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Release dates with Seasonal quotes are even more confusing for those in the Southern Hemisphere ^&grin
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON---trailer released for Season 2.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8H5gqGA34
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE---trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1OOlGwExM
MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS---mid-season trailer released for the Apple TV+ Godzilla series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNjnEFEheh4
FALLOUT---trailer released for the Amazon Prime series based on the video game.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQ8i2FpRDk
THE BOYS---trailer released for Season 4.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9U-yoJbgWs
HALO---trailer released for Season 2.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiTJ2JNDco
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the last episode of the 60th anniversary specials.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cgaQZmUV_g
AVENGERS---Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige denied rumors Robert Downey, Jr. will return as Iron Man in an AVENGERS sequel, “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again. We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way.”
Co-director Joe Russo added, “We already said tearful goodbyes on the last day of shooting. Everybody had moved on emotionally. We promised him it would be the last time we made him do it—ever.”
NOSFERATU---photo released from the vampire remake movie that stars Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe.
THE MARVELS---VARIETY reported that the sequel's first month earned $80 million domestically and $197 million worldwide which makes it the lowest-grossing movie in Marvel Cinematic Universe history.
SUPER HEROES---Jodie Foster commented on the popularity of superhero movies, “It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases. Hopefully people will be sick of it soon.
The good ones – like IRON MAN, BLACK PANTHER, THE MATRIX’ – I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
OCEANS---the prequel movie will be set in 1962 Monaco during the Monaco Grand Prix with the BARBIE team of Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie playing the parents of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock).
REACHER---Amazon Prime renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
The documentary tv series ICONS UNEARTHED episode "The Man Who Wouldn't Be King" featured George Lazenby replacing Sean Connery in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Director/writer Brian Volk-Weiss interviewed Lazenby about filming at the exotic Swiss mountaintop Piz Gloria restaurant, "While they were making the movie, he was telling the story. He was like, ‘Yeah, you know, I had to get off the mountain, I had to get off. I had to get off. So every day, when I finished shooting, you know, a helicopter would arrive and pick me up and bring me into town, and then at the end of the night, it would bring me back.’ … So I had seen him tell that story before, but every time I had seen that story before, I always wondered to myself, ‘Why did he have to leave the mountain? They're staying in this beautiful hotel in the Alps or something. Like, why did he have to leave every day?’ So sure enough, he tells the story, I wait for him to finish, and I'm like ‘You know George, I'm curious, why did you have to leave the mountain every day?’ And he is like, ‘I ran out of women to f*ck’ I'm like, ‘Okay, great.’ Like, there you go, George.’"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON---trailer released for Season 2.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ8H5gqGA34
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE---trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1OOlGwExM
MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS---mid-season trailer released for the Apple TV+ Godzilla series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNjnEFEheh4
FALLOUT---trailer released for the Amazon Prime series based on the video game.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQ8i2FpRDk
THE BOYS---trailer released for Season 4.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9U-yoJbgWs
HALO---trailer released for Season 2.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiTJ2JNDco
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the last episode of the 60th anniversary specials.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cgaQZmUV_g
AVENGERS---Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige denied rumors Robert Downey, Jr. will return as Iron Man in an AVENGERS sequel, “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again. We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way.”
Co-director Joe Russo added, “We already said tearful goodbyes on the last day of shooting. Everybody had moved on emotionally. We promised him it would be the last time we made him do it—ever.”
NOSFERATU---photo released from the vampire remake movie that stars Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe.
THE MARVELS---VARIETY reported that the sequel's first month earned $80 million domestically and $197 million worldwide which makes it the lowest-grossing movie in Marvel Cinematic Universe history.
SUPER HEROES---Jodie Foster commented on the popularity of superhero movies, “It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases. Hopefully people will be sick of it soon.
The good ones – like IRON MAN, BLACK PANTHER, THE MATRIX’ – I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
OCEANS---the prequel movie will be set in 1962 Monaco during the Monaco Grand Prix with the BARBIE team of Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie playing the parents of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock).
REACHER---Amazon Prime renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
The documentary tv series ICONS UNEARTHED episode "The Man Who Wouldn't Be King" featured George Lazenby replacing Sean Connery in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Director/writer Brian Volk-Weiss interviewed Lazenby about filming at the exotic Swiss mountaintop Piz Gloria restaurant, "While they were making the movie, he was telling the story. He was like, ‘Yeah, you know, I had to get off the mountain, I had to get off. I had to get off. So every day, when I finished shooting, you know, a helicopter would arrive and pick me up and bring me into town, and then at the end of the night, it would bring me back.’ … So I had seen him tell that story before, but every time I had seen that story before, I always wondered to myself, ‘Why did he have to leave the mountain? They're staying in this beautiful hotel in the Alps or something. Like, why did he have to leave every day?’ So sure enough, he tells the story, I wait for him to finish, and I'm like ‘You know George, I'm curious, why did you have to leave the mountain every day?’ And he is like, ‘I ran out of women to f*ck’ I'm like, ‘Okay, great.’ Like, there you go, George.’"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
RACE FOR GLORY: AUDI VS LANCIA---trailer released for the racing movie starring Daniel Bruhl.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRI4vC05GU
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE---trailer released for the Bob Marley biomovie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajw425Kuvtw
KILLING CASTRO---Al Pacino, Diego Boneta and Xolo Mariduena will star in this movie based on the true story of a young FBI agent assigned to protect Fidel Castro from assassination when he visited New York.
NICHOLAS CAGE---the actor said he may retire, "...may have three or four more movies left in me...feel I've said what I've had to say with cinema. I think I took film performance as far as I could."
He added that he plans to be "much more selective and stringent in my selection process...I want to say bye on a high note."
Later, Cage clarified his original retirement comment, “I’m not saying no entirely. I’m saying if something came along that I thought had some pop to it, some spark to it, that maybe could be fun for folks to revisit, like a FACE/OFF 2 or GHOST RIDER, that’s another conversation.”
THE APPRENTICE---photo released of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in the movie about Trump building his New York real estate empire in the 1970s and 1980s.
TERRY GILLIAM---Terry Gilliam commented on his next untitled comedy movie that might star Johnny Depp, “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan. This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for f—ing up his beautiful garden Earth … There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”
EVIL DEAD---Bruce Campbell said more EVIL DEAD movies are underway, “We’re going to do them probably more like every two to three years now, rather than every ten years. But, hey, we’ve seen with STAR WARS – you don’t want to wear people out. Keep them guessing! We never wore out our welcome with EVIL DEAD because we never choked them.
We were very happy with what [director] Lee Cronin did. He did a great job, to the point where he’s going to be hard to employ again because everybody wants to use him now. So we’ll see if we get him back or not! It’s made the most money of any EVIL DEAD movie so far at $140 million. So, yeah, you bet your bottom dollar we’re going to do a few more.”
CALAMITY HUSTLE---Ryan Reynolds and Channing Tatum will star in this action comedy movie about an ex-cop private detective who searches for his estranged brother who interfered with a diamond heist.
KARDASHIAN---Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner will star in this untitled Ryan Murphy/Hulu legal series about a successful Los Angeles divorce lawyer who heads an all-female law firm.
TRIVIA---two actors had their first movie role in the CRITTERS sci fi monster movies in which Krites ("Critters"), ravenous alien convicts, break out of prison and escape to Earth. Scott Grimes (BAND OF BROTHERS, THE ORVILLE) co-starred in CRITTERS and CRITTERS 2 as Brad Brown, whose family farm is attacked by the Critters. Leonardo DiCaprio played Josh, a sleazy landlord's stepson, in CRITTERS 3 in which the Critters attack a tenement building and its inhabitants. DiCaprio said CRITTERS 3 is "possibly one of the worst films of all time" and a movie he avoided the rest of his career.
Scott Grimes (BAND OF BROTHERS, THE ORVILLE) co-starred in CRITTERS and CRITTERS 2 as Brad Brown, whose family farm is attacked by the Critters.
Leonardo DiCaprio played Josh, a sleazy landlord's stepson, in CRITTERS 3 in which the Critters attack a tenement building and its inhabitants.
RACE FOR GLORY: AUDI VS LANCIA---trailer released for the racing movie starring Daniel Bruhl.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRI4vC05GU
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE---trailer released for the Bob Marley biomovie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajw425Kuvtw
KILLING CASTRO---Al Pacino, Diego Boneta and Xolo Mariduena will star in this movie based on the true story of a young FBI agent assigned to protect Fidel Castro from assassination when he visited New York.
NICHOLAS CAGE---the actor said he may retire, "...may have three or four more movies left in me...feel I've said what I've had to say with cinema. I think I took film performance as far as I could."
He added that he plans to be "much more selective and stringent in my selection process...I want to say bye on a high note."
Later, Cage clarified his original retirement comment, “I’m not saying no entirely. I’m saying if something came along that I thought had some pop to it, some spark to it, that maybe could be fun for folks to revisit, like a FACE/OFF 2 or GHOST RIDER, that’s another conversation.”
THE APPRENTICE---photo released of Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in the movie about Trump building his New York real estate empire in the 1970s and 1980s.
TERRY GILLIAM---Terry Gilliam commented on his next untitled comedy movie that might star Johnny Depp, “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan. This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for f—ing up his beautiful garden Earth … There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”
EVIL DEAD---Bruce Campbell said more EVIL DEAD movies are underway, “We’re going to do them probably more like every two to three years now, rather than every ten years. But, hey, we’ve seen with STAR WARS – you don’t want to wear people out. Keep them guessing! We never wore out our welcome with EVIL DEAD because we never choked them.
We were very happy with what [director] Lee Cronin did. He did a great job, to the point where he’s going to be hard to employ again because everybody wants to use him now. So we’ll see if we get him back or not! It’s made the most money of any EVIL DEAD movie so far at $140 million. So, yeah, you bet your bottom dollar we’re going to do a few more.”
CALAMITY HUSTLE---Ryan Reynolds and Channing Tatum will star in this action comedy movie about an ex-cop private detective who searches for his estranged brother who interfered with a diamond heist.
KARDASHIAN---Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner will star in this untitled Ryan Murphy/Hulu legal series about a successful Los Angeles divorce lawyer who heads an all-female law firm.
TRIVIA---two actors had their first movie role in the CRITTERS sci fi monster movies in which Krites ("Critters"), ravenous alien convicts, break out of prison and escape to Earth. Scott Grimes (BAND OF BROTHERS, THE ORVILLE) co-starred in CRITTERS and CRITTERS 2 as Brad Brown, whose family farm is attacked by the Critters. Leonardo DiCaprio played Josh, a sleazy landlord's stepson, in CRITTERS 3 in which the Critters attack a tenement building and its inhabitants. DiCaprio said CRITTERS 3 is "possibly one of the worst films of all time" and a movie he avoided the rest of his career.
Scott Grimes (BAND OF BROTHERS, THE ORVILLE) co-starred in CRITTERS and CRITTERS 2 as Brad Brown, whose family farm is attacked by the Critters.
Leonardo DiCaprio played Josh, a sleazy landlord's stepson, in CRITTERS 3 in which the Critters attack a tenement building and its inhabitants.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
MASTERS OF THE AIR---new trailer released for the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg Apple TV+ miniseries about the Eighth Air Force in World War II.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-1JCRguZ0
SELF RELIANCE---trailer released for the Hulu comedy series starring Jake Johnson.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocw_fVdr4_g
SPIDER-MAN 4---after reports that director Jon Watts does not want to return for his fourth SPIDER-MAN movie, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have reportedly chosen Drew Goddard (CABIN IN THE WOODS) as the top candidate to replace Watts.
SUPERMAN: LEGACY---James Gunn commented on the status of the Superman movie, “99.9%. I’m always changing small things, but it’s been essentially done since well before the strike."
He also commented on rumors that Jensen Ackles was in talks to play Batman in THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, “There’s no script yet. Ofc it’s false.”
STAR WARS---Natalie Portman commented on the possibility of returning to STAR WARS, “No one has asked...I’m open to it." However, Portman said in 2022, Taiki Waititi asked her to be in his STAR WARS movie, “He says he did [forget] because he like asked me if I wanted to be in a STAR WARS movie and I was like, ‘I was.’ I thought he was joking. He’s such a joker that I thought it was a joke. And then afterward he said in some interview that he was like cringing afterward.”
BLADE---Mahershala Ali commented on the status of the Marvel reboot movie amid reports of production turmoil, “We’re working on it. That’s the best I could tell you. I’m really encouraged with the direction of the project. I think we’ll be back at it relatively soon… I’m sincerely encouraged in terms of where things are at and who’s on board and who’s leading the way as far as the writing of the script and the directing and all that. So that’s the extent of what I can tell you.”
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---showrunner Michelle Paradise commented on Season 5, the last season, "Season 5 is going to be a wonderful mix. The DNA of DISCOVERY always has those serialized stories over the course of a season. This season the nature of that serialized story allows us to have more episodic adventures. So I think people are really gonna dig it. There are some very cool adventures and some really fun episodes."
MALEFICENT 3---Angelina Jolie has reportedly signed for a third Disney Maleficent movie.
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---Ken Curtis is best known for playing Deputy Festus Haggen on GUNSMOKE, but originally he started his entertainment career as a singer in 1941, "I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
MASTERS OF THE AIR---new trailer released for the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg Apple TV+ miniseries about the Eighth Air Force in World War II.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-1JCRguZ0
SELF RELIANCE---trailer released for the Hulu comedy series starring Jake Johnson.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocw_fVdr4_g
SPIDER-MAN 4---after reports that director Jon Watts does not want to return for his fourth SPIDER-MAN movie, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have reportedly chosen Drew Goddard (CABIN IN THE WOODS) as the top candidate to replace Watts.
SUPERMAN: LEGACY---James Gunn commented on the status of the Superman movie, “99.9%. I’m always changing small things, but it’s been essentially done since well before the strike."
He also commented on rumors that Jensen Ackles was in talks to play Batman in THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, “There’s no script yet. Ofc it’s false.”
STAR WARS---Natalie Portman commented on the possibility of returning to STAR WARS, “No one has asked...I’m open to it." However, Portman said in 2022, Taiki Waititi asked her to be in his STAR WARS movie, “He says he did [forget] because he like asked me if I wanted to be in a STAR WARS movie and I was like, ‘I was.’ I thought he was joking. He’s such a joker that I thought it was a joke. And then afterward he said in some interview that he was like cringing afterward.”
BLADE---Mahershala Ali commented on the status of the Marvel reboot movie amid reports of production turmoil, “We’re working on it. That’s the best I could tell you. I’m really encouraged with the direction of the project. I think we’ll be back at it relatively soon… I’m sincerely encouraged in terms of where things are at and who’s on board and who’s leading the way as far as the writing of the script and the directing and all that. So that’s the extent of what I can tell you.”
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---showrunner Michelle Paradise commented on Season 5, the last season, "Season 5 is going to be a wonderful mix. The DNA of DISCOVERY always has those serialized stories over the course of a season. This season the nature of that serialized story allows us to have more episodic adventures. So I think people are really gonna dig it. There are some very cool adventures and some really fun episodes."
MALEFICENT 3---Angelina Jolie has reportedly signed for a third Disney Maleficent movie.
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---Ken Curtis is best known for playing Deputy Festus Haggen on GUNSMOKE, but originally he started his entertainment career as a singer in 1941, "I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
THE BROTHERS SUN---trailer released for the Netflix action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmCuFZum3ek
MR. AND MRS. SMITH---trailer released for the Amazon Prime tv series based on the movie that starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPhhRFkrNts
HURRICANNA---photo released of Sylvia Hoeks starring in the Anna Nicole Smith biomovie that also stars Holly Hunter and Mark Duplass.
CIVIL WAR---poster released for the Alex Garland movie showing two snipers on the Statue of Liberty. No plot details were released, but the plot is described as "a war film with satirical elements”
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---the premiere drew $11 million for the weekend which set a record for a live-action Japanese movie in the US. By comparison, SHIN GODZILLA earned only $1.9 million in its entire US run in 2016. Because of its box office success, Toho has extended GODZILLA MINUS ONE's limited run from December 7 to December 14.
CANDY CANE LANE---the Eddie Murphy Christmas movie is Amazon MGM Studio's most-streamed movie ever in the US.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN---Jennifer Lopez will play Aurora in the movie based on the Broadway musical. The movie synopsis says, “Set in an Argentinian prison in 1981, the film centers around Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser serving an eight-year sentence for allegedly corrupting a minor. To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, including a role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss. Molina’s life is upended when a Marxist, Valentin Arregui Paz, is brought into his cell, and the two form an unlikely bond.”
A FAREWELL TO ARMS---Tom Blyth (THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES) will star in the movie based on the Ernest Hemingway novel.
TRIVIA---December 7, 2023 is the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which led to the United States entering World War II.
In the movie PEARL HARBOR, Cuba Gooding, Jr. played mess attendant Doris Miller on the battleship USS West Virginia. During the attack, Miller helped the battleship's mortally-wounded commander and other crewmen, then he manned a machine gun and was officially credit with shooting down two Japanese bombers. Miller was the first black recipient of the Navy Cross, and he was nominated for the Medal of Honor.
Miller was later stationed on the escort aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Ironically, his parents were notified he was missing in action on December 7, 1943. Miller was one of 644 crewmen who died in the sinking of the Liscome Bay, the greatest loss of life of any aircraft carrier in Navy history.
The frigate USS Miller was named in his honor. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller is scheduled to be commissioned in 2032.
In the movie PEARL HARBOR, Cuba Gooding, Jr. played mess attendant Doris Miller on the battleship USS West Virginia, who shot down two Japanese bombers.
Miller was one of 644 crewmen who died in the sinking of the escort aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, the greatest loss of life of any aircraft carrier in Navy history.
The frigate USS Miller was named in Miller's honor.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller is scheduled to be commissioned in 2032.
THE BROTHERS SUN---trailer released for the Netflix action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmCuFZum3ek
MR. AND MRS. SMITH---trailer released for the Amazon Prime tv series based on the movie that starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPhhRFkrNts
HURRICANNA---photo released of Sylvia Hoeks starring in the Anna Nicole Smith biomovie that also stars Holly Hunter and Mark Duplass.
CIVIL WAR---poster released for the Alex Garland movie showing two snipers on the Statue of Liberty. No plot details were released, but the plot is described as "a war film with satirical elements”
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---the premiere drew $11 million for the weekend which set a record for a live-action Japanese movie in the US. By comparison, SHIN GODZILLA earned only $1.9 million in its entire US run in 2016. Because of its box office success, Toho has extended GODZILLA MINUS ONE's limited run from December 7 to December 14.
CANDY CANE LANE---the Eddie Murphy Christmas movie is Amazon MGM Studio's most-streamed movie ever in the US.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN---Jennifer Lopez will play Aurora in the movie based on the Broadway musical. The movie synopsis says, “Set in an Argentinian prison in 1981, the film centers around Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser serving an eight-year sentence for allegedly corrupting a minor. To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, including a role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss. Molina’s life is upended when a Marxist, Valentin Arregui Paz, is brought into his cell, and the two form an unlikely bond.”
A FAREWELL TO ARMS---Tom Blyth (THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES) will star in the movie based on the Ernest Hemingway novel.
TRIVIA---December 7, 2023 is the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which led to the United States entering World War II.
In the movie PEARL HARBOR, Cuba Gooding, Jr. played mess attendant Doris Miller on the battleship USS West Virginia. During the attack, Miller helped the battleship's mortally-wounded commander and other crewmen, then he manned a machine gun and was officially credit with shooting down two Japanese bombers. Miller was the first black recipient of the Navy Cross, and he was nominated for the Medal of Honor.
Miller was later stationed on the escort aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Ironically, his parents were notified he was missing in action on December 7, 1943. Miller was one of 644 crewmen who died in the sinking of the Liscome Bay, the greatest loss of life of any aircraft carrier in Navy history.
The frigate USS Miller was named in his honor. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller is scheduled to be commissioned in 2032.
In the movie PEARL HARBOR, Cuba Gooding, Jr. played mess attendant Doris Miller on the battleship USS West Virginia, who shot down two Japanese bombers.
Miller was one of 644 crewmen who died in the sinking of the escort aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, the greatest loss of life of any aircraft carrier in Navy history.
The frigate USS Miller was named in Miller's honor.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller is scheduled to be commissioned in 2032.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
NUREMBERG---Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannnon will star in the movie based on the book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST set during the Nuremberg war crime trials. Malek plays American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who must determine which Nazi prisoners are fit for trial, including former Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering, played by Crowe. Shannon plays chief prosecutor Supreme Court Judge Robert H. Jackson.
DUNE: PART THREE---Denis Villeneuve commented on the status of PART THREE, “The screenplay is almost finished but it is not finished. It will take a little time …There’s a dream of making a third movie … it would make absolute sense to me … I don’t know exactly when I will go back to Arrakis. I might make a detour before just to go away from the sun. For my mental sanity, I might do something in between, but my dream would be to go a last time on this planet that I love.”
He added, “For me, this film is much better than PART ONE. There’s something more alive in it. There’s a relationship to the characters. I was trying to reach for an intensity and a quality of emotions that I didn’t reach with PART ONE and that I did reach with PART TWO. I’m not saying the film is perfect, but I’m much more happy with PART TWO than I was with PART ONE. I can not wait to share it with the fans and the moviegoers.”
BEST OF ENEMIES---Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper will star in the movie based on the spy book BEST OF ENEMIES: THE LAST GOOD SPY STORY OF THE COLD WAR.
NO GOOD DEED---Ray Romano will star in the Netflix comedy series about three families competing against each other to buy their dream house, a 1920s villa in Los Angeles.
DOCTOR WHO---casting director Andy Pryor commented on fan criticism of casting Nathaniel Curtis, who is of Indian descent, as Sir Isaac Newton, a white man, in the 60th anniversary specials, "It's sad that we're in a time where people villainize minorities, This sort of chatter, I'm very good at kind of tuning it out. And I'm also very, very happy to block people on Twitter. I don't really have any time for bigotry at all.
It then becomes even more important to give people a voice and for people to be represented, especially for young people growing up who might be trans or from any minority. If they can see themselves on screen, then that can be a huge lifeline for some people. That can make them feel part of the world, which indeed they are.
Social media is a bit of a dangerous place because I think people get sucked into saying things that I don't know that they truly believe? It just becomes a game for them. Unfortunately, real life isn't a game, and I think it's important to stand up for for people who are marginalized.
Growing up as a gay man, I'm as aware as any anybody else of how this stuff makes you feel when you see it. How that negativity can affect you. I don't really think anyone should have to go through that."
COYOTE VS. ACME---Warner Bros. has received bids from Paramount Pictures and Netflix for its shelved CGI/live-action movie. Amazon has expressed an interest but has not submitted a bid. Warner Bros. wants to recover the full $70 million production cost for the movie.
TWISTED METAL---Peacock renewed the series for Season 2.
HARLEM---Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---producer/writer Harve Bennett commented on the failure of STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER which was directed by William Shatner, "I would say that STAR TREK V was the weakest of the pictures, both in terms of coherency and its box office, and I would say without shirking responsibility is that the problem was Bill had story approval. He knows this, so I’m not ratting on my friend, but basically, we got to a point where I said, 'Bill, we cannot make a movie about finding God!' I said that from the beginning… 'I know that if you say in a TV log line 'Tonight on STAR TREK, the crew of the USS Enterprise goes to find God,' everybody knows we’re not going to get there, so as a storyteller, it gets to be a shaggy joke!
But he wanted to do it, so after much aggravation, I said, 'All right, we’re going to go find God, but we’re going to make it the best trip we possibly can!', and so that’s what we did. I think we achieved a good trip, but it was not a strong STAR TREK. It was doomed by its premise. I learned long ago, if it ain’t in the premise, it ain’t there, but Bill felt if we worked hard enough and dazzled them with enough stuff, we could do it, and I don’t think we pulled that off… I think a faulty premise results in a flawed picture."
NUREMBERG---Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannnon will star in the movie based on the book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST set during the Nuremberg war crime trials. Malek plays American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who must determine which Nazi prisoners are fit for trial, including former Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering, played by Crowe. Shannon plays chief prosecutor Supreme Court Judge Robert H. Jackson.
DUNE: PART THREE---Denis Villeneuve commented on the status of PART THREE, “The screenplay is almost finished but it is not finished. It will take a little time …There’s a dream of making a third movie … it would make absolute sense to me … I don’t know exactly when I will go back to Arrakis. I might make a detour before just to go away from the sun. For my mental sanity, I might do something in between, but my dream would be to go a last time on this planet that I love.”
He added, “For me, this film is much better than PART ONE. There’s something more alive in it. There’s a relationship to the characters. I was trying to reach for an intensity and a quality of emotions that I didn’t reach with PART ONE and that I did reach with PART TWO. I’m not saying the film is perfect, but I’m much more happy with PART TWO than I was with PART ONE. I can not wait to share it with the fans and the moviegoers.”
BEST OF ENEMIES---Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper will star in the movie based on the spy book BEST OF ENEMIES: THE LAST GOOD SPY STORY OF THE COLD WAR.
NO GOOD DEED---Ray Romano will star in the Netflix comedy series about three families competing against each other to buy their dream house, a 1920s villa in Los Angeles.
DOCTOR WHO---casting director Andy Pryor commented on fan criticism of casting Nathaniel Curtis, who is of Indian descent, as Sir Isaac Newton, a white man, in the 60th anniversary specials, "It's sad that we're in a time where people villainize minorities, This sort of chatter, I'm very good at kind of tuning it out. And I'm also very, very happy to block people on Twitter. I don't really have any time for bigotry at all.
It then becomes even more important to give people a voice and for people to be represented, especially for young people growing up who might be trans or from any minority. If they can see themselves on screen, then that can be a huge lifeline for some people. That can make them feel part of the world, which indeed they are.
Social media is a bit of a dangerous place because I think people get sucked into saying things that I don't know that they truly believe? It just becomes a game for them. Unfortunately, real life isn't a game, and I think it's important to stand up for for people who are marginalized.
Growing up as a gay man, I'm as aware as any anybody else of how this stuff makes you feel when you see it. How that negativity can affect you. I don't really think anyone should have to go through that."
COYOTE VS. ACME---Warner Bros. has received bids from Paramount Pictures and Netflix for its shelved CGI/live-action movie. Amazon has expressed an interest but has not submitted a bid. Warner Bros. wants to recover the full $70 million production cost for the movie.
TWISTED METAL---Peacock renewed the series for Season 2.
HARLEM---Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---producer/writer Harve Bennett commented on the failure of STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER which was directed by William Shatner, "I would say that STAR TREK V was the weakest of the pictures, both in terms of coherency and its box office, and I would say without shirking responsibility is that the problem was Bill had story approval. He knows this, so I’m not ratting on my friend, but basically, we got to a point where I said, 'Bill, we cannot make a movie about finding God!' I said that from the beginning… 'I know that if you say in a TV log line 'Tonight on STAR TREK, the crew of the USS Enterprise goes to find God,' everybody knows we’re not going to get there, so as a storyteller, it gets to be a shaggy joke!
But he wanted to do it, so after much aggravation, I said, 'All right, we’re going to go find God, but we’re going to make it the best trip we possibly can!', and so that’s what we did. I think we achieved a good trip, but it was not a strong STAR TREK. It was doomed by its premise. I learned long ago, if it ain’t in the premise, it ain’t there, but Bill felt if we worked hard enough and dazzled them with enough stuff, we could do it, and I don’t think we pulled that off… I think a faulty premise results in a flawed picture."
satchelcharge1
Private
- Joined
- May 15, 2022
- Messages
- 15
My wife is a big Dr. WHO fan and has watched the show since she was a kid. To her, they have destroyed Dr. WHO over the last few years, and she has given up on any hope of Dr. Who returning to what made it a great show. She has went back to watching the old classic Dr. WHO. The casting director sounds like your typical arrogant director or producer, who thinks they know better than anyone and refuse to listen to anyone especially the fans. To him, everyone who doesn't share his thoughts and beliefs are evil people. Dr. Who will go the way of other great shows in which those in charge thought they knew better and changed it from what made the show great to start with and ended up destroying the show.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
NUREMBERG---Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannnon will star in the movie based on the book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST set during the Nuremberg war crime trials. Malek plays American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who must determine which Nazi prisoners are fit for trial, including former Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering, played by Crowe. Shannon plays chief prosecutor Supreme Court Judge Robert H. Jackson.
DUNE: PART THREE---Denis Villeneuve commented on the status of PART THREE, “The screenplay is almost finished but it is not finished. It will take a little time …There’s a dream of making a third movie … it would make absolute sense to me … I don’t know exactly when I will go back to Arrakis. I might make a detour before just to go away from the sun. For my mental sanity, I might do something in between, but my dream would be to go a last time on this planet that I love.”
He added, “For me, this film is much better than PART ONE. There’s something more alive in it. There’s a relationship to the characters. I was trying to reach for an intensity and a quality of emotions that I didn’t reach with PART ONE and that I did reach with PART TWO. I’m not saying the film is perfect, but I’m much more happy with PART TWO than I was with PART ONE. I can not wait to share it with the fans and the moviegoers.”
BEST OF ENEMIES---Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper will star in the movie based on the spy book BEST OF ENEMIES: THE LAST GOOD SPY STORY OF THE COLD WAR.
NO GOOD DEED---Ray Romano will star in the Netflix comedy series about three families competing against each other to buy their dream house, a 1920s villa in Los Angeles.
DOCTOR WHO---casting director Andy Pryor commented on fan criticism of casting Nathaniel Curtis, who is of Indian descent, as Sir Isaac Newton, a white man, in the 60th anniversary specials, "It's sad that we're in a time where people villainize minorities, This sort of chatter, I'm very good at kind of tuning it out. And I'm also very, very happy to block people on Twitter. I don't really have any time for bigotry at all.
It then becomes even more important to give people a voice and for people to be represented, especially for young people growing up who might be trans or from any minority. If they can see themselves on screen, then that can be a huge lifeline for some people. That can make them feel part of the world, which indeed they are.
Social media is a bit of a dangerous place because I think people get sucked into saying things that I don't know that they truly believe? It just becomes a game for them. Unfortunately, real life isn't a game, and I think it's important to stand up for for people who are marginalized.
Growing up as a gay man, I'm as aware as any anybody else of how this stuff makes you feel when you see it. How that negativity can affect you. I don't really think anyone should have to go through that."
COYOTE VS. ACME---Warner Bros. has received bids from Paramount Pictures and Netflix for its shelved CGI/live-action movie. Amazon has expressed an interest but has not submitted a bid. Warner Bros. wants to recover the full $70 million production cost for the movie.
TWISTED METAL---Peacock renewed the series for Season 2.
HARLEM---Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---producer/writer Harve Bennett commented on the failure of STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER which was directed by William Shatner, "I would say that STAR TREK V was the weakest of the pictures, both in terms of coherency and its box office, and I would say without shirking responsibility is that the problem was Bill had story approval. He knows this, so I’m not ratting on my friend, but basically, we got to a point where I said, 'Bill, we cannot make a movie about finding God!' I said that from the beginning… 'I know that if you say in a TV log line 'Tonight on STAR TREK, the crew of the USS Enterprise goes to find God,' everybody knows we’re not going to get there, so as a storyteller, it gets to be a shaggy joke!
But he wanted to do it, so after much aggravation, I said, 'All right, we’re going to go find God, but we’re going to make it the best trip we possibly can!', and so that’s what we did. I think we achieved a good trip, but it was not a strong STAR TREK. It was doomed by its premise. I learned long ago, if it ain’t in the premise, it ain’t there, but Bill felt if we worked hard enough and dazzled them with enough stuff, we could do it, and I don’t think we pulled that off… I think a faulty premise results in a flawed picture."
Desertkiwi
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2009
- Messages
- 4,539
Totally agree with your good lady and your assessment of the casting director. A total knob-head full of his own importance.
They have successfully ruined an iconic series and messed with the central character so much that most loyal fans are now turning away.
Tragic.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMaz8rC-HAg
THE MANDALORIAN---Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider said "the odds are in its favor" that Lucasfilm will release a Mandalorian theatrical movie instead of a Disney+ Season 4.
https://i.postimg.cc/RF1DbpsP/THE-MANDALORIAN-2-FOTOR.png[img]
NAUGHTY---Olivia Wilde will direct this Christmas comedy movie about a woman who wants Santa Clause to testify on her behalf to gain custody of her son in a court battle with her ex-husband.
JUROR N0. 2---JK Simmons will play a juror in the movie that may be Clint Eastwood's last movie.
REBEL MOON---Zack Snyder commented on the R-rated extended version of REBEL MOON, “I think that’s one thing that you’ll see in the director’s cut that is different from the PG-13 version is the irony of a super hard R-rated sci-fi movie at this scale is cleaner in the R-rated version. In the PG-13, we push. It’s a hard PG-13. We push them to the ragged edge. I feel like the cool thing about the PG-13 version is you can watch it with the family, you considered it. Where the other version is much more like, you know…”
UNCHARTED 2---Mark Wahlberg said a sequel script has been written, “I’ve heard lots of different ideas. I know somebody’s written a script, and they’re still working on it, and it would consist of having the mustache the whole entire time. Which completely makes sense; obviously, in that final scene, I have the mustache.”
DCU---Sean Gunn will play villain Maxwell Lord in upcoming DCU movies.
LUCKY HANK---AMC cancelled the series.
STATION 19---ABC cancelled the series with the upcoming Season 7 being the last season.
FREEFORM---Freeform cancelled GOOD TROUBLE and CRUEL SUMMER.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Desmond Llewelyn played Q in 17 James Bond movies, more than any other Bond movie actor, beginning with FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, for which he was paid 400 pounds ($501 in 2023). Lleweyln once commented on the Bond producers became multi-millionaires, while he was paid a flat rate and received no royalties, "In the 15 Bond movies, I've been on screen for a total of just 30 minutes and that usually meant just a couple of days' pay.' While filming GOLDENEYE, Llewelyn turned down the offer of a ride in a chauffeured limousine and asked for 50 pounds instead and used his rail card to ride the train and kept the $50.
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/RVhnh5TB/DESMOND-LLEWELYN-FOTOR.png
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMaz8rC-HAg
THE MANDALORIAN---Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider said "the odds are in its favor" that Lucasfilm will release a Mandalorian theatrical movie instead of a Disney+ Season 4.
https://i.postimg.cc/RF1DbpsP/THE-MANDALORIAN-2-FOTOR.png[img]
NAUGHTY---Olivia Wilde will direct this Christmas comedy movie about a woman who wants Santa Clause to testify on her behalf to gain custody of her son in a court battle with her ex-husband.
JUROR N0. 2---JK Simmons will play a juror in the movie that may be Clint Eastwood's last movie.
REBEL MOON---Zack Snyder commented on the R-rated extended version of REBEL MOON, “I think that’s one thing that you’ll see in the director’s cut that is different from the PG-13 version is the irony of a super hard R-rated sci-fi movie at this scale is cleaner in the R-rated version. In the PG-13, we push. It’s a hard PG-13. We push them to the ragged edge. I feel like the cool thing about the PG-13 version is you can watch it with the family, you considered it. Where the other version is much more like, you know…”
UNCHARTED 2---Mark Wahlberg said a sequel script has been written, “I’ve heard lots of different ideas. I know somebody’s written a script, and they’re still working on it, and it would consist of having the mustache the whole entire time. Which completely makes sense; obviously, in that final scene, I have the mustache.”
DCU---Sean Gunn will play villain Maxwell Lord in upcoming DCU movies.
LUCKY HANK---AMC cancelled the series.
STATION 19---ABC cancelled the series with the upcoming Season 7 being the last season.
FREEFORM---Freeform cancelled GOOD TROUBLE and CRUEL SUMMER.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Desmond Llewelyn played Q in 17 James Bond movies, more than any other Bond movie actor, beginning with FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, for which he was paid 400 pounds ($501 in 2023). Lleweyln once commented on the Bond producers became multi-millionaires, while he was paid a flat rate and received no royalties, "In the 15 Bond movies, I've been on screen for a total of just 30 minutes and that usually meant just a couple of days' pay.' While filming GOLDENEYE, Llewelyn turned down the offer of a ride in a chauffeured limousine and asked for 50 pounds instead and used his rail card to ride the train and kept the $50.
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/RVhnh5TB/DESMOND-LLEWELYN-FOTOR.png
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMaz8rC-HAg
THE MANDALORIAN---Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider said "the odds are in its favor" that Lucasfilm will release a Mandalorian theatrical movie instead of a Disney+ Season 4.
NAUGHTY---Olivia Wilde will direct this Christmas comedy movie about a woman who wants Santa Clause to testify on her behalf to gain custody of her son in a court battle with her ex-husband.
JUROR N0. 2---JK Simmons will play a juror in the movie that may be Clint Eastwood's last movie.
REBEL MOON---Zack Snyder commented on the R-rated extended version of REBEL MOON, “I think that’s one thing that you’ll see in the director’s cut that is different from the PG-13 version is the irony of a super hard R-rated sci-fi movie at this scale is cleaner in the R-rated version. In the PG-13, we push. It’s a hard PG-13. We push them to the ragged edge. I feel like the cool thing about the PG-13 version is you can watch it with the family, you considered it. Where the other version is much more like, you know…”
UNCHARTED 2---Mark Wahlberg said a sequel script has been written, “I’ve heard lots of different ideas. I know somebody’s written a script, and they’re still working on it, and it would consist of having the mustache the whole entire time. Which completely makes sense; obviously, in that final scene, I have the mustache.”
DCU---Sean Gunn will play villain Maxwell Lord in upcoming DCU movies.
LUCKY HANK---AMC cancelled the series.
STATION 19---ABC cancelled the series with the upcoming Season 7 being the last season.
FREEFORM---Freeform cancelled GOOD TROUBLE and CRUEL SUMMER.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Desmond Llewelyn played Q in 17 James Bond movies, more than any other Bond movie actor, beginning with FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, for which he was paid 400 pounds ($501 in 2023). Lleweyln once commented on the Bond producers became multi-millionaires, while he was paid a flat rate and received no royalties, "In the 15 Bond movies, I've been on screen for a total of just 30 minutes and that usually meant just a couple of days' pay.' While filming GOLDENEYE, Llewelyn turned down the offer of a ride in a chauffeured limousine and asked for 50 pounds instead and used his rail card to ride the train and kept the $50.
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMaz8rC-HAg
THE MANDALORIAN---Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider said "the odds are in its favor" that Lucasfilm will release a Mandalorian theatrical movie instead of a Disney+ Season 4.
NAUGHTY---Olivia Wilde will direct this Christmas comedy movie about a woman who wants Santa Clause to testify on her behalf to gain custody of her son in a court battle with her ex-husband.
JUROR N0. 2---JK Simmons will play a juror in the movie that may be Clint Eastwood's last movie.
REBEL MOON---Zack Snyder commented on the R-rated extended version of REBEL MOON, “I think that’s one thing that you’ll see in the director’s cut that is different from the PG-13 version is the irony of a super hard R-rated sci-fi movie at this scale is cleaner in the R-rated version. In the PG-13, we push. It’s a hard PG-13. We push them to the ragged edge. I feel like the cool thing about the PG-13 version is you can watch it with the family, you considered it. Where the other version is much more like, you know…”
UNCHARTED 2---Mark Wahlberg said a sequel script has been written, “I’ve heard lots of different ideas. I know somebody’s written a script, and they’re still working on it, and it would consist of having the mustache the whole entire time. Which completely makes sense; obviously, in that final scene, I have the mustache.”
DCU---Sean Gunn will play villain Maxwell Lord in upcoming DCU movies.
LUCKY HANK---AMC cancelled the series.
STATION 19---ABC cancelled the series with the upcoming Season 7 being the last season.
FREEFORM---Freeform cancelled GOOD TROUBLE and CRUEL SUMMER.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Desmond Llewelyn played Q in 17 James Bond movies, more than any other Bond movie actor, beginning with FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, for which he was paid 400 pounds ($501 in 2023). Lleweyln once commented on the Bond producers became multi-millionaires, while he was paid a flat rate and received no royalties, "In the 15 Bond movies, I've been on screen for a total of just 30 minutes and that usually meant just a couple of days' pay.' While filming GOLDENEYE, Llewelyn turned down the offer of a ride in a chauffeured limousine and asked for 50 pounds instead and used his rail card to ride the train and kept the $50.
OzDigger
Colonel
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2006
- Messages
- 8,224
I stopped watching Dr Who, when He became She. Now he's apparently turned Black together with Sir Isaac Newton. Don't know if we're living in the end of times, but it's sure getting crazy out there {eek3}
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12
SUNRISE---trailer released for the vampire movie starring Alex Pettyfer and Guy Pearce.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmQDCZ1wc4
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB87uGgoKBg
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA---poster released for the Furiosa prequel movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
TWO FOR THE MONEY---Charlize Theron and Danirel Craig will star in the Justin Lin heist movie about "the evolution of the relationship between two career thieves over the course of three big jobs.”
DCU---James Gunn confirmed Nicholas Hoult will play Lex luthor in the DCU, "Yes, finally I can answer, @NicholasHoult is Lex Luthor in #SupermanLegacy and I couldn’t be happier,” the post reads. “We went out to dinner last night to celebrate and discuss how we can create a Lex that will be different from anything you’ve seen before and will never forget. ‘But, James, we heard this weeks ago, why didn’t you tell us it was true?’ Because, although we were discussing it, it wasn’t final until a couple days ago and I don’t want to tell you all something that isn’t certain. Anyway, here’s to Lex (and Nicholas!), one of my very favorite characters in the DCU.”
STRANGER THINGS---Matt Duffer commented on Season 5, the last season, “This season – it’s like season one on steroids. It’s the biggest it’s ever been in terms of scale, but it has been really fun, because everyone’s back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in Season 1. And, yes, there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here.”
DUNE: PART TWO---the sequel reportedly will be Denis Villeneuve's longest movie at two hours and 46 minutes.
FORT SOLIS---Studios Extraordinaires is developing movies and tv series based on the sci fi video game.
BLUE EYE SAMURAI---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---in BIRD ON A WIRE, Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) is in the witness protection program, and his ex-fiance, Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn), flee corrupt DEA and FBI agents. In one scene they are being pursued by assassins in a helicopter and Marianne said to Rick, "Do you remember that time I saw the flying saucer?"
In real life, Hawn was 20 years old when she said had a close encounter of the third kind with aliens while sleeping in her car in the California desert, “I got this high-pitched sound in my ear. It was this high, high frequency. And I looked out the window, and I saw these two or three triangular-shaped heads...They were pointing at me – pointing at me in the car as if they were discussing me like I was a subject. And they were droning. I could not move. I was paralyzed … I didn’t know if it was real or not real.” Hawn said the aliens were "silver in color", had a "slash for a mouth" and had small noses and no ears. She was able to "burst" out of the encounter like "bursting out of a forcefield."
Hawn did not fully remember the incident until she met a University of Illinois astrophysicist conducting UFO research whose questions brought out a new memory of the aliens, “It was kind of like regression therapy or something. I am, like, almost in a trance. And suddenly, I remembered something...They touched my face and it felt like the finger of God. It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light.”
Hawn added, “There’s a lot of things in this world that we can’t see, but we can’t stop believing. We can never, ever lose our wonder. It’s just no fun.”
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Hawn was supposed to star with her partner, Kurt Russell, but he had a schedule problem, and was replaced by Mel Gibson. Ironically, Russell was flying his private airplane into Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 when he and his son saw strange lights in the night sky, so Russell reported them to the airport control tower which made him the first person to report the huge V-shaped UFO that flew over Phoenix and made international headlines.
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) is in the witness protection program, and his ex-fiance, Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn), flee corrupt DEA and FBI agents. In one scene they are being pursued by assassins in a helicopter and Marianne said to Rick, "Do you remember that time I saw the flying saucer?"
In real life, Hawn was 20 years old when she said had a close encounter of the third kind with aliens while sleeping in her car in the California desert.
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Hawn was supposed to star with her partner, Kurt Russell, but he had a schedule problem, and was replaced by Mel Gibson. Ironically, Russell was flying his private airplane into Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 when he and his son saw strange lights in the night sky, so Russell reported them to the airport control tower which made him the first person to report the huge V-shaped UFO that flew over Phoenix and made international headlines.
SUNRISE---trailer released for the vampire movie starring Alex Pettyfer and Guy Pearce.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmQDCZ1wc4
DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB87uGgoKBg
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA---poster released for the Furiosa prequel movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
TWO FOR THE MONEY---Charlize Theron and Danirel Craig will star in the Justin Lin heist movie about "the evolution of the relationship between two career thieves over the course of three big jobs.”
DCU---James Gunn confirmed Nicholas Hoult will play Lex luthor in the DCU, "Yes, finally I can answer, @NicholasHoult is Lex Luthor in #SupermanLegacy and I couldn’t be happier,” the post reads. “We went out to dinner last night to celebrate and discuss how we can create a Lex that will be different from anything you’ve seen before and will never forget. ‘But, James, we heard this weeks ago, why didn’t you tell us it was true?’ Because, although we were discussing it, it wasn’t final until a couple days ago and I don’t want to tell you all something that isn’t certain. Anyway, here’s to Lex (and Nicholas!), one of my very favorite characters in the DCU.”
STRANGER THINGS---Matt Duffer commented on Season 5, the last season, “This season – it’s like season one on steroids. It’s the biggest it’s ever been in terms of scale, but it has been really fun, because everyone’s back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in Season 1. And, yes, there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here.”
DUNE: PART TWO---the sequel reportedly will be Denis Villeneuve's longest movie at two hours and 46 minutes.
FORT SOLIS---Studios Extraordinaires is developing movies and tv series based on the sci fi video game.
BLUE EYE SAMURAI---Netflix renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---in BIRD ON A WIRE, Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) is in the witness protection program, and his ex-fiance, Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn), flee corrupt DEA and FBI agents. In one scene they are being pursued by assassins in a helicopter and Marianne said to Rick, "Do you remember that time I saw the flying saucer?"
In real life, Hawn was 20 years old when she said had a close encounter of the third kind with aliens while sleeping in her car in the California desert, “I got this high-pitched sound in my ear. It was this high, high frequency. And I looked out the window, and I saw these two or three triangular-shaped heads...They were pointing at me – pointing at me in the car as if they were discussing me like I was a subject. And they were droning. I could not move. I was paralyzed … I didn’t know if it was real or not real.” Hawn said the aliens were "silver in color", had a "slash for a mouth" and had small noses and no ears. She was able to "burst" out of the encounter like "bursting out of a forcefield."
Hawn did not fully remember the incident until she met a University of Illinois astrophysicist conducting UFO research whose questions brought out a new memory of the aliens, “It was kind of like regression therapy or something. I am, like, almost in a trance. And suddenly, I remembered something...They touched my face and it felt like the finger of God. It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light.”
Hawn added, “There’s a lot of things in this world that we can’t see, but we can’t stop believing. We can never, ever lose our wonder. It’s just no fun.”
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Hawn was supposed to star with her partner, Kurt Russell, but he had a schedule problem, and was replaced by Mel Gibson. Ironically, Russell was flying his private airplane into Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 when he and his son saw strange lights in the night sky, so Russell reported them to the airport control tower which made him the first person to report the huge V-shaped UFO that flew over Phoenix and made international headlines.
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) is in the witness protection program, and his ex-fiance, Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn), flee corrupt DEA and FBI agents. In one scene they are being pursued by assassins in a helicopter and Marianne said to Rick, "Do you remember that time I saw the flying saucer?"
In real life, Hawn was 20 years old when she said had a close encounter of the third kind with aliens while sleeping in her car in the California desert.
In BIRD ON A WIRE, Hawn was supposed to star with her partner, Kurt Russell, but he had a schedule problem, and was replaced by Mel Gibson. Ironically, Russell was flying his private airplane into Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 when he and his son saw strange lights in the night sky, so Russell reported them to the airport control tower which made him the first person to report the huge V-shaped UFO that flew over Phoenix and made international headlines.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13
DUNE: PART TWO---new trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA
AMERICAN STAR---trailer released for the assassin movie starring Ian McShane.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb47dUzNUm4
CIVIL WAR---trailer released for the Alex Garland movie starring Kirsten Dunst.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w
WANTED MAN---trailer released for the action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Kelsey Grammer.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2PNf1Rc3l4
ARGYLLE---poster released for the Matthew Vaughn spy movie starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell and Samuel L. Jackson. The synopsis says, "Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie. But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which center on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate—begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past.
Accompanied by Aiden (Oscar® winner Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur."
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F---poster released for the Netflix sequel starring Eddie Murphy. The synopsis says, “Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.”
MADAME WEB---Sony Pictures released the poster for the SPIDER-MAN spinoff movie starring Dakota Johnson. The synopsis says, "In a switch from the typical genre, MADAME WEB tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures… if they can all survive a deadly present."
DAMSEL---poster released for the Netflix fantasy movie starring Millie Bobby Brown. The synopsis says, "A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive."
HANNIBAL---Denzel Washington starring as Carthaginian Hannibal the Conqueror in the untitled Netflix movie has created a controversy in Tunisia where Hannibal was born. Tunisian Parliament member Assine Mami complained that Hannibal was of West Asian Semitic, not black, “There is a risk of falsifying history: we need to take position on this subject.” The Tunisian newspaper LA PRESSE's column said, “It’s fiction. It is their [Netflix‘s] right to do what they want. Hannibal is a historical figure and we are all proud that he was Tunisian. But what can we do? I hope they decide to shoot at least a sequence of the film here and that this is publicized. We want Tunisia to go back to being a location where foreign films are shot.”
OBSESSION---synopsis released for the James Wan/Amazon MGM Studios tv series based on the novel, "Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body — brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a riveting, erotic, psychological thriller.”
TRIVIA---Sharon Stone posted her confirmation that she paid Leonardo DiCaprio's salary to appear in the Western movie THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, which helped launch his Academy Award-winning career, after TriStar Pictures rejected him, "Yes, I paid @leonardodicaprio’s salary out of mine. No I didn’t pay @russellcrowe’s, but I did ask for the film to be delayed two weeks so we could get him here from Australia, and our producer @mikemedavoyup agreed to the delay. And to cover those expenses.”
In her memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE, Stone wrote, “This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition. In my opinion: he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene.” TriStar Pictures' response was, ‘Why an unknown, Sharon, why are you always shooting yourself in the foot?’”...The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did.“
DiCaprio replied, “I don’t know if I sent her an actual, physical thank you gift, but I cannot thank her enough… She said, ‘These are the two actors [DiCaprio & Russell Crowe] I want to work with. It’s incredible. She’s been a huge champion of cinema and giving other actors opportunities, so I’m very thankful.“
DUNE: PART TWO---new trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA
AMERICAN STAR---trailer released for the assassin movie starring Ian McShane.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb47dUzNUm4
CIVIL WAR---trailer released for the Alex Garland movie starring Kirsten Dunst.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w
WANTED MAN---trailer released for the action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Kelsey Grammer.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2PNf1Rc3l4
ARGYLLE---poster released for the Matthew Vaughn spy movie starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell and Samuel L. Jackson. The synopsis says, "Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie. But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which center on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate—begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past.
Accompanied by Aiden (Oscar® winner Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur."
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F---poster released for the Netflix sequel starring Eddie Murphy. The synopsis says, “Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.”
MADAME WEB---Sony Pictures released the poster for the SPIDER-MAN spinoff movie starring Dakota Johnson. The synopsis says, "In a switch from the typical genre, MADAME WEB tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures… if they can all survive a deadly present."
DAMSEL---poster released for the Netflix fantasy movie starring Millie Bobby Brown. The synopsis says, "A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive."
HANNIBAL---Denzel Washington starring as Carthaginian Hannibal the Conqueror in the untitled Netflix movie has created a controversy in Tunisia where Hannibal was born. Tunisian Parliament member Assine Mami complained that Hannibal was of West Asian Semitic, not black, “There is a risk of falsifying history: we need to take position on this subject.” The Tunisian newspaper LA PRESSE's column said, “It’s fiction. It is their [Netflix‘s] right to do what they want. Hannibal is a historical figure and we are all proud that he was Tunisian. But what can we do? I hope they decide to shoot at least a sequence of the film here and that this is publicized. We want Tunisia to go back to being a location where foreign films are shot.”
OBSESSION---synopsis released for the James Wan/Amazon MGM Studios tv series based on the novel, "Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body — brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a riveting, erotic, psychological thriller.”
TRIVIA---Sharon Stone posted her confirmation that she paid Leonardo DiCaprio's salary to appear in the Western movie THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, which helped launch his Academy Award-winning career, after TriStar Pictures rejected him, "Yes, I paid @leonardodicaprio’s salary out of mine. No I didn’t pay @russellcrowe’s, but I did ask for the film to be delayed two weeks so we could get him here from Australia, and our producer @mikemedavoyup agreed to the delay. And to cover those expenses.”
In her memoir, THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE, Stone wrote, “This kid named Leonardo DiCaprio was the only one who nailed the audition. In my opinion: he was the only one who came in and cried, begging his father to love him as he died in the scene.” TriStar Pictures' response was, ‘Why an unknown, Sharon, why are you always shooting yourself in the foot?’”...The studio said if I wanted him so much, I could pay him out of my own salary. So I did.“
DiCaprio replied, “I don’t know if I sent her an actual, physical thank you gift, but I cannot thank her enough… She said, ‘These are the two actors [DiCaprio & Russell Crowe] I want to work with. It’s incredible. She’s been a huge champion of cinema and giving other actors opportunities, so I’m very thankful.“
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F---trailer released for the Netflix sequel starring Eddie Murphy.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re2VNCHGsjI
IF---trailer released for the comedy movie starring Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2KvK-w6w8
OUT OF DARKNESS---trailer released for the prehistoric survival movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_SQo1wbos
MILLER'S GIRL---trailer released for the movie starring Jenny Ortega and Martin Freeman.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2OJZHutBM
DEATH STRANDING---A24 and Kojima Productions are developing a live-action movie based on the video game starring Norman Reedus.
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN---Mark Wahlberg said the long-gestating movie based on the Lee Majors SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN tv series may be underway, “I think there is finally hope for that to happen. And I think it’s kind of actually a lot to do with this movie, because hopefully Skydance will have the rights, if not fully buttoned up now, very soon, and we’ll fast track that movie to get made. So, I’m still not out of the fight, I’m still grinding every day to get it made. You know, its tough to get certain things made it’s very difficult, it was an uphill battle, but I think certain ones are worth just seeing through to the end.“
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---writer/director Takashi Yamazaki commented on developing a sequell, "I'd like to see someone else's GODZILLA, but I want to make one next time as well. I've got very complicated feelings."
FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST---Kevin Hart stars in the Peacock miniseries about a black Atlanta police detective who investigates a big heist during the Muhammad Ali comeback fight in 1970.
THE WOLF MAN---Christopher Abbott has replaced Ryan Gosling in the Universal Pictures reboot monster movie.
THE SMASHING MACHINE---Dwayne Johnson is the star/director of this biomovie based on the HBO documentary about UFC champ Mark Kerr.
AMERICAN GIRL---Mattel Films and Paramount Pictures are developing a movie based on the doll line.
TRIVIA---Burt Reynolds played a police detective having an affair with a foreign hooker with similar last names while investigating a murder of another hooker in two movies.
In SHARKY'S MACHINE, Reynolds played Atlanta police detective Sergeant Tom Sharky, who is having an affair with hooker Dominoe Brittain, played by Australian actress Rachel Ward, while investigating the murder of her hooker roommate.
In HUSTLE, Reynolds played Los Angeles Police detective Lieutenant Phil Gaines, who is having an affair with hooker Nicole Britton, played by French actress Catherine Deneuve, while investigating the murder of a fellow hooker and porn star.
In SHARKY'S MACHINE, Reynolds played Atlanta police detective Sergeant Tom Sharky, who is having an affair with hooker Dominoe Brittain, played by Australian actress Rachel Ward, while investigating the murder of her hooker roommate.
In HUSTLE, Reynolds played Los Angeles Police detective Lieutenant Phil Gaines, who is having an affair with hooker Nicole Britton, played by French actress Catherine Deneuve, while investigating the murder of a fellow hooker and porn star.
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F---trailer released for the Netflix sequel starring Eddie Murphy.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re2VNCHGsjI
IF---trailer released for the comedy movie starring Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2KvK-w6w8
OUT OF DARKNESS---trailer released for the prehistoric survival movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_SQo1wbos
MILLER'S GIRL---trailer released for the movie starring Jenny Ortega and Martin Freeman.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2OJZHutBM
DEATH STRANDING---A24 and Kojima Productions are developing a live-action movie based on the video game starring Norman Reedus.
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN---Mark Wahlberg said the long-gestating movie based on the Lee Majors SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN tv series may be underway, “I think there is finally hope for that to happen. And I think it’s kind of actually a lot to do with this movie, because hopefully Skydance will have the rights, if not fully buttoned up now, very soon, and we’ll fast track that movie to get made. So, I’m still not out of the fight, I’m still grinding every day to get it made. You know, its tough to get certain things made it’s very difficult, it was an uphill battle, but I think certain ones are worth just seeing through to the end.“
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---writer/director Takashi Yamazaki commented on developing a sequell, "I'd like to see someone else's GODZILLA, but I want to make one next time as well. I've got very complicated feelings."
FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST---Kevin Hart stars in the Peacock miniseries about a black Atlanta police detective who investigates a big heist during the Muhammad Ali comeback fight in 1970.
THE WOLF MAN---Christopher Abbott has replaced Ryan Gosling in the Universal Pictures reboot monster movie.
THE SMASHING MACHINE---Dwayne Johnson is the star/director of this biomovie based on the HBO documentary about UFC champ Mark Kerr.
AMERICAN GIRL---Mattel Films and Paramount Pictures are developing a movie based on the doll line.
TRIVIA---Burt Reynolds played a police detective having an affair with a foreign hooker with similar last names while investigating a murder of another hooker in two movies.
In SHARKY'S MACHINE, Reynolds played Atlanta police detective Sergeant Tom Sharky, who is having an affair with hooker Dominoe Brittain, played by Australian actress Rachel Ward, while investigating the murder of her hooker roommate.
In HUSTLE, Reynolds played Los Angeles Police detective Lieutenant Phil Gaines, who is having an affair with hooker Nicole Britton, played by French actress Catherine Deneuve, while investigating the murder of a fellow hooker and porn star.
In SHARKY'S MACHINE, Reynolds played Atlanta police detective Sergeant Tom Sharky, who is having an affair with hooker Dominoe Brittain, played by Australian actress Rachel Ward, while investigating the murder of her hooker roommate.
In HUSTLE, Reynolds played Los Angeles Police detective Lieutenant Phil Gaines, who is having an affair with hooker Nicole Britton, played by French actress Catherine Deneuve, while investigating the murder of a fellow hooker and porn star.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15
REBEL MOON: PART ONE: A CHILD OF FIRE---the Zack Snyder sci fi movie that was originally written as a proposed STAR WARS movie received an initial Rotten Tomatoes score of 9% based on 22 reviews which makes it the lowest of any Snyder movie. Snyder's 2011 SUCKER PUNCH has a 22% score.
THE WRAP critic William Bibbiani wrote, "REBEL MOON – PART 1: A CHILD OF FIRE isn’t a complete film. The story will continue and presumably conclude in the next installment. So perhaps some of this movie’s issues will be addressed later on, and PART 1 will improve with the benefit of hindsight. Or perhaps it will look worse after the follow-up comes out, which is equally plausible. Until then it is simply what it is, and that is a hugely expensive but uninspired STAR WARS knockoff with some thrilling action sequences, and some truly ugly moments that taint the entire thing."
Ironically, Snyder recently said he is working on a director's cut of SUCKER PUNCH in which patients try to escape from a mental hospital to avoid being lobotomized, “I’m working with Warner Bros. to try and find a window to go back in. Even though we did an extended version, it’s not the fully realized movie.”
Snyder said he might get the original cast back for reshoots, “I think it’s good [if] I can get those guys, Emily [Browning] and Abby [Cornish] and the crew back in. Some reshoots would be amazing.”
TWISTER 2---writer Mark L. Smith commented on the sequel to the 1996 movie that starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, “It’s a lot of fun. [Director Lee Isaac Chung] did his own thing to the script a little bit because that’s what they do, so I don’t know about some of the changes exactly. So, I don’t know the details, but it’s a separate story. It’s not a continuation of the original. But it’s just a real wild ride with some good, fun characters. Hopefully, we can tap into what the original had because that thing is just iconic. But it’s so cool to have a director like Isaac taking on something like this. It’s just so out of his norm, and I think he’s having fun. I was texting with him a couple days ago, and it’s just all craziness of it.”
AVATAR 4---James Cameron confirmed the fourth movie involves a time jump from the previous movies, “We did the [motion capture] capture on three and the live-action photography on three as an intermingled production with [AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER], and we even did part of movie four because our young characters are all going to have a big time jump in movie four."
He added, “We see them and then we go away for six years and we come back. And so the part where we come back is the part we haven’t shot yet. So we’ll start on that after three is released.”
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM---Larry David announced the upcoming Season 12 will be the last season, “As CURB comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be – the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character, and so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.”
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---the movie has earned $26.7 million which is the most for a Toho GODZILLA movie. Because of its success, the run has been extended again beginning on December 15 and will be released in 2,600 theaters compared to the original 1,000 theaters. GODZILLA MINUS ONE was nominated for the Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
THE AGE OF LEGENDS---Kari Skogland (THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER) will direct the first of a movie trilogy that is a prequel to THE WHEEL OF TIME.
ORPHAN 3---director William Brent Bell hinted a third movie in the horror franchise might be in development, “I definitely think ORPHAN as a franchise has so many variations, and unlike other franchises, whether it’s a doll or a masked killer, she’s a real character on screen like Hannibal Lecter and she’s never going to age. So we really can do it, and we’re only going to get better at it. And Isabelle loves it so much. And now that we’ve gone another direction with the second one, the franchise’s rulebook has been opened up to where anything is possible.”
CHUCKY---cult movie director John Waters will play Chucky's creator in Season 3
THE MURDERBOT DIARIES---Alexander Skarsgard will star in the Apple TV+ 10-part series based on the sci fi novels.
PLATONIC---Apple TV+ renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---Paul Winfield said, "Yo momma" in two movies. In THE TERMINATOR, Winfield played Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Ed Traxler, who is about to start a press conference about the Sarah Connor serial killer, and asked Detective Vukovich (Lance Henriksen) how he looks.
Lieutenant Traxler (Paul Winfield): "How do I look?"
Detective Vukovich (Lance Henriksen): "Like *****, boss."
Lieutenant Traxler (Paul Winfield): "Yo momma."
In PRESUMED INNOCENT, Winfield played Judge Larren Lyttle, who told two unethical district attorneys, who claimed Assistant District Attorney Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) confessed to raping and killing his beautiful colleague, District Attorney Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), "Shoot, in my neighborhood, had Mr. Sabich come from those parts, he would've said, 'Yo momma.'"
REBEL MOON: PART ONE: A CHILD OF FIRE---the Zack Snyder sci fi movie that was originally written as a proposed STAR WARS movie received an initial Rotten Tomatoes score of 9% based on 22 reviews which makes it the lowest of any Snyder movie. Snyder's 2011 SUCKER PUNCH has a 22% score.
THE WRAP critic William Bibbiani wrote, "REBEL MOON – PART 1: A CHILD OF FIRE isn’t a complete film. The story will continue and presumably conclude in the next installment. So perhaps some of this movie’s issues will be addressed later on, and PART 1 will improve with the benefit of hindsight. Or perhaps it will look worse after the follow-up comes out, which is equally plausible. Until then it is simply what it is, and that is a hugely expensive but uninspired STAR WARS knockoff with some thrilling action sequences, and some truly ugly moments that taint the entire thing."
Ironically, Snyder recently said he is working on a director's cut of SUCKER PUNCH in which patients try to escape from a mental hospital to avoid being lobotomized, “I’m working with Warner Bros. to try and find a window to go back in. Even though we did an extended version, it’s not the fully realized movie.”
Snyder said he might get the original cast back for reshoots, “I think it’s good [if] I can get those guys, Emily [Browning] and Abby [Cornish] and the crew back in. Some reshoots would be amazing.”
TWISTER 2---writer Mark L. Smith commented on the sequel to the 1996 movie that starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, “It’s a lot of fun. [Director Lee Isaac Chung] did his own thing to the script a little bit because that’s what they do, so I don’t know about some of the changes exactly. So, I don’t know the details, but it’s a separate story. It’s not a continuation of the original. But it’s just a real wild ride with some good, fun characters. Hopefully, we can tap into what the original had because that thing is just iconic. But it’s so cool to have a director like Isaac taking on something like this. It’s just so out of his norm, and I think he’s having fun. I was texting with him a couple days ago, and it’s just all craziness of it.”
AVATAR 4---James Cameron confirmed the fourth movie involves a time jump from the previous movies, “We did the [motion capture] capture on three and the live-action photography on three as an intermingled production with [AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER], and we even did part of movie four because our young characters are all going to have a big time jump in movie four."
He added, “We see them and then we go away for six years and we come back. And so the part where we come back is the part we haven’t shot yet. So we’ll start on that after three is released.”
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM---Larry David announced the upcoming Season 12 will be the last season, “As CURB comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be – the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character, and so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.”
GODZILLA MINUS ONE---the movie has earned $26.7 million which is the most for a Toho GODZILLA movie. Because of its success, the run has been extended again beginning on December 15 and will be released in 2,600 theaters compared to the original 1,000 theaters. GODZILLA MINUS ONE was nominated for the Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
THE AGE OF LEGENDS---Kari Skogland (THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER) will direct the first of a movie trilogy that is a prequel to THE WHEEL OF TIME.
ORPHAN 3---director William Brent Bell hinted a third movie in the horror franchise might be in development, “I definitely think ORPHAN as a franchise has so many variations, and unlike other franchises, whether it’s a doll or a masked killer, she’s a real character on screen like Hannibal Lecter and she’s never going to age. So we really can do it, and we’re only going to get better at it. And Isabelle loves it so much. And now that we’ve gone another direction with the second one, the franchise’s rulebook has been opened up to where anything is possible.”
CHUCKY---cult movie director John Waters will play Chucky's creator in Season 3
THE MURDERBOT DIARIES---Alexander Skarsgard will star in the Apple TV+ 10-part series based on the sci fi novels.
PLATONIC---Apple TV+ renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---Paul Winfield said, "Yo momma" in two movies. In THE TERMINATOR, Winfield played Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Ed Traxler, who is about to start a press conference about the Sarah Connor serial killer, and asked Detective Vukovich (Lance Henriksen) how he looks.
Lieutenant Traxler (Paul Winfield): "How do I look?"
Detective Vukovich (Lance Henriksen): "Like *****, boss."
Lieutenant Traxler (Paul Winfield): "Yo momma."
In PRESUMED INNOCENT, Winfield played Judge Larren Lyttle, who told two unethical district attorneys, who claimed Assistant District Attorney Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) confessed to raping and killing his beautiful colleague, District Attorney Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), "Shoot, in my neighborhood, had Mr. Sabich come from those parts, he would've said, 'Yo momma.'"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18
ECHO---trailer released for the Marvel Disney+/Hulu five-part miniseries.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddZsqjuWuo
THE BRICKLAYER---trailer released for the Renny Harlin assassin movie starring Aaron Eckhart.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KrOszTq
THE PROMISED LAND---trailer released for the historical movie starring Mads Mikkelsen.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=age3coRbAz
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE---sequel photo shows Bill Murray and Paul Rudd in front of a frozen ghost containment unit.
CLIFFHANGER 2---Sylvester Stallone will return for the sequel to the 1993 Renny Harlin movie that has mountain climber ranger Gabe Walker running a Dolomites mountain lodge and is taken hostage. His daughter must use the mountain-climbing skills she learned from her father to rescue him.
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES---20th Century Studios confirmed the new movie is the first of a new trilogy that is set two centuries after the 2017 trilogy where Caesar's legacy has been mostly forgotten. KINGDOM will focus on Noa, the new ape hero. Kevin Durand, who plays villain Proximus Caesar, said, “You’re seeing the influence and the evolution of what Caesar left. And, like in every morsel of human history, there’s always some type of tyrant who comes along and scares everyone into believing them.”
HALCYON---Colin Trevorrow/Amazon Prime tv series underway in which Witness Protection Program informants are temporarily relocated to other time periods and are pursued by time-traveling assassins.
MURDER, SHE WROTE---co-writer Rebecca Angelo commented on the movie based on the murder mystery tv series starring Angela Lansbury, “It’s been really fun to take a character who was constrained by the limits of broadcast television in the eighties and nineties – she’s not allowed to have too much depth, she’s not allowed to have an emotional arc, she’s certainly not allowed to make mistakes – and to imagine, in 2023, the possibilities of that character.
We would never dishonor Jessica Fletcher. In fact, the opposite. We have watched every episode two or three times. We know the ins and outs of that character and Cabot Cove. And the idea is to render that in three dimensions worthy of movie theater screens. [Its] a real event that people are going to put on their cardigans, hopefully, and go see.”
NETFLIX---Netflix is developing a WEDNESDAY spinoff about Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen). It is also developing two PEAKY BLINDERS spinoffs with one set in the 20th century and a second featuring Polly Gray, the Shelby family matriarch. An EXTRACTION spinoff is also under consideration.
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS---Apple TV+ tv series starring Jon Hamm whose synopsis says, “In YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, Hamm stars as Coop, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. These petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.”
TRIVIA---December 16th, 2023 was the 79th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
In BAND OF BROTHERS, Lt. Norman Dike was portrayed as being an incompetent coward nicknamed "Foxhole Norman" by his paratroopers. Easy Company members Dick Winters, Carwood Lipton, Bill Guarnere and others had negative comments about Dike. In the episode "Breaking Point", Dike led Easy Company's assault on the village of Foy during the Battle of the Bulge and panicked which caused several of his men to be killed. He was then replaced by Lt. Ronald Speirs.
However, official Army records show Dike in a different light. Dike was awarded two Bronze Stars for heroism in combat. Dike received his first Bronze Star during Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland, when he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." Dike's second Bronze Star was in the Battle of the Bulge during the siege of Bastogne where "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire".
Easy Company paratrooper Clancy Lyall said the real reason Dike faltered during the attack on Foy was because he saw Dike being wounded in the right shoulder and not because he panicked.
After World War II, Dike saw action in the Korean War, served in the CIA and graduated from Yale Law School. Dike later was the vice president and comptroller of the United Western Minerals Company.
The BAND OF BROTHERS writers probably portrayed Lt. Dike as an incompetent coward in order to emphasize the heroism of Lt. Speirs, who replaced Dike.
In the BAND OF BROTHERS episode "Breaking Point", Lt. Norman Dike led Easy Company's assault on the village of Foy during the Battle of the Bulge and panicked which caused several of his men to be killed.
The BAND OF BROTHERS writers probably portrayed Lt. Dike as an incompetent coward in order to emphasize the heroism of Lt. Speirs, who replaced Dike.
ECHO---trailer released for the Marvel Disney+/Hulu five-part miniseries.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddZsqjuWuo
THE BRICKLAYER---trailer released for the Renny Harlin assassin movie starring Aaron Eckhart.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KrOszTq
THE PROMISED LAND---trailer released for the historical movie starring Mads Mikkelsen.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=age3coRbAz
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE---sequel photo shows Bill Murray and Paul Rudd in front of a frozen ghost containment unit.
CLIFFHANGER 2---Sylvester Stallone will return for the sequel to the 1993 Renny Harlin movie that has mountain climber ranger Gabe Walker running a Dolomites mountain lodge and is taken hostage. His daughter must use the mountain-climbing skills she learned from her father to rescue him.
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES---20th Century Studios confirmed the new movie is the first of a new trilogy that is set two centuries after the 2017 trilogy where Caesar's legacy has been mostly forgotten. KINGDOM will focus on Noa, the new ape hero. Kevin Durand, who plays villain Proximus Caesar, said, “You’re seeing the influence and the evolution of what Caesar left. And, like in every morsel of human history, there’s always some type of tyrant who comes along and scares everyone into believing them.”
HALCYON---Colin Trevorrow/Amazon Prime tv series underway in which Witness Protection Program informants are temporarily relocated to other time periods and are pursued by time-traveling assassins.
MURDER, SHE WROTE---co-writer Rebecca Angelo commented on the movie based on the murder mystery tv series starring Angela Lansbury, “It’s been really fun to take a character who was constrained by the limits of broadcast television in the eighties and nineties – she’s not allowed to have too much depth, she’s not allowed to have an emotional arc, she’s certainly not allowed to make mistakes – and to imagine, in 2023, the possibilities of that character.
We would never dishonor Jessica Fletcher. In fact, the opposite. We have watched every episode two or three times. We know the ins and outs of that character and Cabot Cove. And the idea is to render that in three dimensions worthy of movie theater screens. [Its] a real event that people are going to put on their cardigans, hopefully, and go see.”
NETFLIX---Netflix is developing a WEDNESDAY spinoff about Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen). It is also developing two PEAKY BLINDERS spinoffs with one set in the 20th century and a second featuring Polly Gray, the Shelby family matriarch. An EXTRACTION spinoff is also under consideration.
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS---Apple TV+ tv series starring Jon Hamm whose synopsis says, “In YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, Hamm stars as Coop, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. These petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.”
TRIVIA---December 16th, 2023 was the 79th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
In BAND OF BROTHERS, Lt. Norman Dike was portrayed as being an incompetent coward nicknamed "Foxhole Norman" by his paratroopers. Easy Company members Dick Winters, Carwood Lipton, Bill Guarnere and others had negative comments about Dike. In the episode "Breaking Point", Dike led Easy Company's assault on the village of Foy during the Battle of the Bulge and panicked which caused several of his men to be killed. He was then replaced by Lt. Ronald Speirs.
However, official Army records show Dike in a different light. Dike was awarded two Bronze Stars for heroism in combat. Dike received his first Bronze Star during Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland, when he “organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." Dike's second Bronze Star was in the Battle of the Bulge during the siege of Bastogne where "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire".
Easy Company paratrooper Clancy Lyall said the real reason Dike faltered during the attack on Foy was because he saw Dike being wounded in the right shoulder and not because he panicked.
After World War II, Dike saw action in the Korean War, served in the CIA and graduated from Yale Law School. Dike later was the vice president and comptroller of the United Western Minerals Company.
The BAND OF BROTHERS writers probably portrayed Lt. Dike as an incompetent coward in order to emphasize the heroism of Lt. Speirs, who replaced Dike.
In the BAND OF BROTHERS episode "Breaking Point", Lt. Norman Dike led Easy Company's assault on the village of Foy during the Battle of the Bulge and panicked which caused several of his men to be killed.
The BAND OF BROTHERS writers probably portrayed Lt. Dike as an incompetent coward in order to emphasize the heroism of Lt. Speirs, who replaced Dike.