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i thought the same thing when i read a couple of years ago that mtv films had bought the rights to avril lavigne's "sk8er boi" song for possible development.
hey, syntax, don't forget that Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" spawned both a movie and a TV series (and two seuqel songs and an nice soul cover version, but I digress), but that song was far better than Avril's.
Combo platter. They have poker parties when the humans are away, but they're under seige by the Feline Mafia, so they're forced to fight crime. It'd help if we could work a classic rock chestnut in there somehow. I'm thinking "Natural Born Woman" by Humble Pie for some reason.
I'm thinking "O RLY? The Movie!" a CGI animated tale of two owls in search of a Tootsie Pop.
Or "Caturday Night Fever" (starring Ceiling Cat, Monorail Cat and Saunter Cat).
Or "Huge Manatee", an animal disaster movie.
Or Steven Spielberg Presents the carefully-edited PG-13 "Goatse The Movie" in which the title character is a WWII hero who hides an entire Jewish family...
Or just paste together the last 5 years of Worth 1000 Photoshop Contests into a MegaMontage. Nah, too artsy.
Do one of those multiple-trailer launches, with each one pitching it to a slightly different crowd--the kiddie trailer includes most of the action and every single fart joke, and has 'Atomic Dog' as a soundtrack (or maybe a Snoop song); the romcom trailer emphasizes the Lady and the Tramp parody scene, the fratboy/stoner trailer uses the word 'bitch' a lot. Zach Braff as Lucky (Labrador), Beyonce as Princess (poodle), Sam Elliott as Tex (basset) and featuring Samuel L. Jackson as T-Bone (bulldog).
I think it might be time to get an agent, and a lawyer.
I'm not much on Kinkade's work myself, but I will observe that people who do like it, like it a lot. There is something comforting to many about idealized scenes, and the late 19th and 20th Centuries saw tremendous amounts of "chromos" sold throughout America. Kinkade may not be much of an artist, but he's a hell of a marketer, and he's sold an astounding ~$4 billion worth of stuff, even if a large part of that is just the Thomas Kinkade name on dreck made and designed by others.
I'm thinkin' this movie is a lock to do $50 million in theatrical release, and 5x that on licensing and DVD.
Wait, yes--Hollywood can always sink lower, and Hell is potentially bottomless.
Heh. Speaking as someone who knows people in The Biz here, I've heard tales that would make the devil step back and go, "okay, people, let's not go into overkill here."
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