Topic: Apocalypse, CA DVD.
Bear with me, I'm psyched.
Our buddy Chad Peter's feature film Apocalypse, CA is on pre-sale now, shipping DVDs in the US and Canada on December 12th. It's a wacky, wonderful, beautifully shot dark comedy about a guy spending his last four days before an asteroid strikes the earth learning to be a person. And a...truly, an awful lot of wacky hijinks ensue. It's certainly not a broad comedy, you might not even noticing that you're grinning the whole time, but it's a light hearted telling of a dark hearted person's account of the apocalypse.
A lot of fun. Anyway.
Yep, that's Mr. Finifter at the 0:26 mark.
Me and Ryan Wieber did the effects on the movie, at least the ones you'll notice - Chad himself did a shit-ton of dustbusting and rig removal type stuff, but we were called in for massive FX sequences involving giants, explosions, asteroids, etc. - and in addition to that, Chad is the guy from our UHF and Mulholland Drive commentaries. It's a DIF family movie! And it's available on presale now for not much money. I'm a big fan of the flick (there's a magic bean issue, but we discuss it in the commentaries*), and super proud of the thing. It's a mix of Donnie Darko and Armageddon. And Garden State. If those three things could possibly become one movie.
The asterisk up there is that - oh yeah, by the way, this DVD comes stock with TWO commentaries from Down in Front. Or, sort of Down in Front. Me hosting two conversations with Chad, the director, and Ryan, a long time cohort and visual effects lead on the film, and they're both just stellar. The first one is loosey-goosey and generically about the making-of and VFX stuff, between laughs and funny ACA-related tangents, and the second one - also featuring Cloe Z - is literally a step-by-step "how to make a movie like this" tutorial, with leading questions by me, through writing to casting to investors to shooting and photography to editing to release.
Really valuable, useful fucking stuff, on a handsome DVD with a solid (beautiful) movie with an original score by Avi Ghosh, a heavy hitter in the underground industrial atmospheric music world. I'm so proud of this thing, and psyched it's finally going to be seen by people. I hope some of y'all get interested enough to buy it and enjoy all of the wonderful content. One hundred percent of the money of the purchase goes right back to the people who made the film, including me. (Like, 1% of it goes to me.)
If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask, I'm psyched to talk ACA all day long with anybody.
I have a tendency to fix your typos.
