Cobain Continues Redone: A Kurt Cobain Survives Timeline

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August 3, 2004-The Vote for Change tour concludes at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Cobain looks exhausted by the end. Theron and the children are there to escort him for the trip back home.
 
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August 6, 2004-Production on the TV series rendition of The Devil's Advocate is set to begin in November, with the pilot episode, focusing on Kevin and Mary Ann Lomax after the end of the film and directed by Taylor Hackford, to be filmed in Gainesville and Micanopy, Florida. Other directors for the other episodes will film simultaneously in their other locations at the exact same time.
 

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August 10, 2004-Nirvana begins making demos of material for their next album. The plan is to hopefully begin recording the album proper after Thanksgiving.
 

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August 18, 2004-Springbok and Walt Disney Imagineering okay the final designs for the interactive Ken Burns documentary attraction at Disney's America, to be entitled "Ken Burns Presents America: The Trail of Progress."
 

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August 20, 2004-Springbok sees the final cut of its latest animated project, The Polar Express, directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced in conjunction with ImageMovers and their new division, ImageMovers Digital, dedicated to creating animated films using motion capture. The response at this screening is ecstatic. "I think we have another winner on our hands," Jennifer Todd muses.
 

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August 23, 2004-Springbok announces the purchase of several new independent record labels to add considerable assets to them. Among them are Sh-K Boom Records, a pop label started by Sherie Rene Scott, along with its associated musical theater label Ghostlight Records, for a sum of $7 million. Springbok also buys Compendia Media Group, notably its prime label Intersound Records (most known for signing Kansas in the '90s and having no distribution deal with a major label but an in-house system going direct to retailers, much like Exploitation Records has now), for the same sum. When queried about whether these labels will still have albums released under their names or simply be rebranded as Exploitation Records, Walter Yetnikoff is evasive. "There are a lot of angles we are considering with these labels, a lot of things to work out."
 

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August 24, 2004-After a day of chewing over the matter, it is decided to rebrand the newly-purchased record labels under the Exploitation Records name, and also promise to reissue all material that was released under the old names for the public, especially doing deluxe editions of Kansas' albums on Intersound or under Compendia's other labels like River North, the 1992 live album and video Live at the Whisky, the 1995 studio album Freaks of Nature, and the 1997 symphonic re-recordings record Always Never the Same.

August 26, 2004-Springbok officially heads to Florida to check on the construction progress of Disney's America. Everything seems on track for opening day of July 8, 2005.
 

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(In case you're wondering what is being planned regarding the July 8, 2005 opening date, it also represents a sort of nexus of certain events. July 2 was the date of Live 8, which Nirvana will naturally be involved in. They may even be in Edinburgh for the July 6 "Final Push" set. Then, of course, there is the terrorist attacks in London on July 7. There may or may not be delay in the opening day ceremony, depending on feedback. Of course, keep in mind, despite the security concerns, Queen + Paul Rodgers still played their scheduled concert set in Hyde Park the following day, and added a cover of "Imagine" to the set to mark what had just happened.)
 

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August 29, 2004-At a party held at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch to mark his 46th birthday, Disney provides the first look at their upcoming new animated film for December, Brother Bear. The film centers around a young early Inuit man named Kenai, and how a journey to avenge the death of his older brother at the hands of a bear leads to him becoming one himself in a journey of self-discovery along with helping a young cub named Koda be reunited with his mother. Notable performers are Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai, and Chris Farley and David Spade as two of Kenai's most constant companions, a pair of moose that follow him and Koda around despite often barging in unwanted. The film seems to have done its job well at its first viewing, though notably it will have butt in onto any potential market for The Polar Express and its mid-November release. Meanwhile, the script for the Jackson vehicle MidKnight has officially been locked down and film is set to begin in two weeks under the direction of Joe Pytka, notable for directing many music videos (including quite a few of Jackson's) as well as Space Jam. The film is set to release this time next year.
 

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(Since Brett Morgen ended up doing TTL's equivalent of "Living with Michael Jackson" and Invincible was fully promoted with videos and touring, allowing him to fulfill the Sony contract and jump to Exploitation Records, his life goes much better. Morgen provides the sympathetic, truthful look at his life that Martin Bashir promised but didn't deliver, so it helps turn his reputation around. Thus, Michael has a new phase of his career looking into film like he always wanted, as well as ending touring, but not performing. Without the 2005 trial and media circus, he isn't reduced into a shattered man, hounded to death.)
 
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