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But we argued that its color, style, spacing, etc. We got a letter back from Lionsgate legal department advising that it was outsourced to an ad company and they take no responsibility but both designs are inspired by American road signs and therefore no matter how similar they feel it should not be contested. We sent letters to Lionsgate and SpectreVision explaining that this greatly affected our credibility and postulated that they had either a: directly copied our design or b: had not done sufficient research into competition/other products before they released this and as it could limit our odds of making the movie, we asked for compensation for loss of potential. So even though we were here first, we look like rip offs all of a sudden. We have little reach, almost entirely built up of word of mouth and over a years’ worth of spreading the word was overshadowed in one hour as tens of hundreds of websites reported and listed Cooties’ news and poster. Theirs is a comedy and ours is a straight horror. We were confused at first, but then we found out: the Elijah Wood movie Cooties was getting promoted with a new poster. Then one day inexplicably we get a ton of hits to our website and a sudden surge of people congratulating us on making the movie but complaining we changed the name and one of our investors telling us that they are unsure about the movie suddenly.

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Creative England even said they’d be willing to drop 150k if we gathered the full other 350k.Īll in all we had a promise of around half the budget but no money in hand. No one wanted to dig in and be the first to give us actual money – which is fine because once we get enough promises we would eventually hit the full amount and we’d have enough back to back to convince each other to pony up. Investors would promise us a percentage of money if we could raise another percentage of money. I’ve heard this same patter at Cannes before when I was pitching another film. It was all on the up and up and we managed to snag a few people who were willing to “promise” us amounts. and Melissa Suffield which helped sweeten our pot. We got letters of intent from Bill Oberst Jr. 90% of people who read the script loved it or would like to watch it but naturally we got a lot of “if it was already made I’d buy a ticket” as opposed to “here goes some money!”īut overtime with a hell of a lot of work we managed to start getting some people interested. We met a lot of interesting people and had a lot of people interested in the film. Being we’re based in the North East of England and don’t have the cash to hit festivals, after burning through the arts and local councils (who refused to get involved with a film where children run the risk of dying) we turned to try and find private investors. We talked to who we could and set up meetings whenever we were able. Behind the scenes of a momentary movie misadventure.Īfter we wrote Too Young to Die in 2013 we started looking to get the movie made and created a couple of teaser trailers, posters and various other bits and bobs, doing interviews with online magazines and blogs and radio shows and promoting ourselves all we could.

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