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Kathryn To Be ‘Discarded’?

variety_logo_190x54Jeff Sneider at Variety is reporting that Kathryn is due to star in a new movie called Confections of a Discarded Woman.  Yes, that says “confections”.  This is great news for all of us that have been missing her so much.

Confections Of A Discarded Woman is said to be a rom-com produced by the Motion Picture Corporation Of America and directed by Michael Damian (Flicka 2).

To quote from Variety:

Morris will star as a pampered Manhattan housewife who has it all until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight pre-nup, protag lands a job making cupcakes at her father’s bakery in Hackensack, where she discovers that true love can be even sweeter on the other side of the Hudson.

Production will start next week in Bucharest, Romania.

Read the article in full on the Variety website HERE.

More when we get it.

30th May 2012 | Category: Film, News, The Sweeter Side Of Life | 4 comments

98th? That’s Just Not Cricket!

57539_kmorris2Over at the Bleacher Report website ‘Featured Columnist’ Thomas Delatte has put a little list together. You know the sort of thing: a top 10 or 100 of the best/worst/favourite/most hated things in a particular category.

Such lists are, of course, very subjective and prone to some odd entries based purely on the preferences of the writer.  This particular list stretches the whole idea to near breaking point though.

Thomas’s list is titled The 100 Hottest Sports Babes from Movies and TV.  Skipping past the rather un-PC “babes” we find a list of 100 actress that have starred in… you’ll never guess… movies and TV with sports-related themes.

I can’t really quibble with the ladies chosen or the order they’ve been placed in as it is down to the writer’s own tastes, though obviously I do have something of an issue with Kathryn’s lowly 98th place 😕

Kathryn earns her spot on the list based on having a role in Resurrecting The Champ, a film with some boxing in it.  Her female co-stars Teri Hatcher and Rachel Nichols also make the list, though somewhat higher up.  Teri at 72 (26 higher, really?) and Rachel makes the top 5.

My beef with the list relates to its title and the incredibly loose interpretation of movies and TV shows in the sports genre going far beyond the odd rogue entry.  The title “Sports Babes…” implies that the women are playing sports stars themselves, which in most cases they are not.  Few would argue that Invictus and Days Of Thunder are sports movies but The Love Guru?  OK, there’s a hockey player but it strikes me as just an excuse to shoe-horn Jessica Alba in.  Thomas must feel that he is on shaky ground with Fight Club as he has to stress that it is a sports movie.  It’s not.  And I’d put Jerry Maguire (which doesn’t star Kathryn, despite what some biogs say) on a similar level to Resurrecting The Champ (which does) in regard to the sporting content.  Yes, sports are the background to them but they are not really sports films.  If Kathryn’s scenes had made into Moneyball then things could have been different.  Her beach volleyball scenes in Pensacola: Wings Of Gold might have been more appropriate.  Quite why I’m arguing for Kathryn to be struck from the list I’m not sure 😕

Anyway, the whole thing is very tenuous.  Much like this post :-)

And there are no cricket themed movies in the list either.

22nd May 2012 | Category: Film, Kathryn, Mention, Moneyball, Resurrecting The Champ | 4 comments

Living The Life Of Riley

006Actor, singer-songwriter, and one of Kathryn’s co-stars in the short film Sunday’s Mother, Riley Smith has done an interview with the website Honest Reviews Corner.

The interview is primarily about the music side of Riley’s career with his band “The Life Of Riley” and their new album “By The Way”.  However, one of the questions regards Riley attending the Newport Beach Film Festival, host to the première of Sunday’s Mother.  Here is what he had to say when asked what the event was like:

I’ve been to the festival before.  It was fun.  I did a short film called ‘Sunday’s Mother’ for a really great producer and director.  I played Kathryn Morris’s love interest.  She was fantastic.  I think the movie turned out great.  It was fun to watch everyone else’s shorts.  There were like 8 shorts shown as a whole screening of shorts.  It was really moving.  As an artist, I loved being able to support other movie makers.

Don’t you just hate some talented and successful people 😉

It is only a brief mention but it’s the only one we’ve found so far.  The interview in full can found at the Honest Reviews Corner website HERE.  I don’t know who conducted the interview but thanks to them.

19th May 2012 | Category: Film, Mention, Sunday's Mother | 1 comment

Resurrecting The Champ UK DVD

dvd_cover_001Not sure how this one passed me by.

As luck would have it it ties with the many-themed 2007 posts we’ve been running.

Back in February, the 13th to be precise, the movie Resurrecting The Champ was released on DVD here in Great Britain.  If IMDb is to be believed (and I’ve no reason not to) then this is the first official release of RTC in the UK.  Quite why it has taken 5 years is unknown.  And why did Momentum Pictures choose now to release it?

Anyway, what we have is the most basic of DVDs.  It’s just the film.  No extras.  At least they haven’t claimed “interactive menus” (what else could a menu be?) as a feature!  There is no accompanying Blu-ray version either.  Reflecting the limited nature of the package is the low cost, it’s a cheap £6.49 (~US$10).

For those that don’t know RTC tells the tale of Erik (Josh Hartnet) a struggling newspaper sports reporter who comes across a now homeless ex-champion boxer (Samuel L Jackson).  Erik seizes the opportunity to pen a potentially career-making article.  Hilarity ensues.  OK, it’s not so much with the hilarity.

dvd_cover_001Kathryn plays Joyce, Erik’s estranged wife and mother of their son (Dakota Goyo).  She is a little older than Erik, works for the same newspaper and, significantly, is a much more successful writer.  You know how fragile the male ego can be.  Kathryn’s role is not particularly big (somewhere between Minority Report and Cougars, Inc.) but her character is key.  She sets the yardstick by which Erik measures his own success, is the prize Erik is really after (he wants to prove himself and become a proper father/husband) and is the moral centre of the movie.

This is another Rod Lurie directed film, one of several that has Kathryn had roles in.  Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Terri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) and Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) also star.

You can buy Resurrecting The Champ on UK DVD from Amazon.co.uk and find newly added copies of the DVD cover and a poster in the Gallery.

9th May 2012 | Category: Film, Gallery Update, News, Resurrecting The Champ | 5 comments

Sunday’s Mother Premières Today

004Today (1st of May 2012) the short film Sunday’s Mother is due to première at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California.

The film will be shown with 5 other films in a collection titled “Don’t Cut Your Family Short” at 4pm local time.  To quote the official blurb from the Festival Genius website (which also has details of the screening):

After moving to a new school, Sunday is confronted by a bully who claims he has a scandalous secret about his newly-divorced mother.

Kathryn stars as Gillian, that newly-divorced mother.

Sadly, according to our information it is unlikely that Kathryn will be attending the screening.

We hope to bring you more news from the event later but for now we’d like to wish the cast and crew the best of luck with the event.

1st May 2012 | Category: Festival, Film, Première, Sunday's Mother | 3 comments
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