

TheButcher wrote:so sorry wrote:TheButcher wrote:{TB EXCLUSIVE} BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH SET TO PLAY THOMAS EDISON FOR WEINSTEIN COMPANY’S “THE CURRENT WAR”
The spec, which sold to The Weinstein Co. in 2012, follows the intense rivalry between inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse as they battled to be the first to commercially implement a practical system of electricity.
Its good to see Cumberbatch branch out into action-comedy.
THR:
Rooney Mara's 'Mary Magdalene', Benedict Cumberbatch Thomas Edison Biopic 'The Current War' Get Release Dates
The Dark Story of Thomas Edison and Topsy the Elephant
Topsy: New book tells how Thomas Edison electrocuted an innocent elephant at Coney Island
Mike Fleming Jr wrote:EXCLUSIVE: The Men in Black are back. Sony Pictures has fast tracked a spinoff of its billion-dollar alien franchise. The studio today will stake out a May 17, 2019, release date for an untitled film that has a script by Matt Holloway & Art Marcum, the writers of Iron Man and Transformers: The Last Knight.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones aren’t expected to reprise, but the film acknowledges and builds on the world they inhabited. Holloway & Marcum have scripted a contemporary sci-fi pic about the black-clad secret force that protects earth from the alien scum of the universe, focusing on new characters chasing villains that put the picture on more of a global scale than the two previous films. The ambition is akin to the way that Jurassic World rebooted and expanded that franchise. The MiB spinoff film is being produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. They are actively involved in meeting with top directors right now and expect to land one quickly.
The project is a surprise, because it was expected that the next Men in Black movie would be a mashup with another Sony Pictures hit franchise, 21 Jump Street, with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill’s characters donning the black suits. That idea remains in development, but the spinoff is moving quickly and will come first. Sony, which separately is rebooting its Charlie’s Angels reboot with Elizabeth Banks directing and Kristen Stewart and Lupita Nyong’o in talks.
The studio also is moving on multiple fronts with its Spider-Man universe, working simultaneously on a Phil Lord & Christopher Miller-scripted animated film for Christmas 2018, as well as the Ruben Fleischer-directed Tom Hardy-Michelle Williams starrer Venom to be released October 5, 2018, and Silver & Black, with Gina Prince-Bythewood directing the two female superheroes in the Spidey universe for February 8, 2019. There is also the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, with Jon Watts directing Tom Holland and the Zendaya-led ensemble. That will be released July 5, 2019.
Parkes confirmed the Men in Black spinoff. “It’s so rare to get to the end of the script and know you’re holding a movie in your hands, but Art and Matt have written a spinoff that somehow is true to the core of the MiB world and yet expands the franchise to a fresh new place,” he said.
David Beaubaire is overseeing for Sony.
Anita Busch wrote:EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Media has signed an exclusive deal with the H.A. and Margaret Rey Estate, authors of the beloved children’s books, Curious George as well as the estate of Lay Lee Ong, estate literary executor. This is quite a departure for Millennium, and signals the kind of material it will start to produce with its new co-presidents Jonathan Yunger and Jeffrey Greenstein at the helm.
They will start developing an untitled project that will tell the incredible origin story that saved the character Curious George, the true story of H.A. and Margaret Rey. This comes after Millennium Media’s Jonathan Yunger and Jeffrey Greenstein had been chasing the project for nearly two years.
“We are incredibly fortunate to have the Rey estate’s complete confidence and consent, and the approval of Lay Lee, to tell this story. We are also grateful to our friend and writer, Sam Cohan, for bringing us the project,” Yunger said.
It was Cohan who introduced them to Ema Ryan Yamazaki, director of Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators, a documentary exploring the extraordinary lives of H.A. and Margret Rey. A deal was then signed with Yamazaki to engage her and her documentary for the adaptation of feature by Cohan.
The Orchard acquired distribution rights to the Yamazaki documentary last year. Meanwhile, a live-action musical based on the character Curious George is works at Universal with Andrew Adamson attached to direct and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Erica Huggins producing alongside David Kirschner and Jon Shapiro. That one is not an origin story.
“The epitome of mixing passion with business is being blessed to tell this tremendous story of the great lengths H.A. and Margaret Rey went through to save their manuscript, while fleeing Nazi occupied Europe for their lives. Curious George went on to inspire and charm millions worldwide, and soon, so shall the Reys’ unbelievable true story,” said Greenstein.
This project comes only a couple off weeks after Greenstein and Yunger were upped to co-presidents at Millennium Media. Producing will be Yunger, Greenstein, Yamasaki and Cohan. Executive producers are Avi Lerner, Trever Short, Boaz Davidson and John Thompson.
While H.A. and Margaret Rey passed away in 1977 and 1996, respectively, the character of Curious George is beloved with children around the world and has been for about 75 years.
There is even a Curious George Foundation which was established in 1989 to fund programs for children and for programs that benefit animals, not only through preservation but also to prevent cruelty to animals. The foundation supports community outreach programs that emphasize the importance of family, from counseling to peer support groups. So, a portion of the film’s proceeds will be donated to that foundation.
Cohan’s other credits include Fishing Without Nets which was co-written with director Cutter Hodierne, and went onto to win the directing prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He also penned The Closest Thing to Rain.
He is reped by Jeff Hynick at Jackoway, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Austen, Mandelbaum, Morris & Klein.
Peven wrote:pathetic. we're less than 48 hours away from the opening of maybe the biggest genre movie ever and this place is a fucking graveyard. crickets. no mods to be seen anywhere. no so-called "comic geeks". no supposed Marvel fans. nothing.
the new "Glass" trailer screened, the follow up to "Unbreakable" and "Split".
crickets.
Tarantino appeared with Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio to announce his next movie, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
silence.
weak. sauce.![]()
Peven wrote:so, you don't really appreciate movies, you're not really a movie guy, not really into genre movies. makes sense that you would choose to post on a forum that was created as a space for people to share ideas and viewpoints on all things movies first and foremost, and leaning toward a genre movie sensibility.![]()
Butcher was a bot, for all intents and purposes, a non-responsive bot. the fact that he no longer posts here is NO skin off my teeth. i have no idea, no feel for who he was, what he thought about movies, or anything else, because he was a total non-presence here as a human. you can't talk about the latest movie coming out with a fucking link. "so, link, what did you think about that news? wow, pretty heavy stuff, eh?" if he had actually participated in discussions and/or added his take on links when he put them up at least THEN it would make a difference if he still posted here or not.
you like to use this place to drop sophemoric one-liners and whine about how bad The Walking Dead is, even though you continue to help keep it alive by watching it. you're not really invested in the reason why the zone was created at it's inception and the spirit that made this place so engaging the first few years. you used to have an avatar with "her tit is out, let the snake hit it". classy.
a real cinemaphile. so i am not surprised at all that you don't understand why someone would bemoan the demise of the cinematicentric identity of this place.
Peven wrote:so, you don't really appreciate movies, you're not really a movie guy, not really into genre movies. makes sense that you would choose to post on a forum that was created as a space for people to share ideas and viewpoints on all things movies first and foremost, and leaning toward a genre movie sensibility.![]()
Butcher was a bot, for all intents and purposes, a non-responsive bot. the fact that he no longer posts here is NO skin off my teeth. i have no idea, no feel for who he was, what he thought about movies, or anything else, because he was a total non-presence here as a human. you can't talk about the latest movie coming out with a fucking link. "so, link, what did you think about that news? wow, pretty heavy stuff, eh?" if he had actually participated in discussions and/or added his take on links when he put them up at least THEN it would make a difference if he still posted here or not.
you like to use this place to drop sophemoric one-liners and whine about how bad The Walking Dead is, even though you continue to help keep it alive by watching it. you're not really invested in the reason why the zone was created at it's inception and the spirit that made this place so engaging the first few years. you used to have an avatar with "her tit is out, let the snake hit it". classy.
a real cinemaphile. so i am not surprised at all that you don't understand why someone would bemoan the demise of the cinematicentric identity of this place.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Enough of your whining. James Ransone was just cast as Eddie in IT CHAPTER TWO.
I called that shit!
so sorry wrote:The Sandlot is getting a prequel for some fucking reason
This movie squarely falls in the nostalgically-remembered-but-actually-not-good department.
Peven wrote:so sorry wrote:The Sandlot is getting a prequel for some fucking reason
This movie squarely falls in the nostalgically-remembered-but-actually-not-good department.
for once you and I agree on something
so sorry wrote:Will Smith not black enough to play black role
This is fucking ridiculous. I'm sure someone here can tell me why I'm the problem somehow, but I just can't understand this one. People have too much time on their hands and too much perceived self-importance that they have to blog/report about this? Jeebus.
Peven wrote:so sorry wrote:Will Smith not black enough to play black role
This is fucking ridiculous. I'm sure someone here can tell me why I'm the problem somehow, but I just can't understand this one. People have too much time on their hands and too much perceived self-importance that they have to blog/report about this? Jeebus.
holy shit, man, how socially obtuse can you be? you're a caricature of typical passively bigoted middle aged men in this country. i'm not even "picking a side" here in the discussion of whether or not Will Smith is "black enough" to play the role, I don't really feel i'm qualified to weigh in to be honest, but I am aware of and have a respect for the issue itself, as should any adult in 2019.
https://abc.go.com/playlists/PL551778118/video/VDKA7553243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_eBm8qvLAk
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/n/colorism-in-hollywood-needs-to-stop/vp-AAylH0K
TheBaxter wrote:on the surface (no pun intended), it may seem ridiculous to you and me. but, we are white males who do not have the same life experiences to draw from when discussing this issue. just like when women discuss sexual harrassment and assault, this is one of those issues where us white men are better off shutting up and listening, than trying to express an opinion from a limited base of knowledge and experience.
there are a lot of things that probably once seemed "ridiculous" to us heterosexual white males and other groups of people who weren't directly affected. why certain words or phrases are considered offensive, and why the offended groups may be allowed to use those terms when we are not. a woman going to a party and passing out drunk, and then complaining about being raped afterwards was once considered "ridiculous". or Dumbledore people wanting to get married, women wanting to vote, or black people not wanting to sit at the back of the bus, use different water fountains, and attending separate schools. all these things, to the white men who were around at those times, probably seemed ridiculous to them. this particular issue, one that doesn't primarily involve us directly, is probably one we should just keep quiet about. it's fine to have an opinion about it, it's even fine if that opinion is that it is ridiculous (there are plenty of black people, of various shades, who think it's ridiculous too) but it's probably about time that us white men recognize that there are some things about which our opinions don't matter and don't have value, and this is one of those things.
so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:on the surface (no pun intended), it may seem ridiculous to you and me. but, we are white males who do not have the same life experiences to draw from when discussing this issue. just like when women discuss sexual harrassment and assault, this is one of those issues where us white men are better off shutting up and listening, than trying to express an opinion from a limited base of knowledge and experience.
there are a lot of things that probably once seemed "ridiculous" to us heterosexual white males and other groups of people who weren't directly affected. why certain words or phrases are considered offensive, and why the offended groups may be allowed to use those terms when we are not. a woman going to a party and passing out drunk, and then complaining about being raped afterwards was once considered "ridiculous". or Dumbledore people wanting to get married, women wanting to vote, or black people not wanting to sit at the back of the bus, use different water fountains, and attending separate schools. all these things, to the white men who were around at those times, probably seemed ridiculous to them. this particular issue, one that doesn't primarily involve us directly, is probably one we should just keep quiet about. it's fine to have an opinion about it, it's even fine if that opinion is that it is ridiculous (there are plenty of black people, of various shades, who think it's ridiculous too) but it's probably about time that us white men recognize that there are some things about which our opinions don't matter and don't have value, and this is one of those things.
Well first off, thank you for a dignified response.
And everything you said is true. Everything you cite is true, but everything you said involves real world examples. This is about an actor portraying another person. Barring heavy makeup and prosthetics, does every portrayal of a historical figure have to result in direct matches? And it does involve me directly if the goal of the movie is to get me to go see it. Should I not have an opinion about the movie itself since I'm not black and wasn't raised the same way as these black women?
I guess I'm the one overthinking it, even though I feel like other people are the ones overthinking it.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Even after a decade on these forums I can't tell if Peven is merely trolling or is genuinely an asshole.
Peven wrote:I am just so hurt , some people on the internet who have no clue who I am think I am an asshole. my world is rockedyou remind me of the 8th graders I work with every day with your little clique mentalities, you're to simple and juvenile to realize how simple and juvenile you are, it's not like I expect anything different by now. c'est la vie
Ribbons wrote:So I've been on the fence about Taika Waititi, the quirky New Zealand-based director who makes a ton of comedies, Thor: Ragnarok most notably. Then he released this clip to promote his new film Jojo Rabbit, about a boy in WWII-era Germany who argues with an imaginary Hitler*, and he's won me over forever. Witness this masterclass in humor and meme-savvy:
https://twitter.com/jojorabbitmovie/status/1154798536044634113
*I also did not know that Taika Waititi was Jewish. He's a man who wears many hats.
TheBaxter wrote:the theatrical window is dead
so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:the theatrical window is dead
Yowza.
What the article doesn't say (unless I missed it, to lazy to go back) is if the HBO Max way would come with a premium charge. Like the way Disney+ had Mulan, but you had to pay 20 bucks or whatever it was to watch it "first run" style.
TheBaxter wrote:so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:the theatrical window is dead
Yowza.
What the article doesn't say (unless I missed it, to lazy to go back) is if the HBO Max way would come with a premium charge. Like the way Disney+ had Mulan, but you had to pay 20 bucks or whatever it was to watch it "first run" style.
i would assume as much, but even at $20 it's way cheaper and more convenient than going to the theater. as i've predicted, theatrical exhibition pretty soon is going to be relegated to premium experiences for the biggest, loudest films, and home viewing will soon become the norm for most films, especially comedies, dramas, and animated films.
so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:the theatrical window is dead
Yowza.
What the article doesn't say (unless I missed it, to lazy to go back) is if the HBO Max way would come with a premium charge. Like the way Disney+ had Mulan, but you had to pay 20 bucks or whatever it was to watch it "first run" style.
i would assume as much, but even at $20 it's way cheaper and more convenient than going to the theater. as i've predicted, theatrical exhibition pretty soon is going to be relegated to premium experiences for the biggest, loudest films, and home viewing will soon become the norm for most films, especially comedies, dramas, and animated films.
Yeah 20 bucks is fine to me too. But I'd be willing to sit at home for the big loud action flicks too. Except Top Gun 2. That fucker needs to be experienced on the big screen for sure.
When asked whether the films would be free to subscribers or available for an additional premium fee, as with the Premier Access platform on Disney+, a WarnerMedia spokesperson told Gizmodo that there will be “no additional charge to HBO Max subscribers.”
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