PART I – PART II – PART III – PART IV 2006 will go down as one of the worse years of my professional life. There isn’t any aspect of my abilities that I haven’t completely doubted this year. There were a lot of dark paths that I went down in 2006, a lot of [...]
PART I – PART II – PARTIII The test screening was held in a suburb of NEW YORK CITY at a Mall movie theater with bad sound and projection. This was actually in the same area where we did our BLAIR WITCH test screening. This is one of the places where studios go to test [...]
PART I – PART II “It’s not scary enough.†“It doesn’t work the way we thought it was going to work.†The message from FOCUS was loud and clear, they expected something else from the film. We were all disappointed but we knew we had something cool and they were looking at a very rough [...]
PART I The ALTERED saga began with a cool little script called PROBED back in the fall of 2003 or so. Jeff Johnsen, an upstart producer that had been crucial to the early internet success of BLAIR WITCH, sent it to me after months of searching through INKTIP (which is a great site to find [...]
That’s the headline that came to mind as soon as Gregg Hale told us the news that sunny Orlando day back in March or April of ‘06. I honestly have tried to forget the exact date. Gregg, one of the producers of ALTERED, had gotten the call the night before from executive producer Bob Eick, [...]
