- 7:35 PM, Tuesday,
January 16th, 2024:
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- My goodness are we
really starting 2024 with 75% locked entries? How do I
even write this. Here's the email:
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- ***
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- Re: 4TVs Shoot
Cancellation
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- Adam
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- We are no longer
going to move forward with this project. Please let me
know if you’re able to get on the phone today
between 10am and 12pm to talk more.
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- ***
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- Heart racing,
can't catch my breath moment. He texts me this
story...
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- I then turn on my
camera waiting for the call and finally explain in
better detail what went down a couple hours later, so
I'll just post that video and fill in some more
blanks:
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- So the whole
"Disney's doing it" was incorrect. I was just
grasping at straws while drowning. Basically the NFL
isn't going to own NFL Media anymore. So
everything in development goes away because... they
won't even have the rights to negotiate a contract. It
won't benefit them, it will benefit the new guys - who
already bought the company as-is. So they freeze
everything and see what the new bosses think when the
merger happens in April (beginning of the fiscal
year).
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- The personal side
to this is obvious: I was already having a
difficult time getting anyone to listen to me - even
with everyone knowing I was working with the NFL,
saw me on TV with the camera... crickets. But you
figure at least the fucking SUPER BOWL is
undeniable. (Shit, or was it?). But for someone
starting a new company, that's one helluva start. Of
course the thousands I've put into an S-Corp and
backups are nauseating all of which were for the
NFL and the NFL only. I should get most
of my back-up equipment money back, but not everything
is returnable. Whew.
Then of course there's just egg on my face because it
was public. People will assume either A) it wasn't
really happening or B) I spoke too soon and it wasn't
set in stone. Neither of which were true. It was set
in stone enough to have hotel rooms, plane tickets,
production meetings and dozens of prep emails. In fact
it was WAY more set in stone than the test was. I
never got the contract for the test! Crazy, right? The
contract for the Super Bowl could've easily not been
completed until after the Super Bowl. With
corporations THAT big shit like that happens.
It's nuts. So believe me, this was indeed happening at
every level.
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- So this stays
locked simply so I can make a game plan. There's
also a part of me that thinks they may still find a
way to do this. I still think there's value in having
the Super Bowl archived in VR180. Has to be, right?
But as my contact there said - since this footage
didn't have an actual HOME yet... it's a moot point.
Like, obviously NFL Films will be there even though
they're getting sold because their footage has a HOME.
We were unable to secure the HOME with Apple or Meta
in time before this was announced so KAPUT!
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- And dude at
Variety, really? Like - you really couldn't wait to
break that story for a couple weeks!?!?! JESUS. It
doesn't happen until APRIL. I cannot for the life of
me understand the timing of this. Fucking hell. I've
been on the phone all day, I'm exhausted and I'm just
not ready for this type of old-school journey moment.
I usually see them coming.
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- Then again -
here's part of what I wrote in the previous locked
entry:
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- Everyone's
indifference makes me feel like even THAT isn't
happening. Like I'm gonna get a call this week and
the Super Bowl is off. That's how fucked up
this feels. I basically cannot get a contract
until I'm an S-Corp and I'm waiting and waiting on
all that paperwork. All I can do is wait and spend
thousands on back-up equipment while everyone
ignores me and I keep uploading VR180 content for
no one...
- Oh yeah. This
depression is gonna hit hard and LINGER. Fuck
me.
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- What happens
next...
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- Adam
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