David Hewlett's A DOG'S BREAKFAST: news items

[prion]

A chat with Jane Loughman, producer of the movie:

http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/in...man_0612.shtml

excerpt:

Asked how she ever got the idea to cast Chris Judge as a man who has no luck dating, she says, "Well it was the most preposterous idea I could possibly think! Chris and I have been friends since before Stargate began." They met in LA before Chris was cast for Stargate. And in an odd twist of fate, Jane was there at the SG-1 premiere party before Season 1 began on Showtime. That's a story she loves to use to astound the current MGM executives.

*full interview at link above*

[prion]

Link: http://filmick.blogspot.com/2007/01/...d-hewlett.html

excerpt:


Jane and I worked on three different scripts to get to "A Dog's Breakfast". I mean, I actually sat down and wrote three full length feature film scripts, including a gritty drama and a horror, before we decided on "Breakfast". Jane would read the scripts over and we'd go back and forth about how we could do each film with the limited budget and schedule. Eventually I just gave up writing a script and trying to fit it to our timeline and our budget and instead took an inventory of what we had available and wrote the script around that. I knew that Kate was a fantastic actor and I was determined to use her in the thing. There's not much chance of us getting cast as strangers given the many "Hewlettisms" that we share. The brother-sister side of things came from there. Paul and I were keen to work together, in fact I'd already written him a part in one of those previous scripts. We just put those characters together and went from there. Jane was the one who came up with the idea of the sister bringing the fiance home. The script was really just a riff on that idea.

*full interview at link above*

[prion]

For those new to the flick, David's ADB site has a news page at

http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/i...&id=1&Itemid=2

where you can find all the news items arranged nice and neat

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

For those new to the flick, David's ADB site has a news page at

http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/i...&id=1&Itemid=2

where you can find all the news items arranged nice and neat

And let's not forget the site has RSS Feeds that don't work. Believe me, I've subscribed to the RSS 2.0 Feed, and even though David updates the blog all the time, I never get the updates on my feed reader.

[sueKay]

If the RSS feeds don't work...email David and tell him...He's been actively encouraging people to give him feedback on the site, and he does listen.

[shelsfc]

I suppose this is ADB news!
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/0...sedi_tv_.shtml

[sueKay]

Discussion thread for Starcrossed here!
- http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=39397

[prion]

Just the quick info


http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.a...0070112scifi01

Starcrossed

In the tradition of The Larry Sanders Show, Starcrossed, a high touch, high-tech comedy, obliterates the fourth wall with its behind-the-scenes antics. Throwing in a bitter dose of Galaxy Quest cynicism for good measure, David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis) will draw on his own experiences to pen this quirky half-hour about life behind the camera at a long-running sci-fi space soap. Jane Loughman and John G. Lenic are serving as executive producers, with NBC Universal Television Studio on board as the production entity.

[OfF3nSiV3]

Youtube and $8 website sells indie film to MGM! PDF Print E-mail
Written by dgeek
Saturday, 20 January 2007
How does a micro-budget movie get major Hollywood attention and spawn a spin-off television development deal, before it’s even had its first public screening?

With an eight dollar a month website, a few YouTube clips and "a few hundred bleary eyed nights" in front of his PowerBook, writer/director/actor David Hewlett has taken a core group of Stargate fans and forged them into a publicity force to be reckoned with. "People used to joke that on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog", says Hewlett, "thanks to "A Dog’s Breakfast”, on the Internet, everyone knows our dog!" Hewlett is laughing all the way into season four of Stargate Atlantis, where he plays geek-cult favorite Doctor Rodney Mckay.

rest of the article:
http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/i...id=72&Itemid=2

[The Signal]

I wonder if, had the film not been made by someone who could guarantee a huge following thanks to his role in Stargate, this would have gone the same way? Regardless, this is still a huge triumph for DH and he should be proud of what is undeniably a huge success.

[sueKay]

Well I've not heard one bad thing from the screening, so I'm assuming the film must be genuinely good

[Night Spring]

More News from David

[prion]

http://www.artshub.co.uk/ah1/news/news.asp?Id=152109

David Hewlett – on Wagging the Long Tail
by Venessa Paech

Arts Hub
Wednesday, January 31, 2007


As a child in England, David Hewlett was a big fan of Doctor Who. A young man, he became a self-taught computer whiz, happy to nut away at his PC in Perl and play with dancing one's and zero's. These days he attends sci-fi conventions around the globe, attracting legions of fans who clamour for his autograph. In his rare down-time, he writes screenplays, less Perl.

You see, Hewlett has joined the pantheon of his childhood heroes, taking on the role of brilliant ‘and he knows it’ astrophysicist Rodney McKay, a cult favourite on Stargate: Atlantis. The show, a spin-off of America's longest running sci-fi series Stargate: SG-1, is winding up a third season, with Hewlett a major drawcard for its surging popularity.

But the actor’s otherworldly success was borne of a hard slog familiar to most practitioners.


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[Pitry]

SueKay! They linked to your Starcrossed website.

(extremely entertaining, BTW )

[prion]

http://www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com/i...ask=view&id=77

There are three screenings announced for "A Dog's Breakfast" at the upcoming Cinequest San Jose Film Festival:

03/03/2007 7:30 pm San Jose Repertory Theatre

03/04/2007 2:15 pm San Jose Repertory Theatre

03/06/2007 4:30 pm San Jose Repertory Theatre

Tickets are available from the Festival website:

www.cinequest.org

Jane and I are going to get down there for the screenings on the 3rd and 4th.
Jane may hang around for the 6th, being a rabid schmooze weasel for two, if
she can bear to be away from me for that long! ;-)




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