Archive for 'Straight to DVD -- the story'
BLAIR WITCH co-director’s next film going straight-to-DVD! PART V
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 sleepless […]
Posted by Ed on December 15th, 2006 under Haxan News, Straight to DVD -- the story, Altered.
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BLAIR WITCH co-director’s next film going straight-to-DVD! PART IV
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 their […]
Posted by Ed on December 14th, 2006 under Haxan News, Straight to DVD -- the story, Altered.
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BLAIR WITCH co-director’s next film going straight-to-DVD! PART III
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 version of the […]
Posted by Ed on December 13th, 2006 under Haxan News, Straight to DVD -- the story, Altered.
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BLAIR WITCH co-director’s next film going straight-to-DVD! PART II
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 material). […]
Posted by Ed on December 12th, 2006 under Haxan News, Straight to DVD -- the story, Altered.
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BLAIR WITCH co-director’s next film going straight-to-DVD! PART I
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, who […]
Posted by Ed on December 11th, 2006 under Haxan News, Straight to DVD -- the story, Altered.
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