Anyone who has visited http://www.jinxmedia.co.uk in the last six months or so might have noticed a mysterious banner for BrainBath which when clicked goes... Dum dum DUUUUUUMMM... Precisely nowhere. Thing is, it's always tricky with things in pre-production to know exactly when to announce them and make them official. One or two of the Jinx Media projects that I mentioned in interviews between the completion of TrashHouse and the commencement of production on KillerKiller and Hellbride have yet to solidify, but it's always difficult to keep your mouth shut when things are at that exciting time when the project is coming together.
So fuck it, I might as well beanspill now and repent at leisure.
The next Jinx Media flick to hit the lens will be BrainBath: a futuristic comedy/horror with far and away our most insane script yet. We're in the process of sorting out finance at the moment, (had a very positive meeting on that very subject yesterday), but it's all looking good for us to get together a significantly higher budget than our movies thus far. The script isn't finished yet, (Jesus, we work hard here, but there are limits... ), but a certain popular character from one of our other flicks makes a return appearance in the current draft. And there are an awful lot of brains in it. Beyond that, we're keeping quiet.
I know it's probably odd to be talking about this, seeing as most readers of this blog are still waiting patiently for KillerKiller and Hellbride. Rest assured, however, we'll have some distribution details on those two bad boys before long, and good things come to those who wait.
Still not sure if I'm going to make it out to Cannes this year, although it's looking altogether more possible than it has done most other years, (I won't be chained to an edit suite in that particular month, at least). Be good to finally meet up with a few international contacts and hopefully make a few new ones; we shall see.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
In Love With Hellbride Again
Funny old business, creating stuff.
In order to get something from the starting point to the finish line, you've got to stick with it through the good times and the bad. This is something that I've seen an awful lot of folks fail at; they have a brilliant idea, they start to make it and then when things hit a difficult stretch, (and they will... Of course they will), they abandon it. They never say they're abandoning it, it's just that they've been so busy lately and there just hasn't been time and so on and so on.
Of course, if they were still in that first flush of love for the project they'd make time, but once that's gone you don't often get it back again. And sometimes the bad times can suck, and to stick at it takes real determination. Which is all a way of saying that Hellbride and I have recently found our way out of a really big rocky patch.
Looking back through this blog, I realise that I've sometimes been guilty of treating Hellbride as a bit of an also-ran to KillerKiller. Considering that the two movies were shot back-to-back, it was KillerKiller that got the expensive location. It was KillerKiller that got edited and premiered first, despite being shot second. And KK has probably been the one I've pushed hardest in terms of publicity.
HellBride has always been a bit more fiddly, a bit more awkward, needing a bit more love. KK edited together like a dream, but Hellbride has needed massaging to get it into fighting shape. We've had reshoots, additional scenes added, more special effects. We were due to be at final cut this very week, (sorry for those waiting for screeners), but we're only at mid-cut. Another month of extremely hard work, I reckon.
But here's the thing. I sat an watched the mid-cut through for the first time yesterday and I fucking love it. I haven't felt this 'up' about the flick since we were shooting, and on that run of insanely good luck that we had for the first half of the shoot. It's actually working, and somehow the movie seems more personal to me than KK. I'm not sure why, exactly; maybe because it's got a soft heart where KK's got a little dark lump of coal. It just feels more 'me' somehow.
God knows how that will translate commercially; I always figured that KK was a fearsomely commercial proposition, and didn't really realise how wordy it was until people started pointing it out in reviews. I always thought that Hellbride would be the less commercial of the two, but looking at them both now I'm really not sure.
Sod it, I love 'em both. And I still love that weird older sibling that is TrashHouse, too.
I enjoy doing this job more than anything else I've ever done. All I want to do is tell stories and get them out there, and have some folks love them and some folks hate them. Because it's the folks that hate them that make you appreciate the ones on your wavelength all the more.
Right now, I want to keep doing this until they put me in the ground.
Peace n love,
Pat
In order to get something from the starting point to the finish line, you've got to stick with it through the good times and the bad. This is something that I've seen an awful lot of folks fail at; they have a brilliant idea, they start to make it and then when things hit a difficult stretch, (and they will... Of course they will), they abandon it. They never say they're abandoning it, it's just that they've been so busy lately and there just hasn't been time and so on and so on.
Of course, if they were still in that first flush of love for the project they'd make time, but once that's gone you don't often get it back again. And sometimes the bad times can suck, and to stick at it takes real determination. Which is all a way of saying that Hellbride and I have recently found our way out of a really big rocky patch.
Looking back through this blog, I realise that I've sometimes been guilty of treating Hellbride as a bit of an also-ran to KillerKiller. Considering that the two movies were shot back-to-back, it was KillerKiller that got the expensive location. It was KillerKiller that got edited and premiered first, despite being shot second. And KK has probably been the one I've pushed hardest in terms of publicity.
HellBride has always been a bit more fiddly, a bit more awkward, needing a bit more love. KK edited together like a dream, but Hellbride has needed massaging to get it into fighting shape. We've had reshoots, additional scenes added, more special effects. We were due to be at final cut this very week, (sorry for those waiting for screeners), but we're only at mid-cut. Another month of extremely hard work, I reckon.
But here's the thing. I sat an watched the mid-cut through for the first time yesterday and I fucking love it. I haven't felt this 'up' about the flick since we were shooting, and on that run of insanely good luck that we had for the first half of the shoot. It's actually working, and somehow the movie seems more personal to me than KK. I'm not sure why, exactly; maybe because it's got a soft heart where KK's got a little dark lump of coal. It just feels more 'me' somehow.
God knows how that will translate commercially; I always figured that KK was a fearsomely commercial proposition, and didn't really realise how wordy it was until people started pointing it out in reviews. I always thought that Hellbride would be the less commercial of the two, but looking at them both now I'm really not sure.
Sod it, I love 'em both. And I still love that weird older sibling that is TrashHouse, too.
I enjoy doing this job more than anything else I've ever done. All I want to do is tell stories and get them out there, and have some folks love them and some folks hate them. Because it's the folks that hate them that make you appreciate the ones on your wavelength all the more.
Right now, I want to keep doing this until they put me in the ground.
Peace n love,
Pat
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Christmas and New Year
Back at work today for the first time in a couple of weeks. Had a rather lovely Christmas off, and am revitalised and refreshed and looking forward to kicking arse in 2007.
The multitalented genius known as Cy Henty has been producing some artwork for Hellbride's new opening sequence, which I should get to see later this week. He's got a great eye for such stuff, and you can see some of his work over at http://www.cyhenty.co.uk/gallery.htm
Speaking of Hellbride, there was also a nice little bit of coverage about it in this month's SFX magazine, (the one with Dr Who on the front, we're on page 27), which was a nice little early Christmas present. While I push the edit towards fine cut, Phil Sheldon (who scored KillerKiller)is also hard at work on the score. It's all coming together very nicely indeed.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year and all that. Now it's back to work...
The multitalented genius known as Cy Henty has been producing some artwork for Hellbride's new opening sequence, which I should get to see later this week. He's got a great eye for such stuff, and you can see some of his work over at http://www.cyhenty.co.uk/gallery.htm
Speaking of Hellbride, there was also a nice little bit of coverage about it in this month's SFX magazine, (the one with Dr Who on the front, we're on page 27), which was a nice little early Christmas present. While I push the edit towards fine cut, Phil Sheldon (who scored KillerKiller)is also hard at work on the score. It's all coming together very nicely indeed.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year and all that. Now it's back to work...
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