Hi, everybody! We are at the end of 2024 and about to begin an exciting New Year in 2025! There has been a lot going on since our last update and we have a lot in store in the coming months.

The Diner

Our long in post-production feature film, “The Diner”(working title), is finally nearing the finish line of visual post-production before having a swift and, thankfully, very clean round of audio post-production. As per our previous update, the move out of California and the selling of our family business took quite a lot more of our time than expected and we had months of being unable to really work on the film. However, in the past few months, now that the dust has settled on the move, we have had some great progress and really caught up on our work to where the last quarter of the film is all we have left to visually finalize and that is the section with the least visual effects and background replacement work and, thankfully, very little rotoscope work.

The American Film Market

While “The Diner” wasn’t ready for the market, we had been looking forward to attend the American Film Market to see its first year in Las Vegas as well as to potentially meet investors for Babs Do Studios as well as to gauge interest for Nevada film production going forward with all of the independent filmmakers and production companies attending the market.

The market had quite a large turnout and the session lineup was quite interesting to see with topics on international production, foreign film and media, and advances in independent distribution methods with a highlight of the show being the recent success of Cineverse’s release of “Terrifier 3”, the highest-grossing unrated film ever made.

Many great connections were made at AFM and we secured some additional educational outreach for Babs Do Studios as well. The reactions were unanimously positive and we have maintained connections with several filmmakers and groups that have shown interest in filming in Las Vegas and other areas of Nevada.

The most surprising aspect of the market was the LocationEXPO where various film commission representatives came to showcase their states, regions, and countries for film production and what film tax incentives and facilities they could provide. In my downtime between sessions I would go and speak with each representative and hear what they had to offer and I found that there was a surprisingly consistent message amongst almost all of the commissions. While many offered sometimes very generous and tempting film tax incentives for production, the infrastructure behind it all, the studios, the rental shops, the skilled crews, post-production offices, all of it was either non-existent, down to one or two local companies or a handful of professional groups, and hardly anyone had studio soundstages to advertise save for the Film AlUla from the Saudi Arabian film commission and the Egypt Film Commission.

Babs Do Studios

After attending the AFM and hearing the stories from all the representatives, professionals, and artists from around the country, we came to the decision to open up our Babs Do Studio plan to a new top end goal to establish new film and media infrastructure on a nationwide scale to help provide studio space and services to every state in the country as well as to meet the growing demand of the emerging global entertainment landscape. This would also provide new competition to the reported push from major studios towards international production. By working towards this goal of building new film and media infrastructure domestically, we hope it will help spur new opportunities for American jobs, innovation, and possibly new levels of industry support from state legislatures across the United States that has never been seen before.

2025 & Beyond

In 2025, we are anticipating many exciting updates across both Babs Do Productions and Babs Do Studios:

• New Nevada Film Tax Incentive bills will be presented by Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and potentially other parties in the beginning months of 2025. The outcome of the vote for new Nevada Film Tax Incentives will determine our direction going forward with Babs Do Studios as well as what comes next for Babs Do Productions.

• “The Diner”(working title) will finish post-production in the near future and we will launch the film’s website, final title, and the film’s trailer.

• We will begin pre-production work on our second feature film that we will announce once “The Diner” is completed and ready for distribution.

• If all goes well for Babs Do Studios in Nevada with the new incentives in place for film and media infrastructure and production, we will begin the first steps towards building our studios in Nevada, whether we start big or small, we have everything in place for great works with our studios.

• We anticipate some of our side projects will also receive attention in the new year as we complete some final touches to get them ready.

• There may also be a good deal of travel in 2025, we’ll have to see!

While 2024 may not have been as active as we had hoped, the timing of everything seems to be lining up nicely for 2025 in a very, very convenient way. We will post more updates as they come and there is very much more work to be done at Babs Do Productions and, hopefully, soon at Babs Do Studios!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays and we wish you all a Happy New Year! As always, stay tuned for more in 2025!