"IceBreaker" Editing Continues

Last night Chad and I were able to get two finish getting two more key scenes cut together. Only two scenes remain, and they are two of the more intensive scenes in the film.

We're still in negotiations with a couple of post-houses in town for our color correction and graphics work, and have a promising lead on a good guy to finish out our audio stuff.

The "Horror House" production that we are working on starts production on June 3rd in St Paul. As always, check www.horrorhousemovie.com for details and updates on that.

Dear sister...

Another GRINDHOUSE trailer- sorta...

Acuna Boys

The 'COMING SOON' intro still plays at the Zumbrota State Theatre in Zumbrota, MN.

I loved the movie "Grindhouse". At this years SXSW Film Festival, Robert Rodriguez held a contest to see who could make the best Grindhouse-style trailer. Here are the results (not for the faint of heart!!!):

Winner:

Hobo With a Shotgun

Runner Ups:

Maiden of Death

The Dead Won't Die

Honorable Mention:

El Jardinero

As I find more I will post them. Enjoy!

Here are the trailers that played with 'Grindhouse' theatrically:

Edgar Wright's "Don't!"

Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving"

Rob Zombie's "Werewolf Women of the SS"

Robert Rodrieguez's "Machete"

We spent most of yesterday on a location scout for the upcoming HORROR HOUSE shoot, but we were able to meet with one of the bigger post houses in town. The meeting went well and their facility is amazing. Today I am sending them the rough cut of the first five scenes and we will wait until Friday for a quote on color correction, ADR, sound mixing/editing, and some credits/graphics work.

On our way over to see Justen Overlander get a head mold done (again, for HORROR HOUSE), we ran into ICEBREAKER Associate Producer Jeremiah Jacobson. A brief chat ensued and we were on our way.

Exciting stuff.

All right, things are official now. Streckfus Entertainment has secured a very generous investor and we should be taken care of through post, and hopefully up until the festival circuit.

I believe she would like to remain anonymous, but thank you! You know who you are!

http://www.hammerfilms.com/

I was really into these films when I first started college. Good to hear that they won't die off.

Well, our meeting with the post house was cancelled yesterday due to an emergency there. Oh well, these things happen. We will probably be rescheduling for Monday.

We have a conference call this afternoon with our attorney to finalize our investment contracts.

Spider-Man 3
Sony Pictures Releasing
Weekend gross: $151,116,516
Weeks in release: 1
Number of screens: 4252

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The Harry Putter premiere was last night. I am proud to say that this is a great little film! Gus did a great job putting it together in editing. There was a great turnout (prob 100 or so people). We got to see a bunch of people that we worked with on IceBreaker- Matthew Feeney & Jeremey Gustafson of course, Jim Westcott (extras wrangling), Stephanie Allensworth (publicist), Melanie Nolan (extra) and last but not least the Barancyzk clan. It was a great night of fun. Nice job Gus and Feeney!

Onto some IceBreaker related stuff-

Our post meeting is coming up with a local post house on Weds, so I will let you know how that goes on Thurs.

Editing continues...we are still on schedule for the '08 Sundance deadline.

"HARRY PUTTER AND THE SORCERER'S PHONE"

This is a short film written, directed and produced by Jeremy Gustafson, one of the Executive Producers on "IceBreaker". The world premeire is tonight in Minneapolis. For more visit- www.harryputtermovie.com.

I ASSURE YOU, ICEBREAKER IS STILL ALIVE!!!

Well, I have returned. Although it may not seem like it, but we have been busy. We have been working on securing our post-production funds, getting a new lawyer and...oh yeah, editing the film.

First off, we are very close to securing some funding for all the post work (ADR, audio mix, credits, color correction, poss. an animated title sequence)- I won't say anything until things are official.

We have secured the services of a very noteworthy attorney with a large local firm.

Chad and I had a marathon editing session last week, and have about 2/3 of the film in rough cut form. It is coming together nicely and is looking great. We were concerned about the pacing of the film, but it really does move right along.

This is going to be a great movie!

We are meeting with a local post house next week to discuss the above mentioned items, so I will keep you posted on that.

In other news, we are still preparing for the HORROR HOUSE shoot starting June 3rd. Our key crew has been selected and we are currently in the midst of securing the final locations. I will be starting on shot lists this week. For all things Horror House related, check here: www.horrorhousemovie.com.

That's all for now, I will be making more regular updates than I have over the past few months, so please keep checking back. Thanks to all our loyal supporters!