• Stalkers anonymous is probably the most complicated (filming-wise) project we currently have in production. It began principal photography in August 2003 and will hopefully be completed in the next year.

• The first half of experimental music video comforting sounds was completed in August and the second half should be completed in the first half of December.

• Andrew Watson completed the script for short film LIVING THE NIGHTMARE in May 2003. The project is finally set to film in December with Jack Shanks and Daisy North starring and Watson directing.

• You're probably aware that production has been halted indefinitely on the studio's first film bankrupt due to financial and time-related difficulties. Once we've got the money and time to make it, we're planning to reshoot the whole film. Although some roles may have to be recast.

• the night of the squirrel is the latest addition to the Black Diesel Cinema cannon. The film will be directed by Simon Boyles and Andrew Watson and will feature an all star cast including Daisy North, Dave Thoms, Alexa Raisbeck and Angie Borst. Watson began writing the screenplay on Thursday 23^rd October 2003. Production should begin as soon as the script is completed but as it's being written by the guy who took four years to complete his first script, don't expect anything soon.

• THE DAY THAT NEVER WAS is an original comic book film-noir thriller about amnesia which Watson came up with in May 2002. He plans to write the screenplay once he has completed work on his squirrel epic.
• UNTITLED WILLIAM NEWMAN PROJECT: details at the moment are still very sketchy but last year, Will announced that he was going to write to write a 'Starsky & Hutch' style cop show. Whether this is true or not is another matter.

• BIG FISH PRODUCTIONS: aka Patrick King, producer of bankrupt, comforting sounds and LIVING THE NIGHTMARE amongst other things.
• CANADIAN DAVE PRODUCTIONS: owned by Mr Dave Thoms, the studio's only movie (discounting the now defunct horror spoof 'From Dusk Till Dawn Of The Dead') to date was the classic black-and-white horror short, 'The Hitch-hiker' which starred Jason Fingland and Jack Shanks.
• GOLD TURKEY PRODUCTIONS: run by Paul Jagger, Charles Hurst and Charlie Le Houx, the studio's only notable project was 'Scream: The Next Generation', a faithful homage to Wes Craven's Scream trilogy. The film was unfortunately shelved back in 2001 after a fight broke out on set but is notable for an appearance by one Andrew Watson (playing a helpless victim - naturally) in his first film role.
• ICU: run by Mr Jason Fingland, the studio (in a co-venture with kimbjavideo) recently produced Jack Shanks' silent masterpiece 'Untitled', which starred Jack's sister Hannah. Look out for a compilation DVD featuring shorts, commentaries, trailers and more, due to reach your shores early next year.
• KIMBJAVIDEO: aka James Kimber, producer of pretty much everything we have currently in production. He also produced 'Jack Shank's EVIL DEAD'.

As a result of our many new projects, from 1^st January 2004, the site will now be known as the official Black Diesel cinema site. As well as all our regular pages, the site will now be split up so that there will separate sites for separate films. More news coming soon.

Andrew Watson

To see the old Press Release, click here

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