Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The Black Panther Box Office

Note: Repeats now playing on MNN until we go back live in May for our 30th season.
More Oscars preview in our bonus section since 3 Billboards won at the Baftas, the British Oscars.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-weekend-box-office-record-shattering-debut-1085932
Wow, nobody saw this coming besides Disney of course with all their marketing pull. Now the question is will this have legs for the rest of the month going into March. While a great looking film and a great cast, the hype couldn't compete with the story which was dragging all over the place. 2 big scenes, car chase and ending, and the rest was a total bore. And what was up with that damn train at the finale? And poor Andy Serkis. Another character setup from a previous film only to be wasted half way thru in the next. What's up with that?
Mini-review:  3 out of 5. Even tho Wankanda reminded me of Thor, they could have shown more of it. And yes the Bond influence was obvious, no problem there but can we get to Infinity War already?

http://collider.com/infinity-stones-explained/
But the Soul Stone was not mentioned in Black Panther so what gives there? But a good catching up article for those who got lost in the shuffle. Yeah I bookmarked this myself before Infinity Wars, lol.

https://movieweb.com/last-jedi-backlash-jj-abrams-fans-threatened-by-women/
LOLOL. the man who's back to directing the next Star Wars going full retard. Really J.J.? When was the last time you had coffee with James Cameron? Think he'll beg to differ. Ok, now the next Star Wars is in really big trouble with his attitude...

Oscar Preview:
The Force of Sound - Star Wars
30 minute of making of the sound for the Star Wars Franchise. Some of us know the tech behind it from previous editions aka dvd's etc, but this is the latest updated version of how this is produce which includes a lot from The Last Jedi, the film that everyone loves to hate on, lol.
Note: Star Wars always get nominated in this catagory for some reason more than others aka SFX.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/bafta-awards-2018-complete-winners-list-1202702940/
3 Billards is the major winner. I'm good with this and most of the awards. As this will tell who's going to win at the Oscars which works most of the time.
I finally caught up to all the films except for Mudbound. The last of the bunch to watch was
I, Tonya in which Allison Janney won for Suppt Actor. I mean she nailed it. She was funny as hell, even better than Margot Robbie. Scene with the shotgun "this never happened!" is a classic.
To be honest all the Suppt Actresses were just as good especially Spencer (Shape of Water) and Metcalf (Lady Bird, Sheldons mother lol)

http://www.darkhorizons.com/roger-deakins-wins-the-asc-top-honor/
Hopefully Oscar will wake up. 14 nods and still no win. WTF. Shame its on Blade Runner and not his previous efforts. Skyfall anyone? Don't matter he deserves it no matter the film.

Monday, February 12, 2018

The Big Catching Up Blog


Bonus: https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/marvel-class-photo-1920x1080.jpg
Awesome photo, now that's a wallpaper to show off. Link included for our own use.
Also see screen shot below of The Enterprise on ST: Discovery. Talk about surprises!

Now look what happens. I take a break and all hell breaks loose at Disney. Talk about bad timing lol.
So here are a few links for us to catch up on on the news. MNN shows are now being repeated.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/marvel-class-photo-10th-anniversary-celebration-1202692301/#article-comments
This is so cool. Shame DC can't match this on it's success. I know.. it hurts lol.
Imagine how the 20th and 25th anniversary is going to look.

Star Wars: aka WTF happened when I took a break. Holy crap. Did Disney go ballistic or what?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/game-thrones-creators-tackling-new-star-wars-films-1082388
Out of all people, didn't see this coming. So will this include naked female jedi's? Oh it's Disney. Never mind, why bother, lol.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/star-wars-tv-series-disney-developing-a-few-streaming-service-1082523
At one timne Lucas had over 20 scripts written for a tv series but it would've cost to much at that time, back in the 1900's I believe. So this is finally happening. As of more than one show, heck Star Trek had V, Ds9 and the movies so why not. Just have good writers like Rebels.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-what-happens-standalone-movies-1082512
If Solo sucks, say goodbye to these. But then again with a such a strong fanbase which Last Jedi proved as the movie was the most hated and the 2nd biggest SW money maker, I don't they are going to have a problem with this.
So in the long run, I can see Luke Skywalker with his cow saying:
"That's right I'm milking this like nobody's business, how do you like me now bitches."

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/george-lucas-helped-direct-a-small-scene-in-solo-a-star-wars-story-208-02
Big deal. Spielberg did that scene with Anakin and Obi-Wan at the Molton Lava scene and man did run for way too long. And you couldn't even tell by the style that Steven directed it. But it's a cute trick for the publicity department.

Other news:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/discovery-producer-on-that-trek-reveal/
Talk about goose bumps for an ending. So now, how are they gong to explain this as partof the canon without seeing Spock from the original time line. Got to admit, this got interesting.

http://deadline.com/2018/02/v-the-movie-coming-from-original-creator-kenneth-johnson-and-desilu-1202284944/
From the studio that brought you the original Star Trek. That's right Desi Arnez (cuban, latino) had faith in Rodenberry's dream and produced the show. And who ever the business man is, it's great he's continueing the tradition and bringing back another classic from the 80's. Less mention of that tv series spinoff the better. AND we don't talk about V the TV Reboot that starred Morena (what a shame and waste) but now is on Gotham to our benefit lol.

Bonus: 2 great screen shots for the day. Can't better than that. Is this an awesome shot or what?!