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Nation posted:i do not respond to 'trolls' I ain't afraid of no trolls! /steps on gas pedal, peels out of thread
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 13:21 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:43 |
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BillmasterCozb posted:Old Yeller, but the dog is portrayed by Bruce Willis
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 15:43 |
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Mordja posted:Have there actually been any good remakes outside of loose re-imaginings of '50s B movies (The Thing) and the occasional Hollywoodified foreign film (The Departed)? Scarface (1983), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Cape Fear (1991), True Grit (2010), Little Shop Of Horrors (1986), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Wizard of Oz (1939) .... For Hollywoodified films there's also The Magnificent Seven (1960) and 12 Monkeys (1995) and for 50s B movie remakes there's The Fly (1986)
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 15:51 |
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client posted:movies like hellraiser that were cool but made for $16 are the only kind that should be remade They've been working on a Hellraiser remake since 2006 and came close to getting it up and running a few times but it was announced a few months ago that the new film which is currently being shot will be yet another sequel instead of a remake. http://movieweb.com/hellraiser-movie-2016-cast-heather-langenkamp/ We have such tired, recycled sights to show you
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 16:28 |
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client posted:when the director is the old makeup artist and the original pinhead would rather star in wrong turn 5 you know youve got a quality production on your hands I feel that the series has taken a turn for the meta and is now doing its best to torture its fans in real life. Here's another sequel! No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 16:53 |
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:They are not remaking Buckaroo Banzai Nope, we're getting a TV series written by Kevin Smith instead http://screenrant.com/adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-tv-series-kevin-smith/
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 17:08 |
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Junior Jr. posted:When are Disney remaking The Black Hole? Right now http://movieweb.com/tron-3-and-the-black-hole-updates-from-director-joseph-kosinski/ Edit: the only poo poo from the 70s/80s that isn't in the process of being remade is stuff like Back To The Future where the original creator has said "gently caress you, you're not remaking it while I'm alive and I'm instructing my estate to block all attempts to remake it" Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jul 15, 2016 |
# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 17:35 |
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Applewhite posted:poo poo I just realized a big budget Magic School Bus movie is an inevitability. People have been crying out for it http://www.themovienetwork.com/article/why-live-action-magic-school-bus-should-come-next
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 21:07 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:Gremlins Chris Columbus was talking up the Gremlins reboot last year while he was shilling for Pixels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1WnUe-EHw ... but there hasn't been a lot of news since then
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 21:57 |
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Pawn 17 posted:Last I read opening was on track for $50M and the movie cost over $150M to make. That's a $50M opening, which is just the first weekend. People are still hedging their bets on whether it'll beat the animated film The Life Of Pets which had a huge opening last week and is still going strong.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 23:28 |
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eSports Chaebol posted:Genuine bombs are almost unheard of now. That's what's so depressing about all this. The formula works. What was the last bomb? John Carter I guess? Studios these days only get 20% or less of their income via box office sales, stuff like home media and TV/rental licencing deals which used to be minor are now their main revenue streams, not to mention merchandising, cross promotion, product placement, etc etc. Production costs can be shifted around on the books, if they get wind that a certain movie is going to tank they can throw it under the bus and offload production costs from one of their other movie onto it to make that other movie look more profitable. The Hollywood media loves reporting on the box office numbers because that's pretty much the only indicator they have on whether a film is successful or not even though those numbers haven't actually been relevant to whether a film is successful for decades now, but reports on the DVD/Blu-Ray sales for a movie that left cinemas three months ago isn't sexy enough to be headline news. The important factor now is whether a film appears to be successful. It's all bragging rights and appearances and reputations. If the film's projected to open at $43 to $48 million and it only brings in $35 million that first weekend every Hollywood media outlet will be screaming about how the film has flopped and the director has failed and the stars aren't bankable even though it's pretty much guaranteed to make it's money back some way eventually, or it'll just get written off on tax if it doesn't, or the studio will make up the difference on another project anyway. The film was actually financed a year or more ago so it's already been paid for, the executive producers did their job and will have already moved on to new projects by the time this film hits the cinemas. If the film does 'okay' at the very minimum then they'll have nothing to worry about, their only concern will be if it gets a reputation as a terrible failure and even then their main concern will be how that affects the studio's reputation at the financial institutions which insure their movies because if you don't get insurance you can't get backing and the film won't get made. The banks which insure movies will often put in crazy stipulations and have staff members on site to make sure the stars of the movie don't risk themselves doing their own stunts and poo poo like that. Tl;dr: the box office numbers aren't really that relevant to a film's success these days, it's mostly about appearances.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 13:40 |
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Internaut! posted:"profits don't matter to studios, only PR" Box office numbers =/= profits
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 16:03 |
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Germstore posted:scummy studio accounting There's a ton of hilari-bad stories of Hollywood people taking points on a film (getting paid on the 'profits' of a film rather than on the gross) and getting hosed over when the film makes a ton of money at the box office but because of lovely Hollywood accounting the film officially lost money so they never get paid out. Peter Michael Goetz famously got a royalties cheque for 3c for the 1986 film King Kong Lives. Return of the Jedi reportedly had production costs of $32.5 million and had a domestic box office of $309 million and a worldwide gross of $572 million (not to mention untold millions in home video and merchandise sales) but for decades afterwards they kept sending letters to Darth Vader actor David Prowse saying "Sorry, the film still hasn't come into profit so we can't pay you any residuals yet."
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 16:20 |
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"Kiss the fattest part of my assholes" is a great line, whoever originally wrote that wall of text.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 17:50 |
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rezatahs posted:pretty sure that wasn't quoting anybody He's also a FYAD poster who was recently posting about how both sides of the GB debate were crazy assholes
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 18:09 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:Usually that stuff factors in with distribution costs which a huge joke since Hollywood is actually selling their services to themselves basically. This is on track to be bad for Sony because they needed this to be a hit since so many of their tentpole films failed. What are you talking about, they've recently produced such cinematic classics as Angry Birds, The Brothers Grimsby, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Pixels, The Interview, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, etc etc.... Ghostbusters might actually turn out to be their biggest film of 2016 even if it makes a loss overall, their other biggest films so far this year have been Angry Birds and some lovely Christian film called Miracles from Heaven and I can't see their upcoming animated film Sausage Party going all that well. I'm also not expecting big things from their Magnificent Seven remake but on the other hand you can't rule out the Chris Pratt factor there. Their only films to pass $200,000 on the homefront these last few years were Amazing Spider-Man 2 (which was so disappointing they killed that franchise and went crawling back to Marvel) and the Bond film Spectre (which also massively underperformed). Their biggest recent success stories were Hotel Transylvania 2, 22 Jump Street, American Hustle and Grown Ups 2 and they've already slated another Hotel Transylvania sequel for 2018, the 21 Jump Street/MIB cross-sequel is coming along, American Hustle was a one-off docudrama and there was talk about Grown Ups 3 but who knows where that's at now that Sandler is pumping out movies for Netflix. If Ghostbusters manages to get anywhere near $150m at the box office they might not have any choice except to make a sequel. They don't have much else in the bag to fall back on - they've got sequels to Underworld, Trainspotting, Resident Evil, Smurfs and Bad Boys coming up as well as remakes of Jumanji and Flatliners and I can't see any of those doing incredibly well.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 20:48 |
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:I also think Bad Boys 3 could do well partly due to nostalgia. It'd better, they've already greenlit Bad Boys 4 for 2019. Young Freud posted:Kinda forgetting one there. I was replying to a post which said "Has there been any good remakes apart from The Thing" NutritiousSnack posted:This is where we differ because I think if this fails to hit above 160-170 million but hits around 150 million, we are done with this iteration of Ghostbusters. Either Feig quietly gets the boot and another director signs on and GB 2 is made into a very different film or they reboot it again or try to do Ghostbusters 3. I agree if it hits around that magic number, Sony is going to be desprate enough to try again, but no one is going to be dumb enough to finance the same bomb all over again. Yeah, Sony have set up an entire production company called GHOST CORPS headed up by Aykroyd and Reitman with the aim of spinning out as many Ghostbusters movies and TV shows as possible, if FemmeBusters doesn't stack up they can just wheel out the Channin Tatum crew and say it was their plan all along to make the second film with that team. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jul 16, 2016 |
# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 21:42 |
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Father Wendigo posted:There were already rumblings of something animated, and they are on track to have their lunch eaten by a mediocre animated film that's done unexpectedly well. That's where my money is. Yeah they've even announced a director for the animated version, that'll probably go ahead regardless Snowglobe of Doom posted:They announced a few months ago that Clash of Clans animation director Fletcher Moules has signed on to direct an animated GB movie.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 21:50 |
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natetimm posted:I guess the new Ghostbusters made around 15 mil last night? I think assuming that will mean it makes 45 mil this weekend is pretty generous considering all the empty theater posts I'm seeing. What would be the amount that you could call it a bomb at after this weekend? 30 mil? 25 mil? The Thurs/Fri estimate is $17.2 million and they're projecting $46.5m for the weekend overall. It was #1 on Friday but should lose out to the Life of Pets animated film on Sat/Sun. Early projections had it making between $38m to $40m but Sony had a HUGE advertising campaign this last week and the projection was upgraded to $45m - $50m, so it's doing better than the early projections predicted and falling into the low range of the more recent predictions. It's doing about as well as they expected. http://variety.com/2016/film/news/box-office-ghostbusters-secret-life-of-pets-2-1201815841/ We won't have any way of predicting how well it'll do overall until we get an idea of the numbers for next weekend, word of mouth will be a big factor and there's no way of predicting whether things will pick up or whether the film blew its wad already.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 22:55 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:Hilarously this was the worst case scenario for everyone. Sony is going to take the lesson "women aren't funny from this" but that GB is a valuable brand despite it. Instead expect animated retools or a "smarter" GB 3 soft reboot or some other dumb poo poo with Sandler type comedy and one of the two is going to break over 200 million and make us all suffer. Fuuuuck If GB had brought in $50m this weekend I bet Sony would have announced the sequel sometime Saturday as part of the "We're completely happy with this project and we were always behind it, please continue printing positive articles about our obviously successful film k thnx" promo push they usually pull at this point of things.
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# ¿ Jul 16, 2016 23:17 |
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Retarded_Clown_ posted:So, I saw a thing.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 08:59 |
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Harald posted:A remake of Armageddon but the asteroid is crawling with those killer gorillas from Congo Donkey Kong adaptation lookin' good
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 01:49 |
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Sony's president of marketing and distribution Josh Greenstein has gone on record saying that they're "ecstatic" with Feig's Ghostbusters and they're planning on making a whole bunch of sequelsquote:“There absolutely will be more [films],” said Josh Greenstein, Sony’s marketing and distribution chief. “This is a restart of one of our most important brands.” quote:But ticket sales for “Ghostbusters” were strong enough to merit revelry nonetheless. “We’re totally ecstatic,” Josh Greenstein, Sony’s president of marketing and distribution, said by phone. quote:Mr. Greenstein said he expected the generously reviewed reboot to perform well in the weeks ahead. “Paul’s movies have big, huge, high multiples, and there are no big comedies on the horizon,” he said. Amid more straightforward summer remakes and sequels, “the movie is both new and nostalgic, which makes it stand out,” he added.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2016 15:42 |
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The Grimace posted:If the movie didn't have the "Ghostbusters" moniker, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much drama from the PR fallout as there was, but it also would not appeal to a larger audience consisting of existing Ghostbuster fans either. It's an interesting prospect, but I don't think it's easy to gauge how well the movie would have done otherwise. Also if the movie didn't have the "Ghostbusters" moniker it wouldn't have been greenlit with a $170 million production budget (which later got cut back), or given a $100m+ promotional budget, or opened nationally on approx 4000 screens. Sony really threw a lot behind it. It's Sony's most expensive film for 2016 and even after all this it'll probably end up being their biggest grossing film for the year - their biggest box office draw for 2016 so far has been Angry Birds which brought in $106m in the US and GB2016 should pass that, but even then there's a good chance that Angry Birds will have a bigger worldwide gross. So yeah, it's hasn't been a great year for Sony and it's no wonder they're trying to put a positive spin on GB2016 and telling everyone they're happy with how it turned out. "N-no, it's great, we love it. We truly truly love it. We didn't get hosed in the rear end at all, just ignore all that blood streaming from our anus. That's liquid joy! We're making GBS threads liquid joy, that's how happy we are with the recent turn of events! We're just so happy!"
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 01:25 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:It already opened in 2/3 of the big markets in the foreign market and next week is going to be a tough one for a film already deflating, so no. It's not even going to make 144 million worldwide Eh, various industry sites have been going on and on about how Paul Feig's movies have an average multiplier of 4.778 so if his past results are any indicator it'll pass $200m domestically but on the other hand no one can see it having the box office legs that Bridesmaids did, plus it may have shot it's wad in its first weekend with people just turning up out of curiosity. We won't really be able to tell how well it'll do until we see the numbers for next weekend which will tell us whether it can hold onto an audience or whether they're gonna drop it like a hot turd.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 01:50 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:How much did CineD actually buy that bullshit PR spin from Sony? Are some people there laughing at least? Yeah the reaction in CineD has been "Sony hosed up"
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 04:10 |
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Why do most studios care about the Chinese market? There's a general trend of less Americans going to see films every year, so expect to see a lot more of this: Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Jul 19, 2016 |
# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 04:55 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:Why even make films for the US any longer though? They're just wasting a big chunk of what they might make in the US on advertising and distribution and poo poo. They're starting to go that way already, which is why that recent Transformers film suddenly shifted all the action to China for the second half of the film and why a bunch of other recent films have been co-produced by Chinese backers. G-Mach posted:The US is only allowed to import something like 34 movies in total per year to China and India has it's own movie industry. China only allowed 34 foreign films in total every year and they'll occasionally bring in something from non-US countries. Apparently they'll be slightly increasing that number soon.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 05:16 |
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Y-Hat posted:but you see Ghostbusters made more money in its opening weekend than Angry Birds, and it should be on pace to make more than it domestically. furthermore *large stain in front of pants grows bigger* Well it did, but Angry Birds also brought in $75 million in China and Ghostbusters won't get any of that action. Angry Birds' production budget was also only 50% of what Sony paid for Ghostbusters
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 06:35 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:Angry Birds succeeded overseas, while Ghostbusters has less momentum over there and less access to foreign markets too It probably also has a much lower nostalgia factor in many foreign countries .... not that the nostalgia factor has been all that beneficial in the US. Edit: I'm seeing a whole bunch of positive word of mouth on Facebook, lots of women talking it up. Dunno how widespread that is or how much it'll help the film in the coming weeks.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 06:51 |
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je1 healthcare posted:By the 90s it hit a fever pitch, and people like to forget just how many nostalgic reboots were made back then. Except then it was about dredging up stuff baby boomers grew up with (two Flintstones films, three Adams family movies, two for the Brady Bunch, three for Dennis the Menace) I was curious about what other baby boomer stuff was adapted in the 90s so I had a quick look and there was a whooooole lot of them: The Beverly Hillbillies, The Sandlot Kids, The Little Rascals, Leave It to Beaver, Richie Rich, Casper, 101 Dalmatians, The Nutty Professor, Mars Attacks!, Flubber, Mr. Magoo, Doctor Dolittle, Lost in Space, The Avengers, Wild Wild West, Dick Tracy, My Favorite Martian, Lassie, Dudley Do-Right, McHale's Navy, Pippi Longstocking and probably more gently caress THIS poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-FhWLCmI-w
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 18:14 |
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Ghostbusters' popularity probably contributed to the ghost hunting TV series boom which started in the late 90s but movies like Poltergeist and earlier shows like "In Search Of..." would have also been factors.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 20:38 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:is there any part of the new ghostbusters that could be construed as scary? the library, fridge, and chair scene are all scary in the first movie. There's a jump scare right at the start and there's a scene in the subway where there a really creepy ghost slowly approaching the Ghostbusters and at first all you can see is his glowing eyes. Small kids might find those scenes a little scary.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 22:15 |
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je1 healthcare posted:Dick Tracy was greenlit probably because of Batman as it was another 1930s detective comic and holy heck how did it get nominated for 7 oscars. Not only that but it won three Oscars. They'd always planned on making a bunch of sequels but the poo poo hit the fan pretty much immediately after the film premiered. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Beatty has always wanted to do a sequel (even though Disney dropped it after they were disappointed with the first film's reception) but there was an issue with the rights (plus his executive producers were suing him over the movie) which wasn't resolved until 2013. 23 years of legal bullshit must have sucked. Wikipedia has a rundown of all the legal bullshit and reports that Beatty has been talking about a sequel as recently as April this year. Beatty still hasn't given up on the idea of making more Dick Tracy films.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2016 22:18 |
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Kate McKinnon is going to be so embarrassed when someone explains to her that licking a gun is something that you're only allowed to do if you're trying to titillate men. She's going to be so mad at Paul Feig for tricking her into doing that!! Edit: whoa, someone better tell Tank Girl as well Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Jul 22, 2016 |
# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 13:01 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:when they remake jaws there will be riots in the streets. It looks like the rights are still with Amblin (now called Amblin Partners, an amalgamation of Amblin, Dreamworks and Participant Media and part of the Universal group) and Spielberg said in an interview last year that he'll never remake any of his Amblin films. If anyone wants to remake Jaws they'd have a hell of a legal battle on their hands. http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-spielberg-will-never-remake-jaws-might-rema-229953 Not that we need another shark film, what with films like The Shallows and SyFy's Sharknado quatrology and the Sharktopus trilogy etc flooding the market.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 04:36 |
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Klyith posted:that's a gently caressman God drat it, I knew I shouldn't have laminated my bucket list
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2016 07:05 |
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Don Tacorleone posted:There's another King Kong remake coming out, starring black actor guy and Fred flint stone Also they embiggened Kong so he's capable of taking on Godzilla in the upcoming crossover, because you can't make an action movie without it being part of a shared universe these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E591L_sxw-k As a fan of the original Japanese King Kong Versus Godzilla I appreciate their subtle nod to the classic in making this new Kong look like a man in a suit.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 02:31 |
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JediTalentAgent posted:If it happens, I'm sure there will be some Hot Topic knockoffs to make it happen called "Lil' Olden Books" that will be juuust close enough to LGBs to look like them, but just different enough to fall under some sort of unique or parody protection. From here: http://jspiotto.blogspot.is/search/label/Little%20Golden%20Books There's a whoooole bunch of 'em
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 07:09 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:43 |
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bloodysabbath posted:So Ghostbusters had a 50%+ drop this week, off an opening that was piss poor for a $144m+ marketing tentpole. Overseas it's even worse, it didn't crack the top five, which puts the weekend international take at under Dory's $19m. That's the two weekend totals, the full domestic gross is $86m, with a worldwide gross of $122m. And a 50%+ drop off for the second weekend is pretty standard, Deadpool dropped -57.4% for its second weekend, X-Men: Apocalypse dropped -65.3% and Batman v Superman dropped -69.1%,
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 07:20 |