Hell looks a lot like L.A

After some late night creative "googling", Kevin and I found out that "Plasterhead" has since been released in Japan (12/26/08), Singapore (1/6/09) and soon to be Germany (6/26/09). I must say it's incredibly difficult to search for a film in Japanese, especially when the film has been renamed "No Face" ("No Face" or, The Noppera-bo is a faceless ghost in Japanese mythology.) While this is great news it has also opened a can of worms...

What's disheartening is that we actually had to search the internet for our film's release dates, rather than having our producer rep's send us a simple producer's report detailing when the territories were released and when we could expect payment. What's more frustrating, is that we were led to believe these territories had not yet been released (or that some deals fell through). In the last year, there has been a severe lack of communication with our producer's reps and it's been hell trying to get in contact with them (Too busy trying to sell Direct to DVD Jimmy Fallon/Tom Arnold films...)

There is a whole slew of other issues. For one, Japan is broke and has delayed payment for the time being. Secondly, our producer rep's claimed they never delivered to Germany, yet somehow a release date and box art is ready to go (Which means something was delivered). More Headaches.

Bottom line...we shot this film when we were twenty-two and I will be turning twenty-six in a few weeks. We've declined to have our film represented this year at Cannes (the market right now is terrible). We are ready to begin work on a new film (and have), however, after almost 6 months of unemployment, 3 months of travel and no savings this year, the foreign money that is owed to us better make it's way into my mutual fund before the end of the year. We'd like to put the past behind us and move on...for good, but first we want what's been earned.