Say Goodbye To Hollywood

Hello again.

Another weekend, another day of fun.

Saw three movies at the wondrous Arclight Theater off Sunset Boulevard.

The Grudge with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Birth with Nicole Kidman. Ray with Jamie Foxx.

I enjoyed them all. Jamie Foxx is sure to nail an Oscar nomination for Ray. The ending of the film was somewhat of a letdown, shoulda been more spectacular. But overall the film was and is a success.

I saw the trilogy at the Cinedome at Arclight. Impressive theater. Not nearly as cool as the El Capitan or Grauman's Chinese, but cool nonetheless.

Birth is not a film to everyone's taste. It's slow moving, beautifully and lusciously shot. Nice to see Lauren Bacall in an edgier piece like this. Most older stars end up in third rate TV movies. Lauren has the guts to take this material on.

You have to be intelligent to appreciate this film. If Adam Sandler's films are your cup of tea (save for the great Punch-Drunk Love) you won't dig Birth.

Sent out my film to two more film festivals. That makes five so far. Gotta make it an even seven, baby! Ciao till next time.

Film Fesitivals

Hi again ladies and gentleman. Well, the film is off (or in the mail) to the San Jose Cinnequest Film Festival and The Santa Barbara Film Festival.

I got a new external DVD burner that I'm knocking out rough cut copies of the film to send to my cast and the festivals.

I've only entered five so far. I wish you didn't have to wait so damn long for a response. Odds are you won't get into the festival but still I'd rather know now than December! What a pisser.

Patience, patience.

Screening Success!

Well, hell. Overall the screening was a smashing success. There were a number of moments where jokes fell flat and others that got huge laughs.

Overall the audience of cast, crew, their dates, a few strangers (a couple professional comedians) really liked the film. We really nailed the ending too. With just the right music and attitude.

I sent off three more copies of the latest edit. One to Slamdance, one to Tromadance and one to a director friend, Noel Black. I met Noel via his website and sent him one of my scripts in 2000.

We'll see what he thinks. He's directed about a half dozen feature films, tons of television and made of TV movies. He's also on the Directors Guild committee of special projects. Whatever the heck that is! But it sounds impressive.

Getting the opinion from an old pro like Noel will be major cool. If I could get him attached to the flick as an executive producer that would rock.

I've been real moody lately, angry, depressed, sad. Been working too much. I just wanna sell my film for a few million bucks (or more) and quit this job. That pays quite well I must say.

I went with my ex to see a flick at the Arclight Cinerama Dome theater on Sunset last night. Saw Around The Bend with Chris Walken. It was better than I though it would be.

We then went to Father's Office for an Alesmith amber ale and an Office Burger, yum yum.

She wanted to go home with me afterwards and sleep together. But I've no interest in her in that regard anymore. I'm bored with her in that area. I look at her and think she's a very attractive woman, but I'm just not interested anymore.

Man, I just hope we can make it to Sundance. If we could get into Sundance, Slamdance, and Tromadance that would be an awesome accomplishment. The film still needs reshoots though.

But in many ways I was amazed I was able to shock members of the audience. People younger than me who I figured can't be shocked at all in this day and age. And just with comic situations and dialogue. Not bursts of violence or sex. Strange.

Ever brightly, ever brightly.

Here We Are Again At The Top Of The World

Don't know what the title of this post means, but I kinda like it anyway.

We're holding a screening for my film tonight. What I really want is it shown to an audience who knows nothing about it. Not a screening for the cast and crew.

But we can see what parts work and what parts don't. It should be easy to tell for a comedy what parts don't work. Naturally I want the entire thing to be flawless. But that may be asking a lot.

But never say that at time the world doesn't owe you something. You work so hard on something and see so much failure in life, that damnit, sometimes the world owes you some big time success. Say what you want, I firmly believe that. Not people in general, but life, the universe, the world, whatever.

Then it will be off to doing reshoots for the flick. Which shouldn't be hard, just a drag really. See you in Never Never Land, Kemo Sabe.

I Don't Care Anymore

I swear I am schizo. One minute I'm depressed to the point of border line suicide, next I'm okay, next I think the film is a disaster, next I think overall it's okay.

I shouldn't concentrate on the jokes that aren't gonna work, I gotta fixate on the ones that do. And I'm fairly confident the majority will work. Anyways, it isn't like doing reshoots would be that tough for this flick.

Hope we get into Sundance, we probably won't since it is such a long shot. Odds don't matter if you made a decent film though, so many they get must be painfully bad. Ours has good production values overall, a story that makes sense, and it's funny.

I'll just wait and see how the cast and crew screening goes next week. I'm going to be sweating bullets that they laugh at all the jokes. Ah, well, live and friggin' learn.