Good luck over the weekend L.A. friends!

The most depressing thing about making strictly low to no budget films is the inability to license music/songs.

Everyday I wake up and think, I need to write something great, so somebody REALLY wants it, so they want it enough to let me have creative control, so I can actually use some fucking great songs.

That’s the daily plan. Write pages. Try and make it great. One day…temp songs are actually available!

DON’T FORGET ABOUT THIS

NEW MOVIES

Trying to raise the money to make the next movie. Got the script. The cast is going to be no problem. Just need a bit of dough…

RECOIL

Just working on the Director’s cut. Will be ready very soon!

A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS

Working on getting it delivered to all the folks who are waiting for delivery.

VAMLET

Picture is damn near locked. Audio is pretty rough. Waiting for new RAM and software for the computer.

TEXT

Writing LOTS of new stuff, and I mean lots. It would be nice to take a little trip and finish off some scripts, but things are pretty busy around here.

OTHER STUFF

While we transition to a cleaner (non-wordpress) site, if anybody needs to buy DVDs of The Ennead, You, Me, Love, etc…please email Cinemanovel Films at:

cinemanovel (at) gmail (dot) com

All of my Wordpress websites were hacked.

I’m deleting everything, including the Cinemanovel Site, sadly.

It will take a bit, but I’ll have something up very soon.

Cast read through later today.

Chicken-scratched homemade stick-people storyboards.

A few roles still up in the air.

Ready to get shooting on Monday!

Location Scout photo by genius FIRST AD Bryan Knight.

Week three of PREP on RECOIL is in the books.

We go to camera on the 18th. Wow.

Working all weekend to get my preliminary shotlist looking more like a realistic shotlist. More meetings on Sunday.

I’m excited to get shooting!

Lesli Brownlee is ALISON in VAMLET

There are so many helpful blogs out there. I thought it might be nice to post a link to a good one every once in a while.

So, instead of the usual rantings and updates (although they follow)…

John August

Great tips and inspiration for screenwriters (working and aspiring).

WHAT IS NEW?

Writing, spec script went out. Fingers crossed.

Editing VAMLET, getting there…

Re-edit on THE RED ROOSTER, new music, shorter version. It’s a lot stronger now cut down from 84 to 74 minutes, and, with the Darling Music artists on the soundtrack, it actually feels more…grounded, somehow…the way the music of SOLARISTS works with the landscape is perfect.

Prep begins on RECOIL in two weeks!

Working on a bunch of new spec material.

FOLLOW EVERY SINGLE ONE.

http://www.moviemakerdigital.com/moviemaker/iss91_vol18?pg=90#pg90

WHAT IS THE MODEL?

I’ve written the best script I’ve ever written. It’s not an expensive film, logistically.

It’s ready to go into production this afternoon, but, there are a lot of obstacles to production. A lot of funding bodies and companies are structured to include protracted development. Development can be extremely helpful for a work-in-progress or a very early draft, however, when a script is ready for cast and camera, it’s not ideal.

So, I begin the quest for SERIOUS production partners. Equity investors and film finance companies.

Get some funding. Attach some great cast. Get the rest of the money. Shoot.

Seems simple enough.

These are the undisputed best films of the year.

1. Dogtooth

2. Blue Valentine

3. Ondine

4. Black Swan

5. Fish Tank

6. The American

7. Solitary Man

8. The Father of my Children

9. I am Love

10. The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

Of note: Easy A, Catfish, The Social Network, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Another Year, Animal Kingdom

I was walking home from the store yesterday and got to thinking…if religious idiots (Christians/Muslims, et al) don’t destroy our species, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE is going to be remembered as such a great fucking movie. It seems to get better every year.