Earth 3K in a state of limbo

So the Earth 3K series has joined the rest of the 'started by not finished' franchises I've made. I've not yet even pitched a third film idea. I guess when I started the series, I had X-Men on the brain, and it was even more present in the second film. I'm think whether or not to let it fade away as my other failed franchises(L.A. Wolf) or continue it no matter what the box office or critical reception is. I know I shouldn't base films on box-office or reception and the series does make decent amount of money; but I would rather have a respectable series than one that just makes money. Perhaps a film series of the entire universe is just too small, maybe I'll post write-ups of storylines involving certain characters, somewhat of a refurbishment of the series in this blog. For a refurbishing, you'd have to forget everything you know of Earth 3K the film series and take the newest one for what it is.

-Best Production Design: Earth 3K, Graceland, Innerturmoil
-Most Wanted Sequel: Earth 3K
-Best Adaptation: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Graceland
-Best Original Concept: Fictitious Images, Prison Letters
-Best Starring Couple: Abigail Breslin and Dakota Fanning: Prison Letters
-Best Cast: Prison Letters, Innerturmoil, Fictitious Images
-Best Screenplay: Prison Letters, Fictitious Images
-Best Villain: Paul Giamatti: Graceland
-Best Supporting Actress: Dakota Fanning: Prison Letters, Chloe Moretz(Fictitious Images)
-Best Supporting Actor: Ethan Hawke: Fictitious Images, Harvey Keitel(Fictitious Images), Jake Gyllenhaal(Prison Letters), Michael Madsen(Graceland)
-Best Actress: Naomi Watts(Fictitious Images), Abigail Breslin(Prison Letters), Elle Fanning(The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon)
-Best Actor: Damien Lewis(Innerturmoil)
-Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola(Prison Letters), Josh Collins(Fictitious Images), Frank Darabont(Girl who Loved Tom Gordon), Cameron Crowe(Graceland), Lodge Kerrigan(Innerturmoil)
-Best Picture: Prison Letters, Fictitious Images, Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Graceland

Metroid and Mega Man might very well be my final game-based films. We'll see how they do when they get released.

As for musical biopics, in after-thought reference to the 5 questions for Graceland about what my future musical biopics would be: As of right now, I am done with musical biopics. I'll leave that up to people who can do more creative things with the musical biopics.

To be pitched soon:

I'm trying to get it all together to be an awesome movie and make it more than just a '17 again meets Freaky Friday' but I'd like to pitch a peculiar time-manipulation movie that I hope is more Benjamin Button has a threesome with Time Traveler's Wife and Back to the Future and then calls Amazing Adventure of Kalavier and Clay afterward.

A movie where a character happens to switch places with his past self. His past self must adapt to what's going on in his life in the future while his current-present self gets a chance for a do-over. It's a mindfuck I know. Hopefully there might be someone who could help me right it or at least throw some ideas of what can happen in the film. If anyone is interested, let me know. I will give you credit as co-writer, even if you just throw me ideas. I'll post this notice on the board as well.

To be pitched soon:

I'm trying to get it all together to be an awesome movie and make it more than just a '17 again meets Freaky Friday' but I'd like to pitch a peculiar time-manipulation movie that I hope is more Benjamin Button has a threesome with Time Traveler's Wife and Back to the Future and then calls Amazing Adventure of Kalavier and Clay afterward.

A movie where a character happens to switch places with his past self. His past self must adapt to what's going on in his life in the future while his current-present self gets a chance for a do-over. It's a mindfuck I know. Hopefully there might be someone who could help me right it or at least throw some ideas of what can happen in the film. If anyone is interested, let me know. I will give you credit as co-writer, even if you just throw me ideas. I'll post this notice in the blog too.

Tom Gordon Trailer

The green MPAA trailer is shown.

A woman, Amy Ryan(Quilla) is walking down a nature trail with a teenage boy, Pete and a little girl, Trisha(Elle Fanning)

Quilla: Making friends is a job Peter..
Pete: (scoffs) You don't get it...

Trisha kicks a pinecone, her brother and mother obviously not thinking about her.

Trisha: Mom, I need to..

Quilla: Not right now, Trisha.

Trisha stops at a split path while Quilla and Pete carry on with their argument, Pete's voice saying, "I don't get why we have to pay for what you and dad did wrong.."

Trisha wanders up the split path, but ends up falling down a steep hill. When she hits the bottom, she is dirty and cut up. She looks scared..

Trisha: Mo-om?!

Voice Over of a news reporter: It's been three days since 10 year old Trisha MacFarland was last scene on a nature trail with her mother and brother. Search parties report no sign of her..

*Brief shots of Trisha walking deeper into the woods, huddled into herself, the scene with the snake slithering around her..*

*There is a scene with her putting on the headphones of her walkman*

Trisha(voice over in thought): If we win, if Tom gets the save, I'll be saved..

*the sports announcer is calling the play: Tom winds up..*

Trisha pretends she is pitching a ball.

There is a scene of Quilla in a police officer's face:
Quilla: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FIND MY DAUGHTER?!

Trisha is in the woods screaming and swatting at bugs in the air.

Title of movie is shown: THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON along with crickets chirping.

the final scene shows Trisha face to face with a giant bear-like creature, but it isn't a bear, it's Trisha's hallucination of the 'God of the Lost'

screen goes black

You will notice a few strange age discrepancies with a few of our upcoming releases. If you've seen Elle Fanning recently, she looks like she couldn't really pass for a nine year old anymore. We changed the age slightly to make Trisha just a little older, not so much older, but old enough to make Elle at the believable age. We didn't want to make Trisha too much older though, since most of the tension in the film stems from her being a very young child put in a bad situation. She is about 10-11 in the film.

As for Fictitious Images, Chloe Moretz is 13 and has gone through a lot of aging since the film was originally pitched and filmed. Her character is originally supposed to be between the age of 8-10. Many of her scenes were filmed when she was 11 in 2008 and could still easily pass as a 9-10 year old.

Also, a fun fact relating to The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: In late March/Early April, there was a big news story about a slightly autistic girl who got lost in the woods in Orlando this year. Her name was Nadia Bloom and the idiot reporters kept referring to an American Girl book about one of the characters going out in the woods to explore nature. I found the story to be more related to The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

http://www.fox2now.com/lifestyle/stlmoms/ktvi-stlmoms-aspergers-042110,0,2645834.story

Now that Earth 3K2 is finally up, I can pitch the next installment!

As for DVD releases, we now proudly present the film that nobody voted for in the GMAs, even though most critics disagreed: The Orphan Train.

And for those who care about what's playing on those fancy movie channels this week:

HBO 2 is going old school this week with airing our first theatrical release: 72 Hours

While we await the release of 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon', we are offering you a special treat for those who may not have read the book:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=the+girl+who+loved+tom+gordon+pdf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ccfc95fdfe6a3d73

should be the first link at the top. Make sure you have a program that will read PDF's and give it a few minutes to load.

refresher course:

Trisha is a nine year old who wanders off from her arguing mother and brother into the woods. She gets lost and terrified while a mysterious creature is hot on her trail. Stephen King offers a frightening experience for a small child lost in the woods.

Why no sequels?

Woodland Creatures is perhaps one of our biggest hits that might actually be accepted right off the bat to make a sequel, but we have no plans to make a sequel out of it.
"There is a thing called beating a dead horse into the ground. Much of the humor related to Woodland Creatures was based on the very fact that the actors were actually playing the animals. A joke that worked for barely an hour and a half long movie, but will the effect be just as huge for an audience whose already seen it all before? And what kind of storyline could we give a Woodland Creatures 2. The first one dealt with hunters, other forest creatures and I really don't think we need ANOTHER movie to preach about environmental awareness(saving the trees and omg global warming we humans are soooooo evil!!!!!!!!!!!) What would the characters do then? get captured and shipped to a zoo? It'd be a live action Madagascar. It's a film that can't have a sequel and the Stinger with Oolab at the end of the first one was to tease those who sat through the credits. Not making a sequel is for everyone's own good."

Woodland Creatures may not be the only film to apparently get cut short. We all know Josh Collins' removal of the LA Wolf series. But is the Zelda series over after only 2 films?
"Maybe, maybe not. I'm still trying to decide if I want to make a third movie to the Zelda franchise. Maybe another writer will offer a reboot and come up with more original premise to a film that can basically be played at home on the Nintendo console."

There will be a sequel to Earth 3K, but Collins has not pitched a 3rd idea to Stark.
"I'd like to see how this one turns out. It's really going to be based on if moviegoers want to see a third installment. The first one did...okay. You know the old saying '2's company, 3's a crowd"

Fantastic Mansion, another successful film appears to be one of the few for certain sequels in Collins' lineup. It will be a different story but with the name 'Fantastic' to keep to the spirit of the Fantastic films. It will also be in 3D.
"I liked the idea of making a new plot, almost a completely different film with generally the same spirit of using half the title. It will star familiar faces from the first film, but they are playing different characters. I know it might confuse some moviegoers, but hopefully they'll be invested in the characters and plot not so much the actors who are playing them."

There might be a Karate Kat sequel though. Make sense of that!


Yes, after her big GMA win, Abbie will return with another Collins drama film that might be an award contender if the hand is dealt right. I don't want naysayers to count her out. I was hearing reporters speaking as if her win was a fluke, that she's destined to only go down. On her Oprah appearance it felt like Oprah was sitting there wondering why she's wasting her own time talking to Abbie, and that was when she was only nominated. Well not on my watch! As for Dakota, I hope good things come for her too in this film.

Looks like our films may be done releasing this season after Orphan Train. It was a tough season both box office and critically. It sucks being the reason why something isn't going to come back(stop-motion animation) then again Stark didn't have a lot of faith in animated films before until many recent movies made huge hits. CMP writers may be able to salvage stop motion if they can make a better quality hit than Wind in the Willows.

For those who may not be up to date on the history of an Orphan Train, here's a look at the history:
The Orphan Train was a social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States to the country's Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains ran between 1854 and 1929, relocating an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. At the time the orphan train movement began, it was estimated that 30,000 vagrant children were living on the streets of New York City.

Two charity institutions, The Children's Aid Society (established by Charles Loring Brace) and The New York Foundling Hospital, determined to help these children. The two institutions developed a program that placed homeless city children into homes throughout the country. The children were transported to their new homes on trains which were eventually labeled “orphan trains.” This period of mass relocation of children in the United States is widely recognized as the beginning of documented foster care in America.
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* 1 History
* 2 Program reception
* 3 Research facility
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

History

Brace believed that institutional care stunted and destroyed children. In his view, only work, education and a strong family life could help them develop into self-reliant citizens. Brace knew that American pioneers could use help settling the American West, so he arranged to send the orphaned children to pioneer families. "In every American community, especially in a western one, there are many spare places at the table of life," Brace wrote. "They have enough for themselves and the stranger too."

The children were encouraged to break completely with their past. They would typically arrive in a town where local community leaders had assembled interested townspeople. The townspeople would inspect the children and after brief interviews with the ones they wanted, take them home. After a trial period, some children became indentured servants to their host families, while most were adopted, formally or informally, as family members.

Between 1854 and 1929, more than 200,000 children rode the “Orphan Train” to new lives. The Orphan Train Heritage Society maintains an archive of riders' stories. The National Orphan Train Museum in Concordia, Kansas maintains records and also houses a research facility.

Two famous former orphan train riders are Governor John Green Brady of Alaska, and Governor Andrew Burke of North Dakota.
Program reception

The program was not without criticism. In its early days some abolitionists viewed it as a form of slavery, while some pro-slavery advocates saw it as part of the abolitionist movement, since the labor provided by the children helped to make slaves unnecessary.
Research facility
The National Orphan Train Museum dedication celebration

The National Orphan Train Museum and Research Center is located in Concordia, Kansas. The Museum and Research Center is dedicated to the preservation of the stories and artifacts of those who were part of the Orphan Train Movement from 1854-1929. The research center is located at the restored Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Concordia which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Services offered by the museum include rider research, educational material, and a collection of photos and other memorabilia.


So as the article states, many Orphans either saw good homes or bad homes where they were mainly used as slaves. Many times, siblings hardly ever got to stay together. You'll see this contrast in Orphan Train between Elle and Chase. Elle with a more proper home but still feeling uncomplete, Chase, feeling equally incomplete while being treated as a slave.

We know LA Wolf 2 is going to be PANNED bad by critics. We're just going to shrug our shoulders and move on to the next one.
We're so glad to see our upcoming productions: The Wind In the Willows and The Orphan Train coming up. After putting a little more research, we noticed that Willows already had a claymation adaption in the 80s, but this one is going to be different with Henry Selick's approach. His movies are usually always dark stop motion. The puppets look really cool!
As for Orphan Train, it's an exciting period production with a story that tugs at the heartstrings. It's been a long time since we've done a film inspired by true events. Not the lead characters, but the fact that there were Orphan Trains.
And no Bedtime Stories 2, we didn't forget about you. We're excited to see you coming up very soon as well. That multiple story-creep show horror film has always been a style we here at Grand Island like.

There was a film we pitched to CMP that may never see the light of day. It was titled 'The Moon Man' which is essentially cast-away set on the moon, where an astronaut crash lands on the moon and keeps in contact with earth while they work to rescue him. This film may be dropped due to the film that came out last year starring Sam Rockwell titled 'Moon' with an almost identical plot-line.

The Karate Kat has been signed on to a 13 episode deal on a cartoon station. The show will be different from the film. No Nathan Gamble character or his mother, just an anthropomorphic feline who studies karate as his "power." None of the big stars will return as voices because that would just be a little too expensive.

Dr. N. Sane will be one of the villains. Another one of the villains is Junkyard, an anthropomorphic dog. Another villain is California Vohaul, a rich snob who is married and has a small dog of his own, who he tends to love more than his wife, in fact he speaks to the dog often as if it were a real person and also gets his sinister ideas from his dog...even though it doesn't talk.

Sent in a more fleshed out version of Prison Letters. IF you've seen the script I posted about a couple of weeks ago, it's a feature film version of that script. Though a few changes were made. One big factor is the girl in that story now has a troubled teen sister. I won't reveal too much plot information about it, since it's got a twist but Stark seemed pleased with it and went so far as to say it could very well be an award winner. Oh I do hope it gets on the production list soon. All I will allow myself to say is I cried at the end. Yes, manly man Josh Collins cried at the end.


Also just got word that Trent Nielsen is interested in doing a Grand Island produced film.

Matt Kubrick(has used Grand Island producers multiple times and continues), Chad Taylor, Dawson Edwards and now Trent Nielsen. That's like half the screen writers!

Very proud of Lovers Stages. Turned out to be very good! Tamara and the entire cast should pat themselves on the back.

Bedtime Stories II is one of the next Collins film coming up. If I recall anything from the previous pitch one of the stories involved a more violent, bloody horrific version of Hansel and Gretel. As if the original Hansel and Gretel wasn't horrific enough.

And L.A. Wolf 2 makes its return and I must say I'm not all that excited for it. I kinda just want it to come and go and not be reminded of it like a few of my other mistakes of movies. It's not that I don't want it to be released at all, we're just still feeling the sting of all the cast and director problems we've been having just to get this movie made. So much frustration and drama occurs on these projects that you just want it all to be over and done with.
That's where this special edition of Rumor Has It comes into play. Taken from a hollywood magazine article:

due to all of the casting and director problems there might not be another L.A. Wolf. Josh Collins states there was nothing personal about the changing of director David Fincher for the next installment, but David took it as such. Collins wanted to try something different about film series' and have different directors and cast(besides the most recurring characters) for each film. When the plan to have Abrams direct the second one failed, production was coming so quickly that Josh needed a director and was going to try to call David and axe his plans to have each film be directed by a different person. David was already hurt about not directing the second one that he told Josh to go you-know-what to himself. This made Josh sweat even more as the production was getting closer to the start date that he called Ayers, who accepted the job along with the extra pay out of Josh's own wallet to seal the deal. That's what happened, the rumor now is Josh wondering if he wants to continue with the series after all of the casting and directorial issues from the last two films.

That's why Wayne Harland is an incredible professional guy. He's one of the guys I can count on who accepts or rejects movies Grand Island is responsible for. We took home two GMA trophies at this edition. When I mean we, I mean Matt Kubrick who needed just a little bit of help with finances and marketing to get Teenage Wasteland made. So when he won, we all did!

Major congrats to Logan for being one of the few young actors to win. What a surprise! When the cameras showed him sitting in his seat being called the winner, it looked like he was imagining his name being called hahaha. Even at the press photos it still looked like it was processing that he won over the strong performances of Tom and Anthony. Logan was a part of Fireflies in the Jelly-Jars lat season where his co-star won Best Actress and I recall him being one of the suggestions to Matt while casting for Teenage Wasteland.

It would have been cool if Frances was up there presenting with his daughter Sofia, but I don't think Frances directed a CMP movie or even won an award for it. Hmmmm.....

It didn't affect me much that none of my films this season won an award. Cate and Judy did great in their roles, but I knew their competition was going to be tough. Even they had the looks on their faces that said, "I won't win, but I had a good time filming and will have a good time at the award ceremony" To be nominated is still an awesome feat. That goes to my surprise original concept 'Karate Kat' could he be pawing for a sequel? Nobody knows!

Shia LeBouf and Jena Malone. Shia did Super Bowl a few seasons back and Jena, she's been a favorite in my films, coming up with a role in next season's 'The Lovers Stages' I had to resist the urge to knock Shia out and stand next to Jena....Oh it's ok, my ex can't say anything about it mwhahahaha. But I have to set a good example for Allison though!

I loved seeing all the stars I've worked with at the ceremony in some way. Will from Q*Bert, Jennifer Connelly from Change of Heart and Philip Seymour Hoffman from Blink. Cate being nominated for Curious Incident, Susan Sarandon from Dare to be Perfect, Lawrence from Dream of a King AND Kate from Velcro, Emile Hirsch(Dare to be Perfect/Weigh Anchor) from the Beatles winning for best cast and being nominated for Impossible Dream, Jack Black from Paternal Nightmare.
Chad for being nominated for The Beatles. I look forward to seeing our film 'The Bus' in whatever season. Trent, I don't think you've sent a pitch to us yet about producing, but our doors are always open for the guy who sang high praises about my films in an interview! Harrison from Civilization M and Matt from Foul Karma/Karate Kat for their nominations. The ever-so-sexy Scarlett from Hollyweird and Judy for her nomination in Pitiful Plight.

Abigail and Dakota, CMP and Hollywood's teen-queens. You looked so beautiful presenting! Certainly both of you were among the best dressed of the night. Both of will always have a home here in Grand Island, Dakota your awesome work in Blink and Fantastic Mansion, Abbie your work in a bunch of our movies: Hollyweird, Babes in Toyland, Dare to be Perfect, Fantastic Mansion, Fireflies. Being nominated together in Fantastic Mansion. Do you have it in you to star in a movie together again? Not a Fantastic Mansion sequel, though we do have a 3D 'Fantastic' sequel coming up in a future season.

If you're interested in seeing a never before seen script from me and a never before seen first chapter of a story I had for my classes, I will post them here. These are actually going to be two movie ideas I'm going to pitch to CMP in the near future.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9tkwsk

Prison Letters is the working title of this first one. A teen starts communicating through mail with a prison inmate. I know it's short and it ends abruptly and I'll need to flesh out the characters more, but I needed to keep it short for the assignment called for a short-film script.


This is 10 pages of a story I had going in a writing class. It's not finished and will be a long time before it even gets finished(I often start projects and never get around to finishing them) but this is about a young mother who kills her child. You may have heard the horror stories of young 19-23 year old mothers who have murdered their toddler children(Casey Anthony, Trenton and Melinda Duckett), JonBonett Ramsey(they know, or knew, one of them passed away) something about her murder), and other similar stories. It has a similar feel of Blink without the child molester and distraught mother.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ayzym3


don't be afraid to tell me if you enjoyed them!

Matthew Broderick: When his wife passes away from an illness, he fears being disloyal to her by loving another. Felicity Huffman empathizes with him, being a widow herself.

Paul Dano: College aged without a care in the world. Fuck'em and Leave'em, that's his philosophy. He jumps from woman to woman, shallow as a kiddie pool. When he meets the true love of his life, average looking Jena Malone.

Jimmy Bennett: Has reached that awkward stage where we start thinking about the other sex as more than just a friend, Jimmy represents the total innocent puppy love and unforgettable firsts with Sammi Hanratty.

Alan Arkin: Always a searcher, never really found his true love. The estranged father of Matthew's deceased wife, he's had his share of failed relationships and marriages. Just as he himself is ready to kick the bucket, he finally discovers a true love in a bedridden dying Vanessa Redgrave. Determined to enjoy their short time together, Alan wants to show her the life they could have had.

If you're familiar with 'Family Guy' when Brian forms a relationship with a former singer, Alan's storyline is similar to that storyline, particularly in the ending when he shows her the life they could have had together before she dies. It was one of the few most heartfelt touching Family Guy moments ever.

I noticed Lovers Stages was being promoted as a romantic comedy. If you're looking for a romantic comedy, look in the other direction. It's a romantic dramedy. It has some comedy in it to lighten the mood of the film(moreso in the plot with the kids, Jimmy Bennett and Sammi Hanratty, but in a few moments in the rest of the film to balance it out) but it's not made for the intent of giving old people and couples something cutesy to go see and expect to come out giggling about how cute it was.

GMA time,don't forget us!

The films we here at Grand Island have made in Season 12 that are GMA worthy:

The Pitiful Plight of Tom Collins:

Consider:

Script writing

Direction: one critic says Collins has improved tremendously as a director.

Acting: Alan Arkin gives the performance of his CMP career. Many critics and industry pros stated this. Also look for Catherine Keener, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis and Kathy Bates.

Cast: Please see above, the acting considerations.

Best Picture: Hey, we're all vying for best pic. This is one to remember.


CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Best Adaptation
Direction: Danny Boyle, always an impressive director.
Cast: Highmore, Fiennes, Dench, Watson, Blunt, Blanchett, Owen
Acting: Particularly from Freddie Highmore and Ralph Fiennes, the most developed characters of the story and film.
Production Design
Best Pic: like said before, we're all vying for best pic. Don't let critical reception and box office over-rule your decision.

Tamara Jenkins just sent us an email saying they finished filming the love making sequence in the movie. All four characters have the moment in the relationship where their relationship reaches a climax(literally and figuratively) well except the kids. Their "love making" is totally different but while the other characters are making love, the kids are dancing to a song and arguing over whose leading, whose stepping on whose feet, etc. It's an innocent version of their relationship reaching a moment where they can be one with each other....or at least try to be. The rest of the sequence is natural, tasteful, hell even the old people "doing it" is considered beauty.

Karate Kat special article

Karate Kat is inching closer and closer to its release and we are going to explain a few things about the Karate Kat series.

First of all, Nathan Gamble's character appears less and less in the series and the film, but he is the owner of the crime fighting cat. His mother thinks he's crazy though, but he knows the truth!

The series is actually a little edgier, not for the younger kids, but the older preteen ones and up. It still holds a few comedic moments but it still consists of action, adventure and some heavier moments not usually found in straight up kiddie shows. Josh Collins has always wanted his cartoons to be like that to appeal to a variety of audiences that won't fall asleep or assume that it's a little kid's show. Take Ninja Turtles and the Batman Animated Series for examples.

Dr. N. Sane is the main villain in the film, as already mention in the production list. Dr. N. Sane has stuck with me as a villain since I was a little kid coming up with hero and villains and making back stories and comic adventures out of them.

Nicholas Sanson worked in his father's factory doing floor-work like every other employee. His father never seemed to have high hopes for his son; not so much as even talked about him to others while his father would sing high praises about Nick's siblings. So obviously, his dad was not going to leave the factory in Nick's name when he died.

On the side, Nick went to school for engineering and was also building an authentic hand-held death-ray gun. He was never planning on using it, he just wanted to prove to his father that he was worth something. When he was done, he showed his brother, who asked to see it in action and after a little bit of persuasion, Nick gave in and shot a tree with it.

I wasn't much longer after that when Nick's father called him into his office to hear about a dangerous weapon he built. Nick was shocked that his own brother sold him out and forced disappointment from his dad even more. Nick's dad fired his own son.

Nick returned to the factory and went postal with his death ray gun, shooting any employee who happened to cross his vision while he marched to his father's office. He had snapped that day and felt that it wasn't he who tried to earn approval from his father, but he wanted to approve of his dad. When he failed time and time again, Nick blasted his dad with the ray gun.

After the massacre at the factory, he fled the scene and the state, changing his name from Nicholas Sanson to Nick Sane and started his life anew. With his mechanics and engineer background he was able to start a business of his own, recruiting people to help him build all kinds of things: weapons, machines, robots. By day he's a successful businessman, selling his household machines and robots to make peoples lives easier. But by night, he's always trying to seek the approval of his dead dad. When he feels that his dad isn't listening to him, he'll always try harder, usually resulting in people being hurt.

He's not a physically powerful villain, but what he lacks in physic he makes up for with intelligence and his heavy artillery. He considers himself a scientist and wishes to be referred to as a Doctor. The media referred to him as Dr. N. Sane after his first major news story hit. The name was used as a pun like every other news-story has a particular title or word for someone and the name stuck as his villainous moniker.

Pun intended, but we are very curious about how Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time is going to do with critical reception and box office results. I'm already predicting it to be a flop. Not that I WANT it to be a flop, I just have more of a hard time making those kinds of films work. I want to believe in it, I really do. But I also am thinking too much into a realistic future.

Fellow collaborator Matt Kubrick has shown interest in making a sequel to HellBowl. I wanted to step aside and let him write it so that I can focus attention on another film involving Hell, but really about Hell. I also tried really hard to make it follow the arch of Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey. If you are unfamiliar with the Hero's Journey, take a look:


http://www.answers.com/topic/monomyth


you can actually think about a lot of real Hollywood films following the Hero's Journey. More famously Star Wars, Harry Potter, Wizard of Oz, even many biblical stories.

My story focuses on my hero being unjustly condemned to Hell where he must survive against all odds from demonic spirits and face Satan himself.

We know CMP has been around for ALMOST 4 years. FOUR YEARS! When I came around in 2007, I had only two films released before CMP went on a hiatus that left us doubting if it would ever return. Fortunately the studio has been going strong since 2008, the only major break that happened since has been when the original mogul board went down last year. CMP's come a long way and looking at Stark's poster exhibition brought me proud feelings.

Now I don't mind making fun of myself with my films. I know I'm not perfect and have had some pretty awful ideas for films and especially titles. Here is the bottom of the barrel in terms of either ideas or titles, in the spirit of Mr. Thumbs' reviews:

1: 72 Hours: Numbers in a title usually don't work out. The plot itself was interchangeable. Dafoe managed to earn a best villain nomination, but it's not hard for him to play a villain.

2: Babes in Toyland: Just an updated version of the same story. *Yawn*

3: Civilization M: Not a great title and the plot wasn't good. Humans being the aliens have been done, most recently in the kid film 'Planet 51' The film did manage to be a blockbuster, but that doesn't make it great.

4: Lying Wish: It seems to always be the film critics use as an example of 'bad' the title and the plot.

5: Paternal Nightmare: I'm not going to say anything about the storyline because I enjoyed it and the actors involved. The only problem I had with this film really is the title could have been better.

6: Super Bowl: Another film with an interchangeable plot with the funniest jokes used in the trailer.

7: The Mistaken: I think the plot could have been a little more fleshed out.

8: A Man Called Dan: I am proud of the plot. The title makes me want some green eggs and ham though.

9: The Dead Walk: Bad title and a generally bad plot it sounded like a good idea on paper though.


Now as for the poster exhibition, I will not say which is the worst because I don't do any of the posters and know I wouldn't be able to do anything better. I have high respects for the artists who make the posters. So instead of focusing on the negatives, I would like to focus on the positives and pick which ones I like the most for my films!

1: Hollyweird: It's like looking at Mt. Hollywood-Rushmore. It's funny to me that three of the actors who appear in the poster were nominated or won an award with one of my later works and they're all standing together.(Bridges, Breslin, Johannson)(Johannson was at least nominated for Hollyweird) Cusack would go on to be nominated in a film that wasn't written by me.

2: Bird of a Feather: The artists for the poster had to have put effort into making the bird on the poster a cartoon. I like the background as well.

3: Five Thunderbolts: Sure it may be Jet Li from War pasted on a street of an Asian big city, but it's still cool to look at.

4: Fantastic Mansion: I thought it did a good job capturing the characters and the mood of the film with the big spooky mansion in the background.

5: Woodland Creatures: Funny, funny poster to a funny movie. I don't think the film would have worked better if it were animated as the big joke in the movie were the humans dressed as animals.

6: Dare to Be Perfect: It was a little simple poster but I really loved the irony of the poster as it contrasted with the film.

7: Dream of a King: I can actually imagine a poster for an MLK biopic looking like it.

8: Fireflies in the Jelly-Jar: I can appreciate the hard work it must have taken to find those pictures of the fireflies as I searched for pictures involving fireflies for the DVD cover.

That's right, if you haven't figured it out yet before the recent CMP update, Karate Kat has hit the in-production schedule. That explains all of the recent cat pictures we've been posting. Harry Stark will probably never again inform us of a movie hitting the in-production list *laughter* In Collins' Pitiful Plight interview, the question of Karate Kat was asked with a side note that revealed the film would be included in the new update.

In addition to the mass promotion of the film, there is news that a video game based on the film will be released around the same time of the film release. The rumored TV Series is still up in the air though. Networks are looking at how well the film does in the box office before they start investing in a series.

Curious Incident is coming along very nicely. We have high hopes in particular for Freddie Highmore for GMA buzz. Very rarely do male young actors get Oscar/GMA buzz. The always impressive Danny Boyle is making great strides to keep to the spirit of the book.

We are glad Pitiful Plight has reached the release. We have a feeling the box office may not respond the greatest. With two big entertaining action shows, it will be a more quieter film. We hope the demographic of adults and seniors(particularly women) won't have a difficult time going to see this one though.

This film had also been pitched at the old HM board when there was a character limit so many of the stories they ladies tell didn't end up there. Once bit of irony not mentioned in the final pitch is when Tom doesn't want a male nurse for fear that he would be "funny" Kathy Bates' character is actually a lesbian(the real live-in nurse was also a lesbian) we didn't really feel it was necessary to emphasize that since it's now 2010. It's not that shocking to be around gays anymore. But we'll go ahead and point that out since it was a little ironic that Tom didn't want a gay guy and ends up being cared for by a gay woman.
Also, in real life and in the movie, Tom keeps thinking the live-in nurse has the hots for Michelle's(Judy Davis) boyfriend. Ironic indeed. Once when Kathleen was over at the house and Michelle was in another room, Tom(in his last couple years of life) asked Kathleen 'whose that fat woman in the other room?' and she looked at him and is like, 'that's michelle.'

Another story that gets talked about is when Tom had Kathleen's family over for dinner(for a while, it was a weekly thing) if they were a minute late, he would start calling. One particular evening he got upset that nobody was going to eat anymore of his stew(after having enough to eat) he yelled, "You god damned ungrateful bastards. I'm going to take this food and throw it in the yard!"

You couldn't take him out to dinner anywhere cuz one time we took him out to dinner on Trish's birthday and he kept saying he wanted the dinner that came with the salad and though we kept telling him he'll get his salad, he wouldn't listen. He kept calling the owner of the restaurant 'Water Boy'

Once again, ironic that he calls some people ungrateful when he had some pretty ungrateful moments himself. When Trish(Helena Bonham Carter) thought it would be nice to get him some newer furniture, he gave a chair a sit and said he didn't like it because his 'bottom was lower than his knees when he sat down' and went on about blood flow and how he'd fall if he stood up and it was just upsetting. That old man can get on your nerves but on other days he would be alright.

The stories don't get "told" though, that's a no-no in film making. So the stories actually get shown with extra actors playing the parts of the random family members, including young actors playing me.


Alan Arkin was absolutely brilliant in this movie. I really hope GMA buzz goes well for him!!