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 Not 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.
 Kathryn 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.
A couple of days ago (10 April 2012) the trademark process for the name Revival House, Kathryn’s production company, reached another milestone.
As we detailed previously, the period of time for people to raise objections ended in mid-March. No opposition was filed so now it passes to the next stage: Notice Of Allowance or NOA.
The NOA means use of the trademark must be supplied in a Statement Of Use (SOU) to the USPTO within the next 6 months. If, for whatever reason, that is insufficient time an Extension Request must be filed. Extensions will only be issued for three years. If a deadline passes without an SOU or Extension Request then the mark will be abandoned, as happened with Kathryn’s earlier company Hotplate Productions.
At the time of going to press the Trademarkia website has not been updated with this most recent change.
 Aaron Jackson, writer/director of the short film Sunday’s Mother, has let us know that the film will receive its première at the Newport Beach Film Festival in May. Newport Beach is in Orange County, California, about 30miles (50km) south of Los Angeles.
The film, starring Kathryn as the mother of a boy suffering at the hands of a bully, will be shown in a set of short films under the title Don’t Cut Your Family Short starting at 4pm (PST) on the 1st of May 2012.
You can see more details of the screening on the Festival Genius website. The Festival’s own website is HERE.
We’ll bring you more news on this as we get it.
KM UK has been directly involved in backing and promoting Sunday’s Mother since we first heard about it last year. The Kickstarter funded project was filmed last July and has been applying for festivals since post-production ended in September. See all the Sunday’s Mother posts on KM UK for more details.
 *** SPOILER ALERT ***
This article and the linked interview contain spoilers. You have been warned.
Friday night (30th March 2012) saw the dramatic conclusion to season 2 (season 3 if you count the prequel mini-series) of the Starz TV hit show Spartacus.
The reluctance to shy away from killing off characters many would assume sacred was taken to shocking extreme as the finale drew to a close. You’d think that being the star that brought in the crowds, had worked with many of the crew before, and is married to one of the show’s Executive Producers would give you some job security. Apparently not, as the death of Lucy Lawless‘s character proves. This is not one of those “but they’ll bring them back somehow” deals either as Michael Ausiello’s interview with Spartacus Executive Producer Steven S. DeKnight makes clear.
So where does this leave Spartacus for season 3? A largely new cast including several new female characters. And what does this have to do with us here at KM UK? A well informed someone who has chosen to go by the name of Maj-kat has let me know that they would really like Kathryn to take a significant role in season 3. They know her well from her time on Xena, she is clear of her Cold Case commitments and has shown a willingness to take on more… errr… adventurous roles (*cough*Cougars, Inc.*cough*). Call make-up, we may need a blonde merkin! 😉
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 Moneyball finally makes the conversion from Dollars to Sterling 
Short of a “directors cut” release, or Kathryn’s other scenes that hit the cutting room floor finding their way out into the open via some other means, this is likely to be our last post about Moneyball.
Today sees the UK home release of the movie, based on the book by Michael Lewis, that tells the story of the Oakland Athletics (the “Oakland As”) baseball team and their attempts to break the mould. In a sport dominated by money and those with lots of it, how can a small team with very little (in comparison at least, they had still had millions after all) compete. By thinking outside of the box.
Hitting American cinemas in September 2011, the UK got it’s first showings in November. The DVD and Blu-ray versions were shelved (as in put on the shelves ) in American stores in January this year. As the US Blu-ray was region free it is very likely that the official UK version will be identical to it. The descriptions of the extras certainly looks the same so UK shoppers should get to see one of Kathryn’s scenes with Brad amongst the deleted set. The DVD may vary though, despite the film to PAL video conversion being done more simply than from film to NTSC. In the past extras such as interviews have often been done on video, which complicates the conversion (NTSC to PAL) so they drop them. In these days of every thing being digital that may no longer be the case.
Moneyball received many award nominations, mainly for Brad’s acting and Aaron Sorkin/Steve Zaillian screenplay, and won several but missed out on a coveted Oscar. However, congratulations to all involved. I doubt anyone expected a movie, especially a sports movie about a small team, that went through a lot before it even got made, would go on to become such a success. They should make a movie about it… Oh, hang on!
Thank you to Moneyball for giving us so much to talk about this past couple of years, it is just a shame that we ultimately had so little to show for it.
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