It was a strange day today. The financing / producing entity here in our state which has had my romantic comedy script for forever has had a lot of internal changes happening; they didn't move forward on my script becuase of those changes. Now, however, they are ready to try to move forward. They have a new theatrical deal in place (which they are supposed to announce in the trades in a couple of weeks) which gives them access to more / bigger money for indie films, plus guaranteed distribution in the US as well as international. That deal also includes Blockbuster. In addition, they have been doing movies of the week (MOW) for several networks, so if they can't get my script done as a theatrical, they're feeling pretty positive that they can get it done as a MOW. For this particular script, I'm going to be okay either way because hey, it will be made. However, I am happy that they want to try to do it as a theatrical first. So I am now printing out lots of copies that I am supposed to send over there tomorrow and the woman I'm working with there wants me to check in with her often. We also talked about how, if this script goes, they would be very open to me bringing in something else and producing that.
I've heard that the Nicholl semi-finalist letters have gone out - someone has reported on having received a notice that they moved up to that semi-finalist status. I, of course, did not get a letter today; while I fully (and I mean that honestly) do not expect that script to advance, I'm still tense. I just sort of want it to be over with. In the 18 years of the Nicholl, I think only 4 comedies have won, and none of them were broad comedy / big commercial action like mine -- they were either more dark / cynical or twisted, which doesn't bode well for mine. Still, it was a good day today with great potential, so I'm just going to be happy and not lament the contest. (Oh, I will probably be very grumpy once I see the letter, so I am stocking up on chocolate.)
Posted by toni at August 31, 2004 11:57 PM