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THE CONCEPT

Garfield goes to England, where a “prince” cat, who...pay attention, here’s where it gets genius...looks exactly like Garfield lives in the royal palace. One day the “prince” cat leaves the palace and gets lost and the butler goes searching for him on the streets of London where he finds...pay attention, more genius....Garfield! The butler brings Garfield back to the palace thinking he’s the “prince” cat while the real prince takes Garfield’s place along side boring, common man Dave.

Wow! That’s amazing, Shakespear didn’t even think of something so mindblowing...oh, wait he did, it was called Twelfth Night.

WHY THIS GOT THE GREENLIGHT

Explained by: THE PRODUCER

Garfield 2, that’s a no brainier. First, always first, you gotta look at the numbers of the first one.

That’s 50% return on investment. I think that’s pretty good, don’t you? How much is a money market account paying nowadays? 3%?

If you made that kind of money the first time, wouldn’t you do it again?

TMPC: What about the marketing? Why not mention the actors in the preview?

THE “IF THIS MOVIE BANGED THAT MOVIE” PITCH

WARNING SIGNS

TP: Because the target demographic is 4 - 10 year olds.

What kind of 8 year old knows who Bill Murray is, or Love Hewitt or Breckin Meyer?

But kids know Garfield. Garfield sells this movie!

That’s why the preview is focused on Garfield and more Garfield.

Throw in some burp, pee and fart jokes and it’s time to go to the bank.

TMPC: Doesn’t it seem like this one is more of the direct-to-video quality?

TP:Sure, but you can’t make $15 million in 3 days at the video stores. There’s still some big money to be raked in.

Part 3 will probably be straight-to- video, but for now, G2, as I like to call it, will make some big money.

PROOF FROM THE PREVIEW THE MOVIE’S WORTH SEEING

That’s it, simple. (brings phone back up to ear) Steven, thanks for holding babe, so, let’s talk about Under Siege 3.

TMPC: I guess that makes sense.Thanks, I’m gonna go cry for a now.

DO THIS INSTEAD

Turn on the TV, hold the remote in your hand, close your eyes and hold down the channel change button. Count to 10 and....stop!

Whatever channel you stopped on, watch it for a few minutes and you’ll see that the story of that sitcom, drama, news report or infomercial is that same as Garfield A Tail of Two Kitties.

MONEY SHOT WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTION

$8million

TOTAL BOX OFFICE PREDICTION

$30million

THE CLOSING ARGUMENT

In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a prince who was condemned by Death for eternity to roll a heavy stone to the top of a hill only to have it roll back down over and over again.

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kittes, is like that stone, and the audience is Sisyphus. We’ve already seen this movie, already sat through it, rolled it to the top of hill. Having to watch it again is like having to push the boulder back up the mountain.

It can only appeal to the 4-10 year olds who have no knowledge of history before the year they were born.

If you watch this movie and afterwards say, “That was a cool idea, cats who look the same switch places, each sees how the other half lives and learns something about themselves. Perfect! Bravo!” You need to get cable, a video store membership, or look into this thing called the internet.

You’ve been advised.

CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA

Pioneering force in bringing animated cats to the big screen.

First straight-to-video movie not to go straight-to-video.

Created renewed interest in smell-o-vision, when viewing audiences believed the theaters smelled like a litter box. It was later revealed that the theaters did not have any smell-o-visio equipment installed, just that Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a big piece of sh#t.

PLACE IN CINEMATIC HISTORY

PROOF FROM THE PREVIEW THE MOVIE’S NOT WORTH SEEING

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties the audience gets f#cked in the ass.

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