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Sep 25, 2015 - 2:44 PM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
ALIEN: PARADISE LOST---Ridley Scott confirmed the title for the sequel to PROMETHEUS and said, “Well, because we’re heading back to why and how and when the beast was invented. We’ll go back into the back door of the very first Alien that I did thirty years ago.”
KONG: SKULL ISLAND---John Goodman will play a government official who accompanies an expedition to Skull Island in this King Kong prequel movie. The expedition is led by Tom Hiddleston, who is seeking his missing brother and a mythical serum. The movie will feature the Monarch monster-hunting organization that was in the 2014 GODZILLA remake which will lead to a King Kong vs. Godzilla sequel.
GHOSTBUSTERS---Sigourney Weaver was confirmed to be returning in a cameo role along with former co-stars Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Ernie Hudson in the all-female remake.
LBJ---photo released of Woody Harrelson starring in the Lyndon Baines Johnson biomovie directed by Rob Reiner.
BOURNE 5---Matt Damon commented on the latest sequel, “[Bourne] has his memory back, but that doesn’t mean he knows everything. It’s 12 years since Jason Bourne has been on the grid. So we have to answer the questions, Where’s he been? What’s he doing? What gets him going again? So once we solved all that, then we had a movie.”
THE CURRENT WAR---Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to star in this movie about the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop the first practical electricity system.
MEN IN BLACK---Sony Pictures reboot of the franchise is underway and won't include Will Smith. Co-producer Laurie McDonald said it will be a trilogy.
THE A-TEAM---20th Century Fox Television remake underway of the tv series that starred George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Mr. T and Dwight Schultz. The remake will be set in the present and include male and female team members.
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE---latest movie underway based on the Agatha Christie novel is underway at 20th Century Fox with Morten Tydlum (THE IMITATION GAME) as director.
COLOR OUT OF SPACE---movie underway based on the HP Lovecraft short story about a meteorite which impacts near Arkham, Massachusetts and cause animal and plant life to mutate and humans go insane or die. Richard Stanley (DUST DEVIL) is the writer/director.
TRON 3---Garrett Hedlund commented on Walt Disney Pictures shelving the sequel, "I haven't been told it's totally dead. Ever since we did LEGACY, we knew that to have another story follow it up, it had to be concrete and exciting. Disney needed to have the right story to go forward. I think it was going to introduce some things that were as exciting as LEGACY was and then some, though."
BLACK MIRROR---Netflix has ordered 12 episodes of the British sci fi series.
MY COUSIN RACHEL---Sam Claflin is in negotiations to co-star with Rachel Weisz in this movie based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel.
THE DEUCE---James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in this HBO pilot about the beginning and legalization of the porn industry in New York.
DEVIOUS MAIDS---Lifetime renewed the series.
PROOF--TNT cancelled the series.
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Welcome back sir, good to see you here again. Hope you had success in resolving all your PC issues? 
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Why the hell are they rebooting "Men in Black"? They had a good movie, an excellent movie -- just pretend the two sequels didn't happen and give us another that doesn't suck this time.
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Sep 26, 2015 - 1:16 PM
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RoryR
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"... a King Kong vs. Godzilla sequel."
Wait--so for this to make sense, somewhere on Skull Island there is a Silverback that's 350 feet tall?
I've always thought of Kong as a gorilla-like monster, not an actual giant gorilla, which is one reason why I so dislike the Peter Jackson remake. He got Kong wrong and you feel sorry for him when he's still on Skull Island, "Look what that poor, lonely gorilla has to endure" kind of thing. That's not what you're supposed to be feeling. That's the way you feel about a dog, not what you're supposed to feel about a monster, no matter how much like a gorilla he is.
Anyway, as to the PROMETHEUS sequel.... Well, I guess it's really going to happen though it appears it won't be PROMETHEUS 2 after all, but an ALIEN movie. How anyone can look forward to this, I just can't understand.
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Sep 26, 2015 - 5:29 PM
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Richard-W
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As far as a CGI recreation of a real ape, Jackson's version is breathtaking. But yeah, I always saw KK as a monster not a supersized animal. That's what made him so special.
Jackson's version was breadthtaking alright, and so was his recreation of NYC in the depression of 1933. But that's all the film has going for it. The male characters were decent men in the original film, flawed but decent, and they had the courage to try and rescue Anne Darrow. In Jackson's film all the men are politically corrected hustlers and wusses who chicken out when they're needed, and they do so with editorial commenting on their failures. Also, Anne Darrow is more vulnerable and more courageous in the original film, not to mention sexier and more beautiful. In Jackson's version she goes through the entire ordeal on Skull Island still wearing her robe. The new story that Jackson and his screen-writing wife provide for the remake dumbs down the characters, feminizes the action, politically corrects the themes, and simplifies the underlying subtext. If it weren't for the rich period detail and the humanized Kong Jackson's film would have nothing to recommend it.
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