{"id":1107,"date":"2009-10-04T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:57:04","slug":"premonition-is-now-a-certain-ty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Premonition is now CERTAIN-ty"},"content":{"rendered":"

C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> has been around long enough, starting with our debut as the \u201cC-U Confidential<\/strong>\u201d section in the original MICRO-FILM<\/strong> released 10 years ago this month, to verify that the best filmic intentions in our backyard do not always pan out. It is as much a matter of wishful thinking versus concrete realization as it is whether one\u2019s filmmaking dreams will fall victim to the inevitable life changes lurking in the future \u2013 particularly with college students once they graduate. Suffice it to say, Derek Klein<\/strong> and Marc Morin, Jr.<\/strong>, seem to have avoided this potential quandary.<\/p>\n

The fellow University of Illinois<\/strong> alums followed up their set-on-campus television serial ONE FINE DAY!<\/strong> with a feature-length drama called A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW<\/strong>, which we briefly reported on over here<\/a> and over there<\/a>. Since the filming took place during Spring Break 2009, again on the UIUC grounds and C-U vicinity, Klein has moved the duo\u2019s Premonition Pictures <\/strong>from Chicago <\/strong>to Los Angeles <\/strong>in the hopes of finding success in the heart of the business we call show. CERTAIN <\/strong>has certainly not been put on the back burner, as evidenced by a second trailer released in July:<\/p>\n

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What initially looked like a post-graduate dramedy from the original teaser trailer that we showed at the C-U Confidential Local Movie Show<\/strong> in April<\/a> has morphed before our eyes into a different beast entirely with this one \u2013 it\u2019s a murder mystery<\/em>, too? We\u2019ll ultimately see for ourselves once Premonition releases the DVD on December 16<\/strong>, but at the least we can tell Klein changed it up by casting his OFD!<\/strong> regulars in radically different roles. CUBlog <\/strong>also likes the SPIDER-MAN <\/strong>style titles, although the best effect in trailer no.2 has <\/em>to be the straight face that actress Brittney Refakes <\/strong>keeps while calling our town(s) \u201cChambana\u201d \u2013 as a reporter on a news cast!<\/p>\n

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Klein also seems to be wasting no time in helping other filmmakers as both the brand-new Premonition Web site<\/a> and the old-school OFD!<\/strong> page<\/a> promote an additional \u201cChristmas release\u201d of a silent-era homage called KUMAR\u2019S DAY AT THE PARK<\/strong>, produced by 1896 Films <\/strong>and directed by Andrew Blackwood<\/strong>. The log line reads, \u201cWhen a hungry young Indian Man discovers a basket full of food he just found isn\u2019t free, he must evade capture to win the love of his bemused sweetheart.\u201d We\u2019ll cross our fingers that White Castle <\/strong>hamburgers are nowhere to be found in this adventure.<\/p>\n

For now, we\u2019ll end with images taken at the aforementioned CUZine <\/strong>event by the talented Jamie Newell <\/strong>\u2013 photographer<\/a>, novelist, journalist, horse race aficionado<\/a> \u2013 that we should have posted a long time ago. Pictured from left to right are Elisha Reichert <\/strong>(\u201cChristi Vanderbilt\u201d in OFD!<\/strong>, \u201cLynda Bloom\u201d in CERTAIN<\/strong>), Betsy Trevarthen <\/strong>(\u201cMonica Burns\u201d in OFD!<\/strong>, \u201cWendy Jacobson\u201d in CERTAIN<\/strong>), Prashanth Venkataramanujam <\/strong>(\u201cJacob Winters\u201d in OFD!<\/strong>, \u201cBen Falls\u201d in CERTAIN<\/strong>), director\/writer Klein, and your humble editor in discussion after showing the audience CERTAIN <\/strong>trailer no.1 and the series finale of OFD!<\/strong> Man<\/em>, was that aroma of Caffe Paradiso <\/strong>coffee wafting in from stage left hard to ignore \u2026 mmmmmmmmm<\/em>, coooooooffeeeeeeeee<\/em>…<\/p>\n

~ \u00a0Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Premonition Pictures movie, A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, coming to DVD on December 16, 2009, after being completely shot in Champaign-Urbana earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,10,20],"tags":[167,1706,104,285,284,105],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-u-confidential-shows","category-production-updates","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-a-certain-point-of-view","tag-c-u-confidential-shows","tag-derek-klein","tag-jamie-newell","tag-marc-morin-jr","tag-premonition-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}