Pre Production

C'est la Guerre

What is the true cost of making this movie? The hard numbers are easier to gauge: We’re running about $88,000 for a ‘finished’ feature. But that doesn’t include our festival run or sales agents or lawyers or not paying yourself or All The Other Things that speed bump your momentum and suck your wallet drier than dry. We’re about $120K in the hole right now with little hope of breaking even for at least a decade. So, what did we buy?

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Punching Above Your Weight

We finished shooting the movie-in-the-movie sequences yesterday after ramping up through months of stop & start misery and pigfuckery. To be honest, the shoot was so painful it nearly broke me. Had pre-production for principal photography two years ago been this bad there’s no doubt in my mind that we would have pulled the plug on “Clocking the T” there and then.

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So Here's The Story...

I freakin' came to L.A. to make movies. And like just about everybody else comin' to town, I ended up doing just about every thing but that. Somehow I rolled my '67 VW into the low budget nirvana of 1983 Hollywood, a place absolutely overflowing with opportunity, and completely failed to get work in production…

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