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Wednesday, September 13
Gamers The Movie makes Deal with Diamond Comic Books
by
Christopher Folino
on Wed 13 Sep 2006 01:02 PM PDT
Starting in October, Gamers The Movie will appear in Diamond Comic Books catalog which is distributed to almost every comic book store in America. Stores will be able to order the movie and in November the DVD will be on the shelf. The best part of the deal for us is that is non-exclusive and we will handling the DVD distribution to Diamond Comic book directly. We are excited about phase 1 of getting the DVD out the public. Now please go order some movies!
Gambling on Football to pay for Film Festival Submission Fees
by
Christopher Folino
on Wed 13 Sep 2006 04:07 AM PDT
Once we finished our movie, we thought we had ourselves a "little indie film that could!" Oh, the dreams of being at a major film festival, wearing black and telling the world that our film can cure "Cancer", It was all so beautiful.
Well, you learn right away that mockumentary films are considered by festivals as the lowest form of entertainment. Perhaps on the same par as Reality TV or the programming on the Sundance Film Channel.
The worst part is, that it's expensives to enter these contests and they add up quickly! I ended up paying like $700 dollars to enter the movie into the various festivals.
Around this time, executive producer and the man who sounds truly like the character Puss N' Boots, Fernando Velloso, was starting to gamble online and he asked me if I knew anything about Football and I told him I was okay and he said "Prove it!"
So, with a 50 dollar investment, I slowly built up the winnings to $700. This was my first time ever gambling on Football and dear baby Jesus wrapped in cotton candy, it was awesome!
The Patriots kept winning each week and I truly believe they did it for "Gamers The Movie". Thank you Tom Brady and company, I may end up putting you in the movie credits.
So football season ended and every time I went to get the money out from the web site, the sons-of-bitches have rules for what time to call for withdrawing money and then I lost the credit card and it was a whole big mess.
So fast forward to this years football season, I decided what the hell! We have no distribution deal, and the deal we are trying to make that we announced on the podcast with Team Femont appears to be turning a bit south. (Yeah, I am more than a little bumped out at the moment)
So what does one do? Already $130K in debt? Well, you bet on more football for "Fuck Sake!"
And you chose the Colts, because, they're from Indy and "Gamers the Movie" just won "Best Indie film" at Gen Con in Indy! So, it was like a direct message from God!
God wants "Gamers The Movie" to win at football, he may not want it to see it get a distribution deal, however, the God I believe in....loves the football.
And man, did my God make me suffer, the Colts were minus three to win, so with a minute left in the game they are 2 points ahead of the Giants. I need another 2 points to win to cover the spread!
A ref blew a call that really screwed the Giants (Thank God) and as luck would have it, Manning Jr. throws an interception which leads the Colts to make a field goal and "Gamers The Movie" just doubled it's money!
So now we have about $1,350 dollars from gambling! To quote a great movie "It was a miracle day!"
Here now is your chance to vote on what "Gamers The Movie" should do? I really have no plans on taking anyones advice, I sort of making irrational choices on my own every day.
However, anyone who is reading this blog is a little fucked up, so I will of course listen and take to heart what you say.
Here now are the choices
Choices
1. Double down this week on a football team and try to get the pot to $2,700, then use that money to get a real film rep. One who has made a movie that we have all have heard off, instead of the last guy who made films like "Whores on a stick part 7" (Part 5 was the best, it made me cry when the whore was placed on the stick.)
2. Double down and then use the money to pay for advertisment in either Comic Books or an RPG magazine.
3. Put the money in the bank and pay off debt.
4. Other?
Go ahead and post your choices or select number four and tell me what you think?
Yes Pro Gambling and Indie Filmmaking, what a winning combination. The fuck if Kevin Smith ever had to go through this shit.
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