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Aug 17, 2015 - 2:11 PM
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dragon53
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MONDAY, AUGUST 17
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS---poster leased for the sequel by famed poster artist Drew Struzan.
STAR WARS: EPISODE IX---Lucasfilm announced that Colin Trevorrow (JURASSIC WORLD) will direct the sequel. Trevorrow said, "This is not a job or an assignment. It is a seat at a campfire, surrounded by an extraordinary group of storytellers, filmmakers, artists and craftspeople. We've been charged with telling new stories for a younger generation because they deserve what we all had - a mythology to call their own. We will do this by channeling something George Lucas instilled in all of us: boundless creativity, pure invention and hope."
STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE---Mads Mikkelsen (CASINO ROYALE) and Alan Tudyk (FIREFLY) have joined the cast with Tudyk having a capture performance role. Also, the first cast photo was released show most of the cast of Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker.
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2---a poster released on Twitter inadvertently spelled the C-word over Jennifer Lawrence's face and was later deleted.
KYLIE JENNER---after Jenner's 18th birthday, porn video companies made offers to her for a sex tape with boyfriend rapper Tyga. Among them was Vivid Entertainment, which released half-sister Kim Kardashian's sex tape, with an offer of $10 million. BangYouLater's offer was $1.8 million and a promise that "This event will make you even more famous than either Kim K or Paris Hilton." DigitalPlayground.com's offer stated, "Now that you are of legal age, we would like to offer you the opportunity to be Digital Playground's Brand Ambassador! We know you'll be great at this and with your banging body to match, maybe you'll be interested in becoming an adult star yourself! Join DigitalPlayground.com and be welcomed into a new, hornier family."
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE---a fan claims artwork released from the sequel indicated The Joker used to be Robin. The fan said a photo of The Joker shows two shoulder scars and a trailer shows two rips in Robin's costume shoulders corresponding to The Joker's scars.
CAPTAIN MARVEL---Ronda Rousey is campaigning for the starring role in the movie and released fan artwork showing her as Captain Marvel.
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE---a fan claimed he was on the set when The Blob was filming his part. The fan said the actor playing The Blob was, "French Canadian dude 540 lbs (one solid big fat guy)."
RED---NBC tv series underway based on the movies that starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker.
RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER---Ali Larter confirmed the sequel is truly the last in the franchise.
UNDERWORLD 5---Tobias Menzies (GAME OF THRONES) will play Marius, the new Lycan leader.
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS---Kim Basinger will co-star with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams in the movie based on the novel TOM AND SUSAN.
ANDORRA---movie underway based on the novel about an American who moves to the small nation of Andorra where he falls for a beautiful Australian woman and then gets involved in a murder investigation. Fred Shepisi (THE RUSSIA HOUSE, ROXANNE) is the director.
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"Poster leased"? You mean "released"?
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Aug 18, 2015 - 3:01 PM
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Ian J.
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If you want correct spelling, then you do the movie/tv news yourselves. It's taking about 5 hours a day for each movie/tv thread now that my pc is having its well-documented problems and Photobucket continues to have its technical problems.
I'm ignoring my own personal business to get the movie/tv news out every day including sacrificing my sleep.
I lost any personal interest in posting the movie/tv news years ago when Hollywood morphed into Ironman/Superman/Batman comic book movies, remakes/reboots/prequels/sequels, zombie apocalypses, teen vampires-in-love and I have to find movie articles among the endless articles about the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, but I continued because its popular with the other posters.
If I don't do this pain-in-the-ass thread everyday, it would be a great relief to me.
Much as I appreciate seeing the movie and tv news from you each day, I'm worried that it's a burden. Might it be worth trying to switch to a different schedule, say, twice weekly, and see if that's any less hassle?
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Aug 19, 2015 - 10:02 AM
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LeHah
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I remember when I was getting into SW as a kid, the stills from the films (SW, TESB and ROTJ) in the preview magazines leapt out of the pages at me with their colour and vibrancy. That collection of rogues does look more like the dour Falling Skies, NOT Star Wars at all.
In terms of mass media culture, we live in probably the crappiest time I can think of. Yes, I realize thats a popular thing for unearned cynics to say - but the majority of our "output" is really movie reboots, comic book media, whos-sleeping-with-who updates on talking head television shows, Dr Oz / Phil / Doom, Judge [Insert Name Here], internet ads about muscle building pills someone doesn't want you to know about...
And the thing is its all empty bullshit.
15 years ago, I fantasized about hearing an Episode VII announcement. Absolutely nothing in the world would make me as happy as hearing that come to pass. But the fact is Star Wars - which was once pulpy, fun, irreverent scifi in a bottled universe - is now this ever-growing benign mass. Sold to Disney, the couldn't jump quick enough into making something - ANYTHING - with the brand
(Dr Ian Malcolm's speech of "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should" in Jurassic Park goes here.)
And now we have this washed out photo of a group of people standing around looking morose and I can't tell if its the same or worse than the photo for the (dull, dull, dull looking) Suicide Squad. That is not what Star Wars should look like.
This is what Star Wars is about. Big, colorful, full of drama. If I wanted to see people sulking around like a bunch of Millennials at a My Chemical Romance concert, I'd sooner cut my wrists lengthwise.
I have a bad, bad fear that what Disney has coming - this focus group crap which is what killed SW when it was churning out crap like Force Unleashed 2 - isn't going to be up to snuff for people with IQs higher than their shoe size.
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