Not Much to Speak Of ...

... But I'll do this little update for the handful of followers of the site.

Well, I had my plane ticket and my Chinese visa all lined up and I was set to fly to Hong Kong in less than a week when I was informed that the movie has once again been delayed, this time indefinitely. That kind of screws up my plans for the next few weeks, but it's really the Law of the Land when you're talking about independent filmmaking.

That means that I'm basically finishing CHOP and this re-write ... and then I've got nothing on the horizon. Anybody out there need somebody to work on their movie?

FETCH ramps up its final shooting session next week and DREAD CENTRAL ran a story and a few new photos about it:

Dread Central's FETCH Update

And in What the Hell is This? news, I somehow stumbled across this crazy video on youtube. It looks like some university students in Singapore were taking a video production class or something and decided to REMAKE a scene from my movie FEEDING THE MASSES as an assignment:



Wow. It's just weird to think that stuff like this goes on. Whenever I find myself asking, "Why do I do this stuff? It's not like anyone's watching my damned movies anyway," (and I think that A LOT, especially these days) ... well, I can always remember that Polytechnic University students in Singapore need scenes to re-make.

Crazy.

-T

Wuzzah? More Nominations?

Wow. Got an email a few days ago pointing me to another awards site that DEADGIRL is nominated for!

DEADGIRL is up for Best Screenplay (that would be me), Best Film, Best Actor, Best zombie, Best Actress, and Best Director(s) in MAIL ORDER ZOMBIE's 2009 Dead Letter Awards.

Here's the link. You know what to vote for. Unfortunately, they're asking for your email in order to cast the vote, so I totally get it if you don't!

Vote for DEADGIRL

Not a lot to report at the moment. FETCH is ramping up for a few days of re-shoots on March 1st. I've had the pleasure of taking a look at a few scenes and it looks incredible.

CHOP is moving right along. Planning on locking the picture in a few weeks and then we're on to sound design and musical score.

I'm going back to China in 3 weeks to play the lead in a feature film. It's called CONVERGENCE and that's just about all I can tell you about that project right now.

Also doing a re-write on a script that I did based on a director's notes. Hopefully this re-write will be the trick that'll push the film into production.

I was Googling some of my movie titles to find out what's been going on with them ... yeah, that's right, I have to Google my own films to find out their status. Anyway, came up with a few interesting tidbits:

According to Amazon.com, LEGEND OF THE SANDSQUATCH is actually coming out on DVD in March. That one's been in the can for years now.

And speaking of movies that have been done for years, my long-lost giant killer scorpion movie DEADLY STINGERS has apparently been playing on a cabled channel called ZONE TV in the UK ... crazy, cause it's' still not available on DVD anywhere in the world ...

And while there's no release date for my last China film, KILLJOY 3, I did find some photos from the film online ... they look like straight up screen captures from the RED RAW files. I grabbed a few of em just to give you a taste:





Yeah, that's about it for the time being.

-T

Awards Season ...

It's awards season, something that usually means very little to me. It's not like I've ever been involved in a film that's thought about at all ... heck, even The Razzies seem to be all about the Hollywood films.

But ... DEADGIRL has been nominated in three categories for The Annual Splatcademy Awards: Best Actor (Shiloh Fernandez), Best Picture, and Trent Haaga for Best Screenplay Original or Adapted.

I don't normally do this shameless self-promoting and plugging, but this may be the only time I'll ever be up for one of these dang things and the good news is that the winner is decided by online vote. That said, why don't you follow the below link and help me get a Splatcademy Award? My family would be so proud ...

Vote for DEADGIRL (and me) at the SPLATCADEMY AWARDS

Thanks!

-T