Grand Island Entertainment

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!!