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Prince of Perhaps

June 15, 2007 Prince of Persia, Projects

Several sites have reported that Disney has picked July 10, 2009 as the release date for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. My guess is that this got written on a whiteboard at some strategic planning meeting, in answer to the question, “Hey, if we made that Prince of Persia movie, when would we […]

Changes while directing

June 12, 2007 Directors, Projects, QandA, The Nines, Words on the page

When the shoot begins, the real world comes to play.

Trailer competition update

June 5, 2007 Challenge, Follow Up, Projects, The Nines

Thanks to many readers, I think there’s a pretty clear game plan emerging for how to do The Nines Trailer Challenge. Several people have offered specific help, both advice and hosting. Bless you. Your email addresses have been duly noted for future follow-up. Here are the questions I asked, and the answers I got. 1. […]

Calling on the hive mind

May 22, 2007 Challenge, Projects, The Nines

One advantage of having a brilliant and devoted readership like mine is that I can occasionally reverse the Q&A process and appeal for your insight. Here’s the situation… At Sundance, I talked about my plan-slash-pipe-dream of releasing the underlying footage of The Nines simultaneously to its DVD release. Essentially, you could load it into your […]

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