We are so close. So close to locking the edit. Brad Silberling, my director friend, told me that this is the time in the editing process where you feel like it will never end, but it does. We showed the film to 35 non-industry people, just fans of film, to get their take. Many thoughts were shared, some we thought applied, some we didn’t.

Those changes are being made now by our editor Russell Harndon. We will then show it to Brad one last time next week. If Brad has notes we will implement them and lock the film. If he doesn’t, we lock it there on the spot. Either way our goal is to have a lock by the time the Christmas holidays kick in. We will all take a break and come back fresh in 2008 to begin the next phase, music and sound.

Our composer, Marc Bonilla, and our sound technician, Zahari, have already begun piecing ideas together but won’t actually start laying work in until the lock.

Some of the visual effects from Jerry and Jo Steel have started to trickle in and they look great. And even they are still a work in progress.

After music and sound, the next and final phase is processing the actual look of the film, a process known as DI. I know nothing about it so I will let Chuck explain that to you on his next blog.

Chuck and I are hoping to have a completely finished film by March or early April. We made a conscious decision that we were going to wait until the film was completely finished before showing it to the distribution world, so that will come in the spring.

Happy Holidays to you all, and know this. While you sleep with visions of sugarplums dancing in your heads, Chuck and I are planning a way to kill and dismember Santa.

Mark Thompson