Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Two weeks to go…

August 28, 2010 | General

The last month has been hard to describe... Started in L.A. with casting and meetings, then a final week in New York and now have been here in Atlanta for two weeks getting ready to shoot.  Our locations are chosen, shot listing and storyboarding is happening, local casting in in process, ...

Six weeks to go.

July 25, 2010 | General

Been working day and night on the new pass of the script with Ken.  Continuing to work on casting, both seeing new people and trying to make deals and figure out schedules with actors we want. [caption id="attachment_809" align="alignright" width="420" caption="Me and new friends at Comic Con"][/caption] Plus in just the past ...

Heating up….

July 7, 2010 | General

It's been over 100 degrees in New York. I spent two marathon weeks here mapping out the new draft of WanderLust with Ken, pretty much without a break except to sleep.  Well we walked around the Gay Pride street fair and got a smoothie one day, and I did go to ...

The Onslaught

June 20, 2010 | General

Well now preproduction has begun and it's an onslaught.  We had a table read for a group of friends with our main cast and other actors we know reading the parts.  It was so illuminating to hear it out loud.  (This was actually our third table read.  The other two ...

Georgia

June 4, 2010 | General

Just got back from our first trip to Georgia where we will be filming WanderLust.  It was fun!  The team is starting to build.  This trip we had two location people, line producer, production designer, Ken Marino and myself.  We found a house and property that we just fell in ...

cast and crew

May 30, 2010 | General

I spent last week in L.A. rewriting the script for WanderLust with Ken Marino every day from 7am-1pm, then we went right into meetings with potential crew people and spent every afternoon in casting sessions. It's always so exciting to see actors give their spin on your material.  We've been working ...

WanderLust begins…

May 21, 2010 | General

Well I'm very proud to say pre-production has begun on WanderLust. This will be my fourth feature film as director, and the third in partnership with Ken Marino, with whom I wrote the script and with whom I will be producing the film. Starring in the film (and also producing) is ...

Update and Advice

April 11, 2010 | General

Me at breakfast this morning in L.A. Well my movie watching project has proven to be more challenging than I thought.  I tried to do this while on a business trip to L.A. and...anyway, long story short -- it's still happening, just postponed a few days. MEANWHILE - if you like ...

Another Movie List

January 13, 2010 | General

Today I publish my long awaited list of the ONE MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE OF THE DECADE This was another tough one folks.  I poured through literally thousands of submissions this week, narrowed it down to the top 100, rewatched those movies and scored them on a weighted points system on a scale ...

How David Wain Would Do It #1

January 3, 2010 | General

I'm proud to present the first in a new two hundred part series, "How David Wain Would Do It" Inspired by meeting many fans sporting HDWWDI necklaces, I thought I'd take the mystery out and just tell you how I'd go about doing 200 things. Here's number 1: If I wanted to give ...