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Feb. 14th, 2006 12:07 pmHi! I'm still alive. I'm not sure why I've been so extraordinarily lazy in updating my journal lately, but I have. I've been keeping up with my friends list, just not updating my own.
Lessee... Work is okay. It looked like we had a writing/directing gig, adapting an indie comic book into a film. The comic book in question was called Trailer Park of Terror, a horror anthology with a white trash bent. We did a lot of work on it, and had a lot of fun; it was going to be good, campy horror/comedy fun, and I think we're about due for another horror anthology film. Unfortunately, it looks like it's not going to happen, at least not in that form. We knew it was going to be a low budget project, and we'd already discussed with the producer that we were willing to cut our rate quite a bit to do it, as long as we got a nice piece of the back end, etc. When he finally submitted an offer, it was unacceptable. Not the money; we'd already agreed to a price, but the rest of the contract. Things like, he wanted us to return the money if the film didn't end up getting made. Writers don't pay for development. We'd also agreed to write the script essentially on spec while he raised the money; meaning, we wouldn't expect money up front before we started writing. But then he decided he didn't want to pay us when we turned in the script, but 45 days afterwards. The deal was just getting uglier and uglier; the contract he offered us was, frankly, insulting. And I'm not easily insulted! So, we've pretty much walked away. Since very little of what we actually came up with is directly from the comic book, we very well may still write the script on our own, with some tweaks to make it truly our own. We'll see.
Meanwhile, we're still working on that haunted apartment film. That one still has a decent shot of going.
Bad appliance day yesterday. Both my coffee grinder and my iPod decided it was a good day to up and die. Tried all the resets/restores on the iPod, but nothing was working. Took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, but they gave me the bad news; it would need to be sent in for repairs, and since it was out of warranty (I've had it for quite some time), it would cost a fortune to fix. So, I took advantage of their recycle program, and got a discount on a brand new ipod, one of the video ones. It's nice to have, but I wasn't really happy about spending that much money. And, I also had to buy a new coffee grinder. But if there are two things I can't live without, it's coffee and my iPod.
Getting excited about the trip to Italy. 3 months to go.
Lessee... Work is okay. It looked like we had a writing/directing gig, adapting an indie comic book into a film. The comic book in question was called Trailer Park of Terror, a horror anthology with a white trash bent. We did a lot of work on it, and had a lot of fun; it was going to be good, campy horror/comedy fun, and I think we're about due for another horror anthology film. Unfortunately, it looks like it's not going to happen, at least not in that form. We knew it was going to be a low budget project, and we'd already discussed with the producer that we were willing to cut our rate quite a bit to do it, as long as we got a nice piece of the back end, etc. When he finally submitted an offer, it was unacceptable. Not the money; we'd already agreed to a price, but the rest of the contract. Things like, he wanted us to return the money if the film didn't end up getting made. Writers don't pay for development. We'd also agreed to write the script essentially on spec while he raised the money; meaning, we wouldn't expect money up front before we started writing. But then he decided he didn't want to pay us when we turned in the script, but 45 days afterwards. The deal was just getting uglier and uglier; the contract he offered us was, frankly, insulting. And I'm not easily insulted! So, we've pretty much walked away. Since very little of what we actually came up with is directly from the comic book, we very well may still write the script on our own, with some tweaks to make it truly our own. We'll see.
Meanwhile, we're still working on that haunted apartment film. That one still has a decent shot of going.
Bad appliance day yesterday. Both my coffee grinder and my iPod decided it was a good day to up and die. Tried all the resets/restores on the iPod, but nothing was working. Took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, but they gave me the bad news; it would need to be sent in for repairs, and since it was out of warranty (I've had it for quite some time), it would cost a fortune to fix. So, I took advantage of their recycle program, and got a discount on a brand new ipod, one of the video ones. It's nice to have, but I wasn't really happy about spending that much money. And, I also had to buy a new coffee grinder. But if there are two things I can't live without, it's coffee and my iPod.
Getting excited about the trip to Italy. 3 months to go.
