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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4

WICKED---after Mattel's Wicked doll boxes had an incorrect link to the porn website Wicked.com, Holly Ricketson, a South Carolina mother, filed a class action lawsuit against Mattel after her daughter used the link to the porn website. She claims Mattel did not offer her a refund, and she and her daughter suffered "emotional distress" after viewing the X-rated images. Her lawsuit said, “These scenes were hardcore, full on nude pornographic images depicting actual intercourse. Plaintiff’s minor daughter immediately showed her mother the photographs and both were horrified by what they saw. If plaintiff had been aware of such an inappropriate defect in the product, she would not have purchased it.”
Ricketson is seeking damages in excess of $5 million.

CLEANER---photo and synopsis released for the Martin Campbell movie starring Daisy Ridley where activists take over an “energy company’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, played by Daisy Ridley, suspended 50 stories up on the outside of the building, to save those trapped inside.”

SHARON STONE---Sharon Stone compared directors Martin Scorsese and Sam Raimi, "In Sam Raimi’s case, I really liked his films. I thought he was very intelligent and very funny, different from Marty because he’s Italian, he has loyalty, he has that family feeling, and because of it Marty and I still have a relationship and because of it Marty and I still work together.
Sam was a kid and he doesn’t have loyalty, he doesn’t have family, he didn’t ever talk to me again, he didn’t thank me, he didn’t hire me again, he didn’t acknowledge the relationship. Marty, because I worked so hard and because I admired him so much our relationship continues to today, there is depth there.”
Fans thought Stone's comments were odd in that Raimi is married, has five children, works with his brother Ted and has a reputation of being a very nice guy.

WEDNESDAY---photo released of Jenna Ortega returning for Season 2.

QUICKSILVER---Netflix movie underway based on the novel. The synopsis says, “Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her. Kingfisher’s past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.”

LITTLE BROTHER---John Cena and Eric Andre will star in the Netflix comedy movie whose synopsis says, “The film revolves around a famous real estate agent whose carefully curated world is upended when his eccentric ‘little brother’ unexpectedly reappears.”

LIZA MINNELLI---a tv miniseries is underway based on Minnelli's upcoming memoir.

SWEETPEA---Starz renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE--GHOST PROTOCOL writers Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec said producer JJ Abrams wanted Harrison Ford to play villain Kurt Hendricks and Ford was interested in the role. However, Tom Cruise rejected Ford as a co-star because he felt fans would not like seeing the two great actors battling each other. The role went to Michael Nyqvist.

 

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

LOCKERBIE---trailer released for the Peacock miniseries about the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 starring Colin Firth.

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AMERICAN PRIMEVAL---trailer released for the Netflix Western miniseries starring Taylor Kitsch.

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ALIENS UNCOVERED: THE LAND OF LEGENDS---trailer releases for the documentary about aliens and UFOs.

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1923---trailer released for Season 2.

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DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas Special.

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TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN---Sienna Miller will co-star with John Krasinski in the Amazon Prime movie based on the tv series. Miller will play a MI6 agent.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS---producer Philippa Boyens commented on the future of the fantasy franchise, “There’s a lot of [possibilities], when you look at it, there’s a lot of things in there, actually. One of the things this [THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM] story has shown us is that a stand-alone story works really successfully within the world of Middle-earth and I would genuinely – because I’ve fallen in love with the form – love to see another anime.
But that depends on the audiences out there, your audience, fans of not only the original trilogy, but that vast anime audience. I’m really interested to see what they think. So we’re in the audiences hands. If there’s an appetite for it, we’ve got more stories. There’s a ton of stories left to be told there and some really, really interesting ones.
But my preference would be, after HUNT FOR GOLLUM,would be to look at those stand-alone stories. And then if we got really ambitious – there are some epic, particular stories that could translate into that more traditional epic trilogy format that was the original LORD OF THE RINGS, the WAR OF THE RINGS story.”

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN---VARIETY reports that producer Jerry Bruckheimer may bring Johnny Depp back for a sequel, "PIRATES producer Jerry Bruckheimer is developing two versions of the script on parallel tracks, one that could bring Depp back into the fold if the actor and Disney can reconcile."

THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK---producer Basil Iwanyk commented on a possible Season 2, “I think we were happy with Season 1. I think that we talked a little bit about Season 2. But I think the feeling is, if we’re going to have something on television in the John Wick universe, this Robert Levine version that we went out with, that we’re negotiating with somebody, is probably the better option for the John Wick content in the TV world.”

TRIVIA---the British sci fi tv series SPACE: 1999 starred Martin Landau and his wife, Barbara Bain, and was the most expensive British tv series ever made at that time. Co-producer Gerry Anderson originally wanted Robert Culp to star in the series. When Anderson interviewed Culp, he was about to tell Culp about how much he liked him in I SPY, but Culp interrupted him by saying, "I want you to know I am a great actor. Having said that, there's something else I want you to know: I'm a better director. And finally, I want you to know I'm an even better writer."
Gerry recalled, "I felt immediately that we had a complicated series here - a production-line going, making one picture every ten days, special effects... What kind of a nightmare were we going to have if the star believed that he could direct and write better than all the people on the show? I'm not saying it would have been a problem, but it could have been trouble and I couldn't take the risk."
Anderson then hired Landau to be the series' co-star with Bain.

 

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

ROGUE HEROES---trailer released for Season 2.

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BALLERINA---poster released for the JOHN WICK spinoff movie starring Ana de Armas.

28 YEARS LATER---poster released for the zombie sequel starring Cillian Murphy.

DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA---photo and synopsis released for the sequel starring Gerard Butler, "In DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA, Big Nick is back on the hunt on the mean-streets of Europe closing in on Donnie who is embroiled in the dangerous world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s biggest diamond exchange."

THE WINDS OF WAR---George RR Martin commented on the status of his long-awaited novel, “Unfortunately, I am 13 years late. Every time I say that, I’m [like], ‘How could I be 13 years late?’ I don’t know, it happens a day at a time. But that’s still a priority.”
He added, “A lot of people are already writing obituaries for me. [They’re saying] ‘Oh, he’ll never be finished.’ Maybe they’re right. I don’t know. I’m alive right now! I seem pretty vital!”
Martin also criticized Hollywood for not make movies not faithful to the original novel, “Maybe I’m one of the few people in Hollywood who still thinks that when you adapt a work of art, a novel, a short story, you should do a faithful adaptation,” he said. “[It] annoys me too much because they change things and I don’t think they generally improve them.”

UNIVERSAL MONSTERS---director Leigh Whannell hinted at a third remake of a Universal monster movie, which would follow his upcoming WOLF MAN remake, “My own weird filmmaker OCD is almost like, ‘Well I’ve made two, I have to do three.’ It has to be three. But that’s got more to do with my own neuroses than me actually wanting to do it. In my general life, I’m a pretty strange guy with my habits. I have to leave when it’s an even number, like, 8:20, not 8:19, which is crazy. I’m probably revealing to you how crazy I am. So on that side of my brain, I gotta do a third one to complete the trilogy.”
Whannell said his own personal choice for a remake is DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, "As a kid, the idea that they were both the same person was always super interesting to me. That’s up to Universal. If they said, ‘We want you to be the monster guy,’ that would be flattering to me. Like, ‘Wow, they’re entrusting me with this thing that’s so important to them.’ But I’m not gunning for that role.”

THOR: RAGNAROK---Taiki Waititi commented on fan criticism of the sequel, “That really propelled me into the nerdosphere, if you will. I was living a really lovely, peaceful life, and as soon as I did this, well boy, did the nerds come for me. They said, ‘This guy’s gonna ruin this. He’s gonna ruin Thor!’
It’s like, ‘What, you mean again?’ And they were like, ‘He’s gonna ruin this for everyone, Thor’s so cool!’ And I said to them on Twitter – before I left Twitter – I said, ‘You don’t know what you want until I give it to you.'”
He also commented on directing THE MANDALORIAN, “Speaking of angry nerds, STAR WARS, MANDALORIAN. This is what brought the nerds back. They were like, ‘Okay, you get a pass on this one.’ My favorite memory of this was turning up to set and getting to direct 75 Stormtroopers. And the little boy inside me, who I’ve kept locked away, he just tried to leap out, and be, ‘Yay, this is my dream come true!’ ‘All right, shut up, kid,’ and I locked him back, I pushed him back down.”

SCRUBS---ABC confirmed Bill Lawrence is returning to create a reboot of the medical comedy tv series that starred Zach Braff.

THE ROOKIE---ABC is developing a new spinoff of the Nathan Fillion tv series which will be set in Washington state.

TRIVIA---Pearl Harbor movie trivia (December 7, 2024 is the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which led the US into entering World War II).
Character actor Ron Masak played a Navy communications man in two movies.
In ICE STATION ZEBRA, Masak played submarine USS Tigerfish's radioman Paul Zabrinczski as the Tigerfish carries a team of spies to recover a Russian spy satellite's film capsule at the Arctic research station Ice Station Zebra.
In TORA! TORA! TORA!, Masak played battleship USS Nevada's communications officer Lieutenant Laurence Ruff during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Nevada was the only ship underway during the attack and Japanese bombers, which were supposed to bomb Pearl Harbor's fuel reserve tanks, hit the moving battleship with five bombs hoping to sink it and block the channel. Because most of the Nevada's senior officers were not onboard, Ruff was named "acting navigator", and he managed to beach the Nevada so it could not be sunk which kept the waterway open. It also saved Pearl Harbor's vital fuel storage reserves for the Navy's Pacific Fleet which probably shortened the war by a year.

In ICE STATION ZEBRA, Masak played submarine USS Tigerfish's radioman as the Tigerfish carries a team of spies to recover a Russian spy satellite's film capsule at the Arctic research station Ice Station Zebra.

In TORA! TORA! TORA!, Masak played battleship USS Nevada's communications officer, Lieutenant Laurence Ruff, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9

THE GORGE---trailer released for the Apple TV+ horror movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller.

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STAR TREK: SECTION 31---trailer released for the Paramount+ spinoff movie.

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FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA---featurette released for the spinoff movie starring Ana de Armas.

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THE RIG---trailer released for Season 2.

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YELLOWJACKETS---trailer released for Season 3.

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REACHER---trailer released for Season 3.

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FACE/OFF 2---a source claims the Adam Wingard sequel will have Nicolas Cage and John Travolta returning in secondary roles with the sequel focusing on the children of Castor Troy (Cage) and Sean Archer (Travolta).

THE DISH---Wyatt Russell is in negotiations to co-star in the Steven Spielberg's sci fi movie that also stars Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Josh O'Connor.
After THE DISH, Spielberg will probably direct the movie OLD MAN'S WAR based on the novels about a 75 year-old widower whose consciousness is transplanted into the body of a young genetically-engineered soldier and then discovers his fellow soldier is the transplanted version of his deceased wife.

NOSFERATU---PETA will protest the remake movie at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills because it used 5,000 live rats to suggest they carried the bubonic plague even though none of the rats were harmed. PETA's statement says, "A human is no more likely to be harmed or killed by a rat in real life than by a vampire, and false portrayals of these animals as harbingers of death deny viewers the chance to see them as the intelligent, social, and affectionate individuals they are. The only 'pests' moviegoers need to be concerned with are directors who subject animals to the chaos and confusion of a film set, and PETA encourages everyone to see through these shameful stereotypes and give rats the respect they deserve...rats form close bonds with their families and friends, enjoy playing and wrestling, and even giggle when tickled—and are less likely than dogs or cats to catch and transmit parasites and viruses.”
The protest will have a "giant rat" carrying a sign saying, "Rats Have rights! We didn't Cause the Plague!".

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2---Emily Blunt commented on a possible sequel, “There’s rumblings, there’s stuff churning around, but I don’t know if I can confirm anything completely . . . but we would be all delighted to work together again.”

TRIVIA---in the William Shatner documentary YOU CAN CALL ME BILL, Shatner said at the peak of STAR TREK's success on tv, NASA invited him to visit the Kennedy Space Center where they rolled out the red carpet and he watched the assembly of the Saturn V rocket that would launch the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Two years later, STAR TREK was cancelled, Shatner was divorced and he was broke, "I'm broke. No, I'm not broken. I don't have any money. I was in a pasture. In order to save motel expenses and eating expenses, I had bought a wrecked truck. And I'm lying on the bed in that little cab, and I've got a 4-inch black-and-white television set on my chest. And I'm looking through the window at the Moon. It was a clear night that night. And I'm looking at Armstrong...stepping down from the...I'm at my nadir. I have no money. I'm living like a bum. I've got my dog. I mean, at one point, I couldn't cash a $15 check after STAR TREK---One giant leap for mankind.- And I'm looking at the...incredible feat...F-E-A-T, and his feet, F-E-E-T, as he placed it for one small step for man, one giant step for mankind. I hear him say those things, and I'm thinking, my God, that's fantastic. And only a short while ago, I was a part of it. I mean, they used to say that when the STAR TREK's ratings went up, the government voted more money. It was like a self-energizing loop. And so I was a teeny, teeny, infinitesimally small part of him landing on the moon. And I'm here, and he's there. And as I went to sleep, I thought of the irony of it. I subsequently recovered, but that was a moment."
Shatner did recover---he is currently one of Hollywood's wealthiest actors and is estimated to be worth $100 million.

Two years after STAR TREK was cancelled, Shatner was broke, divorced and living in a pickup truck with a 4-inch tv on his chest as he watched Neil Armstrong land on the Moon.

 

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"Two years after STAR TREK was cancelled, Shatner was broke, divorced and living in a pickup truck with a 4-inch tv on his chest as he watched Neil Armstrong land on the Moon." Why was this? Shatner made approx $3.8M equivalent in today's dollars after three seasons of ST. Of course a lot of that went to the ex-wife but still.

 

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

28 YEARS LATER---trailer released for the zombie sequel movie. Some fans claim the zombie who appears at 1:47 elapsed time is Cillian Murphy's character.

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NOSFERATU---film clip released from the vampire remake movie.

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THE BRUTALIST---trailer released for the movie starring Adrien Brody.

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THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU---Jeremy Allen White (THE BEAR) will provide the voice for Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt, in the Lucasfilm movie.

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---Chris Evans will appear in the sequel in an undisclosed role.

STAR WARS VS. MARVEL---Parrot Analytical released its Global Demand Report chart comparing Lucasfilm's STAR WARS tv shows compared to Marvel Studios' tv shows for 2022-2024.

DEADPOOL---Ryan Reynolds commented on the future of Deadpool, “I see Deadpool as a supporting character much more than he is a main [character] or at the center. We center him sometimes because they want, that’s what they want. But you can’t center him unless you take everything away from him. You have to create a situation where he’s so much the underdog.
I don’t think I can do that again. If he comes back, I think he’s going to be in someone else’s movie. Channing Tatum is so excited to play Gambit, I would happily be the fifth banana in his movie or anybody else’s.”

SPIDER-MAN 4---producer Amy Pascal commented on SPIDER-MAN 4, “We have to deal with the fact that he decided he was going to give up being Peter Parker and he was gonna focus on being Spider-Man, because being Peter Parker was too hard. So that’s what the movie is about.”
Also, sources claim Sony Pictures has no immediate plans for more Spider-Man movies after KRAVEN THE HUNTER. A top talent agent said, "They’ve developed what they want to develop for now."

DUNE: PART TWO---Denis Villeneuve commented on Josh Brolin's threat to quit acting if Villeneuve does not get an Academy Award nomination for PART TWO, “That gives me a tremendous amount of responsibility, putting all of that on my shoulders! Thanks, Josh. That’s embarrassing! I mean if Josh does decide to quit acting, it will be my responsibility to fight him on it.“

TRIVIA---the filming of THE FUGITIVE, with Tommy Lee Jones receiving an Academy Award, was completely chaotic with co-star Richard Jordan leaving shortly after filming began due to terminal brain cancer, an unfinished script and no ending. Cast members claimed 70% of the movie's dialogue was improvised, but writers Jeb Stuart and David Twohy deny this.
The confirmed improvised dialogue include:

Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard: "What are you doing?"
Deputy US Marshal Noah Newman: "I'm thinking."
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: "Well, think me up a cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with some of those little sprinkles on top, will you, as long as you're thinking."


Deputy US Marshal Cosmo Renfro: "What's a vascular surgeon?"
Deputy US Marshal Erin Poole: "Someone who makes more money than you."


Deputy US Marshal Bobby Biggs: "This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate, he went to medical school, he's not gonna come through all the security, go to the county lockup, to find someone his own people say does not exist. Hinky."
Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard: "Well, what does that mean Biggs, 'hinky'?"'
Deputy US Marshal Bobby Biggs: "I don't know. Strange."
Deputy US Marshal Henry: "Weird."
Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard: "Well, why don't you say strange or weird? I mean hinky, that has no meaning."
Deputy US Marshal Bobby Biggs: "Well, we say hinky."
Deputy US Marshal Samuel Gerard: "I don't want you guys using words around me that have no meaning. I'm taking the stairs and walking."
Deputy US Marshal Biggs: "How about 'bullsh*t?' How about 'bullsh*t', Sam?"

Tommy Lee Jones in the improvised "chocolate doughnut" scene.

 

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"Two years after STAR TREK was cancelled, Shatner was broke, divorced and living in a pickup truck with a 4-inch tv on his chest as he watched Neil Armstrong land on the Moon." Why was this? Shatner made approx $3.8M equivalent in today's dollars after three seasons of ST. Of course a lot of that went to the ex-wife but still.

Yeah, and they wonder why marriage rates are declining, easy way to loose most of your money.

 

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

OLD GUY---trailer released for the comedy assassin movie starring Christoph Waltz.

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KRAVEN THE HUNTER---the Sony Pictures superhero movie is projected to earn $13 million-$15 million when it ironically premiers on Friday, December 13th. By comparison, Sony's MADAME WEBB earned $15.3 million on its premiere weekend and holds the record for the worst premiere weekend of any Sony/Marvel movie.

YELLOWSTONE---Paramount Network announced a new spinoff series is underway featuring Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler with Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser returning and “will likely feature other cast members from the mothership series alongside Reilly and Hauser."

THE BEATLES---Ridley Scott appeared to confirm rumors that GLADIATOR II star Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes' four The Breatles movies when he said Mescal might not appear in Scott's THE DOG STARS because of a schedule problem, “Maybe, Paul is actually stacked up, doing the Beatles next. So I may have to let him go."

MEET THE PARENTS 4---Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks to return for the fourth movie in the comedy movie franchise.

DUNE: MESSIAH---Anya Taylor-Joy confirmed she is returning for the sequel, “Yeah, the film is being made, and I am so thrilled to be a part of it. I’m such a big fan of everybody that’s a part of that project and I just can’t wait.”

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3---Jim Carrey explained why he returned as Dr. Robotnik for the latest sequel, “I came back to this universe because I get to play a genius, which is a bit of a stretch. And you know, I bought a lot of stuff and I need the money, frankly.“

UNMERCIFUL GOOD FORTUNE---Rosario Dawson will star in the horror movie whose synopsis says, “A high-end celebrity attorney gets pulled into a headline-making case involving Fatima, a cunning young waitress who is accused of serial poisoning and murdering 28 people. Fatima’s defense takes a darkly mysterious turn when she claims to have the psychic ability to see how someone will die when she touches them and reveals she is killing people to prevent a 'fate worse than death.”'

THE WHEEL OF TIME---Shohreh Aghdashloo (HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG) will play Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan in Season 3.

TRIVIA---director Renny Harlin (DIE HARD 2) was the original director of ALIEN 3, but left the movie after 20th Century Fox rejected his idea for the sequel.
He commented on the sequel, "I was working on ALIEN 3 in '89, which was before JURASSIC PARK and all those movies. So the concept of having these creatures on Earth for the studio, it felt scary and unattainable. For me, it was the natural evolution. We've had the ALIEN with the truck drivers in space, we've had ALIENS with the Marines in space, and where do we go next? Let's bring the aliens on Earth and have them going through the cornfield.
I had the poster already in my mind with the farmhouse and the cornfield in moonlight, and they are going through the cornfield. To this day, I think it would've been a ginormous hit movie because it would've been the first time anything like that was done. But for whatever reason, the studio felt like, 'Ah, the audience won't buy that.'
So let's put the aliens on a prison ship. A prison ship? How am I going to relate to a prison ship? But that's ancient history. I'm not blaming anybody, but for those who don't know, I worked for a year on ALIEN 3, and I quit politely, respectfully, because I couldn't stand the idea of, after Ridley Scott and Jim Cameron, coming up with a movie that is just not going to live up to what the audience is expecting and give them that experience.
The key to me, just to say again about the ALIEN movies, was that they have to be relatable. They might be in outer space, but the characters are you and I, in outer space, and that's what makes them tick."
Harlin was replaced by David Fincher, who later disowned the poorly-received sequel.

 

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

ALARUM---trailer released for the action spy movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Scott Eastwood.

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YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED---trailer released for the Amazon Prime comedy movie starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.

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NOVOCAINE---trailer released for the action movie starring Jack Quaid.

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CLAYFACE---DC Studios live-action movie underway based on the Batman villain. Mike Flanagan is the writer.

PANIC CAREFULLY---Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne and Elizabeth Olsen will star in the Sam Esmail (MR. ROBOT) movie whose plot reportedly focuses on the hunt for a cyber terrorist.

KRAVEN THE HUNTER---the Sony Pictures superhero movie received a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 14% (56 reviews) and a Metacritics score of 33 (24 reviews).

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX---Quentin Tarantino commented on fans who criticized his praise for the sequel, "I go on a show and I say that I like JOKER 2. Now there’s 150 articles on it. One person listens to the thing and writes an article about it and there’s 150 ripoff articles on that. And then you read the comments: ‘Quentin is a f*cking *******. That movie f*cking sucks. He’s a f*cking ******* for saying that.’ Why am I a f*cking *******? I liked the f*cking movie! That makes me a f*cking *******? You either like the movie or you don’t. I’m not plugging the movie. I’m not doing anything. I’m just saying I like it. Who gives a f*ck what I like? What do you care what the f*ck I like?”

AMERICAN PSYCHO---Austin Butler will star in the reboot of the 2000 serial killer movie that starred Christian Bale.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS---Peacock reboot tv series is described as,“Following a devastating hurricane, a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship becoming a beacon of light for their town.”

TANGLED---Michael Gracey (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN) is in negotiations to direct the Disney remake of the 2010 animated movie.

TRIVIA---Academy Award-nominee Debra Winger's (AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT) first acting role was in the 1976 sexploitation movie SLUMBER PARTY '57. Her second role and first significant role was in the WONDER WOMAN tv series where she played Drusilla/Wonder Girl, the younger sister of Diana Prince, in three episodes. Winger declined the offer to appear in more episodes because she felt it would hurt her career.

Debra Winger (lower left) first appeared in the 1976 sexploitation movie SLUMBER PARTY '57.

Her second role and first significant role was in the WONDER WOMAN tv series where she played Drusilla/Wonder Girl, the younger sister of Diana Prince, in three episodes.