The Hollywood Weather Report

6th February 2012

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Be a Bart-head

BART DONATER: Hey, Jeremy, where can I get a sweet copy of your sweet movie, Zeus?

JEREMY: Actually Bart, if you donate to the Zeus Kickstarter you get a copy of the movie along w/ some other sweet stuff like t-shirts and movie posters.

BART: Whoa! That does sound sweet!  I’m donating 10 million dollars right now! 

JEREMY: Thanks, Bart!  I’ll send you a medium t-shirt as soon as they’re printed!  Nice mustache!

And scene!

Be more of a Bart-head this week.  Donate to Zeus and get sweet t-shirts, movie posters, a copy of the movie, and a whole bunch of other really awesome shit that really awesome people made.  We only have 8 days left, so please spread the word.  $1 can help us reach our goal!  Here’s a link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1837111843/zeus

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24th August 2011

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ZEUS Phone Interview

Well, I just did an interview about Zeus w/ the Olean Times Herald.  There should be an article this Friday.  I remember parts of what I said, the rest I blacked out for.  Make sure you grab a copy of the OTH this Friday and tell me what I said.

Also, Zeus is screening in Olean this Saturday Aug. 27th at 7pm at JCC’s Cutco Theater for FREE!  Let’s pack the house!

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16th August 2011

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ZEUS Premiere: Round 1

Dave’s neighbor throws rocks.  We figured that noise would be a non-issue seeing how we planned to premiere Zeus at 9 pm on a Friday evening in Dave’s backyard.  He’s had comedy shows, numerous raucous parties, and film screenings back there before this.  Plus the crowd was only about a dozen strong by the time we’d started the movie, but as soon as the opening credits rolled, shouts of “Turn your TV down!” were hurled over the fence.  And then a couple of rocks. 

First of all the sound was shit.  This guy didn’t know what he was telling us to turn down.  We didn’t really test the speakers before the screening, instead we just jammed some cords into the side of our Macbook Pro and hit play.  So it came as a little bit of a relief that Dave’s neighbor, the rock thrower, turned out to be a huge asshole.  So we moved the screening inside.  Jokes on the rock thrower though because we turned the volume on Dave’s 52-inch Sony flat screen to 90; not to mention that the film looked and sounded way better in a confined area.

Oh yeah, and this was the first ever public screening of Zeus.  The first time anyone outside of friends and family had seen this thing that I’d been laboring on for the better part of three years.  The dozen party goers-turned movie viewers-turned rock duckers were all friends or at least friends of friends, so I was only slightly nervous to screen Zeus for them.  Whether I knew them well or not, I still held their opinions of my work in very high regard, the kind usually reserved for authority figures, because these were people who live and work in Los Angeles; talented artists who create videos and music and animations on a daily/weekly/monthly basis for things like Channel 101 and actually television and movies.  These were the people that I wanted to show my film to so desperately and gain their approval. 

And I think I did.  I mean, I kind of blacked out for most of the film.  I tucked myself away in a corner and watched with everyone.  I didn’t get up to pee once even though I drank 3 beers during the screening, and not because I didn’t want to miss anything but mostly because I’d have to walk past everyone and see their faces while they watched my film.  I heard a few laughs (Angie seemed to hear more than I did, phew) and when the end credits started everyone clapped and told me good job.  I thanked them and said, “Thank you for watching my movie.  You have no idea how excruciating it is to watch that with other people.”  Everyone laughed again.  Then they went outside and smoked cigarettes and drank beer. 

I was still kind of in a daze.  I wasn’t sure what had just happened.  Did people really just watch my film and then clap for it?  Did they hate it?  I wasn’t sure.  Dave and Hunter gave me some positive feedback, tole me their favorite scenes, etc.  It’s a really weird feeling putting something that you’ve spent so much time creating out into the world for people to digest.  I’ve learned a lot about filmmaking.  I learned what still needs to be done in order to finish this film (some more sound edits and a color correction).  And I’ve learned that I want to do it over and over again starting immediately.

Zeus makes its WNY debut on Saturday August 27th at 7pm at JCC’s Cutco Theater, presented by the Buffalo Morose.  It’s free.  Be there.  But please don’t throw rocks at us.

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