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I am feeling the burn of The Mistaken being a flop among audiences and critics. Perhaps it sounded better in my head. Ah well, you win some and you lose some. We were still glad to have Brad Pitt on board as the producer, director and main role.

Now I'm unsure of the next corrupted judicial system film I had pitched will work out. Here's hoping!

In Spirit is coming up next and the production has officially kicked off a few weeks ago. Del Toro was so glad to be free of the Dark Man image. His only CMP film besides the Dark series was Visionaries.

I hold In Spirit a little close to me as it's always been one of the first film, or story ideas I remember coming up with and actually attempted to write before I couldn't figure out where to take it and didn't have a whole lot of knowledge about story telling. The fact that it says it's a ghost story probably already gives hints as to what's going to happen. But I wanted to have the story give you a similar feel of 'The Others' and 'Sixth Sense': be mostly atmospheric and dark toned instead of relying on the horror 'blood 'n guts' style.

It's funny there was a ginormous article written about my appreciation of kid actors and giving them roles to work with. I enjoyed reading it immensely. A lot of those kids may very well be coming back, and a lot of them are involved in other writers' works. My fellow collaborator, Matt Kubrick has also made a lot of films with younger actors and actresses getting a good sized role. The writer of the article forgot Skye McCole Bartusiak was in Lying Wish. That's ok, even I forget that movie existed. Anyway, the funny thing is young actor roles in my films are far from over. I still have plenty in mind, and one is from In Spirit, Jodelle Ferland's big CMP debut!

In 'In Spirit' recently widowed Del Toro is haunted by the death of his wife while caring for his equally haunted daughter, Jodelle. As the film progresses we get a glimpse into their lives, Jodelle begins finding things out about her family life.