Iron Crowned posted:

I feel like future people will have superstitions surrounding creepypasta than anything else, with people being terrified of sewer clowns.

bows1 posted:

What’s he referring to?

Grendels Dad posted:

Indiana Jones franchise restarter idea: John Wick, but with Indiana Jones. We never learned how Indiana died, did we?

Thundercracker posted:

Speaking of who greenlit a movie I would love to hear how The Foreigner was greenlit. Because it definitely feels like two entirely different movies. Or rather it was like they pitched a script for a IRA thriller and then it's someone said no one's going to watch that so they add Jackie Chan. Like he has no real character arc, and his actions are weirdly inconsequential in a Indiana Jones kind of way. There's there's entire long stretch of the movie where it's not about him at all, and all about Pierce brosnan's IRA politicking.

He's great in it though, but almost in a Predator monster way.

Casimir Radon posted:

I liked The Foreigner. If you want a really lovely Chan movie from recently there's Bleeding Steel which I thoroughly gave up on halfway through.

Alan Smithee posted:

Welp. News to me

RC and Moon Pie posted:

Christian movie I Still Believe is set to open tomorrow. I've seen two ads for it on TV this week.

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In addition to DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, set to open in theaters on April 10 in North America, NBCUniversal will also make movies that are currently in theatrical release available on-demand starting as early as Friday, March 20.

Those titles include Universal's The Hunt and The Invisible Man, as well as Focus Features' Emma.

GrandpaPants posted:

I'm in SF and I haven't heard any communication from AMC about shutting down, just halving capacity. I should probably suspend my A-list for a few months, though.

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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.

“We expect AMC Entertainment … theaters will remain closed beyond June due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. We do not believe AMC has sufficient sources of liquidity to cover its expected negative cash flows past mid-summer, and we believe the company will likely breach” a debt covenant in September absent a waiver from its lender, S&P said, knocking the company’s credit rating to ‘CCC-‘ From ‘B-‘ with Outlook Negative.

Chairman Capone posted:

I don't think 9/11 is even the reason, Ender’s Shadow came out a few years before 9/11 and it was full on nuts. That entire series was such a weird premise, it was like OSC deciding he was now going to become Tom Clancy.

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

This is the best book commercial.

Niric posted:

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Amasia won the feature film franchise rights to the Green Hornet in January with Amasia’s co-founders Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo producing. Helfant is a veteran Hollywood executive who was president and chief operating officer of Marvel Studios for several years starting in 2005.

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Universal announced the deal on Thursday with Peter Cramer, president of Universal Pictures, saying in a statement, “The Green Hornet is one of the most iconic and beloved superhero tales ever created, and it has entertained generations of fans in every form of storytelling. We are thrilled to be partnering with Michael, Bradley, and the entire Amasia team to launch an exciting new cinematic world for Britt Reid, Kato, and the Black Beauty, and we can’t wait to share it with global audiences soon.”

Helfant said, “Universal will be a great home for our new Green Hornet and Kato. The team at Universal share our passion & enthusiasm for the property and will devote the resources to launch a truly global franchise. And, it’s very cool that Universal was the original distributor of the 1940’s movie serials. Our goal is to make a film that existing fans will love, and new fans will love to discover. With Universal, it feels like we are merging the past and the future, creating a contemporary version of the franchise that is fresh and exciting while respecting its long legacy and history. I can’t wait!”

feedmyleg posted:

Adapting this stuff is such an exercise in futility. Either you do a faithful adaptation and the 700 fans praise the film but nobody else sees it because you've made something very niche, or you do an unfaithful adaptation and the 700 fans are mad and the blogs write scathing articles and the masses are either unaware of the IP's legacy or are actively turned off by it. Either way, nobody sees it. There are rare exceptions like the Banderas Zorro movies, but almost every other pulp adaptation has been a huge failure, either creatively, commercially, or both.

You can do a modern version of Batman or Superman or any of those early comic book heroes because there is a popular version of them that has continued to evolve and change and grow into modern times. There is a trial-and-error allowable in comic books because if someone doesn't like your reboot then you can go and retcon it a few years later, or just shove it down their throats long enough that a new creator will come along and iron out all those details and update it to a version that people do like. But updating The Green Hornet to modern times is going to be tough, because there isn't a modern day popular version of the character out there (outside of occasionally trying a modern reboot that comes and goes immediately and never stuck). So at that point you have to make the whole thing up from whole cloth, which doesn't feel authentic. And if you don't, then your characters are stuck in the past.

So if you're in these people's positions, you either divorce it from the IP and try something new (and wind up with Green Hornet 2011 all over again), or you do an authentic version that nobody cares about regardless of quality (John Carter, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Lone Ranger, The Legend of Tarzan, etc, etc). Not that I'd complain if we get an old-school film serial style 1940s-set Green Hornet, I just have a hard time imagining anyone financing that.

GrandpaPants posted:

They should just make like a failure adventures with all the IPs that people apparently can't make successful. Green Hornet, King Arthur, and Robin Hood team up to, I dunno, adapt to a modern world?

muscles like this! posted:

What could a Demolition Man sequel possibly do? There wasn't exactly a ton of story hooks, especially over 25 years later.

porfiria posted:

Is/was it common practice to j off in adult theatres? Like, is it considered gauche among the clientele? Isn't the whole point of dirty movies to get your rocks off? Or was the idea you'd save it up in your memory and take it home?

Action Jacktion posted:

There was an episode of MASK where the villains are searching for ancient treasure that's supposed to reveal the secret of life, and in the end it's just an inscription saying the secret of life is love. Don't know what they expected honestly.