JULY, 22


THE GOONIES II

Action Adventure

The Cast: Chloe Moretz, Angus T. Jones, Callan McAuliffe, Tyler James Williams, Mark Strong, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman

The Director: Matt Kubrick
The Producer: Steven Spielberg
The Screenwriters: Joey Stark & D.R.Cobb

The Plot:

Times are tough for Mikey (S.Astin) and Brand Walsh (J.Brolin). Their luxury cars dealership in Astoria, Oregon, is going belly up due to the economic situation. The financial situation has also strained Brand's marriage with Stef (M.Plimpton), and the two often find themselves fighting over money. The Walsh brothers are at a critical point and must find a way to solve both their business and personal problems.

Brand and Stef have two kids, Lea (C.Moretz) and David (A.T.Jones). David is often bullied at school, while Lea is dating the sophomore quarterback Rick (Callan McAuliffe). David’s best friend is the aspiring comedian Chick (T.J.Williams).

Mikey and Brand go to the bank where they are unable to take out a loan against their business assets. When they get back to Brand’s house for dinner they find that their old friend, Clark ‘Mouth’ Deveraux (C.Feldman) has paid an unannounced visit. Mouth has become an adventurer, a “professional” treasure hunter. His treasure hunting almost always leads to failure, but he's never let that put a damper on his dreams of striking it rich.

Having a drink after dinner, Mouth shows his old friends what he claims is a map of the island where The Inferno (the ship they found in ‘The Goonies’) is currently located. Mouth tells them that he has been looking for the ship for years because he is convinced that it would lead him to an old pirates’ treasure. Mouth believes the treasure to be on that island, but he lacks the money to finance such an expedition. He had hoped to win the money in a poker game, but that fell through. He asks Mikey and Brand to sell their car dealership in order to finance the expedition. Both Mikey and Brand tell him they are not ‘The Goonies’ anymore. They are adults with responsibilities. They inform Mouth that their business is close to bankruptcy, and that Brand and Stef are close to divorce.

Lea and David have been eavesdropping on the conversation. They are fascinated by the eccentric Mouth. They are shocked to hear of their parents' troubles, so Lea and David decide they have to do something to help.

That night, when everyone’s asleep, Lea and David sneak into the guest room where Mouth is sleeping, take the island map, scan it onto the computer, and print out two copies. Then, they put together their savings. The next day at school, Lea asks Rick if he would join her in an adventure, he says yes. David asks the same to Chick and he says yes too.

The four of them tell their parents that they will be going on a school trip to Mount Rushmore and will be gone for a week – it turns out that Rick is quite handy with document forgery, creating all the forms they need to convince their parents - and their parents allow them to go.

Rick convinces his older brother to give them a ride to the local airstrip. Once at the airstrip, they look for a light aircraft to hire with their savings. Most of the pilots refuse to take them without an adult, but they finally meet Charlie ‘Screw’ Wilkins, an old and heavy-drinking pilot that will do anything for the money. He agrees to take them to the island in his old seaplane. It’s a wild flight, as Wilkins is pretty drunk and close to fall asleep all the time, so the kids have to keep him awake to keep piloting. Finally, the seaplane lands on the water close to the island’s shore. The kids leave the plane while Wilkins stays behind to take a nap.

Stef goes to check her email and receives a call from Lea and David’s school saying that they were absent (something the kids completely overlooked), she then notices the map on the computer. She calls Brand and Mikey at the lot and the three of them go see Mouth and tell him to take them to the island.

The island is a lonely and silent place. The kids decide to explore it. But they are suburban kids who do not manage well in the woods, quickly leading to complications. Specially, when David slips and falls into the river’s rapids. The river’s current soon drags him. So the rest of the kids dive into the river too trying to rescue him. The river takes the four of them to a waterfall. They fall from a considerable height to a calm lake. While floating at the lake, the kids notice two things. First, Chick notices he has a kind of big eel inside his pants and rushes out of the water, rolling around on the ground until he gets rid of it. Second, Rick notices that behind the waterfall there is an entrance to a cavern. They decide to explore the cavern. It is much bigger than expected, full of corridors, twists and turns, and big rooms chalk full of stalactites.

A group of heavily-armed men suddenly appear. The kids start to run away and the men chase the kids through the corridors of the cavern. Finally, David trips and is captured while the rest of the group escapes. The men take David to their boss. The man introduces himself as Captain Fritz (Mark Strong), leader of a group of treasure hunters that have call themselves as ‘The New Buccaneers’. Fritz tells David that he won a copy of the island’s map from treasure hunter Mouth in a poker game. He has been on the island looking for The Inferno for a week now. He asks David what he knows about The Inferno. When David says he does not know anything, Fritz has David locked in a cage.

Back at the shore, ‘Screw’ Wilkins wakes up from his nap and, not remembering the kids or what he was doing there due to his drunkenness, starts up his plane and heads back home.

Meanwhile, Lea, Rick and Chick have found their way out of the cavern and find themselves in the middle of a rain storm. They go out looking for somewhere away from the ‘Buccaneers’ to take shelter from the heavy rain. They walk through a field when suddenly the surface gives way under their feet and they fall inside. In front of them is a grumpy man with long hair and beard that looks about as disheveled as one can. The man holds a hatchet made of bones ready to attack them. But he sets the hatchet down when he sees they are only kids. He introduces himself as Goat (N.Nolte) and tells them that he has been living by himself in the island for years and now he is angry about those men that are at the cavern.

The kids ask him if he knows anything about The Inferno. ‘Goat’ laughs and answers in an enigmatic way saying, “The Inferno is hidden at the Inferno.” Of course, the kids do not understand what that means. Then, they ask him if he would help them to rescue David and the man says he hates people, he hates society, he hates just about everything, including people who hurt kids. He agrees to help them soon as the storm ends.

It’s a long night. In the cage inside the cavern, David tries to cut the cage’s wooden bars with a Swiss-Army knife. At Goat’s hideout, the kids spend the night hearing the man tell them scary stories about pirates and murderers. Meanwhile, David has spent all night cutting at the bars and can now get out. One of the Buccaneers sees him and alerts the rest. David hops into a small boat and rows away along a subterranean river. Fritz’s and his men chase him in other two boats.

Out of the cavern, ‘Goat’ takes the kids to the volcano located at the center of the island. They climb down the crater of the volcano, which is pretty dangerous. Inside of it, there’s a most peculiar lake of red water. And The Inferno is there. It’s an amazing and almost surreal vision: a boat inside a volcano and floating on red waters.

Inside the cavern, one of Fritz’s men tries to shoot David. The sound of the shots affects the stalactites and some of them begin to fall. David is sailing under a spectacular and dangerous rain of stalactites. In fact, a stalactite hits one of the two Buccaneers’ boats, sinking it. To make things even more dangerous, the water of the river seems to be getting hotter and hotter and soon they are sailing on boiling water.

Inside the volcano, the kids ask Goat about the treasure hidden in the island. Goat gets mad at them: he also hates people who care about wealth and money. But when Lea tells him that she wants to find the treasure to pay Captain Fritz a ransom for David, he agrees to show them something. He pushes a rock in the wall of the volcano and shows them a little cave. A wonderful treasure of jewels and gold coins is hiding there. While gazing at the wonderful treasure, Goat and the kids do not notice that the red water inside the volcano has begun to bubble. The subterranean river ends in a dizzy fall and after it, the boats fall into the red lake inside the volcano. David’s boat and Fritz’s boat are there and all of them are shocked by the vision of The Inferno.

Goat walks away from the treasure, and sees the boiling water and realizes that whatever mineral the falling stalactites are made of is reacting with the water. The temperature is rising fast. Goat tells the kids that the volcano will probably erupt soon and that they have to get out of there as soon as possible.

Fritz and the Buccaneers point their guns to the group. Fritz goes into the cave to view the treasure. He almost goes crazy when he sees all the gold and jewels. He tells his prisoners to load the treasure onto The Inferno. Rocks begin to fall from the walls of the volcano and the boiling water begins to rise. Goat tells Fritz that an eruption is coming and they should leave but Fritz is so crazed with greed that he refuses to listen.

Finally, the wild eruption takes place. Everyone jumps into The Inferno and holds tight while the water turns into lava and explosions begin all around them. In a most spectacular way, The Inferno is raised by the lava and thrown outside the volcano. It is as if the ship is flying surrounded by lava and rocks on fire.

After flying for a few hundred yards, The Inferno falls into the woods and slides on the grass and between the trees in an uncontrolled sail. Inside the ship, everyone screams and keeps holding tight. Lea loses his hold and begins to fall but Rick grabs hold of her. The Inferno finally stops when it runs aground the sand of the beach. Very slowly, everyone gets back on their feet and checks themselves for any wound. Fritz quickly grabs his gun and points it to his prisoners.

But somebody at his back speaks: ‘I would not do that.’ Everybody looks back. It’s no other than Mouth with a shotgun in his hand. Mikey, Brand and Stef are beside him. ‘The Goonies are back’, says Brand with a smile. Fritz shoots Mouth in the shoulder. He then takes aim at Brand, but he’s out of bullets. Brand and Fritz each grab a jeweled sword from the treasure and proceed to have an old-fashioned sword fight. Mikey quickly grabs Mouth’s gun and holds Fritz’s men at bay.

Brand and Fritz fight their way up to the bow of the ship. Fritz slashes Brand’s leg, but while Fritz vainly commends himself for his hit, Brand punches him out. Without their leader, the Buccaneers quickly surrender.

Captain Fritz and the Buccaneers are arrested. Goat returns to his hideout on the island. Brand and Stef kiss and reconcile. Lea kisses Rick and thanks him for saving her life. David for the first time in his life doesn’t feel like a loser. The Walsh brothers and Mouth are rewarded from the authorities for recovering the lost treasure allowing Mikey and Brand to avoid bankruptcy. Mouth now has money enough for a new treasure hunting expedition and tells the group that he has a map that will lead them to Priam‘s Gold if they‘re interested.


Stark’s Comment:
Well, here it is at last… I just don’t want to think how my beloved brother will feel if this one does not work at box office…

Behind The Scenes:
-Joey Stark has been working on this story almost since CMP was born.
-Matt Kubrick became the director of the movie when he asked Stark for the job after reading that the pre-production of the film was going on.
-Chloe Moretz’s latest work for the Studio was the Best Picture GMA winner ‘The Show’.

COUSINS

Comedy

The Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jon Heder, Dane Cook, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, Briana Evigan, Isla Fisher, Frankie Jonas

The Director: Jason Reitman
The Screenwriter: James Bradley

The Plot:

The movie begins with a short cut of Joseph’s face. He is crying. He is saying: ‘Love does not exist. Life’s shit. She’s not coming. She called me yesterday. She told she was not coming. She also said that she would take care of calling you all to tell you that the ceremony was cancelled. But that liar bitch obviously didn’t…’

As the camera’s angle opens we see that Joseph is at the altar of a church alone talking to all the guests of his wedding ceremony…

Next sequence, Joseph is sitting at the steps of the altar. The church is empty now. His only company is his two cousins and best friends Jon and Dane. Joseph keeps sobbing and Jon and Dane look so sad for him. Joseph continuously repeats the same as a kind of mantra: ‘She’s not coming…’ Trying to cheer him up, Dane steals a couple of bottles of wine from the vestry of the church and offers their cousins a drink.

Soon, the three of them are completely drunk. Suddenly, Joseph stops crying and says: ‘Rachel!’.

‘Rachel?’, asks Dane.
‘Yes! Rachel!’, answers Joseph, suddenly moved from sadness to excitement, ‘Rachel is my true love. I have just seen it clear in my mind. I have to go back to Rachel!’

His cousins can’t stop him as he runs out of the church and jumps on the limousine he hired for the wedding. So they jump into the car with him as he drives away with the ‘Just Married’ poster at the back of the car.

We get to know that Rachel was a friend of the three cousins during their childhood days at their hometown, Campsfield, a nice little village in Virginia. Rachel and Joseph lived a love story one summer ten years ago. It was nothing more than a brief summer love. In fact, they only made love once. The three cousins were already living in New York by then and they never returned to Campsfield after that summer. But, suddenly, after ten years without even mentioning her, Joseph has suddenly decided that Rachel is his one and only true love. And now he wants to tell her. So he drives the limousine to go back to Campsfield and his two cousins accept to join him as they consider he is going through some kind of emotional madness.

During the trip, we get to know more about the three cousins:

Joseph had been living with Isla for six years before they decided to get married. Their relationship was like a permanent honey moon… until the day before their wedding, when Isla told him she would not go to the church. Joseph didn’t believe her. He thought it was only a silly last minute panic attack.

Dane is a successful broker at Wall Street. The only three things he cares about are: making money, drinking and womanizing. He does not believe in commitments. In fact, he does not believe in anything. He is a pretty enthusiastic but also a highly annoying and irritating guy.

Jon joined the Army and fought at Iraq’s war. A bomb flew away his tank and he was the only survivor. Since then, he is always afraid of everything. He has turned into a strange freak. He almost does not speak. He is always scared. He is constantly taking pills to prevent anxiety crisis or any other presumed and imaginary sickness.

Campsfield is a beautiful little village by the sea. When they arrive, a kind of local fair is taking place there. There is a nice street market going on and a little amusement park and a dance is being announced all over and everybody looks happy.

As soon as they arrive, after buying some clothes, Joseph visits Rachel’s home. Dane gives him one single advice: ‘Don’t tell her that your girlfriend dumped you on your wedding day. It will make a bad first impression on her.’ Joseph swears he won’t.

He meets Rachel at her home. First thing he tells her: ‘My girlfriend dumped me on our wedding day’.

Second thing he tells her: ‘I love you. You are my one and only love.’ Rachel laughs and answers: ‘Well, you are going too fast, don’t you think?’. She offers Joseph a coffee and Joseph is surprised when a boy shows up at the house’s kitchen. Rachel introduces him: Frankie is her eight years old son.

‘Are you married?’, asks her Joseph then.
‘No. I’m a single mother’, answers Rachel.
‘Then, would you marry me?’, asks Joseph.
‘Not by the moment’, answers Rachel, laughing.

Rachel tells Joseph that he and his cousins can stay at their home. Dane and Jon want to go back to New York but Joseph convinces both to stay there for only a few days. ‘Only until Rachel accepts to marry me’, he tells them.

The three cousins stay at Campsfield for three days and each of them will live their own story there… that will change their life forever.

Joseph and Rachel spend time together knowing better each other. Joseph goes through his emotional collapse, sometimes talking to Rachel about his relationship with Isla and how much he loves her, sometimes telling Rachel it is her the one he really loves. Rachel talks about her life at Campsfield and how much she enjoys being a teacher at the local school and living a simple country life. It is obvious they like each other, but Rachel sees things clear: Joseph still loves Isla but he has a weak personality. He does not know living without a woman by his side so now he is scared. She tells him that it seems like all his life somebody has taken his decisions for him and that he has to learn to take his own decisions.

Jon and Frankie become instant friends. Frankie is very much like Jon. He is a kid full of fears and insecurities. Never knowing his father has made him a very quiet and lonely boy. Jon and Frankie spend a lot of time together and, most of the time, they are quiet and lost in their own thoughts.

Walking around the village, Dane sees a band of teenagers bullying an old drunk man. Dane faces the band to help the man and then he realizes it is Bill. Bill used to be the owner of a little video rental store when Dane was a kid. Dane always felt big admiration for Bill because he was a very funny and happy man and he knew everything about movies. In fact, he still speaks using many quotes from movies. But now, Bill has become a sad old man and an alcoholic. After getting drunk together, Dane asks him what has happened with his life. ‘DVDs and internet came and nobody rented videos anymore’, he says, ‘so I had to close the store. DVD ruined my life…’ Bill tells Dane that, after closing his store, his wife left him and that made him start drinking too much. He has a daughter but she also left him when he became alcoholic. Dane decides that he will help Bill to rebuild his life and to retake the relationship with his daughter, Briana.

Dane visits Briana. She works as a waiter at a small local strip club. She is considering becoming a professional strip dancer. Dane tries to convince her to retake the relationship with her father but she tells him she got tired of him drinking all the time. Dane likes Briana so much although she is a bit aggressive and distant.

The three stories of the cousins reach a conclusion during the local dancing festival night at a prairie.

Dane invites Briana to go to the dance with him. There, he makes her meet Bill. It’s a tense situation but father and daughter talk again to each other for the first time after so long.

Jon and Frankie watch the scary rollercoaster of the amusement park. They both admit they would love to take a ride but they are too afraid to do it. Finally, Jon tells Frankie: ‘If you do it, I’ll do it. We can do it together and fight against our fears’. So Jon and Frankie take a ride at the rollercoaster. They scream scared to death but it is a much liberating ride for both. After surviving to the rollercoaster, it is as if the two of them go through a revelation: they both realize they can defeat all their fears.

Joseph and Rachel dance together and have a wonderful time. Rachel confesses Joseph that she is beginning to feel something for him. But she still thinks that Joseph loves Isla.

They all have a wonderful night. At the end of the night, the three cousins are a bit drunk and they end up stepping up to the stage where the band is playing and the cousins sing and dance making a terrible but hilarious impression of the Backstreet Boys.

That night, Joseph and Rachel make love.

Next morning, Isla surprisingly shows up at Campsfield. She wants to have a conversation with Joseph. Before Joseph and Isla leave the house for a private talk, Dane only gives Joseph one single advice: ‘Don’t tell her last night you made love with Rachel’.

First thing Joseph tells Isla: ‘Last night I made love with Rachel.’

Isla confesses Joseph that she didn’t show up at the wedding because she felt guilty. She cheated him with a guy from her job. But she has been thinking and now she is sure she loves Joseph and wants him to forgive her and to get back together. They end up with a passionate kiss of reconciliation.

Joseph faces Rachel. He tells her that Isla wants another opportunity. He is confused about his feelings. But he has decided to go back to New York with Isla and give her a second chance.
Rachel tells him that it seems again like he is not taking his own decisions and he prefers somebody else taking them for him.

To Joseph’s surprise, Dane and Jon tell him that they are staying in Campsfield.

Dane has decided to begin a new life at Campsfield. He wants to open there his own business, a cool cyber-bar with a decoration based on movies. He wants Bill to be the manager and Briana to be the waitress. Father and daughter will try to live together again and it is obvious that Dane has feelings for Briana.

Jon will live with Dane in Campsfield. After the wild ride in the roller-coaster, he has decided not taking any more pills and facing all his fears. Frankie also feels much self-confident after the ride.

So Joseph leaves Campfield alone with Isla. Rachel tells him goodbye hiding her tears.

But, only a couple of weeks later, as Rachel is going back home from school, somebody is waiting for her in front of her house. It’s Joseph.

‘I’m back’, he tells her, ‘I am learning to take my own decisions…’
‘What about Isla?’, she asks him.
‘It just wouldn’t work. I don’t love her anymore.’

Rachel looks at him with a doubtful expression in her face. She finally says:

‘Do you want to come in and take a cup of coffee?’
‘Would you marry me?’, asks her Joseph.
‘Not by the moment’, answers Rachel, laughing.

And then she says:
‘Oh, I think you should know something… Frankie is not eight years old. The truth is he is ten…’
It takes Joseph a few seconds to realize what that means.
‘But we only made love once!’, he says.
‘Good shot, my friend’, laughs Rachel with a blink.

Last thing we see are Rachel, Joseph, Dane, Jon, Frankie, Bill and Briana having a good time during a barbecue at the backyard of Rachel’s home.


Stark’s Comment:
Bradley returns to remakes with this American version of a successful Spanish comedy. I think it will work nicely at box office without major surprises for the good or for the bad.

Behind The Scenes:
-James Bradley and Jason Reitman teamed up before two Seasons ago to make the 5 GMA winner film ‘The Show’.
-Dane Cook has worked before with Bradley in ‘Crossovers’.
-Bill Murray is specializing lately in minor roles in CMP after his brief appearances in movies like ‘Midnight’, ‘Fantasy World’ or ‘The Bus’.
-Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Isla Fisher already were a couple in crisis in Trent Nielsen’s ‘Running On Empty’.
-Frankie Jones is the youngest brother of the Jonas Brothers.

JUST THERE

Drama

The Cast: Liam Aiken, Dakota Fanning, Reece Thompson, Logan Lerman, Landon Liboiron, Willa Holland

The Director and Screenwriter: Trent Nielsen

The Plot:

The film starts with Chase Anderstrom (L. Aiken) busy reading a book and listening to noisy pop punk music. He has locked himself in his room again. His parents are knocking on the door. He refuses to open the door and ignores them. His family just moved from New York to some neighborhood in California. He's mad at them or he pretends to do so. It's a part of his new self. This was the thing he loved about his parents. They loved moving around the country which was cool with Chase because he's always reinventing himself, in search of the perfect self which people around him would love.

Back in New York, he was a prep kid. It worked a little for him until they all figured out that he hate those galas. This time, he's going to be an angry teenager or whatever his idea of an angry teenager is. After spending hours in researching about how to be a rebel, he thought his plan was unsinkable. During his first minutes in his new school, somebody talks to him. Her name is Kristin (D. Fanning) and the first thing Chase hears her say is "How would you like to share a joint with me the next time I get hold of some dope?". She was exactly the female counterpart of what Chase is aiming to be like. For the first weeks of school, Kristin becomes Chase's only friend.

While Chase was practicing the skill of smoking and failing at it in their backyard, a tall nerdy guy who goes to the same school as Chase talks to him. He is Oliver (L. Liboiron) and he lives right next door to the Anderstrom's. He asks Chase to think twice about making friends with Kristin. "Seriously, why are you hanging out with her and the first place?" Oliver asks. Chase looks straight at Oliver's eye and tells him, "Because she's there." and then says that this conversation was a waste of time. Oliver leaves at Chase's request.

Another day at school, Kristin introduces Chase to Autumn (W. Holland) and tells him that Autumn is looking for a boyfriend and Chase seems like the perfect guy. Chase is shocked to hear that Kristin thinks of him as boyfriend material. He promises to Kristin that he'll get to know Autumn given the chance but he's actually not interested in her.

One night, Kristin climbs up Chase's window and asks him to let her in. He lets her in and asks her what's going on. She doesn't reply. She seems to be stoned. Chase just stood there and watched her as she fell into his bed. She says she's too wasted to go home so she's just going to sleep in Chase's bedroom. As she sleeps, Chase watches her. When Chase wakes up next morning, Kristin is not there anymore. He begins to wonder if that was just a dream or if Kristin was really in his room hours ago. While getting dressed for school, he realizes that one of his polo shirts is missing. So, it wasn't a dream after all.

At school, Chase sees that Kristin was wearing his shirt. Everyone seems to be noticing it. "Kristin is wearing a guy's shirt. Must be the same guy she slept with last night." several gossipers have been heard saying during the morning. Chase smiles upon hearing it. While in the men's washroom, a group of guys claims that Kristin slept with him last night and it's his shirt that she is wearing. Chase smirks and tells the guy, "In your dreams, dude.". He gets punched but he doesn't care.

During lunch, Kristin introduces Chase to Davis (R. Thompson). Davis presents himself as "Kristin's hemophiliac adventure-loving dopey gay cousin who's possibly HIV positive". Then Davis tells them all about a party by some guy named Luan. Kristin seems to be excited about the party.

In the party, Chase looks out of place. Everybody else is either drinking, smoking, doing drugs, dancing or fucking some girl while all he did was stare at them. Some guy walked near him and asked him, "You look fucking lost, kid. What's a child like you doing in a place like this anyway?" the guy says. He introduces himself as Luan (L. Lerman). Kristin sees Luan. With less twenty words exchaned between them, Kristin and Luan started kissing each other in front of Chase. Chase is hurt. All the while he thought Kristin was interested in him.

When Chase gets away from Kristin and Luan, he bumps into Davis who offers him some drinks. He drinks them and later finds out that the beer is spiked with acid. Chase gets wild. He kisses Autumn and ends up almost having sex with her. When he was walking away from the party, he sees police cars. He runs back to the party and starts looking for Kristin. He finds Kristin in a bedroom with Luan. He grabs Kristin off from Luan and tells her that they need to go away. Kristin seems to be high and just disregards Chase. Chase forces Kristin to jump off the second floor window. Chase jumps out of the window too. While running, Kristin and Chase have a heated argument. Chase says he's just looking out for Kristin. Kristin's mad at him.

They reach Chase's house and they enter Chase's room through the window. "I hate windows." Kristin says as they are entering through the window. When they are in Chase's room already, they just stared at each other.

"Finish what Luan started?" Kristin asks Chase. He shakes his head and tells her, "I'm not Luan or other some other cool guy who can sweep you off your feet. That kind of guy is not just me.". Kristin verbalizes her sleepiness and she sleeps in Chase's bed. Chase sleeps on the floor when Kristin is asleep. When she wakes up, Chase isn't around. She looks out the window and sees that Chase is on the front yard, talking to some cops. She panicks, but she waits for Chase to come back. Soon, the cops goes away and Chase comes back to his room.

He tells Kristin that Davis' parents are looking for him since he has been missing since last night. Kristin says Davis is probably just fucking some guy he met at the party last night. Kristin and Chase spends the day together. They went to the beach because Kristin say it's been a while since her skin received some direct sunlight. They walk along the beach together. Some part along the way, Kristin gets tired and Chase struggles to carry her. Kristin spots a cliff and suggest that they go cliff diving. When they get to the cliff diving spot, Chase chickens out and refuses to jump. Kristin forces him by saying that she'll kiss him if he jumps. He jumps finally and Kristin follows him by jumping too. In the water, they kiss each other.

Chase walks Kristin home. Kristin says it about time for her to go home especially because she hasn't been at home for the past three days. Chase asks about Kristin's parents. She says that her parents doesn't really care about her and that "they love Blackberry's more than they love me" and she doesn't care about them too. When they get there, Davis' mom is there and she is crying. Davis is dead. He was found in an alley and he bled to death because of multiple stab wounds. He could have survived the wounds if he didn't have hemophilia.

Kristin runs away and cries. Chase, well, chases after her and tries to comfort her but nothing works. "Davis was my only friend. Now, he's dead. Fuck it, people don't just die." Chase cries too but he tries to limit his tears. He hugs her but this only maddens Kristin. "You're just hugging me because you wanna sleep with me. I hate you. I hate all of you." She runs away again. Chase doesn't follow her.

When he goes home, he throws away all of the things that he bought so that he could 'reinvent' himself. He realizes the problem with him. He doesn't need a new 'him'. He needs a mature 'him' that is ready to face all of the troubles in this life. Over the dinner, he asks his father, "Why do people just die?". His father doesn't give him a concrete answer and acts like Chase is just a child. "You're treating me like a child so now I'm still a child. Maybe that's the problem with me. No, not maybe. It really is the problem with me. Everybody else has grown up but I've never grown up because you never gave me a chance." He walks out on them and walks around the city.

He observes other people. Nothing seems to be bothering them but here he is, grieving over someone he doesn't even know that much. He goes to the cliff where he and Kristin went to. He just sits off the edge with no care for his safety. He jumps into the sea.

For the next weeks, he lives recklessly, doing drugs when stressed and drinking booze every night. He has succeeded in reinventing himself and he's not happy about it at all. Concerned about him, his parents brings him to a psychologist. The shrink asks him what's wrong with him.

"Every thing is wrong about me. Somebody I know died and I didn't even gave a fuck about him when he was alive but now that he's gone, I feel fucked up because I wasted all that time that I could have known him better. And I'm in love with somebody else and she hates me because I'm fucking sad about the death of someone I barely know."

The shrink gives him some advice but as the guy talks, Chase wasn't listening because he was so busy realizing what's the wrong thing about him. The next day at school, he passes by Kristin. He turns back and looks at her. Then he runs after her and tells her that he's sorry about everything but Kristin doesn't seem to care.

Chase has given up on her. He focuses on his own life, free from pretending to be somebody else. As he was studying for test one night, Kristin knocks on his window again. She seems to be drunk. Chase lets her in but he doesn't talk to her. He keeps on studying.

"I slept with Luan then he never talked to me again." Kristin tells Chase. He ignores her. "I thought he loved me, Chase. I thought he did." Chase hugs her.

"Shh, I love you." Chase assures her.

The end.


Stark’s Comment:
Trent Nielsen retakes two elements he has used before in his films: teen world and love relationships. I don’t expect this one to become a blockbuster but I think the teen audience segment is going to support it very much.

Behind The Scenes:
-This is the fourth directional job of Trent Nielsen after ‘Out Partying’, ‘Sunshine On Lonely Street’ and ‘Snow’.
-Liam Aiken makes his debut in CMP starring this movie.
-This is the 16th work of Dakota Fanning for CMP. That makes her the most active female star in the Studio’s history and one work away from the most active talent in CMP, Christian Bale.
-Logan Lerman returns to CMP after winning the Best Actor GMA in Season 12 with ‘Teenage Wasteland’.
-Reece Thompson already worked with Trent Nielsen in the flopped teen comedy ‘Out Partying’.


OEDIPUS REX: After his latest collaborations with Chad Taylor, Martin Scorsese teams up now with D.R. Cobb. Scorsese is going to direct Cobb’s adaptation of this classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles. A most ambitious production and without doubt one of the prestige projects of the Studio for this Season. Garrett Hedlund, who is about to release ‘Green Arrow: Year One’, keeps gaining presence in CMP starring the film as Oedipus. GMA Nominee Michelle Pfeiffer, whose latest work for CMP was ‘The Impossible Dream’, will play his mother and wife, Jocasta. And Al Pacino, already seen this Season in ‘The Sheriff, Saloon and the Storm’, will play the blind prophet Tiresias.

WONDER WOMAN III: Green light too for another one of the main events of this Season, the third installment of the successful and popular Wonder Woman saga. Dawson Edwards has written again the screenplay and Zhang Yimou repeats again as director. Of course, Cobie Smulders is back too playing Diana. The two previous installments of this franchise made 146 and 150 millions at box office respectively.

THE TEAM: And another top budget production greenlighted this week. This one is an action flick written by Joey Stark. The once very active in CMP Michael Bay, not seen around since ‘Command & Conquer’, finally returns to the Studio to direct and produce this film about a team of adventurers travelling to a parallel universe. First members of the team known include Ben Affleck, seen past Season in ‘Lemieux’; Ellen Page, returning to CMP after winning the Best Actress GMA with ‘Nude!’ back in Season 13; and GMA Winner Kate Hudson, whose latest work for the Studio was quite a few Seasons ago with ‘Bullet Witch 0’.

GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE: Naomie Harris, only seen before in CMP in ‘Earth 3k2’, joins the cast of this superhero movie being directed by Wayne Kramer, to play a pregnant slave woman that helps Green Arrow himself in the jungle. Christopher Nolan is producing this film written by D.R.Cobb.

THE LONELY POLYGAMIST: David Fincher is directing this peculiar story about a man married four times and father of something like twenty kids with a screenplay written by Chad Taylor. Mark Ruffalo plays the lead role of the film. And now it is known who are going to play his four wives: GMA Nominee Julia Roberts, not seen in CMP since ‘The Orphanage’; GMA Winner Jennifer Connelly, last time seen in CMP in the blockbuster ‘Freedom City’; Maggie Gyllenhaal, returning to CMP after being part of the Best Picture GMA Winner ‘The Show’; and Anna Paquin, making her CMP’s debut with this movie.

SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE NIGHT: Sofia Coppola and Josh Collins have finally closed the cast for this movie after some difficulties. Thomas Dekker makes his debut in CMP with this film playing Perla Haney-Jardine’s brother. Dekker was cast after Robert Pattinson refused the offer to be in the film. GMA Nomineee Marisa Tomei, seen past Season in ‘A View From The Bridge’, also joins the cast playing Perla’s mother. Tomei replaces the initially considered Michelle Pfeiffer, who refused the job because she preferred working with Scorsese in ‘Oedipus Rex’.

METROID: PRIME: Casting problems too for this sequel being directed and produced by Zack Snyder. Dawson Edwards offered Russell Crowe to co-star the film with Charlize Theron. But Crowe rejected the offer, stating that he was not interested in working in the sequel of a movie he had not previously worked in. To replace him, Snyder has bet for Joaquin Phoenix. After all, Snyder was also the director and producer of the latest CMP’s movie Phoenix worked in: the mega-successful mythological adventure ‘Athena’.

THIS FAR FROM HEAVEN: Two more names to add to the cast of this western written by Richard Franzwa and directed by Clint Eastwood: Gabriel Byrne, seen for the last time in CMP in ‘Assassin’s Creed II’; and Bill Paxton, who had not worked for CMP since the ending of the zombies’ trilogy ‘Syndrome’.

FRONTIER: This drama being directed by the Coen Brothers focuses in the relationship between a father, played by Peter Sarsgaard, and his son. And to play that son, the chosen one has been the young talent from the tv series ‘The Middle’, Atticus Shaffer, who makes his CMP’s debut here. Also in the film we will see GMA Nominee Mark Strong playing a minor role. Strong can be seen too in this week’s release ‘The Goonies II’.

DOG DAYS: Alfred Molina will play the head of the criminal organization that Jason Statham and Billy Bob Thornton work for in this action film written by Steve Connors and directed by Simon West. Molina has only worked for CMP before in the Scott Derrickson’s horror flick ‘The Prince Of Darkness’.


JOEY STARK – ‘THE GOONIES II’

It has taken him years to develop this project, but it is finally here. Joey Stark, with the help of D.R. Cobb, makes his old dream come true this week with the release of ‘The Goonies II’. His good old friend Matt Kubrick has directed this long awaited film that will try to bring back the old magic of the original movie to the silver screen.

1.Why have you always been so interested in developing a sequel of ‘The Goonies’?

‘The Goonies’ is one of those movies that are part of my childhood days. I have always remembered how exciting and scaring was watching it when I was a kid. The movie left a big impression on me. I always hoped that Spielberg would develop a sequel of the film but after more than 25 years waiting for it I just lost my hope… So ever since CMP was born, I thought on developing my own sequel. It has taken me all these years but it is finally here!

2.Why was it so difficult for you to write this screenplay?

Because I wanted to have a really good story. I had clear from the very beginning that the sequel should focus on the kids of some of the original Goonies. But that’s all I got for long. I needed a good plot that connected with the spirit of the original movie but I just could not find it. Then, I begun to have some images on my mind, like that ship sailing on lava and the rain of stalactites… But that was it. Only sequences but not a plot. After so long stuck in there, I decided I needed the help of some other screenwriter. I contacted some CMP’s writers but they were not interested in getting involved in the project. But I kept working on it and finally I found D.R.Cobb and we finally reached a final draft of the screenplay ready to be shot.

3.How was it that Matt Kubrick became the director of the film?

One thing was also clear from the very beginning: Steven Spielberg had to be the producer of the film. But I was doubtful about the director. I like Richard Donner but I thought this sequel needed somebody new and different from the director of the original film. I had not made a decision yet when Matt read at this blog that the movie was going on. He contacted me and told me he would love to direct it. And that was it. I instantly answered him he had the job. It is always great working with Matt.

4.I have the feeling that you are going to suffer a lot if this movie finally does not become a big box office’s success…

You bet… I don’t even want to consider that option. It’s a great show for all kind of audiences and everyone who loved the original movie will also love the experience of meeting The Goonies again. This is one of those films that you have the feeling that nothing can go wrong… But you never know… I’ll just cross my fingers and pray…

5.Changing the subject, how did you feel about what happened with other one of your most beloved projects, ‘The Paper Man’. Finally, it didn’t make it neither at box office nor awards…

Do we really need to talk about that? *laughs* Well, what can I say? I loved making that movie. I knew it wasn’t going to be a box office’s success but at least I thought it had a chance at the Golden Moon Awards… I got a nod for both writing and directing it and I thank everyone that voted for me. But no, it didn’t make the impact I hoped. That’s how this business go. You just never know… And that is also what makes it so exciting!


THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY
By Ben Tyler

On Why I Did It
Well, folks, you saw what happened last week. And I imagine you've got a lot of questions for me. Most of them probably are variations around the question "Why?" Why did I do this? Why would anyone do this? Why did I think this was worth coming out of retirement?

As I've said before, I like to make films that offer something fresh. Not necessarily original - all but two of my films so far have been adaptations, after all, and one of the two "originals" is really just an accidental adaptation of "Quantum Leap." I'm proud of every one of them, in its own way. They each brought something to the table - something different and necessary. I don't think I've ever made a film I didn't consider essential. Well, except maybe Captain Planet, but I'm even proud of that film in a strange sort of way.

It was after a few not-particularly-prolific seasons in a row, ending with Command & Conquer, that I decided to cool off for a little while. The only truly plausible ideas I had floating around - ones that actually resembled the beginnings of stories -were all sequels to previous works. I'm not the sort who likes just go through the motions like that, so I decided to wait for more inspiration to strike.

The key, I thought, was to think sideways. Break free of conventional plot structures - even of logic itself. I began a couple of attempts, and yet each quickly fizzled out into linearity. They just made too much conventional sense. The seeds of the vision I had was a story that operated on pure dream logic.

Inertia set in and nothing happened for a while. Then one day, for the first time in quite a while, I sat down and listened to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (an album that I would certainly place in my personal Top 10). Here is where I began to remember my chief inspiration in writing those fragments (largely consisting of the cast and about two sentences worth of writing) - Peter Gabriel's story inside the booklet. Well, I figured, why try for an imitation when you can go straight to the source? After all, adapting the Lamb is an absurdly audacious project in itself.

And this is what reignited my inspiration. Thankfully, Harry was willing to indulge my creative impulse, a fact for which I am extremely grateful.

Directing the Film
There wasn't a single doubt in my mind that I'd be the one directing the film. For one, I had been meaning to branch out into directing in a real solid way, having cut my teeth on my previous experiences. But the most important factor in it was the nature of the project - the man who simply writes the screenplay for an adaptation of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway has done nothing at all. The Lamb is a collection of vivid, dreamlike imagery that words cannot fully capture. The bricks out of which it is built are images, not words.

Fortunately, I've had a clear idea of the look and feel of this story for a very long time. During my last art class back in my freshman year in high school, I once made a pencil drawing of the Wall of Death. Sadly, I've since lost it (believe it or not, I'm quite good at pencil drawings), but the ideas I've had have remained. (This didn't stop the Wall of Death from being one of the trickiest things to realize).

For the scenes set in New York proper, I wanted to capture the edge that my uncle always told me had vanished growing up. I cab see what he means. In many ways, the New York City presented in films by directors like William Friedkin are more real than the REAL NYC that I've visited frequently over the last 15 years. I wanted to capture a sense of authenticity and menace in the steam coming out of the sidewalks. Modern and hip from a distance, but deep below, there are monsters.

The animated sequences were mostly (though not entirely) done through the use of rotoscoping. It's a fascinating process. Ralph Bakshi loved it, Rick Linklater loves it, and so do I, though possibly for different reasons than they do. I enjoy the Uncanny Valley effect that it produces - it's real, but not quite, in a way that's thoroughly unsettling. It reminds me of the feeling you get when you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming.

It was the hardest I've ever worked on a film. I poured my heart into writing and directing this movie. And coming from one of the biggest perfectionists you'll ever meet, I can say now (writing before any reviews at all come in) that I am satisfied with the result.

The Music
The presence of Genesis - both in the form of its music and of the members themselves in all the minor roles of the film (i.e. Rael's father, the carpet crawlers, the judge who sends Rael to Pontiac) - is absolutely essential. They are the Greek chorus, the presence that links the episodic story together. It's a presence first revealed by the mysterious narrator of that first paragraph who is watching in the background throughout.

That I had the cooperation of all five members was truly a blessing - their presence completes this film.

The Cast
Franco was my first, second, and last choice to play Rael. His performance in 127 Hours was what sold me on the notion that he could do something like this. I considered Justin Timberlake for John, but decided, in the end, to go with Freddy Rodriguez, an actor who, in addition to being actually Puerto Rican (unlike Timberlake or, for that matter, Franco), is a little older than he is. I've always imagined John being the older than the two (or having been imagined to be older - it's entirely possible that he doesn't really exist at all, which would explain why he never helps Rael when he asks).

The rest I cast much as I often do - who fits? Christopher Walken is a terrific actor and, more importantly, a great dancer. Tom Baker was a particular delight to see in his role, being a childhood hero of mine from his time on Doctor Who.

What Does It Mean?
Well, if you're looking for a simple, straightforward answer, I'm afraid you're going to have to keep looking. This isn't to say that it's necessarily meaningless, but the meaning isn't one that conforms to strict, simple logic.

There are pretty much three different interpretations. The first is the mystical interpretation - Rael has been transported to some sort of parallel dimension or spirit world, and must undergo a transformation (to which his brother John is key) in order to escape. The second is the mundane interpretation - Rael is a junkie overdosing on heroin, and this is all just a dying dream brought about by random neurons firing in his brain. The third is the Freudian interpretation - we are seeing a representation of Rael's subconscious fears, neuroses, and dysfunctions. Given the phallocentric nature of much of the imagery, there's a good deal of support behind this last theory, which is why I favor it slightly. However, it is not incompatible with the second or first theory, or even both (Rael died of an overdose, and now must face down his subconscious demons to cross over to the next plane of existence).

There are other issues - most notable among them being whether or not John is a real person, or a figment of Rael's imagination (brother he wishes he had, part of himself he needs to get in touch with, etc).

But whatever the case, to place too much emphasis on these sorts of things is to miss the point. This is a portrait of the entangled and complex nature of the human soul, not an A => B => C series of events.

Or maybe it's just a load of rubbish. I'm not going to tell you what to think. IT's over to you.

On My Future Here at CMP
I've never really considered myself to be "retired" from CMP. Certainly I've never mentally left it. A better word would be "inactive." I have no idea how many films I'm going to end up doing. I do know I have at least two more films coming in the immediate future, and I'd like to do more. It all depends on what inspires me.

But regardless of how many scripts I write from now until I next go "dormant," I don't think that I'll ever leave CMP in spirit. I've known and loved it for too long, and will always be glad that I was a part of it.


THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY FLASHMAN

This week, CMP presents a DVD Box Set dedicated to one of the most entertaining and funny sagas ever developed by the Studio. Harry Flashman is a character created by British writer George McDonald Fraser. Flashman is a successful military who takes part in almost all the military conflicts the British army went through during the 19th Century. But most of all Flashman is a coward, a cad and a rogue with a superb skill to avoid any danger but always look as the most heroic soldier. And, in the meantime, he dedicates most of his time to have sex with the sexiest and most exotic women around the world.

This is the only series of movies developed by James Bradley, a CMP’s screenwriter that does not usually write sequels of his films. The five movies of the series made correct box office’s numbers but, besides box office, mainly turn Rupert Everett / Harry Flashman in one of the icons of CMP’s world.


THE MISADVENTURES OF HARRY FLASHMAN
Directed by Mike Newell
Box Office: 108 mill.
Net Gains: 101 mill.
The Cast:
Rupert Everett, Catherine Z. Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Kerry Condon, Arnold Vosloo
Comment:
The first movie of the series was the only one to overcome the 100 millions’ landmark. It won the Most Wanted Sequel GMA and Rupert Everett got a GMA nod for Best Actor. Critics very much supported this new saga that mixed classic adventures with pretty explicit sex as a most original concept different from any other CMP’s franchise.
Curiosities:
-Sean Connery plays Flashman’s father in the film.
-Catherine Z. Jones played Connery’s latest mistress before he dies and also Flashman’s lover. She only shows up in the first pages of the first Flashman’s book. But her chemistry with Everett worked so well that Bradley decided to turn her into a regular character in the films.
-Kerry Condon plays the woman Flashman’s marries just to avoid a duel with her uncle after having seduced her.

FLASHMAN’S TRAVELS
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Box Office: 88 mill.
Net Gains: 70 mill.
The Cast:
Rupert Everett, Catherine Z. Jones, Ewan McGregor, Aishwara Rei, Geoffrey Rush, Kerry Condon
Comment:
For this second installment, Bradley decided to replace Mike Newell behind the cameras which provoked Newell’s public complains. Kenneth Branagh, who had played Flashman’s rival in the British Army in the first movie, became the director of the film. And Catherine Z. Jones’s character definitely became a leading one, as the story very much focused on the love / hate relationship between Flashman and her.
Curiosities:
-Aishwara Rei played the evil Queen of Madagascar and the latest Flashman’s lover.
-Ewan McGregor played a charming pirate known as the White Rajah.
-The sequence of an orgy taking place at the Court of Madagascar involving Flashman is still remembered as one of the most hilarious moments of the saga.

FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
Directed by Stephen Frears
Box Office: 61 mill.
Net gains: 21 mill.
The Cast:
Rupert Everett, Freida Pinto, Kenneth Branagh, Ayesha Takia, Ken Watanabe, Judi Dench
Comment:
Bradley chose a new director for this third installment: Stephen Frears. Bradley wanted this one to be the sexiest film of the series and he considered that Frears was the right director to tell the most spicy and comedic Flashman’s adventure of them all. Branagh stayed at the franchise returning as a cast member. This was the less successful film of the series but it got a GMA nod for Most Wanted Sequel.
Curiosities:
-The film begins with a flashback where we see Harry Flashman in his elder days being appointed Lord by Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
-At the end of the story, it is implied that Queen Victoria herself becomes one of Flashman’s lovers.
-This is the only film of the saga without Catherine Z. Jones in it.
-The very sexy Ayesha Takia is a Bollywood star.

WEST FLASHMAN
Directed by Frank Darabont
Box Office: 76 mill.
Net Gains: 75 mill.
The Cast:
Rupert Everett, Catherine Z. Jones, Nick Nolte, Djimon Hounsou, Michelle Rodriguez, Graham Greene, Jude Law
Comment:
Usually, Flashman’s adventures take place in exotic locations of Asia or Africa. But this time, Flashman traveled to the far west trying to make some money to pay his debts. Darabont was chosen to direct this new film as Bradley wanted an American director for it.
Curiosities:
-Some real life historical characters were seen in the movie, like a young Abraham Lincoln, played by Jude Law.
-In this film, Flashman became bigamous, as he had to marry Michelle Rodriguez (she played the daughter of the Indian chief Mangas Coloradas, played by Graham Greene) to save his life.
-Catherine Z. Jones returned to the saga as the owner of a brothel in California.

FLASHMAN’S DESTINY
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Box Office: 87 mill.
Net Gains: 49
The Cast:
Rupert Everett, Catherine Z. Jones, Gong Li, Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor, Ken Watanabe, Jet Li, Tom Wilkinson, Kerry Condon
Comment:
The plot of Flashman’s farewell wasn’t specifically based in any of the original books. James Bradley decided to build up an original plot that allowed him to bring back to the series some of the most iconic characters of the franchise. That turned this movie into a kind of homage to the whole series. And also Kenneth Branagh returned behind the cameras being the only director of more than one film of the series.
Curiosities:
-Kerry Condon played again Flashman’s shy wife after not being seen in the two previous installments of the saga.
-Nolte, McGregor and Watanabe were the ones to retake here the characters they already played in previous films.
-This fifth movie made a better box office than the two previous ones.


Rachel McAdams returns to CMP after four Seasons away, when she showed up in the acclaimed drama ‘That’s The Way’. In this week’s release, ‘Cousins’, she plays Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s girlfriend from his teen days. Again, McAdams proves how darling she can be when playing the girl next door we would all fall instantly in love with. And ‘Premiere’ magazine has taken her to the cover of this week’s issue.



I can’t stop laughing… You know how much I love a controversy… These past days, there was a series of interesting posts at the CMP’s Forum about my articles that I enjoyed so much. Josh Collins called me ‘instigator’. Thank you, Mr. Collins, for such a compliment! I love to instigate, provoke and get in the middle of any worthy fuss. So let me clarify some things (hoping that I’ll provoke again the anger of some of you *evil laugh*…)

First, D.R.Cobb complains for me saying that ‘The Question’ is an overrated movie. Ok, Mr. Cobb, I’ll try to explain myself in a very simple way. I liked ‘The Question’ so much. Using the old Mr. Thumb’s rating scale, I’d consider it a ‘B+’ movie. But everybody else seemed to consider it an ‘A’ movie. In my opinion, that’s overrating it. But saying that does not turn ‘The Question’ into a ‘C’ or ‘D’ or ‘F’ movie. Still is a ‘B+’ movie, which means it’s a great film. Clear now? Now, shall we talk about ‘The Prince Of Darkness’ and its possessed homeless? I still burst out laughing each time I remember them…

And about ‘Lyin’ Wish’, Mr. Collins… Well, past is always there to haunt us… But don’t worry. Every CMP’s writer has a film to be embarrassed for. In fact, I don’t think ‘Lyin’ Wish’ is the worst movie ever developed by CMP at all. I can mention here Matt Kubrick’s ‘Blood Beach’, Steve Connors’ ‘Guitar Hero’, Joey Stark’s ‘Poor Little Rich Boy’ or my personal favorite Dawson Edwards’ ‘The Killing Run’ (I loved that US President being also a serial killer…) as much worse movies than ‘Lyin’ Wish’, just to mention some of the most remembered embarrassing films produced by CMP. So don’t worry, Mr. Collins, you are not on top of the embarrassment list.

And now, while I wait for your replies, let’s move to some more serious questions…

Cobb’s version of ‘Tarzan’ is becoming one of the most awaited releases in CMP’s world. And I’ve got to know that there have been some essential changes during its pre-production phase. Initially, Jonathan Mostow (‘Nick Fury’) had been chosen by Cobb to direct the film. But it seems like Cobb wasn’t happy with Mostow’s approach to the story. Cobb does not want to make the classic ‘Tarzan’ adventure movie but a more adult and serious version closer to the spirit of the original book. The consequence is that Mostow has been fired from the project. To replace him, Cobb has chosen now Joe Wright (‘Misplaced Affections’). Cobb considers that Wright will find that author-esque vision he wants for the film.

Two Seasons ago, Jim Sturgess and Emma Watson won the Best Starring Couple GMA with the romantic film ‘Snow’. Now, Sturgess and Watson are expected to meet again in the future in another CMP’s film. New screenwriter Yuri Redding has chosen them to star ‘The Jungle’, a big screen version of the book by Upton Sinclair. But before they reunite again in this film, both Watson and Sturgess are expected to be seen (not together) in other CMP’s productions coming up soon.

Are you following the scandal going on at the UK with the closing of the tabloid ‘News Of The World’? Well, it seems like James Bradley is following it. He has already written a movie inspired by these true events about a net of espionage, phones tapping and briberies put up by the tabloid. The title of Bardley’s film will be ‘Thank You & Good Bye’, which was the headline of the last edition of ‘News Of The World’. There is no news yet about who will direct or star the movie but it is rumored that Scoundrels Productions, the production company created by George Clooney and Brad Pitt, is interested in the story.

Many Seasons ago, Andrew Adamson broke all CMP’s records with his animated fantasy movie ‘The Ice Princess’. In fact, ‘The Ice Princess’ still is the top 2 best box office ever in CMP. Then, he succeeded again with ‘He-Man and Masters of the Universe’, also written by Matt Kubrick. Since then, we never heard of Adamson again in CMP. But that will change soon. It has been reported that Adamson is already working in a new animated feature coming up. This time, it is written by Josh Collins and the title is ‘Here, Kitty Kitty’. The film is planned to get the green light in Season 19.

And I end up this week with what is only a weak rumor. Joey Stark’s original plan was not developing any new sequel of the saga after this week’s release of ‘The Goonies II’. But that initial idea might change. Matt Kubrick, director of the film, is so happy with the experience that he is trying to convince Stark to work in a possible ‘The Goonies III’. Probably, it will all depend on how audiences respond to this week’s release to see if Stark decides to go on with the saga or not.