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Back In London…For Now

On March 14, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

We’re back in London now (well we have been since Thursday actually) but we’ve been so lost in the time-zone change that we have only just recovered. On Wednesday we checked out of our hotel and went down to Hollywood Blvd where we found a Starbucks and a Subway…after coffee and lunch, we called a Taxi and went to LAX. We didn’t have to wait long before we were on the flight, but the flight itself was just a bit uncomfortable and loooonnnngggg. We couldn’t sleep at all on an overnight flight and when we arrived in London it was the next morning. So we had missed the whole night, and it was about 2 in the morning in LA. On Friday I got up at 4:30pm and had breakfast…that’s how messed up our body clocks were! Now though, we have just about recovered.

You may or may not have seen this already (USA Today Article) but John Magennis, the Hollywood TV Producer we met in LA has announced his plans to make a reality TV show following the making of Clovis Dardentor and the progression of the buyacredit.com project. This is hugely exciting news and we can’t wait to see how it all pans out. It would be amazing for the making of the film to be exposed to everyone… It will make it a TRULY open production that everyone can watch.

I’ve spent the weekend compiling some old footage for John, including some footage of the JAM shoot. Whilst doing this, I thought I might as well make a little behind the scenes video of the shoot, so I’m just finishing that up now. It is very rough and just slapped together; but it shows what happened on the two days and is quite good to watch.

Next week should be quite busy with celebrity developments, developments with the script, plans for the reality TV show, meetings for extra funding and we’re also going to approach some of our dream actors to play parts in the film. Should be exciting! Tomorrow we’ll do a video blog from the office to update you all (in more detail) on what we’re going to be up to next week. :)

In the meantime, here’s a few photos from Hollywood that I didn’t upload before:

View from our Hotel Room:

Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. It was soooo nice:

Kevin Spacey’s Star on the Walk Of Fame! We finally found it:

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NBC and Milkshake!

On March 9, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

Today I woke up at 5:00am PST to do a radio interview (ahhh, too early!) and I’m doing it again tomorrow. But after that I got to go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Then we started to get ready to go to NBC with Stephen Fry. He picked us up in his little green mini and we were on our way to the studio. An NBC show about movies had contacted us and asked us if Stephen would go on the show to talk about films, the industry and in particular, buyacredit.com and Clovis Dardentor. We set off from the Holiday Inn Express and just down the road to NBC. It was really nice to see Stephen again. He has been looking after us whilst we’ve been here in LA and has always been on the end of the phone in case of any problems :) .

He was very envious that yesterday we had walked down Santa Monica Blvd and got ourselves Miley Milkshakes from ‘Millions of Milkshakes’. Ben had found the place on the internet so we ventured through Hollywood to get to it. It’s a nice little shop that invites celebrities to come and make their own milkshakes. The Miley-Shake consisted of Cookie Dough, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and ice cream…YUM! It was sooooo good.

Anyway…I’m going off topic… When we got to NBC, someone showed us to the greenroom where Stephen got his make-up done. We met Carole Propp, one of the producers on the show who was very interested in what we were doing. Unfortunately, we were unable to go on the show as they have a ‘No under 25’s policy’. But who better to represent us than Stephen Fry?

Before long, Stephen was in the studio with Hollywood player Peter Guber, and the interview ran its course. It went really well and Stephen sung our praises :) . Afterwards, he had to dash off to an important lunch and one of the Production Assistants drove us back to our hotel.

Later on we just went down to Hollywood, finally found Kevin Spacey’s star (it had been covered up by the Red Carpet all week) and took some pictures with it! Can’t get them off the phone though!

Now we’re sitting in the hotel room and contemplating going to Bubba Gumps for dinner. Tonight is our last night here as tomorrow evening we are flying back to London. We have really enjoyed ourselves in Hollywood. It is an amazing place that is just constantly inspiring. Love it here.

NBC interview with Stephen Fry goes out soon but I’m not sure when exactly… I’ll let you know!

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Weekend in Hollywood…

On March 8, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

We had a really great weekend in Hollywood. Saturday was a good day as we just spent most of it walking around, exploring. We walked down Sunset Blvd for a while, then back onto Hollywood Blvd. Then for the rest of the day we watched the Oscars get set up. There were loads of stand-ins for the stars rehearsing the red carpet walk. Staff with big signs hanging from their necks reading “George Clooney”, “Zac Efron” and “Matt Damon” walked up and down for a while, pretending to pose for pictures!

On Sunday, we watched Alice In Wonderland in 3D. It is a great film, and Stephen Fry (who plays the Chesire Cat in it) was very good. We highly recommend it. After that we made our way down to the Kodak Theatre to join the screaming mob at the Oscars. We weren’t expecting the security we encountered. Before we could even get within a 1/2 mile radius of the Red Carpet we were security checked, one by one. We managed to get a bit of a view through a heavily fenced off pavement and we saw some stars walk in. After a while we thought it would be better to watch on TV, so we went back to the hotel and watched the whole ceremony. It was good to watch it at a normal time and not at 4am (which is when we used to watch it in the UK). The right people won I think.

This morning we were back to work with an early start. Well, I got up early. Toby and Ben got to stay in bed!! Not fair! But anyway, I got up to do two radio interviews and there are some more this afternoon. There should be some newspaper articles coming out over the next few days, and then tomorrow we are going to NBC with Stephen Fry to record an interview for TV…so that should be fun!

I’ll keep you updated!

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Hollywood Continued…

On March 5, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

Yesterday we spent the day with John Magennis, a TV Producer from LA. He’s a great guy and we had a lot of fun with him running around filming stuff in Hollywood. We woke up quite early and met him at our hotel before driving out to Beverly Hills to do some filming of us in the area. It is an amazing place and the houses are absolutely ridiculously massive. It is a much bigger area than I had first thought, and is actually a city in itself. We went to the famous Rodeo Drive and did some filming there, before driving to Malibu where I got to drive John’s Lincoln Navigator :O. Was very exciting. We also had lunch up there which was very fun. Later on we went down to the Valley to meet a friend of our publicist’s, Lynn Rose who was singing at a fun little bar called Smiley’s. That was nice. Then we just came back and literally went to sleep. We did spend some time beforehand walking up and down Hollywood Blvd trying to find Kevin Spacey’s star, but we didn’t find it as it is covered up by the Oscar’s stuff.

We’ve been watching everything get set up. The red carpet is being rolled out and the massive Oscar statues are being put into place. It’s so cool being here at the same time as the Oscars!

Meanwhile, amongst all this stuff that doesn’t really sound like work, we’ve been sending our script out to more production companies and developing it to make it better and better. We’ve also been doing some interviews out here with US and UK newspapers and radio stations whilst setting up some meetings at some big studios with some great names! Next week, us and Stephen Fry have a meeting with a very big player in Hollywood, which we hope will be successful!

So there are a lot of things going on, and we’re constantly working out here to get things moving as quickly as possible.

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Hollywood, Oscars, Vanity Fair and Filming!

On March 4, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

We’re up for another day in sunny ol’ Hollywood. We’re really looking forward to today and the filming that is being done. One thing that is really cool is that by chance, we are here at the same time as the Oscars! They have closed off quite a few roads and are setting up the red carpet and press area now. I will get some photos :) . On the night we reckon we’ll go and stand outside and join the screaming mob, and then we’ll probably come back here to the hotel room and watch it on TV. It’s really exciting!

There are so many opportunites out here and the project continues to grow. We have a lot of very exciting things to look forward to here before we return to the UK on the 10th. At the start of this trip, we had an interview with AP which kick-started everything. They did a really great article. This has brought forward many more interview requests which we’re all so happy about. You can watch the AP video here: http://www.zimbio.com/watch/dkee31V314_/Jude+Law+Backs+Teen+Effort+Fund+Film/AP+Video+Entertainment+Extra. We’re on the same page as Oscar Nominees! Ahhhh!

One massive thing that just came out was our Vanity Fair story. I just can’t believe that less than a year ago we were in school and now we are featured on Vanity Fair and are in Hollywood – and at Oscar time (well, I know we’re not going. But still, it’s a start!) You can read the Vanity Fair story here: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/03/jude-law-wants-youto-be-a-movie-producer.html

We’re really looking forward to the Oscars (http://oscar.go.com/) especially seeing as we’re in Hollywood when they’re happening. Sherlock Holmes is up for Art Direction and Music…so best of luck to them with that! I wonder if Jude will be there?

I have lots of photos that I want to post but I can’t, because my phone is not working :( . I will have to get that sorted out ASAP. Anyway, we better get ready to go soon. It is 9 o’ clock in the morning here and we’re going out filming, so it should be a fun day. :)

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Hollywood…

On March 3, 2010, in Blog, by Adrian

What a Rollercoaster time we have had in Hollywood so far. We arrived last night, completely worn out from the two flights (NY>Philadelphia. Philadelphia>LAX). When we landed, we had to pick-up our tickets for the return journey. One got printed, and before the other two could, our Barlcaycard said “NO!” So after an irrate call to Barclays, we decided to call it a night and go to our hotel. We had booked into a cheap place in West Hollywood and were looking forward to going to sleep. But oh no. Oh no. Not knowing Hollywood we had booked somewhere that was really really…well…not nice. It was not the best first impression of Hollywood we had expected. So we sat in the room, trying to find an alternative hotel. Luckily we had only booked two nights at the motel so we were able to cancel our second night, just live with the first night and find a new place. That night we booked another hotel (The Holiday Inn) which is very nice and a far cry from where we were before. So we’re happy, comfortable and safe now. This morning we ventured out onto the Walk Of Fame on Hollywood Blvd. It is just so lovely and inspiring here. It is so warm too. I want to stay. We went along trying to see who we knew (on the stars) and who we didn’t. Before long we thought ‘right, we have to make our way to our new hotel’. But Hollywood is not a ‘walking’ place. It is just not done. Everyone drives; I know this might be hard to believe for our British readers, but there are even shops and restaurants that are ONLY drive-thru! Crazy! So we were about to try and get a taxi when Stephen Fry called. Out of sheer kindness, he came and dropped us off at the new hotel :) .

After checking in, it was time to meet John, a Reality TV Producer regarding a very exciting new prospect. He drove us down to a famous diner where we feasted on burgers, corn dogs and chips NO I mean fries. After the meeting we came back to the hotel and just a few minutes later we were off out with Stephen Fry. He showed us around the place. All very nice. After coffee and ice cream and a little drive around Beverley Hills he dropped us off back at the hotel and here we are now.

Soon we’ll get something to eat and then tomorrow we’re doing some filming with the TV Producer and perhaps some interviews. I’ll let you all know.

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