When I was a kid, E.T. scared the living shit out of me. I’d seen all manner of age inappropriate film at that point and none of it really put the weird into me. E.T., though, damaged me.

E.T. is pure evil. The interwebx0rz agrees.

Lex, Samori and I went to a midnight showing of Super 8. Though previously an Abrams detractor, his treatment of Star Trek set me up to drop a few bones on his next outing. How the guy who brought you LOST managed to artfully, kindly and carefully ride the popular culture/NERD RAGE line for Trek remains a mystery to me. He likes those, Abrams does. Mysteries.

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Motivational Growth is back in Chicago. It spent some time in LA getting chopped, screened, poked, prodded and praised. That last bit makes me über proud; the praised bit.

A sneak peek of me grabbing a sneak peek.

We’ve got a final creative edit pass before picture lock. That puts lock at about two weeks from this coming Monday. After that, it’s off to VFX, sound and color. After THAT, it’s off to your FACE.

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Just a quick update:

About a year ago, I formed up with my two closest friends and out came Imagos Films.
A few months later, we begun production of our first feature film, Motivational Growth.

A typical day on the set of Motivational Growth

Production wrapped in January, and has since been in post production at a local Chicago post house.

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Lex, Edward and I saw Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” a few days ago and were each of us stunned by the piece. I could be called an Aronofsky detractor in any other circumstance, his earlier work like fingernails on the chalkboard of my brightest hopes. The Wrestler, however, delivers.

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One of my favorite films when I was an impressionable young squirt was Bloodsport. Cyborg and Universal Soldier (Dolph Lundgren!) were not far behind. A few years into puberty and I realized that Jean-Claude Van Damme couldn’t act to save his own life and  movies like Timecop and The Film That Shall Not Be Spoken Of only cemented this idea.

I can’t help but think that JCVD wil rock face, however. The trailer, at least, rocks mine. Give it a look, it may rock yours as well.

Also, did you know they are making a Universal Soldier III? I didn’t even know there was a Universal Soldier II…