Anyone got any more superlatives?
Evening,
Too many amazing things have happened. I've run out of superlatives, so am resorting to a list. Full prose will resume at the earliest opportunity.
Tabloid Revolution: Three million people will have choked on their cornflakes this morning when they read Pete's column in the Sun. See attached. "We - that is humanity - have only a couple of years left to act if we are to stop catastrophic climate change causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of people." In The Sun.
The 1% event: our eco-auditors have confirmed that our premiere will emit 1% of the emissions of a Hollywood-style premiere. All that emissions-pinching has been worth it, mega kudos to Ella and her merry gals. Full report will be up on the website soon. Interestingly, if one person flew LA-> London that would be more emissions than the whole event.
Astroturf: Astro Man saved the green carpet day by lending us a long strip of astroturf. Not just reused, but going off afterwards to be used again. Result.
Guiness Book of Records: Yes we will be the biggest simultaneous premiere in film history. The "simultaneous" is highly important: without it, Star Wars pips us to the post.
Flyposters: are apparently up all over London. Has anyone seen them? Could you send a photo?
Website: visitor numbers have doubled every day for the last three days
Outfits: Vivienne Westwood offered to dress Lizzie and me. Doesn't she realise what we look like?
Tent: Lizzie was down at Bird's Eye Film festival tonight, picking up a Best Documentary award, as you do. She came back via Leicester Square and apparently there's loads of people there putting up a giant tent.... see attached.... how strange....
Countdown: Pete's clock has arrived (see attached)
Book: we've had four publishers contact us this week, all after the book-of-the-film
Junket: Pete and I stormed through interviews with CNN, BBC, Ch 4, Sky, Guardian, Total Film, Film 24 and the Shropshire Star yesterday at out very own junket.
Cute 1: Daniel V's mum put up the poster in the Samaritans shop she works in in Brent and four customers asked whether they could buy it
Cute 2: Daniel C heard two people discussing Stupid on the bus
Cute 3: John from Greenpeace's kids said that everyone is talking about Stupid in the playground at their school
Cute 4: Archive researcher Beth has received 26 emails from friends telling her she should see a new film called Stupid. She replies that she worked on it for five months.
Cute 5: Investors Fred and Fenella loaned their amazing eco-house for the junket and ended up being interviewed by loads of the journos
Cute 6: A woman who saw it at a preview screening last week emailed all her friends and said they had to go to the premiere - and if they are under 30 she will buy their tickets
Latest press:
- CNN: "Want to be a movie revolutionary? Just follow the crowd"
http://screeningroom.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/10/want-to-be-a-movie-revolut...
- CBS: "There's nothing stopping us except ourselves"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/12/entertainment/main4861157.shtml
- Reuters: "We've just got a couple of years left to act, maximum"
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE52B53P20090312
- Pete Postlethwaite video interview on The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/12/pete-postlethwai...
- Independent: "Crowd with a silver lining: new climate film has found a novel way of raising cash"
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/crowd-wit...
Over and out,
Franny, taking exhaustion to whole new levels
(I used to feel guilty about having a day off, then it was an hour, but now I feel bad if I stop for 10 minutes)
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