Filmhub Week 2 of August and Tubi Musings

 

Another report drops, and it's more good news. I gotta tell you, I'm VERY curious to see the earnings report, though it's clearly a ways off. (I haven't seen an earnings report for Q2 yet, even though we're now only about 6 weeks away from the end of Q3)

Any way you look at it, I'm seriously considering Terrortory 3 now. Sure, I had put some thought into it before, having intended to shoot a segment last year that fell through due to Covid, and I've been working on the main script.

I may try to shoot that smaller segment that I'd tried to do, this time in the fall. However, we're at that uncomfortable stage of our existence called "Is the next plague about to hit us?", re Delta variant, so I'm not putting big stock into it yet.

I know a couple of the actors I'd cast have inquired as to the status, but I think the main actress I'd cast has basically written me off. (we went through three false starts on this piece, so I don't blame her)

So I'd have to recast her and find the locations, but otherwise I don't see too many issues other than the complicated VFX I'll have to do.

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Tubi continues to be, as predicted, the star of the AVOD channels. I like how they report too--you can one lump sum for each movie per week, whereas Plex seems to literally give you EVERY individual transaction(so you might see a $.25 if someone watched your whole movie through, and you'll see various smaller amounts every time someone watches parts of your movie).

Some people might like that more, but it really clutters up the insights and makes you scroll through pages and pages of Plex insights. Not that big a deal, just a minor nuisance.

Was nice to see two of my movies listed under the "Recently Added" category. Really hoping they pick up the first Terrortory soon, since the second one is killing it right now, and people watching that might then give the first one a try.

Filmhub update week 1 of August 2021

 

Did a horror convention this past weekend that was a lot of fun. Sure, everybody was masked but it was still nice to be back in that atmosphere and seeing people I haven't seen in years.

Then I come back and see this bit of goodness. The new stats:

The last week of July saw a big uptick, and I think August is only trending down right now because it's first-week. We're now in the four-figure range, most of that coming from Terrortory 2 on Tubi.

I'm not sure why the amount of countries has gone down on that chart though. I might have to ask about that.I'm thinking that it just means in July there was a bunch of countries where one person streamed something that month, and so far, nobody in those countries have streamed anything. (as opposed to thinking those were the amount of countries where the flicks were available to stream, which is what I was thinking)

I continue to experiment on my duplicate-frame problem for Fear of Clowns 2. It's complicated as fuck because of the audio. When you mess with taking 20% of the frames out of the movie, that means sound gets sped up by 20% to match, which either leaves you with a chipmunks audio, or you tell the program to try to keep the same pitch, which still sounds distorted.