Hey there folks. John here with a couple of quick updates about things going on around here on The Movie Blog. Ok, first things first.
1) Movie Blog Changes
As you know, I’ve been planning some changes around here on The Movie Blog. Changes which include more daily stories and a LOT more movie reviews. Back in December I mentioned that we’d probably see these changes happening in “January”. Well… January is almost over and as a few of you have reminded me, we haven’t changed anything yet. That’s for two reasons. First of all, January has been an insane month. The Films 4 Food Fest took up a lot more of my time than I was expecting (although TOTALLY worth it), This VH1 and New York trip thing came up totally unexpectedly (which I’ll go into more in the next point) and I’ve got this LA trip starting tomorrow. The second reason is that it looks like there is a thrid MAJOR change coming… but I can’t talk about that right now. So basically, that’s why the changes I talked about in December are slow coming… but they are indeed coming. Probably by the end of February.
2) The VH1 Thing
As most of you know, Doug (my Audio Edition co-Host) and I were contacted and asked to go down to New York (we went last week). Basically, VH1 is starting a new entertainment show and the producers wanted to look at us for hosting and guest spots. The trip went much better than I expected. We still don’t know if we got the gig or not (we won’t know for another week or so), but several of you have been asking what will happen to The Audio Edition and The Movie Blog in general if we get the jobs. The answer to that is “NOTHING”. If we get the gig with VH1 (and that’s a HUGE IF), then all it means is that a few times a month we need to fly down to New York to do the show. Nothing will change around The Movie Blog at all.
3) John In LA
I’m leaving for LA tomorrow for about 10 days. I’m going to be visiting with Movie Blog columnist Sharon Dewit, Marty Keegan (the host of the Hollywood Babel-On show) and his uber talented wife Rebecca (she’s the entertainment writer for Time magazine), I’ve got a couple of meetings with some studios about the future role of blogs in film marketing, visiting with the super cool guys at Lakeshore Entertainment… and trying my best to score with some of Sharon’s crazy hot roommates (yeah… cause I hear all hot California women just love going for fugly web nerds). But seriously folks, I’m also hooking up with a couple of long time Movie Blog readers, so if you’re down in that area and want to treat me to a coke (I don’t drink coffee) then fire me off a note and we’ll see what we can set up.
Tonight’s Audio Edition should be fun. :)
