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Apr 23, 2024 - 9:20 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, APRIL 23 THE WATCHERS---trailer released for the Ishana Shyamalan horror movie based on the novel. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYo91Fq9tKY ATLAS---trailer released for the Netflix sci fi movie starring Jennifer Lopez. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jokpt_LJpbw THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT---the original cast of Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams responded to the Lionsgate reboot of the horror franchise by making a public request for the following from Lionsgate: retroactive and future residual payments, "meaningful consultation" on future franchise projects and an annual $60,000 grant to "unknown aspiring filmmakers". JOHN McTIERNAN---John McTiernan, the director of DIE HARD, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and PREDATOR, saw his career crash after a series of box office bombs and being sent to prison for lying to an FBI agent after he hired a private investigator to illegally wiretap a producer. McTiernan said he wants to resurrect his career and still receives offers, but he said "none of them are for good films." McTiernan said he is working on three scripts, “I have continued to write and I believe I have strength, years left. I am just as angry now as when I was 19.” JERRY SEINFELD---Jerry Seinfeld commented on the state of the film business, “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.” He commented on what has replaced the film business in society, “Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, ‘What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?’ I’ve done enough stuff that I have my own thing, which is more valuable than it’s ever been. Stand-up is like you’re a cabinetmaker, and everybody needs a guy who’s good with wood. There’s trees everywhere, but to make a nice table, it’s not so easy. So, the metaphor is that if you have good craft and craftsmanship, you’re kind of impervious to the whims of the industry. Audiences are now flocking to stand-up because it’s something you can’t fake. It’s like platform diving. You could say you’re a platform diver, but in two seconds we can see if you are or you aren’t. That’s what people like about stand-up. They can trust it. Everything else is fake.” EL PASO, ELSEWHERE---Lakeith Stanfield is in talks to star in the movie based on the video game. SLEEPY HOLLLOW---Paramount Pictures remake movie underway with Lindsey Anderson Beer (PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES) as the director. THAT '90S SHOW--Mila Kunis commented on if she and Ashton Kutcher will return for Season 2, “No. I mean, we did our thing and they introduced our son in the show.” TRIVIA---the 1970 World War II heist movie KELLY'S HEROES starred Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Don Rickles. Eastwood led a squad of soldiers behind enemy lines to rob a heavily-defended French bank holding $16 million in gold. The movie's theme song, "Burning Bridges", was written by Lalo Schifrin and Mike Curb and was a hit song for the Mike Curb Congregation. However, a little-heard vocal of "Burning Bridges" sung by Eastwood was released as a 45 rpm single. MIKE CURB LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7p3KHwS_E CLINT EASTWOOD LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ui-7Rjc-N8
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Lord, please -- no more Blair Witch. I don't care what it is (a sequel, a spin-off, a prequel, a remake, a re-visioning, etc.) -- NO.
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Clearly ROLLERBALL was the film to go to Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison over.
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Wow, can’t believe he did the Rollerball remake! I’ve never seen it but I’m sure they gutted what made the original so good. That's the movie that sent him to prison. He had one of the producers wiretapped to keep tabs on him. What sent him to prison. Was it the wiretap or lying to a federal agent.
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Clearly ROLLERBALL was the film to go to Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison over. Having suffered through Rollerball, I'd say the prison sentence was justified....maybe not the ass pounding bit tho.... Well, he's got to learn somehow...
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Apr 24, 2024 - 6:07 AM
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Warlok
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JOHN McTIERNAN---John McTiernan, the director of DIE HARD, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and PREDATOR, saw his career crash after a series of box office bombs and being sent to prison for lying to an FBI agent after he hired a private investigator to illegally wiretap a producer. McTiernan said he wants to resurrect his career and still receives offers, but he said "none of them are for good films." McTiernan said he is working on three scripts, “I have continued to write and I believe I have strength, years left. I am just as angry now as when I was 19.” I am sure this was revealed moons ago, but... why hire someone to spy on a producer? During what filming? In any event, McTiernan's return to cinema is good. More PREDATOR, Hunt For Red October productions please.
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Apr 24, 2024 - 6:14 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Apart from Spielberg, Cameron* and Scorsese, are there any other directors from the 70s and 80s and beyond who are still directing BIG Hollywood films these days**? (edit...I suppose the Coen Bros still count). When I were a lad, you had DePalma, Dante, Landis, Carpenter, Badham, Donner, Coppola etc making a film every year or so. Obviously some of them are dead now (I know Donner is) but it seems their time, like McTiernan, has passed. * once every 10 years ** there's also Ridley Scott, but based on his last 10 films or so, I wish he wasn't
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