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‘This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare’: the explosive return of Chris Morris

Looking forward to this. Four Lions seems like a long time ago now.

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RonnieM wrote:

It actually looked most like the planned shuttle replacement from a few decades ago

Venturestar. But I don’t think it was.

Universal Sets ‘Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman/Marc Silvestri Comic ‘Stealth’ For Film; Lee Daniels To Direct

Universal Pictures has partnered with Skybound Entertainment for a movie adapation of Stealth, and Lee Daniels has attached himself to direct a film that introduces an unusual superhero crime fighter. Pic is based on an upcoming Skybound/Image comic created by The Walking Dead co-creator and exec producer Robert Kirkman, and Marc Silvestri.

The first issue of the comic Stealth will be launched under the Skybound/Image imprint on March 11, 2020 with story by Mike Costa, art by Nate Bellegarde and Tamra Bonvillain, and cover by Jason Howard.

For decades, Stealth has waged war on crime in Detroit, but now he’s taken his pursuit of justice too far. Only reporter Tony Barber knows that behind Stealth’s reckless behavior is an older man battling Alzheimer’s—his father. A father unwilling to accept that he’s no longer the hero this city needs… with enemies all too eager to force his retirement.

So do the actual writer/artists get anything for this, or just Kirkman and Silvestri?

Warner Bros Sets David Ayer For ‘The Dirty Dozen’ Remake; Simon Kinberg Producing

I watched End of Watch over the weekend and came to a realization. I don’t think Ayers is a very good director. I remember liking Street Kings but that’s the only film of his that I’ve enjoyed.

David Ayer in Talks to Direct Remake of ‘The Dirty Dozen’ for Warner Bros.
–SNIP–
The new pic will not replicate the World War II setting of the original but will be a contemporary story, according to insiders.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/david-ayer-talks-direct-remake-dirty-dozen-1262994

paul f wrote:

So do the actual writer/artists get anything for this, or just Kirkman and Silvestri?

I’m pretty sure everything in Skybound is work for hire, the legal indicia suggests that. I have always had issues with how that fits into the moral stance of Image’s creation but it seems to be the way in the imprints.

 

Even back to Jim Lee giving Alan Moore his ownABC imprint it was all still work for hire. I think it was incredibly dumb for Moore to accept that again after all his previous complaints but he he is the world’s worst businessman.

Rian Johnson released an audio commentary for Knives Out: https://knivesout.movie/#commentary

Ahh good, that’s the Nolan I like…

Looks great but I honestly like every film he’s done. I have reservations on the Batman films as I think they always had an inherent conflict between his sensibilities and the more fantastical aspects but they are still very good. Loved Dunkirk, the soundtrack was a major element there and this one sounds great too.

He’s building up a little rep company there isn’t he? Branagh and Caine again. No complaints, they are both great.

I’m not doing the internet right am I?

 

Looks good to me too, the backwards stuff inevitably makes me think of Memento but exploring ideas on the scale of his Batman movies or Inception. Looking forward to it.

garjones wrote:

He’s building up a little rep company there isn’t he? Branagh and Caine again

I think Caine has been in six out of his seven most recent movies (he wasn’t in Dunkirk).

I liked it to and I haven’t had a bad thing to say about Nolan in any film he’s made, except maybe Dark Knight Rises was a little overlong.  Scene the all too since Memento.

Dave wrote:

I think Caine has been in six out of his seven most recent movies (he wasn’t in Dunkirk).

It’s a public service, we don’t want 86 year olds on the dole in the UK, keep them working.

I’m sure Caine has announced his retirement from acting more times than Alan Moore has quit comics, but I’m glad he keeps coming back for Nolan.

Vancouver, Sonic movie 2020 redesign and Life of Pi’s VFX studio, has shut down (x)

The visual effects company Moving Picture Company (MPC) has apparently shut down its studio in Vancouver.  MPC Vancouver once employed over 800 visual effects workers although its current staff was much smaller. Those who still worked at MPC in Vancouver were allegedly told of the shutdown in a meeting earlier this week.

That’s really sucks, but i’m not surprised.

 

This has been the subject of some conversation at work.

Sonic didn’t kill the studio though, it’s coincidence.

This is a cut throat business at times, and the employees are most likely to feel that blade.

The Woman in the Window | Official Trailer | 20th Century Fox

In Fox 2000 Pictures’s psychological mystery thriller “The Woman in the Window,” a psychological suspense thriller directed by Joe Wright, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbor across the street from her New York City brownstone, only to see her own life turned upside down when the woman disappears and she suspects foul play. A stellar ensemble cast brings Tracy Letts’ screenplay based on the gripping, best-selling novel to life, where shocking secrets are revealed, and no one—and nothing—is what it seems.

• Starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moo
• Directed by Joe Wright and produced by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Anthony Katagas.

The Woman in the Window opens scheduled to be released on May 15, 2020

It will be the final Fox 2000 film released under the 20th Century Fox banner before it discontinued by Disney as part of acquisition of 21st Century Fox.

Julianne Moo!

I hear she can be a bit of a cow to work with.

 

LEGO Expired the Deal with Warner Bros. and in talks with a new partner, Universal Pictures (x)

The company’s deal with Warner Bros. expired earlier this year, and new reports indicate that LEGO is currently in talks with Universal for an exclusive partnership which would see them produce “a new batch” of LEGO movies. Dan Lin, who produced all four of WB’s LEGO films, is in talks to stay on board as a producer.

The Hollywood Reporter says LEGO has been exploring its options for months, fielding pitches from multiple studios before officially entering talks with Universal. Its deal with Warner Bros. expired early this fall, and the implication is that LEGO didn’t renew that pact because executives there were disappointed with the box office returns of the one-two punch of 2017’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie and 2019’s The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.

Oh boy… better buy all those WB Lego games before they’re removed from stores… =P

Dave wrote:

I think Caine has been in six out of his seven most recent movies (he wasn’t in Dunkirk).

He was the voice on Tom Hardy’s radio .

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garjones wrote:

Looks great but I honestly like every film he’s done. I have reservations on the Batman films as I think they always had an inherent conflict between his sensibilities and the more fantastical aspects but they are still very good. Loved Dunkirk, the soundtrack was a major element there and this one sounds great too.

He’s building up a little rep company there isn’t he? Branagh and Caine again. No complaints, they are both great.

I’m not doing the internet right am I?

 

No, you’re not.

garjones wrote:

Julianne Moo!

I hear she can be a bit of a cow to work with.

That’s more like it!

Dave wrote:

Looks good to me too, the backwards stuff inevitably makes me think of Memento but exploring ideas on the scale of his Batman movies or Inception. Looking forward to it.

Yeah, and Nolan used that backwards running effect all the way back to Memento. I’m sure there will be some sort of backwards/forward motion in TENET as well considered the sort of symmetry implied in the title. Maybe the “afterlife” is life running backwards in time.

I am a little put off by the “saving the world” big stakes approach, but Nolan, actually, has only done that once before with INTERSTELLER (though in The Dark Knight the world was Gotham City). Nolan’s best films have kept the stakes very personal and limited to the sphere of the characters (The Prestige, Inception, Memento).

The story behind the author of The Woman In The Window – A. J. Finn – is like a mystery novel as well. Something Patricia Highsmith might’ve written.

A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

Tenet looks terrific but that trailer is my least favourite part of the marketing so far. The teaser that they never officially released online was more intriguing, and have any of you seen the IMAX preview? I got it with my screening of Star Wars and loved it. I don’t know what’s going on during it, you can’t understand all of the dialogue, and the score is loud. What I’m saying is that it’s very much a Nolan movie and I’m really looking forward to it.

KandorLives wrote:

I don’t know what’s going on during it, you can’t understand all of the dialogue, and the score is loud.

I’ll look out for subtitled screenings when the film is released.

paul f wrote:

Dave wrote:

I think Caine has been in six out of his seven most recent movies (he wasn’t in Dunkirk).

He was the voice on Tom Hardy’s radio .

Ah that’s cool, I didn’t know that.

I feel the need… the need to debunk the Top Gun trailer.

Fictional film is fictional!

To be fair, he never claims it shouldn’t be. He explains why parts of it are unrealistic, which I found very interesting. Then ends by saying he thinks it will be an awesome movie.

He also says that they still quote the original Top Gun in the “squadron” years later, which I think is awesome 

It was the use of the word “debunk”. It’s like debunking a magic trick.

And any such video should include the fact that any scene with Cruise standing next to someone else has involved a box for him to stand on.

Or a ditch for the other actor(s) to stand in.

SteveUK wrote:

It was the use of the word “debunk”. It’s like debunking a magic trick.

Ok, that was my fault, trying to be funny

 

Well, we’ve known since Inception that Nolan wants to do a James Bond movie, haven’t we? In two thirds of the trailer, it seems to be that and pretty straightforward, but the last bits bring the strange. It does look good.

The fact that this trailer has already been posted three days ago is someohow appropriate to the film.

Cats looks too creepy

You should really go and watch The Rise of Skywalker in IMAX to get that Tenet prologue.

KandorLives wrote:

You should really go and watch The Rise of Skywalker in IMAX to get that Tenet prologue.

Disclaimer – trailers and promos running with films are primarily decided by the exhibiting cinema/chain. I saw Star Wars in Imax – no Tenet.

It’s ok, watch the trailer on your phone, Nolan loves that!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tenet-imax-prologue-shows-a-time-bending-mission-1264421

Ludacris’s jaw-thing is throwing me, it’s a bit too Pierce Brosnan era Bond really, but he’s doing good work as a cold villain there, and Crews plus a sledgehammer is an impressive combination.

It could work?

I could it being a surprise hit like the John Wick series.

And then a crossover?

SteveUK wrote:

And then a crossover?

That briefly flashed across my mind.

Sounds interesting. Anyone planning to see “Little Joe”?
It’s ‘Day of the Triffids’ for today’s Britain, but with antidepressants as the monster

Isn’t it already out?

Uncharted loses yet another director:

Schedule Problem Knocks Travis Knight From Helming Sony’s ‘Uncharted’ With Tom Holland & Mark Wahlberg

SteveUK wrote:

Ludacris’s jaw-thing is throwing me, it’s a bit too Pierce Brosnan era Bond really, but he’s doing good work as a cold villain there, and Crews plus a sledgehammer is an impressive combination. It could work?

I doubt it. The scenes in the trailer are too scattershot, and nothing really good that’d stick with you is in there. You get the feeling that the movie is all over the place.

Plus, I love Terry Crews on Brooklyn 99, but I don’t think he has the acting chops for something like this.

I think I’ll hold out for A Quiet Place 3D

In my head Cillian Murphy is playing the same character as in 28 Days Later.

rory wrote:

In my head Cillian Murphy is playing the same character as in 28 Days Later.

Ha! I thought the same thing!

The movie itself… I mean, this wasn’t the kind of movie that cries out for a sequel, but if they came up with a good story, why not.

Christian wrote:

I love Terry Crews on Brooklyn 99, but I don’t think he has the acting chops for something like this.

People doubted Michael Keaton as Batman.

JRCarter wrote:

People doubted Michael Keaton as Batman.

True. But really, even in the bits in the trailer, Crews doesn’t convince me. And that’s in spite oh him almost not saying a word.

I do hope I’m wrong; I think Terry Crews deserves, like, everything in the world already for being a brilliant person.

The difference between Crews and Keaton for me is Crews when he is not playing a role(in interviews or hosting) is less serious than Keaton. I can’t remember what Keaton was like before Batman but now he plays some very serious roles like Vulture in Spider-man Homecoming.

Rocket wrote:

I can’t remember what Keaton was like before Batman but now he plays some very serious roles like Vulture in Spider-man Homecoming.

Keaton was a comedy guy: Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, etc.

paul f wrote:

Rocket wrote:

I can’t remember what Keaton was like before Batman but now he plays some very serious roles like Vulture in Spider-man Homecoming.

Keaton was a comedy guy: Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, etc.

IIRC, Burton said Keaton’s performance in Clean and Sober (1988) sold him as Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Knives Out sequel news:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/knives-sequel-works-centered-daniel-craigs-detective-character-1266533

Warner Bros Taps ‘Slave Play’ Playwright Jeremy O. Harris To Adapt ‘The New World’ Comic

Jeremy O. Harris, the playwright behind the acclaimed stage play Slave Play, has signed on to script a film adaptation to Ales Kot’s 2019 graphic novel The New World for Warner Bros and Populace.

Released via Image Comics, the comic is described as a genre-bending sci-fi that follows the lives of two lovers who go on the run as they navigate the New World order.

I like most of Ales Kot and Tradd Moore’s stuff, but I haven’t read The New World yet.

paul f wrote:

Keaton was a comedy guy: Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, etc.

As someone around at the time of the fuss in 1988 or so that was the main public perception of Keaton, he was a comedy actor and also didn’t have the physique for a superhero.

The first was people underestimating what he could do as an actor (Clean and Sober wasn’t exactly a hit, Mr Mom and Beetlejuice took almost 10 times as much money) and the rubber suit covered the lack of bulging muscle.

It reminds me a little of them casting Catherine Tait in Doctor Who as the adverse reaction came from the fact that she was only known for sketch comedy but had been in the Royal Shakespeare Company so had acting chops outside that. After the fact she’s now regarded as one of the best supporting characters.

In fairness with Tate and Doctor Who viewers had already seen her guest-star in an episode (where she essentially played a variation on the kind of silly characters she played in her sketch show), and I think the worry was about that character becoming one-note and grating over a full series. But between the writing and Tate’s performance they reinvented Donna very well as a companion.

With Keaton I think it was more like a Heath Ledger Joker situation, where the type of roles played previously made the public think about them a certain way.

And by contrast people were excited for Ben Affleck being cast as Batman. People know little.

He did a good job. It’s a pity the films around him and then his personal problems got in the way.

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People are seeing ‘Cats’ while high out of their minds. These are their stories.

Here’s the quote for the DVD package:

“Vomited four times but ultimately understood the film on a deep level.”

Dave wrote:

In fairness with Tate and Doctor Who viewers had already seen her guest-star in an episode

I recall pretty well reaction came as soon as her casting for the Christmas episode was in. A bit of Googling with the 2006 date range before it aired has a rant about worst stunt casting since Bonnie Langford.

Catherine Tate should be Batman

Anonymous wrote:

Catherine Tate should be Batman

With David Tennant as the Joker?

It’ll make 5 billion dollars!

Bernard Cribbins as Catwoman!

Bradley Walsh as Alfred!

Ben Affleck as The Doctor!

#ReleaseTheSnyderWho

Dave wrote:

Ben Affleck as The Doctor!

Helen Mirren as Clara Oswald!

Nicholas Cage as K-9!

Jenna Coleman as Helen Mirren!

A Dalek as himself! Or another Dalek!

Dave wrote:

A Dalek as himself! Or another Dalek!

Tom Cruise as a Dalek!

Dave Wallace as Todd!

Wait. Am I doing this wrong?

njerry wrote:

Wait. Am I doing this wrong?

Yes, but luckily so is everybody else.

Todd wrote:

Tom Cruise as a Dalek!

the visual of a dalek doing the Tom Cruise run is priceless

Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System (x)

Under the new deal, Warners will leverage the system’s comprehensive data and predictive analytics to guide decision-making at the greenlight stage. The integrated online platform can assess the value of a star in any territory and how much a film is expected to make in theaters and on other ancillary streams.

In other words: beep boop beep, mr. robo demand to produce Peanut Butter Jelly Time the movie.

Studios are constantly analysing their projects, looking for some pattern, some clue about what to do next?

They’ve also hired consultants before, people who crunched the numbers more independently.

Now they’re turning to machine learning, like a lot of other professions…

We’ll see?

It mostly just seems like a way to pass the buck on failed projects – “It’s not our fault; the computer told us it would be a success!”

I predict a lot of movies about how great advanced artificial intelligence is and how it definitely doesn’t pose a threat to humanity.

I have a script about a robot that goes back in time to prevent an AI Apocalypse.

I call it “The friendly robot saves Christmas”

Ed Sheeran Saves Christmas 2: Baby Shark Attacks!

SteveUK wrote:

Now they’re turning to machine learning, like a lot of other professions…

Ya.  Amazon even sell it as a service.  This doesn’t even seem like press release level material.

You feed a computer large linked datasets and it finds correlations.  Then, predictive models are built from those correlations.  It’s like Excel ANOVA on Super Soldier Serum.  It still takes a lot of human brain power to set up the database properly and interpret the outputs.

It’s all about people in the end.

An example from recent history; when the Sony leaks came out, one of the films that was highlighted was the ‘Steve Jobs’ movie. Amy Pascal really thought it would make a good movie, but that it would lose money. She tried to put together a deal that would protect Sony, but finally had to pass on the film.

It got made anyway.

She was right that it dropped dead at the box office.

She was also right that it was a good film.

Which says to me that smart people at the studios already have  good idea of what they should make in order to turn a profit, and what they should  make that will be good quality, and what is, or is not, ticking both of those boxes.

So it’ll still come down to the people and how they choose to treat the data?

SteveUK wrote:

Which says to me that smart people at the studios already have  good idea of what they should make in order to turn a profit, and what they should  make that will be good quality, and what is, or is not, ticking both of those boxes. So it’ll still come down to the people and how they choose to treat the data?

Agreed.  This is true of all industries that are trying to use this sort of data.  It may end up being one more tool but I don’t think it’s going to be the magic bullet some think it is.

RonnieM wrote:

Ya.  Amazon even sell it as a service.

Which is quite funny considering how terrible their ‘recommendations’ are, a bit like Google’s and Facebook’s ad logic that only seem to try and sell me the same things I just bought online.

There are many uses for machine learning and AI and a lot of them work well now. Insurance premium calculation and betting odds have now moved over to them and worked. I’m working on a project now with the head of an AI university in Hong Kong and I mentioned my experiences with things like recommendations. He admitted the limitations when it veers away from mathematical probabilities and into tastes.

Sometimes I struggle to even explain to myself why one film appeals a lot more than another to me as it’s quite ‘gut feel’.

Anyway, time will tell, maybe they will make that breakthrough.

 

 

 

garjones wrote:

Sometimes I struggle to even explain to myself why one film appeals a lot more than another to me as it’s quite ‘gut feel’.

You mean it’s the number of shower scenes?

I’d love to see the emails explaining why Cats was released.

Cats in theory was a great decision the computer might like.

Musicals have done well recently with Les Miserables, The Greatest Showman, Mama Mia 2, Rocketman etc. Take the same director from one of those, a hit show that ran for two decades and a bunch of popular stars.

It failed on the ‘those cats look fucking weird’ test. Good luck computing that.

 

saga wrote:

Ed Sheeran Saves Christmas 2: Baby Shark Attacks!

Is there a GoFundMe for this? ‘Cause I’m IN!!

rory wrote:

I’d love to see the emails explaining why Cats was released.

I’m thinking drunken bar bet gone horribly wrong.

Every superhero movie you can expect in the 2020s

In a shocking twist, it seems Bad Boys For Life is… good?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_boys_for_life

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/bad-boys-for-life-review-new-bad-boys-movie.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/bad-boys-life-review-1269838
https://ew.com/movie-reviews/2020/01/15/bad-boys-for-life-review/
‘Bad Boys for Life’: Film Review
https://screencrush.com/bad-boys-for-life-review/

Dolittle reviews in three hours. I suspect they will be less good.

Todd wrote:

rory wrote:

I’d love to see the emails explaining why Cats was released.

I’m thinking drunken bar bet gone horribly wrong.

Musical with proven track record stuffed with big-name and fan-favourite stars. You’d have to be drunk not to greenlight this.