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Jan 27, 2020 - 11:50 AM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, JANUARY 27
HIGHEST-GROSSING DIRECTORS---the top 15 highest-grossing directors.
1. Steven Spielberg---$10.54 billion
2. Joe and Anthony Russo---$6.84 billion
3. Peter Jackson---$6.54 billion
4. Michael Bay---$6.44 billion
5. James Cameron---$6.23 billion
6. David Yates---$5.98 billion
7. Christopher Nolan---$4.70 billion
8. JJ Abrams---$4.62 billion
9. Tim Burton---$4.41 billion
10.Jon Favreau---$4.33 billion
11.Robert Zemeckis---$4.32 billion
12.Ron Howard---$4.30 billion
13.Ridley Scott---$4.2 billion
14.Chris Columbus---$4.0 billion
15.Roland Emmerich---$3.95 billion
ANACONDA---Sony Pictures remake underway of the 1997 movie that starred Jennifer Lopez , Jon Voight and Ice Cube. Evan Daugherty (DIVERGENT, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN) is the writer.
WALT DISNEY---Walt Disney is making two live-action/CGI remakes of its classic animated movies. PINOCCHIO will be directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis. BAMBI will be written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet (CAPTAIN AMERICA) and Lindsey Beer (SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER).
GAME OF THRONES---George RR Martin commented on the original plan to end the series with three theatrical movies, “Those responsible said: ‘we produce TV series, we are not in the cinema business, and when HBO does make movies, like now with the film that is based on the DEADWOOD series, they only produce it to show it on TV – not in the cinema. Everything is changing right now. What is cinema today? What is television? What is streaming? Is Netflix making cinema or television now? Everything mixes up.”
THE SEVENTH DAY---Guy Pearce and Stephen Lang star in this horror movie about a famous exorcist and a young priest who team up to exorcise a young boy possessed by an evil spirit.
INTO THIN AIR---movie underway about a rogue investigator and a journalist who team up to investigate the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Christian Rivers (MORTAL ENGINES) is the director.
MARVEL TV STUDIOS---Marvel TV cancelled the Hulu animated tv series HOWARD THE DUCK and TIGRA & DAZZLER.
THE MASK---Jim Carrey commented on a possible sequel, "THE MASK...it would depend on a filmmaker. It depends on a filmmaker really. I don’t want to do it just to do it. But I would only do it if it was some crazy visionary filmmaker. Sure.”
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Tom Jones sang the title song for THUNDERBALL with lyrics by Don Black. Jones and Black reunited for THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, which was a parody of the James Bond movies. Jones sang THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN's Academy Award-nominated love theme, "Come to Me" which was used in the movie's final scene with Chief Inspector Clouseau and Soviet assassin Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down) in Clouseau's bedroom.
Tom Jones sang the THUNDERBALL theme with lyrics by Don Black.
THUNDERBALL LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_o-uRoi2s
Tom Jones sang "Come to Me" with lyrics by Don Black from THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, which was a James Bond parody movie.
COME TO ME LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WakdACZutM
TRIVIA---Ray Harryhausen's EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS was based on a series of true incidents in which UFOs buzzed Washington, DC including the White House and the Capitol Building in July, 1952. The UFO sightings, called "The Big Flap", received national news coverage and began on July 19, 1952 when radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base detected numerous UFOs. Traveling at estimated speeds up to 7,000 miles per hour, they soon buzzed the White House and Capitol Building. Two US Air Force F-94 Starfire fighters were scrambled to investigate the UFOs, but when the Starfires approached, the UFOs mysteriously vanished. When the Starfires left due to low fuel, the UFOs suddenly reappeared. Washington National senior air-traffic controller Harry Barnes said it appeared, "the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic and behaving accordingly." After almost six hours of buzzing the city, the UFOs disappeared.
On July 26, the UFOS reappeared when radar at Washington National and Andrews again picked up UFOs. Four Starfires were scrambled. Lt. William Patterson flew one of the Starfires when the UFOs surrounded his jet. US Air Force Project Blue Book spokesman Albert Chop revealed that Patterson then requested instructions, "'I see them now and they're all around me. What should I do?'...And nobody answered, because we didn't know what to tell him." Like the first incident, the UFOs disappeared at sunrise.
At a Pentagon press conference, the largest since World War II, the Air Force attributed the UFO sightings to misidentified aerial phenomena (meteors, etc.) and temperature inversion.
Ray Harryhausen's EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS had UFOs attack Washington, DC, including the White House and Capitol Building.
The movie was based on true incidents in July, 1952 when UFOs buzzed Washington, DC including the White House (see video link) and the Capitol Building.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkv22vSb74s
The UFO incidents received national headlines.
F-94 Starfire fighters were scrambled to investigate the UFOs.
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"Darlink, was it very hard for you...in the resistence?"
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"Darlink, was it very hard for you...in the resistence?"
"Not as hard as it is now."
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If you take away the reason for the list -- the money gross -- the whole list is ... well, it's something (I'll say that). A list of one-great's and guys who did one/two/tree good things and that it's, and people it's embarrassing to see on the same list with somebody like Spielberg.
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Jan 28, 2020 - 4:41 AM
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Dragon, do we know a source for that UFO/White House video? Not youtube (!), but who took what and why?
Curious. That would seem remarkable too that footage like that has been obscure/unknown. (At least, I've never seen it... not that I am the be-all-end-all of that which is seen...)
Great question Warlok, thanks! I am curious about that video too. I've seen "documentaries" proclaiming that video as corroborating evidence that the radar anomalies were real ufos over D.C., but I've only seen it recently. My reasons for cynicisms:
1. If it was truly from 1952 I believe we'd all have seen it over and over.
2. None of the reports/articles, etc. from 1952 that I've read have ever mentioned video, or as they would have
phrased it then, film.
I was halfway paying attention to some TV show recently and they stated that the video had been colorized and was originally b&w. It just increases my cynicism. I wish now that I had paid closer attention to what show it was and what "expert" was touting the video.
Once-informative TV channels, like History and Travel have just abandoned any pretense of objectivity about ufos and the "paranormal" nowadays. They present hearsay, video clips and quotes from people who have been exposed as outright liars, phonies and some mentally ill (not that folks with mental illness can't be reliable witnesses) as iron-clad proof of all kinds of alien activity here on earth - abductions, underground battles with aliens, etc. and don't even bother to offer skeptical comment.
That's why I have some serious doubts as to the validity of this vid. To my thinking, if this vid is legit, someone would have claimed it!
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RE: Bambi- Another Lion King coming soon to a theater near you.  If you appreciate art, more specifically animation as an art form you would understand why this is a pointless remake.
I quite agree. Not even taking the mother's death into account, just the opening pan through the forest is enough to bring anyone to tears. Another thing I dread about this remake is that they're most likely going to play up anti-gun/anti-hunting aspect to an absurd degree as opposed to the more subtle look at that in the original.
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