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TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE – RED BAND TRAILER – UPDATE – 6:50 PM

May 15, 2010

I got so many great suggestions for what people would like to see. Obviously, the comments depended on one’s point of view of what their expectations are for the film. But clearly everyone seems to want a bit more dialogue to get across more story so that’s what we are attempting to do tonight. Its [...]

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TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE RED BAND TRAILER – NEW LINKS

May 14, 2010

Here’s the link to the this new version of the trailer: HD version – http://www.vimeo.com/11741527 Smaller version – http://www.vimeo.com/11742906 Same password as earlier. Let me know your thoughts! – albert

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REVISED TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE TRAILER – 7:48 PM

May 14, 2010

Okay, we got a number of comments and suggestions and so we’ve tried to adjust the trailer. It’s a little difficult because there’s such a varied audience for this and I’m trying to save as much as I can for the feature film itself. Unlike a big or even medium budget studio film, Tales has [...]

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TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE – RED BAND TRAILER – MAY 13

May 13, 2010

I’ll be posting the link to the trailer here in a few hours. I hope everyone comments here as it will be a big help to learning what’s working and what’s not – albert

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THE PRESSURE and WEIGHT OF TALES MOVIEMAKING

May 8, 2010

I’m sitting here watching the Tales trailer render out, hopefully it will be an effective and entertaining experience for the viewer. It’s made me reflect back over the past 29 years, back to when I was making The Sword and the Sorcerer in early 1981. I sit here thinking about all the movies since, all [...]

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TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE – Future Storylines

May 5, 2010

The great fun of serialized stories is how the plotting and characters twist and turn. The most critical thing for me is that it feel like its all been thought through before the initial movie or tv show. Sometimes, there’s a need to make that first effort have a punched up storyline that can’t or [...]

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THE PERFORMANCES IN TALES of an ANCIENT EMPIRE

May 4, 2010

As we get down mere days to beginning to screen and ship, I’m very curious to see the reaction to the performances in Tales. In casting the film, I was really trying to find actors who would bring some interesting quality that was not usually seen in fantasy films and I wanted actors who would [...]

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FUTURE TALES of an ANCIENT EMPIRE MOVIES

May 3, 2010

One driving ambition I had for Tales was to design it from the start as an ongoing saga. The hope is to release a new “episode” every nine months. I always loved serialized story lines as a kid and even now with the popularity of shows like Deadwood, Rome, The Wire and Carnivale and many [...]

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TALES SCREENING UPDATE – May 2

May 2, 2010

Looks like we’ll try to screen in Hollywood next week, probably Thursday.  I’m hoping Kevin will be able to attend along with some of the other cast and crew so they can see what the final version of the movie is. Its always a little scary and anxiety provoking because actors have very fixed ideas [...]

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TALES UPDATE – MAY 2

May 2, 2010

The movie is now being “encoded” which is to say, compressed, so both picture and track will fit on a standard DVD.  I was finally able to watch Tales late last night and it seems to work really well. I know Kevin Sorbo is concerned that we couldn’t shoot a few key scenes involving his [...]

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