JANUARY, 22


THE AVENGERS 4: CIVIL WAR

Action / Superhero

The Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire, Claire Danes, Adam Baldwin, Kurt Russell. Rose McGowan, Tyler Mane, Christopher Plummer, John Cho, Sam Worthington

The Director: Jon Favreau
The Screenwriter: Matt Kubrick

The Plot:

After the credits roll the audience sees a tv screen. It's a news program and it's showing home made footage of the Hulk rampaging through New York city, it switches to a lady newscaster talking about what the viewers just witnessed. She says....this footage was taken six years ago in New York city when the Hulk rampaged his way causing terror and panic everywhere. We now know that The Hulk is really Bruce Banner a scientist who was doing experiments in a top secret laboratory that went horribly wrong. Today is the last day of his trial and he has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. The military will hold him in a special jail cell built specifically to hold him. Because of this the government will begin hearings on a special trial. There will soon be delibrations on whether people with abnormal powers will have to register themselves with the government.

Meanwhile in the Triskellion in a secret meeting room the top heads of Shield have gathered around to talk. They don't know how the information was leaked linking Bruce Banner to the Hulk. But they suspect that there are spies inside the agency.

They don't like where this is going at all. They believe that if this new bill passes it will cause more problems than it will solve. They decide they want Tony Stark (R.Downey Jr.) to try and sway the courts’ decision.

A month later Tony Stark is fighting with the courts. He does his best to demand that this bill not be passed and argues that people with super powers have done alot of good to the world and have saved countless lives over the years. He tries to tell that there will be witch hunts there will be wars but the courts won't hear any of this and by the end of the day the bill is passed by President Werner himself. Anyone that has a super power, anyone that has a secret identity must reveal themselves and register with the government as a weopon of mass destruction.

We cut to a scene in central park. Spider man (T.Maguire) is standing around a crowd. Thousands of people have gathered and news crew all around. He stands behind a podium lined with microphones. He tells the crowd that he promised he had something important to tell them. That is why he let the news know. Spiderman tells the shocked crowd that he is going to register with the government and wants to reveal his true identity and in a swift move he pulls his mask off and there is a moment of silence in the crowd. The scene switches to multiple houses all over the world who are watching and we witness all their shocked expressions.

Meanwhile in the Triskellion The Black Widow (C.Danes) is busy training alone. She is the newest recruit and has been with the Avengers for only a month. The Avengers have all reluctantly agreed to register with the government so they can fight and protect the
world from who they believe is the enemy and fight on the side of good. Valkyrie (R.McGowan) enters and tells her that something important has happened. She follows her into the main room where the other members have gathered. Captain America (A.Baldwin), Iron Man are here. They are all watching the news and can't believe that Spiderman has revealed himself like that. Captain America believes this is all going to get worse before things get better.

In the months to follow it does get worse. A band of super heroes who refuse to register band together. Luke Cage (J.Cho) and Cable (S.Worthington) form a group that call themselves the Liberators and they decide to help others flee the united states. The Preisdent activates the Sentinal program, massive androids that target so called rogue mutants and kill them. The Liberators decide to strike back. The President wants Shield to send the Avengers after the Liberators and Shield reluctantly agrees to do everything they can to calm everything down.

Captain America and Black widow are growing more and more worried about how events are unfolding and leaves Shield. A fight with shield agents breaks out when they are forced to fight with them when they try to arrest them both. Captain America along with Black widow eventually joins the Liberators and agrees to become their leader.

After Captain America's departure Shield activates Nick Fury (K.Russell), who is now part cyborg and he once again takes his place as leader of the group and brought up on the current situation. He leads the Avengers into multiple battles against the Liberators. Both sides win minor victories against each other. Nick Fury like Captain America becomes more concerned about what is happening. He believes this battle with the liberators needs to stop. Soon it is discovered that Hydra is behind the current mess. With agents in every part of the government including shield. Nick Fury along with the Avengers eventually join with the liberators. They lead a massive campaign against Shield and the sentinals. Eventually the dust settles and the Hydra members are flushed out into the open.

The threat isn't over yet though. The Bill is dropped from law and ends the civil war, massive investigations are done by shield agents and it is soon uncovered that Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker (C.Plummer) has been reborn using DNA samples taken from the chitauri invasion making him stronger and more powerful than before. The Avengers along with help from the liberators storm the Hydra fortress in Alaska. But the Baron has a trick up his sleeve. He has taken the Hulk under his control and has turned him against his former friends and allies. No one seems to be able to take the Hulk down, and he beats everyone down in his way except one person. The mighty Thor (T.Mane). The two mighty warriors fight it out. In the heat of the battle Thor loses his hammer and Hulk is surprised to discover that with all his might that he can't lift the hammer himself. Thor picks it up and in one mighty swing takes the Hulk out knocking him out cold and sending him crashing through floors of the building before landing in the basement.

Shield agent troops storm the building taking down Hydra agents left and right. Baron escapes and Nick Fury manages to chase after him while the Avengers and Liberators take out the remaining threat of Hydra. Nick Fury and Baron Von Strucker have a devastating battle with each other as the building comes down all around them. Eventually Nick Fury comes out of the wreckage unharmed and the Baron dead. With the civil war ended, the Sentinals deactivated and the threat of Hydra gone, the world can return to peace.


Stark’s Comment:
Matt Kubrick has announced this movie as the farewell of one of the most profitable and popular CMP’s franchises. So this release is a major event for the Studio. My big question is: will at least The Avengers survive to the bad strike at box office that CMP is going through?

Behind The Scenes:
-Jon Favreau replaces Gore Verbinski, who was the director and producer of the three previous Avengers’ movies. Favreau has become an specialist in superheroes movies after directing ‘Iron Man’ outside CMP and ‘Wonder Woman’ inside CMP.
-Edward Norton decided to leave the franchise after playing Hulk in The Avengers 2 and 3. So Hulk is only seen in this movie digitally generated in his big green version.
-Claire Danes has already played the Black Widow in CMP’s ‘Hawkeye. The Prey’ and ‘The Avengers 3’. But her work in ‘The Avengers 3’ ended up in the floor of the editing room so this will be her official presentation in The Avengers’ franchise.
-Matt Kubrick has recently told that he chose an Asian talent, John Cho, to play Luke Cage due to a mistake re-reading the Marvel comics.
-The Avengers’ franchise has generated some spin offs and crossovers with other CMP’s superheroes sagas. Iron Man and Spiderman have been seen in Silver Sable’s movies, Hawkeye had its own movie, Nick Fury also had his own movie and Thor could be seen in the comedy ‘The Revengers’.

A HARD PLACE

Police Procedural / Drama

The Cast: John Cusack, Renée Zelwegger, Harrison Ford, Robert Carlyle, James Cromwell

The Director: Clint Eastwood
The Screenwriter: Richard Franzwa

The Plot:

In New York's Central Park, Robert Carlyle viciously beats a man to death while mugging him. A detective played by John Cusack is in charge of the investigation of the murder. After identifying the dead man and collecting evidence at the scene which is then analyzed, Cusack begins to suspect Carlyle, a man who was seen loitering in the park that night.

After further investigation, Cusack ends up with a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to Carlyle, but the District Attorney (Harrison Ford) doesn’t think he can get a conviction with it and doesn’t want to go to trial and risk an acquittal. Cusack works the case for months becoming more and more convinced that Carlyle is guilty but he can’t seem to find hard evidence. So he decides to plant evidence in Carlyle’s apartment. He breaks in and puts a couple of drops of the dead man’s blood on the sleeve of a shirt in Carlyle’s closet. After getting a search warrant, the shirt is found and Ford now has enough evidence to go to trial and Carlyle is arrested.

Renee Zellweger is the public defender assigned to the case and Carlyle tells her that the shirt was planted because it wasn’t the one he was wearing when he killed the man. Zellweger is conflicted because her client admitted to murder but his confession convinces her that the evidence is fraudulent. She seeks out the advice of her priest (James Cromwell) and after talking to him about her duty to her client versus her moral outrage at having to defend a guilty man, she reluctantly brings a motion to have the evidence thrown out and Ford confronts Cusack about Carlyle’s claim. Cusack tells Ford that it’s up to the defense to prove the evidence is bad and until they do, Ford has no hard reason to doubt it. Ford, having worked with Cusack before, has his own doubts about the validity of the evidence but he also is very certain that Carlyle is guilty.

In the end Carlyle is found guilty and as they walk down the courtroom steps, Cusack asks Ford “Should it really be against the law if the right man is convicted of the right crime with the help of the wrong evidence?”


Stark’s Comment:
I like so much everything around this classy movie. The genre definition is so new at CMP that I just don’t have a hint of how can it work at box office.

Behind The Scenes:
-This movie was going to be directed by Sidney Lumet. It was Harry Stark who proposed Richard Franzwa to get Eastwood as director.
-In its first draft, the movie was conceived as a resurrection of the classic Eastwood’s character Dirty Harry. Franzwa abandoned this idea during the re-writes of the screenplay.
-The two only directional jobs from Clint Eastwood in CMP, ‘Nagasaki Daydreams’ and ‘Dakota North’ have both flopped in box office. But Eastwood won the Best Director and Best Picture GMA for the first one.
-James Cromwell had to reject an offer to be in the upcoming ‘The Impossible Dream’ cause he was already committed with this movie.
-Same thing happened to Harrison Ford, who was offered the role finally played by Kevin Costner in ‘Nathan Zachary and the Pilfered Prototipe’.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Mystery / Drama

The Cast: Freddie Highmore, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Emily Blunt, Judi Dench

The Director: Danny Boyle
The Screenwriter: Josh Collins

The Plot:

15-year old Christopher Boone (F.Highmore) has Asperger's Syndrome. Christopher is a mathematical savant, has a photographic memory, is extremely observant and never lies. However, he has difficulty understanding human behaviour, gestures and relationships. He takes a deep interest in mathematics. He owns a pet rat named Toby.

Christopher has many traits that set him apart from others because of his perception of life. He is unable to recognise and comprehend facial expressions besides 'happy' and 'sad' and has difficulty in understanding metaphors and jokes. He likes lists and facts, has a fear of strangers and new places, and his favourite dream is one in which everyone except him, and 'special people' like him, die. In addition, he is oversensitive to information and stimuli. For this reason, he screams and reacts violently to people who touch him. However, he doesn't mind pressing his fingers against those of his parents as a gesture of love. He curls up and groans to protect himself against overwhelming noise or information.

Christopher hates the colours yellow and brown, but loves red. This extends to adding red food dye to brown- or yellow-coloured food (and being unable to eat two different kinds of food that are touching), and also his belief that seeing three, four or five red cars in a row means it's a "good", "quite good", or "super good" day, respectively, while four yellow cars signify a "black" day. Finally, he dislikes eating food from new places and the furniture being moved.

Christopher discovers the dead body of Wellington, his neighbour's poodle, speared by a garden fork. Having been blamed for it, he decides to investigate to clear his name. However, he is severely limited by his fears and difficulties when interpreting the world around him. Throughout his adventures, Christopher records his experiences in a book, entitled The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. During his investigation, Christopher meets people whom he has never before encountered, even though they live on the same street.

Ed, his father (R.Fiennes), discovers the book and confiscates it from Christopher, after a brief fight between them. In his search for the hidden book, Christopher uncovers a trove of letters to himself from his mother, dated after she allegedly died — which his father had also concealed. Christopher had been told by Ed that she died of a heart attack, but judging from the letters, Christopher concludes that she is still alive and that his father has lied to him.

Ed realises that Christopher has read the letters and cleans him up. He then confesses that he had indeed lied about Judy's death and also that it was he who killed Wellington, stating that it was a mistake due to his anger after a heated argument with Mrs Shears (E.Watson).

Christopher, having lost all trust in his father and fearing that he may also try to kill him since he had already killed Wellington, decides to escape from home and live with his mother.

After a long and confusing journey, evading policemen who have been dispatched to find him he finally finds his way to his mother and Mr Shears' home, and waits outside until they arrive.

His mother (C.Blanchett) is happy at his appearance and tries to keep him with her, despite the objections of both Mr Shears (C.Owen) and Ed, the latter having tracked Christopher down with the aid of the police. His mother eventually leaves Mr Shears, their relationship apparently broken down because of the conflict over Christopher.

She then moves into a rented room in Swindon and, after an argument with Ed, agrees to let Ed meet with Christopher daily for a little while. However, at this stage, Christopher remains terrified of his father; he hopes Ed will be imprisoned for killing Wellington. The story ends with Ed getting Christopher a pet dog, because Toby, Christopher's pet rat, had died, and promising that he will rebuild trust with Christopher slowly, "no matter how long it takes," in his daily, brief sessions, and Christopher asserting that he will take further A-level exams and attend university. He completes his first mathematics A-level with top grades, with his ultimate goal to become a scientist.

The cast also includes Siobhan (E.Blunt), Christopher's psychiatrist and only friend in the story. She is somewhat of a surrogate mother to him, teaching him things and giving advice when necessary. Also included as an important aspect to the story, Mrs. Alexander (J.Dench), an older neighbor who accidentally reveals a secret that sets Christopher on a path towards some uncomfortable truth.


Stark’s Comment:
This adaptation of the Mark Haddon’s bestselling book has been shot in England with an all-British cast. I hope we can make it work at the American market. I personally find it a most original and interesting movie.

Behind The Scenes:
-Danny Boyle replaced the originally considered Stephen Frears when Frears preferred to direct ‘The Princess and The Captain’.
-It was difficult to find shooting dates for this movie as some talents involved have been working this Season in other CMP’s movies: Ralph Fiennes has been seen in ‘Edge Of Human’ and Clive Owen was seen in ‘The Blacksmith’s Sword’.


UNCOMMON VALOUR: ONLY THE VALIANT: CMP’S Season 13 will mean the awaited return of one of the most legendary sagas from the Studio. Jack Hammer presents at last the fourth movie telling the adventures of Admiral Sir John Sinclair, played by Pierce Brosnan. Keira Knightley will be again his loving wife, Lady Tara, and also Johnny Depp returns to the saga as Sinclair’s main enemy, Henri-Albere Montaigne. Ridley Scott directs again this new adventure. And his brother Tony Scott joins the sail as producer of the movie. A good precedent: the only previous time the Scott brothers joined forces as director and producer in CMP was ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ and the movie won the Best Picture GMA.

ZOIDS: EVE: Another saga returns with its first sequel. ‘Zoids’ was an outstanding success back in Season 11. Dawson Edwards has written this sequel that will be also directed by Alfonso Cuaron. The starring couple of the first movie is also back: Jeremy Sumpter and Hayden Pannettiere. Cuaron has promised that this second adventure will be even more spectacular than the first one.

THE FORGOTTEN: Joseph Gordon-Levitt keeps building up an interesting career in CMP. After the nice critical reception to ‘Running On Empty’ this Season, he has been the chosen one to play the unknown son of Sean Penn in this continuation of the legendary trilogy ‘The Heirs’. And his love interest in the movie will be played by Michelle Williams. Joseph and Michelle, who was seen in ‘Wonder Woman’, have already worked together before in another CMP’s movie, the dramedy ‘Weigh Anchor’.

FADED: Paul Rudd, seen in CMP’s movies like ‘Schroedinger’s Litterbox’ and ‘Check, Please’, will play a faded pop star in this romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe. Rudd will be here a musician trying to deal with a peculiar girl that appears in his life while trying to return to success.

WEST FLASHMAN: One of the new adventures of Flashman will be helping a slave to run away from Mississippi to Canada… to find out that the slave is much braver than him. And that slave will be played by Djimon Honsou, seen before in CMP in ‘Goldmine Killers’ and ‘The Secret People’. As it has happened in other Flashman’s movies, real historical characters will appear in Flashy’s life. This time, it will be a young Abraham Lincoln, played in a cameo by Jude Law.

SILENT HILL: THE RETURN: It seems like the cast problems in this production are finally solved. And the problems were that Cameron Diaz and Shia LaBeouf, that initially considered accepting to be in it, both decided to quit in the very last moment. Urgent replacements had to be searched and the chosen ones finally are Jennifer Jason-Leigh (‘The Manor’) and GMA Nominee Jay Hernandez (‘Fallen Kings’).

THE HELLBOWL: The cast of stars fighting against evil creatures in a kind of wrestling show keeps growing. Toni Collette, seen this Season in ‘Teenage Wasteland’, and Luis Guzman, who was seen in ‘United I Stand’, have accepted the challenge. Christina Ricci, long time away from CMP and seen in ‘Contract Killing For Dummies’ and ‘Drawing Dreams’, also returns to the Studio as part of this freak show.

KARATE KAT: Two more talents putting their voices in this movie. Nathan Gamble makes his first work for CMP as the voice of Benjamin, the boy whose cat is a karate hero without him knowing it, and Radha Mitchell also debuts in CMP as the voice of her mother.

LOST AT SEA: Greenlight for Season 13 for a new and disturbing Matt Kubrick’s pitch. Based on true events, this movie will tell the story of a group of friends sailing at the ocean and how it will turn into a survival nightmare. Michelle Trachtenberg, who used to be a queen of horror in CMP thanks to Kubrick (remember ‘Blood Beach’, ‘Darkman: Resurrection’ and ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’) returns to CMP after quite some Seasons away with this distressing suspense adventure.

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: After being nominated for the Best Actor GMA past Season thanks to his splendid job in ‘Gaspipe’, Andy Garcia is back to CMP playing here a nice college teacher that tries to show some understanding to his friend and love interest Michelle Pfeiffer when she gets involved in her forbidden relationship with Emile Hirsh.



MATT KUBRICK – THE AVENGERS 4: CIVIL WAR

Although he is busy lately working in comedies – we have recently seen ‘Being Ben Stiller’ and ‘Comedy Wars’, both written by him and ‘The Hellbowl’ is on its way – and more artsy productions, like the acclaimed ‘Teenage Wasteland’, Matt Kubrick stays loyal at his most popular franchises, like ‘The Avengers’. The saga – the mother of all superheroes’ franchises in CMP – reaches its fourth and maybe last installment and will try to revive the poor box office’s numbers CMP is making this Season.

1.You have stated that 'The Avengers 4' will be the last movie of the franchise. But, in so many ways, it looks at me as a new beginning. Is there any chance you change your mind and go on with the saga in the future?

I could always change my mind later on down the road who knows what the future will bring. I also wouldn't mind if someone else wanted to take up the franchise. It's hard to come up with new ideas all the time for more a franchise.

2.Do you have plans of making a sequel of 'Nick Fury' or developing any other spin-off from The Avengers?

Yeah, I've always thought of doing a sequel to Nick Fury and doing a possible spinoff involving a character that shows up in Avengers Civil War.

3.This Season, you have released a pretty personal movie, 'Teenage Wasteland'. Do you feel satisfied of how everything turned out in terms of box office, critical reception and everything...?

It was great and I couldn't be happier with how everything turned out.

4.You look more interested in comedy lately with movies like 'Being Ben Stiller' or 'Comedy Wars'. That this means the end of Matt 'Mr. Slasher Movie' Kubrick?

No, never! I still have some ideas for more slasher flicks and I will get to them at some point.

5.Everybody says that this is going to be a tough GMA Edition, with so many quality movies on the run... Come on, Mr. Kubrick, make a premature prediction...

Alright, here is my prediction: The Pitiful Plight of Tom Collins. Alan Arkin should win an award.


JOHN CUSACK

In this section, we usually take a look at the CMP’s career of talents that have become specially successful at CMP’S world. But not this week. John Cusack has not been lucky in CMP. His five previous works for the Studio before this week’s release ‘A Hard Place’ have turned into three flops and two minor box office’s hits. Cusack has never been even close to add a ‘100’ release to his CMP’s filmography and his only rewards have been two GMA nominations (Best Actor and Best Starring Couple) for his most acclaimed work for the Studio, the peculiar dramedy and Best Picture GMA winner ‘The 6th Avenue Castaways’. Harry Stark has always admitted that Cusack is one of his favorite actors. And we think that, besides box office’s numbers, his CMP’s career has been interesting enough to deserve a look at it.

THE CLOWN SMILE
Season 1
Chris Columbus / Joey Stark
B.O.: 21 mill. / N.L.: 98 mill.
Cusack had an early debut in CMP with this tear-jerking drama about a young woman facing cancer played by Jennifer Anniston. He played the father of a kid suffering cancer that gets involved in Anniston’s strive to bring some happiness to kids with illness. The movie became the first major box office’s disaster in CMP’s History. Cusack and Anniston have never completely recovered from it, as both seem to have been box office poison since then.

OUTER EYE
Season 3
John Cusack / Marcus Trax
B.O.: 3 / N.L.: 35
Cusack returned to CMP betting for an artsy and daring story. In fact, he bet so strong for it that he even directed the movie. Cusack was here a jobless man whose life falls into pieces. And box office turned its back to him again. Two big flops in a row are a heavy weight for any talent and Cusack’s career in CMP became frozen for a while after this movie.

HOLLYWEIRD
Season 5
Josh Collins / Josh Collins
B.O.: 33 mill. / N.G.: 3 mill.
At least, this one made a slight profit. Cusack forgot about lead roles and joined this ensemble cast playing a movie star whose life is ruined by paparazzis in one of the first Collins’ movies. ‘Hollyweird’ was critically acclaimed as an acid and intelligent inside look to the movie industry. It got 5 nominations at the GMA but finally did not win any award.

A MAN CALLED DAN
Season 8
Neil LaBute / Josh Collins
B.O.: 65 mill. / N.G.: 54 mill.
Cusack returned after three Seasons away in another Collins’ drama. This time, he was the gay lover of Dan, played by Aaron Eckhart, a man decided to become a single adoptive father. The movie made a nice box office of 65 millions, the best box office for a CMP movie with Cusack in it so far.

THE 6th AVENUE CASTAWAYS
Season 8
James Bradley / James Bradley
B.O.: 26 mill. / N.L.: 3 mill.
The best known Cusack’s work in CMP, although it also flopped at box office. It told the peculiar story of the only living man and woman (played by Scarlett Johansson, with whom Cusack had already worked before in 'Hollyweird') in the world after the sudden disappearance of the whole human race. It was an acclaimed drama that brought to Cusack two GMA nominations: Best Actor and Best Starring Couple. Finally, it was Scarlett and not him who won the award. But the movie became the Best Picture Winner of Season 8.

A HARD PLACE
Season 12
Clint Eastwood / Richard Franzwa
Awaiting release
After getting involved in some projects that were not finally greenlighted (particularly a peculiar drama titled ‘Sunset’ and written by Richard Franzwa that only showed two characters: a man played by Cusack and a bartender that turned to be the Devil himself, played by Tom Hanks), Cusack returns to CMP leading the cast of this classy cop drama. We’ll see if Cusack finally gets his first big success at CMP and re-launches his career in the Studio.


‘The Avengers 4: Civil War’ hits the screens this weekend. And the big question is: is this the end of one of the main CMP’s franchises? That’s the question in the cover of ‘Entertainment Weekly’, where we can see three of the main characters of the movie: The Black Widow (Claire Danes), Spiderman (Tobey Maguire) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.).



I wanted to go to the movies past weekend so I took the newspaper to see what’s on theatres… The main options were the musical ‘Nine’, a redefinition of the classic character in ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and Jeff Bridges playing a decadent musician in ‘Crazy Heart’… I had to smile. Still are there people that thinks that CMP is only a fictional simulation game?

John Daws and Ben Tyler have become two mysterious authors in CMP. As soon as Harry Stark is convinced that they have definitely retired as screenwriters, they unexpectedly reappear with a new pitch. Now’s the turn for Daws. Yes, the experienced author, whose last release was the awarded ‘The Gunpowder Plot’ back in Season 10, is back. And with a very special project: the third episode of one of the most successful franchises in CMP: ‘Game Boy’. Do I need to refresh your memory? ‘Game Boy: Souls Of The USA’ and ‘Game Boy: Warlands’ were two record-breaking productions released back in Season 5 and 6. Mixing live action and digital generated characters, it told the story of a boy (Daniel Radcliff) who enters into a fantasy world where he meets popular characters from different console games. The movies were directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by George Lucas and ‘Game Boy: Warlands’ still remains as the top 4 box office in CMP’s History. Daws has written a third movie of the franchise that will probably be released in Season 14. Quite an event.

Another fantasy world, this one closer in its conception to movies like ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ or ‘Magic – The Gathering’, will also be put up by CMP in the near future. Richard Franzwa has adapted the Dragonlance books’ universe in an upcoming CMP’s movie. It is probably the most ambitious project ever written by Franzwa and Harry Stark expects to collect as much money as he usually does from this kind of fantasy franchises.

Now, let’s talk about two sequels coming up soon. The first one: the fourth installment of the successful and acclaimed saga ‘The Dark Tower’. Everything is ready to begin shooting soon the fourth adaptation written by Matt Kubrick of the famous Stephen Kings’ books. This time, the movie will include a novelty: an animated segment that will tell the origins of the main character of the story, the gunslinger Roland played by Russell Crowe. Rumors say that Sam Raimi, director and producer of the three first installments of the franchise, may be only producing this fourth one. But no news about who could be directing it is still known.

And another awaited sequel is coming up soon. Joey Stark has definitely finished the screenplay of the third Silver Sable’s movie and Bryan Singer is already working in its pre-production. After the amazing success of the second one - that unexpectedly became the alltimes top 1 box office CMP’s production - Stark and Singer are conscious of the pressure and expectations so they have said to be working really hard to make this new adventure the most spectacular one of the saga, including a few surprises in the plot.

Believe it or not, another GMA Edition is coming up in just a few weeks (yes, I know, I know, time flies…). And Harry Stark has decided to do something special for it. To celebrate the first dozen of GMA editions there will be a change in the Gala. Usually, awards are presented by stars that have starred movies during the Season. But not this time. For this 12th Edition, the stars presenting the different categories will share a common requirement: they will all be previous winners of a Golden Moon Award. So, in a certain way, this Golden Moon Awards’ Gala will honor the Golden Moon Awards’ History. Isn’t it thrilling? No? Oh, well…