Here we are at T-minus 17 days. First… happy birthday to my wife. She’s amazingly patient with me as we work so hard to make “Cell” everything it can be. Love her.

Second, at this point every day is pretty full with rehearsals, business talk, meetings and the like. This week has been no different, but it’s led us to some great news!Yesterday we had rehearsal again for 3 of our principal actors. We also has Jason come in to start getting measurements for costumes and to start pulling wardrobe. Even Natalie made the 3 hour drive to Austin to get her wardrobe squared away. (Not gonna lie, I’m feeling a little guilty that we really didn’t have the time to get to her part in the script.) Jason had his camera so he took some shots of us hanging out at the house for rehearsals. I’ll post some of those up here pretty soon.

Some big news on the crew side of the fence.  We’re very happy to have Iskra Valtcheva on board as our DP. Iskra was a finalist in the 2008 Student Academy Awards for her DP work and is already really well respected in the Central Texas film community, even though she’s only recently out of grad school where she got a MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas. We’re very excited that she’s going to bring her great eye to “Cell.” If you get a chance to look at her reel, take a few minutes. She does amazing work behind the camera and she’s a great person as well. She’s going to add something great to this project.

Another crew position we’ve filled is our Script Supervisor. Nancy Smith from First Look Script Analysis has just come on the crew as our Script Supervisor. I’ve known Nancy for a couple of years from the Austin Screenwriter’s Group. I haven’t been to the meetings in quite a while being swamped with pre-production but happened to run into her last night at a party thrown by Robin Blesch and WPFG Studios threw to celebrate the Texas Motion Picture Alliiance and passage of the new Texas Film Incentives. Anyway, we started talking and I mentioned we needed a Script Supervisor and she jumped on board. How great is that? Nancy’s a very talented, award-winning  screenwriter and I’m really happy to have her watching over things for “Cell.”

Kevin McCarthy has also just added a Facebook Fan page for “Cell.”  We’ve also got one set up for Lovable Varmint Productions. Go check it out and become a fan.

We’re also working on forums so you can join and start discussions about Lovable Varmint and about “Cell.”

We’ve had some great feedback about our blog posts so keep those coming. Leave a comment and let’s start talking. What posts do you like the most? What do you want less of?

Take a second to watch some of The Lone Filmmaker. He’s been working on making a feature film ENTIRELY by himself. I haven’t seen them all but the ones I have seen are interesting about the process as well as some of the specifics about making film.