Meet the masters!

Day Nine

Incredible!!! Today we went to the Tonight show with special guest BARACK OBAMA!! What an incredible circus. People domonstrating outside or trying to buy your ticket. President Obama was cool and funny. Very impressive to have seen him.
Also this morning we went to Universal International. They invest in local filmprojects for the local filmmarkets. Very usefull for an Europian filmmaker.

Day Eight

Today was the best. We got to pitch our new projects to Adam Vogelson; head of marketing. And guess what! He wanted a second appointment with us. Very exciting!!!

Day Six

Today we went to the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. Very educational. We learned a lot about this side of the industry, a side I didn't know much about. We had a meeting with the heads of Talent, International and the senior vice president. They give us some hints about to to go about things and that when you get offered a 3picture deal it's not so wonderful as it seems. Very good day.

Weekend

Day Four

Today we went to see Focus Features. Their office is situated on the far corner of the Universal lot. They were a very friendly goup of people and told us all about their company. It doesn't seem like the easiest place to get your film made as a starting director. They find you. The are interested in filmauthors. They want films that express a strong view from the director and aim their films for a very international market. For them to contact you, you'll have to have taken your place in the spotlights, by winning Cannes, Sundance or got nominated for an oscar.

That night we went to the world premier of Fast and Furious. We got to walk over the red carpet!!! The film was okay, but the after party was great! A really big party with lots of food and celebrities. We met a lot of nice people and partied into the early hours.

Day Three

Ow today was also very exciting. We got to see a lot of things we can not say anything about!!! Let's just say Universal is finishing up some great films. Also Martijn bravely managed to arrange a pitch for all of us next week. How exciting. We might just go home as Hollywood director. And it's only day three!!!
Tomorrow we'll visit Focus features and we're going to the big Hollywood premiere of Fast and Furious.

Day Two

Today was great!
We've got a tour around the whole Universal studio lot. We started at the lighting department, continued to see te soundstages of new tv shows. Later we went to see the prop and clothing departments. What an incredible place. So big!!! Rows and rows and rows of clothes, drapery, plates, monsters, furniture, samurai swords, zombies and neon lights. After that we went to see ousiede film sets from Hancock, Desperate Housewives, the Grinch, Jaws.
Ater a tasty lunch we went to see the postproduction departments starting with sound. We went to see the foley and recording studios and saw a sneak trailer for Sam Raimi's new horror movie. We also visited departments where the restore old films, the movie archives, editing rooms and much much more. As I am writing this I'm having a hard time remebering it all. It's all very overwhelming. I head no idea the Universal Studios lot was so immensely big!