No, nothing to do with music. At least not yet. I designed the website for the new movie Paris Connections by American star author Jackie Collins. Produced by the production team of blockbusters like the Golden Compass and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the movie will be released in May and feature many stars including Charles Dance (Alien, Last Action Hero, Gosford Park), Nicole Steinwedell (The Unit, Single Man), Anthony Delon.

There is also news on the music front. The single Cam Girl will go into distribution this weekend and première on Dutch radio next week.

My co-operation with director Philip Gardiner is getting yet another episode. Today I finished the title song for a new movie called ‘Cam Girl’. Filming will start next week and the release is planned for just after the summer. It is a Film Noir production that will be released only on DVD around July of this year. The script for the film was written by Philip and John Symes.

The movie, that will be an experimental one in many ways, will launch new British actress Layla Randle-Conde onto the scene. The song is as melancholic as I they come. It was a short and emotional process to write it. Just a piano, a cello and some strings to sketch a musical landscape for a single vocal line.

Today I heard I have been nominated for an Interactive Music Award. I am among five acts nominated for this prize, which is awarded every year to an artist or band that has distinguished himself/itself by using new and innovative ways of music promotion and marketing. An 5-headed jury will decide on the winner this Friday 15th January after all acts have given a 3-minute presentation of their concept. The concept I’ll be bringing to the table is my Mystery Pop project: writing a song for a bestselling Author based on a bestselling book. If the author likes or even loves the song, they will actively promote it and introduce me to their reader audiences.

I could not illustrate how Mystery Pop works any better than by what happens today. Since 20% of the jury’s verdict will be made up by votes on the Interactive Awards website, ‘my’ Mystery authors today supported me by inviting their readers and fans to vote for me on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. The message was also put up on the website for the upcoming movie The Stone, in which I will be playing a part soon.

Kathleen, Philip, Patrice, Filip, Philippa, Andrew, Martin: thank you so much for your continued support of my work and mobilizing your friends and fans today. Thank you everybody who has already taken the trouble go to the website to vote for me. It’s special when you are prepared to do that for me and I do not take that lightly.

If you haven’t voted yet, you would really help me by casting your vote behind this link.
(pst….make sure you select all 5 stars as it will give me more votes..and don’t tell anyone…)

PRESS RELEASE
London, 4th January 2010

Dutch singer/songwriter Corjan will feature in a new British Psychological Thriller movie titled ‘The Stone’.

The Stone is a movie production by bestselling author and award winning film maker Philip Gardiner who will be the director and co-wrote the script with John Symes. The film will be released in 2010 to festivals across the world before being distributed on major release.

In the film, Corjan will play himself in and will perform his single “Haunting me down” which he wrote especially for the occasion. His show will be filmed on an abandoned RAF airbase near Rendlesham, United Kingdom that previously served as the backdrop for StarWars and Mission Impossible.

Gardiner and Corjan got in touch as a result of Corjan’s Mystery Pop project, an upcoming album full of songs each inspired by a bestselling international Mystery book and and endorsed by its author. Corjan wrote a song inspired by Philip Gardiner’s book ‘The Bond Code’ and performed in his talkshow on SKY TV last year.

The film ‘The Stone’ will feature special effects by the same team who produced ‘Shaun of the Dead´ and actors such as Tony Scannell (The Bill), Bunny Reed (Hammer) and several unnamed A-list actors a.o. from the Harry Potter cast.

In the film, Corjan will perform alongside Staffordshire Rock Band ´No Redemption´ of Gemma Simpson and James Earnshaw who will also do the musical direction.

For more info check The Stone Official Movie Website