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Thursday, September 28th

21:11PM

When the Waters Run Dry:

Things have been pretty busy out here at the treehouse, in between getting into the movie distribution game directly (just in the US and Canada, though) and getting thirty-three films ready to take to the American Film Market this year. It all takes a fair bit of doing, making sure all the screeners, trailers, posters, and other promotional elements are ready for prime-time.

Adding to the complexity is that I've gotten new video displays for the market and decided to convert pretty much everything to anamorphic widescreen for demonstration purposes. Might as well get a little closer to state-of-the-art, as the number of source formats just keeps multiplying: film, several new flavors of high-definition video, 24p standard-definition, assorted variants of PAL, and all the older video formats as well--I've got masters and source materials in them all.

I love talking about "convergence"--and it all does sound so good in theory--but when I'm back out here in the trenches instead of in a discussion panel or giving a talk, "divergence" is probably a more accurate descriptor for this cinematic landscape.

well drilling rig

Adding to the real-life excitement and drama level out here, last week the well died. Suddenly and quite unexpectedly, after twenty-two years of faithful fluid delivery, its flow ended with a whimper.

In the shower.

I had a crew out to diagnose and hopefully fix the problem--and fix it, they didn't. Their diagnosis was that the well had collapsed. That was it and that was that. Water would never again be forthcoming from that particular hole in the ground.

drilling a new well

And *that* is a particularly expensive that.

And now I'm sharing my yard with a sixty-five thousand pound drilling rig and an assortment of other assorted heavy equipment, drilling their way down to the subterranean waters below.

How far (and how much it'll cost) remains to be seen. They've told me to expect four days of drilling, and after that, I'll need to have a well pump installed and some form of water transportation and delivery system constructed to carry this aqueous gift from the ground into the house.

I'm thinking "a pipe" or something along those lines would do it.

Here's hoping, anyway. Someday soon, however, there will be showers in the forecast again here at the treehouse. And we'll all be happier for them, no doubt about it.

Until then, I'll be trying to keep the mighty sound of the mighty drilling rig *out* of these movie soundtracks I'm working on....



Friday, September 15th

21:23PM

Early Release Party:

With the DVD release for Going Back coming up October 17th, Bruce Campbell and several other members of the cast and crew came out for a release party, talk and Q&A session with the crowd, and signing session.

Going Back with Bruce Campbell release party

(Here's a shot of the panel with Darlene Cypser of Bifrost Distribution, Bruce Campbell, Director Ron Teachworth, Christopher Howe, and Cinematographer John Prusak.)

Even though the DVD isn't going to be in stores for another month, you can still pre-order it through Amazon.Com, complete with a cool "Pre-Order Price Guarantee": Order now and if the Amazon.com price decreases between your order time and release date, you'll receive the lowest price. Can't beat that.

Also in attendance were executive producer Jill Teachworth, Chris Howe’s mom (who played Clee’s mom in the movie), Paul Lamenan, Jim Nawara, and Carrie Vanderhoff.

Kevin Coppa, who authored the DVD, had put together some funny short films about the film. Trust me--that'll make sense once I get copies of them I can put up on the web. Honest. They were fun to watch even for those of us who weren't in the movie.

It's always cool to get to hear some of the behind-the-scenes stories of the trials and tribulations that went into creating the finished product you see on the screen. Somehow, it's never as easy as it looks. (There are a lot of those tales in the commentary track on the DVD with Bruce Campbell, Ron Teachworth, and John Prusak, so even if you missed the DVD early-release party, you can still enjoy a lot of them in the comfort of your home.)

Bruce Campbell signing posters

The cast and crew took the opportunity to sign posters and stuff


Friday, September 1st

17:23PM

Chalk One Up for the Home Video Team:

Only a few days after the August 22nd US Home Video release of Kisses and Caroms, one of the movies we're marketing here at Inferno Film Productions, this fine flick had rocketed all the way up to number 58 on IMDb Pro's "Movie Meter.


That's nothing short of amazing, and speaks volumes for the marketing and filmmaking talents of writer-director-producer, Vince Rocca.

According to IMDb, they track the interest level shown by their visitors in over 400,000 movies, so being the 58th most interesting film, beating out Lady in the Water, X-Men: the Last Stand, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (and somewhat more than 399,942 others), is no small accomplishment for an independent film.

Bravo, Vince!

Kisses and Caroms



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