Wow...I remembered the password and bam!
Look at me blogging again!
What up?
So the Greatest American Hero comic book which Bill, myself and Derek McCaw wrote just came out.
Sparks issue 1 is coming out on the iphone in Jan 2009 and we got some other cool things planned as well.

Gamers The Movie wow, maybe I'll get drunk and watch it again, it's been like 2 years since I've watched it.
What are the new plans for 2009?

Sparks will be coming to the iphone and we are talking to two movie studios about making it into a feature.

We have some other cool things planned as well.

Visit us at our other website www.catastrophiccomics.com

I have to admit having Gamers come out in May and then to have Sparks the comic book I wrote and co-created with William Katt (Greatest American Hero) is really frickin cool!

Sparks issue one of six is 32 pages in full color and retails for $2.99. It's available at your loca comic book store or if you need to order it via the internet buy it from the place Bill and I shop, Collectors Paradise

http://comicsandcards.net/

By the way on Wednesday June 25th 5PM to 8PM William Katt and myself will be signing at the store.

7131 Winnetka Ave

Winnetka CA 91306

818 999-9455 cparadise@socal.rr.com 

Here's a link to Newsarama, which has the first ten pages up for preview

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=18510

Here's an article Newsarama did about Sparks

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080613-KattComics.html

Here's an article about William Katt and his appearance on the hit show Heroes

http://www.newsarama.com//tv/080613-KattHeroes.html

REVIEWS OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF SPARKS

Broken Frontier

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=1851

Comics and other Imaginary Tales

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2008/05/sparks-1-review.html

 

And we got a huge announcement for Catastrophic Comics at Comic Con and check our booth out at the show, we just got Illusive Arts Entertainment booth, so it will be a good time!

 

 

 

 

Here's a new review of Gamers from The Entertainment Review. It's pretty damn cool! This has been a nice week and Tiffany and Jenny from Monterey Media really have been working over time to get the word out and they've done a fantastic job.

Go Gamers! Keep renting it and getting your friends also!

Here's part of the review, click on to read the full review below.

"This mockumentary shows that with a low budget and a short shooting time, with the right actors, and more importantly, with the right script, any film can become a hit, even if to a select group of viewers.  “Gamers” can be said to be almost as good as any big budget comedy, but was created at a fraction of the price with probably twice as many laughs.  Audiences will of course have to take into consideration that the film was shot in six days, making the film even better than originally thought.

In the end, “Gamers” proves to be a film that real world RPG gamers can appreciate, especially since many filmmakers steer clear of
such minute stories as that of a group of pen and paper RPG gamers.  Also, while many non-gamers will have laughs here and there throughout the film, the majority of “Gamers” is for those who have played these types of games and many of the jokes allude to Dungeons & Dragons, which can be greatly appreciated by those who have played it."

FULL REVIEW

http://www.theentertainmentreview.com/movies/gamers.html

For some reason the movie shot up today to 75 on IMDB, that means we are what 74 spots away from kicking Iron Mans ass? :)

Wow, too bad we don't get money for being in the top 100!

I wish I could say this changes everything, I emailed Monterey Media and said can you use this to go get cable rights!

We got to get that debt paid off baby!

Okay, here's a shameless plug for Sparks the comic book coming out in June!

Some incredible reviews

“This book opens up firing on all cylinders and to be honest a book has not excited me as much as this one from the first issue. Not Proof, not Transhuman, heck I can’t think of anything that I genuinely enjoyed this much from the get go. Get it added to your pull list now, this is going to be something.”

Full Review

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/details.php?id=1851

AND

Here is our first review of Sparks, it comes from the folks over at Comics and Other Imaginary Tales!

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/2008/05/sparks-1-review.html

This is sweet! I’m not going to lie! I’m beyond excited!

AND an Interview if you want to really be bored!

Want to read an interview that more than likely will kill my career in the comic book industry? Who am I kidding, I have no career! Okay, hee ya go!

http://comicsand.blogspot.com/

Serious, this was an incredible opportunity and many thanks to Jim and Lee!

So, I had to work late yesterday and I wasn't able to go to my local Best Buy Store in Thousand Oaks, CA to pick up or at least take a picture of Gamers on the shelf! Serious, this is a once in a life time opportunity to stand in a retail store and laugh and be proud that some how, some way, our indie film which we did for our own self amusement was deemed worthy enough to be sold to consumers. I may never have this opportunity again and I at least wanted to experience it once in my life time. Because, let's be honest, I think it was about one week on the shelf for new releases before they never re-order again!

So, Rose my wife calls me  up, she knows I'm working late and says, "Hey Honey, I'm at Best Buy, I brought the three kids and the video camera and we were going to surprise you with a video of Angelina who wanted to spend her Best Buy gift certifcate on a copy of Gamers. How cool is that? My seven year old really was going to do that, see what good taste she has in movies!

Well guess what? Best Buy didn't have Gamers out on the shelf, they had 4 copies somewhere in the back and nobody had time to place it out and really didn't give care.

So, my daughter ended up buying the movie "The Game Plan" featuring the Rock.

Seriously, God...at some point you can stop giving me writing material. And that whole thing about you can't experience great love without experiencing Great pain...it's okay, I'm shallow, I prefer shallow love.

2 1/2 years...well what's one more day right?

I am closing in on the whole yearbook thing, this weekend I will climb the rafters and find an old yearbook. I will find some poor bastard that wrote "keep in touch" and after all these years, I'm making them my new B.F.F. just for this blogs amusement! I think I may have kept one yearbook where my friends and I started a "movie making club" called the Silver Screen Club and we were in the yearbook. Don't laugh bitches! We got Richard Blade to D.J. a dance and we had money! Enough money to make horrible movies!

Our club was pretty bitchin! We got an old Super 8 camera donated to us by my hairdresser at the time, her name was Rachel and she ended up becoming mayor of El Monte. See you bitches! You help me out and good things like becoming mayor of El Monte will happen to you! Just think if you buy Gamers next Tuesday, you may end up not only winning the lotto, you'll end up dating a super model. That's what happens when you help out CHRISTopher Folino.

Wow, I'm going to hell, do not pass go, straight to hell! By the way for all you parents-to-be or kid's under the age of six. Speaking of HELL, Monopoly makes a  version of Monopoly for kid's and the one my daughter owns is Disney Monopoly and the rules are different. Once you land .., bam, you  own it right away and get to place a hotel on it and the rules are "so not the way I learned", I was pissed off playing it with my seven year old daughter! This is "Fucking bullshit", what do you mean there is no jail? Where does Lindsay Lohan and the cast of Raven go then? To lunch? Serious, Jail is now Lunch!Oh...Disney! How dare you make Monopoly easier and kinder for kids.

I had to play off the big board when I seven! And look at me now, whenever I a cop pulls me over I like pull out my wallet and show him "My get out jail card free" We have a quick laugh, some drinks, some more drinks, and before I know it, it's dawn and I wake up naked in a dirty hotel on Baltic Avenue with an iron, a car, a dog, a shoe, a wheelbarrow, a top hat, a thimble, a cannon, a battleship, and a sack of money. I take the sack of money, I give the wife a new iron (she has 32 new irons in the last 7 months), and bring the cannon to finish off the collection for my backyard. And yes bitches, I have six battleships which I own and rent to the U.S. Government! I want this war to continue!

Wow, what a blog...can't wait for the kid's to grow up to be proud of this one!

By the way, the whole term "Bitches" came from when I was like 16 and my mom was so mad about me leaving my crap out and she came down hard on me. And under my breath as she walked away "I said "Bitch" And damn if superwoman didn't hear me and she said "What did you say?" And I was such an idiot and a horrible liar I'm like "No, no, not you, I was talking about my shoes, I call them bitches!"

Oh, man, what an idiot! Not much has changed at all for me. Except my mom is dead and my bitches are double wide and I'm order some new ones!

Breaking News! Gamers 2 is Green Lighted -Director finds rich investor from Africa

Looks like we can all retire and make movies full time!
What is better than winning the lotto or getting into a film festival?
It's getting a random email from my new best friend Mr. Godwin Elisha from the Bank of Africa who had a rich client died and wants us to pose as next of kin to collect $12,500,000.00
All we have to do is give him our personal information and the Twelve Million is ours, no problem!

Here is my email response to Mr. Godwin Elisha from the Bank of Africa.

Dearest Mr. Godwin Elisha,
First off, "Nooko naka leka luka!" That's pagan talk for "Hell fucking yeah! let's do this fucking deal, my brother from another mother!"
I got to first say your name comforts me....it has God and Win in it!
How can anything go wrong? And then your last name is Elisha!
And there's a hobbit named Eljah Woods! I love hobbits and trust them because they saved us from evil in the middle east of earth!
By the way I talked to George W. Bush's God today and he said as long as your name isn't Pablo, Carlos, or Juan that I could trust you!
So Mr. Godwin, attached is all my personal information, social, wife and kid's names, addresses, bank accounts!
Please let me know the second you start putting the 12 million plus into my bank!
Again, it's such a blessing to be the "chosen one" and thank Africa for all it's poverty and diseases for killing off that rich client! I'm betting he died of AIDS! It's like so rampant there, it's kind of like our American Idol craze in America, but a little deadlier!
Well, you can bet I'll be doing lots of good with this money! Dave Hanson and Kevin Kirkpatrick will be driving around in pimped out Escalade in no time with tribal warefare furry dice!
And if you can send me a big old bag of Sierra Leone diamonds or A.K.A. :"Conflict Diamonds" for my wife, I missed her birthday, See, if I get them diamonds it's resolves all Conficts! Hence, the name!

Best of luck,
Chris Folino

We're almost a week away from the "DAY OF ALL DAYS"

The release of Gamers on May 6th 2008 and lets be honest with each other, what's the competition going to be like in terms of new DVD releases?

Let's take a look! All material gathered from http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bargain.php

Because, I know that both the release of Iron Man the movie and the new Grand Theft Auto video game will both be flops and kids will want some real entertainment!

Yeah...that's what I keep telling myself!

 

Bewitched: Complete Sixth Season -That witch is going down and so is at least one of the two Darrin Stephens!

Bridges of Madison County -Serious? Didn't this fucking chick-flick come out already? Fucking bullshit that Clint made this movie!

Crossing Jordan: Season 1 -Oh bring it! Gamers will cross check you woman!

Hottie and the Nottie -Serious, if anyone rents this film, I hope you get whatever diseases actively live inside Paris Hilton's vagina.

First Sunday -How can one even try to compete with Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan and Katt Williams! Well, we got a midget and William Katt!

I'm Not There -You rent this movie about Bob Dylan, and try to understand a word he says and get back to me!

Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom's for One More Day -I hate when people use stars to sell their product that doesn't really include their involvement, by the way make sure in June you get William Katt presents Sparks the comic book.

Over Her Dead Body -If you rent this film than you deserve to get at least half of whatever diseases acitvely live inside Paris Hilton's vagina.

P.S. I Love You -If Hilary Swank fought Gerard Butler than I'd say go rent this fucking movie instead of Gamers! That would be cool!

Senior Skip Day -Ahhh, what the hell?

Serial Mom the collector's edition -Yeah, that movie just screamed out please release a collector's edition. Wow, I guess

Teeth -Hey, look it's the movie about what dieseases actively live inside Paris Hilton vagina.

And lastly, here is a links to the new Gary Busey videos we did for work.

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/882586/saints-row-2/videos/saintsrow_heavyweapons_042508.html