Saturday, June 28, 2008
Hooray for Hollywood
I don't know if any of you remember, because I almost forgot myself, that almost TWO years ago, my husband fell back-asswards into a part in a movie. Or should I say "film"? A real, official type movie with S.A.G. regulations and all that stuff.
You don't have to click that link; basically what happened is, he happened to be at a motorcycle shop when the Production Assistant came in looking for "Biker" extras to be in a movie, so my husband basically took charge and contacted everyone he knew, which is basically everyone, and then two days later after they had filmed all the motorcycle scenes, out of all people, the director told the Production Assistant to get that big biker guy back for a speaking part, to play the bouncer at the concert scene.
And then...nothing.
I kept checking the movie website and the IMDB ( Internet Movie Data Base ) website for at least a year and at first it said "in production" and then after a couple months it said "post-production" for well over a year. At some point I thought, well, it's been scrapped or shelved or whatever those movie people say. I would occasionally check the IMBD and still nothing had changed. So I was pretty bummed out that my husband ends up in a movie that never got completed.
Well, I happened to check the other day and the film was premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival! Sweet! Except I'm pissed that I didn't know about it and didn't go. Who wouldn't want an excuse to hang out in Newport? (California, the O.C., that is. Newport, Oregon is pretty scungey. Cute, but scungey.)
Then I thought, who knows, maybe his part got cut out? Oh noes! Yeah, you know how I'm the picture of positive thinking. Then I thought, screw it, I'm e-mailing the director and ask. He wrote me back almost immediately (shouldn't he be busy, like, doing Hollywood type things?) and he totally remembered my husband, even his nickname, and said, "Of course, his part's still in the movie!"
Yay! My husband is still a movie star!
He said they're trying to find a distributor right now (I'm not sure what that means?) and trying to get it into other Film Festivals.
And I use the term "star" loosely, as people may use the term "film" loosely in this case, I'm sure. Like I said in my original post, it really looks like a dumb movie (where do they get all this money to produce a really bad movie?) but when it comes out (I would hope on video, at least?) I will let you all know so you can waste two hours of your life watching a dumb movie, but hey, it's almost better than the chance you take grabbing any other unknown movie (I mean, film) at the video store, eh?
Oh, and be sure to ask for the "2008" release of that title. There's another film by that name and it's a porno flick. Heh. That would be embarrassing if you got that one and were watching it, thinking you were looking for my husband and his bit part.
Hah!
Bit part, get it? Oh, sorry honey. I was just saying if they got the wrong movie and watched it and here I am saying you had a small part.
That would be classified as a "comedy".
Daily Prayer:
Hollywood, here we come!
Would you be interested in seeing the movie? I mean, "film"?
You don't have to click that link; basically what happened is, he happened to be at a motorcycle shop when the Production Assistant came in looking for "Biker" extras to be in a movie, so my husband basically took charge and contacted everyone he knew, which is basically everyone, and then two days later after they had filmed all the motorcycle scenes, out of all people, the director told the Production Assistant to get that big biker guy back for a speaking part, to play the bouncer at the concert scene.
And then...nothing.
I kept checking the movie website and the IMDB ( Internet Movie Data Base ) website for at least a year and at first it said "in production" and then after a couple months it said "post-production" for well over a year. At some point I thought, well, it's been scrapped or shelved or whatever those movie people say. I would occasionally check the IMBD and still nothing had changed. So I was pretty bummed out that my husband ends up in a movie that never got completed.
Well, I happened to check the other day and the film was premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival! Sweet! Except I'm pissed that I didn't know about it and didn't go. Who wouldn't want an excuse to hang out in Newport? (California, the O.C., that is. Newport, Oregon is pretty scungey. Cute, but scungey.)
Then I thought, who knows, maybe his part got cut out? Oh noes! Yeah, you know how I'm the picture of positive thinking. Then I thought, screw it, I'm e-mailing the director and ask. He wrote me back almost immediately (shouldn't he be busy, like, doing Hollywood type things?) and he totally remembered my husband, even his nickname, and said, "Of course, his part's still in the movie!"
Yay! My husband is still a movie star!
He said they're trying to find a distributor right now (I'm not sure what that means?) and trying to get it into other Film Festivals.
And I use the term "star" loosely, as people may use the term "film" loosely in this case, I'm sure. Like I said in my original post, it really looks like a dumb movie (where do they get all this money to produce a really bad movie?) but when it comes out (I would hope on video, at least?) I will let you all know so you can waste two hours of your life watching a dumb movie, but hey, it's almost better than the chance you take grabbing any other unknown movie (I mean, film) at the video store, eh?
Oh, and be sure to ask for the "2008" release of that title. There's another film by that name and it's a porno flick. Heh. That would be embarrassing if you got that one and were watching it, thinking you were looking for my husband and his bit part.
Hah!
Bit part, get it? Oh, sorry honey. I was just saying if they got the wrong movie and watched it and here I am saying you had a small part.
That would be classified as a "comedy".
Daily Prayer:
Hollywood, here we come!
Would you be interested in seeing the movie? I mean, "film"?
