Cheer 4 Fear

[today]

Thanks.


I hope it goes well.

[Crimson]

Ooh, great! Good Luck.

Could you maybe try to get it in a cinema? Will definatly promote it .. a hell of alot more!

[Misawa]

It's extremely hard to get an independent film on the big screen, people like high budget glam, and low-budget horror is a niche, as successful as it is. Films make more money on DVD than they do in the cinema.

The film is budgeted at $125,000, but that could completely change depending on what studios officially picks it up, as of course others have more to spend on production.

Eli Roth is a good example of a success story with an independent film. His first feature, Cabin Fever, was entirely an indy produced by himself after 10 years of rejections from studios. He raised $1.5M thanks to (damn rich) family members giving him the money and that was his own budget. It got a midnight screening at the Toronto Film Festival and there was an immediate bidding war by various major studios, which Lionsgate won, attached itself to, and distributed worldwide, creating an international hit. That put him on the map and opened the doors for him to create such films as Hostel and its sequel.

Films with the same luck as Cabin Fever are extremely, extremely few and far between, so I would never, ever hold my breath about a theatrical release. It is too much of a deliberately niched film that it just would not suit anything more than the straight-to-DVD horror market.

[Fez]

As I said before, this will at least get you a place in the industry and you can climb the ladder from the bottom. Who knows? You could be directing Batman 19 in ten years time.

Good luck Missy

[Misawa]

Haha. I certainly wouldn't mind having my name in the credits of The Dark Knight . No one should bother with more Batman interpretations when Nolan's finished I reckon.

Well, I wouldn't say the bottom of the ladder!

[Fez]

Yeah, but somewhere near there.

Offtopic : I'm surprised to see how popular Batman became after it's comeback, maybe if Nolan pulls a oopsie then you could revive it... again

I don't think I know anyone, who wouldn't want to be in that film. I know someone who's father auditioned for one of the minor roles in Batman Begins, he travelled all the way from Belfast to London, just to say his lines for 5 minutes, he didn't get through though

[Misawa]

Yeah, no one knew what to expect from Batman Begins. It took the franchise in a whole different direction, it was a new interpretation rather than relying on the exact history of Batman with the comic books. Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns are both excellent films, but once he stopped, the other two films were horrendous, then Chris Nolan took the helm starting things fresh. I still prefer Burton's two over Batman Begins, but The Dark Knight is better than all three I feel.

[today]

As I said before, this will at least get you a place in the industry and you can climb the ladder from the bottom. Who knows? You could be directing Batman 19 in ten years time.

Good luck Missy

Really? No lol.

Yeah, but somewhere near there.

Offtopic : I'm surprised to see how popular Batman became after it's comeback, maybe if Nolan pulls a oopsie then you could revive it... again

I don't think I know anyone, who wouldn't want to be in that film. I know someone who's father auditioned for one of the minor roles in Batman Begins, he travelled all the way from Belfast to London, just to say his lines for 5 minutes, he didn't get through though

I wouldnt want to be in it. :eusa_whis

[Misawa]

Another production company has taken a keen interest in the script and have said that they definitely want to produce it, with me personally free to direct if I'd like. The only problem is that they do not finance, but the producers have many contacts who finance independent horror and with the names of Stormy Daniels and Misty Mundae attached, two girls with huge cult followings, it will not be hard at all to sell the film. They are very enthusiastic, so I may take their route, I will see how the other company who claimed to have interest in the film responds to me, and the same goes for the third that wanted to read the script.

Absolutely fantastic news. Getting closer and closer.

[Favourtism]

Good luck with it ^