SUNSHINE! Hazelnut coffee! LUCK OF THE IRISH:)

I’m Scottish/Irish on one side and German/English on the other and so today I embrace my Celtic roots and I’ll be taking the afternoon off to drink some green beer and talk shop with some of my amigos. Cornbeef and cabbage is cooking so I can shift down this evening to coffee and some eats. It is a wonderful day here and yesterday I even started some lawn clean up. I can’t wait for more grill and chill time this spring/summer/fall.

I have much to be thankful for and recently we have been gathering extra materials and doing retrospective interviews and commentary for the upcoming releases of FIGURE IN THE FOREST (Aug 10th) and HEAVEN’S NEIGHBORS (Aug 27th). The masters have been delivered and we are gathering artwork and also paperwork but digging it all up took us back to some good times.

Also deals are underway on 3 other movies for release for the years end. Once signed I will make some announcements. Also many development talks are underway and we are seeing some great movement on a few of our projects. I think we might have found our lead for WILD MICHIGAN and the soundtrack is also shaping up. The idea is that the soundtrack will be called BACK TO THE ROOTS and feature popular R&B artists doing old negro spirituals and also some other famous artists doing folk songs of the same time period. We did get interest from Fantasia to do a song and more will be announced.

I’m trying to finalize a few other acting deals. RENOVATION is hard in post and folks got a 1st peek at http://www.renovationthemovie.com and I pulled an all night shoot last weekend which because of the time change messed me up. I also feel bad because at the nights end I meant to send an email to a producer friend and it went out as a text message and long short I woke him up at 4:00am…sorry! I was sending it before I went to bed in the morning so I can get an answer to some business that happened Sat. night… Phones, technologies…ahhh! Hard to keep up on it all sometimes.

We won our indoor soccer league last session only losing one game by one goal. We will see how that translates to outdoor this season. I’m taking the last indoor session off because of acting commits. I love the game but work comes first and I may be out of state for a week here soon.

Well I’m going to make this a short update because I have guests coming soon but I hope everyone is enjoying the approaching Spring.

“You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind” – Irish Saying

Ah…sunshine, birds and last night we fired up the grill full of venison steaks. Now the hazelnut is flowing and in a few hours I head to the Detroit for my 1st night on camera in our thriller “Locked in a Room.” First Robert Bradley and last week Anthony Hornus and Curtis Hall brought it. Now Johnny Demarco and I are ready to do our thing. I feel a little emotional after watching the SPIRIT AWARDS last night. I truly feel that some of the great artists that I work with deserve to be noticed on that level. I know independent spirit. I live it and while on the horizon I can see the studio system looming it moves me that people with dreams can live them. PRECIOUS is doing great at the awards and it deserves it. As I’m often dealing with star’s agents and managers and deflecting their often negativity at our “indie” status and find myself thinking that one of these movies will be THE movie that breaks though. I think I’ve done a few projects that deserved to be even more recognized but the lag between the SHOW and the BIZ sometimes created a short fall.

I think about this because the biggest pain in my butt project (YES “Wild Michigan”) is in the hands of an actress who could really change the flow. I was recently complimented by an agent/manager that I had a wonderful visual writing style and they predicted that my writing career would soon launch to the A list. If it does great but I write because I love it. I was told that is what shows on the page and inspires actors to bring it to the screen.

I will give a few great updates.

1st NEW LEADING LADY on the http://www.djperryfanclub.com site ran by the wonderful Pepper. I send her wishes and hope she feels better.

http://www.djperryfanclub.com/Shawn.html

The beautiful Shawn is another one of my co-stars from “RENOVATION” and I’m happy to spotlight her.

Also the website is launched http://www.renovationthemovie.com and will go active with trailer tomorrow.

Also things are heating up around the board. I’m giving an advance announcement to my blog followers that two of our dramas “Figure in the Forest” and “Heaven’s Neighbors” will get their wide DVD release in August 2010 here. There will be a full campaign with new trailers, DVD’s with commentary and interviews. Here are the facebook pages so please join and show your support and be plugged into all the updates.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Figure-in-the-Forest/312181314099?ref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heavens-Neighbors/342762080271?ref=ts

Also “Figure in the Forest” will play on TBN next week. It is playing late on the east coast here so you might have to record it.

TBN (Comcast channel 392) has FITF on their broadcast schedule for March 16th from 2 to 3:30 a.m. – Set your alarm – Grab a hanky and enjoy a fine Michigan-made movie.

There are more deals in the works that will take CDI films to other parts of the world. CDI also now has an official 1st look deal with Triumphant Entertainment International for domestic release. We are looking forward to a fine working relationship with them. Exciting new developments soon.

Also anyone wanting to see DJ Perry’s 1st time in a film ONE OF US actually is now on DVD via amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/One-Us-Jennifer-Jill-White/dp/B003A02O3S/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1267891618&sr=1-8

I was very inexperienced but gave it everything I had. It is worth a look to see me playing a Frat Boy:)

Well that is enough on the updates for now I have to gather my stuff to travel to the film set in about 2 hours. I hope everyone is having a wonderful morning and enjoy the day. SPRING is near!

DJ