January 2010
17 posts
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Twenty OH Nine.
So long to 2009. A year caught in the infamy of a crisis that ground so many things to a halt. Here goes to a 2010 that hopefully will come with people ready to do shit. That simple. We know what we’re doing. Let us do it.
2009, I will NOT miss you.
Happy New Year!
December 2009
20 posts
Music, in movies.
I’ve been talking to my potential music supervisor. Apparently, if I want to use a Led Zeppelin song (any song) I will need to dish out up to $800,000 per song. Right. Like I’m going to do that. Depending on how interested they are in the project, they could maybe go for less than 600K, but in any case, it won’t be less than that. I wonder how much those car commercials paid for...
Oh yes, the passion. →
T.G.R.
So you wake up one day and decide you want to make a movie. A comedy. An awesome script, written by people who have a track record who tell you they can get a certain cast. My company sees the potential and we say yes. The story takes place in 2 specific European countries and it so happens that we have very good relationships in both. Up to there, all good. It looks like a slam dunk. A “no...
Deadpan's Best Movie Of 2009
Michael Haneke’s WHITE RIBBON.
It’s been a while since a movie left me this perturbed and enthralled for so long. I dream about it.
Back in the USS A
Crazy week indeed. Frrrrreezing temperatures in Europe, crazy schedules, lost flights and suitcases, panels and roundtables, tours and studios, casting calls, late-night, hungover 3 hour budget discussions; all, I would love to say, in good fun given the spirit of the season, but in reality, it got a little stressful. On our way there, we missed a connection and had to have been in the studios...
“Avatar: and of all the cool songs in the world you could’ve picked for the...”
– DJ Nic Harcourt’s Twitter.
Ebert's best of 2009. →
Europa
Deadpan is in Europe and will be reconvening with you, my hopefully devoted followers about these proceedings here shortly. It’s late. A lot of business tomorrow. Will update soon.
Deadpan Trip
Yep, Deadpan Hollywood is taking the show on the road. Was invited to speak on an international panel in Europe AND I will be having a bunch of meetings over there with our co-producers and our writer for the comedy who lives in Europe as well. I will be updating with goodies soon.
We have things going on, and right now everything is in pre-christmas standstill, BUT, we now have our casting agent...
Distances
Traveling to Europe this weekend for no other reason than to quell our partners there. You see, this comedy we’ve been working on now for months and months came into being because a European group stepped it up and made us a firm offer to finance up to 30% of the film’s budget. That was August. We had the impression that that would be the hard part of the deal. Our American...
UK's "The Guardian" list of top 10 KEY films of... →
This list and its approach, I thought were very smart.
A Prophet
Could it be that Jacques Audiard is the next real amazing French director for the 21st Century? ”A Prophet” is THAT good.
The Constellations →
I’ve been LOVING this new band.
Sometimes
Sometimes producers even achieve to write their own stuff as well. We do. I do. It could feel like a narcissistic exercise at times, but it also helps us control material a little more. Some of us maybe even landed here in the world of production after assuming we weren’t going to make it as screenwriters. Could be. Not my case, I never really tried to go for the screenwriting thing and I...
Snotty little New Yorker's magazine best-of-decade... →
Tracking shot extravaganza. →
Rogaine
In the last week or so, things have been somewhat hectic.
Let’s start at the end, with probably our smallest yet favorite project. You see, the project we have been working the longest on, is an international story that will be shot somewhere in Latin America with an Asian cast. We have already gathered the interest of a happening Asian director and also have been working on a tricky script...