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Revival House… Not… Err… Revived?

revival_house_430x38It is just over 6 months since our last update on the trademark status of Kathryn’s production company Revival House.

In that half-year the United States Patent And Trademark Office (USPTO) required documentation proving the active use of the name Revival House in a commercial setting.  As of May 11th, that information was not forthcoming so the applied for trademark Revival House is now officially ‘Abandoned’.

This change of status does not necessarily mean that the production company itself is dead, just that the protections afforded to the use of the name are lost.  It is not a completely beyond saving, there is the option of a petition being submitted.  There are only two weeks to do so though.

First filed in 2011, just a few months after Kathryn’s previous production company Hotplate Productions went through the same abandonment process, Revival House was accepted in April 2012.  Proof of usage or a 6-month extension request needs to be submitted within 6 months.  A maximum of 5 extensions can be approved, giving a total of 3 years to ‘use it or lose it’.

Since that time has all now passed with no signs of Revival House being used commercially, the trademark application on the name has been closed.

The Trademarkia website has all the details.

15th May 2015 | Category: News, Producing, Revival House | Leave a comment

1st Poster For Bone Tomahawk

poster_001_1014x1500And so it continues…

Overnight (UK time) the first poster for the film Bone Tomahawk was released by the production company Caliber Media.  You may have noticed it already.  I slipped in a small copy above (full size in the Gallery).  Try squinting :-)

We know that Kathryn’s role in Bone Tomahawk as the wife of the Sheriff played by Kurt Russell will be quite small.  So it is not a big surprise that Kathryn does not feature in the stars pictured or named in large letters in the poster.  However, you never know how things can change once a film goes into post-production.  Kathryn’s filmed scenes could easily have been lost in the editing process.

The very good news is that if  you look closely at the lower section of the poster you can see this:

poster_001_1014x1500There she is, second to be listed after the actors highlighted in the main image.

As mentioned previous Bone Tomahawk is due to be showcased in some form, probably only to those in the trade, at the Cannes Film Festival starting next week.  Hopefully they’ll be more news then.

An actual release date has not been announced yet and I understand that the film is in the final stages of audio post-production.

8th May 2015 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, Gallery Update, Kathryn, Mention, News | Leave a comment

The Coin @ deadCENTER Film Fest In June

deadcenter_film_festival_2015_logo_665x665Just when you thought it was all over…

Yesterday Fabien Martorell (thank you again), writer/director/producter of the short film The Coin, let it be known that the film is due to be screened at the deadCENTER film festival (don’t blame me that’s the way they write it).

deadCENTER takes place in mid-June in Oklahoma City, Ohio, and will be in its 15th year in 2015.

Normally, next I’d be typing how I’ll have to follow-up at a later date with details on exactly when the screening is due to take place.  Not this time!  The schedule was published late last week so we already know.

Grouped with 7 other short films in a 2 hour event with the title ‘The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Somewhere Inbetween Shorts’, The Coin will be screened twice during the festival.  The first is on Saturday the 13th, starting at 2:30pm.  This is then repeated at 11:30am the next day.  Both take place at the FerrellOil Theater at Harkins, home to all the short film events at the dCFF this year.

If you’re down Ohio way in June, why not check it out.

There is of course an official website with more detail and you can find it HERE.

5th May 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, News, The Coin | Leave a comment

Bone Tomahawk: It Begins

misc_002Well… it actually began quite a few years ago now, as covered previously in far too much detail here.  Things are, however, progressing with the pre-release process starting very soon.

Once past all the ups-and-downs of pre-production the movie Bone Tomahawk was filmed in September and October last year.  Since then it has been in post-production: the process of editing, re-recording audio, adding special effects etc.

We’re interested in all this on KM UK because Kathryn has a small role in the horror western film as the wife of the main character Sheriff Franklin Hunt, as played by Kurt Russell (Fast & Furious 7).

In a couple of weeks (13th-24th May) the famous ‘Cannes Film Festival’ starts in the southern France.  The glitzy star-studded premières and the critics’ reactions to the latest releases get all the headlines but a big part of the 10-day long event is the business deals done.  Films are sold on the international markets by distributors in ‘Le Marché du Film’.

One of the distributors of Bone Tomahawk is French company ‘Celluloid Dreams’.  They will be attending Cannes and will be promoting 9 projects, some ready to go like local fare Dheepan and others still in early development such as The Swallows of Kabul.  Bone Tomahawk is in between those states as it is still in post-production but it is set to be showcased in some form or other.

It is unlikely that much will be made public about Bone Tomahawk‘s appearance at Cannes but more details, such as possible release dates, and who knows, maybe even a trailer could make a showing.

Either way it is a sign that the process is moving along.

27th April 2015 | Category: Bone Tomahawk, Film, News | Leave a comment

The Coin & Unbelief Double Date In Philly

speechless_film_festival_logo_180x180The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival has published its schedule of screenings for the 5 day event.

“What do you mean ‘5 day event’?”  I here you say.  “The 17th to the 25th (inclusive) is 9 days.”  And you sir would be correct.  The schedule, however, says otherwise.

The PIFF calendar of screenings starts on the Friday (17th) with a series of opening night screenings.  Included is a world première of Moon Hoax Now, which seeks to debunk all those ridiculous conspiracy theories that the conspiracy theories the moon landings were faked.  Director Jet Wintzer will be there.  Sounds like a hoot.

After that the event takes the weekend off and returns on Monday (20th) with another set of screenings and another world premiere.  This time it is Sean Roberts’ drama Traffickers about a family of Philly drug dealers and their battle against a rival.  Short film The Grey by Anthony Berenator Jr. also gets a first outing.

Among Tuesday’s varied collection films are two shorts receiving world premières: dramas Nesting Grounds (dir Ian Scott McCullough) and local boy Christian Filippone’s first project Stray.

Then we get to Wednesday and this is where our interest lies.

The Levitt Theater at the University of the Arts on South Broad Street in Philadelphia, is hosting the four screening events on the 22nd.  The first kicks off at 5:20pm and contains 3 short films, two dramas and a documentary.  Screening two is a go at 6:20pm and opens with Fabien Martorell’s The Coin.  Watch three more shorts after that and 40 minutes later you could be watching Fabien’s new film Unbelief.  6 short drama films in 70 minutes.

There are more films listed as screening on the Thursday.  There is nothing for Friday or Saturday (25th) which means, at the time of writing, it’s a 5 day event.  Perhaps that will change prior to the first day.  We’ve got what we came for though.

So that’s the Wednesday after next (the 22nd of April) at 6:20pm at the Levitt Theater in Philly.  Got it?

More info is on the official website HERE.

10th April 2015 | Category: Festival, Film, News, The Coin | 2 comments
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