Centigrade: October 2008 Archives

And so, 22 months of blood, sweat and tears was handed across a young woman’s desk in Beverly Hills… and into God’s hands. Nothing more we can do now. Insane to think we even got this far. The yay or nay comes in December. Wish us luck.

I look back on the first blog ever written on this project and I can only smile. I’m glad I’ve written as much as I have. Granted, the material has often veered into numerous rants about people, places and things. After all, the world doesn’t revolve around something as silly as a movie. Certainly not mine. But since my first musings went global, people have died, babies have been born and the ‘little film that could’ has simply refused to go quietly into the night.

Never in our wildest dreams did we expect to be here. It’s truly so very hard to articulate the history of this project. 22 months ago Madison Graie mouthed 6 fateful words, “You still got that Fahrenheit script?” and nothing has ever been the same.

6 words. 22 months. 76 Blogs. 6 Countries. 17 Festivals. 10 ‘Best of’ Nominations. 8 ‘Best of’ Awards. 1 ‘Honorable Mention’. And ‘1’ Academy Award Qualifier.

The ‘road to hell’ is paved with quite the tally. Today, I’d like to add one more.

12 Billion.

Today, we announce perhaps the greatest of all news.

**CENTIGRADE HAS BEEN FORMALLY SIGNED TO… iTunes!!!!

YEEEEEE HAAAAAA!!

Not only that, but CENTIGRADE is the FIRST Canadian ‘Live Action’ Short Film to have ever made it into iTunes!! We’ve made history!

Currently, the only way to get into iTunes, is to be signed by distributor SHORTS INTERNATIONAL (which we have). A trick in itself. And if should you be able to pull that one off, your film has then to go through another judging process to be considered for iTunes. Well, we did it.

CENTIGRADE will go global on the 21st of this month for iTunes UK, CANADA and US. as part of iTunes and Shorts International’s HALLOWEEN HELL MONTH and we are going to be doing everything we can to help grease the rails. We are currently setting up Centigrade Facebook and My Space pages and when the film finally goes online, we would ask that you might ‘link’ us to any club, group or networking system you have. It would be so incredibly appreciated. The more ‘hits’ the film gets… well, you know the drill.

Just think about it! CENTIGRADE could become the biggest money maker of all time!! 6 billion people @ 2 dollars a download… that’s 12 BILLION DOLLARS.

*We will also be concurrently offering the DVD for sale (autographed if you’d like) right here on the Centigrade website. Again, all later this month.

And so, the Producers would like to make the following offer. Should Centigrade hit the 12 Billion dollar mark, we promise to fly everyone (and their families) who have ever supported the film to a great big Centigrade ‘party’ in Hawaii. Not only that, but when they get there they will take possession of a brand new JEEP WRANGLER!!!

Or, if you prefer, we could all split the 12 Billion between us. Figure it should still come out to about 50 - 60 million a piece. (Or, like I said… the Wrangler.)

So, this is the month to do it everyone.

October.

Halloween.

CENTIGRADE goes global.

And when it does (on the 14th), we will simply announce it by issuing the following,

“The Road to Hell - IS LIVE.”

Big ‘thank yous’ once again to our cast and crew. Derrick Garland, Jonathan Tyrrell, Ron Sauve, John Penhall, Martin Wood, Simon Young, John Smith, the DGC, British Columbia Film, Paul Sharpe, Fulvio Cesere, Kal Suurkask, Brianne McQuair, Rob Hienbecker, Kevin Hall, Mark and Claudia Rickerby… the list goes on and on.

And of course to anybody who’s ever come to this site to borrow a cup of sugar.

Thank you ALL.

Keep you posted.

Sincerely,

Colin and Madison