TITANIC: 25 YEARS LATER WITH JAMES CAMERON---GOOD MORNING AMERICA featurette released about the National Geographic documentary which will include scientific studies showing the survival chances of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) in various scenarios. Cameron hired two stunt people with similar sizes to DiCaprio and Winslet to test the various survival scenarios. If both Jack and Rose were fully on the makeshift raft, their survival was unlikely because of their combine weight would sink the raft, “They’re now both submerged in dangerous levels of freezing water”. If Jack and Rose had the upper part of their bodies above the water, “Out of the water, [his body’s] violent shaking was helping him. Projecting it out, he could’ve made it pretty long. Like, hours.” Cameron said the studies showed there was one scenario in which Jack might have lived---if Rose had given her life jacket to Jack, “He’s stabilized. He got into a place where if we projected that out, he just might’ve made it until the lifeboat got there. Jack might’ve lived, but there’s a lot of variables. I think his thought process was, ‘I’m not going to do one thing that jeopardized her,’ and that’s 100% in character.” The documentary premieres on February 5.
1923---Paramount+ renewed the series for Season 2.
NIGHT COURT---NBC renewed the revival series for Season 2.
NOBODY NOTHING NOWHERE---Octavia Spencer, Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Lucy Liu will star in this comedy sci fi movie whose synopsis says, "the story of Ruth, one of the Non-People, human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland guy named Dave, the only person that actually exists on Earth. Tired of serving as an extra in someone else’s life, Ruth is ready to demand a life of her own.”
LAZARUS---Tom Hardy and Zazie Beetz will star in the Apple+ miniseries based on the Joona Linna books in which undercover cop Saga Bauer is in a psych ward to discover the secrets of serial killer Jurek Walter.
THE FAMILY STALLONE---Paramount+ docuseries that will follow Sylvester Stallone, his wife and three daughters.
MAYFAIR WITCHES---AMC renewed the series for Season 2.
CRIMINAL---Amazon Studios is in negotiations for a tv series based on the comic book that will be, “an interlocking universe of crime stories”.
APPLES NEVER FALL---Annette Bening will star in the Peacock miniseries based on the novel about a family matriarch who mysteriously disappears.
GREEN BANK---Tatiana Maslany will star in this sci fi horror movie about a baby sitter who discovers a child's parents are not what they appear to be.
THE TRAITORS---Peacock renewed the series for Season 2.
SO HELP ME TODD---CBS renewed the series.
TRIVIA---THE GIANT CLAW was a 1957 sci fi movie in which Jeff Morrow played an aeronautical engineer who battled a giant intergalactic bird, the Giant Claw, from destroying mankind. Morrow and the crew never saw the model of the bird until they saw it at the premiere in Morrow's hometown, “We poor, benighted actors had our own idea of what the giant bird would look like – our concept was that this was something that resembled a streamlined hawk, possibly half a mile long, flying at such speeds that we could barely see it.” When the Giant Claw appeared on screen, the audience broke out in laughter at the comical creature which led to an embarrassed Morrow slinking out of the theater early so no one would recognize him. Co-star Mara Corday said producer Sam Katzman raved about “the wonderful special effects people in Mexico that he had hired” to make the Giant Claw and that most of the movie's budget was spent on the model. A dubious rumor claimed producer Katzman paid a Mexico model-maker a meager $50 for the model which led to Morrow's quip saying the model really cost $19.28.
When the Giant Claw appeared on screen, the audience broke out in laughter at the comical creature.
Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday appear to be horrified by the goofy-looking model of the Giant Claw.
When the Giant Claw appeared on screen, the audience broke out in laughter at the comical creature.
Why?
Hilariously this was on television last night. How does this happen? Ive never seen it before. The creature model/puppet may have been silly looking but it was surprisingly articulate! Afterwards I saw Reptilicus, that was worse!
An enterprising person took clips from "The Giant Claw" and turned them into a rock video for the B-52's song "Big Bird." It's pretty much the whole movie condensed down into 5 minutes. The video quality is a little rough, but watchable. And the bird itself is, of course, amazing.
B52s Big Bird:
Not that it's needed, but I wonder if Tim Burton has thought about remaking this?
An enterprising person took clips from "The Giant Claw" and turned them into a rock video for the B-52's song "Big Bird." It's pretty much the whole movie condensed down into 5 minutes. The video quality is a little rough, but watchable. And the bird itself is, of course, amazing.
