Saturday, October 15, 2005The big dayFirst screening tonight. 300 people Maybe I should finish editing the film. See ya. posted @ 11:14 AM PDT [link] [Karma: -1 (+/-)] Friday, October 14, 2005Countdown to Cast/Crew PartyTomorrow is the day for the cast/crew party and the first time we will show 300 people the film. My best guess, because we are still tweaking the film is that it will run 84 to 85 minutes. I read an article about the director from the "40 Year Old Virgin" and he loved screenings with an audience. He would record it and then synch it to his cut to see where people laughed and didn't laugh. Well, he's a puss boy. Like that movie made any money at all! :) Big fan of the Office by the way, Steve is amazing. And the original Office is the shit. Ricky! Ricky! The nice thing about blowing your own money and some of your stupid friend's money is that you get to make the stupid movie you want to make. I remember when I sent the screenplay out to Dr. Merritt Hemenway, my former high-school principal from Bishop Amat. (I've been doing video movies since 1985 and he's been in everyone of them) So, it was a moral imperative that he had to be in this movie, it's 35mm film! He was in Canada and told me something like "Wow, you really have something offensive for everyone in this movie" And he was a bit hesitant to be in it. Then my favorite line of all time was when he got back to America he called and said. "I'll be in it, no problems with the script, it just read differently in Canada." I love that man. He's Uncle Billy in the movie and it was so cool to have him in a scene with John and Beverly. To be honest, I did the movie because if it does well then I can go back to Bishop Amat and hang with Pat Haden at fundraisers. And to be able to go to my twenty year high school reunion and go "What is up you bitches!" "Yeah, just made a movie, pretty God damn offensive to the world of Role Players!" And if the movie dies on Saturday and no other screening ever happens...we'll, that's impossible. We made a good movie. Thanks for reading the blog, and if your name is Tito be warned that the offensive scene with Reese is back in the film! Say hello to Ralph for me! posted @ 08:08 AM PDT [link] Thursday, October 13, 2005Update on the filmEven after spending 200 hours on the film, we are tweaking it some more for the cast/crew party on Saturday. This will be the cut we send off to Slamdance. It's better than the one we sent to Sundance. It's longer and we have corrected a lot of audio issues and added some new Maya Animation. I wonder how the viewing of Gamers is going at Sundance? I'd love to know which film student first got to screen the movie. You worry that it will be screened by a film student who only wears black and loves French art films. We do have a French Clown in the film, however, he's a bit unmanly. That might hurt. I would hope my last name Folino would confuse them to think of Fellini. And then there's no way they couldn't pass the film off to the second round of screeners. Hell, I'm banking on the Fellini connection to get us into the festival. I tell everyone it's the U.S. translation. Speaking of Italian, when I went to visit New York for a Home Depot shoot back in the day. I met some real Italians, so Italian that afterwards I tell people I'm the Olive Garden of Italian. Those fuckers in NY, that's Italian. Okay, kid's are awake. Visit the man who saved our ass! God wishes he could draw this nice. Jeff Jumper ladies and gentleman! When we got left at the altar by WOC and Gary's people. This is the guy we turned too! www.jumpersart.com Hire him, love him, burb him. He's a great him. posted @ 07:56 AM PDT [link] Wednesday, October 12, 2005NEW CLIP CALLED "I LOVE DICK" READY FOR VIEWINGWe got a fresh clip from the movie up, it's called "I love Dick". Kevin's character in Gamers is a singer who writes personalized children's music for a living. I got the idea when my sister-in-law and her cool Raider loving husband Jim! Yo Jim! (He reads the blog!) got my daughter a personalized children's tape with songs all about her and her name. Oh my God, it sucked so bad, and it was painful to listen too. Who the hell does this for a living? And that my friend is how good comedy is discovered. So, when I was talking to Kevin Sherwood about his character and the name of the kid's song, he just took over and ran with the lyrics. I think Kevin should be nominated for a frickin Oscar for best original song. What do you think? posted @ 08:01 PM PDT [link] [Karma: 2 (+/-)] CHARACTER QUOTES FROM THE MOVIE "GAMERS" Since I can't post it anywhere else at the moment. I wanted to share some lines with you all from the movie. Yes, I'm sure if your a distributor this will be the breaking point! By the way, if you're a distributor what the hell are you doing reading a blog? GORDON talking to group of friends "Listen to me and listen real good. I've had a day, and up to now, I've taken it in the ass all day long. And let me tell you both something. I'm all out of ass!" GORDON talking to narrator and cameraman "Right now I live with my parents, it's a temporary situation. Temporary, just til they die." Scene where one of the main characters' boss is trying to get him out of role playing adventures, because he's bringing all the drama to work with him. TOM "My point being, is that either you suck at RPG'S or your DL hates you. Either way your characters always die. Now, you need a game you can play that you can't die in. Like Madden Football, Franchise mode. You can't die in Franchise mode. You can suck, but that suck is all on you my friend!" Wow, this is my finest blog ever! Yes! Took me like 10 minutes! I'm sure Kevin Smith is just taking notes right now from these lines and going "Yeah, I could see Silent Bob say that to Jay!" Or better Triumph the Dog is like "These are great lines...for me to poop on!" posted @ 09:20 AM PDT [link] [Karma: 5 (+/-)] Tuesday, October 11, 2005Get your name in the film credits of Gamers -Grass roots marketingWe continue our grass roots marketing campaign with this special offer! Be part of history, be part of a real cult classic. Show your love to this film and the film will love you back forever! Here's how to do it. Post two separate articles or reviews on the front page of your website about the trailers or the flick and make sure you include a link and we're going to put in you the credits of our movie. Just email us and we can give you exclusive content, interviews, maybe even some clips. Hell yes! Why not? Did anyone from Hollywood make this movie? Hell no! Do we have more than 1K for marketing this movie. Oh please no! This was done by a small group of people (nobody is rich) who wanted to make a movie. We got real SAG actors, we got a funny script, we got a real crew, and we shot a 85 minute movie on 35mm. So this is your movie now, all you Gamers, and non-Gamers! You got to be tired of the same crap that's being made each week in Hollywood? This is new crap! This is crap nobody has seen! It's fresh craps by people who have never crapped before! Help me, to help you crap! Wow, thank God my mother is dead after this priceless blog! posted @ 09:24 AM PDT [link] [Karma: 3 (+/-)] Early Bird Report A new clip from the film has been made and it shall be giving out as an exclusive to a rather large website. As soon as it hits, we will post the link. The big cast party with the first viewing of the movie will be happening this Saturday, October 15th! And so far we have four distributors coming to the event. They contacted us thanks to all the great grass roots PR going on around the web site! Thank you www.warcry.com/www.moviepoopshoot.com/www.gamingreport.com and www.shacknews.com for the blurbs about the flick and if I left anyone off the thank you it's because I'm an idiot. Man, wouldn't it be funny if the movie just sucks. Oh, all that money, time, and bonding from the family and the movie is just a load of total shit! I'm talking like a review like "Worse than Glitter!" and "Makes me miss the "Hey Vern" movies." and "I'd rather watch a Paulie Shore flick!" Oh, a boy can dream! You know, I wish Roger Ebert would watch this movie and give me an honest critique. If the guy looked at me and said "Please, go back to your day job!" I would. Serious, what the fuck? The guy is pretty smart and what's my best line of defense? "Well Roger, did you review it like it was a six days of shooting kind of movie?" Nope, I don't think that will work. So Roger Ebert, who I'm guessing will be at the Chicago Film Festival, if you get some free time next week. Please email me and we'll set up a screening and if you hate the movie, I'll stop. I won't spread my cinema seed to anyone else. I'm going to attempt to sleep for an hour before the twins wake back up. posted @ 06:15 AM PDT [link] [Karma: -1 (+/-)] Monday, October 10, 2005First Day of Shooting Part 1Unlike most productions, I would imagine you have rehearsals and a reading of the script with your top stars. Well, fuck that when you're doing an Ultra Low Indie Budget film and you honestly have no right to be having stars, however, because, you're an idiot and you get a massive bank loan for a company you just made up and sell al the stock you were suppose to use to buy a mini-van for the arrival of your twins...then it all make sense. July 29th, 2005. I woke up at like 4AM. My wife was already in the hospital due to almost going into labor during a rehearsal for the movie at our house several nights before. Our twin boys were due October 7th, however, maybe the fact that I was using our house to shoot 75 percent of the movie, might have helped her go into labor early, I just can't say. So, with the wife in the hospital and the Doctor telling me "Don't worry, she's safe here, we our going to prevent the contractions." I was like okay! So, the first shoot of the day was the stable scene with John Heard. The very first scene of this movie was with the man himself. I got there with Fernando at like 7AM in the morning and I'm joking around with Manuel who was doing costumes at the time, Tito the DP, and Kevin. I was like acting like a big man "Yeah, I paid the Doctor off so he'd make sure the kid's didn't interrupt the film shoot." Then God apparently thought I was being an ass and a voice mail appeared on my phone. Yep, my wife's water broke and an emergency C-Section had to be done and I had ten minutes to get there. To be continued... By the way feel free to write in the forum about anything. I myself was up late last night with my twins and I got a little freaked out watching an infomercial with two identical midget twins selling real estate. At first I thought it was a joke, but, testimony after testimony of white normal sized people kept appearing on my screen. I love watching these videos and imagining the conversation the Director is having with the wardrobe person. "Okay, dress them exactly the same in each shot, and I want them to appear very intellectual so give them matching glasses also! and I'm going to need a shot of them with two white dogs that are bigger than them! However, the twins will have total control!" "Yeah, now that will fucking convince people to listen to midgets selling real estate!" And it worked, I signed up. posted @ 10:06 AM PDT [link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)] Sunday, October 9, 2005New scene from the film to be posted on this weekWe will be posting a new scene from the movie this week. I think only this blog will be new for today. Our web master is in San Fran today watching a plane show. I'd like to add a movie quote page, but it's kind of pointless since only like 300 people will have seen the film by Saturday October 15th at the cast, crew, and friend’s party. If you do sign up for the fan club we will be extending special offers to see the film and we will be sending an exclusive trailer for anyone who signs up. And maybe we will send someone a pony. And for all those asking, we don't have a distributor yet. We are getting calls, however, we want them to come see the movie with a crowd. That's why we are sending nice vibes to Sundance, Slamdance, and the Pico Rivera Film Festival! Lastly, until someone writes me and tells me that the blog sucks, I'll continue to talk shit about Gary Coleman and tell inside stories about everyone. And if they get mad at me, they can get in line. So, one quick Gary Coleman story. I spent a lot of time at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA. My wife gave birth to our twin boys there who were kept in the NICU for about 6 weeks. The exact same day we started production on Gamers, that's a book right there. Or at least a weeks worth of blogs. Well, some frickin marketing genius over at the hospital has a timeline of world events that correlates to the hospital. And in one section they have births, and I believe 1969 was the first birth for the hospital and underneath they have a section called other notable births in history that year. And I swear to God they list Gary Coleman and they say something like Actor and former gubernatorial candidate for California. What the holy hell! There's no way Cash call man got more than like 20 votes for Governor! And who in the hell would post this at a major hospital? Gary's publicist must be a God. It was bad enough to see Celine Dion’s name also listed. So, thanks for reading the blog and supporting the film! posted @ 11:15 AM PDT [link] [Karma: -1 (+/-)] |
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