The Creator trailer looked promising until they revealed the "the child is the key, protect the child" plot point.
The Creator trailer looked promising until they revealed the "the child is the key, protect the child" plot point.
Sigh...yeah that was a little worrying. I was reading some reddit comments about it and most of them were "I bet this is the plot" and it all sounds pretty much like that trope. I'm still really excited for it because the visuals just in that little trailer are huge and looked so lived in, like it's all there in-world instead of CGI. it was also compared to that, like a 1.5 version of the stories from Animatrix.
Emperor Joker
Well, that's that. SAG-AFTRA is going on strike. All productions with union members are going dark.
I was raised on the original as well, and this looks absolutely, dreadful.
I'll catch it when it comes on TBS in a year. Kill that Hugh Grant loompa with fire. Genuine, "What the fuck were they thinking" moment.
A24 Can Still Make Quirky Li’l Movies Amid SAG Strike
Interesting because this is under the proposed union rules so it's a stick in the eye of the big studios: 'we can work with these new rules, why can't you?'
Apparently it's trailer time?
Big Mattel push coming up:
Lena Dunham's Polly Pocket movie isn't even Mattel's weirdest post-Barbie project
I saw a comment that said something like "if Mattel let's the creators have some freedom these could be interesting, unlike the Star Wars/Marvel movies that have a format and you cannot stray from that". I mean, a Being John Malkovich inspired Barney? That's so far out of left fucking field that it's barely the same game.It must be profoundly weird, in this moment, to be an executive at toy company Mattel. Like dogs who’ve actually managed to catch the proverbial car, the company—which has long dreamed of leveraging its various iconic brands into success at the box office—finds itself in possession of the top-rated, best-performing movie in the country, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s take on Barbie continues to dominate the cultural conversation. It’s the kind of thing that can drive an executive to say some very strange things—like asserting, with an apparently straight face, that the script for the long-in-the-works Polly Pocket movie (written by Lena Dunham) is “great.”
And, to be clear, it’s not like Polly Pocket is some spur-of-the-moment thing that Mattel just reached for after Barbie started making money: The company has been planning this wide-ranging push into theaters for years, having tapped Dunham to write and direct a film about pocket-sized women way back in 2021. (Lily Collins was, and is, attached to star, possibly in an effort to short-circuit fully half the brains on the internet by bringing Lena Dunham and Emily In Paris into close proximity.) The “great” quote comes from a conversation Variety recently conducted with Mattel Films’ Robbie Brenner about a whole slate of projects. It’s also not even remotely the oddest thing Brenner said during this conversation, in which she also gave quick check-ins on Daniel Kaluuya’s big purple Barney movie (“more of like a Being John Malkovich or an Adaptation”), J.J. Abrams’ Hot Wheels (“real emotion and real stakes to it”), the Vin Diesel-starring Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (“Vin is excited”), and, of course, the Magic 8-Ball movie. (“Probably…a PG-13 thriller,” Brenner stated; tragically, she somehow failed to give a quote about the studios’ actual, we-shit-you-not, plans for an UNO movie.)
Barney:A film by Charlie Kaufman
I don't have the words...wow.
National Cinema Day collects $34 million at box office, 8.5 million moviegoers attend
huh, who'd think that making movies/snacks affordable would mean people would go to the movies? oh wait, they took the wrong information from that.Nearly 8.5 million people went to the movies to celebrate National Cinema Day on Sunday, Aug. 27 as cinemas offered tickets for only $4 across all screens and formats. The number is a 5% increase from last year's inaugural event which saw approximately 8.1 million attendees, the National Cinema Foundation shared in a press release.
“The positive response to National Cinema Day is just another reminder of how much people love going to the movie theater,” Michael O’Leary, President & CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners shared.
Wanna dig into the specifics of what the Writers Guild and the Producers Alliance are fighting over? This goes deep into that in the wake of the producers really shitty move last week to leak the details of their meeting with the writers. Interesting stuff to see the real detailed nuts & bolts of this major strike action.
Solidarity!
A Godzilla horror movie? Ok let's do this.
And now a Godzilla tv show? And the effects look movie-quality? Man Apple paid out the rear end for this one.
seems like it might have little to no dialogue so that'll be interesting.
Now with MORE Oompa Loompa!
Honestly, I'm completely creeped out.
Man that looks intense. I have not read anything about what the movie is but I can certainly guess.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/gener...ia-1234919475/
Hou Hsiao-Hsien is apparently retiring from directing due to battling dementia.
My body is ready.