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6 days ago
Mattson Tomlin
Posted project update #37First Festival!
Dream Lovers,
I'm very happy to announce that the first update of 2012 is a step in the direction we've all been waiting for. Dream Lover has been accepted to an interesting festival in Chicago! We hope to see you there with more details to come as the schedule is announced and the day gets closer. For now, check out the Indie Horror Fest!
Love,
M.
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on February 2
Mattson Tomlin
Posted project update #70Where Have We Been????
Post CommentGrundy Backers:
It has been an unforgivably long time since our last update, and for that I owe a big apology. Solomon Grundy and I have been in a battle for many months, and it's taken creative meditation and a lot of smart people to figure out the right moves.
When I first set out to make Solomon Grundy, I had just turned 19. Being undoubtedly, the biggest project of my young career, it has taken a lot to steer things in the right direction. I'm now over halfway through 21, and have undergone changes in my creative sensibilities. But Grundy is a film I made when I was 19.
That being said, there has been a lot of conflict between myself and Grundy. Some stylistic choices I would make differently now I committed to during shooting. For a time (and anyone who is an artist can probably relate) Grundy and I hated each other. In order to gain perspective on the situation, I brought in a few extremely talented and smart filmmakers and friends to go over my material with me and help get the film back on track, and as absolutely strong as it can possibly be. In essence, I've had to let go of my sensibilities of today, and trust the instincts I had at 19 and 20.
Solomon Grundy is now picture locked. The team working on it is now a small handful to push it through its final stages of post-production. Pick Bickmore, our composer, has been having Skype meetings with me from Chicago and is (literally as I am writing this) working on the score as we finish off the visual effects, sound design, and color work.
Okay, okay- this is all nice and good, but when will Solomon Grundy be released??
It's a fair question, and I don't want to give the wrong answer. In all transparency, I hit a big snag in the production which got me off track. I was unsure of what film I wanted to make, and had a rough cut that was nearly three hours long. It took a lot of work, but the final cut is a sharp, wild, and extremely satisfying, albeit unconventional 65 minutes, and I can say in all truthfulness that the time I took to sort out what Solomon Grundy is has paid off, and it is now absolutely the best film it can possibly be.
I made a promise to all of my backers to deliver a quality work that expanded on a short that you all loved, and do it well. Solomon Grundy is my top priority, and the objective is to have it released in the Spring of 2012. Many of you went on to back my short film, Dream Lover, and have recently gotten your rewards. I will be giving Solomon an equally attentive treatment in its delivery.
The updates from here on out will be less frequent that they were during production, but we are on track, and I want to keep everyone in the loop on our next and final steps. Below are three images- a production still that I have hanged on my office wall from the film, the film's official poster created by D. Yee, and a quick screenshot from my Skype meeting with Pick 20 minutes ago.
Thank you for your patience, understanding, and love. Though I will be updating with Kickstarter updates monthly and relevantly between now and the films post-production completion, you can always tune into the Official Facebook Page, where the smaller day-to-day activity will be kept up on. Thank you,
Mattson.
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on January 22
Mattson Tomlin
commented on a project updateDefinitely the second poster.
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on December 29
Mattson Tomlin
Posted project update #36First Batch of DVDs
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commented on a project updatepretty exciting.
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