So, it's finally happened.

Almost 14 months since the first draft of the screenplay was finished and passed to my patient girlfriend to read, Dead Man Drinking is available for download.

You can get it from archive.org for direct HTTP/FTP, or download it using BitTorrrent from mininova. It's free! Tell your friends! Hell, have a Dead Man Drinking party, even if there's just the one of you! Join the facebook group! Or maybe the myspace page... but nobody really still uses myspace, do they?

Also, some more information about the film is also available on the web site.

Some things to look forward to in the coming month or two:

• A 720p (that's HD) Quicktime H.264 version available for download.
• Free version with an audio commentary or two also being made available.
• A DVD iso version and...
• Hi-res PDF versions of all our poster & DVD cover art - so you can make your own version to sit on a shelf, if you have the desire to abuse your work's laser printer with a maniacal laugh.
• A making-of featurette. Like the one for Insecurity, only funnier, and with more random behind-the-scenes drunken shenanigans including something never before seen in the history of behind-the-scenes featurettes: our resident catering genius kicking his own shoe off into a fish-tank in a failed attempt to crush a cockroach underfoot!

EDIT: added link to torrent.

Dead Man Drinking is scheduled to be released in December this year, before Christmas. It will be released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, just like our first film.

To get ready for this launch, we're going to be releasing some short snippets of the film, along with some behind-the-scenes stuff every few weeks on youtube, myspace and facebook.

The first snippet, Bridges Are For Smashing, is available now! Check it out on youtube, or you can find it on myspace, on the facebook page or on the official web site.

Or, y'know, just click play below!

We've now finished Dead Man Drinking to our satisfaction. So, currently on the list of final things to do before release are just a handful of things - the DVD cover is almost done, we've yet to record the obligatory commentaries (the first is being done tonight), and we're still sorting out some distribution details.

So, all but the most stoned of you will probably notice that the web site has changed. Instead of being driven by php scripts of my own devising and the MyBB forum system, I have switched to a more centralised content-management system that will allow more up-to-date content from us without requiring my attentions as a programmer.

This was done to allow us to focus more on making films and less on swearing at Internet Explorer's attempts to render standards-compliant pages.