Pardon the lack on links, crazy lay-out, etc for the next few hours. I was working on the layout and accidentally F’ed everything up.
Oct
20
Super news everybody! You can now download Jesse Gimbel’s song “Drying Out Pages” here on the Filmkid site! Yay!
As mentioned in an earlier post you do have to be a member to download the song for free. OR if you don’t want to register just send me a check for a billion dollars and you can have the song without having to register. Your call. Just check out our new “Exclusive User Content” page and get your download on.
Remember, every user who downloads the song equals one dollar to Jesse Gimbel, so download it and then get all your friends to register and download it. Have them do it through Filmkid.com rather than making them a copy. It’s still free, they just have to sign up for a website and the kid gets a dollar. Giving people copies of the song is like telling Jesse Gimbel that you don’t want him to have a dollar.
 Come on. You’re gonna deny that face of a dollar?
Oct
19
No! It’s not that the DVD is done! But it should be done this weekend. It would have been done tonight but we came up with the brilliant idea of incorporating the soundtrack into the DVD release!
That’s right! Buy a DVD, get a soundtrack! The soundtrack will be available as a DVD ROM feature on the disc. Pop it into your computer and you can listen to all your favorite songs from the movie, and support the bands that made them! Now that the soundtrack is part of the direct DVD sale every disc sold not only helps fund future Filmkid projects, but also puts money back in the hands of the super talented and creative artists who hooked us up with music for the movie.
You’d just be helping scores of people by buying this disc, or several. They’ll be out just in time for Christmas, and EVERYONE loves getting special edition copies of little New Jersey Independent films… right?
That’s all for now, but expect some posts soon with more pictures of me taming Dieck’s kitten.
Oct
16
Tired of the shitty Youtube version of the trailer? Just tired of Youtube in general? Me too! So here’s the trailer in all its hi-res Quicktime glory. That AWESOME song in the background is “Drying Out Pages” by the supremely talented Jesse Gimbel, and will be available for download in its glorious entirety here on Filmkid in the near future.
Oct
16
…or at least I will. The song Jesse Gimbel did for the movie (formerly titled June Sixteenth) is now officially titled “Drying Out Pages” and it will be available to download here on Filmkid.com in the near future for FREE. Well it’s free for Filmkid.com members. Everyone else will have to pay a billion dollars, or sign up for the site, which is free. Your choice.
Oct
15
One of the bonus features we mentioned early on for the dvd was that there would be new footage. What we meant was that we were going to be using some different takes and angles but as it turns out today we shot some new footage a full two years after we shot the movie.
What is the new stuff we shot? Secret. That’s what.
Oct
13
I’ve been spending the morning putting together a page for my baby (referring to the movie as my baby. I do not, as yet, have a baby despite my name mysteriously appearing on a registry at a maternity store) And it’ll be up, in some form, by 5 o’clock today when I go to work. So you’ve got that to look forward to, even if there’s not much on the page. There will be the synopsis and all that noise, plus at least a link to the trailer on Youtube if not the trailer itself.
Just now realizing the link to the trailer on youtube has yet to be reposted :
and here’s the 5 minute clip that was leaked and that I’m very angry about (not really)
Keep on keepin’ on.
Oct
13
If you haven’t heard already the primary venue for our DVD sales is going to be Filmbaby.com. This will include our sales through Amazon.com and other ancillary markets. Basically if you’re not physically buying a copy from a member of the cast or crew of the movie it’s somehow coming through Filmbaby.com (no relation to Filmkid.com, by the way, except of course that they’re pimping our movie for us)
And that’s OK. I want as many of the sales we make to go through Filmbaby as possible. Why? Well to beat Gilbert Gottfried of course.
See, his DVD ‘Dirty Jokes’ is currently the #2 all time best seller on Filmbaby, and I want that #2 spot. The #1 spot is currently held by some documentary on heavy metal fans that I’ve never heard of and don’t much care about, but I’d love to be able to boast beating Gilbert Gottfried in sales on Filmbaby.com. It’s not that I have anything against the guy. Heck, I even like him. He does a mean Jerry Seinfeld impression. But to me it’s just more satisfying to say that I’m beating some B-List celebrity (see, if I didn’t like him I’d have said at best C-list) than to say that the sales are just “doing well”
So please, if you love Filmkid and regardless of how you feel about Gilbert Gottfried, please buy a shitload of copies through Filmbaby.
Everybody wins.
Except Gilbert Gottfried.
Oct
12
If you’re trying to log in and it won’t let you, that’s OK. I’ve got everyone’s user info backed up and will get it working soon. Until then just enjoy the new site and all of its bare-assed glory.
Oct
12
I wrote about this on the old site, but if you didn’t check in the last day or so you missed it.
Filmkid LLC is now a legit business in the state of New Jersey held in equal shares by myself and Steph Bello. The business’s primary goal is to sell and distribute DVDs of Several Ways to Die Trying, related materials, and to produce and distribute future projects.
What’s this mean to you? Nothing really. Just that we have to charge you sales tax on all those DVDs of Die Trying you’ll be buying when they’re available in Mid-November.
YEAH, that’s right. Mid-November, and for real this time. All the cats are in the bag on this one. We’ll be piecing together the menu this weekend before burning master to ship out early next week to get 1000 copies pressed and packaged. Then it’ll take about 3 weeks to get the discs back, at which time folks can buy them from us directly in person, but the official release date won’t be until it’s listed online. Should be before Thanksgiving, but if it gets close we’ll hold out for a Black Friday release date just to try to build some hype (ha).
So there you go. We’ll have the exact date once we know when it is.