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Jun 2, 2015 - 11:21 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, JUNE 2
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA---Dwayne Johnson is in negotiations to be the star/producer of the remake of the 1986 John Carpenter cult classic movie. The original movie starred Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall.
SUICIDE SQUAD---photo released of Batman (Ben Affleck) on top of The Joker's purple Lamborghini with Harley Quinn as his passenger.
A source said about Batman's appearance, "[Batman] goes and pays Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) a visit. Batman BREAKS into her massive security prison. In fact... ...he's already inside Amanda Waller's office waiting for her in the shadows when she appears. BADASS! Typical Batman. Already inside a maximum security prison designed to contain super villains and he is already inside.
The guards are clueless. What does he want to talk to Amanda Waller about? Batman has a bone to pick with Waller. You see Batman is totally against the concept behind the Suicide Squad, in fact he warns Waller that he will hold her personally responsible for any innocents The Joker & the rest of the Suicide Squad kill. A warning so stern that he has to visit Waller personally to deliver the message."
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-ROGUE NATION---new photos released from the sequel in which Ethan Hunt and the IMF team take on an anti-IMF organization called The Syndicate. Premiere is July 31.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY-PART 2---poster released showing a damaged statue of President Snow.
JAMES BOND---Jason Statham was asked if he would to play James Bond, “Could I do it? Abso-*******-lutely. Would I do it? Abso-*******-lutely... Yeah, I’d make a decent Bond." Statham said his Bond would be less blue-blooded than the other Bonds, "But it’d be very, very different if I did it." He added that Daniel Craig is a "great Bond".
24---new Fox 24 spinoff miniseries underway with a "a new twenty something male terrorist hunter" replacing Jack Bauer. The new hero will team up with an older veteran female agent. Kiefer Sutherland and Yvonne Strahovski will be guest stars on the new miniseries.
THE DARK TOWER---Nikolaj Arcel (A ROYAL AFFAIR, Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) is in talks to direct and co-write the Sony Pictures movie based on the Stephen King novel.
TRON 3---an online petition requesting Walt Disney Pictures resurrect the cancelled sequel has over 13,000 signatures with a goal of 15,000 signatures.
HOMELAND---new cast members for Season 5 are Miranda Otto, Sebastian Koch, Alexander Fehling and Sarah Sokolovic. Season 5 has a disillusioned Carrie in Berlin working for a private security firm.
THE LITTLE MERMAID---director Sofia Coppola has left the Universal Pictures movie based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale due to creative differences.
HEROES REBORN---Sendhil Ramamurthy is returning for the NBC miniseries.
NASHVILLE---Eric Close is not returning to the series due to a plot change, but he might return as a guest star.
KILLING FIELDS---Discovery Channel series underway from the team of Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana (HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS) in which new technology is used to solve unsolved murders.
DOC MARTIN---US remake of the ITV sitcom is underway. The original series has a London doctor relocating to a tranquil fishing village where his gruff personality causes friction with the local residents.
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Jun 3, 2015 - 7:19 AM
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Ado
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Mike J is right, Carpenter is a talented hack, granted at the high end of B class directors. I would think that The Thing remake is probably the best thing he has ever done, and it was nearly a complete disaster, it was one of those things like ST TMP that nearly fell completely apart, and yet for some reason, it works. Carpenter knows how to pick material that can translate, that can be filmed, but his directing style is pretty point and shoot. The positive side is that he gives lots of room for odd ball non mainstream characters and creative script ideas. I do not resent him his success too, he deserves it more than other hacks such as our recently discussed Robert Rodriguez.
It is pretty simple on Tron 3, the numbers simply do not add up for Disney. They could afford to make it, even at a probable loss. Disney is flush with cash, they should be doing total vanity projects for fun. But that is not what they are going to do. Their stockholders are enjoying the cash now, and the more they make, the more averse they will become to risk.
The Disney buyout of Lucasfilm and Marvel, great business moves, are pretty likely to steer them away from inventive free standing movies to sequels and remakes, but they have to be pretty sure bets, and Tron 3 is not a sure bet on the cash returns. The more massively successful Disney is with Marvel and Lucas properties (and they have tons of them planned for years) the less interesting pictures we will see.
The one bright spot of creativity out of Disney is animation, the foundation of the company, but those are most often from Pixar, another buyout. The two most creative movies they have this year are Inside Out and Good Dinosaur, and they are both Pixar. Animation is consistently the most creative and interesting branch of studio movies.
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Jun 3, 2015 - 9:18 AM
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Ado
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For a "point and shoot" director, Carpenter's films feel and look a lot better than those of many other directors.
I agree with that, and there is something to be said for that style of film making, as compared to the Bay style, with cameras always shooting up from the ground at impractical angels, tilting, shots from above - usually helicopters, and fast cuts. Point and shot can came across as more mature. Master Kubrick used lots of dolly camera work, and steadicam, but a lot of his shots were simple, symmetrical locked off shots. His films convey a certain intellectual / coolness because of that point and shoot symmetry he used.
There are some other point and shoot directors who do just fine, they will never be considered masters, because direction has become pretty much all to do with visual style and bombast now.
The camera as artistic and stylistic tool, properly used like master Spielberg, is not in a lot of directors powers. When they try it it starts to make movies look like video games. If you were to offer me this slap-dash overly stylized type of direction, or point and shoot, I would choose the point and shoot style.
Leonard Nimoy (RIP) was pretty much point and shoot with his direction, and he got some flack for the rather plainness of his movies, but they all work pretty well. None of them will be recalled for anything stylistically interesting, but the story part works.
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