First Screening!

We’ve had our first screening and I have to say it was nerve-wracking for me, especially because the HD Master was fresh from the lab and we’d had no time to pre-screen it so I was living in fear of a technical glitch but thankfully nothing like that happened — it screened beautifully, lots of [...]

We Have a Movie!

Well, I am pleased to report that today (yesterday, technically), at 5:14PM, we officially delivered the baby — Beneath the Blue came forth into the world as a complete (if not “completed”– more about that later) movie. I have not slept more than two hours in any of the last four days …….nor has [...]

Next Day – Nov 1 (actually Nov 2 12:44am)

Disaster strikes.
I kid you not. I haven’t slept more than four hours a day in the last ten days. We worked our way through the whole weekend. Halloween? Not. College football? Not. USC got absolutely hammered by Oregon and I only heard about it the next day……Is there a World [...]

October 31 — 11:40PM

Well, it’s Saturday night, Halloween — we’re still here at 11:40 and looks like another 2-3 hours before we can break, then we have to start up at 8am tomorrow and even then it looks like this will spill over onto Monday before we finish. Our actual deadline for delivering to AFM for the [...]

Apologies and a Quick Summary

Thanks for all the comments and encouragement. There have also been a few expressions of concern because it’s Friday and I’ve only gotten the ‘live blog’ up through Monday. Folks, it’s turning out to be even more intense than filming and I’m just not getting it done (the blogging). So here is [...]

25 Sunday — Shoot Day 2

6:15AM PST: Text Mark Linthicum to Michael Sellers:
“Very very windy. 30 MPH. Can’t do anything in open water — no dolphins, no jetskis. Cannot take any boats out past the jetties. Will do what we can in the pens today. Tomorrow is supposed to be bad too.”

Great.
This is [...]

24 October — Saturday: Shoot Day 1

7:00AM Bahamas/4:00AM Pacific: Mark checks in via text. “Weather is good. Built the camera last night, and the UW housing. Everything working. Houston, we are ‘go’.”. I text back that I’m happy with that and good luck, then they disappear from my view for a few hours. [...]

23 October Update–Travel Day

6:00 AM: Just got off the phone with Mark. He’s been picked up and is en route to the airport. Should be plenty of time for him to get on his 9am flight. So far so good.
7:15 PM: Problem. Mark is in line at American and the ticket, supposedly [...]

UNEXSO To the Rescue — Love You Guys!

Two days ago as we have been pushing to get the final cut done for screening at AFM, Mark Linthicum and I came to the conclusion that we really, REALLY need a few more dolphin shots for a couple of the scenes, plus some shots involving boats and jetskis. But there is no money [...]

Last Big Push Underway

We’re 10 days out from delivering a screening cut to the American Film Market for our buyer premiere screenings there November 5 and 8. It’s going to take a huge push to get it done in time but I know we can do it. I’m going to re-boot the “live blog” part of [...]