I didn't get any sleep last night so I'll be rambly. There's no need to read any of this: So I'm thinking things. I'm thinking it's dangerous to have half your revenue come from a single buyer. But more than that I'm thinking that the economics of science fiction have some issues which must be worked out. There's something about science fiction which touches some people. I'm one of those people. It's like a need to see cool stuff in the future and people on spaceships and stuff. And here's where we come to stipulation number one: the stuff we sci fi-philes what to see is typically expensive to create. But there's another thing about science fiction: there seems to be just not quite enough fans of it to justify its cost. Looking at two examples, the television show Firefly and the entire channel "SciFi Channel": both of them didn't do so well and yet they both have strong, almost intrinsic fan bases. "SyFy" has been struggling with this for a long time -- constantly rebranding itself in order to not be a financial drain on their corporate bosses. Firefly has a very strong fan base but not quite big enough to keep it on the air. The countervailing examples I think would be the entire Star Wars franchise and the new Battlestar Galactica. Somehow Lucas managed to make widely-loved off-world sci-fi with Star Wars. I know of one guy who actually doesn't like "those kinds" of movies enough to have not seen it. And Battlestar (while I think would have been better off if Joss Whedon had explained to them how to build a multi-season arc with an actual direction*) did manage to be off-world sci-fi (but with as big limitations as possible to keep it from being too alienating). I'm going to ignore the countervailing examples in order to be more conservative with my business plan. I could get more ramblicious. But my (what we might call) "thinking" about the conclusion of this data is that we simply have to tell better stories more cheaply. We can be as fantastical as we like, as long as we can afford it. Of course, the response to that is "Ha!" because of course we should make it more cheaply. And with more action. Action is almost inherently expensive. But it's what we need to do. *Instead all they took from Firefly was "shaky cam" in CG post.

Day 6 part 1 BU

Daryl Boling and Jason Howard. Both of them are playing with their shoes for some reason.

Daryl and Jason again.

Daryl Boling and Kathleen Kwan through the window.

Daryl Boling and Kathleen Kwan. Athena wants something.

The wonderful James Becton and Diana Ferrante kissing.

Prison Planet BU

Daryl Boling and Kathleen Kwan reflect.

Kathleen has some wine.

James Becton and Diana Ferrante are imprisoned literally and figuratively on the planet Necrosis 6. But that will not stop their love!

September

What I mean is we're going to shoot yet another picture in September, 2008. The project is 0802 The Uprising by Joshua James.

Space marines land on a prison planet to put down a prisoner uprising, only to find trouble which is much much worse. Now the marines have to join forces with the prisoners just to make it off the planet alive.

Start Date

We're going to shoot another picture starting on March 1, 2008.

More information forthcoming.

New Bible

The DV Rebel's Guide.
Buy it. Learn it. Love it.

0701 Greenlight

Angry Planet is Go.

So there is a to-do list:
1. Name Talent
2. Schedule (boards are already done, but #1 will dictate the calendar)
3. Location (best guess: we're doing decrepit Queens and Brooklyn for a post-apocalyptic world).
4. Casting