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Ian Smith wrote:

A Christmas Carol: First Look Teaser

This looks like it could be pretty good. I love A Christmas Carol and there have been some wonderful adaptations over the years, so I hope this is one of the good ones.

SteveUK wrote:

DaveWallace wrote:

SteveUK wrote:

I genuinely don’t think it matters a damn that we know “the ending”.
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Smallville ran for a decade.We all know he’s going to be Superman, we all know he and Lex will be enemies, we all know he’s going to be in love with Lois and move to Metropolic. We all knew his dad was gonna die!
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The show ran for ten season.

Also, I seem to remember James Cameron’s Titanic doing pretty well.

They never made a sequel though.

The boat was actually a dormant Transformer that awakens under the sea and comes ashore to exact revenge on those who wronged him?

Theme song by Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go Energon.

saga wrote:

Theme song by Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go Energon.

I can’t find this song on iTunes.
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But I really want to!!!

Disney Chief Bob Iger Announces Hulu Will Be the Official Streaming Home of FX Networks
Coming off a solid quarterly earnings report today and less than a week before the launch of Disney+, Bob Iger had more streaming news to announcing: FX is coming to Hulu with four exclusive series next year.
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“Beginning in March, Hulu will become the official streaming for FX Networks,” said the Walt Disney Company CEO on Thursday’s earning call. Praising the John Landgraf run cabler as a “produced of high quality and award-winning content and will become a key content driver for Hulu,” Iger also unveiled that the Cate Blanchett-led miniseries Mrs. America and three other FX series will now exclusively debut to what will be called “FX on Hulu” in 2020.

https://www.tvguide.com/news/fx-on-hulu-streaming-shows/

Meanwhile, eager viewers can expect to see new series Devs, Mrs. America, A Teacher, and The Old Man debut exclusively on Hulu. They will not air on linear channels as previously expected.

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I thought I had read somewhere else that some programs may air on Hulu first than air later on FX. If those are to be Hulu exclusive, that is really gutting FX’s ability to draw viewers if Hulu is poaching everything.

Days of Our Lives: Entire Cast Released From Contract — Is the End Nigh?

The sand appears to be leaking out of the hourglass.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the producers of Days of Our Lives have released the entire cast from their contracts, with the venerable soap set to go on an indefinite hiatus at month’s end. While the NBC sudser has not been cancelled, the unprecedented — and decidedly ominous — move comes at a precarious time for ratings-challenged Days and the vanishing soap genre as a whole. It also comes as Sony Pictures Television and NBC are in negotiations to renew series.

Legendary Signs Rights Deal With Frank Miller For ‘Sin City’ TV Series; Robert Rodriguez In Talks

MaxMaxmarvel123 wrote:

FX on Hulu” i

How boring.

If call it FHuluX.

Or maybe XhuluF

JRCarter wrote:

Legendary Signs Rights Deal With Frank Miller For ‘Sin City’ TV Series; Robert Rodriguez In Talks

I am not sure this is a good idea; Sin City’s neo-noir world feels very nineties at this point.

There’s been news of a Sin City television series rolling around for ages now. I don’t really expect it to come to anything but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

The Boys season 2 teaser thing

Could there be anything more terrifying than little Homelander? #FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/s9OAXattQB

— The Boys (@TheBoysTV) November 15, 2019

JRCarter wrote:

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Jesus fuck, yeah. This is one I’ll be there for. I loved Mad About You, and I have a feeling that it will translate very well to this later stage in their lives.

A new Armando Iannucci sitcom? In space? With Hugh Laurie?

I’m going to enjoy this.

First look at the animated series of Fast & Furious for Netflix, debuts 26th December
https://ew.com/tv/2019/11/18/netflix-fast-furious-spy-racers-cast-first-look/

The what what?

Dave wrote:

A new Armando Iannucci sitcom? In space? With Hugh Laurie?

I see Zach Woods in there too

And Rebecca Front!

And Josh Gad.

Casting announcements for BBC America’s The Watch
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http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2019/11/casting-news-bbc-americas-the-watch-enlists-anna-chancellor-james-fleet-and-more
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Anna Chancellor, James Fleet, Ingrid Oliver, Ruth Madeley, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and Bianca Simone Mannie have joined the cast of BBC America’s disruptive original series, The Watch, premiering in 2020. Co-produced by BBC Studios and Narrativia, The Watch is inspired by Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling “Discworld” novels.
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Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized, The Watch is a genre-busting series that follows a group of misfit cops as they rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Uniquely anarchic and thrillingly entertaining, the character-driven drama follows several of Sir Terry Pratchett’s best-loved creations on a riotous and emotional odyssey.
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Anna Chancellor (Pennyworth) is set to star as Lord Vetinari, The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, and architect of the city’s normalized wrongness and ramshackle system of governance. James Fleet (Outlander) will play The Archchancellor, a wizard, magical advisor, and the Head of the Unseen University. Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who) stars as the Head of The Assassins’ Guild, Doctor Cruces. Ruth Madeley (Years and Years) will portray the wiry Throat, the city’s best snitch, with a gang of freelance henchmen at her beck and call. Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Dynasty) will play Captain John Keel, former leader of The Watch and mentor to Sam Vimes, determined to save the corrupt and chaotic city. Bianca Simone Mannie (Homeland) stars as the cunning Wonse, a wizard hopeful in waiting that is frequently underestimated.

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HMMMMM. Is Throat meant to be Cut My Own Throat Dibbler (occasionally just called Throat by some characters)? It doesn’t sound much like him, but why would you create a new character with such a similar name?

It sounds like it’s a new character derived from CMOT with enough similarities so it feels like an homage.

GOT did this all the time, I’m told.

Martin Smith wrote:

BBC America’s disruptive original series

This is an odd description.

Dave wrote:

Martin Smith wrote:

BBC America’s disruptive original series

This is an odd description.

Isn’t it? I think it’s media talk for “loose adaptation”.

“Disruptive” is one of those words that can mean whatever you want it to mean, apparently.

Here, I think it means “we hope a lot of people are going to be interested in this”.

<p class=”p1″>Netflix Taps Robert Towne, David Fincher for ‘Chinatown’ Prequel Script</p>
<p class=”p1″>Hollywood’s most famous noir involving shady Los Angeles real estate deals and the city’s water department may be returning to screens for a prequel series sometime soon.</p>
<p class=”p1″>Netflix has commissioned Chinatown writer Robert Towne and director David Fincher to pen a prequel pilot script for the iconic 1974 film, sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. Netflix declined to comment.</p>
<p class=”p1″>The script will focus on the life of private investigator Jake Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson in the original film) before the events of Chinatown as he tackles cases involving L.A.’s one percent, endemic corruption, infrastructure and natural resources. Towne, Fincher and frequent Fincher collaborator Josh Donen (House of Cards, Gone Girl) will executive produce if the prequel script goes to series.</p>
<p class=”p1″>–SNIP–</p>
<p class=”p1″>The screenwriter, who would go on to pen the scripts for Shampoo, Days of Thunder and The Firm, struggled to write the original screenplay, which took him about 10 months and a trip to Catalina Island, he later recalled. There is no word yet on the due date for the Netflix project.</p>
<p class=”p1″>An avowed fan of the 1974 film, Fincher most recently expressed his love for Chinatown in a 2016 commentary track with Towne for a Blu-ray version of the pic. The director has worked selectively but consistently for Netflix since 2013, when he debuted House of Cards — which he executive produced and occasionally directed — on the platform. Since House of Cards, Fincher has executive produced the serial killer drama Mindhunter and the animated short story collection Love, Death & Robots for the platform.</p>
<p class=”p1″>Deadline was the first to report the news.</p>
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-taps-robert-towne-david-fincher-chinatown-prequel-script-1255996

Taskmaster’s move to Channel 4 confirmed.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a29888005/taskmaster-moving-channel-4/

Dave wrote:

Taskmaster’s move to Channel 4 confirmed.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a29888005/taskmaster-moving-channel-4/

This might be good for the show, but I can’t help but feel it’s further proof that Channel 4’s lost its way, poaching popular shows from other channels.

Dave wrote:

A new Armando Iannucci sitcom? In space? With Hugh Laurie? I’m going to enjoy this.

Yeah, this looks really good. Looking forward to it.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/28/bye-caramba-the-simpsons-composer-claims-the-show-is-coming-to-an-end

At this point, it’d be a mercy killing

I watched some of the current version of the show the other day for the first time in years and it doesn’t even look right any more. My son, who is six, asked why it was all drawn wrong.

We’ve been working our way through the first few seasons on DVD though and they’re gold.

I recently rewatched the episode “You Only Move Twice” (Season 8, Ep 2). The writing was so tight. There was absolutely no waste at all. And it was funny as hell! But then, I would expect no less from something acquired in the Hammock District.

Looking at probably the last 20+ years, you have 10 minutes of story stretched out to 22+ minutes of show. You can see the struggle of producing 22ish episodes per year, year after year.

If Fox is going to cancel it, I could see it happening next season. That way, Fox (and Disney) can hype the hell out of it and milk it for everything its got left in it.

5.7 million viewers for a Halloween special isn’t bad.

 

Even if the other episodes are half that it’s not a bad haul.  But I think the voice actors take a huge chunk of the pie these days and if it were any other animated show it would be renewed for sure just on ratings.

It’s obviously why it has stood the test of time. Bizarrely it still rates well.

 

 

I’ll be watching some older seasons that I never properly saw (haven’t been watching regularly since about season 9 or so, I think) soon, as I’ll be giving them as a Christmas present to the girlfriend. She loves the Simpsons. I doubt we’ll ever get to the current stuff though.

I think it’ll carry on until one of the main voice actors (the family plus Shearer and maybe Azaria) dies.

‘Dracula’: BBC One Sets Premiere Date For Gruesome Netflix Co-Production

Starts New Year’s Day, then again on Jan 2 and 3.

Excellent, looking forward to that.

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Netflix’s Locke and Key will be schedule to debut February 7, 2020

Boys trailer looks fucking awesome, once again. Also: Giancarlo Esposito! Whoop-whoop!

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Man, Locke and Key is really coming. Kinda hard to believe. I just hope they got it right.

The pilot for the previous attempt to adapt ‘Locke and Key’ was pretty damned good. It’s such a shame that it never became a series.

I hope this one fares better.

One for Gar.

‘No one gets beheaded!’ – Nathalie Emmanuel on life after Game of Thrones

This is a very good list:

https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/best-comedy-sketches-of-the-decade.html

Orlando Jones Interview: The ‘American Gods’ Star on Getting ‘Screwed Over’ and Speaking Out

Orlando Jones had held his tongue for months about being let go from “American Gods,” and how his departure was handled by producer Fremantle and the Starz network. But, in an interview with Variety, Jones said he finally decided to stand up for himself and set the record straight on why he won’t be seen in Season 3 — and how he feels he was disrespected by not getting the full truth for months, time that he could have spent working on other projects.

“I assumed at some point, somebody would say that I wasn’t going to be in season three,” he said. “And I imagined that someone would reach out or, there would be some sort of press release out to respond to that in some meaningful way.”

-SNIP-

Jones said that he took on writing duties in Season 2, and was asked by Neil Gaiman to write a character bible for Mr. Nancy. Jones wound up as a consulting producer in Season 2, writing for other characters as well, particularly characters of color, including Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), Salim (Omid Abtahi), Jinn (Mousa Kraish) and Sam Black Crow (Devery Jacobs).

“When I showed up to work in Season 2, they hadn’t written at all for Mr. Nancy,” he said. “I ended up finding myself in the writing chair for all of the disenfranchised characters.”

That’s why Jones fully expected to return for Season 3, and he says Fremantle and Starz were in touch with his manager about renegotiating his deal as both a star and producer on “American Gods.”

But then on September 10, Jones said he got a call from Starz telling him that the show was going in a different creative direction.

In a statement, Fremantle said, “Jones’ option was not picked up because Mr. Nancy, among other characters, is not featured in the portion of the book we are focusing on within season three.” But Jones disputes that characterization, noting that he was “fired” — and that he never received notice that he was being released, preventing him from taking other job offers.

“I know I’m not going to be on ‘American Gods’ and you’re trying to play like it’s some option thing that you’re not picking up, but you fired me, I get it,” he said. “But you also took me out of all this other work that I could do… To now say what they’re saying, which is, ‘Oh, we didn’t pick up his option,’ is laughable. Because if that’s the case, why couldn’t you have told me that months ago? Why did you take me out of work? Why did you hurt my family? Why did you not talk to me at all [and] never deign to have a conversation with me? And, and then not even tell the fans?”

“I don’t understand. I didn’t do anything. I did my job; I did nothing else, and I didn’t bully my way into the writing room. You asked me,” he said.

Jones noted that even in September, he was still being called upon to appear with “American Gods” star Ricky Whittle at Salt Lake City Comic-Con. “I said to them, I haven’t had a conversation with anybody so I don’t know anything about creative, but they announced that ‘American Gods’ panel with me and Ricky.”

Jones’ exit is just the latest turnover with “American Gods,” which has been the subject of near constant turmoil behind the scenes — starting with the firing of original creators Bryan Fuller and Michael Green (who developed Gaiman’s book into the series) after Season 1. Jesse Alexander took over as showrunner at the start of Season 2, but then he too was sidelined, and the show continued without one. For Season 3, Eglee was named showrunner — but Jones said Eglee never spoke to him about the decision to cut Mr. Nancy from the show.

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Orlando Jones Interview: The ‘American Gods’ Star on Getting ‘Screwed Over’ and Speaking Out (EXCLUSIVE)

Damn this show has a lot of drama behind the scenes! Getting a job on it must be like being hired to direct a ‘Star Wars’ movie!

I’ve no idea if Jones was fired or not. I’ve read the book and (no spoilers) I know that season three is based on the segment in a small town where Nancy doesn’t appear, but if it’s just a case of sidelining some characters for a season, as per the book, then Starz have handled it very, very badly.

Wow! I had no idea they were still making American Gods!

‘Trill League’: 50 Cent and Lionsgate Bring Black Superhero Series To Quibi

Disney+ Subscribers Say They’re Watching More Classic Films Than ‘Star Wars’

Since its Nov. 12 launch, streaming platform Disney+ has racked up at least 10 million sign-ups through a combination of promotional partners (Verizon customers get it free for a year) and an aggressive marketing push for the $7 monthly service throughout the Disney corporate empire.

Like Netflix, Disney won’t regularly disclose viewership data for its content, which totals more than 500 movies and 7,500 TV episodes at launch. Disney also hasn’t shared any one-off viewership metrics for any of its launch titles, like Star Wars spinoff series The Mandalorian or its live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp.

Now, a new survey of Disney+ subscribers suggests that the most-viewed content category on the platform isn’t new originals but its library of vault classics like The Lion King and Mary Poppins.

Roughly 22 percent of Disney+ subscribers among all age groups say they watch classics the most on the platform, topping those who cite Star Wars (21 percent), Marvel (15 percent), Pixar (14 percent), Disney Channel (9 percent), The Simpsons (5 percent), National Geographic (3 percent) or Disney+ originals like Christmas movie Noelle (2 percent) as their top viewing choice, a Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll finds. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-subscribers-say-theyre-watching-more-classic-films-star-wars-1263146

Adrien Brody to Star in ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’ Stephen King Series at Epix

Stephen King’s short story “Jerusalem’s Lot” is the latest of the prolific author’s work to be brought to the small screen.

Epix has issued a 10 episode series order for a drama based on the story set in the 1850s, with Oscar winner Adrien Brody attached to play the lead role.

“Jerusalem’s Lot” follows Captain Charles Boone (Brody), who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

The series begins production in May 2020, with an eye towards a Fall 2020 debut. It is executive produced by Donald De Line, whose previous credits include “Ready Player One” and “Wayward Pines.” Jason Filardi and Peter Filardi serve as executive producers and showrunners. “Jerusalem’s Lot”  is the first series to emerge from the network’s in-house shingle Epix Productions.

Adrien Brody to Star in ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’ Stephen King Series at Epix

 

10 episodes is a lot of material to generate from a short story.

paul f wrote:

That is either going to be brilliant or terrible, no middle ground

Critics have already seen it:

(Though her casting does create some weird extra-textual stuff in the scenes where she flirts with the male equivalent of the role her mom played in the movie.)

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) December 20, 2019

lorcan_nagle wrote:

That is either going to be brilliant or terrible, no middle ground

Well, the trailer looks very good. And so certain that it knows what it’s doing that it deems well for the whole series. Brilliant it probably is.

She does a good job and does  the John Cusack role justice. My Worry is if the large woman can handle the Jack Black role. He was my favorite in the first one.

10/10 to the BBC press office;

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-12-12/dracula-bbc-sex-toys/

Alright; that’s pretty cool.

https://www.newsarama.com/48467-laura-hudson-joins-hbo-max-s-dmz-writing-team.html

“This may sound odd to those of you who remember my #MeToo story from a few months back, where I talked about my experiences with the original writer of the DMZ comic,” Hudson tweeted, referring to series creator Brian Wood, who Hudson accused of sexual assault. “They happened many years ago when I was a nobody working at a comic bookstore.”

“What you don’t know is that while sharing my story in 2019 was very unpleasant, it had an unexpected side effect: It put my body of work in the sightline of Ava DuVernay, the director of DMZ. She loved it. She found my number, called me, and offered me the staff writer position.”

Always been a fan of Hudson’s writing, but I definitely did a double take when I saw she was working on adapting a Wood series.

paul f wrote:

Always been a fan of Hudson’s writing, but I definitely did a double take when I saw she was working on adapting a Wood series.

Yeah, it’s interesting how this all turned out. One thing about this though – Hudson says this on her twitter:

As @ava suggested to me once, there’s also another lesson here too: no matter how powerful you are or how powerless someone else seems, you should treat those around you with respect. Not only bc it’s the right thing to do, but bc you never know who someone is going to become.

And, I mean, yeah, okay, but… what they are both doing right now will probably make Brian Wood a lot of money, won’t it?

As for the show, I think DMZ has massive potential, of course. Comic was alright, but not great (as most of Wood’s work), but the concept could easily make for fantastic TV.

I don’t understand who that quote is directed at. Is she saying that Woods should have treated her with respect because one day she would be writing scripts for a tv show based on his comic? Why would he care?

rory wrote:

I don’t understand who that quote is directed at. Is she saying that Woods should have treated her with respect because one day she would be writing scripts for a tv show based on his comic? Why would he care?

Because his brainchild is in her hands, I suppose? But, I mean, it’s not like she’d mess it up on purpose, and he stands to make money off the show either way, so… yeah, I don’t get it.

Christian wrote:

Because his brainchild is in her hands, I suppose? But, I mean, it’s not like she’d mess it up on purpose, and he stands to make money off the show either way, so… yeah, I don’t get it.

I’m not sure if he does. DMZ was a relatively late Vertigo series; I’ve no idea what DC’s policy on creator compensation is.

FIRST LOOK: Octavia Spencer as Madame C.J. Walker in Netflix series ‘Self Made’

paul f wrote:

Christian wrote:

Because his brainchild is in her hands, I suppose? But, I mean, it’s not like she’d mess it up on purpose, and he stands to make money off the show either way, so… yeah, I don’t get it.

I’m not sure if he does. DMZ was a relatively late Vertigo series; I’ve no idea what DC’s policy on creator compensation is.

From what I’ve read the later Vertigo contracts still gave sole or joint copyright to the creators but the media rights were split 50/50 with DC/Warners having first pick on everything. So I’m pretty sure he’ll be earning money off it but the reason the big guns stayed away from Vertigo in its last decade or so is at Image and others you get 100% control. Like Millar deciding to sell nearly all his IP to Netflix directly.

So I do expect Wood will get paid out of this but not as much as if the book were on the previous terms.

 

Speaking of Millar, any news on his shows? =/

Jupiter’s Legacy was due to appear at some point this year I think, although I don’t know if that’s still the case after the troubled production and change in showrunner.

I feel as though stuff like Watchmen and The Boys shows there is an audience for ‘mature’ superhero shows, so I hope the Netflix Millar stuff is able to get out before it feels like that trend has passed.

Then again I wonder whether the more sci-fi/fantasy oriented properties are going to be the real successes out of the Millar properties.

A TV series of The Magic Order was announced in May, but there’s been no news on it since, and no writers or actors attached.

They’ve announced an American Jesus series and Empress, Sharkey the Bounty Hunter and Huck movies too I think, but again I don’t think I’ve heard anything since the initial announcement. And Supercrooks is meant to be getting an animated series too.

Yeah, the films were announced back in July 2018, but I don’t think anything has happened with them. Netflix did a big dump of details on upcoming movies recently, but no word on any MW stuff:

Another year of movies is ahead of us! We’ve mentioned a lot of these films already, but here’s a handy list of all the films coming to Netflix this year…so far. (thread)

— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) January 3, 2020

EDIT: Also, for some reason Empress, Kick-Ass 2/3, Superior, and Nemesis are no longer on Comixology in English, at least on the EU site.

Interesting List. “The Old Guard” sounded familiar, and it turns out it’s based on a Greg Rucka comic. Good for him!

Also, this:

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS: A road trip becomes a twisted mix of palpable tension, psychological frailty, and sheer terror in the latest from Charlie Kaufman, starring Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, and David Thewlis.

Fuck yeah! David Thewlis and Toni Colette in a Kaufman road trip! Whoo-hoo!

 

Whoever Jesse Plemons has for an agent is not getting paid nearly enough.

So true. Feels like he’s in every other movie or TV show I’m watching these days.

paul f wrote:

I don’t think anything has happened with them. Netflix did a big dump of details on upcoming movies recently, but no word on any MW stuff:

To be fair the responses to that thread, which I saw yesterday, had a lot of people with Netflix movies coming out that weren’t included.

Netflix Film released 10 movies in December so on that form the previews in that tweet cover about a quarter of what will come out in 2020.

 

 

Talking ‘Forever Punk’ , the importance of counter culture and why the world needs rebels with the legend who is #AlanMoore . . . such a nice bloke . . . the programme airs on ⁦@BBCFOUR⁩ on January 10th at 9-30pm . . . pic.twitter.com/EplA3mAQFx

— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) January 6, 2020

 

 

garjones wrote:

paul f wrote:

I don’t think anything has happened with them. Netflix did a big dump of details on upcoming movies recently, but no word on any MW stuff:

To be fair the responses to that thread, which I saw yesterday, had a lot of people with Netflix movies coming out that weren’t included.

Netflix Film released 10 movies in December so on that form the previews in that tweet cover about a quarter of what will come out in 2020.

 

 

Yeah there’s not always a press release for everything as it happens. Publicity is geared towards whatever strategy someone things will do the project the most good.

If you think about all the plot details that DON’T get spoiled, that’s down to thousands of people just doing their jobs and not Tweeting everything they see at work.

We’ll hear when we hear.

Millar did an interview on Word Balloon just before Christmas. Now he’s as he always is, incredibly enthusiastic and optimistic that everything is on the way and will all be the greatest thing ever made. Lots of names attached to scripts for projects but we know that’s a long way off from anything actually being made.

With that in mind though Jupiter’s Legacy and American Jesus sounded quite advanced with initial filming wrapped or in progress (he goes into American Jesus being made in Mexico).

Jupiter’s Legacy may have hit delays with a showrunner swap but that doesn’t usually mean more than that (see multiple other shows, Star Trek: Discovery and American Gods included).

Jupiter’s Legacy is pretty far into development.

They’ve built sets and costumes and have been shooting for a couple of months.  I’m not sure if it’s been announced but I’m expecting a 2020 release and it to be marketed as a prestige piece for Netflix, with bapf articles across slate and social media, similar to the Witcher.

The first set shots of JL were right back in July.

Fliming for Witcher (a similarly FX heavy show which will need a lot of work on that) was Oct 2018 – May 2019. Came out December 2019. By that kind of schedule it would be mid 2020 for Jupiter’s Legacy, maybe err on the later side because of the showrunner swap.

Yeah a showrunner swap will delay it – its sort of hard to know how long because you dont know what will get scrapped and reshot and what wont be.  I’d say, though, that if Netflix has this somewhere on their 2020 calendar then that’s not likely to be moved, but then again, they pushed back Cowboy Bepop a year because of a leg injury, so who knows?

Locke & Key | Official Trailer | Netflix

Based on the best-selling graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, Locke & Key follows 3 siblings who, after the murder of their father, move to their ancestral home only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities.

Looks like it’s pretty close to the books.

It does look very faithful. The house, the caves, the powers the keys imbue, even the clothes the kids are wearing. Looking forward to it.

At the same time it looks like it’s cramming a lot of the series into the first season, which I find a little worrying.

Looks promising. I’d watch anything from Joe. He’s a sweetie-pie.

Plus it has Averill and Cuse as showrunners – good combo, and they’ve written some of the scripts.

I liked the brief glimpse inside Bode’s head.

Yeah it looks good. And hopefully it’ll be a success considering all the stops and starts the adaptions have had. And it reminds me that I need to get round to finishing that series at some point.

rory wrote:

At the same time it looks like it’s cramming a lot of the series into the first season, which I find a little worrying.

Yes that did cross my mind, some of the keys shown there come in relatively late in the story.

Then again I’m never really that bothered if things veer away from the story if they maintain the essence of it all.

The concern would be they do slavishly adapt it but just cram everything in so it’s rushed. We can only wait and see which it is.

Yeah there’s stuff in the comic that only works in comics so I’m not looking for slavish adherence either. I’m just hoping that they don’t rush through it. I like Cuse but pacing is not his strength.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/collegehumor-layoffs-sale.html?fbclid=IwAR3eRdr3cXiPhX8qQpaNH5cQjPSoE22gd_fO3z92jcvJ2Z9FXfFTEN59P5s

I can not get the link preview to work!

the above link is about College Humor laying off nearly 100 employees as its owner sells it to its own CCO.

From last year, an opinion on how the market changed with the rise of Facebook;

How Facebook Is Killing Comedy

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The whole story is basically that Facebook gets so much traffic that they started convincing publishers to post things on Facebook. For a long time, that was fine. People posted things on Facebook, then you would click those links and go to their websites. But then, gradually, Facebook started exerting more and more control of what was being seen, to the point that they, not our website, essentially became the main publishers of everyone’s content. Today, there’s no reason to go to a comedy website that has a video if that video is just right on Facebook. And that would be fine if Facebook compensated those companies for the ad revenue that was generated from those videos, but because Facebook does not pay publishers, there quickly became no money in making high-quality content for the internet.

In these situations recently, like with Cracked, people get mad at the management and at the companies. I’m a labor dude, I’m a proud member of the WGAE, and I’m more than happy to get mad at management about something, but it’s increasingly clear that that’s not the problem. The problem is that Facebook is our editor and our boss. They decide what is successful and what isn’t successful via seemingly meaningless metrics. They hide behind algorithms that they change constantly. And it seems to me that they are not favoring things that are high-quality – they are favoring things that are clickbait, things that are optimized for Facebook, low-quality things that appeal to the lowest common denominator and, honestly, just things at random.

Facebook has created a centrally designed internet. It’s a lamer, shittier looking internet. It’s just not as cool as an internet that is a big, chaotic space filled with tons of independently operating websites who are able to make a living because they make something cool that people want to see.

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https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-facebook-is-killing-comedy.html

So, there’s a lot of (understandable) bitterness in that article, but the fact that Facebook doesn’t pay anyone for their content, is the big thing I agree is wrong.

Not only is it unfair, it does throttle the supply of creativity.  For now though, Facebook appears to be doing just fine.

‘Chucky’ TV Series Ordered By Syfy From Film Franchise Duo & ‘Channel Zero’ Creator

<i>Mindhunter</i> Cast Released From Contracts as Season 3 Is Put on Indefinite Hold at Netflix

Poo. It was good

Tim, this is not the proper thread to discuss your bowel movements.

HBO Max and DC Universe’s Relationship Still Being Worked Out (x)

WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service is set to debut this May, and is set to share some orginal content with its sister streaming service, DC Universe, as well as featute some DC-based shows that will not be on the DC-themed service. HBO Max’s Chief Content Officer Kevin Reilly said this week that the relationship between the two is still being ironed out – but hopes both can continue.

“We’re working out what those mechanics are,” Reilly said (according to The Hollywood Reporter). “We have to figure out those two subscriptions, and we haven’t worked out the mechanics of what that’s going to look like.“