Rejection... Fast as a Midwestern wind storm!

Well, that didn't take long.

WWE rejected me just minutes later (I read the rejection just before bed... awesome, right?).

Well, thankfully I didn't really want to Personal Demons to find a home at WWE (I actually loathe "professional" wrestling and the entire culture surrounding it). 

Really, at this point I'd be happy for interest anywhere, which is a far cry from just last summer when I won Fade-In's Horror Screenplay competition and I was moving up in the ranks of Screencraft's horror competition... though, in all fairness, I haven't really done anything with my scripts or submissions since then, so... I can only blame myself).

I really only submitted to WWE Studios because they have made some horror films: that Halle Berry movie The Call comes to mind (which my Mom loved... wouldn't mind capturing the suburban housewife demographic... looks what it did for the 50 Shades author... yet another facet of pop culture I loathe); the See No Evil movies... (I only saw the second and it was abysmal...); oddly enough they made the movie Occulus (which I saw in theaters and I loved!) and Leprechaun: Origins (a strange, serious one-shot attempt at a reboot of the gory-comedic Leprechaun series that was quickly dashed a few years later with the retcon Leprechaun Returns... I rented Origins from Family Video... it was okay). 

Anyhow, I have no idea what "branded content" means, though a quick Google search led me to this Wikipedia article.
Now I am certain that I want no part of WWE Studios.
Corporate nonsense.

As for eOne (AKA E1; AKA Entertainment One), well, they were big about ten years ago.
Ten years ago they were the record label for beloved bands whose star had fallen and therefore they couldn't get on with any major labels (they even had my beloved band Kittie on their label).
They've had their share of Oscar fodder: 12 Years A Slave, Dallas Buyers Club, The Untochables (yeah, the Al Capone movie from the 80's)

Their share of crap: 21 & Over, 2 Guns, Delivery Man, 3 Days to Kill, A Haunted House, Map of the Stars,

And their share of interesting projects that I've liked, but I don't think really found their audience or went anywhere: Behind the Candelabra, Cosmopolis, Paranoia (2013), Side Effects (2013), The Family (2013), Warm Bodies, Nightcrawler (2014).

Oh well.

eOne sure gets some big names, but for really small, mostly unseen projects.
Not sure that's the type of exposure I want for Personal Demons.

I would like Lion's Gate, Dark Sky Films or Screen Gems (the first and last on this list are rather ambitious... but then, so am I) exposure.

I keep trudging along until I get that recognition. 
It may come in time, but I've waited this long... what's a little while longer?






Here is WWE Studio's response:

"This is a pass for us, because; Not right for our company.
We're only looking for branded content at the moment, thanks.."


Here is Entertainment One's (eOne) response:

"This is a pass for us, because; Not right for our company.
Not right for our company."