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Good morning to everyone! Hazelnut coffee cheers! I had a rare restless sleep which might have been because of something I ate. I might be grabbing a Sunday nap later but overall I’m happy to report a wonderful week of updates on the personal and professional fronts. The week was quite rainy but that resulted in green springing up everywhere. We had our last indoor soccer match and I have to finish signing up for the outdoors season. I racked the wine that we talked about the last few weeks into the 6 gal glass jug to let it set for a while before bottling. I’ve been on the lookout for mushrooms but none yet. Tulips, violets and more are popping and even the lilac is starting to bud as is the apples. I planted a few seedlings and have started to get ready for a season of growth. Today is our first weekend of the flea market right down the road and so that will be fun. Nature is everywhere and I could not be happier. This week will be finalizing some business paperwork. I had a great meeting last week with our legal (Over Sushi) and we’ve been delivering materials to the home video distributor. Let’s talk about some of the updates from the week.
UPDATES:
- ROM COMS MUST DIE our dark comedy will have a first showing at the Williamston Sun Theater on May 18th at 7:00 pm with doors/box office open at 6:30. I believe this 350 seat classic theater only takes cash to be bought at the door. You are getting the early heads up before any of the postings but we hope to see you all there. Soon after the film will start booking around the country.
- WILD FAITH CHRISTMAS will be playing at the ICFF coming up 1st of May in Florida. We still don’t know the individual nominations but the film is up for BEST PICTURE at The Red Letter Awards on August 29th, 2026 so that will be another great boost for the film. The home video poster art is on IMDB.com on the film’s page.
- AI JESUS: The Secret of the Kingdom Chip is a few weeks from a watch through with all the music and sound design played into the picture. This week the end credit work will start in earnest with this being one of the more difficult steps. The BTS video is also being worked on and the final poster art created by the home video distributor will be replacing the concept art. We are all very excited about this project.
- I’m happy to say that my first draft of the follow up script to SILENT NIGHT IN ALGONA is completed. The working title is RETURN TO ALGONA and it will be polished up this week but I’m very happy with it. We’ll be doing some PR about that in the coming weeks. It is likely looking like a 2027 after Christmas filming or the run up to Christmas 2027. The financing is partially in place and we’ll see how fast it comes together once the polished draft is finished. We are all very excited to return to Iowa and tell another wonderful story from the town’s rich history. Anthony Hornus is slated to direct again working with John McGraw (AI Jesus) as the director of photography.
DEVELOPMENT: Even bullet point #4 about is about development. We are catching up on post production and so it is time to create more stories. We have a few good meetings this week that could put us into pre-production. One would be for an end-of-Summer movie and we have several other feature films developing. Maybe even a few documentary films on some really cool subjects. After my polish on RETURN TO ALGONA I am going to return to a few other scripts I’ve been working on including MBF2 and WF3. Do you know what those codes stand for? Also a financing pitch needs to come together for the 3 films with Katharsys Pictures and Lynn Drzick. I’m going to keep this section short but we do have some amazing development underway.
WRAP UP: The streamlining of CDI and getting us ready for many new adventures has been exciting. Again I would have never thought that I would be this deep in all the business of film but I’ve always been about getting things done. I keep chipping away at the paperwork and I’ve almost got that all caught up. I think many people are starting to realize that life is short and you need to go after your dreams full speed ahead. I’m not planning on ever really retiring just adjusting my pace with what I can handle. I LOVE what I do. I LOVE the people I work with. I LOVE that we can make people happy by telling them a story. I’m going to go eat some oatmeal, get cleaned up and wander down to the flea market. I might have a new character I’m creating to put into a story. Enjoy the new growth around you and within you. I look forward to talking next week and we’ll hopefully have some great news to share next week. Until next week, be good to one another.
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