Hi All, For those of you who know me, you may already know some of this. For those of you who don't know me, besides being a car nut, I own two companies, Screen Time Images, which restores classic movies and TV shows, and a distribution company I started this year, called Screen Time Classics. The intent with Screen Time Classics was to release classic movies that we license and acquire, restore in house, and then sell on DVD, HD-DVD, & Blu-Ray. Turns out our first release is a new TV show, but I enjoyed the concept, so I got involved, and I think many of you may enjoy it as well. It's called 'The Fairway Gourmet', and stars French chef (who lives in Chicago) Jacky Pluton. By the way, he is a Ferrari fan, so much that he named his son Enzo. The show is about golf, cooking, travel, and luxury lifestyle. Each episode travels to a different premier golf destination, and brings you the culinary delights, amazing scenery and local activities. The show airs on PBS stations nationwide, to an audience of about 700,000 people per episode (per Nielsen ratings). The first season is on now, while the 2nd season is currently being shot (in fact two episodes in Aruba this week) in high definition. This season, now that I'm involved, we will also be including some unique exotic cars as part of the luxury lifestyle, so if you have something special, and would like to be on TV, please contact me. We have just released the DVD of the first season, 13 half-hour episodes in a DVD box set. It is currently available at all major online outlets, including bestbuy.com and amazon.com, and will be on shelves at your local stores after the first of the year. So catch it on TV or get the DVD for Christmas! In other news, I just got the rights to a feature film that stars Tim Roth, John Turturro, Mickey Rooney, Rod Steiger, Mike Starr and others. The film was made in 1998, won all kinds of awards and accolades at film festivals, but was never released due to legal issues. Those issues have now been cleared up, so this movie will come out as a new release theatrically, on TV and DVD/HD/Blu-Ray. More details on this great movie to come soon...
Thanks for the well wishes guys. We're excited an all fronts. Even more so for another project we are involved in as investors and post production crew, which is a film called '5-25-77', directed by Patrick Read Johnson (Dragonheart, Baby's Day Out, Spaced Invaders). That is the date the original 'Star Wars' was released. The film is being produced by Gary Kurtz (who produced Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back) and Fred Roos (The Godfather). Expected release date is on the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars (this May). This film is destined to become a cult classic, and is to young filmmakers and that industry what the movie 'Almost Famous' was to the music industry. Look it up on the net, there is endless buzz about it, and if you're a Spielberg or Lucas fan (who have both blessed the movie as they are portrayed in it - this is a true story) you'll be into this movie. Plus it's about the 70s, and who doesn't have fond memories from back then? Actually, who can remember the 70s.....
Good luck with your endeavours pal! I'm doing somewhat similar to your movie restauration on a small scale: I'm trying to put together F1 year end reviews for the fifties and sixties based out of a gazillion snippets on VHS reviews. Call it a labor of love as I'll never be able to sell any of that because of the copyrights. Ah well.
Andreas, I have (both in my possession and access to) original flim negatives of various classic races featuring vintage Ferraris. I also can get all rights available to any of the footage I am speaking of. Let me know your intents, and maybe I can help. Ask Mike E., I showed him a copy of the footage a while ago.
