After the Rain

The pounding rain has let up for awhile. My “Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank” co-Producer, Danilo Mancinelli came out today with a friend of his, Cherise - who did much of the casting on Danilo’s sports movie, “Foul Shot.” Dan is celebrating the Jan. 1 opening of “Foul Shot” through major U.S. retailers. A bit early for wine, we all toasted to its success with some coffee.

I actually had a good scene in “Foul Shot” as Tom Newton, a basketball scout who is misled by the coach. That is the thing that prevents the star basketball player from moving up the ladder. It was a fun character to play and it’s great to see the movie doing so well.

“Foul Shot “ has been on Netflix for awhile and Dan, along with our Executive Producer Paul Beeson, were instrumental in getting “Blood Sucking Babes” on Netflix too. I hadn’t met Cherise before. Even though she was involved in casting, Dan had pulled me into the “Foul Shot” project himself. Cherise’s aunt, Loine Lynch is an actress and played one of the Burbank Bar Fooseball-playing Blood Sucking Babes for me in “BSB” too. Today was a good opportunity to hint to them both about doing “Foul Shot 2” – where there are terrorists loose in L.A. and it’s up to Tom Newton and the basketball star to save the world. I wouldn’t mind taking a break from behind-the-scenes for awhile!

Later, I ran a little at the secluded park I often shoot at, a few miles away, before the rains hit again. The grass was quite soggy and some college-age people were actually shooting a digital movie in the park. What a chance they took – there could have been a cloud burst any moment. They had a real casket set up, mourners and everything. Hey, I thought this was my own personal Cranium Candy Entertainment park to shoot in! This is where we had our own cemetery set up in “Revenge of Mr. Willie”. It also served as part of the woods where Wendy attacked Josh in “Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank” and where the girls meet the mysterious homeless genie in “Be careful What You Wish.” One of the unusual buildings in the middle of the park also doubled for the warehouse roof that the gangster spirits emerge from in “Curse of the Pink Panties” before they float through the trees.

That is a wonderful location because I had an editor once see this park in some footage I shot, and say, “I know exactly where that is – that’s the upper coast of Maine!” “Wow, how’d he know?!” (wink, wink)