Here’s our new short.
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March 7, 2011 • 2:39 pm 1
You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Set A Twenty Foot Elder Sign On Fire
That’s a wrap. Principle photography on Black Goat is finished. It was an incredible experience and there will be a long list of thank-yous. In the meantime, all I have to offer are epic shots of what’s to come.
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February 28, 2011 • 9:17 pm 0
Lovecrafting: A Film About Making A Film About Lovecraft
Cameras have already started rolling on a documentary called “Lovecrafting”. The film follows myself and some other filmmakers as they attempt to create and sell films inspired by or based on the work of HPL. Interviews began during preproduction of Black Goat and so far they’ve caught some hilarious stuff. Describing Lovecraft to the uninitiated is always fun - describing the indescribable to a production designer is even better.
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February 6, 2011 • 3:04 am 0
Black Goat Will Be Grim And Frostbitten
Last Monday the producer, DOP, and myself, Joseph Nanni, took a trip to The Slough of Despond to do some camera tests for the upcoming addition to our Lovecraftian lexicon of films. The temperature was minus 15, the sky was dark and grey, the land was windswept and covered with three feet of snow, it was perfect.
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December 14, 2010 • 11:18 am 1
Black Goat Begins!
It has been a long, long, long time since I announced this project but now, after a couple of years and some false starts, I am happy to say we are in serious pre-production on the first stretch of Black Goat. I will share more specific details in the coming weeks but rest-assured, it’s goin’ down. And this will be THE place for news and the inside track on the film so drop a bookmark or RSS ’cause you’ll hear it here first.
I am very happy to be bringing this idea to life in an untampered form. Part of the reason there were so many stops and starts was trying to figure out how to get a film going without giving up the farm. I think we have a solution, and after the holidays I will be asking for your help. There’ll be a special announcement for serious HPL and Sci FI fans where they can support and participate directly in Black Goat’s production. We’ll see what happens.
In the meantime, please enjoy this little bit of production art by ANTHONY DEL RIZZO . . . OMG, are those tentacles?!
Keep watching this space.
It is going to be a busy but wicked 2011.
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December 1, 2010 • 2:55 am 1
Where The Hell I’ve Been
It is nice to get regular requests for updates and progress on where I’m at with what I’m working on – it makes me feel like I’m actually doing something. I am actually doing something. Currently shooting in Puerto Rico with Trent Opaloch, Salado, and the fine folks at Oglivy. I’ll have some huge updates upon my return. In the meantime, here are some shots of the beauty that is the PR:
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February 17, 2010 • 12:18 pm 0
How I Spent My Winter Vacation
If you’re saying, “Hey Nanni, where’s all the Lovercrafting?” then here’s some of your answer. I spent the better part of January shooting and in post-production on this little Olympic number for the Royal Canadian Mint. Trent Opaloch (D-9) was the director of photography, Geoff Ashenhurst (Defendor) was the editor, and David Fluery (awesome dude) did the music. It was an incredible experience and I definitely picked up some tricks that you will see applied to your favourite subject matter and mine.
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January 24, 2010 • 8:43 am 0
After Months of Searching I Finally Found My Remake Project
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January 2, 2010 • 2:26 am 1
Strange Occurrences
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
It’s 2010 – the year we make contact. Let me say Happy New Year and tell you about some things that are going on in the coming months.
In the next few weeks this blog will be changing its address to Bad Advice For Good Times and I will be launching a proper site dedicated to all my nonsense. Reason? While Casting Call of Cthulhu is an appropriate title for all my HPL film hijinks it doesn’t account for all the other interrelated activities.
In other news I am currently in the snow-kissed land of Galgary shooting for two weeks with District 9 DOP Trent Opaloch.
This place has some incredible locations including one of the most massive production design warehouses on the planet:
Even the curling rinks are sexy:
When I return to Toronto work begins on finishing the Drawing Baphomet teaser trailer and production design for Black Goat. It is unlikely that DB and BG will begin shooting before the end of February due to financing issues and actor availablity. The fact is Black Goat has to be shot in four parts so even if we start in Feb it won’t finish until October 2010.
So that’s the plan. Thanks for all your support over the last few months and keep in touch.
Be seeing you.
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