A great story on Fred Levine, the creator of the E-Town scene where the kids watch the videotape of the house blowing up. You can read the interview here.
Elizabethtown NY Premiere
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Here’s some pictures from the NY premiere of Elizabethtown on October 10th.
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Elizabethtown Sneak Preview DVD
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Get your free Elizabethtown Preview DVD at Best Buy this week. It includes the following:
- Elizabethtown Trailer
- Cameron Crowe on Elizabethtown
- The Journey to Elizabethtown
- The Music of Elizabethtown
- Special 5 minute first look at the film
- 30 Seconds in Elizabethtown
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Elizabethtown Journals – July & August
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Here’s Cameron’s Journal entries for Elizabethtown. This encompasses the months of July and August.
July 3, 2004
Last day of rehearsal with Kirsten before she leaves for Spiderman press throughout Europe. The last rehearsal, including the ballroom scene, sparks with real intensity. Dunst is especially magnetic today. It’s not hard to stare at her, and for the two hours of our rehearsal it’s a real glimpse of the movie we’re about to shoot. She’s immersed in her character. You’d never know that elsewhere, all across the country, she’s on screens everywhere in one of the most successful movies ever made. Here, she’s just a girl from Nashville, playing a flight attendant with a love of travel and a strange fascination with a shoe designer from Portland, Oregon, here to helm the funeral of a father he had planned to know better… next year. The exhaustion I’d been feeling is disappearing into a new kind of adrenalin. I hope that I can keep this journal going. Many a director has started keeping a journal only to see it disappear into blank pages shortly after filming, with the tidal wave of actual filming hits. Wish me luck.
July 6, 2004
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Hi-Fi Club Details
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HI-FI members receive an exclusive member kit including a limited edition copy of the Almost Famous screenplay and a sticker pack featuring quotes from Cameron’s films. Also included is access to members-only areas of the website, like behind the scenes photos, films and Cameron’s archived journal entries as well as automatic entry into contests to win obscure film merchandise, props and any other surprises we might conjure up!
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New Images From Elizabethtown
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New Pictures from Elizabethtown has just arrived! Check them out!
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Elizabethtown Journals – May and June
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Please enjoy Cameron’s Elizabethtown Journal entries for May and June.
May, 2004
Where did the time go? Orlando is already coming down the homestretch on his movie overseas, Kirsten is kicking at the stall, ready to go.
June 6, 2004
Tomorrow morning rehearsal begins. Man, this movie has been a tough one to get going, it’s true . . . but if the words of my now-retired legendary assistant Director Jerry Ziesmer are true – “The tough ones are the good ones” – then Elizabethtown has a shot at being blessed. (Zeismer worked on everything from Black Sunday to Jerry Maguire and Apocalypse Now – check out his book sometime, it’s the first and last word on the subject of assistant-directing.) It’s been a long road, between finding the right cast and the right crew, but we’re now almost there. The script happened quickly, my fastest one ever, over the summer of 2002. I was traveling on a bus with my wife Nancy, who was touring with her band Heart. I woke up one early morning as the bus was traveling through Kentucky, 30 miles past Lexington. I hadn’t seen these electric blue hillsides since traveling back there for my dad’s funeral in 1989, just after Say Anything… had been released. I dropped off the Heart tour, got a rental car, got lost in Kentucky, and wrote the whole story for the script in a burst. “The roads here are hopelessly and gloriously confusing,” became one of the first lines written for the story, and it came to characterize Claire Colburn – the soul of the movie in many ways – a flight attendant who knows the ins and outs of cities all over the country. She falls for a guy in turmoil, Drew Baylor, who has barely traveled at all. From that relationship, the love story of the movie grew. Together, they became travelers in the world, partners in exploration and love. Tomorrow, it all officially starts to come to life. Usually I’m nervous the day before rehearsals, tonight – strangely calm. I’ve got a lot of music picked out and I’m going to play it during a walk-through of all the set and location photos. Figure that’s a good way to get started. Music has always been the divining rod in everything I’ve ever done. This one more than ever. Using music in the auditions with Casting Director Gail Levin, I’ve even cast the actors who worked best with the Elizabethtown songs and score.
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MTV Interview
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Check out the new Cameron Q & A over at MTV.com. He discusses E-Town, the Fall release date and much more…
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