T-Shirts are ordered!

Yep...and they'll be ready on February 16th. This will mean they'll be ready to be handed out and shown to people at my annual Sci-Fi Party which is the next day.

I'm also going to be modifying the site here sometime soon so we can take orders online for others who want shirts. Perhaps I'll expand the line a little and see what else we can have made up.

Final Design

The final t-shirt design is ready to go. All I need now is to get orders from a couple more people and pricing on everything so we can go ahead and get the shirts made. Here's the final design:

Okay, serious takers for t-shirts?

It looks like a reality for my thought of getting some FDP t-shirts made up. So, I need to know how many people are interested and, if so, how many you're considering. I'll have some price figures ready by the end of the week. Scroll down to my original t-shirt post for a concept design for what I'm thinking of.

Location change?

When we finally get to filming "Luke & Leia", we won't be shooting at the Applebee's restaurant in Rosemount, MN. That's because Chris is now managing the Applebee's in Apple Valley, MN. I scoped it out last weekend, and it should work out very nicely for shooting.

So far, there's only been one inquiry regarding doing t-shirts. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Another piece of fan mail!

This one comes to us from Oscar, age 6, in Australia:

Flaming Death Apparel?

What do people think about making up some Flaming Death Productions t-shirts?



Nothing too elaborate, but they'd be kinda nice to have when promoting past and future movies. Send me some feedback by using the e-mail link in the right column.

Slowwwww times...but good news!

It isn't looking too promising for getting Luke & Leia off the ground when I wanted to. The only thing really holding us back is finding the right person for the Randal character. Of course, if Travis could make a trip to Minnesota for a week, we'd really be in business. ;-)

However, I do have good news. No, I didn't switch to Geiko. I may have a band willing to donate some music to the film for the ending credits! They're called Sodanation, and they have a website at, what else, www.sodanation.com. I'm working through the wife of one of the band members (thank you Charlotte!) to bring this cooperative endeavor into fruition. So far it sounds like if I give them the credits spot and a nice plug within the credits, they'll also return the favor on their next CD and help promote Luke & Leia! Cool, huh?

I also have the lighting gear finished up. Thank you, Menard's PVC department! hehe!

Casting Call

Do you know anyone that would make a good Randal (from Clerks and Clerks II)? I’m looking for someone to fill the role opposite Chris (the Dante character) in the Flaming Death Productions film “Luke and Leia”. Of course, this is a non-profit film, and no one is getting paid for the work they do on it. I decided to go this route because Travis, my choice for the Randal character, still won’t be back in Minnesota for a long, long time. So, if you have any ideas of someone that would fit the part, I’m open to suggestions. If necessary, I will do auditions. So, put on your brainstorming caps and let’s find someone for our movie! :-)


Oh, and by the way, if you need to see who Randal is...



(He's the one in the middle.)

YouTube!

The trailer for Yoda's Treasure is now on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYNhJXmPrU

I would like to have put the whole movie on there, but there's a ten minute cap on video length so I only put on the trailer and a link to this site. Just one more way of getting our movie some publicity! :-)

(updated link on 11/08/2006)

Draft #2

By now, some of you have received draft #2 of the script for "Luke & Leia". If by chance you didn't receive a copy and would like to participate as cast or crew, let me know and I'll review the request and see what's available. It's still uncertain as to when we would film, but it's getting closer and closer (I hope!).

Fan Mail

I received a piece of fan mail this morning and I thought I'd share it:

"When I asked Elizabeth (my almost 4 year old) what she was watching in the living room, she replied 'Jedi Number 5 on Yoda's Treasure,' and I thought to myself 'Well, this will be on for the next hour.' Thank you for the DVD! We have really enjoyed it! Just so Elizabeth wouldn't freak out about Darth Smiley, I dug out our senior yearbook and showed her Matt's picture, and yes of course yours, too.

Well, got to go now. Elizabeth wants to watch Yoda's Treasure again. The outtakes are great! Thanks again for the DVD!"

Looking Towards Summer?

Yeah, a little late to notify everyone else, but the meeting we were going to have last weekend ended up not happening. Unfortunately, it looks like we won't be able to get the new film off the ground until sometime this summer. I will be sending out a newly revised draft of the script, however. So, if you're involved in the new flick, expect an extra special e-mail soon!

Planning Meeting this Saturday

Hello again! After an absence here at the site, I'd just like to announce that potential cast and crew are invited to a planning meeting for "Luke & Leia" this Saturday (February 18) during my 15th Annual Sci-Fi party. We'll be going over the revised script and watch a couple of related short films. Hopefully we'll nail down some dates for filming, too. Details to come.

The DVDs are being shipped!

Here's the cover to the long overdue DVD. Click on the picture for a larger shot.

DVDs are ready!

As some of you may already know, the Yoda's Treasure DVDs are ready to be distributed! The DVD case wraps are being printed as I type this, so I'll have the copies ready for handing out later today. It's about time, right? ;-)

The Contest Begins!

The 2006 Star Wars Fan Film Awards is now accepting submissions. StarWars.com announced the news on October 25 at their website. There's a bit more time to get films in this year since the deadline is June 6, and the awards will be given out in July. This gives us a good chance of getting "Luke & Leia" and possibly one other film in before time is up. Details can be found here.

In other news, the DVDs for "Yoda's Treasure" have been printed. Once the case material is printed up, they'll be ready for distribution. Stay tuned!

Progress!

Slowly but surely, the DVDs will get done. I have to take this time to thank Travis for donating some of his winnings from a slot machine in Vegas. Way to go, Travis! :-D I never get that lucky. I have purchased the cases, have the cover art and disk art ready to go, and just need to get them both printed out now. Hey, maybe these would make nice Christmas presents for you! BWAHAHAHA! Man, I hope it doesn't take THAT long!

In other news, I'm making use of all those flyers that I made for "Yoda's Treasure" by putting them up on public bulletin boards in the area. We'll see if this generates more traffic to the site or not.

Oh, and I recently put in contact information off to the right on this page. Yeah, I've been meaning to do that for quite some time. I wanted to go about it another way that I've seen in the past in which the e-mail address would be invisible to search engines, but that will have to be taken care of later. Gotta go check the "Call For Help" television show's website (unless someone wants to go search for me and e-mail it over). ;-)

Money woes

It looks like I won't be able to get the DVDs out as scheduled. I'm looking at $70 just for ink and cases, and I still need to figure out how much the cover art will cost to print out. However, I do have the cover art 99% completed. It's just the spine I need to finish, but that will depend on the type of cases I purchase. I'm leaning towards the slim cases which are half the thickness of regular cases. In any case, money is very thin right now, and I'd appreciate any donations that people can make no matter how small. Just shoot me off an e-mail and let me know what you're capapble of donating. Thank you! :-)

Oh no!

After coming up with a few dates for shooting the next couple of films, it looks like we may have to postpone the shoots until possibly spring. This is because Travis, one of the main actors in at least one of the films, is going to be in Vegas until early next year. This would, of course, place these films out of contention for next spring's fan film awards. However, I'm looking into the possibility of replacing Travis with another suitable actor. I'm just coming up blank with figuring out who would fit the part as well. I do have one person in mind, but I'm not quite sure if he'd fit the bill. More on this later.

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

In case you hadn't noticed, I made a few changes on the site the past couple of days (or nights, as it is in this case). The first obvious one is that the Luke & Leia site is up and being worked on. Of course, more will be added there once production starts. The other change is that I removed the Yoda's Treasure News link. I didn't want to start getting into having a seperate blog for every movie I make, so I decided that all news items will appear here rather than in each movie's individual site. The news items from Yoda's Treasure are now found by clicking on "Even OLDER archives" in the archives section on the right of this page.