Quiet Storm

Tired of Waiting for Humboldt County? Make it Happen!

Ultradamno — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:07:15 +0000

In the most recent post in their director’s blog Mr. Grodsky and Mr. Jacobs have laid out a proposition to independent film enthusiasts interested in forming “Lost Coast Local” teams in different that would be provided with promotional materials such as posters, postcards, something called “rolling papers”, etc. to help promote the film and arrange sneak preview screenings.

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The page about the MPAA and the poster on the blog referred to in my previous post has been removed, but this new one does mention the official site is now temporarily down (replaced with a placeholder with a nice cast picture) in order to meet MPAA standards, so evidently all is status quo there.

Humboldt County Poster Banned By The MPAA?

Ultradamno — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:48:55 +0000

Humboldt County co-director Darren Grodsky wrote a few days ago at their blog that the MPAA has found (or likely to find) their current poster to be unacceptable on the grounds that “references to drugs/drug paraphernalia” are not allowed in advertising (evidently falling under the category vaguely defined on their website as “other material that most parents would find unacceptable for their younger children to see or hear”) So the MPAA is an inscrutable star chamber, no news there, rather than gnashing teeth Mr. Grodsky suggests:

“And so, should we be forced by the MPAA to change our poster to a more “subtle” version, I suggest to each and every one of you who encounters this blog:

Let’s pepper the world & the world wide web with our “Smoking Joint” poster, which may soon become a limited edition piece. We’ll do our part to include it everywhere (When you check out the promos we recently shot, you’ll notice we managed to fit it in a few different places). See if you can find ways to show off the smoking joint poster. This will turn out to be win-win as both a way to stick it to the “man” and also a way to promote the film, a task in which we need all the help we can get…”

Being well sympathetic to the cause, we here at Quiet Storm are prepared to do our part

Ru Signs On For Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant

Ultradamno — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:10:14 +0000

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Balk has just made an enemy of Abel Ferrara, the director of Bad Lieutenant (who recently said of all involved in the remake of the film “I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they’re all in the same streetcar, and it blows up” which was met with a “I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?” from the difficult to faze Herzog - this is, after all, a man who brushed off being shot with an air rifle with a nonchalant “It was not a significant bullet. It does not surprise me to be shot at.”) by signing on for an as yet unknown role in Herzog’s film. Val Kilmer and Brad Dourif who have appeared alongside Ru in The Island of Dr. Moreau and Humboldt County respectively are also on board. Now just stay offboard those streetcars.

Magnolia Buys Humboldt County

Ultradamno — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:38:47 +0000

Variety has reported what first appeared in the director’s blog about Humboldt County being sold to Magnolia Pictures and what appeared in an HD Net press release about the film’s premiere to be by video on demand and that plans are then for a theatrical release in September starting in Austin, TX and, of course, Eureka, CA (the director’s blog doesn’t quite jibe with this saying the opening weekend will be San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Austin)

Update: Official Press Release at the directors blog

Fairuza Joins “Thicker”?

Ultradamno — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:59:36 +0000

Not much hard information aside from Ru showing up on the IMDb page for this feature length version of a short film entitled Enfants Terribles (trailer), identified as playing a character named “Lonely”. Confirmed cast include Peter Facinelli, Jason Lee, Alison Pill, Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Lloyd and James LeGros.

Grindstone Road Trailer

Ultradamno — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:38:25 +0000

Peace Arch Entertainment has put up a trailer for the movie which you can see here. The DVD is set for release on May 20 and can be pre-ordered from Amazon here.

RHI Entertainment has a small factsheet with five picture gallery here.

The Natural

Ultradamno — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:40:10 +0000

Darren Grodsky at the Humboldt County director’s blog has composed a lengthy tribute post to Ru entitled “The Natural”. It discusses in some detail the audition process and praises Ru on her professionalism and includes this large pic. Earlier this month they put up a video on casting generally in which they indicate that Ru’s screen time will be small but that she will be seen doing something different than she’s done in the past.

Humboldt County Website Full Launch

Ultradamno — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:50:57 +0000

http://www.humboldtcountymovie.com/ now has a snazzy new look, some new pics of Ru, many pictures of a mysterious green weed of some sort about which I know nothing, a synopsis and the promise of a trailer to come.

UPDATE: Trailer now up at the above link.

Grindstone Road Update

Ultradamno — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:30:07 +0000

ITV Inter Medya, the distribution company for the film, have put up a Grindstone Road page that gives a few more details. For one the movie is directed by Melanie Orr and co-stars Greg Bryk (Shoot ‘Em Up, Weirdsville, A History of Violence), Joan Gregson (Hollywoodland, The Good Shepherd) and Walter Learning (His official site). There is also a more detailed synopsis and this poster:

Unfortunate downtime

Nathaniel — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:58:04 +0000

Hi all, we’re back!

I sincerely apologize for the downtime but unfortunately there was nothing I could to to bring the site back up. The site is hosted on a friend’s server, and he recently moved to Germany to study. Needless to say, without any physical access to the server, we had no way of finding out what was wrong.

Anyway, all problems have been worked out now, and Quiet Storm is back in business!