/mtv/ - Music, Television & Film

Also reportedly found dead today/late yesterday: Joanie Laurer, better known to the world as professional wrestler Chyna.

This year fucking blows.

RULE OF 3
Who's next.

Well Merle Haggard went earlier this month. Music and Wrestling, what the heck is going on?

>>45928

Yeah, ECW “original” Balls Mahoney died earlier this month, too.

So are they just going to remake all their movies into live action now? I'm really curious to see how they'll do Mulan and everything, and how much the fuckup influence the Chinese government is going to have on it.

>>45960
Live Action Lion King be cool. Could really dial up the Shakespeare.

Damn, Papa Wemba just died too.

Jungle Book was good, although I got to say, while you can make Baloo singing Bare Necessities work, you can't try to have Louie come off as serious and then abruptly break into I Wanna Be Like You, that's just jarring.

>>45989
The song actually has a very sinister meaning going on that scene, didn't feel out of place for me.

>>45990
It just comes off as musical-y after they went to great lengths to make Bear Necessities come off naturally. To the point where when Mowgli and Baloo sing it together they are tripping over each other cacaphonously like two buds singing together would instead of perfectly harmonizing with each other like a musical number

>>46001
This. I thought they pulled Bear Necessities off very nicely. Be Like You was awkward as hell.

>>46001
>>46002
Again, pretty sure that was the point, in that scene King Louie is an evil asshole awkwardly pretending to be friendly and nice to a kid he despises. The reprisal during the crefits is much more natural and silly like in the animated movie.

>>46003
No, as in
metatextually awkward.

>>46010
In what sense? Sorry, not following.

>>46012
Just in the sense I, personally, found it to be inserted for the sake of insertion instead of actually used for plot purposes.

I seem to be in the minority, now that I've talked to a few friends about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/business/media/letting-stephen-colbert-be-stephen-colbert-whoever-that-is.html?_r=0

So Tonight Show to become more Colbert without the satire? Lets see if that plays to a network audience.

Maybe its what they wanted but haven't gotten.

Cineplex pre show can be so silly sometimes.
"Ratchet and Clank are a pair of unlikely heroes! Here's a montage of unlikely heroes from movies!"
And then it's mostly okay, but Man of Steel is in there too.
Because everyone knows Superman is the most unlikely hero of them all.

>>46053

They’re kinda right about MoS!Superman, though.

https://youtu.be/iOBXuCYB4jQ

What the fuck.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-wont-host-a-nancy-drew-series-because-its-too-female-2016-5

I just like watching this unfold. Also puts shuffling Supergirl off to another network in perspective possibly.

I'd liked to have seen Hardbolid Drew.

It's a tight race between Ghostbusters and DCEU fans for most whiniest fanbase.

>>46187
I kind of fell like the internet would be a way better place if we got rid of all the nerds.

>>46188
Why would you have such negative implications when talking about yourself?

>>46200
If you're going to attempt to "zing" someone, you really need to work on your delivery.

>>46201
He is right, though. Not too long ago *WE* were the nerds.

if you still post here, you're a fucking nerd.

//youtube.com/watch?v=HzWIGFiGrlA

>>46227
Way better than the last one.

>>46263
>As for Karl Urban - he doesn't even ride a bike in the movie, he just asked me to use a picture of him on one for the poster. He emailed me saying "hey i look cool, don't i? put that in" so I did in the little corner there.

I am curious, the bad guy, is he a Jem'Hadar?

>>46266
Possibly if the Beyond is about them getting thrown into the Gamma Quadrant by some force.

https://twitter.com/michaelbay/status/738447177559724033
https://twitter.com/michaelbay/status/738447703152205824
https://twitter.com/michaelbay/status/738448104215695361

Look, you can trash his films all you want, but don’t you dare shittalk him for doing things like this.

>>46319
Its rather nice looking dog. Real happy pup. Maybe he'll make Optimus decide that earth isn't all bad.

>>46319
Isn't that an attempt to gain publicity? He could have done the same thing, but without telling the media.

>>46322

He wants to find the dog a home. He has a huge platform with which he can spread the story of this dog and hopefully find it a home. If he can simultaneously get a little press for his movie...well, what's the harm in that?

>>46323
None, I guess. Just cannot take claims of altruism seriously.

>>46324
Yes it's well established that you are 13.

>>46326
Okay, while that is a good comeback, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
>because you are 13

>>46327
Holy shit. Thought it was a joke or something, until checking other sources.

>>46329
He was admitted into the hospital the other day for respiratory problems. It was only a matter of time.

>>46330

Yea he was suffering for years from Parkinson syndrome so last I heard. Brought on from his boxing career.

>John Boyega in Pacific Rim sequel
Let's hope it doesn't die for the umpteenth time.

Alf died. RIP

>>46355
Yea. Wonder if Netflix still has it available.

https://deadline.com/2016/06/steve-burke-nbcuniversal-revive-shrek-sales-dreamworks-animation-deal-1201772640/

>Comcast hopes to breathe new life into Shrek and crank out as many as four animated movies a year following its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation.

Cute they want to compete with Disney. I mean its not like that is what got Dreamworks in this current state, oh wait.

Also

>Comcast hopes to breathe new life into Shrek.

No, for all that is good in the world. Just no.

Difference between Disney acquisitions and this is that Disney already had a standing with the companies it brought in and setup groups to spearhead their pushes in both cases enhancing what already existed.

All I hear from these guys in this and other articles on this topic is a whole lotta wants but no clear understanding of how to generate that plan for success.

I don't see it working at all as smoothly as they think it will. Regardless that insane notion "We bought it because we could afford it and we've still got plenty of money."

My biggest fear is that they'll destroy what Netflix has worked with Dreamworks to build which is what it sounds like NBC/Universal wants to do. But since its not theirs and they have no want or understanding of streaming and it'll all be destroyed.

Numerous times TV executives in general have been myopic as hell talking about Streaming as if it was just a fad. "They'll come back to us, and we'll be waiting."

People have been cord cutting at increasing numbers for nearly a decade now. Its not going to stop. People don't want to be tethered to a network schedule nor their couch for entertainment.

And from what I've read they still don't get it so I don't think this will go any better.

And in sports

>The company lost about $150 million from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but expects to “make a lot of money in Rio” with the Summer Olympics in August. Indeed, he believes NBC will to beat the record audience from the 2012 London games “because this is a live Olympics.”

>“America for 17 days basically puts other things aside and falls in love with the Olympics,” Burke says.

Yea its not like a virulent outbreak that could take out a number of the teams and will cause the withdraw of some countries could affect coverage. Nah nothing like that.

>More Sequels

http://io9.gizmodo.com/dreamworks-animation-is-seriously-thinking-about-bringi-1782031440

Guessing Minions looks to have peaked for them.

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2016/06/16/macgyvers-shooting-a-new-pilot-with-james-wan-back-directing/

Always very interested to see how this goes. Like watching a Episode 1 "Pilot" and then an Episode one "series."

//youtube.com/watch?v=R0nQccUuokk

I wonder how many beats will remain the same from this trailer into the new production.

//youtube.com/watch?v=n9zy-VQLL9I

I'll forever be fascinated by the fabled horribleness of this film.

//youtube.com/watch?v=outmDIi29Bo

So Rocky Horror remake television event and Lethal Weapon and Exorcist series. Fox is coming up with some odd ideas.

To Note I could see Rocky Horror working as a series. Setup the same but have the Good Doctor regale them with strange tales from their past. Two hour made for TV remake is gonna be odd.

Aww shit, Chekov from the Star Trek movies just died. Wonder how they're going to deal with that.

>>46381
What how?
Link please!

>>46383
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-dead-27/

Wrecked and was trapped between his car and a brick mailbox.

Fuck 2016.

>>46386
Its just been a horrific year and we're just now coming up on July. I know a handful that I worry for. Sir Ian being one high on that list. And if he goes then Sir Patrick goes as well.

>>46386
This was a great year for me so far, so take that back.

Having never watched either the original Star Trek or the movies I don't know who Chekov is, but shit. Dude was only 27. That's terribly young.

>>46385
Keeps telling me I have adblock on, even though I disabled it like they said.

>>46387
>Sir Ian being one high on that list

If there is a list, Kirk Douglas must be on top of it

>>46391
>99 Years

Indeed.

Just came back from watching The Conjuring 2. It wasn't as subtle with its daemons as the first (or as much as I can recall the first being subtle), but still worth the price of admition. Surprisingly good children actors and top-notch clothing and other setting props n background stuff.

https://deadline.com/2016/06/hotel-transylvania-3-emoji-movie-ghostbusters-sony-animation-1201775965/

>Director Genndy Tartakovsky (DEXTER’S LABORATORY, STAR WARS: CLONE WARS), who returns to helm this brand new adventure, says, “I thought I was done exploring the world of HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA after the first two films, but while I was away from the franchise finishing my TV show SAMURAI JACK, an idea sparked that I got really excited about and made it irresistible to return and helm myself this third adventure."

Good I want to see him continue to get work and get Animators on the radar. Not happy that Sandler is Executive Producer but just gotta deal I guess.

>• HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: THE TELEVISION SERIES is targeted for a 2017 airdate. The animated television series, produced in partnership with Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana, will focus on the teenage years of Mavis, Dracula’s daughter, and her friends. It will be airing on the Disney Channel worldwide.

>• CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS is slated for its television series incarnation airdate in 2017. The 2D animated small-screen series, produced in partnership with DHX Media and commissioned by TELETOON in Canada, will expand on the adventures of the computer-animated feature films and will air on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and Turner channels across EMEA, APAC and Latin American markets.

So Bryan Cranston is going to be in the new Power Rangers. How poetic.

>>46416

>No more half-measures, Rita.

Yes I know he didn’t say that line but fuck it I didn’t want to go for one of the easier references.

>>46463
>Bud Spencer


Damn, I loved his and Terrance Hill's movies.

Trinity films are a favorite of mine.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/28/tetris-films-trilogy?CMP=fb_gu

Hey guys, you know what needs to be a trilogy? Tetris, yes Tetris because of all the setting and characters that have been introduced over the years. Remember?!

God I hate filmmakers with "vision".

>>46465
Kinda just want to see a movie with a drunken Russian building walls.

>>46465
I've said this before, but I'd find a movie exploring the story behind Tetris more interesting than whatever the fuck they're trying with this nonsense.

>>46465
>>46467
>>46468
What if it's three movies of this?

//youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

>>46468
Oh yeah, a thousand times.

Like, I'm one who's willing to defend a lot of these dumb licensed Hollywood movies with insane sources (like Monopoly, or Stretch Armstrong) but Tetris, as a game, has so little narrative built in that it just seems idiotic.

>>46469
....yeah ok, I can see that.

>46465
Isn't that called a documentary?

//youtube.com/watch?v=BvOlwTuZxQA

Ah that time Dwayne Johnson's grandfather fought Sean Connery.

http://www.thesoutherncastingcall.com/2016/07/02/tammy-smith-casting-atlanta-africans-needed-for-black-panther-men-women-and-children-ages-2-to-90-atlanta-ga/

Looks like The Black Panther movie is gearing up production. Filming starts in January 2017

http://www.thesoutherncastingcall.com/2016/06/26/pat-moran-casting-is-seeking-union-and-non-union-males-and-females-for-a-nationwide-search-for-a-disney-film/

Unnamed Disney film finding actors

http://www.thesoutherncastingcall.com/2015/04/20/feature-casting-call-cl-casting-open-call-next-saturday-42515-alvin-the-chipmunks-4-where-city-of-chamblee-ga/

Because everyone DEMANDED a forth film.


http://www.thesoutherncastingcall.com/2016/07/02/lumberjack-productions-casting-call-fan-series-the-new-52-justice-league-atlanta/

http://www.thesoutherncastingcall.com/2016/07/01/casting-call-non-union-series-is-now-casting-batman-and-harley-quinn-charlotte-nc/

I don't have any hope for ether of these.

>>46476
Love the provide own costume bit.

http://www.blastr.com/2016-7-1/suicide-squads-scott-eastwood-set-key-role-pacific-rim-2

Cool I hope the movie goes well so that Pacific Rim 2 gets some promotion.

>>46488

That's fine, long as they don't take time out of the film to keep bringing it up just show him with a photo or listening to an audio log Mass Effect style.

Guess Sulu the younger will be an adopted daughter if she shows up. Maybe a half Vulcan refugee or something.

>>46489
Or just from a surrogate mother. Maybe she'll still be named Demora. Like the article said it's just going to be treated as a normal thing, so probably he'll call his husband and daughter to say goodbye before heading out or look at a family photo of them together.

>>46488
Didn't Sulu have a girlfriend at some point in the original series? And the reboot versions are supposed to be the original cast just younger right? Either he was that deep in the closet or he's technically Kinsey-5 bisexual but called gay for the convenience.

>>46492

Let's go with Timey Wimey changes made this iteration gay. Not like there is anyone in the timeline to bring it up... Fuck I made myself sad.

Make Him Gay, Respect Takei

>>46495
Oil him up and get him screaming around the set.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/george-takei-tried-to-convince-the-team-behind-star-tre-1783306619

In an interesting and kinda unexpected twist, George Takei does NOT want for Sulu to be gay, as according to him that isn't how Rodenberry conceived the character.

>>46497
I get his point, in the same way I think it's usually better to introduce original characters like Rey, Finn, and Poe who were always belonging to underrepresented groups, than to rely on hand-me-downs for representation by Xwashing preexisting characters, like recasting Luke or Han in later adaptations with black actors.
On the other hand Sulu had like one female love interest ever and it didn't even work out. He's not vigorously heterosexual the way Kirk is (no matter how much rabid Kirk/Spock shippers insist homophobic studio execs put in Uhura as a beard to "cover up" his canon gayness for Spock). So I don't think a whole lot of vision is really being changed there.

>>46498

Could roll with whomever ends up replacing Chekhov. Not to be crass or anything about that tragic event.

>>46498
>On the other hand Sulu had like one female love interest ever and it didn't even work out. He's not vigorously heterosexual the way Kirk is (no matter how much rabid Kirk/Spock shippers insist homophobic studio execs put in Uhura as a beard to "cover up" his canon gayness for Spock). So I don't think a whole lot of vision is really being changed there.

Hell, make him bi and you don't even really have to change or explain anything. The fact that you dated a girl at one point doesn't mean you're straight. Still get LGBT representation, and for one of the least well represented groups around (bisexual men), but don't have to do any retcons to make it sensible.

In fact, if you don't have him specifically use the phrase "I'm homosexual" or something, people who have a problem with him having dated a girl in one continuity can headcanon the explanation however they want--bisexuality, midpoints on the Kinsey scale, "If it's you it's okay" (in either direction), or whatever else floats their boat. Point is just that he's romantically involved with a man.

Just go the Riker route. He's way more a hedonist than Kirk and his modus is "If I fid them attractive then I'll fuck them."

On a similar subject.

Their was talk about the next or one after that James bond being a "Jane Bond". Reason I call this similar is would it be easier just to write a female Super Spy as a lesbian rather than have her seduce countless men. Not talking anything about titillation but just the perception of her character.

James has always been a bit of a sleaze when it comes to seducing women and I don't know if that attitude toward the opposite sex would work coming from a woman to a main stream audience.

Hence my question of making her a lesbian as that's not something that has been brought up in talks yet.

Be interesting. Mainstream Movie Action Female openly seducing women. Be the only one to my knowledge since that trait was scrapped from the Lara Croft reboot.

A lady bond would be neat but Idris Elba needs to be next

>>46514
Oh for sure. Watching his stuff he'd be a very good Bond. Likely very close in Tone to Ian Fleming original.

>>46512
I actually really like the idea. Its not a vaccum, gender dynamics are still a thing, so I don't really see any mainstream audience flick using a literally inverted gender play.

So... yeah. I'd be into a gay Jane Bond.

But yeah agreed, after Elba.

>>46516

It's sadly funny how far film and television will let a lesbian or gay character go in something that isn't a comedy before someone dies. Heard this past year was particularly brutal in drama shows with gay and lesbian characters. Person of Intrest Root being one of the most recent I think.

I think Legend of Korra was one of the scant few to get it across the finsh line without killing one of them, which I find oddly humorous.

>>46517
Well, in Korra's case the show the lesbian thing literally was the finish line.

>>46517
>>46522
>lesbian
They're bi. Sorry but I get kinda triggered when people call Korra and Asami lesbians because too many fans of the ship are honest-to-god bisexual haters who insist that the two are 100% lesbian and that Mako was a beard instead of someone they were genuinely attracted to at some point, and if you claim otherwise you're a "lesbophobe", even though Bryke explicitly said they're bisexuals and not lesbians.

>>46522

Might be the only way to ever had it work without someone getting killed. Never have a couple hook up till the last episode. Gives me a thought.

>>46523
Apologies, just being expedient.

I know that she is its just that any other show if she's paried up earlier the finish line would likely have been a solo run or she'd rebounded to Mako, which was a fake out at their last episode (and something his VA kept trolling with).

>>46523
>even though Bryke explicitly said they're bisexuals and not lesbians

Source?

>>46529
http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/
>(Despite what you might have heard, bisexual people are real!)
Biphobic people might keep trying to twist it around to say Bryke didn't specifically mean Korra and Asami so they can keep insisting they're exclusive lesbians, but it's pretty obvious in context who they're talking about here.

>>46530
Korra is still one of my favorite Superhero stories. She's got near godlike power she wants to do good and struggles with finding out how that works in the world she's in. She doesn't always do it right and its not always perfect but she keeps trying.

Get a lot better Superman vibe out of her than Snyder's take.

http://www.slashfilm.com/dwayne-johnson-highest-paid-actor/

That's multiple years holding the top spot. Kudos to whomever is his agent.

I rather like the guy even if he's not hit that massive blockbuster yet.

>>46544
>even if he's not hit that massive blockbuster yet.

Furious 7?

>>46573
>checking, he's been in FnF 5-8

Ohh, I did not know he's pretty much a regular for the series.

So doubly cool that this ones a good one for him.

http://ihorror.com/exclusive-next-friday-13th-film-period-piece-not-origin-story/


Is this what's concerted good these days?

>>46590

Demystifying Jason with a shitty origin story would've been awful. The other long-rumored idea swirling around this project - a "found footage" film - would've been equally as shitty. A period piece with no real attempt at an origin story for Jason is probably as good an idea as they'll get without going for a self-aware Jason X-style approach again.

>>46593
People keep saying the armors look like Ironman, but to me, they look more like the Guyver.

>>46593
What the hell. Power Rangers is supposed to be all about the shiny plastic look.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I don't hate the look, but I'm just not entirely on board either.

Besides that, yellow ranger looks stacked as hell.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/07/14/jj-abrams-star-trek-wont-replace-anton-yelchin
So they're not replacing Chekov. That's good, would've been kinda tasteless anyhow.

>>46602

That's to be expected. Maybe his post could go to an Orion or Andorian bot races have a similar temperaments to humans. An Orion Male would be an interesting addition as that's not one I believe has shown up much in Star Trek.

Also be a humorous moment. Kirk thinks he's getting a new Orion lady playmate and its some big broad shouldered military minded fella. The Worf of his time I'd say to be to the point.

Okay, a new Blair Witch film. Whatevs.

At least it isn't a reboot.

http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-trek-beyond-weekend-box-office-lower-than-star-trek-into-darkness-1201791469/

Paramount promoting Beyond as a generic action movie really hurt the film. The mixed reception to Into Darkness probably didn't help Beyond either. Disappointing, since everyone says this is the best modern Star Trek film yet.

Trek 4 is still a go and the film will be a financial success regardless, but I hope Paramount doesn't do anything stupid with the franchise to try and make Marvel money.

Netflix got the MST3K revival. Premiere date? In the not-too-distant future.

>>46637
Sweet. Interested to see how the new crew plays and riffs together.

>>46632

Kinda want to see Klingons get more into this. Not something that sets them as the opposition as that was done a bit too much. But something that effects them enough to send an emissary to the Federation to serve on its flagship.

http://deadline.com/2016/07/star-trek-tv-series-comic-con-50th-anniversary-panel-bryan-fuller-william-shatner-brent-spiner-1201791545/

Star Trek Discovery

https://youtu.be/bqm9HSYbf0o

Ship a cross between Federation and Klingon tech judging by the design. Really hope they just stick it on the network since the fall slate is pretty barren and I don't know if anyone will subscribe to their digital service just for one show. Really should have just let Netflix run with it since they know how to handle serialized shows and they won't get twitchy like network executives are bound to do.

I just came out of Beyond. I was pleasantly surprised and pleased. I avoided the new Star Trek movies, but I now want to go back and watch the others.

I wasn't prepared to cry, but fuck, those few mentionings of Leonard Nemoy Spock hit me way harder than I thought possible.

>>46647

>I avoided the new Star Trek movies, but I now want to go back and watch the others.

Don't bother. NuTrek 1 is watchable, but not great, and NuTrek 2: Khan Boogaloo is complete crap. You're better off thinking Beyond is the real start of the NuTrek films.

>>46648
Now that I think of it, I should just do that chronological marathon of all the Star Trek series I've been putting off.

>>46648
Not them but I'm in the same situation, good to know. Is there anything important in the first film or does wiki do the job?

>>46648
>Don't bother. NuTrek 1 is watchable, but not great
Its a fun movie! Dredd and Charlie Bartlett made that movie for me. It felt kinda like Harry Potter in Space!

2009 Trek has to be watched, arguing otherwise is kinda ridiculous. The film establishes the new setting and the changes to the continuity, plus the passing of the torch between Spocks is pretty great.

Into Darkness is 100% avoidable, nothing of importance happens there other than being a very poor attempt to redo Khan (SPOILERS: Kirk dies instead of Spock, but he gets revived five minutes later so who gives a shit). Hell, I actually think NuTrek works better jumping from the first film to Beyond.

//youtube.com/watch?v=FpHNlx0pPIU

//youtube.com/watch?v=CKtq-bZgS8I

Stranger Things. I do love me some jumping into the deep end of good 70-80s horror films.

Gotta watch the series.

>>46656
Should have just been someone else that wasn't Kahn. Have Admiral Robocop dredge up some other relic from earths past and upgrade them with the future Romulan stuff.

I wouldn't mind seeing some mid 21st Century Robots or something. A top secret project to best the Augments. PROJECT: IRON CROSS

I fully expect Nu-Rita to change into something that resembles the old costume at some point of the movie.

Because seriously, what's the point of calling her Rita Repulsa if nothing on her design even loosely reminds you of the character.

>>46690
Maybe she starts in the Brown Frump and Madonna Bra. Then changes or powers up and dons the Green Bondage Gear.

Takes the Green power for herself till she's defeated and then setups using whats left of that power to create her own ranger.

http://www.thewrap.com/stephen-colbert-report-character-late-show-cbs/

So basically back to doing Colbert Report. Just a little different.

>>46693
I hope they can retain the momentum the show's picked up over the last two weeks covering the conventions. I'll admit those made me tune back in after losing interest.

>>46714
He'll be able to keep it up through the Election I think. Beyond that depends on who gets elected. Judging by current trends. I'd say he's got at least a fair shot at four years of lampooning.

So, anybody catch Preacher?
Now that everything is done, it all came together okay, I think.

>>46726

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/08/01/spoilers-things-are-definitely-going-to-be-different-in-preachers-second-se

I forgot that sound is also bigger in IMAX.
Maybe it's me being old, but it gives me a headache.

And thus, Hollywood became an ouroboros, destined only to eat itself to death.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-blockbuster-movie-bubble-will-burst-in-2018/

>>46807

Eh I don't see even half of those being Blockbuster level.

Deadpool is going to be on the same budget as before so its going to do fine regardless.

>>46807
I recall Cracked publishing pretty much the same article last year, only it was about how the superhero genere "bubble" was TOTES gonna burst fo' real

>>46810
if you want to be technical we've been in a Superhero "bubble" for about half a century. No matter how much Hollywood doesn't want to admit that.

Most superhero movies didn't really start doing very well until about twenty years ago at the most. Batman movies were an exception, but they were also often seen as campy nerd faire rather than serious blockbusters.

>>46812

Yeah, the current trend started with, what, the first X-Men movie? Blade?

Yeah the article is pretty ridiculous, but the idea that the current business model for hollywood isn't sustainable is kind of reasonable.

>>46813
Superman showed that it could actually work but yea getting more mainstream current era in the late 90s.

Not sure if this is the right board for it, but has anyone seen/read the new Harry Potter play? Because I can't stop fucking laughing at some of the spoilers.

>>46816

Well, it’s as good a board as any.

>>46818
Yeah, it was definitely fanfictiony.

I mean, I guess its canon, and no matter what they did, the mere concept of The Gaang Has Kids is fanfictiony in and of itself.

I know Rowling isn't as great of a writer as people claim she is, and part of what made the books popular was the way it mixed imagination and whimsy with occasional relatable adolescent drama. But still I expected the person who wrote Prisoner of Azkaban to be able to make something more coherent, and to not bring back the damn Time Turner.

>>46828
Oh and I know Rowling isn't the only person who worked on the script. But she did do the scenario and give the OK on it.

>>46828
Now I am not regretting reading that.

Anyway, have some quality music from the 70s from the jazz-rock maestro Roy Wood:
//youtube.com/watch?v=2NvrASjf4ck

So was that whole Hermione thing non starter since she's now basically considered useless in alternate timelines where she doesn't get with Ron.

Star Trek Beyond is pretty great guys. Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, ya did good. And RIP Chekhov ;_;7

>>46832
You think that's bad?
Ron did fuckall.

>>46840
Oh yeah and of course thanks Justin Lin for helping save Star Trek.

>>46843

Jokey Uncle is what I've heard him called.

Could fit in the DC thread, but I’ll put it here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/08/08/critics-didnt-want-to-kill-suicide-squad-but-if-you-love-it-then-defend-it/

>You may disagree with me; I’m sure many of you probably do, violently. But if you had a different reaction than I did, that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. And my dislike isn’t proof that you’re wrong either. Responses to art aren’t something we win. There isn’t an objective truth out there to be discerned.

>>46864

That was the whole argument about “the blockbuster bubble” mentioned in >>46807 — with so many “blockbusters” and tentpoles crowding around each other’s release dates admist the ongoing decline in theater attendance, all those films will soon eat into each other’s box office takes in a way that will ultimately break Hollywood’s reliance on tentpoles (if not Hollywood itself).

Various reports say Jason Momoa, best known as the guy WB thinks will make Aquaman less of a joke, is now attached to the long-cursed remake of The Crow. (I say “long-cursed” because the pre-production of said remake has lasted for years and had numerous directors, writers, and lead actors attached to it for varying amounts of time.)

A tweet from MovieBob got me to thinkin’, though: Why must the film be remade with a guy in the lead role? Why not give us a hot goth chick kicking ass in the name of personal vengeance? No remake of The Crow will ever recapture the “magic” of the original film—the aesthetic is too ’90s and the death of Brandon Lee only adds to the film’s somber tone—so trying something “new” with the franchise and showing us how a woman handles being “The Crow” might be worth more of a glance than a straight-up remake.

And hey, if nothing else, we’d get a new hot goth chick to fawn over.

>>46871

I could see it. Could be a really neat idea. Didn't the short lived TV series do something similar.

>>46871
I'm still wondering what the Hollywood obsession with remakes is and calling things Remakes when its clearly stated not to be.

Rocketeer Sequel they keep calling a remake even though its stated to not be one. That female lead Ocean's Eleven spinoff/sequel Ocean's Eight (Which is going to end up with its own set of problems being numbered that way and so many will be thinking it's a prequel or something.) But that one also keeps getting labeled a Reboot/Remake.

>>46873

It comes easier than creating some new term to describe a film that doesn’t quite deserve the reboot or remake label. I wouldn’t get angry about it.

>>46875

>It's got a more "American Gothic" feel to it in line with Preacher or True Detective, being set out west in the wilderness.

Shit, I’d be up for a Crow film like that.

Her name is Alice…and this is how her story ends.

//youtube.com/watch?v=jbtmW3ydOkU

Alien: Covenant is the sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus coming out next month.
Hope you guys can hold down more shitting on alien franchise. Oh boy I am.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Covenant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/

Pete’s Dragon is one of Disney’s best live-action films. It’s a little cliché and predictable, sure, but for films like this, the execution of tropes matters more than the tropes themselves. My only real problem with it: Karl Urban’s character gets no real characterization or motives for what he does, making him a rather flat villain. In any case, I’d recommend seeing it if you’re sick of all the cynicism and “feel-bad” cinema coming out as of late.

>>46893

>the 2012 film Prometheus coming out next month

…wait a minute…

>>46895
I thought Covenant was coming out next year not next month.

>>46894
Glad to hear it wasn't a total wash. But I kinda wanted to see some of the more crazy bits updated. Crazy murderous hillbillies, potion selling conmen. But overall glad to hear not as bad as I thought it could have been given remakes of late.

>>46898

The new film came off as more of a re-imagining than a remake, since it cut out the various sidestories (and musical numbers) from the original and kept only the barebones story intact. That approach sidelined the three major adult characters in terms of characterization, but it also narrowed the film’s focus into a singular narrative throughline—Pete’s journey back into society—and heightened the emotional impact of Pete’s relationship with Elliot.

The film also accomplished something special: Rather than hitting on nostalgic “greatest hit” homage shots and relying on “needledrops” (songs not written for a film but intended to invoke memories of a specific time), Pete’s Dragon used intentional anachronism to invoke nostalgia for a certain period of life—as Birth.Movies.Death’s Devin Faraci puts it, “a time when you were open to awe, when your imagination was boundless and when the world was maybe just a little more frightening than you were willing to admit”. When Pete gets to the town outside of the forest, it feels like a place out of step with modern America; no cellphones, computers, or other “screens” show up in the film. (A record player even shows up at one point!) But that intentional anachronism both avoids dating the film and helps with the “nostalgia for one’s youth” feeling.

Pete’s Dragon never once felt like some cheap attempt to cash in on the kind of nostalgia that drove, say, Jurassic World or Ghostbusters. It didn’t lean anywhere near any form of cynicism, but it avoided going overboard with the optimism and sincerity of its emotion. Everything about it just felt…right. And I loved that the film made me feel so damned happy when I walked out of the theater.

>>46896
Oops, got way too ahead of myself, sorry.


>>46895

I forgot my commas, sorry.

>>46900
Don't pretend anymore, you are clearly a time traveller.

>>46901

Naw, that can’t be the case. He was referring to three different points in time: past (2012), present, and future (“tomorrow”/next year).

…HOLY SHIT HE IS THE TIME CUBE.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/sausage-party-directors-conrad-vernon-greg-tiernan-making-2016s-outlandish-animated-film-142425.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/4xt7ux/nitrogen_studios_massive_mistreatment_of/

Yea doesn't sound like Sasuage Party is the crowning success they want it to be on the industry side of things. Only comes out with a low budget due to Canada funding and employers abuse of staff.

One studio.

ONE FUCKIN studio that doesn't shit on its animators in one way or another.

Laika, if you come out with some problematic bullshit I swear I'm fuckin giving up this line of work.

>>46911
You could always try and work for Kyoto Animation over in Japan. I hear they treat their animators better than anybody else over there. Not to mention they also pay their tweeners like humans, instead of that per page bullshit that tweeners normally get in the anime industry.

>>46911

Well whomever made Rick and Morty an LLC treated theirs like garbage. They had to fight to make it a union shop and get decent health coverage.

Whole point its a fight that has to be made. Get the guilds some real power and allow them now to treat them slightly better than Japan treats Anime production houses.

Make it public enough so they can't just hide being their political friends and ask them to make the problem go away.

Or maybe just find a method to create on the internet or look into Dreamworks as long as they are under Netflix. They seem to be okay.

So Larry Wilmore's show that replaced Colbert got canceled. Heard it wasn't very good anyway.

I watched 2001 for the first time this weekend. Fuck me, that movie is fucking TERRIBLE!
I can understand why it was so significant back then what with the space race and the psychedelic movement, but I can honestly say that anyone praising this movie to this day is full of fucking shit.

>>46916
Or understands how and why films are made.

>>46916

>Fuck me, that movie is fucking TERRIBLE!

Okay, so…why do you think it’s terrible? If you’re going to share an opinion like that, you can at least give us a little justification for it.

>>46919
>Okay, so…why do you think it’s terrible? If you’re going to share an opinion like that, you can at least give us a little justification for it.

Not that poster, but I'll chime in since I pretty much agree. The cinematography is obviously amazing, and every frame's a painting just like people always say about Kubrick. Music's great too. But actually *watching* the movie is unbearably dull. Nothing happens for pretty much the entire movie.

As art, it's great, but as entertainment it's terrible.

>>46921

Thing is, I happen to agree with you. (I tried to watch it on two separate occasions, but I never made it more than a half-hour in.) I just wanted to see the other poster at least justify their opinion, though I imagine they’ll do a quick “THIS”-type post. Not that I’d begrudge them such a post; if someone can articulate an opinion I hold and do it better than I could, I’d go “THIS” at it, too.

>>46920
He'd be better if he wasn't so goddamn gothloli.

>>46921
>Nothing happens for pretty much the entire movie.

But a lot happens in the movie. While there is plenty of silence and still moments, it's not like the 2 hours and half entirely consist of watching Bowman drinking space juice.