Grand Island Entertainment

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.