The Force Is Strong With This One...

This weekends Memorabilia show at the NEC in Birmingham was a real blast! Held twice a year, it boasts the largest collection of sci-fi, horror and sports memorabilia in Europe, and they always have a host of celebrities there to sign stuff.

As a Film Maker, I feel its really important to have a presence at these kind of events as the people who attend, love genre films, and will be the ones going to the cinemas to watch Kaleidoscope Man when it comes out.

I premiered the new trailer and everyone seemed to love it! I also sold quite a few copies of my last feature film, Written in Blood, on DVD.

Star Wars and Willow star, Warwick Davies, watched the trailer and gave it an amazing endorsement. Check out this short video to see what fun we had..
K-Man at Memrobilia Nov 2008 from Simon Cox on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Lucia Landino and Chris Jones for their help with this video.

I Can't Say Much But...

Ken has returned from the American Film Market with some very positive news about Kaleidoscope Man. Can't go into to much detail just yet but needless to say it should help the funding to come in. The pilot DVD and brochures seem to be doing the trick!

I have been in touch with Screen West Midlands asking for support to help with a large funding event we're running in Birmingham in January for IFA's, Investors and Producers. There is a mountain of work to do before hand so I'm hoping they can help both physically and possibly financially.

This weekend is the Sci-Fi and Horror Memorabilia show at the Birmingham NEC where I will be selling signed copies of my first feature film, Written in Blood. I'll also be showing the Kaleidoscope Man trailer and asking film fans to give me their opinions on camera. This will be going into a nifty little documentary I'm putting together for the funding event in January - a chance to be on the big screen! If any of you would like to come and be in it, its a great (and very geeky event) and it would be fantastic to meet you.

For more info go to: http://www.memorabilia.co.uk

L.A. Meetings Going Well

I've just received a message from Ken that the Kaleidoscope Man brochure and trailer DVD's are going down a storm at the American Film Market.

Will keep you posted!

Two "Making Of" Videos

Here are the two "Making Of Kaleidoscope Man" videos I've done to date, in case you haven't already seen them.
There will be some new 'Making Of' videos very soon.


Storyboarding Kaleidoscope Man from Simon Cox on Vimeo.


Creating The Opening Sequence for Kaleidoscope Man from Simon Cox on Vimeo.

Kaleidoscope Man Stepping Up a Gear

I'm still busy shooting 2nd Unit on this Charles Dickens Documentary I mentioned in my last entry. I've been shooting on the Panasonic Varicam camera and with the lens we've got this is one heavy beast of a camera and I've found muscles I didn't know I had!! The quality of the images however are truly staggering.

At last there seems to be some movement on the Kaleidoscope Man funding front (no, I don't have the money yet) but today I was contacted by an organization who have offered to help promote our film proposal to their high network individuals. I'll let you know more about this as the news comes in.

The American Film Market takes place this week and Ken (the Producer) is taking the script, trailer & brochure of Kaleidoscope Man over with him. We've been working hard to get all the elements together and he has a large list of contacts to see. More news on this next week.

As I've had a busy few months recently and expect to be editing right up to Christmas, I'm going to try and take some time off in January to really push the business plan and find new investors.

I feel things are picking up again. Here is the trailer in case you haven't seen it.