Misc. Movie/TV News

[Cichy]

I'm pretty sure Val Kilmer will do gay porn for a sandwich at this point

[Zeb]

[6souls]

Vice News & A&E setting up a deal to host Vice programs

Vice Media is in talks with A&E about a deal that would value it at more than $2.5 billion, according to a Vice spokesman.

A&E would buy a 10% stake in the company.

Vice would also create content for the A&E cable networks, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

Its online content, magazine and HBO series, called Vice, specifically targets millennials.

On YouTube, the Vice channel has nearly 5 million subscribers. Its most popular video, "First Animal to Survive in Space," has 12.1 million views, followed by "The Biggest Ass in Brazil," which has been viewed 10.6 million times.

A&E, which also owns the Lifetime and History channels, is buying the stake to gain digital exposure.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/29/medi...html?hpt=hp_t2

[Delirium]

Apparently Adam Sandler is making 4 movies for Netflix. sadface

Netflix’s movie-deal machinery isn’t slowing down: The Internet-video service has inked a pact with Adam Sandler to star in and produce four films to be available exclusively on Netflix worldwide.

The first movie under the pact could arrive as soon as 2015. Sandler’s Happy Madison Prods. will work with Netflix to develop the four films — presumably comedies, although the genres aren’t set in stone. The Netflix deal does not cover Sandler’s current studio film commitments.

News comes after Netflix earlier this week announced an unusual deal with the Weinstein Co. to release “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” the same day it’s released in IMAX theaters; major U.S. exhibitors, however, have said they will not show the film because of the Netflix arrangement.

Sandler’s films have grossed about $3.9 billion worldwide at the box office. According to Netflix, he’s among the few actors whose movies consistently rank among the most-viewed by subscribers in the U.S. and in other its other regions, ranging from Brazil to the U.K.

“When these fine people came to me with an offer to make four movies for them, I immediately said ‘yes’ for one reason and one reason only… Netflix rhymes with ‘wet chicks,'” Sandler said in a prepared statement. “Let the streaming begin!”

Sandler joined NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” as a writer in 1990 and became featured player the following year. He went on to star in, produce and write numerous films, including “The Wedding Singer,” “The Waterboy,” “The Longest Yard,” “Big Daddy,” “Anger Management,” “50 First Dates,” “Click,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,” “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” “Grown Ups” and “Grown Ups 2.”

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Sandler’s appeal “spans across viewers of all ages — everybody has a favorite movie, everyone has a favorite line — not just in the U.S. but all over the world.”

Sandler’s next two films are Jason Reitman’s “Men, Women & Children” and “The Cobbler,” both of which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival. Thesp also stars in Sony Pictures action-comedy “Pixels,” slated to bow July 24, 2015. Sandler is repped by WME.

[Delirium]

Sony's Now Working on a Spider-Man-Less Aunt May Movie

It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.

Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.

Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.

But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.

Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.

Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.

It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.

But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.

I hope to god this is a troll.

[chazzyphizzle]

plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz be true

[Qalbert]

http://io9.com/holy-hell-the-next-ju...wit-1669254722

Okay... this is unexpected. According to emails from Sony chief Amy Pascal, recently released by hackers, there's a very bizarre crossover in the works — one where Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill's Jump Street undercover cops will team up the alien-investigating Men in Black agency. Seriously.

The movie will be written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed the other two Jump Street films, so that's a good sign.
However, it seems like Sony isn't even going to try to get Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones or Josh Brolin in the film, so don't get your hopes up to see the McQuaids and Agents J and K fighting alongside each other.

[6souls]

Toho is developing a new Godzilla film (2016) thanks to the popularity of the American film, will be better than the Hollywood version

A new Godzilla film is being made by Japanese film studio Toho, following the success of Hollywood's latest remake directed by Gareth Edwards.

Toho's film will be released in 2016, a decade after its last take on the monster story, Godzilla: Final Wars.

Toho said innovations in computer graphics technology were behind its decision to revive the franchise.

The film company previously said that its 2004 Godzilla film - the 28th in the series - would be its last.

Tokyo-based company Toho, which owns the rights to Godzilla, has not yet picked a director for its upcoming reboot.

Veteran producer Taichi Ueda is heading up the new project at Toho studios, which has launched the Godzilla Strategic Conference (Godzi-Con) - a committee aiming to reboot the Godzilla brand.

The company is not expected to spend the $200m (£129m) reportedly lavished on the recent Hollywood Godzilla, but Ueda said Toho hopes to make Godzilla a character that "will represent Japan and be loved around the world" by the time of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30376118
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ja...ie-1201373457/

[SamanosukeShiva]

Sony cancelled The Interview in light of violent threats from hackers. lol

nothing of value was lost i guess? that movie looks bad.

[Qalbert]

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/124...of-Information

[Cantih]

Something for BG cinephiles
http://www.denverpost.com/business/c...-service-metro

If you like movies, a new subscription service will let you see a movie a day for $35 a month — or $45 if you want to watch in IMAX, RealD 3D or AMC ETX.
AMC Theatres and MoviePass said Tuesday they will test market the service in metro Denver and Boston AMC movie houses, hoping to revive lagging theater attendance.
The program, expected to launch Jan. 5, will be available on a limited, first-come, first-served basis.
Users download an smartphone app — $35 for a month of standard screenings, $45 for premium screenings in enhanced theaters.
Participants may see any movie only once.

[BadKarma]

Dont know where else to put this but Idris Elba may be in the running to be the next James Bond? Maybe?

Super good with that if true.

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=58224

SCARLETT JOHANSSON TO STAR IN "GHOST IN THE SHELL"

[Cantih]

Look, I like Scarlett, but fuck whitewashing, okay.

[vagus]

Look, I like Scarlett, but fuck whitewashing, okay.

Don't have an issue with her. The script writers and producers is being whitewashed.

[arus2001]

I've never really felt Motoko acted Japanese, in part because the future years had somewhat normalized worldwide culture with its deeper ties to the net. Yeah, they'd still wind up in obviously JP-themed locales because it was set in Japan, but you could probably move the shit to 'Murica and not tell a difference in the script.

My bigger concern is SJ seemingly getting this badass woman typecasting thing going when I just don't feel it. Plus we know the movie itself is likely to be awful because condensing the GitS universe into 90 minutes is probably going to be more confusing than the 2nd anime movie.

[shidobu]

Look, I like Scarlett, but fuck whitewashing, okay.

DBZ all over again

train wreck i cant look away from

[SamanosukeShiva]

just saw this, hypeeee

[6souls]

Fox has acquired the remake rights to Escape from New York, John Carpenter to serve as executive producer
http://deadline.com/2015/01/escape-f...er-1201349382/

[6souls]

Thunderbirds reboot coming to ITV (British television network)

Spoiler: show

Fifty years after its television debut the iconic series is back in production featuring a talented cast led by Rosamund Pike (The World’s End, Gone Girl) as Lady Penelope and David Graham (Thunderbirds 1965) reprising his role as chauffeur and International Rescue agent Parker. Debuting on ITV in 2015 this re-invention of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s much-loved series will be produced using an innovative mix of CGI animation and live-action miniature sets. Unstoppable inventor Brains will be voiced by Kayvan Novak (Fonejacker, Facejacker) whilst Tracy brothers Gordon and John are both played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Love Actually, Game of Thrones). Rasmus Hardiker (Saxondale, Lead Balloon) has been cast as both the youngest and oldest Tracy brothers Alan and Scott. The fifth Tracy brother, Virgil, will be played by David Menkin. Tracy Island matriarch Grandma Tracy is voiced by Sandra Dickinson (Amazing World of Gumball, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and master villain The Hood played by Andres Williams (M.I. High, Foyle’s War). Plus Thunderbirds Are Go! will feature new characters including Kayo, the Tracy brothers’ friend and fellow island resident, who will be played by Angel Coulby (Merlin, Dancing on the Edge) and Colonel Casey voiced by Adjoa Andoh (Invictus, Doctor Who).