What's up everyone!? It's been a while since our last post. So I wanted to check in really quick.
First, a couple weeks ago, we released a new podcast episode, "Torture Podcast III". Once again, David Wayne Young guest hosted with us. I'd say it was a successful episode. Our next one won't be until, at least, the 29th. I believe we only have three more before until the end of this season. Following those, we'll take a month break from the show as we usually do. Next up, the wait continues for the release of our new short film, ANOTHER DAY COLDER. Sorry there hasn't been any news as of late. I've unfortunately been taking my sweet time trying to see if we can do anything special for it at all. Regardless, I'm starting to believe that everyone will be seeing it some time in October. We'll get a specific date out there soon. Lastly, I just wanted to lay mention for any Wichita locals out there, we have joined in sponsoring Horror Fest 2017. An annual event put on by the awesome people of Wichita Big Screen at the Old Town Warren through the month of October. For anyone unaware, this group stays up to date on all the special screenings happening in the various Wichita cinemas. I owe many of my best theater-going experiences over the last couple years to these guys. So for details on this, go visit their Facebook page HERE for any information regarding screenings. There's a lot going on behind the scenes here. Can't wait to give more updates in the future. -Tyler
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How've ya been? Good? That's great. We have been making a lot of progress on our end. In fact, that's what I'm here to talk about. I'll try to break all of this down, because there will be quite a bit of information... WE ARE AN LLC: So for the last few years, we've been working towards having most of us in the same place and officially becoming an LLC. This year, we accomplished both of those things. Personally, I'm so happy to have reached this point. We have been working very hard to get here and we can finally start moving even further along. I have to give major thanks to David Young. Without him, we would still be sitting around wondering where to start. WEBSITE 4.0 UPDATE: Since you are here, you've probably noticed the update. This is definitely the biggest one so far. I've been holding back on going with the more modern website design because for a long time, they just looked ugly to me. But I'm actually really pleased with how this tuned out. I feel like everything is a bit more streamlined. You may have noticed that we have new photos as well. Special thanks to Scott Reacher for helping us take the group photos on Friday. We have also added a few new things in the "Our Work" section. Specifically, ANOTHER DAY COLDER and a section for Comics with a promo for A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY. Neither of these things are actually out yet, but will be coming fairly soon. I wanted to include them as part of the portfolio. I will talk more about the comic later. In the "About Us" section, we have updated the personal profiles of each of the members and added a new introduction video. We figured it was time to replace "WHAT IS ILLUMINATION CINEMA!?". It was a little out of date. I'm very happy with the new video and hope you enjoy it. Additionally, we will be launching a new page soon. The page will be called "Services". It will be full of different jobs you can hire us for both locally and online. I still need a bit of time to get the page ready, so it will probably be up some time next month. OUR PROJECTS: We've been posting quite a bit on social media about all the aforementioned topics as well as some work on our current projects. There is still quite a bit we aren't prepared to talk about. But we have been extremely busy balancing a lot of stuff. Pretty much everyone in the company has something that they are working on right now. In general, we've been recording several voice over performances, storyboarding for our current feature, punching up scripts and working on getting ANOTHER DAY COLDER set up with a release date. As promised, I want to briefly talk about the comic. It is based on a screenplay I wrote a couple years ago and it's being illustrated by Beth. I just finished looking over the sketches for the first issue and it is turning out really great. I'm not sure when it will be rolling out, but I'm very excited for it to happen. I'll tell you more when I'm able to. As for everything else, I can't say much. But I'm equally excited about those things too. PODCASTS: While David Young was in town, he, Chris and I recorded two podcasts. One being "Directed to Dumpster Vol. 2". It was released a few days ago and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. There will be another episode going up (hopefully) on September 1st. After that, I believe the episode releases will be a bit slower. Anyway, that's all I've got for you today. I hope you'll stay tuned for everything coming down the pipeline. The future is looking pretty bright right now. -Tyler So we haven't exactly been subtle about this seeing as we've posted several behind the scenes images on Instagram and Twitter. But for the last few months we have slowly been putting together a new short film. This one is written and directed by one of our newcomers, Beth Christine. The short is called ANOTHER DAY COLDER. There are a few stills from it below. The truth is, the short is completely finished and we're pretty happy with it. Right now we're just reviewing several options for how we're going to release it. We'll let you know if anything special is going to happen. But you will more than likely be seeing this near the end of the year.
So what else are we doing? That's a great question. This year might be looking a little bare in terms of content, but there is a lot going on behind the scenes. The biggest thing we are working towards this year is getting the company officially set up. If you didn't see the news before, Chris, Beth and I are all in one place now. Lots of things have been and will be changing very soon. We recently added David Cantu (who you might recognize from LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT or as the voice of God from BRIMSTONE TERRACE). Unfortunately, I also have to announce that, technically, we can no longer have our best Aussie pal, Jamie Zin, as a part of the group. It was probably inevitable. We've been working for a long time to make this a more local operation. But fret not! Jamie will still come on the podcast, do voices and write with us. It'll basically be the same as always. Also, he will always be the foundation for our podcast rating system, so his spirit will live on forever. In terms of creative projects, we have said before that we are currently working on our second feature. This year we are in early production and will be getting much deeper in next year. So basically, this project is mostly my problem for now. The other one is something a little bit different. Back in 2015, I wrote a script for a feature (or mini-series) and over the past few years, a couple people have taken a crack at producing it and have fallen short of actually doing so. So I've decided that we will producing it as a graphic novel, illustrated by Beth. She has been working on character designs and everything looks really great so far. I would have been disappointed if this script never saw the light of day, so I'm glad we are doing something with it. We also have a couple other things that we want to try to do soon. Some of which you may see sooner than others. It all depends on how things play out. Lastly, we come to the podcast. This month we have posted episodes on Martin Scorsese and Disney Films. Both of which turned out pretty decent. The latter features David Wayne Young. We have some other cool episodes coming up soon. Some with very cool guests! So stick around for those. I do believe that's all I have for you today. Check back in a couple weeks for another podcast episode! -Tyler |
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