Grand Island Entertainment

Thanks to all for their participation in the polls. I Married the Supervillain came in as the winner of last week's poll. Not by much though, so it'll be interesting to see how the films do in the box office and reception with such a neck-in-neck poll. I figured Supervillain would be the winner. It's got the action to boot. Fireflies is a Collins' trademark dramatic character study. As the film gets closer to release(the cast list doesn't have much at all left to be announced) filming has wrapped up and is ready for release. The trailers for both films are being seen in theaters. However, Supervillain is on practically every movie you'll see in one theater, whereas Fireflies is only in a few "little" movies.

We've also got our first draft of casts and plot of our Elvis biopic sent to the big cheese, Harry Stark. Any issues with it we'll discuss. The look of the film plays two stories in one film. You have the young hip rock star boy that is Elvis, and the older, fatter, shell of his former self, up until the two stories converge into one for the big finale. Both roles are played by two different actors.

We don't want to reveal the cast or director until we reach a final decision on whose playing who. If you know your stuff about Elvis, you'll know the plot, like 'Dream of a King' and 'The Experience' it works hard to cover just about every detail about Presley's life.

Interesting enough, we've actually pitched a sequel to 'Fantastic Mansion' but with a different cast, storyline and location. If it ever gets picked up and put into production(we know the wait list is long) we're looking forward to seeing how that will go. Universal Studios, Six Flags and Disney are at a bidding war for the rights to the "Fantastic" series to put as rides in their parks. The new Fantastic is said to take place on an island full of mythical and extinct creatures. Josh Collins loves dinosaurs and wants them in more of his films.

Speaking of such, we are getting a much larger division for animated or kid-friendly films. Babes in Toyland, Bird of the Feather, Woodland Creatures, Fantastic Mansion: they're all only getting better in terms of box office and quality. We're making so many of those films now that we're thinking of expanding our studio into having a department. Much like Dreamworks' animation studio. But instead of just having them animated, we're trying to form the division to appeal to families but without having something gay go along with it like: 'Grand Island Movies Family'

We are always looking to produce films. Like I said before, we have a major partnership with Matt Kubrick, whose been thrilled with the success of Foul Karma for his independent studio, Midnight Movies. But we're always looking for more producing partnerships. Inquire your film idea to Josh Collins on the CMMDB board. Be sure to pitch your idea to Harry Stark though, Grand Island won't pitch your idea for you, we'll just back up the producing.


Our films on TV this week is small. Killer on the Road and Lying Wish are our only HBO features.