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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">For the most part, the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thor</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> series has been one of royal politics, one certain inter-dimensional love affair, and a bunch of monsters from other realms paying a visit to ours. It's not exactly the lightest of material, and with the Marvel Cinematic Universe already being dark enough on its own, a little bit of humor would be welcomed in the life of Odin's favorite son. Well as luck would have it, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Thor: Ragnarok</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> will have just that, according to </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">The Hulk</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> himself, Mark Ruffalo.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">During an interview with </span>MovieFone<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> for </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now You See Me 2</i>,<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> the actor best known in recent years as the green tinted rage monster that Marvel fans know and love was asked what he felt </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Thor: Ragnarok</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> could bring to the table that the previous two installments couldn't. Not missing a beat, Ruffalo laid down the following difference between the third installment and its predecessors, as he stated:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taika [Waititi] is directing it, so there will be a lot of humor in it, which we probably haven’t seen before in the Thor world.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">If we weren't amped for Taika Waititi's directing gig on </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Thor: Ragnarok</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> before, Mark Ruffalo's comments are certainly getting us to the point where the third </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Thor</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> film is going to be a most anticipated affair. We'll see what the funnier side of apocalyptic doom looks like when the film hits theaters on November 3, 2017.</span></span></div>
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Wow. My dad found the letter I sent to DOZENS of casting directors during my junior year. Hilarious. <span class="PrettyLink-prefix" style="background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value" style="background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">bestsummerever</span></div>
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<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">This post comes from Chris Evans' </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Twitter</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> account, and already after reading that text, you could see he had the drive to succeed in him. Not only was he taking the summer of 1998 as the opportunity to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute, but he was pushing for what most other wanna-be actors overlook: experience in the more business oriented side of the picture. It's a drive that makes more than a little sense, as after he's spent a good two decades in the business, he's started to branch out into other fields such as directing. It all goes to show that even when pursuing something like an acting career, Evans doesn't fool around. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">While reading that letter above proves that Chris Evans was always going to be a big star in the business we call show, it also indirectly proves how good of a pick he was to play the role of one of Marvel's most iconic super heroes. Every time we re-read that letter, we're reminded that this is the man who has come from being the parody of the standard jock character in </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Not Another Teen Movie</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> to a leading man in such films as </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Cellular</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Fantastic Four</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, only to land on his current perch as the focal point of this summer's </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Captain America: Civil War</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">. With some actors, that sort of trajectory comes from luck, and a good agent; and while we don't doubt Chris Evans has those factors working for him as well, he certainly hasn't been leaning on them exclusively to move his career in the right direction. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-16604025585896285902016-06-09T17:57:00.002+01:002016-06-09T17:57:55.812+01:00Bill Murray Gives His Most Honest Reaction Yet To The Ghostbusters Remake<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">It’s hard out here for a Ghostbuster. If you happen to be one of the new, female cast members, you are dealing with a consistent trickle of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">online aggression</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> against your upcoming comedy. And if you are an original Ghostbuster, an OG like </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Dan Aykroyd</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, you get accused of taking a buy out if you dare say something positive about Paul Feig’s upcoming comedy. The one member of the original team who seems like he’s earned a pass in all of this is Bill Murray… because he’s Bill F’ing Murray. So when he opened up about the new </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Ghostbusters</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, we all sat up and listened intently.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Yesterday was Ghostbusters Day, which led to the new cast joining the original cast on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Jimmy Kimmel</span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> Wednesday night. During an interview segment, Bill Murray admits that he was overly protective of the idea of anyone redoing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Ghostbusters</span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, and explained why this one is a tough nut to crack. Murray said:</span><br />
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When you see the film, and you’ll delight in the film, it sort of rumbles along in the beginning. You’re going, ‘Oh God, are they going to pull this thing off?’ I felt like a stepfather to the whole thing. There is no quit in these girls. This is a tough movie to pull off, because it’s a big concept. There’s a lot on the plate – there’s a lot of expectation.</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">In Murray’s estimation, though, the team eventually pulls it off, as he tells Jimmy Kimmel that he, Dan Aykroyd, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Ernie Hudson</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and Annie Potts were all "screaming, cheering like we were at a sporting event" by the conclusion of the new story. So there you have it. Another original Ghostbuster – and quite possibly the coolest original</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Ghostbuster</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> – telling you that the new movie works.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">As part of the interview, the enigmatic Bill Murray also talked a bit about how he dragged his feet on the possible </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ghostbusters 3</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and how that project falling apart ultimately led to the formation of the female-driven remake. Dan Aykroyd famously pursued Murray for years to get him to do another </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ghostbusters</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> film, but the comedian always balked. Then, it took convincing to get him to cameo in this movie. Murray explained:</span><br />
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I thought about it for a very long time. Like, many, many months. No, that’s not right. I was seriously thinking about this for years, really … It kept eating at me, and I really respect those girls. And then I started to feel like if I didn’t do this movie, maybe somebody would write a bad review or something, thinking there was some sort of disapproval [on my part].</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">With every passing entry in the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Marvel Cinematic Universe</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, we get closer and closer to Marvel’s endgame. An all-hands on deck, knock down, drag out battle between earth’s mightiest heroes and Thanos the mad titan. While </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Josh Brolin</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> has been making the occasional cameo, usually during the credits of other films, he’ll be taking center stage before we know it. It’s going to be a big deal when that time for Thanos to shine finally comes. The man behind the purple-skinned alien is looking forward to doing more, and in preparation for the motion capture heavy work, he went to another member of the MCU with experience to get a better idea of what he was in for: the Incredible Hulk, Mark Ruffalo.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Josh Brolin and </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Mark Ruffalo</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> have been friends for some time, and Ruffalo now has extensive experience, playing the Hulk in a pair of </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Avengers</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> movies, so the </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Hail, Caesar</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> actor went to his friend to try and get an idea of what he was getting himself into. Brolin tells </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;">Comic Book Resources</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> that Ruffalo’s advice was to enjoy himself, it’s going to be fun, mostly.</span><br />
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I just said, what do I have to look forward to? And he said, 'Man, the first time I did ... Hulk, was really embarrassing because I'm out there and I'm like on cinder blocks and shit trying to act out this stuff for other people. And then I saw the movie, and ... I'm so blown away that I couldn't actually wait to get back there and to do all that stuff again that I found embarrassing in the beginning.' He says, 'You're going to have a blast'</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">So, the end result is fun, but the work, maybe a little less so. One can imagine that the motion capture aspect has to be a little weird, especially on a big team-up movie like</span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">The Avengers</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">. Everybody else around you is wearing a superhero costume, while you’re covered in technical gear designed to record your movements so they can make you look like the Incredible Hulk somewhere down the line. When that time comes, however, it’s apparently all worth it, according to Mark Ruffalo, and he expects that Josh Brolin will feel the same way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Josh Brolin isn’t coming into </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Avengers: Infinity War</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">completely blind. He has had his few cameos, along with a larger supporting role in </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Guardians of the Galaxy</i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, but even that role had him stationary, in a throne the entire time. We have yet to see Thanos really move, much less get in a fight, which we certainly expect to be seeing. There's a lot that will be new for Brolin coming up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Josh Brolin admits to being nervous but seems to have full faith in the Russo Brothers and the team at Marvel Studios to make it all work when the time finally comes for him to show up and really be Thanos. He’s also excited to finally get the chance. We’re excited as well. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-2552908069629480942016-01-22T04:08:00.002+00:002016-01-22T04:08:24.791+00:00When Green Lantern Will Likely Appear In The DC Comics Films<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Earlier this week, Warner Bros. gave us our </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">first look</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> at the DC Extended Universe’s Justice League joined together. However, there was one notable hero missing from the lineup: Green Lantern. Although the DCEU has </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Green Lantern Corps</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> scheduled for 2020, nothing has been officially announced about whether one of the ring slingers will be on the team. Fortunately, it sounds like we won’t have to wait four more years to see a Green Lantern in this universe, as it’s been alluded at least one of them will be in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Justice League: Part One</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, if not the whole group. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">During this week’s CW special DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League, director Kevin Smith asked DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns to spill something that no one knows yet. Here’s what he said, courtesy of </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The TSG Network</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">: </span></div>
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We’ve been to the bottom of the oceans, we’ve been to ancient Greece mythology, we’ve been to the past and future Flash, into the digital world with Cyborg, we still got to go to space. So the Green Lanterns and the Green Lantern Corps will be coming to join the Justice League universe.</blockquote>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Smith then responded that it’s every kid’s dream to "see all those Justice League characters together," so it seems quite likely that at least one Green Lantern will work with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg in</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Justice League: Part One</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. This is only right, as Green Lantern has often been a founding member of the Justice League in the comics, including in the New 52, which is what the DCEU team is based off of. It still uncertain which Green Lanterns from Earth will be on the superhero team, though the most popular guesses are </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Hal Jordan or John Stewart</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. That said, if the threat the Justice League is facing is too much for them, they may require help from the space cop(s). That could be why Green Lantern wasn’t included in that artwork: he (or they) won’t join the team until after they’ve officially formed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">While the 2011 </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Green Lantern</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> movie focused solely on Hal Jordan, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Green Lantern Corps</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> is throwing the spotlight on multiple human Green Lanterns. </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">One report</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">before the reboot’s title was officially announced said that we’ll see Hal, John and Guy Gardner, while a </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">later one</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> said </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Green Lantern Corps</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> we’ll see Hal and John team up in a "Lethal Weapon in space"-type adventure. Kyle Rayner and Simon Baz were also briefly seen in the special, so there’s also the possibility they could show up. Regardless, it’s good to know that the DCEU has several protectors looking after Sector 2814. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Justice League: Part One</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> will be released on November 17, 2017, while </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Green Lantern Corps</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> flies into theaters on June 19, 2020. However, if Green Lantern is indeed part of the first Justice League adventure, hopefully we’ll get an official look at him (or them) later this year</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-75788417529945288562016-01-22T04:06:00.003+00:002016-01-22T04:06:57.098+00:00Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 May Feature This Massive, Strange Marvel Character<div class="SStoryTitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 1px; text-transform: capitalize; width: 600px;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">As </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Guardians of the Galaxy 2</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> continues to prepare itself for a May 5, 2017 bow, we keep getting more info about potential new characters that will be added to the franchise in its second outing. And, it’s starting to look like one of Marvel’s strangest characters may be showing its giant, odd face in the new film. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">A report from </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Geek</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> says that Ego, the Living Planet is likely to make an appearance in </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Guardians of the Galaxy 2</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">. This would mark the first time Ego has been seen in any Marvel Cinematic Universe property, even though the character has a long history with Thor in the comics. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Ego, the Living Planet first appeared in the comics in 1966. The planet resides in the Black Galaxy, and began as any planet does, coalescing from dust and cosmic gases over millions of years. When the Stranger (a </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">mysterious</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, super-powered space wizard) came across the planet, he gave Ego consciousness. Stranger also gave consciousness to a second planet, known as Alter Ego, but gave him to the</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Collector</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, with the hope of one day pitting his two creations against each other to determine which was stronger. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="border-color: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-style: initial; line-height: 22.4px;"><img alt="Ego" src="http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/107277/_1453323504.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /></span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">When Ego has an identity crises and heads off to consume space craft and conquer other planets, he pisses off Thor and is stopped by the God of Thunder. Later, when world-eater Galactus sets its sights on Ego, Thor returns to help defend him. After winning the battle, Ego and Thor call a </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">truce</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">, and Ego agreed to take a group of beings onto his surface. But, when Ego lost his mind, he devoured the beings, and Thor brought Galactus back to Ego to destroy him. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Phew. That’s quite a story there, and that’s not even </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">half</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;"> of it. In the comics, Ego also crosses paths with the Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Professor X, Thanos and Iron Man. But, one character that crossed paths with Ego who really makes an impact for the purposes of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Guardians of the Galaxy 2</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">, is Rocket Raccoon. After Ego’s done raising hell all over the Milky Way, including an attempt to </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">destroy</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;"> Earth, his surface becomes infested with space lice (really), and he hires Rocket to exterminate them (really). </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">While there’s no telling right now how the filmmakers might introduce Ego, the Living Planet into the </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Guardians of the Galaxy 2</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;"> universe, it’s clear that he has a lot of history to mine for story purposes, and that he could even end up being a minor foe for the intergalactic space heroes. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">And, if you think there’s no way a sentient planet could work in a </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Guardians</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;"> movie, you’re simply not thinking hard enough. Ego actually fits there better than he would in a Thor or Iron Man film. After all, </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;">Guardians</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-transform: none;"> brought a tough little talking raccoon and a giant, sort-of-talking tree man to the big screen. If the filmmakers can make Rocket and Groot work, then Ego is right up their alley. </span></h1>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-68921433462354029132016-01-22T04:05:00.005+00:002016-01-22T04:05:55.017+00:00Is The Movie Flash Really Going To Be Exactly Like The TV Flash?<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Warner Bros. recently pulled back the curtain on its </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">rapidly expanding DC Films universe</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, asking Kevin Smith to host a televised special that brought fresh details on</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #eba521;">Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, David Ayer’s </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #eba521;">Suicide Squad</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and the litany of superhero properties that are expected to follow in their wake. We learned more about </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #eba521;">Wonder Woman</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Cyborg</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Aquaman</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and the formation of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Justice League</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">. But when it came time to learn how Ezra Miller’s version of </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">The Flash</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> would differ from the current version tearing up our television screens, we discovered they might be more similar than we’d imagined.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ezra Miller, the breakout star of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Perks of Being a Wallflower</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">We Need To Talk About Kevin</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, was part of the DC special Tuesday night, where he talked about his take on Barry Allen, the hero who would be The Flash. In addition, DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns broke down the backstory for the upcoming movie version of The Flash. Johns said this:</span><br />
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Barry Allen… his mother is killed. His father is blamed for it, [and] put in prison. He becomes obsessed with forensic science. He wants to prove that his father was innocent. One night, working on his mother’s case, a bolt of lightning hits him and he gains super speed.</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Comic book readers who follow </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">The Flash</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">’s various storylines will know that portions of this origin story were told in 2009’s </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #eba521;">The Flash: Rebirth</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> (coincidentally penned by Geoff Johns). Meanwhile, audience members who pay attention to the Scarlet Speedster on The CW know that the description Johns gives above is </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">exactly the foundation</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> for Season 1 of the TV series </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Flash</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="338" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAnRC3qbMqE" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" width="600"></iframe><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">This raises an interesting question, in my mind. Why? Naturally, when you are telling a hero’s origin story, there are classic elements that you can not overlook. That’s why, trailers for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> suggest we’re going to have to travel down that infamous alley with Bruce Wayne’s parents, once again.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">But if DC’s cinematic side planned on using The Flash, why would they go with a version that sounds like it is going to be a mirror image to what the DC television side is doing – and doing successfully – at the same time? There have been numerous Flashes over the years, from Jay Garrick to Wally West and even Bart Allen, Barry’s grandson. Couldn’t Ezra Miller have played one of them, in an effort to shake things up? Even when Miller speaks of the powers that his Flash will exert, they sound a LOT like what Gustin eventually develops as the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Flash</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> television series pushes on. Miller said:</span><br />
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He can run so fast that he can move into another plane of frequency which is another reality.</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Geoff Johns confirms in the video that time travel is possible for The Flash, and that the past "is a place that he can visit." Without giving away too many spoilers for The CW’s </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Flash</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> TV show, this is a concept that the program explores, and explores thoroughly. Will it feel too familiar when the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Flash</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> movie hits theaters in 2018? Here's a shot of Movie Barry Allen, solving a crime:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><img alt="" src="http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/107187/_1453311871.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 350px; line-height: 22.4px; width: 600px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">And here’s the segment, courtesy of </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">The TSG Network</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, on The Flash from last night’s TV show. It has good insight into DC’s plan for the hero, and some amazing concept art:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="338" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NxiSV0d_6Vw" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" width="600"></iframe><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">But in hearing DC’s film plan for The Flash, it concerns me that it’s sticking a little too close to the TV version of the character. DC creatives have spoken in the past about the desire to keep the film and television sides separate, so that stories happening on the weekly TV shows wouldn’t affect the films, and vice versa. But The Flash is the only Justice League hero (at the moment) with a co-existing television program, which can cause some confusion. What do you think? Does the film version of Barry Allen sound too similar to the current TV version? Should DC have gone in a different direction? Or should they just have given Grant Gustin a promotion from TV Flash to Movie Flash? Weigh in below. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-47678013150996287022016-01-22T04:01:00.000+00:002016-01-22T04:05:12.603+00:00Apocalypse's Four Horsemen: Everything You Need To Know About The X-Men Characters<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">There have been many iterations of </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in all the various X-Men properties. The animated series featured a classic comic book style line-up, Wolverine became one in the comics’ second incarnation, and even </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Professor Xavier</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> served his time in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">X-Men: Evolution</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">. But, typically, they went by War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">In Bryan Singer’s </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">X-Men: Apocalypse</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, these are the names given to the title villain’s original line-up. We first glimpsed them in the post-credits scene for </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Days of Future Past</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, but the sequel will return to ancient Egypt to reveal them to be two men and two women, one of which stands at about 7’ 6’’ with long mace-tipped braids. Then, of course, there’s the modern-day incarnation. On the film’s set, writer-producer Simon Kinberg explained how the story for </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">X-Men: Apocalypse</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> was built from the inside out. For the Horsemen, they started with Magneto. "We had a very clear sense of what we wanted his emotional story to be," he said, "which actually goes back to, </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Michael Fassbender</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> and I went to Russia last summer for the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Days of Future Past</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> premiere." As the two discussed what interested the actor most in continuing the evolution of the character, they landed on an arc that felt right for Magneto to become a follower of Apocalypse. Said Kinberg:</span><br />
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That was the first person that we decided would be an interesting Horseman, and then, truly, we just kinda sat there, the way anybody would whether you were in a role playing game or a video game or, you know, doing fan-fiction, and it was like, 'Who are the coolest characters you wanna see and who are interesting combinations with one another and who are interesting foils for the heroes of the movie?'</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ahead of </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">X-Men: Apocalypse</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">’s premiere on May 27, we compiled a guide to these Four Horsemen straight from the actor’s themselves on the film’s Toronto sets. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">It’s 1983, about 10 years since the events of </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Days of Future Past</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and Magneto has disappeared. "I start off in Poland for Erik, and he’s basically living a normal life, has a family, has fallen in love," Fassbender said. "He doesn’t use his powers, has left that life behind and lives a very sort of simple life." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">In the comics, Madga is the mother of Erik’s children (you might know them as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver), but in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Apocalypse</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> it seems she’ll feature as his new love in Europe. Erik’s goal is to provide for his new family, which involves working at a steel mill, somewhere Fassbender said he can use his powers but in a way similar to penance. Staying out of the spotlight doesn’t mean he’s at peace.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">"For Magneto, he’s somebody who’s been injured, somebody who’s had all of his loved ones taken away from him and is someone who is quite singular in his thoughts," Fassbender explained, referring primarily to the concentration camp that killed his family. Once again, he’ll have something else taken away from him, and that’s when Apocalypse comes into the picture. The actor continued, </span><br />
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At that moment when things are being taken away from him again in Poland, it’s almost like he’s looking for an answer or he’s challenging God. It’s like, 'What do you want from me ‘cause I tried everything? I’ve tried to lead a good life. I’ve tried to do it correctly, whatever that is, and now you do this to me. So what is it that you want?'</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Magneto, having been a leader and a lone wolf, but never a follower, sees Apocalypse as a God-like being who will fulfill everything he couldn’t. Fassbender, Kinberg, and Singer compared the relationship to a cult in which Apocalypse, the leader, finds Erik at his lowest point and persuades him to join his plan of "judgement," which is something he does with each of his Horsemen. </span><br />
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I think that’s the sort of classic thing, you know, of any sort of megalomaniac, there are huge contradictions and hypocrisies within it. It’s almost like some of the worst dictators start off as complete idealists and that almost makes them more extreme in their dictatorship later, and what Apocalypse is doing is echoing that. But, for him at that point, I think it’s just about, Okay, I’m going to bring as much pain to the human race as they’ve brought me and, basically, wipe them out once and for all.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The lack of diversity in the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Academy Award nominations</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> has set off a wave of different responses across Hollywood. Some have made the decision not to attend the awards show due to the lack of nominations for black actors. Now, at least one of the white actors who did receive a nomination is considering staying home as a show of support.</span></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Mark Ruffalo, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Spotlight</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, made it clear in a recent interview that the issues that he believes the Academy has with diversity are actually part of a much larger problem within American culture. Still, he told the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">BBC</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">that he may not attend the awards show because he feels showing support for the issue is important. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><blockquote style="background-color: #eff2f7; background-image: url("http://www.cinemablend.com/images/top/quotes.png"); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(228, 236, 236); color: #47607d; font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', 'Gotham A', 'Gotham B', Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 13px; padding: 11px 25px 11px 60px; text-decoration: none; width: 489px;">
I’m weighing it, that’s where I’m at right now. I woke up in the morning thinking, 'What is the right way to do this?' Because if you look at Martin Luther King's legacy, what he was saying was that the good people who don’t act are much worse than the wrongdoers who are purposefully not acting and don’t know the right way.</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">All twenty of the nominees for acting awards across the four main Oscar categories for performance are white. This is the second year in a row where that has been the case. This has led to some very vocal criticism from different corners of Hollywood.</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Jada Pinkett Smith</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> has called for people of color to boycott the awards. Spike Lee, who received an honorary Oscar from the Academy in November, and was most certainly going to recognize him during the ceremony, has made it clear he will not be attending, though he has </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">stopped short</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> of asking others to follow suit. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Mark Ruffalo</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> obviously feels very strongly about this issue. It seems clear that he feels a need to do </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">something</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> to show support for this issue that he agrees with. Whether or not that will take the form of not attending the awards, he has not yet decided. Ruffalo qualifies as a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as he’s been nominated for the award in the past. His response is a very different one from </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">other members of the Academy</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> who recently came forward to dispute any accusations of racism made against them. Many have stated that they did, in fact, attempt to nominate black actors, and that the competitive nature of the nominations is what kept these nominees out.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">With just over a month to go before the awards ceremony, there will obviously be much more going on with this topic. It seems clear that a number of people will not be attending the awards. If many of the nominees themselves make that decision, it could make for a very interesting telecast. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-1131283888422029872016-01-22T03:57:00.001+00:002016-01-22T03:57:20.991+00:00Jennifer Lawrence Wants To Play An Assassin On Screen, Get The Details<div class="SStoryTitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 1px; text-transform: capitalize; width: 600px;">
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One of the most interesting in all of human history has always been Cuba's Fidel Castro, and a lesser known chapter of his life is making the rounds in Hollywood – with Jennifer Lawrence eager to be a part of the proceedings. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Lawrence, along with Sony Pictures, has been following the movement of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Marita</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">, a script written by </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">American Hustle's</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> Eric Warren Singer. The </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Joy</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> actress is currently attached to the project, as </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">The Hollywood Reporter</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> has recently discovered, and it sounds like quite the historical epic. The film focuses on its namesake, Marita Lorenz, who became Castro's live-in mistress at the age of 19 and would eventually be recruited to help assassinate him on behalf of the CIA. Of course, as it always does, love got in the way, and swayed Lorenz not to take the life of her favorite dictator. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Marita</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> promises a tale of romance and assassination the likes of which we hardly ever see outside of a James Bond film, with the added bonus of being an actual story out of history. Even more interesting is the fact that considering Jennifer Lawrence's level of interest in the project, it wouldn't be a surprise if we saw her name attached to the project not only as its star, but also as its producer. Speaking of hypothetical scenarios of little surprise, the director's chair seems just primed for</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">David O. Russell</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> to take the lead, considering both Lawrence and Eric Warren Singer worked with the director on 2013's </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">American Hustle</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">.</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Of course, one of the bigger unknowns about </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Marita</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> is whether or not the film will be a fully entrenched period piece that only showcases the period of time between 1959, when Lorenz first fell in with Castro, and 1960, when she embarked on the mission she'd abandon out of love. On the outside, that does seem to be the most viable option, as the film could center around Marita Lorenz's relationship with the dictator with great detail. However, taking the traditional biopic route wouldn't be a bad choice either, considering the would-be assassin did everything from romance another world leader to claim being a connection in the JFK assassination, all the while living a life worthy of two autobiographies. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">While Jennifer Lawrence has currently finished up </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Passengers</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">,</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> it looks like </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Marita</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">might take a little while to get to the big screen. Not only is she linked to Darren Aronofsky's next </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">mystery project</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, she also has the proposed Lynsey Addario biopic,</span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">It's What I Do</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> on her dance card. With that last project planning to team the Academy Award winning actress with director Steven Spielberg, the powers that be on </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Marita</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> better find a director with enough pull or loyalty with Lawrence to keep her from jumping ship.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-20712527389964250392016-01-22T03:55:00.001+00:002016-01-22T03:55:45.072+00:00Could Marvel Recast Daredevil For Avengers: Infinity War? Here's What Charlie Cox Said<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Since it was announced that Marvel and Netflix were teaming up to tell the stories of the characters that make up the Defenders, there has been speculation that these individuals could turn up in the movies somewhere down the line. The obvious spot for this would be the two-part </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Avengers: Infinity War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> event, which will include a massive array of superheroes. Charlie Cox, who plays Daredevil, hasn’t heard anything about such a crossover, but also wouldn’t be surprised to see his costumed alter ego recast on the big screen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">After receiving rave reviews in 2015, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Daredevil</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span></span>Season 2<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> is set to drop in full on Netflix in March. At the Television Critics Association press tour, </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Entertainment Tonight</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> caught up with Charlie Cox, who admitted he had no idea how such a move might work, and said:</span></div>
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Marvel TV and Marvel Studios are two very different things. So even if the character were to appear in that film, that doesn't necessarily mean that I would appear in that film. I will pick a fight with the guy that they choose!</blockquote>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">That would suck. I was initially skeptical about Charlie Cox as Daredevil and his civilian day job as lawyer Matt Murdock, but he killed it in both roles. Especially following the disappointment that was Ben Affleck’s big screen turn as the Man Without Fear, I’d hate to see them recast the part so soon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Also, that doesn’t seem to be the way that Marvel is playing things. While the DC Extended Universe will feature different actors than their TV counterparts—most notably the Flash will be played by two different people—Marvel has already shown they’re willingness to have some back and forth between formats. Phil Coulson from</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> first appeared in the movies before moving to the small screen, as did </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Peggy Carter</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, and we’ve witnessed the events of the movies impact the action on television. These characters could recast, but that doesn’t seem to be their MO.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Further speculation that the Defenders—Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist—might show up in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Avengers: Infinity War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> arose when directors Joe and Anthony Russo said they were choosing heroes from a stable of 67 characters. That was a bit of an exaggeration on their part, as they later cleared up, but the general gist is that there are going to be </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">tons</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> of characters in play as the MCU heroes try to stop Thanos from taking over, well, taking over everything.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Before we get to that, however, Daredevil will have plenty to do in Season 2. There’s the general grime and crime of Hell’s Kitchen to contend with, not to mention the daily struggles of a blind attorney, and we know that characters like Elektra and the</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Punisher</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> will arrive on the scene. That’s bound to change the landscape drastically. And at some point he’ll come together with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist and the Defenders will be born, so there’s that to look forward to.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">All 13 episodes of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Daredevil</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span></span>Season 2<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> hit Netflix on March 18.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-31160094402917169802016-01-22T03:51:00.000+00:002016-01-22T03:51:00.030+00:00How The Solo X-Men Films Will Connect To The New Timeline<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">In 2016, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">X-Men</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span></span>cinematic universe<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> is going to undergo some significant changes. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">X-Men: Apocalypse</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, following the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">First Class</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> timeline, will introduce new, younger versions of characters we already know, like Jean Grey, Storm, Cyclops, and others. Solo movies like </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Gambit</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> will give also give other characters their own platform. As all of these titles fall under the 20th Century Fox banner, some have wondered how they connect, and now producer Simon Kinberg reveals how they’re linked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The short answer is that all these movies are connected and exist in a shared reality. Talking to </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Joblo</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> on the set of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">X-Men: Apocalypse</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Simon Kinberg</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> elaborated, saying:</span></div>
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...they all are part of a larger fabric now, and so the world of Deadpool, the world of Gambit, exists in a post-Days of Future Past post-Apocalypse world where all of these stories are the same as our shared history...our fictitious events like the stadium dropping on the White House in 1973 is part of the world in which Gambit, Deadpool, Wolverine on forward exists.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Zack Snyder can't catch a break when it comes to his role in the burgeoning DC Cinematic Universe. If he isn't under the pressure of fan expectations for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> he's still defending himself against those who had a bone to pick with his controversial third act destruction of Metropolis in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Man Of Steel</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. It's a decision that he still defends to this day, simply because it sets up a crucial theme in his next DC outing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The wide scale destruction of Superman's adopted city did indeed serve a purpose, and Snyder wasn't shy about sharing it with </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Famous Monsters</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> in a recent interview. When he was ultimately asked about that infamous throwdown, he gave the following defense: </span></div>
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I stand by it, because for me, I’ve always said when I was working on <i>Watchmen</i> — and maybe it’s sort of left over from a <i>Watchmen</i> philosophical sort of thing — that there should be consequences to superheroes’ interaction with the earth. And that was kind of the way that we approached <i>Man Of Steel</i>. I wanted a big consequence to Superman’s arrival on earth. Certainly, <i>Batman v. Superman</i> sort of cashes in all its chips on the ‘why’ of that destruction." </blockquote>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">In his </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">defense</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> of the colossal clash between General Zod and Superman in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Man of Steel</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, Zack Snyder has both bolstered and bashed in the defense of his own work. The portion of his argument that contradicts his remarks is the fact that he name drops </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Watchmen</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> as his philosophical basis for creating such an ending. Which makes no sense, when you factor in the fact that Snyder re-wrote the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">ending</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> of his film to stray from the source material; and in favor of a sequence that lessened the consequences of the actions being perpetrated. Taking down half of Metropolis is apparently OK in Snyder's book, but a giant squid causing bloody carnage in New York is a no go. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Despite </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Watchmen</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> being the Kryptonite to the argument that Zack Snyder's ending in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Man Of Steel</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> was all about the stakes of the situation, there's the other half of the argument that more than makes up for this breach. As it sounds, Snyder was always planning to address the immediate reaction to Superman's battle with General Zod with another film, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> is the film he's chosen to do just that. With the knock down, drag out destruction in Metropolis fresh in everyone's minds, the political and personal fallout is about to hit big time. Not only does this give Snyder fresh material to mine in the Superman mythos, it also gives him a chance to comment on the nature of comic book movies on the whole. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The jury is still out on Zack Snyder's rationale for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Man Of Steel's</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> climactic battle, and</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> will either add fuel to the fire, or put an end to the debate once and for all. We'll see which side wins out when the film debuts in theaters on March 25th. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Awards season is in full swing. The </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Golden Globes</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> will be held in Hollywood on Sunday evening. The </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Critics Choice Awards</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> are scheduled to honor the best and brightest in film and television on January 17. And the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Academy</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> will announce its nominations to the world on Thursday, January 14. We’re in the thick of things. Across the pond, the BAFTAs revealed its top picks for the best on film, and much like what’s happening over here, their nominations spread across a diverse field to include a number of wide-reaching titles. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Big Short</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Revenant</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Spotlight</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> will compete for the title of Best Film at the BAFTAs this year, according to a release on the group’s</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">official site</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">. That’s a different category than Outstanding British Film, in which the nominees are </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">45 Years</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, the documentary </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Amy</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, the immigrant song </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Brooklyn</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Danish Girl</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, Alex Garland’s </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Ex Machina</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Lobster</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Overall, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> received the most nominations, while Alicia Vikander made waves by picking up BAFTA nominations for Best Actress and Bets Supporting Actress. The full film nominations are below. The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place on February 14.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">BEST FILM </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Big Short</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Revenant</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Spotlight</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">BEST ACTRESS </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Brie Larson - Room</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Cate Blanchett - Carol </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Maggie Smith - Lady in the Van</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">BEST ACTOR </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Matt Damon - The Martian </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bryan Cranston - Trumbo</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Rooney Mara - Carol</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Julie Walters - Brooklyn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Benicio Del Toro - Sicario</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Christian Bale - The Big Short</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">45 Years</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Brooklyn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Danish Girl</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Ex Machina</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Lobster</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">DOCUMENTARY </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Amy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Cartel Land</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">He Named Me Malala</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Listen to Me Marlon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sherpa</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">ANIMATED FILM </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Inside Out</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Minions</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Shaun the Sheep Movie</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">DIRECTOR </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Big Short, Adam McKay</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol, Todd Haynes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Martian, Ridley Scott</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Revenant, Alejandro G. Inarritu</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">CINEMATOGRAPHY </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies, Janusz Kaminski</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol, Ed Lachman</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mad Max: Fury Road, John Seale</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Revenant, Emmanuel Lubezki</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sicario, Roger Deakins</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies, Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Ex Machina, Alex Garland</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Inside Out, Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Spotlight, Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">ADAPTED SCREENPLAY</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Big Short, Adam McKay, Charles Randolph</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Brooklyn, Nick Hornby</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol, Phyllis Nagy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Room, Emma Donoghue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">EDITING </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Big Short, Hank Corwin</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies, Michael Kahn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mad Max: Fury Road, Margaret Sixel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Martian, Pietro Scalia</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Revenant, Stephen Mirrione</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">PRODUCTION DESIGN </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Bridge of Spies, Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Carol, Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mad Max: Fury Road, Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Martian, Arthur Max, Celia Bobak</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rick Carter, Darren Gilford, Lee Sandales</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">COSTUME DESIGN </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Brooklyn, Odile Dicks-Mireaux</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-51977432074588058282016-01-08T23:54:00.003+00:002016-01-08T23:54:58.528+00:00J.J. Abrams Responds To Star Wars: The Force Awakens Rip Off Complaints<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Despite a slew of positive reviews and record-breaking box office numbers, few will claim that </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> is a perfect movie or a film without flaws. Still, it’s fun as hell. One of the biggest criticisms lobbed at J.J. Abrams’ </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Episode VII</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">has been how heavily it relies on the previous films, calling back to the original trilogy and using similar elements and plot points. Some have even gone so far label it a rip off. Well, writer, director, and general mastermind J.J. Abrams has responded to those allegations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">It sounds like J.J. Abrams was prepared for at least some fans to have such concerns, and when he recently chatted with </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">The Hollywood Reporter</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, he elaborated on why he, Lucasfilm, and the other members of the creative team, opted to go this route. He said:</span><br />
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I knew that, whatever we did, there would be a group of people — and I was just hoping and praying that it would be smaller than not — that would take issue with any number of things. But I knew we weren't making the movie for any other reason than we believed that it could be something meaningful and special and entertaining and worthy of people's time…I can understand that someone might say, 'Oh, it's a complete rip-off!' What was important for me was introducing brand new characters using relationships that were embracing the history that we know to tell a story that is new — to go backwards to go forwards.</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The moment that we learned that original cast members like </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Harrison Ford</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Carrie Fisher</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Mark Hamill</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, among others, were coming back, it became apparent that</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> was going to lean on nostalgia for the original trilogy. J.J. Abrams and company definitely used what came before to build up the new additions—orphan on a desert planet, Death Star #3, and more. Maybe they went a little overboard, but I understand the impulse, and some of the calls of rip off may be a bit harsh.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Now that they’ve got that out of the way, however, it’s going to be interesting to see how the saga moves forward and develops with Rian Johnson’s </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: Episode VIII</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">and beyond. With Luke Skywalker and General Leia still alive and kicking, as well as Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3P0, and more (not to mention Kylo Ren’s familial connections), there will obviously still be links to the past and callbacks. There’s no getting around that, but hopefully the brain trust at Lucasfilm will use this as a springboard into something new and innovative and take the story in new directions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">We’ll see how this all turns out for ourselves when </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Star Wars: Episode VIII</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> hits theaters on May 26, 2017, and after that with the Colin Trevorrow-directed </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: Episode IX</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> in 2019. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-90745422122735489192016-01-08T23:53:00.002+00:002016-01-08T23:53:49.950+00:00Samuel L. Jackson Just Raised A Very Interesting Question About Finn<div class="SStoryTitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 1px; text-transform: capitalize; width: 600px;">
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<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">SPOILERS</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;"> for </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">. Do what you must.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">During the build up to </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> there was a lot of speculation about which new characters were and weren’t Jedi. Obviously, Daisy Ridley’s Rey is the one with the greatest aptitude with the Force, using the Jedi mind trick, snatching the lightsaber from a great distance, and such, but a member of the </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Star Wars</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">universe, Samuel L. Jackson, just brought up in interesting point about John Boyega’s </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Finn</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> and why maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to judge his ability in that realm.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">The star of Quentin Tarantino’s </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">The Hateful Eight</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">,</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> who played Jedi master Mace Windu in the prequels, recently said the kids in </span><i style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> could use some </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">additional lightsaber training</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">. Appearing on </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Watch What Happens Live</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, when the subject of Rey’s Force ability comes up, Jackson threw in a nugget about Finn, saying:</span><blockquote style="background-color: #eff2f7; background-image: url("http://www.cinemablend.com/images/top/quotes.png"); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(228, 236, 236); color: #47607d; font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', 'Gotham A', 'Gotham B', Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 13px; padding: 11px 25px 11px 60px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; width: 489px;">
Well, apparently he’s [Finn] got some midi-chlorians of he wouldn’t have been able to turn the fucking lightsaber on.</blockquote>
<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">As we learned in </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">The Phantom Menace</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, midi-chlorians are the microscopic lifeforms that live within cells and let the Force speak to us if their numbers are high enough. Finn obviously has some midi-chlorians in his blood because they exist in the cells of</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">all</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> living beings.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;"> </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Contrary to Jackson’s statement, it’s been a pretty well established fact people with no particular ability with the Force can still use lightsabers. In the original concept for</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Star Wars</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, they were not the exclusive weapon of the Jedi and the Sith, and there’s early Ralph McQuarrie art of stormtroopers using them. In </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">The Clone Wars</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, which is still considered canon, there are couple of instances of non-Jedi or Sith using them, notably General Grievous (who also handles them in </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">Episode III</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">) and Pre Vizsla, among other instances around the galaxy far, far away.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">The reason they’re not used more widely is because, unless you’re Force sensitive, they’re not the most convenient choice. They’re kind of unwieldy, and if you’re using it to block shots from a blaster you generally need the Force to help predict that. Powered by </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;">Kyber Crystals</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">, the weapons form a kind of symbiotic relationship with their Jedi—Jedi use the Force to select the crystals. Though they form this bond, that doesn’t mean non-Jedi can’t use lightsabers, it’s just that, for a variety of reasons, a blaster or some other weapon is usually a better choice for the non-Force inclined.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">All of this isn’t to say that Finn may not turn out to have some aptitude with the Force, we just don’t know at this point. It would be awesome if he has some Jedi in him, but the simple fact that he was able to use a lightsaber doesn’t automatically mean the Force is with him. </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-transform: none;" /><center style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-65335897362305955802016-01-06T01:11:00.002+00:002016-01-06T01:11:33.252+00:00New Deadpool Ad Plays Up An Unexpected Angle On The Superhero Film<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">So far the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Clip-Has-Tons-Footage-Voice-Colossus-101947.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">previews</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> have mainly highlighted the movie’s action and comedy, from Deadpool shooting some guys in the head to…Deadpool mocking the guys he just shot in the head. However, with a little over a month to go until the release, the Merc with the Mouth has opted for a different approach advertising his adventure: putting romance front and center.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Last night during ABC’s East Coast broadcast of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Bachelor</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/deadpoolmovie" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">social media accounts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> posted this TV spot of Wade Wilson telling the ladies out there that</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> is more than just a </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/superheroes/" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">superhero</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> movie like their boyfriends said. It’s also a "love story," though full disclosure, you probably shouldn’t believe him. However, to sell this, Deadpool sets the mood with roses and a fireplace, as well as posing similarly to that first image of him laid out like Burt Reynolds. Would you appreciate coming home to that after a hard day’s work? Yeah, I didn’t think so.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">As for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">’s romantic angle, that revolves arounds Wade’s relationship with his girlfriend Vanessa, played by </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Gotham</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">’s Morena Baccarin. After being experimented on by Weapon X and gaining his regenerative abilities, Wade is forced to become Deadpool after </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Climactic-Fight-Borrow-From-Classic-Sports-Rivalry-102717.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Ajax</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> kidnaps Vanessa for sinister purposes. No doubt the evil scientist is holding her captive so that Wade will return to Weapon X willingly or cooperate long enough to be killed. Vanessa being abducted was touched upon in the </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Red-Band-Trailer-Way-Over-Top-Hilarious-102247.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">latest <i>Deadpool</i> trailer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, but this new preview makes it clear that their relationship will play a big role in Wade’s journey as a superhero…well, as someone who kills bad guys, anyway.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">We don’t know much about Vanessa in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, though her line about playing a lot of roles implies she might be an actress. Either way, she won’t "play" the damsel in distress, and Ajax is going to have his hands full keeping her quiet until Deadpool arrives. In the comics, Vanessa also goes by the identity Copycat, and her mutant abilities include shapeshifting and replicating powers, though she can only hold onto these forms for a short time. It doesn’t look like Vanessa will be getting her superhero on for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, as those other positions (aside from her boyfriend) have been taken by Negasonic Teenage Warhead and </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Insane-Process-Deadpool-Stefan-Kapicic-Had-Go-Through-Get-Colossus-101867.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Colossus</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">. However, if </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Deadpool 2</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">ends up being made, maybe we’ll see her in action rather than being held hostage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/Deadpool-66325.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"><i>Deadpool</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> hits theaters on February 12, 2016. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-74630618054490259352016-01-06T01:10:00.002+00:002016-01-06T01:10:46.969+00:00New Captain America: Civil War Image Teases An Epic Marvel Superhero Battle<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Now that we’re only a few months away from the release of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Captain America: Civil War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> we’re starting to see more and more images from the film that may give us clues as to more of what we can expect from the superhero against superhero fighting bonanza. A new image from Marvel is currently giving us something else to ponder. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><img alt="Civil War" src="http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/104047/_1452024629.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Well, that certainly gives us more to think about. The image was posted by </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Marvel</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">and is actually concept art by Ryan Meinerding and Andy Park. And the shot tells us a lot about the main conflict of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Captain America: Civil War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">One thing that seems apparent from the concept art is the kind of fights we can expect between certain characters. We already knew that </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Cap</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and Iron Man would go at it pretty fiercely, since they lead the opposing sides to superhero registration, but now we also see particular sets of superheroes taking their opinions out on each other with fists, claws and energy blasts ready. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">So, Black Widow and Ant-Man will likely do battle. Which, honestly, seems like a strange combination to me, since she has no actual superpowers and he’s got a suit that lets him shrink to almost nothing and retain the force behind every move. How can she spin kick or punch a dude she can’t even see? And, why would Ant-Man bother playing fair with Black Widow? If you could win a fight by shrinking or calling upon your ant army, isn’t that exactly what you’d do? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Next, let’s take a look at Vision and Scarlet Witch. It’s going to be his Infinity Stone energy blast versus her hex-sphere deflection. Well, this fight could go on all night. He blasts, she deflects. The only thing that can amp this fight up is if one of their brethren steps in to help one side or the other. Someone needs to knock these two off balance so they can attack and defend in new and intriguing ways. Vision could just phase out and go right through her shield, throwing Scarlet Witch for quite a loop. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">It looks like the trailer gave us the right idea by showing shots, albeit brief, of </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Black Panther</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> and </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">The Winter Soldier</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> kicking each other’s asses all over town. This is no surprise, of course, since Black Panther is pissed as hell at our friend Bucky for his Winter Soldiering days as a Hydra operative, and is only in the US to apprehend him and bring him to justice for crimes in Wakanda (which Bucky didn’t actually commit). This will be quite a fight, but, even with his cool super-arm, how is Bucky supposed to get the drop on a guy with a suit that’s made of the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">dynamic</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> metal vibranium? That crap does everything. You could basically put it in a fight with a dummy inside and the suit would still win. So, the Buckster is going to have his work cut out for him, here. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">In the upper right corner, we can see Falcon and </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">War Hammer</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> (he’s War Hammer now, remember that) fighting the good fight for their opposing sides. I’m sure this will be one hell of a battle, but, let’s face it, War Hammer has guns, and I don’t mean the well-toned arm kind. Falcon is beyond cool, and I’m sure he can duck and dodge a lot of blasts, but a gun is a gun, you guys. The only way he gets out of this alive is because War Hammer wants him to. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Last, but not least, we have a lonely little Hawkeye about to take aim at someone. Is it Ant-Man before he gets a chance to shrink down and pummel </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Black Widow</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">? Probably, since they’re good friends and he’s firmly on Cap’s side while she takes a more neutral position, trying to let the differing sides battle it out among themselves. There’s also something else to notice here. Will Hawkeye not get his own special superpowered nemesis? Will his objective be to float around helping whatever member of his team needs him? I guess we’ll see when </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Captain America: Civil War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">opens on May 6, 2016. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-67113118314251302562016-01-04T17:48:00.004+00:002016-01-04T17:50:51.433+00:00That Popular Supreme Leader Snoke Theory Just Took A Major Hit SPOILERS!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> left us with many, many unanswered questions that we can spend the next 18 months considering while we wait for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: Episode VIII</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">hopefully</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> answer a few of them. Fans are, of course, already hard at work and have a number of interesting theories about who certain characters are and where the story is ultimately going from here. One of the more interesting theories drew a connection between </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Supreme Leader Snoke</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, the enigmatic hologram from the new movie, and a character that is never seen, but is mentioned, in the prequels. Now Andy Serkis, the man behind the disfigured image, has come out to state for the record that Snoke is an original character for this trilogy, so the theories can go take a rest.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">This may have some minor </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">SPOILERS</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> if you still haven't seen </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> , fair warning. Last week an interesting theory came out that made an interesting connection to the prequel trilogy. The idea, based on music cues that exist in both </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Revenge of the Sith</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, was that Supreme Leader Snoke was, in reality, </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Darth Plagueis</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, the legendary Sith lord that Palpatine speaks to Anakin about in order to continue to tempt him to the Dark Side. The musical 'Themes' were similar for each character, and so the theory wasn’t completely off base, but </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Andy Serkis</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> has now spoken to </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Entertainment Weekly</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">about the theory, and he’s shot it down in no uncertain terms. According to EW: </span></div>
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Serkis said the character was aware of the events from the earlier films but was a new addition to the storyline.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Of course, what this </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">does</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> reveal is that Serkis must know the truth behind Snoke, if he’s confident enough to dispute the theory. He could have brushed off the question, or even claimed to not know the truth yet himself. But instead, he has killed the idea entirely.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Based on this, it begins to appear that Supreme Leader Snoke might be a bit less mysterious than we’ve given him credit for. While we don’t yet know his plans or his background, it’s possible that our characters actually do, they just haven’t spoken about it on screen yet. If Snoke is an original creation, then he has no connection to either trilogy. He arrived on the scene somewhere in between the original films and this one. We know that he was instrumental in turning </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Kylo Ren</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> to the Dark Side, so he has interacted directly with our main characters previously. It looks like they may already known who he is. They just haven’t informed us yet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">So not only is the theory dead, but any theories that take into account any previous films can be discounted. So now that your data has been slashed, who do you think Snoke is </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">now</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">For a movie about a man stranded alone on the desolate surface of Mars, Ridley Scott’s </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Martian-5-Cool-Little-References-Movie-Works-86397.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><em>The Martian</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> managed to maintain an incredible sense of humor. Matt Damon brought an offbeat sensibility to Mark Watney that made the botanist/astronaut endlessly watchable, allowing us to laugh with the character even in his darkest moments. In the end it all felt more like </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Martian-Center-Lawsuit-Following-Plagiarism-Claims-85017.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Robinson Crusoe in space</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> than </span><a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Interstellar-66367.html" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><em>Interstellar</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. That being said, the film does take some very serious turns at times, which required Damon to go to a darker and more somber place. According to Damon, Scott very much helped him achieve those moments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/awards/matt-damon-the-scene-the-martian-scene-that-made-him-cry-1201670744/" style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Variety</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> reports that during a recent screening of the film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Damon opened up regarding Ridley Scott’s somewhat unorthodox way of filming the film’s climactic scene in which Mark Watney launches himself back into space:</span></div>
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The rest of the cast had already wrapped and it was just Ridley and I. He got the sound from their side of the scene and he piped it into my helmet, but didn’t tell me he was going to do it. So suddenly I heard the voices of my friends and it struck me I hadn’t heard another voice for years. I’d been communicating by email. These people were coming to save me, these people who had sacrificed a year of their lives for me. And I just wept. It wasn’t planned or forced, it was about him creating an environment.</blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-66355348093802269942016-01-04T17:42:00.001+00:002016-01-04T17:42:48.560+00:00Weekend Box Office: The Force Awakens Sinks Titanic And Targets Avatar<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Beginning its third week in release </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> continues to dominate the box office. Most movies with massive openings tend to drop off more quickly than others, but the seventh Star Wars film continues to buck that trend, slipping just 40% each weekend, retaining a death grip on the number one spot and securing a truly significant place in box office history: biggest domestic total of all time. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Adding $88 million this weekend, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> shredded its way into $700 million territory to the tune of $740 million in domestic sales. That's just $20 million away from topping </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Avatar</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">'s record holding $760 million domestic total, a goal it will probably hit before next weekend rolls around. The question now is whether or not the movie will become the first ever to break $1 billion. While the movie is still going strong, that mark is still over $250 million away and hardly a sure thing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">While the movie is busting its way along in North America, the movie isn't doing as well internationally as other recent massive blockbusters. Looking at the top ten world-wide grossing movies, they tend to have a 2 to 1 ratio of sales between international and domestic. For example, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Avatar</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, the current world-wide grossing champion, had over $2 billion in international sales compared with its $760 million domestic. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Titanic</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> grossed $1.5 billion internationally to its $658 million domestic. So far </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> is almost 1 to 1, having just $770 million in international sales compared to $740 million domestic. Why? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">For one thing, the movie hasn't hit China yet. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Avengers: Age of Ultron</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> drew almost $250 million from Chinese audiences and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> could do just as well in that market, but even that wouldn't be enough to cover the difference. Another element is ticket prices. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The Force Awakens</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> has been doing exceptionally well (record breakingly well, in fact) in IMAX and 3D venues where ticket prices are higher. The domestic market makes up a sizable portion of those sales, giving it another edge over international prices. And then there's the tendency of American Star Wars fans to engage more often in repeat viewings than their international brethren. Why see it once when you can see it twice? Every weekend. For the rest of January! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">With no other new releases the box office top ten looks pretty much the same as last weekend with the exception of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The Hateful Eight</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> popping from tenth place to third as it expanded into wide release with a $16 million wide opening weekend. You might not consider that too bad given that it's in the shadow of Star Wars, but it's two step backwards for Tarantino whose last two movies, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Inglorious Basterds</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Django Unchained</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> each cleared $100 million. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Hateful Eight</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> looks to settle in somewhere between $50 to $75 million. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">For the full weekend top ten, check out the chart below: </span></div>
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</td><td style="background-color: #525d6c; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Daddy's Home <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68737" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #525d6c; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$29,000,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #525d6c; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $93,684,495</i></td><td style="background-color: #525d6c; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 2 <br />THTRS: 3,342</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #4e5968; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>The Hateful Eight <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68797" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #4e5968; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$16,240,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #4e5968; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $29,577,963</i></td><td style="background-color: #4e5968; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 10 <br />THTRS: 2,474</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #485463; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Sisters <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68717" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #485463; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$12,580,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #485463; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $61,703,640</i></td><td style="background-color: #485463; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 4 <br />THTRS: 2,978</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #424e5e; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68707" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #424e5e; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$11,800,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #424e5e; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $67,376,640</i></td><td style="background-color: #424e5e; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 5 <br />THTRS: 3,474</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #3b4858; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Joy <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68627" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #3b4858; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$10,400,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #3b4858; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $38,721,460</i></td><td style="background-color: #3b4858; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 3 <br />THTRS: 2,924</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #364253; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>The Big Short <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68657" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #364253; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$9,000,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #364253; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $32,979,117</i></td><td style="background-color: #364253; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 6 <br />THTRS: 1,588</td></tr>
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<b>8.</b></center>
</td><td style="background-color: #2f3d4d; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Concussion (2015) <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68207" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #2f3d4d; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$8,000,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #2f3d4d; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $25,370,000</i></td><td style="background-color: #2f3d4d; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 7 <br />THTRS: 2,841</td></tr>
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</td><td style="background-color: #2a3849; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 12px; padding: 3px 5px 1px;" width="210"><b>Point Break (2015) <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/review.php?id=68817" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;"> </a></b></td><td style="background-color: #2a3849; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="100"><b>$6,845,000</b></td><td style="background-color: #2a3849; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 9.6px; padding: 1px 5px 5px;" width="150"><i>Total: $22,430,000</i></td><td style="background-color: #2a3849; color: white; font-family: tahoma, arial; font-size: 8.4px; padding: 2px 5px;" width="110">LW: 8 <br />THTRS: 2,910</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-27227413493185454222016-01-04T17:40:00.000+00:002016-01-04T17:48:56.934+00:00Marvel Shifted Doctor Strange To Work Around Benedict Cumberbatch<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the most popular actors working today. His work on</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sherlock</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> for the BBC has made him a global superstar. Since then, he has become incredibly sought after in Hollywood. It was no surprise when the rumors began to circulate that Marvel was interested in him for a role in one of their big tent pole films. They wanted him so badly, in fact, that they decided to shift the production of the film around in order to fit his very busy schedule.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">When the casting for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Doctor Strange</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> first became a topic of conversation, there were a number of other names -- Joaquin Phoenix, chief among them -- who were reportedly being considered. Now, it turns out that the other casting options were on the table, not because Marvel didn’t want </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Benedict Cumberbatch</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, but rather because they weren’t sure they’d be able to get him. According to Marvel chief Kevin Feige, Cumberbatch was in such high demand that it didn’t look like he was going to be free when Marvel needed him. Ultimately, however, as Feige tells </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Entertainment Weekly</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, they eventually decided they needed to work around him. </span></div>
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He kept getting more popular, and more popular, and he kept getting busier, and busier, and it looked like the timing wasn’t going to work. So we looked at some other actors for a while and ultimately decided, ‘We have to try and make it work with Benedict and with his schedule.’ Which is why we shifted the production schedule around. He finished Hamlet here in London, and I think had a day off, and then went to Kathmandu, Nepal, to shoot the first day of Doctor Strange.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">This now helps to explain why the casting process for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Doctor Strange</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> was such an epic undertaking. It’s been nearly two years since </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Marvel</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> began to go looking for their MCU Doctor Strange and it took them half that time to make a decision. While the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Doctor Strange</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> movie certainly promises to be something new and different, the character is not exactly </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Spider-Man</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. Casting that role was a cakewalk compared to this one. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Scheduling can always be tough when it comes to in-demand actors. Although, Kevin Feige also makes it clear that Benedict Cumberbatch’s growing star power was not the reason they wanted him. He points out that </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Chris Pratt</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> was not a star when he was cast in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Guardians of the Galaxy</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. This is apparently why they went looking elsewhere. Marvel didn’t need a star in the role. Marvel has been pretty good at making stars on their own as far as that goes. There was, however, something about the actor that they decided they did need, so it was worth it to work with him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Are you glad Marvel was willing to work with Benedict Cumberbatch in order to make </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Doctor Strange</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">? Would you have rather they gone with one of the numerous others that were considered? </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-33834727224002062142016-01-01T02:48:00.002+00:002016-01-01T02:48:40.356+00:00The Extreme Measures Suicide Squad's Director Used To Get His Performances<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">There have been tales spread of Jared Leto’s deep-dive into his interpretation of the</span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Joker</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> during production on DC’s upcoming super villain team up, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Suicide Squad</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">. But as it turns out, he wasn’t the only one on set willing to go to great lengths to get a desired performance. Director David Ayer is notorious for being a rather intense dude, and according to Ike Barinholtz, that was a big feature the set.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Currently costarring in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sisters</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Barinholtz appears in the movie in some capacity, though we don’t know exactly how, or as who, just yet. Talking to </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Buzzfeed</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> recently, the comedian discussed the director’s approach, and though he didn’t get into specifics, it sounds pretty extreme, whether his actors liked it or not.</span></div>
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David Ayer is very dark. He chases that real darkness and says crazy things to you before a take to get your head spinning. He likes to psychologically get in there. He would tell us, ‘You know on Fury, right before a scene, I almost got Shia [LaBeouf] and [Jon] Bernthal into a fistfight.’ And [I’m] like, ‘I don’t want to do that!!’ But he gets great performances out of actors.</blockquote>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Given what we’ve heard about Leto’s time on set, basically existing as Joker, doing things like sending live rats to his costars, he and Ayer seem to have a similarly method, or at least similarly dedicated approach.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Barinholtz is most known for his comedy chops. He was a cast member on </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">MADtv</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, and is a writer, producer, and actor on </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">The Mindy Project</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, among others. Not only is</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Suicide Squad</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> his highest profile project to date, it looks like it is going to be something very different for the funny man. Though he couldn’t reveal any specifics about his still unidentified character, Barinholtz hinted at his identity and teased a nasty disposition.</span></div>
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I have David Ayer in my head being like, ‘I’m going to kill you if you say anything,’ I can say it’s probably not who you think it is. I can say that he’s definitely someone that people will not like, and he is someone who likes to really mess with people — likes to really hurt people and [frick] them up.</blockquote>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">There are a lot of questions surrounding his role. It doesn’t appear that he’s part of the Suicide Squad, a team of super villains recruited by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to perform off-the-books black ops for the U.S. government. We still don’t know who they’re after, so could Barinholtz be the target? They’re all residents of the notorious Belle Reve prison and sanatorium, and perhaps he’s another inmate there. He could be damn fun to watch as some vicious, maniacal metahuman or super villain tormenting everyone around him—that sounds like a good time to us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Maybe we’ll get our first look at Ike Barinholtz in that new </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Suicide Squad</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> trailer </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Kevin Smith loves so much</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. It reportedly features more comedy, which is right up the actor’s alley. While we </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">wait for that</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, however, why not watch the first trailer?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-88218063840224528662016-01-01T02:47:00.002+00:002016-01-01T02:47:25.836+00:00Quentin Tarantino Being Sued Over His Django Unchained Script, Get The Details<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">It's been a little while since we've heard of a suit claiming a big ticket film had </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">stolen </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">its story from a lesser known writer's work. Yet, like an ill timed New Year's Eve present, Quentin Tarantino has found himself on the business end of a lawsuit that proposes that he did just that with his script to 2012's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Django Unchained</i><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">The details of the suit were publicized yesterday in an item from </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Variety</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">, which states that writers Oscar Colvin Jr. and Torrence J. Colvin had previously registered a similar sounding script with the Writer's Guild of America, entitled </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Freedom</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">. In their story, escaped slave Jackson Freeman is on a quest to purchase the freedom of his family, and must endure a hellish journey in order to secure said freedom. Part of that journey is the biggest sticking point for the Colvin's lawsuit, as they specifically cite the following elements in said suit: </span><br />
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Returning to the hellish realm of the South to purchase the freedom of his loved one(s) with the assistance of a Caucasian in the South is the uniquely original beat that links ‘Django Unchained’ to ‘Freedom".</blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">To be fair, we can't say for sure if there's a way </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Quentin Tarantino</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> would have seen this script, or even if he had that he'd steal a portion of it for his own. Then again, there's no way we can unequivocally say that he didn't. But the point is, this one story beat that's being cited as the lynchpin of the legal argument against </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Django Unchained</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> sounds weak at best. In fact, if you were to write a film about an escaped slave trying to recover their family from a plantation, that's probably the way 90% of the story lines to come out of said quest would proceed. A Caucasian's help would be needed, due to the societal climate and the levels of access required to pull off such a task. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Perhaps the bigger argument against this lawsuit against the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Django Unchained </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">script is the fact that the journey to recover Django's beloved Broomhilda isn't the main thrust of the film. In fact, it's only in the second to third act that this part of the story really takes the front seat. For the initial acts of the story, we're shown not only how Django is freed, but also how he's groomed into becoming a bounty hunter equal to Dr. King Schultz himself. So instead of relying on Dr. Schultz, Django collaborates with him, rather than giving or taking orders with Dr. Schultz. Of course, this is without reading the script to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">Freedom</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">, which leaves us at a disadvantage as there's no way to really tell how much of it was supposedly cribbed by Quentin Tarantino. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">However, that's not up to us to decide. The courts will assuredly look over the material, and ultimately decide whether this case holds water or not. All we can really decide is whether or not to see </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #eba521; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;">The Hateful Eight</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;"> again in 70mm or in the new digital presentation, which is currently in theaters. Here's hoping the lawsuit above can be resolved in an amicable fashion, and everyone goes home happy. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13345395820831701680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673189955781370328.post-91113588516791961152015-12-31T14:45:00.003+00:002015-12-31T14:45:34.423+00:00What Marvel's Black Panther Movie Will Be About<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Black Panther is making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut next year as one of the </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">participants</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Captain America: Civil War</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, but two years later, he’ll be starring in his </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">own movie</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">. While </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Black Panther</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> will obviously show what T’Challa is up to when not battling other superheroes, as well as possibly delve into key moments in his past, few details have been revealed about what the movie will be about. Now we have a better idea of what to expect from </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Black Panther</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">, and much of it will revolve around T’Challa’s challenges as the king of Wakanda. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige made it clear to </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Empire</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> (via </span><span style="color: #eba521; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">CBM</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">) that </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;">Black Panther</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left;"> is an important entry in the MCU, providing audiences a "whole new setting and culture to explore" through Wakanda, while also connecting to the upcoming Avengers movies. Feige said: </span></div>
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It's a big geo-political action adventure that focuses on the family and royal struggle of T'Challa in Wakanda, and what is means to be a king. T'Challa's story is very important to us as it links to the next Avengers films, which is why we brought it forward.</blockquote>
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