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Fare thee well, Jan Hooks.

>>41122
I'm not surprised, IIRC he was a dancer for Michael Jackson back in the day. Dude has some serious chops.

If the new Ghostbusters film is gonna be a total reboot, why even use the franchise and not do an original, possibly more interesting film?

>>41125
Market value.
What do you think audiences would rather see?

a) Ghostbusters Reboot?
or
2) Movie you've never heard of.

>>41121
It could work.

//youtube.com/watch?v=P02QmncDOzM

>powers, powers, powers
>fuck, fuck, fuck
>muh fucking powers

This looks dumb. Are the comics any good?

>>41129
>This looks dumb.
Honestly, I think the idea of a universe where superpowers are commonplace and acknowledged by the general public, but instead of being a superhero story the story is a mundane police procedural about the people who have to deal with these supers, is pretty compelling. I haven't read the comics, so I can't comment to the quality of the execution, but the idea itself is pretty solid. What is the part you think is dumb about it?

>>41130
I don't have a problem with the concept; only with the show itself. The trailer just looks run-of-the-mill. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

>>41131
Yeah, the trailer seems fairly bland for the setup.

Reminds me of an old fiction idea, where vast nuclear destruction cut off the Earth from the colonized Moon/Mars and, a thousand years later, the radiation and whatnot had calmed down enough for a survey team. The ship has problems going through the radiation cloud, crashes, and the only survivor finds a world where pretty much everyone has some kind of super power. There's rampant powerism, and the rare ones born without powers are outcasts.

>>41125

http://www.themarysue.com/gillian-anderson-reddit-ama/#comment-1635128534

Scully wants in. But really make it a sequel of those taking up the mantel in a time of need or something. Because I really don't want to to be judged going head to head with the Original.

Because Anderson launching into Egon Speak, I love that image.

Has there ever been a movie "universe" like what Marvel is doing? There have been various movies that have had a number of sequels and remakes, plus some offshoots, and some movies (like prior DC characters) come from a shared universe but do not reference each other, but I don't know that there are large sets of interconnected movies like Marvel's.

Assassin's Creed is the only gaming series I can think of that would match, too; it's had sequels and side-stories, all of which are in the same universe. Other long-running games with many entries, like Call of Duty, rarely reference other entries in the series so far as I'm aware. The Legend of Zelda games will share the same themes/items for the most part (Link, Zelda, Triforce, Master Sword) but only reference each other obscurely for the most part.

>>41136
Universal is working towards their own cinematic universe centered around the classic monsters, of which Dracula Untold is the first step.

>>41137
Right, but I meant prior to Marvel doing it.

>>41136
>Has there ever been a movie "universe" like what Marvel is doing? There have been various movies that have had a number of sequels and remakes, plus some offshoots, and some movies (like prior DC characters) come from a shared universe but do not reference each other, but I don't know that there are large sets of interconnected movies like Marvel's.

Kevin Smith's movies. Although that was almost certainly inspired by comics as well.

>>41138
Freddy vs Jason might have built up to something had they kept the original ending with Pinhead, but other than the collective works of Kevin Smith and occasional novelty crossovers like Alien vs Predator, shared universes were virtually unheard of in movies. Now even outside of the superhero subgenre, we've got projects on the way like Universal's monster-verse, Warner Bros. expanding on the Harry Potter movie-verse with an adaptation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Sony is discussing the possibility of a cinematic universe based on Robin Hood.

Assassin's Creed would definitely fit the mold well, but I'd hope that such movies would be original stories and not just adaptations of the games.

>>41141
Isn't his actor dead though? I guess Agent Cooper could just sub in for it the whole time instead.

>>41143
Nope if talking about agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan). He's popping up in Agents of SHIELD

>>41143
If you mean BOB I don't think it really matters. The nature of said character makes it the easiest to find a replacement actor with easy in-universe justification.

http://alexstarofstarwars.tumblr.com/

Some people just can't handle change.

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2014/03/07/the-rapture-break-up-dont-tell-anyone/
Oh, damn it!

>>41154
Oh wow, my sides. At least this baby reaction cheered me up a little.

//youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI

>>41219
Literally who is that guy and why do people pretend he's important.

>>41225

He's the head honcho of the Toonami team.

>>41226
Oh.

All I knew him as was "That guy that said the FANS were to blame because of Nick's treatment of Korra"
Interesting view coming from him.

>>41231

Movies should just stop going to EW for press because HOLY SHIT their "brand" of marketing sucks ass.

>>41231

Also: the new Terminator film is going to suck so hard (and hopefully bomb so hard) that it should be a good reminder of why the franchise needs to stay dead.

>>41231
This might be the greatest mystery of the year: How did this get approved. Who looked at all of these and said, "Yeah, that looks good. ...No, there's no need to change anything, why?"

>>41235

These are the first promotional materials for a film intended to revive a flagging (if not dead-in-the-water) franchise. This was the first look that the studio wanted people to have of this new Terminator film.

Some idiot in marketing is probably getting shitcanned tomorrow.

You're Next is a pretty good movie.

>>41231
To be fair, Khaleesi and Foothead have an infamous tendency to look absolutely ridiculous at the worst times in all their previous stuff.

//youtube.com/watch?v=2dqGLhW3VVA

>>41231
I'd LOVE to think they're both panicking and have no idea how to use guns are are just left screaming
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
at eachother.

>>41235
I think its because of some new contract deal.
I haven't been following the news but its either
a) Its the same studio that started the franchise but they have to keep making films in order to keep the property (something they would clearly just doing as a middle-of-the-checklist chore) or
2) A small(er) independent studio has recently bought out the film rights for Terminator and have no idea how to do a tentpole and they're just letting a few writers make their collective fanfic.

Hmm, so Cumberbatch is engaged now. Congrats to him, but time for me to be rolling around in delusional fangirl tears.

>>41260
He didn't get engaged to Martin and so they'll go nuts. Ah Holmes and Watson. Few ships as old as that one.

>>41261
He already has a partner and for all their problems I like to think the Sherlockfags are still less crazy than Supernatural fangirls.

Too Many Cooks.

Yeah.

That's the good shit.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/13/dan-harmon-on-community-season-6-and-if-the-move-to-yahoo-will-change-the-series
>Harmon: Yeah, and 20 percent of Community's business is run by Alison Brie GIFs, so there'll be the usual amount of, "Oh! The elevator's working. Oh! The elevator's stopped working. Oh! It's working and not working in rapid succession. But I'm wearing a tube top!" That's the B story; I don't know what to tell you.
He knows.
HE KNOWS

>>41288
Of course he knows. The dude is clearly on the internet plenty.

I loved John Oliver at first, but his show is getting really repetitive. He explains an issue, does something wacky at the end with a celebrity guest star, and inbetween he always says some variation of "X is like Y: Sure, blah blah blah, but then, blah blah."

Sons of Anarchy ends soon, and I'll no longer have a reason to go to /tv/. One or two threads per week where nobody is being an asshole to anyone else are soon to vanish.

//youtube.com/watch?v=uuWQyfGa1yI

>>41311

It’s just a movie, you should…no wait that actually is a good question WTF people.

>>41311
>>41312
Because, as they proved with their attempt to catch dinosaurs and put them on display in an amphitheater in The Lost World, InGen didn't learn a damn thing from the first time this failed.

Full Jurassic World trailer

//youtube.com/watch?v=RFinNxS5KN4

>>41316
Awwww, Jeff should be there telling them how stupid that whole idea was.

>Carlton won on DWTS
YEAHHHHHHHH
Normally I don't care but I was rooting so hard for them.

>>41318
That's okay, Chris Pratt seems to be filling in like a champ.

Lots of film analysis does so with themes, characters and story, but not as many goes in depth with the film form itself. This youtube channel is great for that.

//youtube.com/watch?v=X05TDsoSg2Y

>>41320
Need a line like "there is spitting in the eye of mother nature, then there is taking a dump right in her cereal bowl. Guess which you've done."

You know, at first I thought "what the hell, trained Velociraptors", but considering that in-universe those dudes seem to be at least as smart as a dog, and the park has been sucessfuly operating for a while, it kinda makes sense.

>>41323
Sure, but it's like training a lion or any other wild animals. No matter how well you train them, wild animals can easily turn on you with little provocation. It takes generations of breeding to get domesticated breeds. Hopefully the story will contextualize the motorcycle ride with the raptors adequately so it makes sense.

Honestly I hope it does, that looks great.

>>41330

Raptor Squad—coming this fall to SyFy.

>>41334
They don't have ENOUGH to tell you shit.

>>41334
Heh that Great Saber

//youtube.com/watch?v=BJgLa3eKMYs

>>41351

Seriously, Boyega deserves that starring role, goddammit.

Mother. Fucking. ALLOW IT.

>>41351
>>41353
Never saw Attack the Block, what was he like?

>>41354
Cool as a cucumber and a badass motherfucker. He acts as a father figure to a gang of yoofs and really sells his character arc when he realises his actions have consequences.

>>41354
A REALLY SOLID CHARACTER, You should REALLY just watch Attack The Block, but don't go in expecting to like the characters immediately, there is a lot character arcs in the film.

>>41356

I went in without any expectations about the characters or the overall story—I knew the general details, but that was it—and was blown away by how good the movie was on every level. Boyega’s performance in particular is astonishing; he portrays a complicated character with tons of nuance and emotion without ever once crossing over into the realm of unbelievability.

>>41349
I honestly haven't seen anybody upset about it beyond initial "I thought they were all clones?" confusion. If anything it's the people complaining about complainers who seem to be blowing things out of proportion.

//youtube.com/watch?v=PJJBZHkcALE

Oh boy.

>>41363
Well, slap my ass and call me Betty, but that trailer didn't suck. Actually, it made me mildly interested in the movie.

>>41365
Interesting play on the time travel game, Old Man Arnold been around for a very long time this round. Ah the sliding timescale of Judgement Day.

>>41363
That... actually got me kind of hyped. Like, it looks way more fun than Salvation did.

Also "We can prevent Judgement Day"- No, you can't. You can just paradox your paradox into a new paradox, this is how Terminator works.

>>41373
That's part of what I find fun, is that they don't prevent it just change the rules and give Humanity a better edge each time they trigger a change in the timeline. I wonder if its the same Skynet or its got some kinda Quantum Entanglement programming so that it knows about the changes in the time line.

>Robert Orci off Star Trek 3
>Edgar Wright rumored to direct

Where were you when Star Trek 3 was saved?

http://deadline.com/2014/12/star-trek-roberto-orci-1201311255/

>>41387

Oh thank God, we’re spared another Truther Trek.

Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy

This is the good shit. This is the kind of video that helps you appreciate movies—and filmmaking—on a whole new level.

Also: Jackie Chan is fucking great.

>>41389
I've never seen Into Darkness. How did Orci's Trooferism shine through?

If you count Galaxy Quest as "Star Trek X", I suppose this would preserve the Star Trek movies' "even-odd" rule.

>>41393

His brand of Trutherism is all about ‘the gubmint did 9-11 to set up the second Iraq war’, so his bullshit manifested with ST:ID via the Federation waking Khan from suspended animation to develop weapons for a war against the Klingons, which Khan tried to start by disabling the Enterprise’s warp core so the Klingons would destroy the Enterprise and give the Federation a perfect excuse for war.

>>41393
>If you count Galaxy Quest as "Star Trek X"

You should, because it's the best Star Trek movie.

>>41398

Excuse me I need to go vomit.

>>41398
Why so try hard Paramount?

http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-hack-amy-pascal-e-mails-1201318234/

I can understand the joy the public and news writers are having with the email exchanges, but considering the purpose of these leaks was to terrorize the people at Sony, I don't feel good about joining in on the ridicule.

>>41415
If it gets Spidy back to Marvel that I'm down of it.
Yes, I am that petty about it...

>>41447
Maybe it's because I'm so used to the Raimi films already but I'm fine with Spider-Man being off in his own little sub-verse with only rare crossover with the rest of the Marvel universe. Appearances in the Avengers and other super-crossover events, but nothing as big as what happened in Cap 2 where Black Widow showed up and SHIELD was a big part of the plot.

>>41448
It makes sense for him. He doesn't like to get involved in the big stuff anyway.

>that Smaug interview on Colbert
Cumberbatch is a pretty cool guy even if he has a face like moldy bread.

Wow, that Amy Pascal sure is choking on her own dirt.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-newsrooms-ill-timed-campus-rape-episode-is-its-worst-ever-20141208

Newsroom going full shit with its final shitty season.

>>41458
Surprising absolutely no one. Sorkin is a hack.

Y’know, if [adult swim] ever wanted to stop producing comedy stuff, they could easily swerve into producing horror.

Unedited Footage of a Bear was some legitimately unnerving shit and it’s likely to go as viral as Too Many Cooks if [as] will let it.

>>41473
Yeah, but he's a hack that has flashes of brilliance. Sports Night was legitimately good, for example.

>>41476

I’m with you there. Hallelujah, amen, and pass the soda.

>>41476
Even without the whole racial controversy that movie was shaping up to be shit anyway. I'm not surprised, though I still get a bit of schadenfreude out of it. Hopefully that'll teach Hollywood whitewashing doesn't mean squat for financial success.

>>41478

Judging from various reviews I’ve read, the film did more to make the Egyptians seem sympathetic (rather than making the people they enslaved sympathetic, which you think would be the damn point) and barely concentrated on Moses’ connection to his people. It’s as if the studio wanted a movie based around the Plagues and the Parting of the Red Sea, but didn’t want to go through the trouble of making it a good movie (likely under the logic of ‘the Biblethumpers will eat up any ol’ crap we toss ’em so long as it’s based on the Bible’).

No amount of quality acting, good directing, big-budget special effects, or even whitewashing can save a shitty script. Marketing can disguise a movie with a shit script (look at Twilight), but it can only do so for as long as people can’t actually watch the movie.

>>41476
And with those numbers, they probably pulled the ad money, too.
GFY, Riddly Diddly Squat.

>>41474
//youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8

http://www.adultswim.com/promotions/claridryl/

It would appear they're making this a thing.

>>41489

FUCK THAT SILVER MONKEY.

>>41492
It seems so simple, doesn't it? It's only three distinct pieces, how hard could it be?

But consider that these kids are probably tired after going through the rest of the show, under intense time pressure (they only have three minutes to do this and the shrine is near the end of the temple), nervous about running into a temple guard, and have both the audience and Kirk Fogg shouting at them. On top of all this, the temple was designed and tested by adults with no consideration for the height of the short preteen participants. More often then not they'd have to jump just to reach the pieces of the statue. The Jester's Court had a similar problem, where the kids couldn't accurately match the poses on the wall because they were just too small.

>>41493

I love shit like that. Game shows that were fucked up by that difference. Designed for kids but not tested by kids. And someone saying that looking back on most of them. Yea the size difference hammered many a run. I say Nick Arcade also had a similar problem with the senors being too high for all but the taller kids. And Double Dare and their damned flags.

And as for Legends we've got on top of size. Temple Guards that screw up or take too long.

Welp, so Sony cancelled The Interview because all the theaters wussed out. Goddamnit, all this does is embolden Worst Korea. Stop giving into their demands, they're not worth our fear.

>>41495
Were the threats ever even credible? I mean the hacking was kinda bad but they can't fire missiles properly on their own turf, let alone carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

>>41496
But anon.. Kaz Hirai lives in Japan..

//youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/team-america-world-police-replaces-the-interview-at-dallas-theater-1201382348/

This is one of those rare times where I'm proud to be a Texan.

>>41500
It's a much better movie anyway.

>>41500

Yeah, about that…

http://gizmodo.com/movie-theaters-cant-even-show-team-america-now-because-1672828807

>>41499
Doesn't matter, North Korea isn't worth taking seriously anyway and all we're doing by self-censoring to avoid offending them is make them feel more confident to try for something worse.

>>41503
I'm facepalming through my skull right now.

>>41505

You ain’t the only one.

>>41502

I do wonder if he'll do well on the Late Show, it's a different setting than satire cable news conservative commentary.

>>41507

He’ll be retiring his Colbert Report character with the finalé, so who knows.

>>41507
He's got the skills to be personable, and I read somewhere that his more recent years of interviews he's given up on playing his character so aggressively. My main worry is the caliber of the guests he'll be interviewing. Before it used to be mostly political figures and intellectuals, now it's going to be almost all vapid celebrities.

>>41499
Yeah but the only reason Sony even caved in is because of American theaters being too cowardly. That or they're just this butthurt over the leaks which is even worse.

>>41509

yea that's a main concern is that they wont' be engaging him on that higher level and that he'll get bored with talking to them about new premiers or what they did that weekend.

>>41509
I would hope that he would at least have some level of booking control and maybe could continue to have people plugging books a few nights a week.

>>41509
Additionally: While Colbertterman seems like a pretty known property, given the fairly set-in-stone format of the late night talk show (they are all basically the same show with a different set of guys) Larry Wilmore's Report replacement show is something that I can't even fathom. If they play off of his role on the Daily Show, it could easily get too preachy, because his TDS bits are basically Blacksplaining the News, and that could easily alienate people if it's the majority of the show. Colbert's parody of blowhard Fox talking heads played more broadly than "Black Man is Unhappy with News"

>>41513
I honestly didn't like Larry Wilmore very much when he was on the Daily Show. Wyatt Cenac is a much better comedian all-around.

Should have been Jessica Williams.

>>41515
So every punchline on the show could have been shouted? Well... I guess that would have kept the Colbert format more or less unchanged.

//youtube.com/watch?v=wUy1-JakJtE

I think Larry Fillmore is fine and have high hopes for the show.

>>41523
Bad enough with the whitewashing but god damn that outfit is just atrocious.

//youtube.com/watch?v=9xKBc7CVLvE

Rich Evans is a national treasure.

I've got HBO for the next couple months, and the first thing I watched was True Detective, partly because I was fascinated by the Two Best Friends' description of it it as a detective show in Plague of Gripes's back yard. I love when shows have less conventional settings, and it totally pulls it off. My god, this atmosphere.

Between this, Fargo, and Over the Garden Wall, I can say it's been a very good year for miniseries/shows based on single season story arcs.

Sure was nice of Benedict Cumberbatch to go on Colbert to promote a movie he wasn't even in.

http://expo.bandcamp.com/album/unexplained-phenomena

>>41543

Per Badass Digest (which seems to be experiencing traffic issues right now), the Alamo Drafthouse will definitely screen the film.

You know the really hilarious thing about this? This movie was probably going to suck. Now a lot of people are going to go see it who wouldn't have, just to say "Suck it!" to Kim Jong Il.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I don't think Sony could've successfully engineered a "false flag" or whatever if they had tried. And the amount of damage the leaks are doing to their reputation in other areas is way too much to pay for making a shitty movie successful, so I don't think they would have wanted to try it, either. But nevertheless, this is probably going to have ended up being one of the most successful advertising campaigns ever.

http://io9.com/top-10-harshest-lessons-that-2014-has-taught-the-entert-1674581807

All of these are good points, but #1 is an especially important point.

>>41546
It's a Seth Rogen/James Franco movie, it was always going to make bank.

YouTube will allow movie rentals of The Interview too.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/23/media/the-interview-theaters/index.html?sr=twmoney122414interview1030story

>>41553
Maybe finally get back to the digital distribution ideas they had back in the mid '00s when Theaters weren't having that many big hits.

>>41554
It'll seriously damage the cinema industry if Hollywood starts doing it regularly, I imagine. Probably as bad as the Newspaper industry has been injured. I don't know if cinemas will ever stop existing entirely, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets to the point where you only really have them in big-ish cities with a population that can support them, and if they start focusing on movies as events rather than focusing on new releases. Like movie marathons and midnight showings of Rocky Horror and shit like that.

>>41555
Well Netflix is using this to their advantage to press for their idea of Digital Releases again. They've already got a decent slate of movies on the way made for them.

>>41555

>It'll seriously damage the cinema industry if Hollywood starts doing it regularly, I imagine.

Piracy is supposedly the biggest issue facing the box office today, yet Hollywood regularly banks billions of dollars ever year at the global box office. The problem isn’t piracy or day-and-date theatrical/VOD releases, it's cinemas not doing enough to make the experience worth the expense. (Well, that, and Hollywood cranking out shit movies nobody wants to go see in theaters or VOD.)

Until there is actual hard evidence that day-and-date theatrical/VOD releases would hurt a film’s box office take, there is no reason to shit all over the idea other than ‘that’s how it’s always been done’. That kind of thinking is what almost led to the VCR becoming outlawed: the MPAA was frightened as fuck of the technology and didn’t want to deal with the disruption to the cinema-side business (until home video sales started outgrossing box office take, anyway).

Release windows are ridiculous. There is virtually no reason for them to exist other than ‘that’s how it’s always been done’. I can understand international release windows and all, but here in the States, I can’t think of a single reason why a film can’t open in theaters and home video/VOD simultaneously. The people who want to go see a big tentpole such as Avengers 2 in a theater will go see it in a theater, regardless of whether they could rent it from YouTube or whatever.

>>41561
The majority of movies *aren't* major tent-pole movies. Do you really think a movie like, say, Dumb and Dumber 2, is going to get a bigger cinema presence than its home presence? It's the sort of movie that people would much rather stay home and watch with friends over a bowl of weed than watch quietly in a dark theater with over a bowl of popcorn.

I think it will *help* the film industry, but I am also pretty damned sure it will hurt the cinemas themselves. Only a few blockbuster movies come out per year, and most of those come out in the summer--that's not really enough to sustain a cinema through Spring, Winter, and Fall when they're pumping out comedies and children's movies which, while great, are not really helped any by going to the theater to see.

>>41562
> I am also pretty damned sure it will hurt the cinemas themselves.
Theaters just don't offer much vs. a home experience. You can get a 50" TV for $500, or about the cost of a couple watching 21 movies (non-3D, $12/person). A meh sound system would be $100-$200, or another 5-9 showings. You get no babies unless they're your own, no teenagers yammering, phone calls unless it's for you, you can pause the movie to go pee, the seating is the way you want it. As for food, it's not overpriced and you get all the variety you want.

Perhaps for a low-mid or upper-low family that only watches one or two movies a year wouldn't fall into this, but that's increasingly rare, I think. The only thing the theaters have going for them is artificial scarcity (well, when the viewer is a "law-abiding" citizen). The moment an exec figures out they can make oodles of money by just releasing the movies on basically everything at once (so that people can use the service of their choice, and thus are more likely to partake) theaters will die a sudden and gruesome death.

>>41562

History is littered with examples of technologies going the way of the dodo because something disrupted industries and made the old tech obsolete.

Why should cinemas be exempt from the same fate?

>>41563

Execs might also realize they can save money on marketing by running a single campaign at one time instead of running several campaigns over the course of a movie's run from theaters to home video/VOD.

Critics are being pretty scathing to the movie so far from the sound of things.

>>41565

The Interview? Yeah, I’m not really surprised. Really, most of the press about the film pre-release was about the Sony hack/threat bullshit and North Korea’s possible response to the film. (On the latter note: it’s a good time to remember than North Korea is no joke - https://np.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/2q4ofq/sony_the_interview_whats_your_take/cn2x3j7?context=3)

Really, I don’t even give a shit if the movie’s good, I’m just happy it got released (rah rah free speech and all that jazz, don’t mean I gotta go watch it). Though it does make you wonder what compelled them to make a movie about North Korea instead of just some fictional dictator or whatever.

>>41566
Same reason as Team America probably.

>>41566
>Though it does make you wonder what compelled them to make a movie about North Korea instead of just some fictional dictator or whatever.

Seth Rogen mentioned this on his Colbert interview: they thought about changing it to a fictional stand-in, then thought "Whose feeling are we trying to spare here?"

http://badassdigest.com/2014/12/30/paul-feig-defends-the-idea-of-rebooting-ghostbusters/

Fuck.

>>41576
And in that missing the point of the whole thing. I think its quite reasonable in a sequel for them to be regulated much to the same position as they were in XGB.

No longer needed and therefore forgotten until they are needed once more. Have the reasoning why be that Ghosts are something we are conditioned not to believe in or think about so even three generations later things have gone back to "normal" as people once more close themselves off to the fantastic and even things as the StayPuft Marshmallow Man and Walking Liberty along with maybe a few RGB events become more folklore and urban legends.

Sequel Builds upon that lore and goes back to understanding why the Ghostbusters matter and will be needed at some point even if they aren't now.

A reboot misses the whole damn point and just won't work.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ES0Q5p4QF-8

I could do without the auto-tune, but not bad overall.

http://www.moviecastingcall.org/

Official casting call for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’, Ant-man and other Disney Movies.
Neat stuff.

>>41583
Wait isn't Ant-Man coming out in less than one year? They're still doing casting calls for it?

>>41583
>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

After On Stranger Tides, I'm feeling burned out on Jack Sparrow, especially as a main character. He was much better in a supporting role.

>People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/130163-matthew-vaugn-says-people-have-had-enough-of-chris-nolans-superhero-style.html

About time someone tell it the way it is!

>>41586
Except Green Lantern was kinda like that and it did shit. The reason Man of Steel sucks has more to do with Zack Snyder being a shitty director and the fact that Superman is especially incompatible for that kind of movie style than with trying to ape Nolan's works. Besides, it's not like the latest Captain America film wasn't gritty what with characters threatening to execute people at point blank, talk of shallow graves, and guys getting pureed onscreen.

>>41587
Green Lantern was not ANYTHING like that, it was just fucking terrible.

Am I the only one who doesn't see what the big deal is with GotG? It's not that I outright disliked it but it wasn't nearly as funny or entertaining as everybody made it out to be. Never expected much out of Ronan because Lee Pace was already terrible in The Hobbit, but Nebula was underwhelming too, and everything involving Gamora and Quill was just cringeworthy. Loved Rocket, Groot, and Yondu though.

>>41589
>Never expected much out of Ronan because Lee Pace was already terrible in The Hobbit,
Your first thought when you see Lee Pace should always be "The Piemaker."

>>41589
>>41590
Biggest flaw the Marvel Studios films have is that their villains--outside of Loki--are very forgettable.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Loki-Good-Villain-Marvel-Movies-Big-Problem-40217.html

>>41591
Nah, the ones in Winter Soldier were pretty fucking great too. Pierce, Zola, Rumlow, technically Bucky were all really memorable and Rumlow is still around so he might be coming back for another film even if he isn't final boss material.

>Person of Interest

Oof, so an episode without Shaw till she shows back up in the last bit of this trilogy. And Root runs to her and gets swept up in a big swoopy kiss

>>41591

Dunno, I liked the Red Skull as a villain. Can't go wrong with Hugo Weaving.

>>41599
Agreed, though the last third of that movie was really weak and his character suffered the most for it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/9987-Taken-3

Best review disclaimer ever.

Season 3 of The Mindy Project makes the first two seasons look really bad.

So there will probably be at least a dozen fan-edits of the Hobbit trilogy into a single film. I just hope at least one of the people doing so has some skill in editing.

Not exactly a new development, but it's one that's not talked about enough.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/09/screenwriters-heavy-handed-script-editing-pushing-talent-out-of-film

>Jeffrey Caine, William Nicholson and Steven Knight – whose acclaimed screenplays include those for The Constant Gardener, Gladiator and Dirty Pretty Things respectively – told the Observer that writers were often sacked without warning from the studios and would then discover that their original work has been altered beyond recognition by a production line of writers.

>Caine said that studio executives, directors or actors who “ride roughshod” over film scripts can leave writers feeling embarrassed when their names appear in the credits. Writers often find themselves blamed for excruciating dialogue they never wrote, he said, adding: “I have seen lines of dialogue in films with my name on them that I wouldn’t have written under torture.”

http://namebrandlindsay.com/2015/01/10/farewell-channel-awesome-and-a-pre-emptive-faq/
Farewell Ms. Ellis. You shall be missed. (?)

http://www.avclub.com/article/nbc-developing-magical-martial-arts-drama-213692


An interesting turn for things. So Super Heroes and Magical Fighters taking up most the networks in the coming years. Sounds interesting.

>>41628
>based off Journey to the West
Cool, those stories were basically my childhood. Hope they have the decency to cast Asian actors though. It's TV so I'd guess actor bankability is less prioritized. Also it had better be better than Enslaved.

>>41625
I say she will.
She was honestly my favourite producer on the site.

>>41625
>>41645
https://twitter.com/gookygox/status/554816106196516865
It seems she isn't the only open leaving.
Oh wow, it's an Armageddon out there!

//youtube.com/watch?v=-NOT-Kx5mKo

>>41694
While I would love to see a major movie franchise showing dinosaurs that actually look right, Jurassic Park is sort of screwed both ways. If they make feathery dinosaurs, the JP fans are going to be upset about the dinosaurs not looking like they used to, and if they make scaley dinosaurs, the people who care about dinosaur history are going to be annoyed.

>>41706
Would a joke about the feather gene being hard to get working fix it?

>>41706
A thin coating of downey feathers wouldn't be too bad. They don't have to be decked in plumage, just some stuff on the wings and they can explain the intermediacy as genetic wonks and replacement amphibious DNA.

Is the new Larry Wilmore show any good?

>>41710
It doesn't start until tonight.

>>41710
The preview skits WERE FUCKING TERRIBLE, but none of them were Wilmore's so we'll see.

>>41710
I hated him on The Daily Show but if he gets good writers it might not be so bad.

>>41713
I don't know how much he's going to need writers- He seems to have set up his show to be a kind of black Bill Maher.

http://www.themarysue.com/simon-pegg-star-trek/

Interesting. Disappointed Edgar Wright won't direct, like he was rumored to do, but anyone is a step up from Orci.

>>41729
The movies largely excise the camp, but the good ones maintain the sense of fun and camaraderie the series had. Rule of thumb is: even-numbered movies great, odd-numbered movies terrible (except Star Trek III, which actually ain't that bad).

Everyone loves Wrath of Khan, but my favourite TOS movie is actually The Undiscovered Country with all the political allusions to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's basically The Manchurian Candidate IN SPAAACE, which tickled an itch growing up.

I always wonder how Netflix is supposed to profit for anyone involved, but when a month goes by without me really watching anything, I suppose that happens enough across everyone to work out.
I'm working on X-Files right now.
I remember kind of liking that when it was on, but only remember the genie and Mulder disappearing.

>>41748
Yea enough people take to binge watching a season after its over and that is when Netflix shines. Especially with shorter series.

//youtube.com/watch?v=lyy7y0QOK-0
Okay, everyone who though this was a Short-circuit reboot when they first saw the trailer raise your hand.
Yeah me too.

>>41752
It pretty much is but with that District 9 bent to it which will be about South African problems or something.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ghostbusters-female-cast-taking-shape-at-sony-1201415358/

I really wish it wasn't a reboot. Kills all hope right there.

>>41764
You'd like it to be more of a sequel, then?

>>41765
I would. Enough time has passed since the original that it would make plenty of sense for there to be a passing of the torch, plus it builds upon an established universe without having to restart/retread old ground, or in an attempt to stand more on its own it risks altering the lore to the point it's in name only. If they're going to go the latter route then it should've been an original IP, not a Ghostbusters film.

>>41766
Yea it building on Egon passing and then the rest just drifting apart again it could really work. As a reboot we already know all the beats and they won't be as good because they'll play it up as a comedy in the modern sense. Lots of swearing and toilet humor. I don't want to see that movie.

//youtube.com/watch?v=2rEuie5lpGA

>>41773
that's a really groovy Cyberman

>>41775
Yea because that is the reason it'll fail.

>>41775
I get the point but it could do without the Reddit-esque smugness.

Just going to end up playing Ghostbusters 3, which is what they considered the Vidya Game anyway.

My problem isn't that they are making a Ghostbusters reboot with women.

My problem is that they are making a Ghostbusters reboot.

>>41779
Honestly, the fact that they're making it with all women doesn't really help because it really, really feels like a gimmick.

(And given the last few days? The gimmick seems to be 'cast all women so anyone criticizing the movie can be labeled as sexist')

>>41780

Psych put it best when they need a remake.

>"The whole point of a remake is to choose something that showed serious promise, but failed to live up to expectations,"

And that is why Robocop remake failed it as the original was well done, memorable scenes and highly quotable. Same with Ghostbusters.

And its the key reason you don't remake classics and especially ones that have become a cultural staple.


http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/ghostbusters-making-of

Really reading some of the history of how the first film came about shows how much a mistake this is.

>>41780
And with Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy on top of that. Don't get me wrong, I loved Bridesmaids both for feminist reasons and because it was just genuinely really funny. But in this case? It sounds like Feig just wants to do Bridesmaids 2 in a Ghostbusters skin, in the same way that the much-derided Fantastic Four reboot looks like Trank trying to do Chronicle 2 in a Fantastic Four skin. Rather than make it a reboot that looks like it could easily shit all over the legacy of the original films he should've just let it be a distant sequel (the time lets him get away with stuff) or a spiritual successor without having to use the Ghostbusters name directly.

>>41780
Such as? I mean, I don't disagree that it comes off as gimmicky in this instance, and that quite a few people are legit throwing around the whole "the only reason you don't like it is because you're a sexist" canard, in the same way that racism is the only reason people are put off by the FF reboot, but it's rare enough to even see female leads being cast for non-romcom films, let alone being stuntcast.

money on the suits being more like OP than the baggy jumpsuits.

>>41784
>Melissa McCarthy
No offense meant towards her, but yeah, it ain't happening.

>>41785
Well yea she's the fat joke the exception that will have to use the jumpsuit and make her an "individual" or some nonsense.

>>41786
Her movies are usually pretty good about avoiding that kind of punchline, including Bridesmaids. But the baggy jumpsuits are pretty iconic. For the film to go so low as to throw them away without justification would be fucking heretical and kill any hope I have for the movie doing the series any justice.

I worry the film missing the point that they are the janitors that clean up the paranormal. Celebrated but then forgotten fast enough till they are needed again.

This is getting a little presumptuous isn't it? Like if we had a trailer or a script I could get worries but we aren't there yet.

>>41789
Honestly, I was pretty much as worried when the rumour was it was going to star Seth Rogen.

I'm just kind of pessimistic about the entire thing, after GB3 failed to launch like 15 years ago when Aykroyd really started stumping for it initially.
There's a long enough history of otherwise competent filmmakers remaking a beloved older film into something mediocre or outright bad that some trepidation is warranted.

>>41789
It's a remake/reboot. Statistically speaking, can you really say there is no reason to be worried?

One of the reasons reboots always suck is that they destroy the characters or setting by trying to make them something different so my way of looking at it is this:

The setting is modern day making it different from the 1980s and giving it room to be vastly updated and different in it's technology and world building.

The characters are all original.

So it is a reboot of the concept of Ghostbusters rather than the film universe itself, funny enough that is truer to the spirit of Ghostbusters than if you tried to recast the characters.

By all accounts it should be a new hope for returning reboots to what they should be, reinventions using the concept of an existing franchise that isn't really viable anymore.

That said, no I can't blame you for your apprehensions but I feel there is a little more hope this kind of reboot because it's trying to do something new from something old rather than ruin what was good by not understanding what made it good like in 99% of reboots.

>>41793

>reinventions using the concept of an existing franchise that isn't really viable anymore

Keep in mind that some franchises aren't viable even with the reinventions (lookin’ at you, Terminator).

>>41794
Better to reinvent while passing the torch. Doing it as this is being Peter, Ray, Egon and Winston but as women. Ehhh.

Much as the title is cringing eXtreme Ghostbusters did do a fair job at passing the torch. Both showing the old tech was out of date and in need of an upgrade and also that the old team had just moved on and that Egon couldn't handle it anymore. This is going to get the same complaints as MoS got from critics because trying to recapture the magic of the first movie just won't work.

Its why so many were burned out on the second '09 Trek movie. Tried to ape too much from a good movie instead of being its own thing and then what it took it didn't do very well.

>>41793
I'll concede that you have a point. I mean, I never dared to even consider that yet another Planet of the Apes reboot could be good, and yet those movies are among my favorites in recent times.

>>41816
>I have been marathoning Alejandro Jodorowsky

Since when that's a good idea, Tiki?