It has been a busy few weeks, we have been gathering our Heads of Department and have most of them in place. Over the next few weeks we will be finalising them all and starting to put the ground work together for the latter stages of pre-production. The big news today is that we have cast an actor for our final main character, Cromwell Jackson. Neil Rayment (Matrix Reloaded) has signed to play the part of the antagonist. Neil is looking forward to getting into the shoes of the character and working with the rest of the cast and crew. We will get a press release out in the next few days. It’s a bit naughty of me announcing it here first, but a lot of visitors to this site have helped us get to where we are and I think they deserve some exciting news.

We have our first sponsor in John Malkovich’s ‘Big Sleep Hotel,’ who are providing us with meeting space and rehearsal facilities, as well of discount codes for our fundraiser and other events. We might also be filming in the penthouse or executive suite of the hotel, see the pictures in the gallery below of some of the rooms we may be using.

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We have also started our Viral Marketing page, with web banners and simple flyers for anyone who wants to help out promoting the film. If you do have a chance to hit a festival or convention with flyers drop us an e-mail or message and we will make sure we thank you in the credits.

We are also looking at a number of online teasers/news reports to film and get out on the net, to establish some of the events surrounding Casimir Effect’s story.

Also a big thank you to everyone who has sent us donations and bid on our auctions we wouldn’t be able to make this film without your generous help.

Were in Birmingham well Birmingham airport, and the most exciting thing so far has been the bunnies outside my hotel window. Had a quick change to pop over to the Hiltion, not staying there too expensive, the Hilton is starting to fill. Some advice to anyone coming to the Hub 3 on Saturday morning, bring food you’re looking at £15 for a burger and £10 for a sandwich. Well back on to the positive side, I think this year is going to be a good one slightly odd because of the build up and what not. I’m looking forward to meeting with people talking about the film and generally getting the buzz out there.

We also negotiated a deal at The Big Sleep in Cardiff, we should be able to get room discounts for the fund raiser, use of one of their conference facilities for workshop and read trough’s. Also we can offer one night stay at the hotel, as part of the package for the photo shoot. Yay go us!

We’re going to head back over for the Hub party tonight and mingle. I hope to see some of you there.