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My dvd arrived while i was in Poland, will be watching it tonight! cheers Sven.

Got my copy in the mailbox today!!! Got just enough time to watch it before I go home from work

Thanks, Sven!!!!!

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there's now a (another ?) copy of the dvd in France !

So, thanks Sven.


And to whoever deleted my post in the thread (I'm pretty sure I had made some useless comment anyway) : I hate you.

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Ok, this is aggrevateing me, haveing a heck of a time finding another copy of this has my other is no longer viewable..would anyone mind pming me the password so sven can get some cash off me??????????? please???

thanks in advanced

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Sven,

I can't help but ask this question...

Do you consider this project of yours with this type of distribution a success?

I saw that a good number of these limited run dvds have been sold.

I am a little bit surprised personally that not more were sold.

Then again, you do need to have the password in order to get into the ordering area.

This film was truly an enjoyable one and of course I ordered a copy when I went in through the back door.

Thanks again for keeping your word and making this movie available for us in a finished form.

Cheers!

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Hey Hurr,

thx for buying on of these puppies? Do I consider it a success. Absolutely. Would I have expected the number to be higher? Yes. But I see it as a work in progress. Having the scene edition really opened up a new medium for me and I started streaming the DVD chapters on our main site for the mainstream audience and it opened up a whole new audience for the film.

Just the other day I had over 3000 new people visit our site and watch the chapters. Is it going to lead to DVD sales right away? No, but enough people sign up and keep watching the update and over time some of them will want to see the entire movie.



It also opened up talks with our distributor in terms of releasing a DVD at Walmart, BestBuy etc. and hopefully soon there will be a regular L.A. Twister DVD in stores. But it will never be the Scene Edition ;-)

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Turns out the last movie night at my house was a success, thanks sven !!!

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Turns out the last movie night at my house was a success, thanks sven !!!

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i have sigs off

Viral marketing...

has been more like mammal marketing but from 2004 to 2007, 3 years later a movie I never heard of I heard of so it's working. A long and difficult birth...

The movie wasn't bad. I didn't expect that level of professionalism but then I looked at the credit bios so I should have expected it. What clearly made the film professional was the camera work and the editing. The script was a bit too formal/bookish for me to believe some of the dialogue that came out of the character's mouth. The actor's should have helped with that, it is not easy for a writer to have to be able to consistently switch character voices when writing and the writer should welcome that within reason. The acting, well it was mostly good but some characters I felt I could see 'think' before acting as in: "I need to make this expression to convey this meaning". Nothing that a few extra takes couldn't resolve.

Overall: I felt LA Twister was on par with "Little Miss Sunshine" except the 1st part of Little Miss Sunshine (before the trip) was exceptionally intriguing. Comparing the rest of the films, LA Twister was better.

LA Twister was head and shoulders better than 'Thank You for Not Smoking', one of the most boring, poorly acted and poorly written films I have ever had the misfortune of being conned into viewing. I was not happy having wasted that money.

I was led to LA Twister in a very convoluted way, from searching the job forums at Craig's List and then looking at the Film/Commercial section there. I'm was actually looking for SW programmer but was curious what internet projects some indie film makers might be coming up with. I found one, checked their website, which led to their MySpacePage, where I read these 'friend' comments (I'm not really into MySpace), somehow, though that whole mess I found Snow Dog Films.

Now why did I trace all that out? Because, as they say in business it all about: location, location, location...so I'm suggesting that:

I think there is a market for what Sven and others like him has done and can do. An even bigger one then he thinks. I and many others are not happy to get conned into seeing stuff like 'Thank You for Smoking'. It's an extremely rare Hollywood moovie or TV show that most don't find boring no matter the special effects.

I think Sven & other creative organizers should create a 'Sundance Festival' for the web, call it 'Minor League Movies' or whatever. A well know place where Indy film makers can market their stuff so their potential viewers can find them without jumping through hoops. Those worried about pirates need to realize a film viewed by no one is worthless. At least we people who are being considered potential pirates want to see what you have done. The Hollywood exec can't even be bothered to acknowledge the existence of other work outside of that in their own closed world. Indies can gain commercial success for exceptional work by using the web to prove the market is there.

Of course, to avoid the place filling up with YouTube type junk the site has to automate a process to at least filter out the most obvious junk (say by forcing the submitting to also post the script to the film and using speech recognition SW to match the script with the film and also by disallowing anything less then 30 minutes). Users could view, review, vote, or even invest in the film. Filmmakers could rework their film according to the constructive criticism. As a hook to get viewers visiting the site I suggest creating Computer Based Training modules (e-Learning/E-University) whereby true amateurs could learn specific crafts relating to the entertainment industry. The CBTs alone should make the site popular enough to draw alot of advertising dollors. However, a warning, I suggest the CBT cource 'Acting' be posted first if you don't want to hear a loud chorus of whines upon launching the website (LOL). Oh, and get some endorsements from influential media outlets and professionals. Maybe get them to even contribute to the CBTs drawing even more interest from the public.

Think how easy such a web site would be to regionalize in the US and to internationalize all over the world, in Germany, Britian, France, everywhere...lots of possibilities to sell ads to local sponsors and for local sponsors to sponsor local filmmakers...you can target the ads so much more finely with the net then with TV.

Also, when analogue broadcasting is cut off in the US and the switch to digital they say they are going to divide up the digital bandwidth so they can broadcast multiple shows at once. I'm asking you with what?! They can't even fill up the time are allotted now. This is a big opportunity to create a large independent conglomerate of independent 'production houses' that will have material proven on the net (like I said earlier, you can ever find the post code / zip code where the film was most popular) to sell to fill this extra bandwidth.

What do you think? It's a shame to see so much talent and experience go to waste. Hollywood is not making good use of it so I think you should organize yourselves so that we who enjoy your work and want to hear other voices besides Hollywood's and the mainstream's will have an easy way to find it.

Best Regards...
SnakeEyes

Only 523 left! Just bought mine... better late than never I spose

+Lovin the dollar/pound exchange rate

I still have no idea what the password is.

EDIT: Now i do... cheers sven

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sure thing

ur welcome, dude.

thx, for the order!

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Sven did Hollywood Kills make it to retail DVD yet? It looks great from what I saw on the LA Twister DVD!

HK

Hey Mystic,

it's been a while, glad to see you are around.

HK launched on DVD in Japan last month and opens in theatres/DVD in Germany on Friday, so you would have to get it as an important online.

Not sure when it will make it will come to America/UK though.

cheers, s.

P.S. And even though it's out for only a few hours there's already a pirate copy floating around as I can see... ;-)

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Hollywood.Kills.German.2006.DVDRiP.SVCD-RSG
Hollywood.Kills.German.2006.DVDRiP.XviD-RSG
Hollywood.Kills.German.2006.DL.PAL.COMPLETE.DVDR-SoW

OH RLY?


I doubt the xvid/SVCD version has been ripped with English audio considering it's a German release but the DVD rip has English (apparently)... Having never downloaded a German DVD before I could struggle with finding this but I accept the challenge Sven, even if you weren't aware you'd made one!

Then again, I could just sit back and wait for one of the English release groups to rip the English audio version off the DVD to xvid and release that (whilst simultaneously boasting about how super they are, despite it being so easy my Mum could do it), saving myself time and bandwidth

Same deal as last time Sven, if it doesn't suck, we'll buy it

::EDIT:: It would seem that the DVD wasn't that hard to find after all

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Same deal as last time Sven, if it doesn't suck, we'll buy it

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Twister DVD

The Scene Edition def. contributed to spark renewed interest in the film and there will finally be a U.S. DVD release in 2008 by Indican Pictures.
We just finalized the contract on that.

International there is currently no release in sight, but I'm hopeful that once it hit the U.S. it will come around to other markets.

I'm glad you all finally get to see HK, legal or not, can't wait to hear the review

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Hey Sven

If you are stuck for new movie ideas, try some of these!

CLICK!

Ok finally watched this (no thanks to fucking royal mail strikes) and must say it was pretty awesome !

Stick me down for a copy of hollywood kills sven ,cause that looks pretty cool too.

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