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Apr 10, 2018 - 10:56 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, APRIL 10
THE MEG---trailer released for the prehistoric shark movie starring Jason Statham.
Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLk0NPRFAc
A QUIET PLACE---co-writer Scott Beck said another family might be the plot for the sequel, “There are so many discarded set pieces, too, just hiding out on Word documents on our computer. So, yeah, there are certainly so many stories you could tell. It’s just really, at the end of the day, who are the characters in this and what does this situation mean to that dynamic?”
TERMINATOR---Diego Boneta (ROCK OF AGES) will play a key undisclosed human role in the sequel.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---Anson Mount (HELL ON WHEELS) will play Captain Christopher Pike in Season 2. Jeffrey Hunter played Pike in the original series.
STAR WARS---Lucasfilm/ILM VFX supervisor Ben Morris said digital scans of the franchise's lead actors is standard procedure because they are useful as references in post-production special effects.
BATGIRL---Christina Hodson (UNFORGETTABLE) will write the script for the movie.
O'LUCKY DAY---Peter Dinklage is in negotiations to star in this movie about a con man who plays a leprechaun to seek revenge.
RUN THIS TOWN---Damien Lewis will star in this movie about former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford who smoked crack cocaine in a video, was accused of sexual abuse and other controversies.
NOS4A2---AMC tv series underway based on the horror novel.
THE TALE---Laura Dern, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter and Ellen Burstyn star in this HBO movie based on the true story about a teenage girl who was seduced by a conspiracy involving her riding instructor and her track coach.
ALICE ISN'T DEAD---tv series underway based on the podcast and upcoming novel about a female truck driver who searches for her missing wife and discovers a conspiracy of unhuman serial killers.
ALEXA & KATIE---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE---Amazon cancelled the series.
TRIVIA---Richard Donner is best known for directing the LETHAL WEAPON movies, SUPERMAN, THE OMEN and THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
However, his first movie was X-15 which told the story about NASA's record-setting rocket plane. The movie starred David McLean, Charles Bronson (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE GREAT ESCAPE), Mary Tyler Moore (in her first movie role), Kenneth Tobey (THE THING), James Gregory (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, BARNEY MILLER) and Brad Dexter (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) with narration by Jimmy Stewart.
X-15 starred MAGNIFICENT SEVEN co-stars Charles Bronson and Brad Dexter.
X-15 was Mary Tyler Moore's first movie role.
Co-star Kenneth Tobey played an Air Force pilot again in the classic THE THING.
James Gregory co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
Former bomber pilot and war hero Jimmy Stewart narrated X-15.
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The Meg looks like a slightly bigger budget Shark Attack! DVD. Utter toss. But i like Cliff Curtis (odds on he'll get eaten). Li Bingbing included for Chinese box office.
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WANDERER:
The trailer says the movie is set off the Chinese coast....that should bring in a lot of money from the Chinese audience.
If Idaho had a billion people willing to buy tickets, THE MEG would be set there.
True enough, Dragon. I'd watch it if it was set off the coast of Saskatchewan. If it had a coast. And wasn't in the middle of effing nowhere. and snowing again. In April.
God, i couldn't get through the trailer and retain even the basic information it gave. Two hours of it doesn't bode well for me.
I must just be a bit too cynical to enjoy a massively giant killer dino-shark flick. That's a sad way to be.
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Or, it's set where the book says it is set, and does not whitewash the book's characters....
Good lord, it was a novel? Wait, i knew that, i shoulda checked.
To think Gary Tunnicliffe was once going to direct it and instead did the last Hellraiser-made-for-a-tuppence film.
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Or, it's set where the book says it is set, and does not whitewash the book's characters....
Good lord, it was a novel? Wait, i knew that, i shoulda checked.
To think Gary Tunnicliffe was once going to direct it and instead did the last Hellraiser-made-for-a-tuppence film.
With several sequels....and part of the point of the book is that part of it is set around the Mariana Trench, off the coast of China. Steve Alten was the author...good page turners and a fun way to waste a train journey.
Hm, sound like they might be a good bus book. Ta for the heads up.
Oh, yes, the Trench being mostly unexplored and deep enough to hide big squid and dino stuff makes sense for the plot.
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X-15 is an extremely prosaic look at that test program, using non-anamorphic stock footage just stretched out to fill the 2:35 Panavision format. Not exactly an auspicious feature directing debut by Richard Donner.
It's single fine feature is a soaring score by Nathan Scott, dad of jazz/film somposer Tom Scott. I'd buy a CD of this but the masters for this probably went out with most of the other United Artists score materials when Goldwyn's sound studio closed.
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THE MEG - Godzilla, Deep Blue Sea, Piranha, Jaws wrapped into one film but l@@ks interesting!
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