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____________________________________________________________________________ 21st July 2010 Well, the big news is... Leaving the Lawn is finished! We're having our premiere tonight in Flowerfield. This will be the first time the cast see the film too, so it's a bit nerve-wracking! Hopefully they won't chase me with pitch-forks and burning torches afterward. The local press have promised to put in an appearance too, so keep an eye on next week's newspapers. But what about you lovely public? When can you see the film? The good news is you don't have to wait for the DVD as there are several more screenings booked and hopefully more to come. See the Leaving the Lawn page for details of your nearest show, view the trailer and have a look at the movie poster. On book-related matters, I'd firstly like to thank Mervyn for writing a review of Vampire Equinox on Amazon -- I really appreciate it, and secondly I want to reassure you that Vampire Dawn is still available. Since it sold out on Amazon this latest time they have made it look like it is only available from secondary sellers. My printer tells me this is their error and it will corrected in the next couple of weeks. Also, now that this film is finished, I'll hopefully get Bleeding finished pretty quickly. Halloween seems very close all of a sudden. ____________________________________________________________________________ 10th June 2010 All my books now have the Look Inside feature on Amazon, so if you want to read a few pages to help you decide whether to buy or not, now you can! Just click the links on the left-hand side of this page to access the titles. BTW Vampire Equinox is the only one of my books that doesn't have any reviews on Amazon, someone who's read it, please write one when you get a minute. Leaving The Lawn is still occupying most of my time. I'm editing what footage I've got at the moment while I wait for Scott to finish his A levels. Hopefully we can get the shooting finished pretty quickly once he's free, but making the YFIFF deadline of June 30th is looking very doubtful. ____________________________________________________________________________ 5th May 2010 It's been a busy couple of months for me. I've been filming every time weather and actors' schedules permits, but it is taking longer than I thought. That little pipe-dream I had about having all the principal photography finished by the end of April has gone out the window. We haven't even finished the exteriors yet, though there aren't that many more to do and I'm hoping once we get inside things will move a lot faster. We've now got a deadline! We're hoping to have the film finished for June 30th so we can enter the Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival. It's going to be tight -- fingers crossed! On those days when I haven't been able to shoot or edit, I have been chipping away at Bleeding and it's coming along nicely. I'm about halfway there now. BTW, I have changed web-hosting so the old angelis-1 email I used to use for the website is no longer active. The website's email is now coral.moon@virgin.net ____________________________________________________________________________ 12th March 2010 Wow! It's been over two months since I updated this, doesn't time fly when you're freezing your nuts off waiting for a break in the weather? I haven't been completely bone-idle though, I've been chipping away at my new novel, Bleeding, and I'm really pleased with how it's going -- I think this one's going to be long! So, the weather is improving! It looks very nice out there most days, even though it's still very cold. We've started rehearsals so that we're ready to pounce as soon as we can film without our actors' breathing being visible. So a big shout out to all our actors -- we'll be coming for you soon, so give those lines another read through. All being well, we will get all the principal photography finished by the end of April. That's the new plan anyway. ____________________________________________________________________________ 6th January 2010 Snow! Lots and lots of it! Worst winter in 20 years, 2000 schools closed, £150,000 per day spent clearing the roads, and one indie film put on hold! Yes, I thought I should just give a shout out to our actors and people who volunteered to help on the film that we are currently in a holding pattern waiting for the end of this particular ice-age. In October the weather service told us this was going to be the mildest winter in decades, so we had no problem setting ourselves January to begin shooting. That'll teach us. So all we can do is wait at the moment. The ever-reliable weather-bureau are saying this cold spell is likely to last until the end of January. So, we're (tentatively) saying that we'll be starting shooting in February now. Hang in there, everyone! ___________________________________________________________________________ 18th December 2009 Happy Festivus! (any Seinfeld fans out there?) It's started snowing in Portstewart. It's very picturesque but I hope a week or two will get it out of the way so I can start filming in January. We had a great turnout at the auditions and we've pretty much cast the flick. Now just the small matter of getting it down on film. The screenplay of Vampire Dawn is also finished! Although I had to cut out a HELL of a lot of the story (no Daves? No Chloe? No medieval flashback?) it's still coming in a bit long at 131 pages. Movie screenplays generally work out about a minute per page so I'm looking at a 2hr 11 min movie at the moment. I'm going to give it another pass and see if I can get it under two hours and then start sending it out in the new year. Last but not least, I'd like to thank you all (you know who you are) for your support this year. All my books are selling well thanks to good word of mouth from people like yourself. I've got big plans for 2010 so when you're pulling that turkey's wishbone... add a PS on my behalf. ;-) Peace & love to you all. ____________________________________________________________________________ 21st November 2009 The date has been set for the auditions for my North Coast road movie. If you fancy yourself as an actor then please come along and show us what you've got. Full details on the Leaving The Lawn page. ____________________________________________________________________________ 27th October 2009 For anyone who's going to the fireworks on Halloween night (that's this Saturday, 31st October, for the non-scholars), why not drop down a bit early as I will be doing a book signing in Waterstone's, Coleraine from 6pm until 8pm. To avoid a Marie Celeste turn-out of Spinal Tap proportions, please drop in and see me, even if it's only to ask directions or bum some change. Looking forward to seeing you all there. I'll be the bewildered-looking one holding the pen. ____________________________________________________________________________ 13th October 2009 Only at page 43! (should be 90-120 long) I had thought that writing the screenplay of Vampire Dawn was going to be easy -- the story's already there -- surely it's just a matter of writing down the dialogue and a few stage directions. Right? WRONG! The trouble with writing a movie is that you have to be a lot more visual. So where you might spend a few pages in a novel listening to someone's thoughts, you have to come up with a visual way of getting the same information across in a film. I am enjoying the process, it's just taking a lot longer than I thought it would. I'm itching to get on with my new novel. The ideas have been coming thick and fast but I'm disciplining myself to do one thing at a time. Past experience has shown that if I try to do a few things at once I end up not finishing any of them. Also, the more eagle-eyed of you will have noticed that the Amazon links for Vampire Dawn and Vampire Equinox are now live, and they're offering free delivery at the moment. I spoke to the manager of Waterstone's, Coleraine, last week and she was ordering then, so they should have them soon, but if you can't wait, or you're not living local... ORDER NOW! And do let me know what you think. ____________________________________________________________________________ 20th September 2009 Welcome to the new look Philiphenry.com! I've been meaning to give the website a makeover for a long time, but it's just one of those things that I never seemed to get around to. Well, now I have! Now that the vampire trilogy is complete I thought it was about time for a big marketing push to try to let the world know I'm here. So if you see a car with a dirty back window, write www.philiphenry.com on it. It's much more original than Wash Me and every little helps. :-) I've also started a Facebook group, so please join up and invite all your friends to do the same. You might also like to take a look at the latest video I put together to promote Vampire Equinox, which should be out on schedule at Halloween. ____________________________________________________________________________
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