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Big Day Tomorrow

Posted by Gabby So. Tomorrow is the big day. The big one. The one we have all been waiting for. I listened to Giant Steps by Tony Robbins again this morning, what a fucking great tape. It’s like everything you need to know, all of life’s wisdom summed up in two easy hours of listening. I am ready for this meeting. Tomorrow I am going out to dinner with one of Donner Films...

Mar 7th

More Medea Please

Posted by Tex Tyler Perry just signed a deal to shoot two more films this year. This guy cranks movies out like he’s on…well crank. Hey Tyler, here’s some ideas for followups to your current lineup: - The Great Medea Caper - Pirates of the Medean: Dead Man’s Medea - Medea vs. Mechamedea - Medea: A Spike Lee Joint - You’ve Got Medea (in Seattle) - The Curious...

Mar 5th

Interview Sneak Preview with the Quintana!

Posted by Ethan Looks Like Barking Spiders is ahead of the curve! Julian Quintana wants to get into sci-fi?! Check it out! Filmonomicon has a great preview of their interview with Julian Quintana coming out next month! From: Filmonomicon Magazine “The Cool and The Dead: An All-Too-Brief Conversation with Julian Quinatana” Julian Quintana’s films include “Where Rats...

Mar 5th

Michael Mann Ready to Rock Your Junk. Again.

Posted by Ethan Damn. Thats what i’m talking about. Michael Man lives up to his last name yet again. I just watched the new trailer for Public Enemies and it looks like the director of Manhunter, Heat, Last of the Mohicans, and Collateral is ready to out-machismo himself once more. The manly deck is stacked in favor of this movie. First of all it’s about a bank robber. Fuck yes....

Mar 5th

Note From an Actor

Posted by Ethan Hey guys, I just got an email from Cal, one of the actors in “Barking Spiders” and i thought I would share it with you. Dude is a real pro. “Hey fellow Spidermen and ladies! Just wanted to tell you all how excited I am about reading all the spider news and views on our arachno-riffic blog! My parents and sibs are green with envy over my supporting role as...

Feb 18th

“My ego doesn’t need to be told I’m an artist. I hate myself already!”

– Dan Houser, creator of Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City

Feb 18th

The Trailer Has Exploded in Your Face.

Posted by Ethan It’s here. The trailer for our first film as a creative team, Barking Spiders. (Look to the right.) Hope you like. It took a handful of all-nighters, 12 six-packs, countless bags of funyons, and several trips to a certain neighbor of mine (thanks, K), but it is now finished. And I think it’s damn fine. I would like to thank Tex for making such a crazy script,...

Feb 17th

Watch

Posted by Tex Check out the latest from across the pond - Lesbian Vampire Killers. I don’t want to say that I’m a trendspotter, but, the British did everything before we did it. Tea, tabloids, and hilariously violent uprisings against supernatural creatures. If this isn’t proof positive that we’re in a world setting itself up for a feature version of Barking Spiders, then...

Feb 17th

Opportunity

Posted by Tex A lot of my friends in my writing group (a big shout out to those guys btw) asked me about what sort of lessons I learned in making Barking Spiders. Truthfully, the first draft was very different than what we wound up shooting and as our budget dwindled, so did my “vision.” That might sound a bit regretful, but it’s actually not. Because, in the end, I feel like...

Feb 17th

Thanks, Grandma

Posted by Gabby Ethan and Tex are up finishing the trailer for Barking Spiders tonight. God bless the two of them, not that I believe in God. But it’s so damned inspiring watching the two of them work together, makes me think that this is what it must have been like for the Coens. Two brothers, sitting side by side creating something from beginning to end, making something tangible out...

Feb 17th

Director Spotlight: Stewart Raffill

Posted by Ethan Being a director, I often find myself ruminating on the merits of the other men and women who share my passion for the craft of filmmaking. There are so many people to look up to, people who have inspired me with their talent and vision. The legends, the total fucking geniuses, like Scorcese, the Coens, Depalma, Quintana and so on. Then there are people like Stewart Raffil. ...

Feb 11th

Our Apologies.

Posted by Ethan It’s come to my attention, that some people have been posting private business concerns on this blog. I wanted to take a moment and apologize to you the reader for any assholes who may have decided to air their thoughts on, oh i don’t know, lets say poster design, in this public forum. It pains me that some people are just so very ignorant as to use a professional...

Feb 10th

Jason Statham Will Kill You

Kai: Taken is quietly doing solid business. have you seen it?
Tex: no, i REALLY want to. it was #1 last week, right?
Kai: yeah. I love me some revenge film
Tex: there's always that one film that pulls us out of that post-december drought
Kai: tempted to go
Tex: it looks like a lot of fun. i love watching people get their heads slammed into things and liam neeson is just icing on the cake. when are we finally gonna get him and jason statham together?
Kai: they could single handedly start the action vengeance genre
Tex: start? dude, this year is the meat in a payback sandwich era.
Kai: I wonder if statham will jump the rails eventually and start wanting an oscar
Tex: let's hope not. unless they award oscars for head kicking. in which case...lifetime achievement. i mean, honestly, he's fucking jason statham
Kai: he has kicked more faces than I don't know
Tex: he looked at me once, and sure, it was a picture, but my balls started bleeding. like the walls in the shining
Kai: your spleen ruptured
Tex: i threw away a magazine with a picture of him in it. you know what he did?
Kai: What?  
Tex: He invented coleslaw. we're not fucking around here.
Kai: if he had a nickel for every foe he didn't kick in the face. I wonder how he'd spend his no dollars

Feb 9th

Feb 6th

The Secret

Posted by Gabby I totally started re-reading The Secret last night. Have you read this book? I have. And it is amazing. Whenever I pick it up and start reading, I suddenly feel lighter, happier, more in control. Everything we do in this life is a choice. We bring it on ourselves. We choose to get up in the morning. We choose to drink coffee or not. We choose a life in the movies. We...

Feb 6th

Sexy.

Posted by Gabby Sometimes I feel incredibly sexy. Seriously. And this isn’t something I always felt. In high school, I was ridiculously awkward. Like to the point that people felt sorry for me. I went to public school, and looking back I wish my family would have just cut the bullshit and put my sorry ass in private-fucking Catholic school. That’s where I needed to be, get some...

Feb 6th

Kudos!

Posted by Tex Kudos to April Blair and Kelly Bowe and their recently released film Private Valentine (trailer here). The film features the SUPERHOT Jessica Simpson and the always funny Steve Guttenburg (From POLICE ACADEMY!) in a story about a fluffy, bubble gum movie star named Megan Parker who suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye. She then wanders from the wreckage of a...

Feb 4th

Henry Fool. Seriously.

Posted by Gabby My favorite movie of all time is Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool. I know, what the fuck is wrong with me? I don’t know either. People can’t understand this about me, but I don’t know, I can’t explain it. People always love movies like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” or “Driving Miss Daisy.” My mom loves “Fried Green...

Feb 4th

“I steal from every movie I’ve ever seen.”

– Julian Quintana in an interview with Cinewire. You gotta love him.

Feb 4th

Day Job Perks

Posted by Ethan Yes I have a day job. Yes you do too. Yes, you are probaby at it right now reading this. And YES day jobs suck. Now that we have that out of the way. I work as a delivery guy for a company we will call “Dickshits Deliveries” to protect the innocent. MOst days my job involves getting orders from idiots, dealling with idots causing traffic and dropping things off for...

Feb 4th

Interview with a lucky punk. click. →

Posted by Ethan Yeah, Rian Johnson has some talent, but mostly he’s a damn lucky bastard. Seriously he did his own cheap film, got it some festivals and now hes doin a movie with fuckin Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, and Mark Ruffalo. Figures. I’ve done 8 films and aint nobody handin me nothin. Another glorious example of fucked up LA.

Feb 3rd

Lets Hear it for the Boy

Posted by Gabby I love Ethan. He is so fucking great. Like today, I asked him to go pick up some pantyhose for me at CVS, and what did he do? Not only did he pick up the pantyhose, but he also brought me back a Funyons grab bag. God I love that man. The other day we were hanging out, and the thing is, it’s like we don’t have to speak. Ever. It’s like we can just say...

Jan 25th

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'Sup Berg

Posted by Ethan Saw Peter Berg outside YogurtSMILE today. He had some orange swirl thing with bluberries on it. I went up and introduced myself, gave my card told him my shit. Seemed cool enough. And I don’t what the fuckin narrow critics say “Hancock” was the shit. Get us all comfortable like we’re watchin some rom-com and then BAM! smack us in the face with some Michael...

Dec 16th

Copies

Posted by Gabby Yesterday, I broke a nail on our Pentium 600 Duplex copier. I fucking hate work. Okay, that’s not true. I partially love it because I get to tell people what to do, but I hate it because what do you think is the number one most photocopied item in all of Hollywood? Screenplays. And who photocopies them all? I do. They slide beneath my fingers, one after the other after...

Dec 12th

Fuck you Coens

Posted by Ethan God dammit. God fucking dammit. They did it again. Sure. Make Malkvoich a screaming whining bitch. Make Clooney a womanizing manchild. Make Pitt a dipshit pretty boy and then shoot him in his smiling face. It’s fine. Go ahead. You can do it. Because you’re the Coen Brothers. You crap better art than most of us can even dream of. Yeah they made some missteps....

Sep 12th