by Michael D. Sellers
The three days since I got back from the Bahamas have gone by in a blur, and I apologize for not blogging on Wednesday and Thursday. I’ve just been going nonstop from 5:30 AM each day……but it’s Friday now and one thing I will try to really always do is put […]
Last stop on our trip to the Bahamas was to screen Eye of the Dolphin for the townspeople of Smith’s Point — the tiny town that is featured in the film. We set it up outdoors just outside the town hall and almos everyone in the town was there. […]
by Michael Sellers
Quick notes is all I have time for…..we’re off an running in fifteen minutes:
Yesterday was another long and fruitful day. We did crew interviews all morning and are finding some good local crew — more than were available the first time. We feel we have found at least a half dozen […]
by Michael D. Sellers
We spent the morning at UNEXSO, re-familiarizing ourselves with the surroundings and planning out which of the areas we will be wanting to use. It was great to be back with our dolphin friends — all are doing well and the two “babies” — Bryland and Salvatore — have grown up […]
by Michael D. Sellers
A long and very productive day yesterday — and now a huge one looming today so I’ll have to jam through this pretty quickly.
LOCATIONS
We spent three hours at UNEXSO and were able to nail down a number of location issues. A major one concerns the need this time […]
by Michael D. Sellers
Susan Johnson and I arrived last night and we’re off and running this morning to Smith’s Point, UNEXSO, other locations, as well as looking for crew accomodation, meeting some boat owners and marine suppliers. I will provide a more substantive update later at the end of the day. In the meantime […]
(In Part 1 of this post, we left off at 3am on the morning of the first day of filming of Umiyak Pati Langit, a Filipino film that was my first feature film as a producer. My 50% partner had just driven away after telling me that his money hadn’t […]
Once a decade or so a movie comes along that is so outrageously dumb and filled with folly that the idea pops into your head–could this be the worst movie of all time? 10,000 BC is such a movie. At a minimum its among the most unforgivably dumb movies […]
Someday I’m going to put out a memoir along the lines of “Dispatches from the Trenches of Indie Film Warfare”….so along the way, I’m going to make a point of doing a post about each film–what the experience was like. This is the first installment.
It’s another Friday already — sometimes it’s very hard to believe that another week has gone flashing by. It’s frightening how fast it goes — particularly when you’re trying to get projects like WeEarth.com and Way of the Dolphin up on their feet. Here’s the update as of Friday morning, 7 March.
We’re now about 12 weeks out from the start of filming for MovieBank Studios‘ Way of the Dolphin and so I’m finding that my days are already starting earlier and going longer–no surprise there. Producer Susan Johnson has collected 794 resumes of crew applicants, which gives you an […]
I have established a “working blog” for those of us working on the Way of the Dolphin at http://wayofthedolphin.wordpress.com/ .
Thus far the emphasis has been mostly on research support to Wendell Morris, our writer, but as we go forward toward the May 19 shoot date it will […]
For all of us out in indie outposts like MovieBank Studios, the prospect of legal movie downloads progressing to the point that they become the option of choice for non-theatrical viewing is something of a holy grail….if it happens, really happens, many of the barriers that make our work […]
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As many of you know, Way of the Dolphin is not the only project on my plate — WeEarth.com is there too and in fact it’s first up. We’ve been working hard on it for a number of months and have now reached a preliminary milestone — we […]
by Michael D. Sellers
It’s with a great deal of pleasure and relief that I’m able to announce that effective February 18, Susan Johnson has rejoined the MovieBank and Quantum team and is now fully in charge of the prep and development for Way of the Dolphin. Susan produced Eye […]
I’m going to disagree with the critical concensus which is exceedingly hostile to this film and I’m going to say it works pretty well on its own terms. The operative phrase is “on its own terms”. You see, I think that the first measure we should apply to a film is — did it do what it set out to do? This film clearly sets out to provie a hundred minutes or so of light, imagery-rich entertainment that at best enables the audience to escape their own drudgery into a rum-filled, aqua-blue-green universe that just has to seem inviting to anyone snowed in or simply enduring the drudgery of winter. It’s got a good, engaging pair of stars; the story has enough character ‘hook’ — both in the McConaughey/Hudson romantic storyline, and the Sutherland/Dziena father/daughter B line — to make us care .
It’s been an enormously hectic at both MovieBank and Quantum, creating a somewhat “crazed” week at the studios, with travel and consultants and writers and more conspiring to keep me from blogging quite as much as usual. I did manage five posts over the week but they were mostly quickies. […]
Just saw this. Boatwright is a very influential Christian critic. His newsletter goes out to over 13 million readers. He gives Eye of the Dolphin highest honors in the “for teen girls” category of his rankings — not even qualifying it as an “indie” film not produced by the studios.
By Phil Boatwright / […]
From MIchael Sellers
Free Dolphin Films (name is a coincidence) announced today that they are going to release a four language version version of Eye of the Dolphin simultaneously in France, Spain, and Italy in late summer 2008. The single DVD will have all the special features of the US Edition, plus will have the […]
From Michael SellersLions Gate will be releasing Eye of the Dolphin on DVD in the UK in June…..here is their artwork which just came in. As we have discussed at various times, Adrian Dunbar who plays Hawk is quite a star in the UK and should help the sales there. In Ireland and Northern Ireland […]
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by Michael D. Sellers
I’ve had a few days to digest all the info from last week’s NATPE convention and I am going to try to summarize the key points here. We wanted to make sure we were alert to what this means for MovieBank, Quantum and of course WeEarth.
WHAT WE HOPED TO […]
by Michael D. SellersOne of you just sent this in to MovieBank Studios. Interesting. It’s a piece on Navy sonar and its effects on whales and dolphins. It’s odd — when we were making Eye of the Dolphin I remember finding quite about about Navy sonar and dolphins — but nothing like the amount of […]
From Michael SellersWoke up this morning to “Breaking News” alert on CNN and other studios — Microsoft offering $44.6B to buy Yahoo. Pretty amazing but my guess is that this is going to go through. It’s based on $31/share and Yahoo is currently at $19/share, and Microsoft needs Yahoo, particularly the search aspect, to keep […]
by Michael SellersIt’s very hectic here at NATPE and very informative. The MovieBank team has been attending seminars and having some very interesting meetings with people and internet studios who are interesting to our digital development strategies at MovieBank.Here are links to some of the companies we’ve been meeting with and talking to. We will […]
by Michael D. SellersI’m at NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) with a small team from MovieBank and Quantum in Las Vegas for the next two days. This is a very useful and important conference which this year, more than in the past when it has been more focused on traditional television programming for the major […]
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This just in from Scott Mansfield at Monterey Media:Hi Michael –We just received word on Wal-mart’s new release planner and Eye of the Dolphin will be on New release until at least February 11th. This is good newsScottScott MansfieldManaging Partnermonterey media inc. / monterey videoMDS COMMENT: When a DVD comes out WalMart carries it as […]
by Michael SellersWell, like just about everybody else, I’ve been following the netbuzz about Cloverfield and wondering whether this would launch the film (think “300”) or kill it (“Snakes on a Plane”). So I lined up with wife and a couple of 17 year old guinea pigs in tow and went to see it […]
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