KnightWing Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 [Pierce-talk] Proof that men are better than women! [/Pierce-talk] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat In The Hat’ Get Another Life At Chris Meledandri’s Illumination By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 6:25pm EDT EXCLUSIVE: After topping the box office the past two weeks with Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri, and Audrey Geisel will tap the Dr. Seuss library for another classic title, and this one is a surprise. They will begin developing a 3D CG-animated feature based on The Cat in the Hat. Rob Lieber has just been set to write the script. Meledandri will produce and Geisel will be executive producer. Aside from Green Eggs And Ham and How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Cat In the Hat is arguably the most famous story generated by Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel. The surprise comes from the fact that Universal turned it into a live action film in 2003. That film grossed $101 million domestic and $133 million worldwide, it cost about $109 million to make and was considered a big disappointment. While a live action Grinch was a big hit for Universal, Meledandri and Mrs. Geisel believe that the Cat has more than one life on the big screen. It is a very popular ride in Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park, a ride that was always based on Dr. Seuss’s original drawings. The feeling among Meledranadi, Mrs. Geisel, and Universal Films chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley is that Seuss’s works connect better in animation, prompting Universal’s decision to make this the next project. Meledandri started the relationship with Mrs. Geisel and the estate of her husband when he ran Fox Animation and made Horton Hears A Who there. He brought over the relationship when he agreed to start a family film division for Universal. It took a couple of years to set up a studio and stable of animators, but Illumination has been a boon for Universal’s turnaround. The division has generated three films so far, none of which cost more than $70 million. Between Despicable Me, Hop and by the time Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax has completed its revenue run, the three films will likely surpass $1 billion in global box office receipts. Despicable Me has a sequel in the works, with Al Pacino voicing the villain. Illumination is separately working on a film about the life of Dr. Seuss, with Johnny Depp attached to play him. It’s contemplated as a live action film interspersed with animation, and it will be produced by Meledandri, David Kennedy and Infinitum Nihil’s Depp and Christi Dembrowski. Mrs. Geisel will be executive producer. Keith Bunin is writing the script. Lieber just adapted the Judith Viorst children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Fox and 21 Laps. He’s repped by UTA and Anonymous Content. Source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles project is going to have them be aliens. To wash that out of your mouth, here, have the UK trailer for Prometheus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles project is going to have them be aliens. No. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOK AT THE NAME OF THE FRANCHISE, BAY!!! IT ISN'T "TEENAGE ALIEN NINJA TURTLE-SHAPED ALIENS", THEY ARE MUTANT TURTLES!!!!! IMPROBABLE AS THAT SOUNDS, IT'S STILL A STEP UP FROM PIZZA-CHOMPING, SURF-SPEAK ALIENS WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS!!!! IF YOU WANT TO BE TERRIBLE, GO MAKE UP YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND MAKE THEM BE STUPID AND EXPLOSIVE - IT WORKED FOR BAD BOYS!! LEAVE THE TURTLES ALONE, OR AT LEAST DON'T DO UNTO THEM WHAT YOU DID TO THE TRANSFORMERS, which is a franchise I'm less invested in admittedly. WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT "DIRECTOR"?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Good god. I mean, Transformers was kind of stupid, but at least it was essentially exactly the same. This doesn't even make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted March 20, 2012 Report Share Posted March 20, 2012 *Long slow motion shot of a helicopter over a city. The turtles are standing with grim expressions on their faces as the camera rotates around them.* Michelangelo: Shit just got tubular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted March 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2012 Don't forget the explosions. Lots of explosions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Watching the Nostalgia Critic for Richie Rich, it occurs to me that it's a Comic Book movie along with Casper. Hint Hint Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Watching the Nostalgia Critic for Richie Rich, it occurs to me that it's a Comic Book movie along with Casper. Hint Hint Ian. That means Sabrina: The Teenage Witch movie counts, along with those sequels, about Rome and stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Watching the Nostalgia Critic for Richie Rich, it occurs to me that it's a Comic Book movie along with Casper. Hint Hint Ian. You seem to be implying that it's my job to review Comic Book Movies around here! ......oh, right. Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stavros Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Robert Pattinson's agent must want to kill him for taking that role and turning so hard on the Twilight crowds expectations of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Clerks: The Animated Series might return in 2013. BIG AMERICAN PARTY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 LOTS OF FUN, GOOD TIME FOR ALL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow, Twin Peaks really is as good as people say. Not the first series, but the second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 I fucking love Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me might be my favorite David Lynch film. Also, OH MY GOD! BEAR IS DRIVING, HOW CAN THAT BE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Watched the first couple episodes of Snuff Box, by Matthew Berry and Rich Fulcher. Berry, as always is hilarious, but Fulcher is hit and miss. I'll likely finish the first series, but it's only six episodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Is The Stand any good as a standalone miniseries / adaptation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles project is going to have them be aliens. No. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOK AT THE NAME OF THE FRANCHISE, BAY!!! IT ISN'T "TEENAGE ALIEN NINJA TURTLE-SHAPED ALIENS", THEY ARE MUTANT TURTLES!!!!! IMPROBABLE AS THAT SOUNDS, IT'S STILL A STEP UP FROM PIZZA-CHOMPING, SURF-SPEAK ALIENS WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS!!!! IF YOU WANT TO BE TERRIBLE, GO MAKE UP YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND MAKE THEM BE STUPID AND EXPLOSIVE - IT WORKED FOR BAD BOYS!! LEAVE THE TURTLES ALONE, OR AT LEAST DON'T DO UNTO THEM WHAT YOU DID TO THE TRANSFORMERS, which is a franchise I'm less invested in admittedly. WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT "DIRECTOR"?!?!? Heh. Uhm. Ian, you heard that the title's just gonna be Ninja Turtles, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 So instead of being a terrible change for the franchise, it's an aptly-named terrible change for the franchise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 Is The Stand any good as a standalone miniseries / adaptation? Yeah. It's probably one of the best King adaptations. Definitely worth a watch for the opening credits alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 A development deal unveiled today at MIPTV will see Allan Quartermain, the swash-buckling character from the 1880s who inspired Indiana Jones become the subject of a new 10-part, $30 million series. The project is a joint venture between Sonar Entertainment and Ecosse Films (Camelot, Monarch of the Glen). Writers Richard Kurti and Bez Doyle (Going Postal) are already signed up. “It’s an incredible character from a range of best selling books,” Stewart Till, CEO of Sonar Entertainment, told THR. “I read all the books as a child and it is something that many Brits have grown up with. It’s also the kind of high-concept adventure that broadcasters are looking for.” No talent is yet on board but Till says he has some in mind. “There are many British male actors in their early 30s who could play this rugged adventurer.” He expects the script to be written in the next two to three months and the projected budget is around $3 million per one-hour episode. With plans to shoot in Africa, Till believes the subject matter and rich story lines will make putting together the production financing easier than most. “It is in exotic settings with lost tribes and treasures and African superstitions and big adventures, so its got everything,” said Till. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/miptv-indiana-jones-tv-series-306887 It's nice to see the classics making a comeback. It's the only good thing about all these remakes and reboots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 An Alec Baldwin double: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYMphMnugw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted April 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 First clip from Transformers Battleship: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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