Just saw a bit of the new Audie & The Wolf DVD being put together by the producers. It was authored at Titra Film in Glendale. I’d initially offered to do the authoring, but this year’s workload has been way too heavy for me to take on designing a full DVD release, especially knowing my penchant for going overboard with DVD features like I did on the Bleak Future release. The Audie disc is a DVD9, which means it holds more space than the usual DVD5, which means they had to compress the HD LESS to fit on the disc, which means it’s a good quality picture for the movie itself. Plus, the audio is 5.1 Surround, with the option of going simple stereo. The only other features are Spanish subtitles and Closed Captions, Scene Selection with motion menus (all the motion menus on the disc get rather annoying actually), and a Behind The Scenes video and a Deleted Scenes video that I hurriedly cut together a few months ago.

The Deleted Scenes contain the original Rachel/Rina scene as Rachel comes home with the Wolf, an extended Jane and John dancing scene, and the original Father Bailey ending where he tries to exorcise the Wolf. I cut that out because it just felt a bit flabby, despite the great performances. The artwork all over the menus, and presumably all over the package itself, as I haven’t seen it yet, will be Miguel Martinez’s key art that we used for the foreign key art deliverables to our sales agents at Multivisionaire – the dogbowl/blue sky art. All and all, happy to get it to dvd and move on to the next thing. Sad to report that the producing team really imploded this year. I’m looking forward to a new team and some better vibes.

Oy it this is a new post I made from my iPhone. Isn’t it meaty? Shit giddn if this ain’t the wave of the future.

Who knew? My film Audie & The Wolf is getting into film festivals left and right. Pretty goddamn fucky cool if you ask me.

Cinequest Film Festival – San Jose – Feb 28 and Mar 3
SENE Film Film Festival – Rhode Island – April 4
Buffalo-Niagara Film Festival – New York – Tues May 5
Another Hole in The Head Film Festival – San Francisco (Date TBA)
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival – Sat Apr 25

More details as they come in over at the Audie & The Wolf official site:
http://audieandthewolf.com

Audie’s been selected to play the 19th Annual Cinequest Film Festival as part of the New Visions Competition, where it will be eligible for the New Visions Award and the Audience Award. Our screening dates are:

SAT, 2/28 – MIDNIGHT (Camera 12 Cinemas)
TUES, 3/3 – 9:30PM (San Jose Rep Theatre)

See you in San Jose!

B.

Hey, whatta ya know? I just completed a new draft of the stalker-comedy Francis Hamper, a project that’s been on the back burner for quite some time now, due to Audie & The Wolf and producing and co-writing Boppin’ At The Glue Factory, both of which are finally hitting the festival circuit. The new draft boasts a tighter page count, signficantly less mucking about with b-characters, and a stronger throughline for the main character himself, Mr. Francis Hamper.

My Dearest Friendos,

In the interest of taking a break from bludgeoning you with bulletins about the AUDIE AND THE WOLF PREMIERE, but not really, I offer you the top ten reasons why you should come see the World Premiere of Audie & The Wolf on Thursday August 14 (details at http://audieandthewolf.com)

TOP 10 REASONS TO ATTEND THE AUDIE & THE WOLF WORLD PREMIERE

10. The Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles is making its debut. This is the first festival ever for the DFFLA. You get to be a part of Los Angeles history and help make it happen. Also, you can put this on your resume. But not really.

09. The party afterwards is sure to be a saucy, delightfully shallow endeavour. Come get loaded and pretend you’re not one of the shallow ones.

08. Boost your street cred and take the subway to the theater. Super close! Walk 2 blocks and you’re there. Perfect for all you health conscious fucktards who think exercise is good for you.

07. Free alcoholic drinks in the theater lobby before the show, courtesy of the festival sponsors and your liver.

06. This is a one-time event. A film only premieres once. You’ll be able to say “I was there.” Or “I was there. And it sucked. Holy fuckballs, did it suck.”

05. The film will be screened in High definition HDCAM projection with 5.1 surround sound. So it’ll look like a real movie. You know – the kind of movie you’ll fork over $14 for at the Arclight this Friday night starring Jack Black which will hit dvd and pay-per-view in 12 minutes and no one will remember in 13.

04. You can meet the stars of the movie, live in person, and harrass them for autographs, real estate, or financial advice.

03. It’s playing at a beautiful old-fashioned MOVIE PALACE. http://losangelestheatre.com to see what I’m talking about. This place was once saved from ruin during the Depression by a donation from none other than Mr. Charles Chaplin himself. (He’s the funny movie guy who looked like Hitler.)

02. The only thing on TV you’re missing that night is the Olympicsand Big Brother, and Ugly Betty. And Assmasters 12, if you have adult pay-per-view.

01. 100% of all ticket proceeds go to the Retarded Childrens’ Poker Fund. Yes! It’s true! Nothing beats a helmeted Royal Flush.

And yes, these will probably be repeated via another email blast. Get on the list at http://audieandthewolf.com

Shamelessly,

B. Scott O’Malley