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News for this year and next!

12/26/2020

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Wow. I can’t believe I haven’t made a blog post since Halloween. Yet at the same time, I can. Things have been busy around here, but there has also been a lot in the air. That said, I believe it’s time to unpack all of it.

HOLIDAY SALE
Before we start getting into the meat and potatoes, I just want to mention that we do have a holiday sale going on over on VHX and with our two films on Vimeo OnDemand. We knocked $2 off of everything. Movies, comic books, you name it. Okay, pretty much just those two things, but still. Definitely worth checking out if you’ve been wanting to get any of these things. This will be going on until December 31st.
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LEFT HOOK
This month, we’ve been releasing some fun material for LEFT HOOK on our social media pages. Mainly mini-featurettes with some of the cast. Also a special IC TRIES where we do the One Chip Challenge to bring attention to the film. The biggest development however, is that among all the other spots it has landed, LEFT HOOK can now be streamed on AMAZON PRIME! It took much longer than I would have liked to get that finalized, but I’m just glad I can finally say it.
Recently, I was interviewed on INDIES ON INDIE to talk about the film. It was nice to follow up because I also appeared on the show back in early 2018 to promote the fundraiser. It was nice catching up with Patrick Poe and I hope everyone enjoys the episode. While the main focus was LEFT HOOK, we also touched on a few other things that I can announce here today.
WISH YOU WERE HERE
David Wayne Young’s feature film WISH YOU WERE HERE, for those unaware, is a live action film we shot back in the summer of 2019. Back then, we thought it would probably be released this fall, but the world had other plans. We took our time in post-production because of this. Now I’m happy to say, the film is complete.
Release is something that we are discussing right now and we’re still figuring things out. Ideally, we would like to get things moving next spring and hopefully we’ll have better luck in 2021 as a whole. We’re all pretty stoked about how this thing turned out. While it certainly had its challenges, seeing the final product feels really nice. I mean, you didn’t hear it from me, but I’m very proud of David’s work on the movie and I’m elated that we got to work on it together.
Look forward to more updates about that one as time marches forward.
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A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY
Our current comic book, while moving slowly, is moving along. With 3 out of 5 parts released, I fully expect for this to be wrapped up next year. The idea is to finish releasing the singles digitally and then to print an omnibus for conventions.
While that is cool news, the even cooler news is the additional plans we’ve been putting together throughout the second half of this year. When the omnibus is released, we will also be putting out a motion comic movie paired with a fully voiced audio track. We pulled in several of our good actor friends to be a part of it and I’m equally as excited to get that out there as I am the other two issues. With cast members like Elijah Muldrow and Harrison Hallows leading the project, how could I not get excited!? It will be similar in presentation to this promo for Issue 3. I don’t want to give a solid timeline for it just yet. However, we do expect it to be out next year.
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THE DOG PARK
Well-well-well! Something new!? That’s right. I announced it a little sooner than I originally intended on that interview I mentioned earlier. But I couldn’t pass up the chance. Honestly, I’m super passionate about this one. It’s a big deal to me. I won’t do a deep dive into exactly what it’s all about until later, but it’s a graphic novel featuring multiple episodic stories following a very fun group of characters. They’re all dogs. Don’t worry, there are no bad dog puns or anything. They just happen to be dogs. Seriously. It’s not even a big deal.
The approach to this one will be different to that of A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY. Aside from being released all at once, we are going to try out a pre-order format through Indiegogo this time. That seems to be the common way to handle indie comics these days. Though, we do plan to have copies at conventions as well, whenever those get going again.
THE DOG PARK is a series that I used to write when I was a kid first learning to be a writer and an artist. So like I said, it’s a passion project. This time around I’m illustrating things myself and mostly writing by myself as well, with fantastic contributions from a story team of Beth and the Davids.
All of this said, DOG PARK will be more than just a comic book. We already have plans for companion cartoons and a few other fun things to go along with it. Alas, these are all things we will need to cover later as well.
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THE PODCAST
Season 7 of the podcast has begun! We kicked things off with our annual holiday special and much like last year, we tried to get as many IC peeps on the episode as we could. We will have an episode all about Mandalorian Season 2 coming up soon featuring Cantu and I. This will be the exception to our plan which is to have one episode every month. The goal is to release each of them on the last Tuesday of every month. Also, we will be premiering each of them on our Twitch channel. Speaking of…

TWITCH THURSDAYS
We’ve been going strong over on Twitch every Thursday, with an occasional bonus stream. We’ve done a couple special events for the holidays. Usually with multiple hosts and some type of theme. Something we have coming up though, for New Years Eve, we will be streaming LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT! You can follow our Twitch page and check ​the schedule to stay updated about the goings on over there. We usually also post on our social media stories whenever we’re on.
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To wrap this up, we all hope you had a great holiday season and boy, oh boy, a happy new year would certainly be nice! That’s all I’ve got for you today! Catch you later!

-Tyler

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Happy Halloween!

10/31/2020

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Boo!

Did we scare you? We stuffed this month pretty full of Halloween themed content. Or at least as much as we could given the circumstances. Here's a full list of what has dropped and links to see them.
  • NIGHTMARE DRIVE (Our newest short film!)
    • Bonus Features for NIGHTMARE DRIVE! Including an Outtake Reel and Behind the Scenes Documentary!
  • IC HALLOWEEN PARTY (An abridged version of the stream without the short films is now available)
  • The new HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 4 of our podcast is available to listen to. David Young and I talk about the 90's Dracula and Frankenstein films.
  • We also released several new IC TRIES episodes centered around various Halloween themed treats.

Hope everyone has had a Happy Halloween! Big news coming next month!
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A.S.C.M. Issue 2 & More Updates

4/6/2020

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Some of this will be old news, but we're overdue for a blog update. So here it is!

A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY
Awesome news! Last month we released the second issue of our comic book A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY! (Speaking of overdue!) Work has been in full swing for the next issue for a little while now. No word as to when it will come out, but we'll be sure to let you know. It won't be over a year, we can promise you that!
If you want to check out the new book head over to the page now by clicking HERE!
We've been doing quite a bit of work with comics for the last month, actually. Won't say too much regarding that. But it has been something fairly easy to do with all of this staying at home business. Hopefully, we'll have all kinds of updates on that soon. We're pretty excited about what we've done so far.
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PODCAST
I know for a fact that we've had several podcasts come out since the last time I mentioned them on the blog. The most recent one being our episode on Boomerang Movies. Chris, Beth and I watched a few classic cartoon films on the Boomerang app. It was a lot of fun. That one had to be done remotely, like the old days. We'll probably be doing that for the next few as well until all this crap blows over. It didn't seem to make a difference in quality though. So no loss there. We planned for very few podcasts this year to give ourselves a breather. Perhaps with the current conditions, we may increase the amount we're doing by a little bit.

OUR OTHER PROJECTS
I've been hesitant to really dig into how the current conditions have made us change plans. Mainly because things have been so up in the air for the last several weeks. That and it's just a bummer and everyone, well most people, are sick of hearing about it. However, I feel like there's plenty to be addressed, so we kinda have to.

First off! While LEFT HOOK's current line up hasn't made any changes since our last post, there have been several other events that were unannounced that were shifted around or all-out cancelled. Some of which are extremely disappointing. We planned to make a convention appearance this year, but we're having to pull out (if the event itself even proceeds) because with the change in timing, our plans for that time will no longer line up. The idea of releasing in the spring is a lost cause. The summer is more likely, but impossible to confirm. We will know where everything is truly sitting in a month or two. We've been making plans for every avenue we may come across in order to be prepared. We'll try our best to keep a level of optimism about it.

Then there is WISH YOU WERE HERE. Full transparency; I finished my edit in March and we are picture locked. Feels good to have gotten that far. We now have sound and music being worked on by outside collaborators and we are giving them plenty of time to do those tasks. A big thing we won't be able to accomplish will be ADR. Again, something we'll just have to wait for this to blow over to execute. We preemptively eliminated any worry about our window of time as we have decided to move the film's release to next year. Which may sound like a big jump, but in all honesty, if we had started the festival run in autumn, the film wouldn't have been released on digital platforms until about next spring anyway. With the beating LEFT HOOK's release is taking, I would want to see this movie suffer the same fate.

As for NIGHTMARE DRIVE, we technically haven't budged on it since February anyway. Since I haven't talked about it here, I can quickly say that we shot a majority of the live-action elements for the film already. We still need to do animation and miniature work, but that is currently on hold. We planned to get rolling again this month but we have yet to discuss the new plan. Something I'm sure we'll be meeting about soon. I'm sure the release will be effected, but I can't tell just how yet. Hard to say when there is still so much work to do and no way to do it for a little while. Yet another thing we'll tell you about when the time comes.


All of this said, I can happily say that we aren't coming to a complete and total halt. I've seen plenty of good work getting done and from the second conditions began to change, we have been discussing what can be done to keep things moving. We'll try to keep a little hope if you do!
That's all for now! Later!

​-Tyler
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The State of Everything as of Now

1/2/2020

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Sorry for the sparse updates. As you can imagine, we've been very busy. The goal of this post is to get everyone up to speed on everything we've done recently and what is to come with all of our projects.

LEFT HOOK
I'm not sure where all I have said this. The backers have known for a little while now. But, the movie is finished. We have made a few submissions and we will hopefully know when screenings will be happening in the next few months. We're very excited for people to start seeing this thing. As you know, we've put a lot of time into it. We have a plan for over-all release of the movie, however, things could always change so I will keep my lips zipped. There will be plenty of updates on this project on the future. No need to worry about that.

WISH YOU WERE HERE
In November, we re-shot a few scenes and got some additional footage. Consider this project in post-production now. We're not currently in a rush to edit it, but will probably do so this spring. We've been attacking this one a little bit at a time. For those brief moments, it is going by pretty fast. I don't want to make any assumptions for this one because it could go any which way, but I'm confident in our ability to knock this one out pretty fast once we get around to it.

HEY MAN
Right after our re-shoots, David Young put together another little project. This one is a short film made specifically for IGTV. We shot it on an iPhone with the intention for it to be watched on a phone. It was a fun experiment. This is the first chance I've had to talk about it here. You can find out more HERE!

A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY
It has been a while since we've been able to budge on this one. In late 2018, not long after the release of the first issue, Beth had a majority of Issue #2 illustrated. The entire thing has been roughed out and most of the pages had finished line-work. Work on the book had to come to a stop so that Beth could focus fully on her responsibilities for LEFT HOOK. The project has sat there ever since.
We are currently getting back on track with it. Issue #2 should actually be done very soon. I don't know when we plan to release it as we want to take advantage of the break in order to get a little bit ahead. But the long and short of it is, the comic is Beth's priority this year. We plan to get as much done as possible.

NIGHTMARE DRIVE
With LEFT HOOK in the bag, the other person who can focus their efforts on their own project is Scott Reacher. A few of the live action elements of this hybrid short film have been done, but a majority of the work is still to come. We do have a plan to execute this one and we will see how the results turn out. It'll be nice to finish this one. Most of it rests on Scott. There will be more updates on this one soon.

PODCAST
I honestly don't even know where I left off on this one. Our last update was in early October. Since then, we've ended Season 5 and launched Season 6. A lot of episodes have come out. The main thing that wrapped up was our mini-series following the Godzilla films. FINALLY! It was a chore to say the least to get through all of those. Especially when time was tight while working on LEFT HOOK. But we managed to finish it. Unfortunately, we had to cut some episodes last season to keep things moving. I tried to have episodes made without me, but nothing much came of that.
This year, the schedule is a little more loose. I haven't planned very much, so we can add to it or stick to the plan. Expect an episode a month. Give or take. Plenty of fun should be had.

That should be all for now. 2020 is shaping up to be pretty exciting. A lot of projects led by a lot of people should be making their way out and we couldn't be more excited. Last year was a little poopy considering we spent all that time working on these projects and didn't get to release any of them. The future is looking pretty good.

We'll see you in it!

​-Tyler

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Left Hook Trailer & Another New Feature!

8/30/2019

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Hey everyone!
Sorry we’ve gone so long without an update. A lot has happened and we haven’t really had time to talk about it.

LEFT HOOK
First of the two biggest pieces of news, the trailer for LEFT HOOK is now available online. It came out last month, but this is the first chance I’ve had to post about it on the website. A lot of work went into producing this thing and we are very proud of it. Check this thing out. More information soon to come.
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WISH YOU WERE HERE
As some of you may be aware (not good at keeping secrets here), we’ve been working on a new project. For those familiar with our previous history with that title, it is in fact a feature-length remake of our short film WISH YOU WERE HERE. It is very different from the original while still holding similar themes.
The new film is directed by David Wayne Young and was co-written by he and I. It stars a variety of local talent, as well as a few familiar faces.
Principal photography wrapped earlier this month, but there is still a long road ahead of us. We’ll be taking our time with post-production and more than likely, the film will be released next year. I’m very proud of our cast and crew and can’t wait to see this thing assembled.

NIGHTMARE DRIVE
At the start of July, we did a tiny bit of filming for this live action and animation hybrid short. We haven’t planned to do a whole lot of shooting for this project in particular until LEFT HOOK is out of the way, but we did a handful of special effects shots while the timing was right. There is some really stellar footage from that shoot.

Really quick, as a general notes. We have made some updates to the website. We added pages for both aforementioned projects WISH YOU WERE HERE and NIGHTMARE DRIVE, as well as teaser posters for both films (seen below). There is also a new blog-style page for our IGTV show, IC TRIES.
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PODCAST
As for new podcast episodes, we’ve got three Godzilla themed episodes with Showa (Part 5), Heisei (Part 1) and Heisei (Part 2). Then, David Wayne Young joined me in seeing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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FESTIVALS
We will be playing HOW MUCH at the No Coast Film Festival in Emporia on August 31st. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to attend. However, if you are in the area, check it out! We are in the second block of films.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Until next time!
-Tyler
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Post-Sunback, Pre-Air Cap

6/21/2019

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Hey everyone!
Time has been flying. Lots of wonderful things have happened in the last couple weeks and I will try to cover all of it.

LEFT HOOK
We're making heavy progress. I am now in the compositing phase, assembling everything and these shots are looking great. I'm so glad to finally see it coming together. We're working like hell to finish this movie and hopefully we'll reach the finish line on time.

PODCAST
There has been one new podcast episode since our last post. With LEFT HOOK picking up, things have slowed down a little bit. David Cantu, Scott and I had a chat about "GODZILLA: King of the Monsters". Our next episode will also be Godzilla related. Stay tuned for that!
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OTHER EVENTS
Recently, FALLING OUT and THE BROKEN KEY screened at the Doc Sunback Film Festival. It was a really great time! We got to see some of our filmmaker friends and watch some cool movies.
The screening for THE BROKEN KEY that I attended went very well. I missed FALLING OUT, but Cantu was present and apparently it had a good turn out.
It's been cool to see this festival grow since last year. They really brought things up a notch in quality. Can't wait to see what next year is like!

Screenings may be winding down a bit this year, at least for the short films we've already released. Maybe a couple more. I don't know.

However, one thing we do have coming up is another year at Air Capital Comic Con! Last year went very well and we're trying some new stuff out this year. The even takes place on November 16th & 17th at Century II here in Wichita.
We unfortunately won't have a new issue of A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY to release there, but there will be copies of the first issue available. Issue #2 was nearly ready, but we had to postpone the coloring process to focus on LEFT HOOK. Next year, we plan to get lots of work done on the project and have a couple issues out. We're used to multi-tasking, but a few other things had to take priority. We're totally committed to finishing it though. Won't leave you hangin'!
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Well folks, that's where I'll leave you. There are plenty of cool things brewing behind the scenes here and we can't wait to share them with you as always! With that, feel free to play spot the Tyler in the photo below! Catch ya next time!

​-Tyler
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It is now May and this is an update for May. Thank you.

5/9/2019

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A few things have happened in the last month and some of them haven't been touched on for every platform, so I'll try to go over them as quickly as possible here.

LEFT HOOK
Still working away on this. Just finished my first bout of work on the final fight scene of the film, so I'm getting close to the end of this phase. Everyone else is working on some other aspect. We're in very busy, but exciting times. Also, it's a pretty old video, but we just made an Animation Update that was given to the backers in December available to the public. See that HERE.

PODCAST
We have done a few podcasts since the last update. Including: "James Bond", "Godzilla: Showa (Part 4)" and "Ralph Bakshi". All pretty good ones. Check 'em out! More coming soon.

IC TRIES
We've done a few of these recently which can all be found on our Instagram. But the one I'm going to leave you with has been a long time coming. I sent our very own David Wayne Young his own bag of Carolina Reaper jerky (he sent us one a few months back). After much peer pressure, he finally did it. Check it out below...

I can't think of anything major happening this month. But we'll be sure to keep you updated when something comes along.

Stay gold, folks!

-Tyler
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After the IC crew tried a similar bag of jerky sent by @david_theginger , Tyler decided to send him a bag that might prove to have a little more kick...

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Golden Jamies 2019, Apex, Etc

2/27/2019

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So we've had a few things come out this month that I want to throw out there...

PODCAST:
We've had a few podcasts drop this month including a two part Golden Jamies special. Part 1 is us listing off every movie we saw in 2018 and Part 2 is our top 5 films. We also just had GODZILLA: Showa (Part 2) come out today. This year has been looking good so far when it comes to the podcast and we hope to continue this streak.

IC TRIES:
A bit of smaller content, we also have a few new posts on IGTV including videos of us trying Diet Rite and other stuff. 

FESTIVALS:
Our screening of HOW MUCH at Apex in Tucson was fairly well received, it seems. In March we have THE BROKEN KEY playing in Leavenworth, KS at the First City Film Festival. Not sure if we're going yet, but exciting none-the-less.
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​Not a lot of news this time, but it's a short month, what do you want from me!? Hope you guys had a good February and we'll see ya next time!

-Tyler
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Kicking Off Godzilla & Other Exciting News!

2/6/2019

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That title could raise some eyebrows.

PODCAST:
We recently released a new episode of the podcast. That being, the first part of our new mini-series on all of the Godzilla films! This first episodes starts off in the Showa era with Godzilla (1954), Godzilla Raids Again and King Kong vs Godzilla. This will more than likely be spread over ten parts this year. The idea is to do one every other episode. We'll see how that works out. We weren't sure what the next episode would be, but we're thinking we'll be doing the 2018 Golden Jamie Awards next. Expect that in the coming weeks.
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MORE FESTIVAL NEWS:
We attended the Kansas Day screening of THE BROKEN KEY at Doc Sunback. The film was chosen to be the first selection into the actual festival this June, making BROKEN KEY the big winner of the night. We couldn't be any happier for Fritz and the rest of the team. It was a great night and we spoke with many wonderful people. Can't wait until the festival this summer!

IGTV:
We're still experimenting with IGTV on Instagram and continuing our IC TRIES series. This time we all ate some Chuck E Cheese pizza. Some curiosity is better left alone. Keep an eye out over there for more QUALITY CONTENT.

Anyway folks, that's all I've got for you. Talk to ya next time!

-Tyler
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First Post of 2019!

1/20/2019

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Hey everyone!
We've had a bit of a slow start to a big year. We're making lots of progress on LEFT HOOK right now, chugging through our current responsibilities and planning the next phases. Today we have lots of good news, but a small bit of poopy news as well. Let's jump right in.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Some great news we got recently is that HOW MUCH will be screening at Apex Film Fest in Tucson, AZ on February 23rd. David should be in attendance and it should be a great time. More info on Apex can be found here!
We also received word that Fritz Robinson's film, THE BROKEN KEY, which we worked on, is screening at Doc Sunback's Kansas Day on January 29th! Info for that one can be found here! Also, the film will show at First City Film Fest in Leavenworth, KS. That one is in March. We may try to make it to that one, but I'm not quite sure yet. More info about First City Film Fest can be found here! 

SOME DELAYS:
Man, so I probably should've thought twice before making an announcement last time. My bad. Essentially, we've been looking at where we are on LEFT HOOK and it is becoming obvious that we need to cut back on some of our side projects to keep a good pace. The podcast is sticking around because it take virtually no effort to produce most of the time. However, we'll be slowing down production on our comic, A SCRIPT CALLED MISERY and our new short film, NIGHTMARE DRIVE. With the comic, we are nearly done with Issue 2, so at least one release should still be expected this year. But the following issues may take a while to come out due to the hiatus. With NIGHTMARE DRIVE, we will be limiting the amount of work we can do on it until LEFT HOOK is completely finished. At that point, we will be working to wrap both of these projects up. Sorry about that!

PODCAST:
We have a new episode of the podcast on DRAGON BALL SUPER: BROLY featuring myself and Cantu. It turned out to be a pretty good episode. There were plenty of laughs shared. So I hope a few of them can transfer to you. We'll have another new episode coming out pretty soon, starting a little mini-series on the Godzilla films. Should be fun!

But I have to say, that's about all I got for you! I'll be back fairly soon with a new update. So just sit tight. Until then, keep enjoying the new year!

​-Tyler
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