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Movie news is now theater implosion newsquote:S&P Global said the world’s largest exhibitor AMC Entertainment risks running out of cash by mid-summer and the ratings agency doesn’t think movie theaters will reopen in June – a prediction AMC CEO Adam Aron made on CNBC this week. https://deadline.com/2020/04/sp-amc-entertinment-cash-crunch-theaters-reopen-june-1202899484/
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Just in time for moviepass to make its comeback
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Apr 3, 2020 06:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0NLGcL6pI https://twitter.com/Queerty/status/1245810747004743680?s=20
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Apr 3, 2020 09:35
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Iron Crowned posted:Looted from C-SPAM: Cowards, declare for us what the #1 release of the Last Week Of Movies was
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Apr 3, 2020 09:39
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so I thought about The Turning for some reason that did 18 million at the box office on a 14 budget what the gently caress  it had strange wolflife in it!
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Apr 3, 2020 09:49
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Alan Smithee posted:Just in time for moviepass to make its comeback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBO_7UezpbY
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Apr 3, 2020 18:25
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Tars Tarkas posted:Movie news is now theater implosion news 
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Apr 3, 2020 19:16
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Between Moviepass and A-List, I haven't paid for my own movie ticket (aside from special screenings) for 2 and half years. If AMC goes under or cancels A-List, just cancel all of the movies because I don't want to go anymore.
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Apr 3, 2020 19:22
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Rageaholic posted:Please don't die AMC While the death of the theater industry would be a bad thing in the immediate, if it ushers in an era of independent theaters thriving then that would be something good to come out of all this. However, it's more likely that the recent reversal of United States v. Paramount Pictures means that all the major studios will take the opportunity to open up their own theaters again and people anywhere other than major cities will be forced to go to the local Disney Brand Theater playing Disney Brand Movies as their sole option.
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Apr 3, 2020 19:47
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After being delayed multiple times and having theaters being shut down for the foreseeable future Disney has decided to just dump Artemis Fowl on Disney Plus. No word on when though.
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Apr 3, 2020 19:59
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muscles like this! posted:After being delayed multiple times and having theaters being shut down for the foreseeable future Disney has decided to just dump Artemis Fowl on Disney Plus. No word on when though. I legit thought that movie came out and nobody just noticed, like Mortal Engines did. Homeybeef posted:Between Moviepass and A-List, I haven't paid for my own movie ticket (aside from special screenings) for 2 and half years. If AMC goes under or cancels A-List, just cancel all of the movies because I don't want to go anymore. I'd really miss A-List, even though I find myself irritated by the actual theater experience most of the time, but it did give me a real easy way to watch such generation defining movies like Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Men in Black: International.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:05
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I feel like an Artemis Fowl movie coming out now is about ten years too late.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:24
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Chairman Capone posted:I feel like an Artemis Fowl movie coming out now is about ten years too late. I'm been seeing a lot of negative buzz about it on other sites; apparently the trailers make it seem that they're essentially beginning with the second book and ignoring that Artemis is initially the villain of the series, which is basically throwing away the main distinctive element of the property.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:27
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Chairman Capone posted:I feel like an Artemis Fowl movie coming out now is about ten years too late.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:27
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Casimir Radon posted:Probably worse than that. I think the height of popularity was the early 2000s. Of everything jockeying to be the nextHarry Potter only The Hunger Games really got close Twilight would probably count depending on how broad a net you're going for. It was the next big teen lit/young adult adaptation.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:53
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Casimir Radon posted:Probably worse than that. I think the height of popularity was the early 2000s. Of everything jockeying to be the nextHarry Potter only The Hunger Games really got close I very distinctly remember seeing a teaser for an Artemis Fowl Movie way back in 2002 or something.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:55
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A Sometimes Food posted:Twilight would probably count depending on how broad a net you're going for. It was the next big teen lit/young adult adaptation.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:58
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Eoin Colfer was definitely promoting a "coming soon" movie adaptation in the books early on.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:58
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GrandpaPants posted:I legit thought that movie came out and nobody just noticed, like Mortal Engines did. God I wish Mortal Engines had been good.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:59
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You don't wish all movies were good?
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Apr 3, 2020 21:16
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Homeybeef posted:Between Moviepass and A-List, I haven't paid for my own movie ticket (aside from special screenings) for 2 and half years. If AMC goes under or cancels A-List, just cancel all of the movies because I don't want to go anymore. GrandpaPants posted:I'd really miss A-List, even though I find myself irritated by the actual theater experience most of the time, but it did give me a real easy way to watch such generation defining movies like Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Men in Black: International. 
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Apr 3, 2020 21:26
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muscles like this! posted:After being delayed multiple times and having theaters being shut down for the foreseeable future Disney has decided to just dump Artemis Fowl on Disney Plus. No word on when though. Hilariously, New Mutants conspicuously absent from all their rescheduling today unless I missed something Who did that movie piss off at Disney
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Apr 3, 2020 21:26
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END ME SCOOB posted:Hilariously, New Mutants conspicuously absent from all their rescheduling today unless I missed something Kevin Feige, probably.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:28
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cptn_dr posted:God I wish Mortal Engines had been good. This was the last trailer to get me excited for a film but boy maybe im just soft for industrialisation visuals and chains. No wonder i love DOOM.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:48
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Casimir Radon posted:I forgot about Twilight, of course so did everyone else it seems. I suppose The Maze Runner finished too I guess. If being made counts, Ender's Game exists. Lot of franchise potential there. Kids'll love it.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:51
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There must be an Animorphs movie in development hell somewhere. Mixing the protodystopia kid war of Hunger Games and the furry cgi of Cats. Get on it Universal.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:54
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Animorphs was way ahead of it's time.
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Apr 3, 2020 21:57
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If being made counts, Ender's Game exists.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:00
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Casimir Radon posted:I was referring to YA franchises that turned into abortive attempts at film series. The early 2000s was full of YA attempting to follow the Harry Potter formula. Alex Rider, one movie. A Series of Unfortunate Events, died after one film, redone on Netflix, don't know how that went. Percy Jackson, two movies then dead. The Golden Compass, toned down to try and appease dumb fundies, died after one film, ended on a cliffhanger, wasted an amazing cast, rebooted very well on the BBC. Divergent, three movies that kept getting worse and worse critical and commercial results before dying. Jumper.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:02
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Detective No. 27 posted:Animorphs was way ahead of it's time. If they made it now it would have to be a mid 90’s period piece because cell phones and the modern internet pretty much undo the whole premise.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:02
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I don't see a problem with that.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:05
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:If they made it now it would have to be a mid 90’s period piece because cell phones and the modern internet pretty much undo the whole premise. Broad strokes yes but the ahead of its time part is more that by the end it was fully in War Is Hell everyone has PTSD and we send disabled kids into a mission as cannon fodder knowing theyll die because theyre expendable and for the greater good and its not presented as a moral horizon failing but that its war and a decision had to be made. It could still work.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:06
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Lid posted:Broad strokes yes but the ahead of its time part is more that by the end it was fully in War Is Hell everyone has PTSD and we send disabled kids into a mission as cannon fodder knowing theyll die because theyre expendable and for the greater good and its not presented as a moral horizon failing but that its war and a decision had to be made. It could still work. I suppose, but a lot of the things that made it work on a character to character level were rooted in the 90’s zeitgeist. That said, you’re right, the underlying themes are pretty timeless and someone talented enough could do something with it. Racking my brain trying to think of who would ideally helm a project like that. Lol, just remembered the book that asked “what if god...was a gamer???” Now THAT was ahead of its time.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:20
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If being made counts, Ender's Game exists. Ender's Game is such a weird loving adaptation. They toned like...everything from the book to try and give it a wider appeal, but then toned down the sheer size and spectacle of the Battle School and just made it as boring and small scale as gently caress.
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Apr 3, 2020 22:21
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Silver2195 posted:I'm been seeing a lot of negative buzz about it on other sites; apparently the trailers make it seem that they're essentially beginning with the second book and ignoring that Artemis is initially the villain of the series, which is basically throwing away the main distinctive element of the property. well, no, really the more distinctive thing about Artemis Fowl is that it's Shadowrun for kids. Artemis is initially the antagonist, and the first book makes it look like he's a huge poo poo, but then his motivation turns out to be curing his mother's mental illness by press-ganging a fairy into magicking it away rather than the initial gold-ransom. from that point on, he's sort of comparable to, say, Lupin III: a character who achieves good goals through questionable methods, that usually have some sort of selfish benefit for him attached. e: I used to really like these books, and I'm a little miffed at how poo poo the movie looks. it also puts me in a very awkward position with Butler's casting, because I don't wanna be that rear end in a top hat who gripes about a character being black, but... Butler was already a POC in the books and him being very specifically Roma ends up being kinda important later on? so I'm not really sure what they're gonna do with that. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Apr 3, 2020 22:26
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Silver2195 posted:I'm been seeing a lot of negative buzz about it on other sites; apparently the trailers make it seem that they're essentially beginning with the second book and ignoring that Artemis is initially the villain of the series, which is basically throwing away the main distinctive element of the property. I know one of these threads made comments about how he's a happy go lucky kid based entirely on the two minute trailer Also the very first book said "soon to be a movie" back when I was in junior high/highschool in the early 00s
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:I suppose, but a lot of the things that made it work on a character to character level were rooted in the 90’s zeitgeist. That said, you’re right, the underlying themes are pretty timeless and someone talented enough could do something with it. Racking my brain trying to think of who would ideally helm a project like that. Biggest issue with Animorphs is its publishing model looks ridiculous today, since Harry Potter came along and showed you CAN sell novel-length books to kids. LORD OF BOOTY posted:well, no, really the more distinctive thing about Artemis Fowl is that it's Shadowrun for kids. Artemis is initially the antagonist, and the first book makes it look like he's a huge poo poo, but then his motivation turns out to be curing his mother's mental illness by press-ganging a fairy into magicking it away rather than the initial gold-ransom. from that point on, he's sort of comparable to, say, Lupin III: a character who achieves good goals through questionable methods, that usually have some sort of selfish benefit for him attached. Yeah, a pity if they're basically skipping the first book because what makes it so interesting is basically a hostage negotiation movie from both perspectives, with high-tech fairies vs a child criminal mastermind. The later books kinda end up getting formulaic in comparison.
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Apr 4, 2020 04:30
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To nobody's surprise (and I'm only posting about them because I asked a question earlier and this is the answer), the Marvel movies will be delayed Black Widow's date has been moved to November 6th, replacing The Eternals, which has been moved to February 12th, 2021. After that, it gets fuzzy, because a lot of these titles are still in production and those had film stopped due to the pandemic, but we're supposed get Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the Dr. Strange squeal in 2021, and Thor: Love And Thunder in early 2022 now. With Black Widow's release being pushed back, it will be the longest time between a MCU release, with the last film being Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 2nd, 2019. That's about a year and 4 months without Marvel having an influence on cinema.
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Apr 4, 2020 04:37
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Casimir Radon posted:I was referring to YA franchises that turned into abortive attempts at film series. The early 2000s was full of YA attempting to follow the Harry Potter formula. Alex Rider, one movie. A Series of Unfortunate Events, died after one film, redone on Netflix, don't know how that went. Percy Jackson, two movies then dead. The Golden Compass, toned down to try and appease dumb fundies, died after one film, ended on a cliffhanger, wasted an amazing cast, rebooted very well on the BBC. Divergent, three movies that kept getting worse and worse critical and commercial results before dying. There are a lot more Ender books than Harry Potter books though? I have no idea what they intended but if it was wildly successful they'd have had a lot of directions to go. Also, A Series of Unfortunate Events was pretty good as a tv show.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:There are a lot more Ender books than Harry Potter books though? I have no idea what they intended but if it was wildly successful they'd have had a lot of directions to go. The Ender series really goes off the rails after a while. I guess you could still adapt it, but you would probably have to take some, uh, "creative" liberties with the stuff OSC stuffed into the more recent novels.
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