well joe you need to convince them that they need the film dollars. they have the land and the people. and quite frankly, at this point you are running out of chances in Hollywood, so you need outside money just as much as they need productions. you both could form a symbiotic relationship. prodigal son, squandered big break, comes back to the place he shunned, and gets taken back in. starts shooting small stuff again, and pulls himself up by his old bootstraps. you dont need any of those moviestars who dissed you, just start from scratch again- and find the truth

Everyone is excited by the prospect of movies but taking the chance on them is another thing all together I guess.
You're in for a tough road there.

"Running out of chances in Hollywood?"
All I can to that is thats stupid.

Good Luck Joe. Looking forward to hearing more about your next projects. I for one am excited about Smokin' Aces: Blowback and The scripts from White Jazz and Killing Pablo are awesome.

Also everyone who has facebook...Join Joe's fanclub page so the fans can talk about stuff there.

Peace

Well... if THAT doesn't work out, I GUESS I could volunteer my hometown-basically the same thing. You're welcome! Call me, I'll pencil you in.

Clearly Fredk probably knew Joe way back when, and got left in the dust. Fredk, what do you do for a living and how many films have you made?

Clearly you have something against Joe, yet you spend time reading his blog and responding childishly. If you had a blog, do you think Joe would spend his time reading and commenting?

I'm here in Atlanta, where they still hem and haw about New Orleans and North Carolina getting the big productions, but then don't push themselves forward as a film town. In my opinion, it's the attitudes of the people involved that can make or break how a city/town/region moves toward creative endeavors as commerce...we have tax breaks, and a film festival, but it seems they're just "window dressing", I feel there has to be "passion" for film, from the top down to truly change the way a place acts toward making movies.

Good luck JC, and hopefully things can work out for all of us!!!

-RTA

Joe,

Do you need to play with the city? Have the party, and then the city will need to show up. Yes, the incentives are nice, but I bet other local municipalities would be happy to get the money and the exposure.

Josh
(PR guy in El Dorado Hills)

Joe, This isn't surprising. These are the same people who bust out cow bells at basketball games.

JC, first, thanks for stopping by and saying hello during our production of "Sensored," in Sacramento three weeks ago. It was great of you to come up and say hello, and Robert Picardo was f'ing stoked to meet you. And just so you know, THE RED worked brilliantly and the workflow with the RAID attached allowed us to shoot 6 hours, offload at lunch, then start all over again. We had an assembly edit on our last day of principle. You've got to shoot on the RED when you get a chance.

I can't even start with Sacramento and film, my producing wife spent countless hours on the phone just trying to get a permit to shoot on the street in Sac. Sac lacks professionalism and understanding. Which are two reasons why I will most certainly not be shooting my next movie here.

What sucks is, it is such a great area to shoot. Unfortunately, Sac can't get out of it's own way.

Kevin

JC, first, thanks for stopping by and saying hello during our production of "Sensored," (www.sensoredthemovie.com ) in Sacramento three weeks ago. It was great of you to come up and say hello, and Robert Picardo was f'ing stoked to meet you. And your boy Holley was fantastic in his role. And just so you know, THE RED worked brilliantly and the workflow with the RAID attached allowed us to shoot 6 hours, offload at lunch, then start all over again. We had an assembly edit on our last day of principle. You've got to shoot on the RED when you get a chance.

I can't even start with Sacramento and film, my producing wife spent countless hours on the phone just trying to get a permit to shoot on the street in Sac. Sac lacks professionalism and understanding. Which are two reasons why I will most certainly not be shooting my next movie here. I figure if they can't even produce permits without a f'ing problem, how in the hell are they going to do anything else?

What sucks is, it is such a great area to shoot. Unfortunately, Sac can't get out of it's own way.

Kevin Haskin

Cool! I did the Facebook thing. :)