Not movie news, but wasn't sure where else to put this:
Silverhawks is getting a reboot, with new toys already being planned.
Silverhawks is getting a reboot, with new toys already being planned.
Movie News & Miscellany
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Oh God what are they going to do to “freshen” the opening theme I can’t look.
—Patrick
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If it isn't synthwave, I'll count it as a huge waste of potential.
You’d have to be a fool to not want that.
And if it doesn't, is it really Flash Gordon any more?
For Nick
"I want sharks with frigging laser beams, not armadillo"
“Once upon a time, the opening of Episode 3 – when Sylvie is attempting to infiltrate Hunter C-20’s mind – that actually turned into kind of a fight sequence where the TVA had defenses in place. So there are people in the memory, and the beach bar actually turned on Sylvie and were attacking her, and it got crazier and crazier – and there were little kids attacking her, and then I literally wrote in that an armadillo with a laser mounted on it comes [into] the beach bar and is firing, and Sylvie kicks it like a soccer ball out into the ocean. That was in a script.”
"I want sharks with frigging laser beams, not armadillo"
“Once upon a time, the opening of Episode 3 – when Sylvie is attempting to infiltrate Hunter C-20’s mind – that actually turned into kind of a fight sequence where the TVA had defenses in place. So there are people in the memory, and the beach bar actually turned on Sylvie and were attacking her, and it got crazier and crazier – and there were little kids attacking her, and then I literally wrote in that an armadillo with a laser mounted on it comes [into] the beach bar and is firing, and Sylvie kicks it like a soccer ball out into the ocean. That was in a script.”
Am I having a stroke?
Most of the text from the Dark Horizons sight. The interview is a podcast.
From Alligator Loki to Variant Loki fights to robots being used to impersonate reptilian aliens – there’s some strange and imaginative stuff that takes place.
Recently the show’s head writer Michael Waldron spoke to the Ringer-Verse podcast and discussed several unused scenes, including the one that was just too weird even for Marvel’s Kevin Feige:
“Once upon a time, the opening of Episode 3 – when Sylvie is attempting to infiltrate Hunter C-20’s mind – that actually turned into kind of a fight sequence where the TVA had defenses in place. So there are people in the memory, and the beach bar actually turned on Sylvie and were attacking her, and it got crazier and crazier – and there were little kids attacking her, and then I literally wrote in that an armadillo with a laser mounted on it comes [into] the beach bar and is firing, and Sylvie kicks it like a soccer ball out into the ocean. That was in a script.”
Waldron says ultimately the scene, and the laser armadillo, was toned down after being labelled too bizarre: “Kevin [Feige] often references that to me. … He’s like, ‘That might be the bar for [being] too much.'”
Ok, you were quoting an interview. Your original post didn't say that and so made no sense, hence my confusion
We...we could've had...a laser mounted armadillo?
....we...I could've had...it would've...and...and Feige turned...that...down?
KEVIN FEIGE IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND I HATE HIM.
....we...I could've had...it would've...and...and Feige turned...that...down?
KEVIN FEIGE IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND I HATE HIM.
I know what you meant to say here, but this conjures up images of an armadillo with a little matching army helmet and chin strap astride some kind of Gatling laser, like John Rambo astride a heavy machine gun that's barking other people's guts out while yelling AAAAAAAHHHHHH! except, y'know, high-pitched because he's an armadillo.
...AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! *pum* *pum* *pum*...
--Patrick
Blu-ray releases of cartoons counts as movie news, right? Because FUCK YES.
www.comicsbeat.com
SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES flies into remastered Blu-ray box set for 25th anniversary
Good news Man of Steel fans! The acclaimed Superman: The Animated Series from the '90s is getting its own remaster Blu-ray collection!
www.comicsbeat.com
... the Sonic movie did well enough to get a sequel?
Budget: $85-90 million
Box office: $319.7 million
I'm as surprised as you are. I didn't think it bombed, but I didn't think it did THAT well.
from what I've gathered, a movie has to do about 2X it's budget to break even (to account for marketing). Which means sonic made about 140-150 million in profit. I'd probably green-light a sequel based on that. I'm sure kids loved it.
Plus, that doesn't account for home release, with digital downloads, streaming, and physical copies. Some movies that just squeaked by being a bomb have recouped on home releases.
Can, uh, ...can we get a true 4K release of the 40's Fleischer cartoons, too? Please?Blu-ray releases of cartoons counts as movie news, right? Because FUCK YES.
SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES flies into remastered Blu-ray box set for 25th anniversary
Good news Man of Steel fans! The acclaimed Superman: The Animated Series from the '90s is getting its own remaster Blu-ray collection!
--Patrick
It's kind of hard to gauge that though, with lots of people still staying home from the pandemic. Like... what were the streaming numbers? How many people watched this movie on HBO MAX instead of going to the theatres because it was just safer and more convenient? HBO can easily get that data and use it to gauge future releases in the series.
From what I hear it is a streaming hit. It is just a disapointment at the box office. But people staying at home is only part of the problem. In some cases, other movies that started the same time have better numbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if the DC Fanbase just isn't as big as the Marvel one at this point... with only 3 genuinely good movies in the entire franchise (Shazam, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad 2021) it may simply not have enough trust of the public at large to justify going out to the theaters to see it.
The only parts of Birds of Prey that work are the ones focusing on Margot Robbie and Elle Jay Basco. No one else brought their A-game. So while I'll applaud Robbie for her performance and her hands-on production work (seriously, it's very clear she was doing EVERYTHING she could to make this movie work and she deserved an award JUST for that), the end result is... kinda mixed.
If you wonder why The Suicide Squad did worse than expected, keep in mind the average movie goer doesn't know that James Gunn took over directing, or even who he is. All they know is the name, which had a huge opening when it released in 2016 and then quickly bombed, so to most people suicide squad is already labeled as bad.
Almost every commercial I've seen mentioned it was from the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, which even if you don't know who James Gunn is, is still some pretty big recognition. I really think it has more to do with people opting to watch on HBO/stream (or pirate), as opposed to going to the theater at this point. Just for an example, when Black Widow was released a month ago, our Covid numbers were starting to rise, but not as dramatically as they are now.
But I also think, like others have mentioned, the DC cinematic universe is far more splintered than the MCU at this point. You don't have to know a Marvel character to know their movie is going to fold into the main story at some point, so you're going to go. DC has big names, but they've been recast and rebooted so many times, it's hard to get invested, especially for the average, non-comic fan movie goer.
I didn't discover Clint Eastwood has a new movie coming out until a couple days ago, either.
--Patrick
I'm guessing it's a zombie movie, because yeesh.