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May 13, 2016 - 9:59 AM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, MAY 13
ABC---the network released teaser trailers for the following new series.
TIME AFTER TIME---tv remake of the 1979 Nicholas Meyer movie about HG Wells and Jack the Ripper that starred Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUubEOWRPi4
CONVICTION---new series starring Hayley Atwell (MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER) as an ex-First Daughter who gets a second chance after being arrested for cocaine possession.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV12_fHl_iM
THE DEATH OF STALIN---movie underway based on the French graphic novel about the political infighting after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Timothy Dalton, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough and Paddy Considine are in negotiations to star.
THE PREDATOR---Shane Black said the new Predator will include changes in Stan Winston's original costume design, "There have been a lot of changes to Stan’s design over the years. These different Predator movies have done different things. Ultimately it’s not about design to me, it’s about the story you want to tell. There are people who are always going to agonize over Iron Man, what color his suit is. Maybe this weapon does a new thing, but if the story is not good I don’t give a sh*t what color the suit is. In THE PREDATOR we’re doing a lot of upgrades to what you would consider to be the traditional Predator technology and look, but hopefully the story is what’s going to drag people in, not just the attention to the minutiae.”
CANCELLATIONS---the networks cancelled the following series:
ABC---MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER, CASTLE, NASHVILLE, THE FAMILY, GALAVANT, THE MUPPETS. ABC also decided not to proceed with the spinoff MARVEL'S MOST WANTED.
CBS---SUPERGIRL, CSI: CYBER (this ends the CSI franchise)
FOX---BORDERTOWN, COOPER BARRETT'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE, GRANDFATHERED, THE GRINDER
THE CW---CONTAINMENT, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
THE CW---the network picked up SUPERGIRL from CBS and ordered three news series. FREQUENCY is a remake of the 2000 movie that starred Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. RIVERDALE is based on the ARCHIE comic books. NO TOMORROW is a romantic sitcom.
DR. KEN---ANC renewed the series for Season 2.
THIS IS US---new NBC dramedy starring Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia.
SPACE JAM 2---the director of the original 1996 movie commented on the LeBron James sequel, "Don't do it. It's doomed. Michael Jordan was the biggest star on the planet. When we did SPACE JAM, there was a perfect storm of players and ex-players available - Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing. They all had a persona that complemented the film. There are none around like that now."
DIONNE---LeToya Luckett, Lady GaGa, Danny Glover and Olympia Dukakis star in this biomovie based on Dionne Warwick's MY LIFE, AS I SEE IT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Luckett will play Warwick. Lady GaGa will play Warwick's rival, Cilla Black. Glover will play Warwick's father. Dukakis will play her mentor, Marlene Dietrich.
ALTERED CARBON---Joel Kinnaman (THE KILLING) stars in this Netflix sci fi series based on the novel set in the 25th century where the human mind is digitized and can be downloaded into other people. An imprisoned interstellar warrior is downloaded into the future to solve a murder with his reward being a second chance at life on Earth.
IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE---Liam Neeson stars in this US remake of the Norwegian movie that starred Stellan Skarsgard. Neeson plays a resort snowplow driver who seeks revenge against the criminals that murdered his son.
JUSTICE LEAGUE: PART ONE---a source said Willem Dafoe's role is a "good guy" Atlantean.
BLACK PANTHER---Lupita Nyong'o (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) is in talks for an undisclosed role in the superhero movie.
SPECTRUM---Lucas Till (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) stars in this movie about a young man and his friends who visit his late father's laboratory where he developed technology that proved that ghosts exist but at a high cost.
DRONES---untitled Michael Bay/Paramount Pictures movie underway based on the upcoming memoir of ex-Delta Force soldier and drone warfare expert Brett Velicovich, who targeted some of the world's leading terrorists.
THE SPINNING MAN---Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Greg Kinnear and Emma Roberts star in this movie about a college professor who is the lead suspect in the disappearance of a high school cheerleader.
N.O.C.---movie underway about a CIA undercover agent who discovers a CIA faction is helping the terrorist cell he had infiltrated. John Moore (A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD) is the director.
PARADIME---movie underway based on the novel about an Afghanistan war veteran who becomes a cook at an ritzy New York restaurant and becomes obsessed with a high-tech mogul who looks like him.
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THE PREDATOR---Shane Black said the new Predator will include changes in Stan Winston's original costume design, "There have been a lot of changes to Stan’s design over the years. These different Predator movies have done different things. Ultimately it’s not about design to me, it’s about the story you want to tell. There are people who are always going to agonize over Iron Man, what color his suit is. Maybe this weapon does a new thing, but if the story is not good I don’t give a sh*t what color the suit is. In THE PREDATOR we’re doing a lot of upgrades to what you would consider to be the traditional Predator technology and look, but hopefully the story is what’s going to drag people in, not just the attention to the minutiae.”
Maybe he felt he had to do it, nip in the bud any complaints about design. I think people complained about the look of Predators in past films. All he's saying is "the look of the Predator isn't exactly the same as the original but that shouldn't matter, the story should." Nothing wrong with saying that.
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Oh, for pity's sake! Can we stop with the remakes/reboots?
They've been around since the movies existed.
You know, we often got remakes because film and the technology was improving all the time; quality, black and whtie to color, better colors, silent to talkies, so remaking things made sense, plus some movies were just poor to begin with, few of the ones we like were good the first time they were made. Some directors had things they wanted to say, expand the scope, so forth and so on.
These trite autoshits of remakes almost exclusively have no reason other than to try and make a quick buck off people who think after a hundred crappy cheeseburgers, this time the 101th crappy cheeseburger will be different.
The new takes are gone, the things to say aren't being said and style over substance is being chosen by many cooks who can't cook in the kitchen jerking the chicken this way and that way.
To say remakes have been happening all the time is to dismiss the greater scope of the conversation; everything isn't relevent and just 'cause something has been done before, doesn't mean we can't point it out when it's done poorly or in needless excess.
And, further more, not everything remade draws back to a film from long ago. We're getting reboots before a decade has even passed. Also, according to wikipedia, reboots have not been aroudn since film began, listing the first reboot being "Godzilla".
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May 14, 2016 - 6:07 AM
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You know, we often got remakes because film and the technology was improving all the time; quality, black and whtie to color, better colors, silent to talkies, so remaking things made sense, plus some movies were just poor to begin with, few of the ones we like were good the first time they were made. Some directors had things they wanted to say, expand the scope, so forth and so on.
These trite autoshits of remakes almost exclusively have no reason other than to try and make a quick buck off people who think after a hundred crappy cheeseburgers, this time the 101th crappy cheeseburger will be different.
The new takes are gone, the things to say aren't being said and style over substance is being chosen by many cooks who can't cook in the kitchen jerking the chicken this way and that way.
To say remakes have been happening all the time is to dismiss the greater scope of the conversation; everything isn't relevent and just 'cause something has been done before, doesn't mean we can't point it out when it's done poorly or in needless excess.
Ah, your nostalgia-colored glasses. Many of your arguments for old remakes apply just as well to new ones. Some originals weren't so good? Still valid. Some filmmakers have something new they want to say? Still valid. And vice versa. It's all about style over substance now? The same claim could be made about black and white movies being remade in color, as if color in and of itself is an improvement. In fact some of your listed improved technologies came at the expense of other filmmaking elements, e.g. the switch to talkies eliminated cinematographic possibilities at first. And movies are made to make a quick buck? Yeah, because they were all made for sheer artistic merit 70 years ago.
And, further more, not everything remade draws back to a film from long ago. We're getting reboots before a decade has even passed. Also, according to wikipedia, reboots have not been aroudn since film began, listing the first reboot being "Godzilla".
No, not everything draws from a long time ago. And many remakes of very recent movies are made because the filmmakers have something new to say, or because the filmmakers want to reach an audience that the original wasn't able to reach. I'm not sure why you're switching track mid-discussion from remakes to reboots. Of course "reboots" haven't been around forever, since the term itself didn't enter the vernacular until around 20 years ago, being associated as it is with home computing. ("Shared universe" wasn't a term until recently, yet that shit's also been happening in the movies since at least the 40s.) But a reboot would seem to be more up your alley, being as it is an attempt by the filmmakers to do something different with the property rather than simply remaking it.
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I hope renewed interest in the real Time After Time will result in that film finally getting a Bluray release.
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