Women can finally be Ghostbusters, so why not alien-zappers?
It’s 2015, people! That means women can be Ghostbusters, superheroes, and major Star Wars heroines in movies. The next cinematic franchise to get a healthy shot of feminism, it seems, will be Men in Black as its producer promises to give audiences a “Woman in Black” in the fourth film. Continue reading
Ridley Scott will start shooting Alien: Paradise Lost, early next year. He recently brought in John Logan to help him polish up the script. Logan has worked on films such as Skyfall, Spectre and Gladiator. After that, he plans on making another sequel that will lead up to the first Alien film in the series.
Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 was put on hold, and it doesn’t look like it will ever get made. Why? Because Scott is trying to keep the franchise to himself. In fact, he regrets letting the franchise get away from him in the first place. Continue reading
The full trailer of Warcraft premiered as BlizzCon 2015, and it was quite an amazing experience watching it in a room full of Warcraft fans. I don’t think you will have had to play the game to be able to enjoy this movie. This seems like it will be the kind of film that will appeal to all fantasy movie fans! Judging by the reactions to the trailer, though, some people are surprisingly not that excited for it. Continue reading
Did you know that there was a theatrical play in production based on the Ghost in the Shell anime and manga? Apparently the GiTS stage play recently opened up in Tokyo.
It’s called Ghost in the Shell Arise: Ghost is Alive. It’s an officially licensed play. I’m curious to see what the production value is like and how the story is told. Continue reading
Another Star Trek series is currently in development at CBS, and it’s being developed by Alex Kurtzman, who has worked on the previous two films directed by J.J. Abrams. The series will arrive just in time for the 50th anniversary of the franchise.
The new series was picked up straight to series by CBS, and it is slated to premiere in January of 2017. According to THR, the new Star Trek show will “introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966.” Continue reading
alien is kinda holding/ pending prometheus 2. So I shall be working on other things… as much as I love the xeno- and Lt ripley
Following Legendary’s and Warner Bros. Pictures’ 2014 success with the global reinvention of the Godzilla franchise, the companies have come together to create an epic, new shared cinematic franchise. All-powerful monsters become towering heroes for a new generation, revealing a mythology that brings together Godzilla and Legendary’s King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new. Monarch, the human organization that uncovered Godzilla in the 2014 film, will expand their mission across multiple releases. Continue reading
During an interview with THR on Wednesday, Lloyd says he’d sign on immediately if the whole gang — Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson — got back together for one more time-traveling adventure.
“I would love to do Doc again, no question,” Lloyd says.
The blockbuster franchise has experienced a cultural resurgence recently as October 21st, 2015 approaches. The date, dubbed Back to the Future Day, coincides with the exact date in Back to the Future: Part II where Marty travels to the future from 1985. A fourth installment in the series is unlikely, but fun to imagine for Lloyd, who turns 77 next week.
“It’s tough to come up with an idea that contains the excitement of the original three,” Lloyd says. “So it would be a real challenge for the writers to come up with an original Back to the Future story that has the same passion and intensity and excitement as the other three. But it could be done, you never know,” he adds with a chuckle. Continue reading
Rumor has it that the disappointing domestic performance of Terminator Genisys has squashed plans for future installments in the series. Speaking at a leadership conference for TheWrap, Skydance Media Chief Creative Officer Dana Goldberg says the franchise isn’t dead as much as readjusting.
“Do we intend to have a next step of Terminator? Yes, we do,” Goldberg said. “I wouldn’t say on hold, so much as re-adjusting.”
While Genisys underperformed domestically, it did stellar at the worldwide box office, bringing In $350 million overseas.
“We’re ultimately happy with overall worldwide numbers. Do I wish we would have done better domestically? Absolutely,” said Goldberg. “Happily, we live in the world where the domestic number had a level of importance 10 or 15 years ago — I’m not saying it’s not important, it is — but we have to play to a worldwide market. In terms of Terminator, the worldwide market paid attention, but we’re not taking the domestic number lightly.”
Goldberg says Skydance will try to improve on the next Terminator experience by data mining audiences to see what went right and what went wrong with Genisys.
In the end, Genisys’ success or failure is almost irrelevant. Hollywood is still Hollywood, and there seems little chance that any major studio would let a franchise like Terminator, with a pre-sold audience of nostalgia addicts and franchise diehards, sit on the back burner for long. Continue reading
