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Moderngrumble Teaser Wrap!

Posted March 16, 2012


                       *Jeff Dylan Graham as 'Boy' and Nancy Pop as 'Annie' in Moderngrumble.
  
         As of last Friday March 9th the Moderngrumble Teaser Trailer is wrapped. After two years of talking about it and planning we can finally close that chapter and set…

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Call for Actors/Actresses & Extras

Posted February 15, 2012

 

Well, a much needed break from social networking has ended and after the December blitz that was the Moderngrumble IndeGoGo Campaign, I can tell you we are now back and ready to make this trailer! The shoot date has been set for March 2-9th (only 3 short weeks away) airline tickets have been ord…

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Moderngrumble: A Crowdfunding Post-Op

Posted January 2, 2012

Well, we've had a couple of days to review our crowdfunding campaign and consider a good many factors as to why we raised what we did and why we did not manage to secure the full 10k. But first here are the final numbers from our Indiegogo page, Website, and Facebook Fan page:

Indiegogo Stats:

S…

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Sculpting in Time

Posted December 31, 2011

I’m a film school drop-out. There are many reasons for this but mostly I blame my first screening of Godard’s Weekend and Tarkovsky’s book Sculpting in Time. With Godard’s film it was the realization that everything had already been done and with Tarkovsky’s book it was the re-affirmation of…

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The Art of Squashing Heads

Posted December 29, 2011

I met Marcus Koch at the Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas, Texas about two years ago. He was there supporting the film ‘Sweatshop’ a low budget Texas shot slasher set at an all night rave. I was attending a screening packed with fellow horror junkies on a Friday night. Having drifted into the s…

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Day 9: Casting Moderngrumble

Posted December 24, 2011

When I first started writing Moderngrumble, the main character, ‘Boy’ was envisioned as an ethereal creature, a hairless, albino with a mouth stained gray/black with ash, chapped, raw, pursed lips, and glowing green eyes. He was also meant to have a mouth and jaw that could unhinge like that of a Py…

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Day 10: Location Scouting in the Ozarks Part II

Posted December 22, 2011
If you’ve been following these entries you read yesterday about the discovery of the Tottey House, a hundred year old house filled to the brim with unique period furniture and pop culture artifacts that unfortunately has a logging road running through the front yard. So, the perfect location inside …

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Day 11: Location Scouting in the Ozarks

Posted December 21, 2011
When writing a script for a film you plan on shooting, a film you know will be made, comparatively, on the cheap you would be wise to write something low on location changes and utilizing locations that provide: 1) ease of access 2) nearby washroom facilities for cast and crew 3) areas with low visi…

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Day 12: Ambiguity, Tone and the Genre Film

Posted December 20, 2011

The genre film, whether film noir or slasher, sci-fi or western, can hardly be called ambiguous. In fact, a chief characteristic of genre films is their easily identifiable features; a set of signifiers that define a certain style of film, i.e. chiaroscuro lighting, femme fatales and the anti-heroes…

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Day 14: Inspiration

Posted December 19, 2011

There is nothing new under the sun. Moderngrumble grew slowly, over many years in response to this fact. As a screenwriter it drove me nuts on a regular basis that I could not escape the structure, archetypes and rhythms of conventional storytelling without veering into experimental, un-readable at…

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2nd Week Post Op

Posted December 18, 2011

 

Well Week 2 has come and gone, contributions were down over last week as well as traffic to the campaign site on IndieGoGo, our site, and the Facebook Fan Page.

MODERNGRUMBLE site:

Page Views

Total Page Views: 5,676
Page Views in the last 30 days: 659
Average Page Views per Day: 2…

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15 days left: A Crowdfunding Journey

Posted December 16, 2011

15 days left in our bid for crowdfunding glory finds us in a very grateful mood. Not for money but the friends, fans and connections we have made in the last two weeks. Stop by and visit us at MUBI and read about for yourself.

Friends & Fans

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Janene: Anita Goodman - A Portrait

Posted December 15, 2011

A fantastic short portrait of a soul longing for connection and finding . . . well watch and find out.

Janene: Anita Goodman by Moderngrumble's Director of Photography Joriah Goad.

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MUBI starts it's support of Moderngrumble

Posted December 15, 2011

Movie and social networking site, Mubi steps up to offer it's hand in support of the Moderngrumble project. Please take a moment to check out the link and browse the site if you're not already familiar. We will be bringing you new content everyday for the rest of the campaign through this alchemical…

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The First Review of Moderngrumble

Posted December 13, 2011

MODERNGRUMBLE is a road movie containing the fervid spirit of Lautréamont as the explosive, red hot coal powering its engine. Reading the script I came away with the perception that I had experienced the gleeful debasement of the expected familiarity inherent in the 'genre' movie. MODERNGRUMBLE cele…

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First Week Post Op

Posted December 11, 2011

 Well it's the end of our first week of crowdfunding here at Lotushead Productions and what have we learned? Well, I'm not sure yet however here are the numbers in our bid for 20/20 campaign hindsight.

The Indiegogo Stats:

Summary
Visitors 174  
Views 581  
Funders 8  
Contributi…

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The Conqueror Worm

Posted December 10, 2011

 A new perk, The Conqueror Worm, for those of our friends who would like to take a serious interest in making Moderngrumble, the trailer and possibly the feature film as well.

 For the serious fan and film supporter -1) An Executive Producer credit on the trailer, film, and IMDB page and in any …

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methodologies of film financing . . . .

Posted April 25, 2011

 

“the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

- Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr

     Crowdfunding. VOD Distribution. Viral marketing. Alternative Theatrical. Trans or Cross Media. The lynch pins of a new digital frontier, buzz words of a hopeful new paradigm, strategies for survival in t…

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new blood

Posted February 18, 2010

So after a few months in the wilderness, MODERNGRUMBLE is about to kick back into life with a whole slew of developments. To those of you out there who have been kind enough to show interest in our little project I apologize for the bout of silence.

Lotushead Productions has just invested significa…

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