Merry Christmas Legionnaires!

Okay then,

For some reason I am in the giving mood.
(I must be sick)

I am posting the ultra-top secret link to the Pulp Legion Electrogram here on Pulp 2.0. Normally, you would have to sign up for (free for) this ranty goodness, but I am sending this Holiday special out far and wide.

If you like this 14 page missive and want more on a semi-regular basis, go ahead and sign up in the subscription area of the sidebar.

http://sites.google.com/site/cinexploits/home/2009-pulp-legion-electrogram-holiday-special

Bettie says it's the pulp thing to do...

The Upcoming Pulp Legion Electrogram

So if you were following this commentary track you saw where Aric Blue challenged my assertion regarding the value of free and so on when it came to movies. And no, he's not being argumentative or combative in asking these questions...

And it's going to take more room than a blog post or comment to address them . So I'm going to do just that in the next issue of the PULP LEGION ELECTROGRAM.

If you're not familiar with the e-gram it's my (hopefully) monthly newsletter / love letter / notebook to indie media. I try to add plenty of links to cool stuff - programs and services you can use as well as the occasional bit of pulp fluffery. (Okay a lot of pulp fluffery) I take a bit more time to develop the ideas and text for an electrogram which eventually makes their way into a book on pulp mediamaking that I'm assembling.

One item from Aric's comments that I did want to immediately address is this:

As for cafepress and all that, wasn't it you that was telling me you can't be a filmmaker AND a distributor? But you can be a filmmaker and also do all this other cross-product promotion/creation?

In today's world. The world we live in right now. If you want to actually make a profit from your work -- then you have no other choice. Not unless you are in the league of someone making a movie for $5M or so... and even that slice of the moviemaking realm is thin. Too small to release in theaters, possibly too big for DVD. It needs special handling and positioning.

I will go into more detail in the next issue. If you haven't subscribed go to the sidebar and do so. It's free and completely non-invasive.

Now I have to get back to writing and selling my pulp.

Pulp Legionnaires! Atten-hut!

This is to inform you that the latest edition of the Pulp Legion Electrogram has gone out via the interwebs.

It features my take on Mike Curtis's wonderful notes from the 2009 DGA Digital Conference from awhile back. (Yeah, I finally got it out the door...)

For potential recruits into the Legion - if you sign up (see sidebar) and email me with your name, I will forward you this latest issue outlining some of the ways entrepreneurial pulpsters are overcoming the distribution hurdles facing us in the 21st century. If you jump on now you'll be in line to benefit from some of the changes we will be undertaking leading us into the new year.

(Image courtesy of Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

I'm Syndicated

Select blog posts of mine from here at Pulp 2.0 will now be featured content on TheWrap.com

These will be augmented blog posts featuring extra or refocused content.

Please inform the appropriate humanoids (especially those with disposable income) that I will be discussing all sorts of topics related to the entertainment industry, new media and the wonderful mosh pit of convergence.

As always, I will strive to be the soft-spoken, easy-going huggable... ah hell. I can't even finish that sentence without throwing up a little in my mouth.

I will be the same outspoken, tell-it-like-it-is-in-the-real-world bastard I have always been*

I will now have a bigger and shinier soapbox upon which to do it. Readers will get added value with these TheWrap.com blog entries.

Of course, for you pulp die-hards who wish to eat the 'big sandwich' I would suggest subscribing to the Pulp Legion Electrogram (see sidebar), where I delve even further into the subject matter and add links to 'news you can use.' Based on the last Electrogram (wherein I dissected the D2DVD movie MEGA SHARK V. GIANT OCTOPUS) I have had five separate discussions with Legionnaires. Did I mention it's free?

Here endeth the transmission.

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* This is because I respect you. I won't sugarcoat something to make you feel good if that's all it does and doesn't make the work better. I expect the same from everyone here.

Convergence Saturday

John Rogers confirms what I thought I remembered him saying awhile back that LEVERAGE uses the Sony EX-1 for a lot of their shots. The same camera we discuss here for low budget moviemaking. Hmmm... pro-quality tools in the financial reach of the masses. Wonder what's going to come of that?

Michael Patrick Sullivan is a dirty, filthy little MASTERMIND.

Cousin Trevor points us to this little digi-novel project here which I will have to dissect at a later point. A mashup of this, that and the other designed to tell a story in different ways. Kind of what I'm conceiving with DEAD MAN'S PARTY.

Chris Mills talks about his new CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT comic... pretty plane!

(Chris - more aero-porn please! Thank you)

Geekerati is coming back! Sunday nights at 6pm.

Read this from New TeeVee and Trent Reznor. We will discuss (rant, dissect, take your pick) this in an upcoming Pulp Legion Electrogram. If you aren't subscribed then you miss out. Go to the sidebar and sign up>>>>> It's free!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go work.

Pulp Legion Electrogram #4

Has hit the web.

It features my dissection on what made MEGA SHARK V. GIANT OCTOPUS work.


If you would like to join the Pulp Legion please head to the right of the blog and sign up in the subscription window in the sidebar. Pulp Legionnaires get special privileges and bonuses that general blog readers don't. Stuff that you won't see here on the blog.

So join today and get in on the fun.

This Weekend Is Dedicated To:

1. Finishing all my edits for FLY BY NIGHT and get to the actual re-typing.

(My process includes lots of red pens that bleed all over the first draft of the script making no sense to anyone but me taught in the arcane ways of pulp screenwriting)

2. Finishing this issue of THE PULP LEGION ELECTROGRAM.

3. Polishing the press release for THE KNIGHTMARE.

I had wanted to throw up a contest on the Fans of the Knightmare Facebook page, but it looks like I won't have time. May have to come up with something special for next week.

Support New Pulp Media.

Edit Red = Completed.

Hey Brother! Can You Spare Some Pulp?

Hi Gang --

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, right? I have gone and monetized the blog with a DONATE NOW button from our friends at PayPal. I've held off for four years, but the time had come. I love writing this blog. It is part of me, and I hope part of you too... that nasty icky part that gets caught deep in your nethers, but a part nonetheless.

So, if you like what you see here on Pulp 2.0 and you want to see more of it - then please donate! Every little bit helps.
(Sign up for the Pulp Legion Electrogram - it will make any donation you make well worth it. You will be in on the ground floor of several pulp somethings that are really cool, you'll learn all the behind-the-scenes drama and intrigue that goes into making a Pulp Movie, and I pack every issue with enough linkage that will have you downloading and reading for weeks. Hint: This next issue will be "cine-magical" to say the least.)

Oh, and to those Legionaires in the know - That big "thing" I told you I was working on? Yes, it will be that big and I'm going to break it up into "3 big things" in order to do it justice.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about - Subscribe! The subscription widget is over in the sidebar. If you're reading this via Google Reader - click the link and go over and sign up.

You'll be glad you did.

A New Pulp Legion Electrogram

Will be winging its way through the internet to you soon!

If you haven't signed up for it yet, you may still do so by going to my sidebar and scrolling down to the subscription form.

It's free and I don't do anything with the email address info except inform you of all sorts of cool stuff, pass along information and advice.

From the electro-mailbag for last issue:

Keep re-reading this. Good stuff, Bill. -- JOD

This is excellent!

I am looking forward to going through all the links you've put in here, and really looking forward to what's next. Thanks for putting this together. -- Kevin Byrne

Remember the Pulp Legion Electrogram has exclusive content you won't see here on this blog. Don't miss out on the fun...

Pulp Legion Electrogram - Errata

For those of you wondering....

- Drew Bellware said it was his second bong hit...

- There is a section of the Electrogram missing so I will place it here:

"This is your school. I'm writing this script for Drew... not only to write another pulp script ( a form and story I really like) , but to put into practice the theories and so forth I've developed over the years in making these small movies with big ideas. This is my graduate school thesis, business plan and blueprint. "

Extry! Join The Pulp Legion!

And you too can learn all sorts of arcane secrets and machinations direct from the thinkmeat of the Mad Pulp Bastard:

- What the Legion is all about.
- What I've been up to for the past 8 months.
- The details for the new movie I'm writing - FLY BY NIGHT.
- Links to free stuff you can use for your cool pulp movies.

The first issue of the Pulp Legion Electrogram has gone out. Join now so you don't miss out on future issues!

See the sidebar to the right.

It's My Blog and I'll Pulp If I Want to...

Yes, thank you all for your kind Birthday wishes to me. I thought I would throw out my will list and other randomness for this year:

- I will get my waistline down 12 inches from my age.
- I will get more people to understand this.
- One year ago today I was in the screening room watching the Leverage pilot. Time flies!
- I will get more people to read these.

2009 is going to be a good one:

- a radioplay is coming out from Decoder Ring Theater featuring something by yours truly.
- I've made some major in-roads to setting up NPM
- I have a movie going into production (once I get the script written)
- and there's a lot of stuff going on that I can't talk about yet, but that will change how we look at pulp and comic media. Just sayin...
- oh and I'm launching the newsletter. (see sidebar to subscribe)

I'm Writing...

Pitches: for a pulp anthology featuring [REDACTED].

A Proposal: for [REDACTED] to [REDACTED]...

A Business Plan: which is taking longer than expected, and is really frustrating at times, but is ultimately really cool and so worth it. More info contained in the Pulp Legion Electrogram.

A Screenplay: which means my next 30-45 evenings will be locked up. Again, more detailed info in The P.L.E.

The Pulp Legion Electrogram: trying to figure out what to include and what not to in this inaugural issue.

Now I'm off to write some emails as I have to follow up on some work...

See you in the Mental Ward.

I'm Writing A Movie...

And while the checks and agreements haven't been signed, I feel pretty safe in saying that I'm going to be writing a movie. A pulp movie.**

But guess what?

I'm not going to be talking about it here on the blog. I'm only going to be talking about it via the Pulp Legion Electrogram. (See sidebar to the right).

So if you want to go behind the scenes of the making of a pulp movie - from screenplay to finished product and beyond - then you need to sign up.

The pictures are some of the influences I'm incorporating into the story. Not necessarily those exact influences - but their spirit (no pun intended).

** Pulp Movie (noun) - an adrenaline-packed, colorful 90 minute genre story told through multiple media, but mainly "film."

About The Pulp Legion ElectroGram

Someone shot me an IM an hour ago asking what sort of stuff is going to be in the Pulp Legion ElectroGram (title pending) because they were sort of "on the fence" about signing up.

I'm hard at work fleshing out an article on a film production scenario that, while not paying you millions of dollars, ensures a profitable return on your investment... very similar to the "Report from Them that's Doin'" feature that used to run in the old Mother Earth News.

Some links to production documents you need to use if you want to deliver a professional film and get paid.

A few (insert film crew position here) Help Wanted Ads (well, one anyway) - and yes, you can send me ads to place relevant to comics, pulp, movie production, marketing.

Offers from [redacted] regarding [redacted]...

Some cool pulp style graphics and other goodness I can cobble together and design using my rudimentary, all-thumbs HTML skill.

Links pointing you toward cool free stuff that you can use to make your pulp movies, books, comics and whatever else with...

Announcements that will be of interest - and boy do I have a doozy!

So if you haven't signed up - do so. If you have signed up - tell a friend. The Electrogram is limited to 1000 pulpsters.