I blame the Thanksgiving holidays. Which were nice. Family time and food. But you didn't come here to read about how much turkey I ate, so ...
... I'm doing this blog update for the first time on my new computer! I've been using the good old reliable 12" PowerBook G4 for the last eight years. It was a warhorse that served me well through many a screenplay, but I've been thinking about getting a new laptop for months and really needed to buy one before the end of the year so that I can write it off since I had a good earning year. I'm always hesitant to spend money on myself, but it's a work expense, right? So I took advantage of Apple's (admittedly weak) Black Friday discount and bought a 13" MacBook Pro ... and HOLY CRAP, it's like night and day! My computer keyboard lights up! The screen is so clear (and bigger - that one inch difference is massive in my eyes)! I can FaceTime and Skype with this built-in camera! And the speed ... good Lord, the speed ...
Not a TON of project news to report at the moment, but I've always got something up my sleeve ...
I wrote a screenplay many years ago that was shot in Lawrence, Kansas at the beginning of 2010 by director C.M. Downs and Dripping Dead Films. It stars Ashlynn Yennie, whom you may know of as the ass-end of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE. It was called FETCH. Now it's called AMERICAN MANIACS. And it got picked up for distribution from Automatic Entertainment. That's about all that I know at the moment (no release date has been set as far as I can tell, but I'm assuming early 2012). But there's a new poster and trailer for it and they're both pretty cool as far as I'm concerned. Dig on em:
AMERICAN MANIACS TRAILER
RIght now, I've got no less than three projects that I wrote in various stages of prep - the SyFy movie (I just saw some amazing creature designs for the film, but unfortunately can't share them with you ... still, I was pretty excited to see them), the Lifetime movie, and another one that I can't report on just yet. So that means I should have a lot to share in the coming months. But right now I've got to get some research done for this bio-movie that I signed on to write.
I promise to keep updating and I've got some pretty interesting things going up here shortly. I'll see you again in less than seven days ...
- T
2 comments:
Skipped turkey for Thanksgiving and had pot roast instead. I like turkey but hate the insane leftovers.
Haven't used a Mac since college but I've been considering switching for a while now. Way to go!
No Flash on my mobile so I haven't seen the American Maniacs trailer yet, but I remember the stills you posted previously. Crime + horror is a favorite combo for me and I'm thoroughly looking forward to seeing the film.
As always, thanks for reading and leaving a comment, Donna!
Yeah, what's up with Flash and mac devices, anyway? I had to download flash into the new MacBook Pro in order to view youtube (which Safari includes as an automatic bookmark!) ... C'mon, Flash and Mac (and iPhone), can't you guys just get along?
- T
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