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Jun 29, 2015 - 1:23 PM
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MONDAY, JUNE 29
MICRO---Steven Spielberg is developing a DreamWorks Studios movie based on the Michael Crichton novel about a group of graduate students who are miniaturized by a mysterious biotech company and left in the Hawaii rain forest to survive. The novel was being written by Crichton until his death in 2008 and was finished by writer Richard Preston.
TOP GUN 2---producer David Ellison (STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, WORLD WAR Z, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-GHOST PROTOCOL) commented on the sequel and if Tom Cruise is returning, "There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie, and there is no TOP GUN without Maverick, and it is going to be Maverick playing Maverick." He said the sequel involves drone technology possibly replacing manned combat jets. He added that a sequel to JACK REACHER is underway with the current script being rewritten.
Ellison also commented on rumors of a new Trek tv series, "It's something that we would love to be involved in. As I'm sure everybody knows, the rights situation given the CBS and Paramount divorce on the Star Trek rights is very, very complicated. The exact status of it is absolutely something being worked on. We would love to be involved, but all to be determined at this time."
Ellison is also developing a tv series based on the Robert Redford CIA movie thriller, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, "The original movie ends with the prediction of the war in the Middle East over oil, and there are writers like Tom Clancy who when you read his books you always felt like you were getting a peek behind the curtain as to what was going to happen next.
That doesn't really exist today, so one of the things we very much hope that Condor is able to do is very much be the Condor for this generation and very much be predictive in regards to what's going to be happening with future events."
LUCY 2---the sequel is underway from Luc Besson. He is also working on a sequel to COLOMBIANA.
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD---poster released for the AMC zombie spinoff series.
SPIDER-MAN---Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said the upcoming reboot movie will be influenced by John Hughes, “It’s the soap opera in high school, and those supporting characters, that are interesting...we haven’t seen a John Hughes movie in a long time. Not that we can make a John Hughes movie – only John Hughes could – but we’re inspired by him, and merging that with the superhero genre in a way we haven’t done before excites us.” Feige also said the reboot movie would feature new villains from Marvel's "deep bench of rogues".
SUICIDE SQUAD---Victoria's Secret model Cara Delevingne said about superhero movies, "Superhero movies are totally sexist. Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis. No one would be able to fight like that. Wonder Woman, how the hell does she fight? She would be dead in a minute.”
She then explained why she's appearing in SUICIDE SQUAD, “There are only three girls in [SUICIDE SQUAD], but in my opinion they have the best roles."
GOTHAM---Jessica Lucas will play villainess Tabitha Galavan/Tigress.
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.---Season 3 cast additions will include members from the Secret Warriors, but specific members weren't disclosed.
BOWE BERGDAHL---untitled biomovie from the team of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal (ZERO DARK THIRTY, THE HURT LOCKER) underway about the soldier who was freed by the Taliban in exchange for five Taliban members and was later charged with desertion.
TRIPLETS---Arnold Schwarzenegger commented on the sequel to TWINS, "Now we are talking about a sequel, where we find out at the funeral of our mother, that when we read the will, that there's three of us. Eddie Murphy is going to be the third one and so they go, 'How did that happen' There's an African American coming in here and all of a sudden he's our brother. So we go to do the research but he can only get the money if we find him, so now we have to get him involved.
I don't even know if Ivan [Reitman] is going to direct it or just produce it, but the writers came up with [the idea] and it's hilarious...Eddie Murphy loves the idea. Danny DeVito and I had lunch with Eddie Murphy over at my house, and we talked about the thing, and we were laughing and laughing the whole meal through because it was such a funny idea. And of course, who wouldn't like it."
AMERICAN GODS---Neil Gaiman will write some of the episodes for the Starz series based on his novel. Gaiman has also written episodes for DOCTOR WHO and BABYLON 5.
BOOMERANG---the children's network will add all-new series featuring Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters, Scooby Doo and BUNNICULA which is based on the children's book about a vampire rabbit.
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"Honey, I Shrunk the 'Timeline'"?
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MICRO---Steven Spielberg is developing a DreamWorks Studios movie based on the Michael Crichton novel about a group of graduate students who are miniaturized by a mysterious biotech company and left in the Hawaii rain forest to survive. The novel was being written by Crichton until his death in 2008 and was finished by writer Richard Preston.
Oh, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Hawaii". MICRO: For when you can't get the rights toHIStK and Rick Moranis won't come out of retirement for your cheesey film idea.
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Jun 29, 2015 - 3:59 PM
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Instead of Lucy 2 (what the hell would THAT be about, considering how the first one ended?), how about a solo Black Widow movie? You could make a cool Jason Bourne-style espionage movie with Natasha and maybe Hawkeye ferreting out Hydra cells in Europe or something, and it doesn't have to cost $200 million. Scarlett Johansson is at the height of both her beauty and popularity, so what's the hold-up?
When would they make and release it? Marvel has already solidly booked all their releases from now until mid-2019, with ten movies with already-set release dates, booked at a rate of two to three per year, and most of them having narrative connective tissue that leads into the third and fourth Avengers movies. And they've already juggled things around once, but that was to accommodate a likely once-in-lifetime, now-or-never opportunity to strike a deal with Sony to let them bring the single most popular and profitable Marvel Comics character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don't see them doing that again for any one single character, especially one that is not nearly as popular and that they are not only already freely able to use but are in fact freely using already, just not in her own solo movies (her fifth screen appearance in the MCU will be out in less than a year).
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Jun 29, 2015 - 4:20 PM
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I couldn't possibly disagree more with you, mastadge.
LUCY was -- by FAR -- the best movie last year, and I saw a LOT of films in all different sizes and shapes, both from Hollywood and beyond. A masterpiece from start to finish, and a glorious return of Besson in top form. So in that respect, I look forward to a sequel. On the other hand, I also don't want the utter brilliance of the original to be watered out by less-than-stellar sequels. We'll see.
(oh, and I also loved COLOMBIANA, although it's not on the same level, obviously -- one of the rare great films to come out from the Besson/Kamen collab).
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Jun 29, 2015 - 4:49 PM
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I couldn't possibly disagree more with you, mastadge.
LUCY was -- by FAR -- the best movie last year, and I saw a LOT of films in all different sizes and shapes, both from Hollywood and beyond. A masterpiece from start to finish, and a glorious return of Besson in top form. So in that respect, I look forward to a sequel. On the other hand, I also don't want the utter brilliance of the original to be watered out by less-than-stellar sequels. We'll see.
(oh, and I also loved COLOMBIANA, although it's not on the same level, obviously -- one of the rare great films to come out from the Besson/Kamen collab).
Lucy was literally full of nonsensical gibberish. "If life starts approximately a billion years ago, we will have to wait 400,000 years to see the aberration of the first nerve cells. This is where life as we know it begins. Brains in formation of only a few milligrams. It's not possible to determine any sign of intelligence yet. It acts more as a reflex. One neuron, you're alive. Two neurons, you're moving." Not possible to determine any sign of intelligence, indeed. This is not science, and it is not pseudoscience. It is nonsense. And since the only characters with any motivation are motivated only by that nonsense, there is not even any character here to get invested in.
All I really remember of Colombiana is some bad wire-fu parkour stuff and that it lasted like 27 hours long. And that they referred to a car's "boot" even though it's set in Chicago. And that the characters were intellectually and emotionally stunted enough that even I noticed it.
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Jun 29, 2015 - 5:45 PM
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Instead of Lucy 2 (what the hell would THAT be about, considering how the first one ended?), how about a solo Black Widow movie? You could make a cool Jason Bourne-style espionage movie with Natasha and maybe Hawkeye ferreting out Hydra cells in Europe or something, and it doesn't have to cost $200 million. Scarlett Johansson is at the height of both her beauty and popularity, so what's the hold-up?
When would they make and release it? Marvel has already solidly booked all their releases from now until mid-2019, with ten movies with already-set release dates, booked at a rate of two to three per year, and most of them having narrative connective tissue that leads into the third and fourth Avengers movies. And they've already juggled things around once, but that was to accommodate a likely once-in-lifetime, now-or-never opportunity to strike a deal with Sony to let them bring the single most popular and profitable Marvel Comics character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don't see them doing that again for any one single character, especially one that is not nearly as popular and that they are not only already freely able to use but are in fact freely using already, just not in her own solo movies (her fifth screen appearance in the MCU will be out in less than a year).
Remember the studio guy that said solo female super hero movies don't sell? I wouldn't go that far, look at the Resident Evil and Underworld films. While they are not exactly superheros, the act as such and do lucrative business.
But here's the problem. The "PC" thing. The two above examples are sexed up characters which are designed to appeal to the male adolescent audience. One naked half the time and the other in a skin tight outfit.
There's a push to modernize the female super hero so she is less of a sex object in order to attract female audiences. But this then alienates the male audience. So its a loss/loss proposition. Your probably going to cut out 50 percent of the demographics.
I do think this issue is over exaggerated. I mean most male superheros have hot muscle toned bodies and we usually see Thor and Captain America with their shirt off. So it goes both ways.
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Jun 30, 2015 - 2:51 AM
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Thor
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Lucy was literally full of nonsensical gibberish. "If life starts approximately a billion years ago, we will have to wait 400,000 years to see the aberration of the first nerve cells. This is where life as we know it begins. Brains in formation of only a few milligrams. It's not possible to determine any sign of intelligence yet. It acts more as a reflex. One neuron, you're alive. Two neurons, you're moving." Not possible to determine any sign of intelligence, indeed. This is not science, and it is not pseudoscience. It is nonsense. And since the only characters with any motivation are motivated only by that nonsense, there is not even any character here to get invested in.
To be honest, I don't really care about the science (or lack thereof) in the film. That's not what it's about, and I think you miss the point of the film if that's the most important thing to you. Instead, it's just a narrative platform that Besson can use to explore his unique aesthetics -- I particularly love the use of blue and red as visual themes throughout the film, the wild, "Manga-like finale and the elegant way he captures Lucy's growing abilities throughout the story.
I was actually really moved by the film, because it was so emotional to see Besson return to form after many years of misses.
But I'm well aware that it's a divisive film (I have colleagues who adore it like me, and those who don't get what the big deal is), in fact much like Johannsson's other film last year, UNDER THE SKIN -- which I also adore, btw.
All I really remember of Colombiana is some bad wire-fu parkour stuff and that it lasted like 27 hours long. And that they referred to a car's "boot" even though it's set in Chicago. And that the characters were intellectually and emotionally stunted enough that even I noticed it.
What I remember is a great, intense "revenge flick" with lots of kinetic energy. Wonderful film, although not in the class of LUCY.
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SUICIDE SQUAD---Victoria's Secret model Cara Delevingne said about superhero movies, "Superhero movies are totally sexist. Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis. No one would be able to fight like that. Wonder Woman, how the hell does she fight? She would be dead in a minute.”
"Wow, are you stupid!" (CJ Gregg, The West Wing)
I do wonder what movies she was thinking about when she made this statement. Depending on how you look at Mystique from the X-Men movies, the only movie where a female character is wearing a costume even remotely close to meeting her description is, well, Suicide Squad. If her sole experience with superhero films has been shooting scenes alongside Harlequin, then I guess she has a point. Maybe she is watching the porn knockoffs?
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Jun 30, 2015 - 8:47 AM
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Joe E.
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Instead of Lucy 2 (what the hell would THAT be about, considering how the first one ended?), how about a solo Black Widow movie? You could make a cool Jason Bourne-style espionage movie with Natasha and maybe Hawkeye ferreting out Hydra cells in Europe or something, and it doesn't have to cost $200 million. Scarlett Johansson is at the height of both her beauty and popularity, so what's the hold-up?
When would they make and release it? Marvel has already solidly booked all their releases from now until mid-2019, with ten movies with already-set release dates, booked at a rate of two to three per year, and most of them having narrative connective tissue that leads into the third and fourth Avengers movies. And they've already juggled things around once, but that was to accommodate a likely once-in-lifetime, now-or-never opportunity to strike a deal with Sony to let them bring the single most popular and profitable Marvel Comics character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don't see them doing that again for any one single character, especially one that is not nearly as popular and that they are not only already freely able to use but are in fact freely using already, just not in her own solo movies (her fifth screen appearance in the MCU will be out in less than a year).
Remember the studio guy that said solo female super hero movies don't sell? I wouldn't go that far, look at the Resident Evil and Underworld films. While they are not exactly superheros, the act as such and do lucrative business.
But here's the problem. The "PC" thing. The two above examples are sexed up characters which are designed to appeal to the male adolescent audience. One naked half the time and the other in a skin tight outfit.
There's a push to modernize the female super hero so she is less of a sex object in order to attract female audiences. But this then alienates the male audience. So its a loss/loss proposition. Your probably going to cut out 50 percent of the demographics.
I do think this issue is over exaggerated. I mean most male superheros have hot muscle toned bodies and we usually see Thor and Captain America with their shirt off. So it goes both ways.
Speaking as a guy who enjoys superhero movies, I'm totally for seeing kickass female superheroes, and I don't need them sexualized to be appealing. I very much do want to see more, and I for one am not going to be "alienated" if my female heroes aren't presented as cheesecake. I'd rather see them be equivalent to the male heroes I already get.
None of that really addresses what I was talking about, though, which is that Marvel's current roadmap just doesn't have a whole lot of room for a solo Black Widow movie, and also she's already getting lots of screentime without one anyway. Mind you, I'm certainly not averse to one - at this point I'll happily see anything set in the MCU (and if anything, I'll be particularly happy to see films centered around women, people of color, etc. more times in order to support them), and I've enjoyed this particular character in her four appearances so far, I'm looking forward to seeing her again in Captain America: Civil War, and I'm up for seeing more of her beyond that. And if they did decide to juggle things around again so they could put a Black Widow movie in there somewhere, I'd happily go see that one just like I've seen all the rest. I just a) think it's unlikely to happen, and b), as far as getting more movies fronted by female (and POC, and LGBTQ) superheroes goes, I'd personally rather see movies for new characters who haven't been in the MCU at all yet than this particular one.
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