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The Nines

Writing the music before shooting the film

April 21, 2014 Projects, The Nines

Alex Wurman, who composed the music for my film The Nines, has the soundtrack up on SoundCloud. The composer often comes on board the project while it’s in post, but for The Nines, I needed Alex to write the main theme of the movie before we’d shot a frame.

Let’s just say we were #51

July 13, 2012 The Nines

I was a little disappointed EW left The Nines of their list, because it certainly meets the criteria of being highly praised and little-seen.

Formatting notes in a screenplay

August 11, 2011 Formatting, QandA, The Nines

Only very rarely do you have to do a full dead stop to explain something to readers. I’ve probably done it twice in 40+ scripts.

Born on the Fourth of The Nines

May 11, 2011 QandA, The Nines

In The Nines, was there a particular reason you chose to make Dahlia and Gavin’s birthday the same, November 21st?

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