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01/01/2006: "Happy New Year by Christopher Folino"

On behalf of the entire team from "Gamers" we wish you all a "Happy New Year." And that even includes you Mr. Gary Coleman! Because, you never know when you or your fellow executive producers may need to call "Cash Direct" for a loan to help keep you a float until you sell your movie.

Gary, did I ever mention, that I thought you got robbed for an Emmy when you appeared on "Drake and Josh" in the episode titled "The Gary Grill!"

I was going to do a list of "Things I believe the cast should "wish" for in 2006." However, I'm not as clever as I hoped; it all came across as really lame and before I knew it I missed yesterday's blog.

Here's what I came up with and then I just had to stop. Otherwise, I'd have to kick myself in the nuts again and that's no way to start off the New Year! I'm hoping to make it rich this year and hire a person "full time" to just kick me in the nuts when I come up with a lame idea.

Here was my lame list for "Things I believe the cast should wish for in 2006" Even the name is long and lame.

Dave Hanson -Lead actor who plays "Reese"
A gold watch that can stop time! However, Dave could move freely while everyone else is frozen in time! Then Dave could go around to help influence "Film Festivals" by placing "Gamers" on the desks on every programmer and with a snappy note on why our movie should be accepted!

I think that would be the lamest use of a “magical watch” However, other than using it to sleep for like an extra 15 hours a day, or walking into banks and stealing large sums of money, and seeing famous people naked and changing the outcome of major sporting events, I don't see much other use for it.



So I stopped there, and considered writing about the "best of 2005."
Okay, so here it is real quick!

"Twin Boys", "The wife and family" "Working with my friends at the THQ video department and having the best crew and best creative year ever"

"Full support of my friends, co-workers, and especially my family to "go for it", "Meeting and working with every actor and crew member on "Gamers" and "Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers", "co-workers and friends like Gordon Madison, Paul Reese, and Paul Rivas for the countless hours doing script readings and making suggestions that improved "Gamers".

"Making Gamers", "Making Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers”,” Meeting Tito and getting hooked on Starbucks", "Meeting and working on a great film with the entire cast of Gamers", "Fernando for creating the web site and everyone who has contributed to it!" "E3 Barnyard trailer", "E3 SpongeBob Trailer", "Working with Mario Vanillo and the team of Jarheads", "Working with Michael Folino", "Tom and Frank" and for doing amazing audio"

"Meeting Breanna and the Pflaumer family," "Having Merritt Hemenway appear in the movie," "Having great neighbors that let us film a guy in a white robe and a hood in Newbury Park without asking a single question," "Making new friends with the film and web site, like Shannon in North Carolina, and Chuck in Austin", "The Cast and Crew premiere", "The first and greatest review of the film by www.warycry.com"

"My first power meeting with Kelly LeBrock", "Advice from Beverly, Michael, William, Kelly, Merritt, Ben, Rob in San Fran, Steven Folino, Bob Folino, Kathy Vanillo, and the four horsemen, plus one", "a boss and a company that allowed me to do this project on the side," "Gen Con with William Katt, Michael Bell, Dave Hanson, Kevin Kirkpatrick, Scott Allen Rinker, Meredith Zealy, Fernando Velloso, Dave Colacioppo, Manuel Silva, Jennifer Stechman, Melissa Rivas, and Tom Hemenway.

"Gambling on Football to pay for "Festival Fees!" "The Cohen Family”,” The NICU unit at Los Robles Hospital", "All the Guillen's and Suttons in No Cal", "The New England Patriots", and "Manuel Silva's improved health."

The list goes on and on. There so many wonderful moments and people that made 2005 a historic year!

I'm going to stop now; I want my readers to know me more for being a bitter-sarcastic man who will someday snap with another rejection from a film festival than a kind loving human that relates to "Oprah!"

So the New Year for "Gamers" started off with a bang!
IMDB MOVIEmeter now ranks "Gamers" at 6,134, down from December 25th when the ranking was 7,711.
Pretty damn cool! That means we are kicking the crap out of "Weekend at Bernie’s 2" which is ranked 9,747 and you know that gives me frickin hope!

However, I do want to mention the following films that are ranked way too high on the IMDB MOVIEmeter and I hope "the movie angels" will punish those that have ranked them so "high"!

"Richie Rich" ranked at 1450 -(It's ranked one higher than "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind")
"Dream a little Dream" with both Corey's -ranked 5,760
"Bio-Dome" with Pauly Shore -ranked 3,380
"Boxing Helena with Julian Sands" -3,865
And I do protest all my might
Meatballs 4 with Corey Feldman -7,806

That's it for me, I have to go celebrate our new ranking for "Gamers 2006" at 6134!
Do you know how cool this is? Here's a list of what is ranked near us!
"Brian's Song" is ranked 6132 and The "Goodbye Girl" is ranked lower than us at 6136
And believe it or not, this won't last be are ranked higher than "Jackass: the Movie 2" (2006) ranked at 6159! and for all you Star Trek fans! "New Voyages" made in 2004 is ranked 6180!

Oh, the magic has started! The power of the twenty sided is happening!
Remember to go onto IMDB and keep clicking on "Gamers 2006" I'm going to start posting "Stuff" on the "Gamers 2006" message board!