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Current mood:  happy Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Darn, who the heck decided there would be only 24 hours in a day?? There's so much to do out there, and so little time! Incidently that's why I took so long to post something new here, so here we go with some fresh news. AFM AftermathThings went pretty well in Los Angeles, at the American Film Market, we met several studios who are interested in buying the international rights of our latest feature film, Rise of the Ghosts. Some preliminary agreements were drafted with different countries, now our sales agent is on the way of closing the deals. We hope to be able to make official release announcements in the coming weeks!!
New production coming soon!
We are moving forward with a new project, scheduled for entering production in April 2008, with an October 2008 release date. It's still a bit early to go public with the theme of this one, an official teaser should be posted on the Black Flag Pictures website by the end of the year. What I can say though, is that we're now going into sci-fi and action, while keeping the same mainstream approach we had with Rise of the Ghosts. Some of the talents have been confirmed, but we're waiting a bit before singing contracts and all. We want to see how much incomes the sales of Rise of the Ghosts will generates in the next month or two, since that might allow us to make this new film a union production.
Behind the camera, most the crew familiar with our films are back, we have assembled a really great team over the past couple of films, from the writer to the post-production, we all know each other very well; I know what to expect from the guys, what they can do, and the guys know what I want as a producer, so we waste very little time on the set, and things move forward very fast.
And since we have a few projects lined up for 2008 - a comedy, and a thriller/action - I will no longer be editing my own films. While online editing and final post effects are done here in Montreal, the film' offline will be cut by a Vancouver-based professional freelance film editor, a guy I know since 1984 and in which I have an absolute confidence. Editing a film is perhaps the most challenging and critical stage in the whole production line, not to mention the most time-consuming process. Since we'd like to release more than one feature every year, I had to leave that post-production job in the hands of a facility I can trust.
But for now, we will be shooting a short teaser for the film, we planned to do that this week-end, Nov. 24th, but with the snow and ice rain we just had, we will be postponing the filming to next week.
Vacations ahead?
Well no, not quite, however in December I will be travelling to Las Vegas, and get a few beers with friends I have around there. I've been there last year, and I can't wait to go back to Sin City. If you happen to live there, shout this way, and let's hook up!
And the house?
Oh, yes, thanks for asking! Yeah, our new house is coming along nicely. We still have a lot to do, but we can live in it pretty good. Most of what's left to be done is around my studio and home theater. The computer farm is 90% up and running, and in a separate cool chamber so my office is quiet and roomy. I'm not done building all the walls of the home theater, but I just can't wait to kick back on the couch and watch Planet Terror on a 10 foot wide screen...!! (And my son, The Transformers).
But guys, don't worry, we WILL be doing a party once everything will be ready around here!!
And what else?
Well I guess that's pretty much it... I do have some other projects around, I started a little short film, there's one scene left to shoot, which I should do next week - hopefully - and I also joind a group of filmmakers, preparing a compilation of short films on the Frankenstein subject, I hope to find time to make something for them early in 2008. Other than that, I still do photoshoots every now and then, some custom video work, and so on... It all keeps one busy!
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