I... I kind of actually want to see that.
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http://www.avclub.com/article/kung-pow-enter-fist-getting-sequel-some-reason-222853
I am a great magician.
Your movie is now green(lit)!
I am a great magician.
Your movie is now green(lit)!
Not movie related, but not sure where else to put this:
Comedy Central's 'Key and Peele' to End After Current Season
Comedy Central's 'Key and Peele' to End After Current Season
Or Comedy Central isn't willing to toss millions at it like they would the Chappelle Show. But honestly, I could see them doing well in movies...
Other than the Daily Show (for like 2 more weeks) or South Park it's their most popular show. It didn't say cancelled in the article, it says the show's ending.
I meant that it's possible they didn't give Key and Peele enough money for them to want to keep performing the show, not that it's not worth that money and they cancelled it. You need to remember that the ONLY thing that made Dave Chappelle want to do the last season of his show was the literal millions of dollars they threw at him to keep it going (it was their highest rated show). Even that wasn't enough because they refused to let him re-shot some stuff he though would be misinterpreted.
I'm not saying it's the same issue, as Key is getting plenty of roles now, but it's a possibility.
Key's been doing more and more voicework as well, I don't really know what Peele's been doing, though. It also says they're starting up an animated show, so maybe that's just easier on them than a weekly sketch show.
“It was just time for us to explore other things, together and apart," Key told The Wrap. "I compare it to Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. We might make a movie and then do our own thing for three years and then come back and do another movie."
Sounds like it was a creative thing.
Sounds like it was a creative thing.
Sounds like Channing Tatum might have ditched Gambit.
So the Gambit movie is in jeopardy?
*shrug* Welp, nothing of value will be lost there.
Outside of Tatum and the people listed in the article almost nothing was known about the movie, kind of early to write it off as junk, eh?
I think we can file this under "never a good sign" -- Fox has embargoed reviews of the Fantastic Four until the day before the movie opens.
I am not a fan of Tatum at all. So, I am glad he's potentially out.
Dave
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I do like the way he made fun of himself in "This Is The End". That took guts, man.
Not surprised at all.
Guess I can put this here: Clarkson/May/Hammond have been signed by Amazon's streaming service to host a new show after leaving Top Gear earlier this year.
What's wrong with Hulu?
Amazon's streaming comes with Prime, so if you use that for shipping you have the streaming anyway. At least that's how it worked when my folks started using Prime.
Dave
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Pay for our service? Have some ads! Fuck that.
I'll admit it is a bit annoying sometimes. At least for me, I'v gotten used to their ads. At least you just have to sit through one or two ads at a time, rather than the huge amounts on normal TV broadcasting.
I still never understand why companies make bad movies on purpose.
Do you really think that it is on purpose or just terrible management at the producer/studio exec. level?
They made the movie out of a contractual obligation. So yes, they made a bad movie on purpose.
I'd personally say it's more of a case of terrible management rather than just setting out to purposefully make terrible movies. They seek out cash grabs, try to enforce their own ego-driven decisions, try to file things down so that they fit into neat squares and cater to lowest common denominator/cheapest to do/safest to do, which in turn results in terrible movies.
That's not necessarily the case for all terrible movies, but it feels like a solid blueprint for most terrible movies.
The movie industry and the AAA game industry have become little more than megascale versions of app developers.
Make a catchy thing, rake in as much cash as possible as quickly as possible, then abandon it and make another catchy thing that follows a similar formula but looks different.
Repeat.
In before Clash of Clans: The Movie.
--Patrick
Dave
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghost-amy-pascal-haunts-sonys-811729
It seems that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is Sony's highest grossing movie so far this year. At $104 million that's pretty bad.
It seems that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is Sony's highest grossing movie so far this year. At $104 million that's pretty bad.
A lot of that goes to Adam Sandler too, for helping to produce it. It's kind of amazing how busy Adam Sandler is... starring in 22 movies in 20 years AND getting a slew of films produced for his friends like Paul Blart 1+2 and others.
I really, truly think it's just that he...
- Wants to get his friends work. Kevin James couldn't get shit after King of Queens, so Sandler used his connections to get Paul Blart done. That made money so it got a sequel. The same with Rob Schneider: couldn't get work, got four movies with Sandler: The Animal, Deuce Bigalow 1+2, and the one where he switched bodies with a girl. He's even done if for David Spade and he doesn't even LIKE David Spade. I mean... JOE DIRT is getting a sequel. I -like- Joe Dirt and don't think it deserves a sequel.
- In order to help produce those paychecks for his friends, he has to put out drivel for the studios. Some of it (Hotel Transylavnia, 50 First Dates) is decent. Most is crap. But he has to do this shit to keep relevant.
But on normal broadcasting I can fast forward past them all. On Hulu you can't.
