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Put in another long day editing the new feature.

Today.. another 22 scenes (aprox 12.5 minutes) have been rough cut. This brings the total assembly cut up to 76 minutes with 39 scenes left to go.

I'm really looking forward to the day when enough is done that we can do a proper announcement about this film. Post-production is always a long, tedious process - but this one has been filled with all kinds of challenges and distractions.

With luck, I can buckle down and knock out the remaining scenes sooner rather than later.

so, after some bizarre computer issues i think i am finally back on track. so we'll be seeing new smashcut content very soon. the only hurdle left is to recreate all the bumpers, etc...but it can be done. stay tuned!!!

Rumor: Grindhouse Theatrical Experience BD

An early announcement to retailers indicates that Genius Products and The Weinstein Company are set to release Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's 'Grindhouse' on Blu-ray on August 11. No edition details are available, other than this would be a two-disc set, but it may well be the theatrical Grindhouse double feature.

'Grindhouse' was conceived, edited and shown theatrically (in the US) as a typical exploitation double-feature as one could attend at cheap theaters in the 1970s: it consisted of two features ('Planet Terror', by Robert Rodriguez, and 'Death Proof' by Quentin Tarantino), interspersed with fake trailers and bumpers.

However, the film underperformed theatrically and the films were released separately (in expanded versions) on home video. The Grindhouse double feature wasn't even released theatrically in Europe, and its only DVD release so far is a coveted special edition from Japan.

It had long been rumored that the Grindhouse experience could be released on disc to tie in with 'The Inglourious Basterds'. But considering the increasing financial problems that The Weinstein Company is going through, which even made them give up the home video rights for 'Basterds', many had already given up hope.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2959

Why was I not informed of this? This is an example of something you'd call me immediately upon discovery, like in that "house is on fire" frantic tone or some such.

And the winner of the MondoTees/AICN Metal Tyler Stout RoboCop poster is...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41406

I don't know what I would have designed but I would have won.

Well, when I left off, I was at Prisoner of Azkaban. What have I done in the past two months? Read the whole effing series. With a little help from books on tape (and about 6 hours of driving a day, thanks to Lisa's busted ass car), I was able to read all of the final four books, knocking them out in about a book every two weeks. It got increasingly harder to put down, culminating with me polishing the last book off over the weekend. My favorite of the series? Probably the last one. It was definitely the most emotional one, and the one that took place nearly entirely outside of Hogwarts. It gets docked a few points because all the loose ends were not tied up (you do not find out the fate of some main characters, and some main characters are pulled away with no lead up; they just appear, dead, with no word how).

Favorite overall character (not part of the main three): Actually, strangely enough, Ginny Weasley. Every time she was on the page, she left me with a smile on my face. That girl has some fire.

Favorite Overall Character: Harry Potter. It sounds cheesy, but he really is a great empathetic character, sort of like Frodo in LoTR.

Where to go from here? I am going through the books again. I do not want to leave the Harry Potter world at this point, so I am going to reread them all from the beginning. I should be able to pick up a great amount of stuff I missed in the first go round.

Yeah.... as some of you no doubt figured out, today was my birthday. Thanks to everyone who sent me well wishes. Even better, more awesomer thanks to those who sent bourbon with their well wishes. (Top Shelf Wishes?)

Among my list of birthday presents this year, I received: some awesome home made art from my kids, lunch at the Vortex with a good friend, a circuit board picture frame for my office with a sketch of me with the kids, and a kick ass new short film script from Andy that gave me 7 new gray hairs from worrying about how we were going to pull it off.

I'm sooo behind schedule on post-production for the new feature - and here we are adding new projects... new HARD projects! Would you guys do me a favor and tell us that our films suck and that you don't want to see a new short film ... ?

Ah well. More stuff on the way soon.

I think Mr. Van Damme is telling me to start a review thread of his films.

This will be mine, oh yes, this will be mine.

Quite possibly the greatest cover design for a movie. I want a poster of this (with the quote on it of course).

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=3772

JCVD: Jean-Claude Van Damme Kicks His Own Ass!
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1857303,00.html

And you can find it.... Here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RIY49C?ie=UTF8&tag=aintitcooln07-20...

(I am following each reading of the book with a viewing of the movie. This is the first one to severely diverge from its book.)

This series is getting interesting. And dark. I like the path it is taking, but, as with the Chamber of Secrets write up, everyone has read them or watched the movie, so I will not do a full report.

I like the character development, but my favorite character is increasingly Professor Dumbledore. He is more mischievous than you really get in the movies, and it has led to many an interesting moment.

Started Goblet of Fire last night. I hope to read Half-Blood Prince before the movie.