Deadpool Rules

New Radio show coming this week: Deadpool, Bafta's, Walking Dead, Grammy's.

http://variety.com/2016/film/box-office/deadpool-box-office-1201705937/
The movie no one saw coming especially the Studio that made it!!! Not only Reynolds got the last laugh, he gets his sequel and gets everyone off his back on why Green Lantern sucked. He was he only good thing about it. But with all the success the film has done what does this mean? That Warner  is running scared with Superman Vs Batman. There's is going to be so much expectation on that it's going to have a hell  of a time getting out of it's own shadow. Putting it at Easter Weekend??? doesn't help matters either.

http://www.thewrap.com/7-reasons-ryan-reynolds-deadpool-shocked-hollywood-and-made-box-office-history/
My main three? That Kick Ass wasn't a fluke and that Great Power comes great responsibility. What bullshit. Get over yourself and go save that Kitten in the tree and stop bitching. You're a superhero for crying out loud. And last Disney wouldn't even go near this kind of material

http://www.thewrap.com/will-deadpool-spawn-more-r-rated-superhero-movies/
Well this proves there's a huge audience for these "R" movies. While the Crow is mentioned they skip The Punisher which means the wrong people are running things as usual. But it's a step in the right direction.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41375/-star-wars-episode-viii-announcement-clip
Gotta love this trailer. Short but still give you goose bumps. They are wasting no time even when the movie is still at the cinema and the dvd/br is coming out in April.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-producers-defend-violence-865258
"Violence against children" ummm on a "Zombie Show" think about that. It's Zombies for petes sake. ZOMBIES!!! Love that biker scene opener tho. Talk about starting things off with a bang.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/bafta-awards-2016-winners-full-list-1201702470/
While the Bafta's can be a mixed bunch, the Oscars can be a total mess. Maybe this year the Brits will steer them in the right direction. Half the time these British awards doesn't have much reflection on what the Academy would chose but this year could be a totally different and most of the winners here will move on to the Oscars. With Leo and the Bear leading the charge and Mad Max picking up the tech awards it all looks like a shoe in. But at least Star Wars TFA got the Big Visual Effects Award and John Boyega got his. BooYaa!

DeadPool Is A Hit.

New Blog Talk Radio Show now playing: Awards including Bafta predictions, Star Wars B.O. etc.

Update:
http://www.thewrap.com/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-brutalizes-box-office-with-47-million-friday/
Well glad I didn't have to change the headline for this posted blog. Now that would have been embarrassing. Good for Reynolds and the sequel is going full ahead. Maybe now we can get some R Rated movies instead of being Disney friendly. Next The Punisher! Yes there was a R rated one before but I'm talking about Triple R no one under 21, massive body count brutal edition. Well studios......

Previously:
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/deadpool-box-office-international-opening-1201703763/
Now this is a nice surprise. Reynolds hasn't had a hit in 100 years. Underground cult status character not like Captain America whose a house hold name. Rated R for foul language (fk yeah) and massive violence (did I hear body count?). Gee wasn't that Kick Ass a few year ago, a movie I own on BR (which mean I loved the hell out of it). So with all the odds against this film goers are actually getting tired of goody two shoes comic book heroes and want to up the game. Hell yeah. Got to give it to Reynolds, he never gave up on this after all these years. And already this has the go for a sequel.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/trailers/656201-the-final-batman-v-superman-trailer-is-here#/slide/1
Now this is a trailer instead of those other badly edited ones. Love that Batwing, a must have for the collection. Page includes 87 screenshots.

http://movieweb.com/thor-3-ragnarok-heimdall-death/
Spoiler alert but doesn't matter who dies in Sci-fi/Fantasy. Look at SW:Empire Strikes Back, Obi Wan came back and there was no stopping anyone. In Force Awakens every Ghost Jedi was putting their two cents in "Don't do this, don't do that". That would drive anyone nuts. So kill them off so  for another sequel/spinoff etc.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41312/photo-of-the-flash-meeting-supergirl
Gee they make a cute couple and she is adorable. Well the episode should kick ass. And adding Jonah Hex to the mix only gets better. At least it's got to be better than that butchered movie with Brolin. Less said the better.

http://www.latino-review.com/news/mr-freeze-may-open-doors-to-more-villains-in-gotham
Mr. Freeze was always one of my favorite villains with that cool outfit and helmet. But this features a more slim down version which fits the show. Gotta love those glasses, man they look so whacked. And they mention Killer Croc another favorite. Looking forward to these and more..

http://movieweb.com/bad-boys-3-will-smith-martin-lawrence/
Yes an old link and fell behind on this one. But so did everyone else. This site includes how many comments are included. If they love it it's usually over at least 10 comments or if they really hate that this is being made it would get even more. This got only 4. No one cares! Like when Smith says he's going back to music no one jumped. Notice how that fizzled and now he's announced another sequel to this. Again no one cares. You might be saying, "Frank why did you bother putting this up, we don't care." Exactly!

Star Wars 8 News

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/655753-production-officially-begins-on-star-wars-episode-viii#/slide/1
There's no stopping the force now. This is going so fast where just 5 years ago it was all a dream. My question is where are they going to find all that shelve space for those action figures? That is going to be some huge stock.

http://www.latino-review.com/news/exclusive-expect-big-things-from-heimdall-in-thor-ragnarok
Now that Elba got those 2 SAG awards and other nods, he's got a bigger role instead of those cameos he had. Good for him. Now if they got him back for Pacific Rim 2 that would even be better if they ever got that off the ground.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/charlize-theron-fast-8-1201666124/
Now that she's such a kick ass from Mad Mad this makes perfect sense. Shame it took this long for anyone to see that. Now who would she play, Statham's sister also out for revenge? Bring on the ridiculous plot. At this point it really doesn't matter.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/sonic-the-hedgehog-racing-toward-a-live-actionhybrid-movie-at-sony-256
Why not, after Alvin and those Chipmunks and Peanuts made a boatload of money why not the Hedgehog? A hybrid would be interesting though. Strange tho I just downloaded Sonic on my fire tablet even tho it's not the same without the Sega system. Ah the good old days.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/johnny-depp-star-universals-invisible-863603
This whole Universal Monster reboot is just a bad idea. And Depps record lately is not all that. He still has to do Pirates and Alice 2 to get his career going. But I have to admit him doing the role is interesting in itself as he doesn't have to depend on makeup this time, lol.

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/655853-ash-vs-evil-dead-season-2
The Six Million Dollar Man returns! Playing Ash's should be funny. Nice face lift by the way.
And of course Ted Raimi is around for the laughs too. Loved the first season, the second should rock.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-monster-hunt-china-us-market-20160210-story.html
This and F7 are the movies that Star Wars couldn't compete with. Saw this last summer and it was just too plain cynical for american audiences. But the effects were pretty cool. 3 out 5. Wait for Netflix.

Force Awakens Crosses $2 Billion Mark

"I'm Still King of the World at the Box Office"

Includes links from this past weekend to catch up on the news. New Radio show coming this week.
Slow news day so a new blog will be posted for  tomorrow.

Tuesday:
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/655285-bryan-fuller-hired-as-showrunner-for-new-star-trek-series
While Fuller got his start writing for DS:9 which is a good start he went on to Voyager which hit a lot of bumps. I prefer DS9 of course. But his latest was Hannibal which was great. Everything in between is a hit or miss but man he has covered a lot of ground. So this should be in the right hands. And Trek is back on TV where it belongs. Especially after that last trailer for ST:Beyond when it said it was trying to be like the old tv shows. With a motorcyle and blowing up the Enterprise for the millionth time? How wonder TFA is the biggest money maker in the U.S.
PS Blame China for TFA not being No. 1 Internationally. But F7 is the biggest grosser over there. Completely illogical. (had to say it).

Monday:
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-box-office-2-billion-1201698398/
Well about time. But at this point and it's official, Avatar is still the biggest film of all time. But look at this list and how Disney brag's about all the records it broke. What it does not mention is:
How it TANKED in China and Russia.
Did not open in Japan or India at No. 1.
Taking it's sweet time trying to past Titanic for the No. 2 spot if it does at all.
Will never take out Avatar as the No. 1 of all time box office.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/dga-award-winners-2016-full-list-directors-guild-1201697771/
Now it looks like it's up in the air at the Oscars if George Miller will his award for Director.
While The Revenant deserves it kudos it's still overrated compare to Mad Max. All because of that damn bear.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/independence-day-resurgence-set-visit-what-we-learned-140
The best thing about the Superbowl was Lady Gaga singing the National Anthem. After that it was downhill. But favorite film trailer was ID Resurgence. All mini-interviews included.

http://www.comingsoon.net/extras/news/654699-ant-man-and-the-hulk-star-in-coca-cola-super-bowl-commercial
Video included. While there was a few favorites like the Marilyn Monroe Snickers with some very ugly William Dafoe legs, Singing Sheep doing Queen's Somebody to Love but this has to be the best. Ant-Man opening the can for him was hysterical. Now that's the commercial.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41206/-star-wars-blamed-for-mockingjay-drop
What a cheap shot. The reason why HGM2 did only $653M is because the first part sucked big time. Down right boring to the point the hard core fans just gave up on the franchise. But jeez some films wish they had made that kind of money, spoiled brats.

Note: Big tech issue with my comp and radio show so I will be catching up with all that this week for sure including that new theme I wrote for one of the shows. More on the Radio show.

The Force Awakens Wins 3 Awards

Tech problem so everything will be held over to next week.

Update:
https://www.dga.org/Awards/Annual.aspx
This coming Saturday will the the Directors award with all eyes on George Miller for Mad Max Fury Road. Of course this doesn't mean that this will guarantee the winner of this award the Oscar as many times in the past somebody else would get the award. The mystery continues.

Previously:
http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/star-wars-revenant-rain-on-mad-max-parade-at-visual-effects-society-awards-1201695522/
While it did get three only one would count for Oscar, Best Visual Effects but still a good sign. Surprisingly Mad Max didn't do all that here but at Oscar it's more of tech awards which is different from here. The other big surprise is the Good Dinosaur got three over Inside Out which only got one. It deserves to get recognize here as it will lose at Oscar time thanks to Disney's push for Inside Out.

http://movieweb.com/x-files-2016-breaks-ratings-records-worldwide/
"I'm not a reptile. That's Racist!" Now that third episode is what I'm talking about after that second awful one. While all this time you think Michael Caine lookalike was lying all this time it turns out he really was a lizard whatever. Great back to old school episode. This and great ratings and maybe we can see that third movie after all.

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/x-files-easter-eggs-weremonster.html
While most of these flew over my head, you have to be hardcore to get some of these, I did enjoy the "Kolchak" reference with Guy's wardrobe. A favorite show of mine from the 1970's (what else?) there was a tv remake. Less said the better. That and the ringtone of course.

http://tvline.com/2016/02/03/flash-supergirl-crossover-episode-date-spoilers/
March 28, my birthday and what a nice birthday present it is. That and Sups vs Bats movie release that weekend even tho we know it probably it won't be good as this crossover. You gotta admit, when it comes to TV, DC has this hands down along with straight to DVD/BR like the recent Batman Bad Blood. But with the movies, well......So how will this crossover happen? Which ever way they do it, it will be easier than pulling teeth with Spiderman and Marvel movie franchises. You know Sony had to save face on that one. TV crossover is much easier all due to ratings and tv trying to survive against tv/cable winning all the Golden Globes. Either way better for the fans.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fast-furious-8-9-10-861585
While the actual franchise will end after these three films there's already talk of the spinoffs for individual characters even when they are all better off as a cast ensemble. Either way Vin will have a job doing cameos in these while looking for another franchise. Guess that witch hunting didn't gothe way he wanted did it.

www.darkhorizons.com/news/41118/instagram-tv-series-shield-5-launches
Why not? After Netflix. Hulu and even Amazon getting recognized at the Golden Globes, other internet outlets are getting into the act.

"Welcome to Diverse TV"

"Nine. Double 0 Nine"

New Radio show coming this week: SAG, 009 and Bond, Grease, movie reviews.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/sag-awards-2016-highlights-winners-1201692955/

Didn't I say on the radio show 3 weeks ago about diversity went to cable and I mentioned Orange is the New Black? Thank You to the SAG for proving me right. And Idris Elba walked away with TWO award wins! And with the Best Line of the evening!  And Oscar really blew it this time for not nominating Elba. Now how did they over look that one? So with all the different winners for the nod, what does Jada say about all this?

PS: As I have been saying on my shows, forget James Bond and give him the spinoff. 009. Both Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies) and Halle Berry (Jinx) almost got their own franchise so let Elba have his due. Bonus Triva: Only 009 had been mentioned in other Bond movies. Which are they?

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sag-awards-2016-in-memoriam-who-got-snubbed-042536640.html

How can you forget Abe Vigoda and Dan Haggerty. Fish and Grizzly Adams were staple tv. While the video ended on Leonard Nimoy a Spock but they leave out Grace Lee Whitney also from Star Trek frame. What were they smoking when they put this list together?

http://deadline.com/2016/01/kung-fu-panda-3-china-revenant-star-wars-spotlight-international-box-office-overseas-weekend-results-1201693811/

Wow the final nail in the coffin for Star Wars when KF3 does better at the box office than The Force. They should have a Panda character to play it safe. Jar Jar Panda or Ewok Pandas, either way it couldn't have hurt.

http://www.eonline.com/news/735040/will-smith-talks-about-major-music-comeback-and-2016-reunion-tour-with-dj-jazzy-jeff?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

Wow how desperate. So no Oscar nod, you movie tanked, you wife makes a big embarrassing stink, not so good Suicide Squad reviews, so what do you do? Resurrect your music career. Like anyone cares.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grease-live-marc-platt-vanessa-hudgens-ratings-carly-rae-jepsen-1201693781/

And the winner for Best Musical/Comedy for 2017 is "Grease!" Yeah I can see this getting the Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG for Best Cast Ensemble. Everyone was on their "A" Game.They really took this "Live" thing to a new level. The whole cast was great with Vanessa Hudgens carrying on the tradition "The Show Must Go On" when her father past away the day before. Wow, that took guts, and of course the show was dedicated to him. Great idea of having the audience part of the show and besides a few glitches thanks to wind and rain the show did go on. Now how are they going to top this?

Bonus Link:

http://www.latino-review.com/news/batman-v-superman-tracking-to-open-at-154-million

Does it matter what the opening weekend is going to be anymore? Rules are changing. Will EVERYONE going to rush out to see this when the last Man of Steel pissed off some fans. Will it have a repeat business? Will having release at the end of March is saying to the public we don't have much faith in this. If anything this should have been released for July 4th Weekend no matter who else opened that weekend. 

Batman Bad Blood 4 out of 5. Pay no mind to IMDB reviews as some obviously have not seen it and are prejudging. Lots of action, good story. This could have added an extra 10 minutes as there are extras characters than the usual. And a nice little twist at the end. Well more of a cameo. Cute.

Pandas for No. 1?

New Blog Talk Radio now playing. Awards, Reviews, X-files and Legends (second half of show) plus mini reviews bottom of blog.


Saturday Update:
http://www.eonline.com/news/733494/why-hollywood-isn-t-as-angry-about-the-sag-awards-as-it-is-about-the-oscars
Gives you some answers on what's wrong with the system of voting with Oscar and other awards. This is for tonight's show SAG awards and why nobody made a big deal with this show.

Friday Update:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41080/carter-explains-weird-x-files-episode-order
So they put Episode 5, the stinker of the bunch, as the second to get it out of way so the rest will get good reviews and keep the high ratings. Or am I reading to much into this, as in a conspiracy to control the viewers mind as to want more episodes or even a new movie. My brain is fried. I need a break.

Previously:
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/trailers/650833-cs-video-sit-down-with-the-kung-fu-panda-3-cast#/slide/1
Everything points to a great box office weekend and this will break the "boring leftovers for January curse" that the month brings. With Star Wars winding down (that's right I said it!) The Revenant and that bear being old news, these Pandas will get much love. Check out the video interview with the cast. Kind of cute. But the one with Dustin Hoffman. They actually had in mind a Graduate 2? Yikes. Glad that never happened. "Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?"
PS loved the first two with some great graphics in the second one. This should be fun.

http://variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/sag-awards-predictions-2016-who-will-win-1201689626/
Yep another award show this Saturday, one of which has little to due with the outcome at the Oscars. But the usual suspects are going to win here like Leo and Sly, Brie and Kate for the acting categories.
But two others categories should be fun. Cast ensemble for Spotlight or Big Short and the other is
the Stunt Ensemble witch Mad Max should get. Really who thinks of these categories anyways? Rest of the show? zzzzzzzzzzzz.

http://www.comingsoon.net/extras/news/651589-harrison-ford-to-preview-star-wars-lands-coming-to-disney-parks#/slide/1
Wow, how much back end did Han Solo get for doing Star Wars? Hosting a Disney special is not Harrison Ford's style. He didn't even want to be associated with Star Wars after the trilogy was done.
Well now we know whatever figure it was, it was plenty of bucks. Still looking forward to the special tho.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41057/-amy-director-scorese-team-on-silver-ghost
Finally saw "Amy" and I wasn't to impress even tho it got the nod for Best Documentary. While I haven't seen most of them, the other I did see is "What Happened Miss Simone" the better of the two "music" documentaries. More on the Radio show. But Director Kapadia is very good in covering details with his subjects and with Scorsese on board this should make for an interesting film. Will it do good, probably not. If there's no chase scene with cars it's pretty much dead. Remember the Coppola and Lucas film "Tucker"? Look it up IMDB, excellent film on the making of the "Perfect Car" which the car industry shut down cause it was that good.While it starred Jeff Bridges, Tanked at the box office.

Mini-Reviews:
5th Wave: 1, Cool big wave covering London Bridge at the beginning of the movie, the rest was as boring as you can get, a filler to get to a sequel that hopefully will never happen since the movie tanked.
Ride Along 2: 1, If you saw the first one, which was funnier, then you saw this one. A few laughs but mostly a cookie cutter script. Been there, done that.

X-Files Leading The Charge?

New Blog Radio Show coming tomorrow before somebody else drops.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/columns/x-files-twin-peaks-1201683973/
Argument on the start of Nostalgia tv making the X-Files as an example of leading the charge. As pointed out in the 3rd paragraph no one wants to take a chance of doing anything original. Even tho cable is leading the charge aka Amazon and Netflix and getting the awards too. As Ricky Gervis said NBC was hosting the Golden Globes and didn't have one show nominated. Ain't it funny but at this year at the movies, the biggest hits in the top 5 were Jurassic World and Star Wars and as the internet quoted "What year is this?"

http://www.thewrap.com/abe-vigoda-godfather-and-barney-miller-star-dies-at-94/
The running joke was he past away every few years and now that he is actually gone, its hard to believe. You could always find him jogging near central park and was always nice. Never met him but some of my friends did and spoke highly how cool he was. Godfather is one of my all time favorite films and Barney Miller was a great comedy back in the day. He was one of the best things from the shows. Note: Gallery included of 13 people who have past already this year. Jeez, 13 too many.

http://variety.com/2016/artisans/in-contention/revenant-star-wars-game-of-thrones-golden-reel-nominations-1201689530/
Actually never paid intention to this category but most of the years favorites have made it here. There all very behind the scenes technical nominations with Mad Max, Martian, Jurassic World, Ant-Man and of course Star Wars. But the big curious one left out if Furious 7 for some strange reason. If any movie belongs here it's that one for all the stunt scenes but Southpaw and Sicario are in which make no sense. Just are just punching and shooting so what gives?

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Drops-More-Plot-Details-Conan-Conqueror-108617.html
Is this the final nail in the coffin for Terminator? We know James Cameron will get bck the rights and can reboot the damn thing. So maybe Arnold can wait for that since the studio yanked it off it's schedule. But this is the way to go and get th

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41043/hugh-jackman-talks-wolverine-3-script
My only question is how hard is it to write a Wolverine script. There are tons of comics on this character and they never run out of ideas for him. And let's face it, the last two films sucked so I'm like, lets get this over with. And we all know if this was in Marvel's hand then.....well enough said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-c-hall-david-bowie-dexter_us_56a7d6f5e4b01a3ed12426e5?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_872033&
How working with Bowie helped him with his acting. All interesting reading for us Bowie fans on the show Lazarus. But Dexe comes up and we still might get another series on the character, a rumour that has been floating around since the last episode where Dexter winds up as a Lumberjack, !?!?!?! WTF!!!. They even include a clip from that final scene. One of cable tv big Fkups!

More X-Files, Star Wars & Marvel Coming

New Blog Talk Radio Show coming this week: X-Files and January recap.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/opinion/the-x-files-episode-2-recap-founders-mutation-1201688419/
While the article states that the series is back on track, I found this boring as heck. Give me Roswell any day as the first episode while heavy on talk did give me my greys and spaceships. With the ratings doing good of course there's talk of another season or another movie. Either way it's on!

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/650831-bob-iger-says-star-wars-and-marvel-movies-will-continue-forever#/slide/1
And I won't be around when I drop? Well that's a little unfair. But then again by that time it will be nothing but remakes and reboots as they already doing with Spiderman. But Bob Iger says the audience wont get tired on any of this. Or will they? Disney knows something we don't/

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/that-black-white-version-of-mad-max-fury-road-may-finally-be-on-the-way-136
That double dip is finally is on it's way. When the first BR release came out where were some of the behind the scenes that various video magazines were showing and Miller himself talked about releasing the BW version. Well that got the fans again which means I have go out and buy the damn thing again. Well I don't have to but if your fan like me then......damn I hate when they do that, lol.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/plan-9-from-outer-space-remake-is-heading-your-way-next-month-172
What happened to the musical? Was anyone asking for this and it looks just as cheesy. Actually the original with a 6 pack and a doobie and it's one of the best comedies out there. What a waste.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/650827-fast-8-to-blow-up-iceland#/slide/1
So where is Micheal Bay when you need him. If anyone knows about blowing shit up well...
But the cool idea that New York is finally going to get it's due in the franchise is so cool.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41019/-transformers-live-action-arena-show-coming
Live robots with SFX aka Spiderman on Broadway. Wow, would I like to see that go south. Somebody get's crushed in the front row and falls on the first few rows. Ten watch the whole place blow up aka Bay. Count me in, I'll be watching from across the street. I mean really?

Bonus:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/227443#i0,p0,d1
George Lucas on the influence of Kurosawa and how The Hidden Fortress inspired Star Wars. This is from the BR Criterion collection filmed back in 1991. Little he did realize at the time that what he create is now going to last forever after he's gone thanks to Disney. Who knew?
Only 7 days to see this before it's not available for free.

The X-Files Are Back

"We're Baaaack"

New Blog Talk Radio Show coming this week: X-Files and more.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/x-files-chris-carter-talks-858507
The show didn't start here until 11:30 pm where I am at and after a couple of beers from watching the game it was kind of hard to follow on all the conspiracy theories near the end. Wow, that was a lot of exposition at the end. But still fun as heck. Yep the show is back.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41008/-x-files-revival-rates-well-reviews-poorly
A follow up to the above article since that was posted earlier in the day. Mix reviews and some the the nit picks I have to agree with aka "clunky scripting". They could have left some of that for the next episode but then again maybe they did, lol.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/pga-awards-big-short-is-858752
Will somebody make up their minds. It looked like "Spotlight" would be the frontrunner but the PGA awards for the most part have been predicting the Oscar winner for the past several years. Sorry, but while it deserves a nod it is not a Best Picture winner. I'll give that to The Revenant.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/japan-box-office-star-wars-858892
Knocked off the top stop by a time traveling Samurai drama. Well that will do it. It's so over for TFA internationally now that it has to rely on U.S. repeats to keep on going to break Titanic World Wide.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/41003/writer-clears-up-labyrinth-remake-reports
A visit to that world and a reboot/remake and no redo of The Goblin King. So far so good. And the idea this was talked about before David Bowie passing is even better. Let's not forget The Dark Crystal remake has also been talked about for years now but still in puppet form. Do this with CGI and it's back to watching old Gumby episodes for me.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/chris-rock-rewriting-monologue-following-oscars-boycott-20160124?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=012516_16&utm_medium=email
Now we're talking. Rock should go after them big time. I figured they would have him on hold and be careful with his dialogue but that's what the Oscars need to put some fire up it's ratings ass.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-get-50th-anniversary-859043
Trek convention coming to New York in September. 50 Years already, and we still get a trailer that sucks for the new movie. We trekkers can't catch a break can we.

Legends The Hit Of Tomorrow?

New Radio Show Now Playing: Legends of Tomorrow and Batman: Bad Blood Blu-ray review(at end of show, 4 outta 5), Critics Choice Awards, Oscars, Star Wars & China.

Friday Update:
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/649893-legends-of-tomorrow-ratings#/slide/1
Most watched Thursday in the past three years. Well it is a hit for the rest of the season. The rating stay on course we'll have another year to be announce soon. For the premiere show itself, love that time travel to the 1970's with President Ford (whom I saw in person) and Earth Wind & Fire soundtrack whom I saw in concert in their hey day. So far so good for the show and doesn't that ship remind you a little bit of The M Falcon?.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/avatar-2-delayed-indefinitely-after-star-wars-invades-december-2017-20160122?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=012216_16&utm_medium=email
Talk about head kill and musical chairs at the same time. So now Avatar is getting out of the way? What is up with that? To close for comfort for that all time international Box Office considering Avatar got its ass kicked in the U.S. market. Sure makes for interesting news.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/649709-star-wars-updates-for-the-week-of-january-22-2016
Latest update via Twitter with news, articles and videos for the past week. Lots to look at.

Previously:
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/trailers/649581-go-inside-the-first-episode-of-dcs-legends-of-tomorrow#/slide/1
How can they screw this up? They got the production team from The Flash and Arrow working on this and with that introduction on setting up the show, it's pretty much a hit already, unlike Agent Carter, while good reviews, had not so great ratings.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/40944/-spider-man-moved-up-genisys-2-scrapped
These switches don't mean a thing. Best example: The last Transformer came out a weekend before July 4th and earned $100M and ON July 4th weekend it lost most of it's boxoffice at $30M. So nothing guarantees these special dates.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-takes-terminator-sequel-release-857746
Never mind that the movie was a disappointment but getting replace by a lousy tv show remake is an outright embarrassment. Baywatch wasn't all that. Well at least Arnold has Celebrity Apprentice to look forward to and Cameron getting his franchise back.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/you-wish-a-death-star-384876/1-darth-vader-and-sleeping-beautys-maleficent
Wow, what a stretch. If you really start getting really deep into something you start believing it. All these are standard cliches in animation and fantasy aka the village idiot, the town drunk etc. But they sure make it fit tho.

Filmmaking 101:
http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Magazine/2016/January-1-2016/Editing-Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens.aspx
The two editors talking about putting the film together and some of their favorite scenes to work on. But I like the last line in the article where they mention about cutting out some jokes in the final edit. Hopefully those will be on the Blu-ray.

Star Wars Rebels and Super Heroes

New Blog Talk Radio Show coming this week. So much to cover.

http://www.cnet.com/news/new-star-wars-rebels-has-force-awakens-lightsaber-darth-vader-leia-and-yoda/?ftag=CAD1acfa04&bhid=20910420351790253409626517480108
They got both Yoda and Vadar with Princess Leia added to the mix. What's there not to love. Oh yeah that stupid Light Saber from Daddy Issue himself Kylo Ren. Man that character annoys me. PS did anyone count how many times the main title theme was played in TFA, considering it was a theme originality written for ST A New Hope. Talk about promoting from within, lol.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/arrow-who-dies-season-4-felicity-thea-dead-1201683849/
While I wasn't big on The Arrow, that Flash/Arrow combo episode really hit an all time high. And with the introduction of Legends of Tomorrow. Which just adds to that big mysterious question of the cosmos. Why does DC get TV right when Marvel can't. That Agent Carter did not do good in the ratings. But that's another story.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/justice-league-featurettes-explore-the-origins-of-aquaman-flash-cyborg-298
Three are included here. Talking about DC, now is the scary part. Marvel has this right, will Warner's who own the rights to justice (no pun intended really) to the material and it's roots? And did Keven Smith look wired like heck doing the special last night. Pretty funny wasn't it. But man what a treat it was that's for sure. But Wait! there is more..lol.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/649077-green-lantern-corps-and-suicide-squad-featurettes-from-dc-films-special#/slide/1
I am not sold on Squad yet as it looks like an extended tv episode, not its a bad thing. But it looks like there's something missing. Or hopefully the trailer is not showing everything like they usually do. And can someone please get Green Lantern right for a change? How difficult is it to....oh never mind, I'm tired of knocking my head on the wall with this character. But those Blu-ray look great on the TV big Screen.

Mad Max and Tom Hardy Are Ruling The Awards

New Blog Talk Radio Show coming this week. Talk Shoe Radio Premiere show now playing.

http://variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/mad-max-fury-road-45-years-triumph-at-london-critics-awards-1201681697/
Wow, Mad Max for Best Picture, Miller for Director and Tom Hardy for 4 films! Great for Tom Hardy to finally get recognized. From being in a Star Trek stinker ST:Nemesis to having his face covered in Batman to winning for 4 films. And getting that Supporting Actor Oscar Nomination from the Academy to top it off. Way to go Tom!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-star-wars-857042
No good news at all in China. It won't even come close to beating Furious 7 for the all time $399M record. One more week and  it's all over taking over the #1 Spot of all time World Wide.

http://www.latino-review.com/news/ben-affleck-talks-the-possibility-of-directing-a-solo-batman-film
Now I'm looking forward to this if he can pull it off. Zack got his hands full and it's time to pass on the franchise. Affleck is a comic book fan, he's both an Academy award winner in Writing and Directing. And we get to see an older Batman like the DC Animation films which are great by the way,. Good direction to go in. And far away from Man of Steel the better. Aw, C;mon that film wasn't all that.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/648449-star-trek-beyond-cast-talks-from-the-set-of-the-film
Smart. Let's get away from the awful friggin trailer and let's go behind the scenes on the set. And at least the cast have a great sense of humor. Yeah baby sell this thing or that TV show will take over for good and the studio says goodbye to this movie franchise. Let's face, while I love the cast, I've yet to see them in a Billion movie.

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/celebrities-lost-2016-192944711.html
Way too many in such a short time and it's only January. Is this the year we are going to have. See Glen Frey video below. He was at the time of his game writing the songs for soundtracks especially for Beverly Hills Cop. A Top 10 film in 1985. I mean it was huge!


Filmmaking 101:
http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/content/desert-heat-cinematographer-john-seale-captures-mad-max-fury-road/609945
Click on the link for the full article after the pictures. Strange that the top 2 sci-fi films nominated for Best Picture take place in the sand. Worked for Star Wars since A New Hope.

Critics Choice Awards - Mad Max Wins 8!

I'm keeping it short today and will add more tomorrow in a new blog along with another new Blog Talk Radio show. This past weekend we premiered Talk Shoe Radio with my co-host Mark. Mostly Star Wars and some Oscar talk as the end. So you can hear his point of view. You've been warned, lol.

http://variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/spotlight-wins-top-critics-choice-prize-next-stop-oscar-1201681972/
...And the winner is Mad Max in 8 categories! Well this is what is going to happen at the Oscars. Which means the others like Star Wars, The Martian, The Revenant won't have a chance of winning mainly all the tech awards. Most of the awards for the Oscars are going to be obvious so we know what to expect. But The Revenant is going to be an embarrassement if only it gets 2 awards for Leo and Cinematography out of 12 nominations. Yikes! And Spotlight with very few nods gets Best Pciture. Go figure.

Highlights:
Mad Max getting 8 awards the 2 best being Hardy and Theron for Best Action, something that the Oscars doesn't acknowledge. Another reason why the Oscar categories are boring.
George Miller, Director with the ladies from Mad Max accepting on his behalf. Way cool.
"See You Again" for Best Song. The Big Fck Up that the Oscar screwed up!
Sly for Best Supporting Actor. This should be a shoe in for the Oscar.
Morricone for Best Score. Another shoe in at Oscar time.
Jacob Tremblay, the little kid stole the whole show. Cuteness overload.
Head Scratcher: Ex-Machina, nice if you like your Sci-Fi really boring.

Overall the show is in the right direction, like the Golden Globes by combining both movies and tv,
and have a lot of the awards handed out ahead of time and mentioned to save time. Something the Oscars should do. The other best part is everyone is at the dinner tables but they need to get drunk. Let's face it seeing Mel Gibson and Tarantino completely wrecked is so much fun.
Being formal like Oscars are so boring. The Academy should take note and hey, that's how the Oscars were back in the hey day, at the dinner table. And pass that booze around!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2016-critics-choice-awards-winners-856447/item/best-picture-critics-choice-2015-848717
Complete list of winners of photos from each category to represent the winner. Pretty cool for easier reference since most people have avoided these films like the plagued.

The Force Was Weak With The Oscar

"I don't get it, 5 nominations but not for Best Picture?"

New Radio Show now playing: Awards, Star Wars and other sad news. Mini-review list of Oscar nominated pictures below links in the Special Feature section. Also included is The Script Page of all the movies in PDF format nominated for the Oscar. Premiere of Talk Shoe Radio now playing. Please see widget.

Update:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4145
A list of the biggest moneymakers who won Oscars for Best Picture. Then a 2015 list of this years nominees with The Martian and Mad Max on top of the list both with a combined total of 17 nods. Yikes! Not bad for Sci-fi. Yeah that should get Star Wars fans pissed off.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/647877-the-star-wars-roundup-for-january-15-2016
All the best tweets with videos, pics, links to toher news and more.

Previously:

http://oscar.go.com/nominees/best-picture

WTF? The academy is allowed to vote up to Ten films and they couldn't squeeze in Star Wars?

But the Martian and Mad Max are in as far as Sci-Fi goes. Cool,no problem but as far as those 5 nods those are going to either The Revenant and Mad Max. TFA will lucky to get at least one. Sorry fellow Jedi's, that's the truth. ButI have to admit Mad Max with 10 nods, love the film and I still don't get it.

Special Note: The ratings for the Oscars have been awful, if they want people to tune in from ALL ages they should have included TFA just on that alone. Max and Martian can only go a lone way. I mean what, Bridge of Spies when you don't nominate Speilberg to begin with. And what happen to Jurassic World, Furious 7 and Avengers Ultron for SFX. But Revenant gets the nod? For what, moving a of trees and mountains around? Jeez.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/oscar-nominations-2016-snubs-surprises-1201679981/

Biggest disappointments: Star Wars, Ridley Scott, Tarantino

Biggest surprises: Tom Hardy, Shaun the Sheep, Stallone

Biggest WTF: Jennifer Lawrence, Again? WTF she's no Meryl Streep or Cate Blancett. So there!

Double WTF: Writing on the Wall? Really? And no See U Again, song from Furious 7?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-rickman-dead-actor-was-855749

What's with this damn number anyways? My favorite roles were Hans Gruber, the villain in Die Hard 1, Spock like Alien in Galaxy Quest, The Sheriff of Nottingham was a hoot and of course as Professor Snape in the Potter franchise. But a very under rated film called "CBGB" about the famous NYC club where he played the owner Hilly Kristal about how the club first started and introduced  The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and many others. His last role will be as the caterpillar in Alice Wonderland 2. Damn now I gotta watch that.

http://www.people.com/article/rene-angelil-dead-celine-dion-husband-dies-of-cancer?xid=rss-fullcontent

Bowie, Rickman and now Rene. All from Cancer. Ironic that Obama's speech talked about this on finding a cure. What are they waiting for. Rene was incredible on helping Celine Dion's career and of course she won the Oscar for James Cameron "Titanic"

Special Feature Section:
http://www.studiodaily.com/2015/12/read-oscar-contending-screenplays-from-2015-films/?hq_e=el&hq_m=3194978&hq_l=4&hq_v=ac94ddf0df
All the nominated films are here for you to read. Great way to learn for you future screenwriters.

http://videolandexpress.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-force-takes-out-spiderman-2.html
My reviews of all the films that got nominated for the Globes and Oscars plus a few extra. I will update this and retype this to include  in a new blog next week but for now here it is.
I changed the title to Christmas Record as Star Wars started breaking records left and right at this time. I rarely go back and change things, just update and add, but this day was different.

Oscar Nomination Predictions

Radio show coming after Oscar Nods anouncement tomorrow. This blog is in progress for more later.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/oscar-nomination-predictions-2016-academy-awards-1201678182/
While most of these are predictable let me mention just one and that's for Best Picture. The Force Awakens was not picked. BUT Inside Out was. The one frigging picture that should NOT be nominated for anything! (much anger in me).And if it does get nominated it belongs in the Animation category and nowhere else! (don't worry the hate is already there). So...take out Inside Out and there is you placement for Star Wars on this list. Now if for some reason some other crap like Sicario makes it then the Dark Side wins  here as there is not much hope for these bone heads who nominate these films. Remember: Both Slumdog Millionaire and Crash both Won for Best Picture. 2 films that should have not been nominated in the first place. But that's another discussion all together.
PS. Every other category is fine with me. But jeez no TFA?

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-episode-8-rey-identity-skywalker-kenobi-daughter-1201678430/.
So we thought that she's Luke daughter or just adding for rumours to the fire. Don't they have enough questions to answer from No. 7 as it is. Or whatever. Our two questions for now are;
1. When is it going to pass Titanic for No. 2, cause if it doesn't forget about all time boxoffice and
2. Will get the nod for Best Picture and it doesn't how many for the other categories?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/40818/-shades-pixels-jupiter-top-razzie-noms
They all deserved what they get. But looks like the got a boner for Adam Sandler. Twice in the acting category and worst acting combo with Sandler and any pair of shoes for The Cobbler. Sandlers and his shoes, funny, but so is Depp and Keven James for their glue on moustaches. Even funnier.
Trivia: The Cobbler was directed by Tom McCarthy who went on to direct Spotlight which is being considered by the Oscars.  How the FCK is that possible? Well at least Sandler got his Netflix deal. Bazinga!

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-chronicles-of-narnia-franchise-to-get-rebooted-with-the-silver-chair-20160113
Here we go again with another reboot. These movies were not all that to begin with an okay audience boxoffice count. Like these are going to be much better?

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/there-will-be-no-more-heroes-after-reborn-190
Was anyone watching this. Well I was for a while, just the anime chick who went into the video world. Everything sucked! And even after that I gave up, waiting around just for that chick made no sense. Oh well it was fun, for that little part, so see ya!

Oscar SFX Preview

New Radio Show coming this week. Oscar Nods this Thursday. Will Star Wars get some?

http://variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/alejandro-g-inarritu-tom-mccarthy-adam-mckay-george-miller-ridley-scott-land-dga-nominations-1201677599/
This used to be a guarantee to get an Oscar nod from here but the past few years it hasn't been the case. Like last year the tide is turning and nothing is set in stone. But hopefully Scott and Miller would get their due for a nod this year.

http://variety.com/2016/artisans/awards/oscars-star-wars-jurassic-world-mad-max-academy-visual-effects-bake-off-1201676248/
Posted late but this is one category to loogk out for as this will be the heaviest competition Star Wars will have to go against. And if Force Awakens does get it nods it will have Mad Max as the one to beat.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/david-bowie-dead-dies-films-man-who-fell-to-earth-1201677149/
Overall review on Bowie's films. I'll be making a review on these on the next radio show.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/40789/-pacific-rim-sequel-development-still-going
The whole idea of China buying Legendary studios who own the rights to Pacific Rim, the chances look better now. If only somebody can make up their mind on making this in the first place.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/avengers-infinity-war-will-feature-67-characters-20160112
Way to many adn most will agree this will turn out to be no more than a bunch of cameos. You figure they would learn by now but that's okay, go ahead and ruin and see what happens.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/40803/jar-jar-binks-actor-talks-the-backlash
If there was one actor to show up in the obituaries, it would have been this guy. If you have to give him all the credit in the world for not given up on life. Really, not joking no matter how funny this reads. He was only doing his job as an actor and had to listen to Lucas (yep his fault again). At least we know we'll never this this character again on the big screen.

Golden Globes and David Bowie

"The Goblin King"

New Radio show coming: Globe winners, Bowie, Star Wars in China. Three Bowie clips included below links. So what do the Globes and Bowie have in common? The Martian, how ironic.

http://www.thewrap.com/david-bowie-legendary-british-singer-dead-at-69/
Big surprise to all of us fans considering he just came out with a new album. And many were hoping for a tour. I saw him at Madison Square Garden, NYC during the Let's Dance tour (the whole show on Youtube) and Glass Spider Tour at both MSG and Giants Staduim. And a very underrated actor which most of us remember him as The Goblin King. The final tribute was his song Starman on the soundtrack of The Martian. Great sequence with Damon tearing a spaceship apart. So cool.

http://deadline.com/2016/01/the-martian-wins-golden-globe-for-best-motion-picture-musical-or-comedy-1201679827/
Well I picked 8 winners out of 15 if you look at last weeks blog. Well The Martian won me bets with Picture and Actor for Damon. Yes, he was a nice guy when I met him on the set of Bourne Ultimatum. So good for him. Great for Stallone, let's see if he gets the nod for the Oscars and win!
But there some WTF moments:
Lawrence  Best Actress for Joy? Writing on the Wall 007 for Best Song? Steve Jobs for Screenplay? Alexandro for Director instead of Miller or Scott? Winslet was cool tho for Suppt Actress.
Congrats to Oscar Isaac for Show Me a Hero and Star Wars, well somebody had a good year, lol.
Highlights: Seeing both Tarantino and Mel Gibson drunk out of their minds. That is so much fun.
And of course Han Solo giving out the Best Picture award for The Revenant at the end of the night.
Ironic since Force Awakens is still No. 1 at the box office and Leo's came pic in at No. 2.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/645637-star-wars-the-force-awakens-is-now-the-3-movie-of-all-time#/slide/1
Well that's nice but what about No. 2 beating Titanic and will the China boxoffice last for it to be No. 1 of all time. That's what everyone is looking at. And so is James Cameron, lol.

Extra:
David Bowie's Starman from the soundtrack of The Martian, originally released on the LP Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Classic Album from 1972 and one of the best of the decade.

Bowie as the Goblin King in Labyrinth Classic Jim Henson's cult film from the 1980's.

And as Nikola Tesla in The Prestige with Hugh Jackman. Does anyone remember that?

Is The Force Strong With China?

"OK China, I'm looking at you" 
Video Bonus Surprise: Plastic Galaxy  http://www.hulu.com/watch/822975 (free subsription)
Also Radio Show now playing: Star Wars, Golden Globes Predictions. My picks listed below links. Next week the Big Star Wars show as promised as soon the China's numbers comes in.

Saturday Update:
Big opening on Saturdayat $33M in China but still behind Furious 7 for single day gross. The race is on.

Friday Update:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bafta-awards-carol-bridge-spies-852813
Star Wars got 3 nods, my Minions along with Shaun Sheep got Animation and Mad Max got the tech awards but dissed for Picture and Director. Besides that a boring show.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bafta-awards-snubs-helen-mirren-853149
Spectre totally snubbed for everything. What an embarrasement. Remember Skyfall got for a few nods a few years back. It's all that song fault by Sam Smith. Where was Sir Paul when you needed him? He wrote Live and Let Die,considered one of the best bond songs ever.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/645539-the-star-wars-news-roundup-for-january-8-2016
Great colection of tweets of all thelastest news. My favorite: Ford becomes highest grossing actor over Samuel L. Jackson. But deleted from article was Jacksons's response: "That Mother-F*cker!"

Previously:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4141&p=.htm
All eyes on China this weekend and even they're not to sure what's going to happen. The fact that the Menace sequels didn't clear $20M is scary for Disney. That Mouse is shaking. And it has to clear Furious 7 at $390M all time high in China. And predictions have it at No. 2 all time. Not good.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/people-s-choice-awards-2016-852675
Well at least Furious 7 won, Diesel made a speech to make you cry and my Minions won. I'm good. BUT! Did you notice that everyone who won was there and the losers stayed home. How did they know? Well I guess it saves the Award show money for hotel accommodations.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fast-furious-8-shoot-cuba-850559
Cuba would be different adding to Atlanta and New York but they should take a hint from James Bond and stop with so many locations. Fans are more interested in the actors and the cars with stunts.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/adam-sandler-ridiculous-six-making-history-netflix-003126774.html
It figures. All this talent and it doesn't even try to be funny for the audience. But they must have had a ball doing this. Share the fun next time guys.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/645293-guillermo-del-toro-in-talks-to-direct-fantastic-voyage-remake
This was a film that Cameron himself was going to direct over 10 years ago and with technology today it's perfect for a remake. Now that Pacific Rim is put on hold why not. Unless China buys the studio that owns Pacific Rim and that would be a total game changer.

Golden Globes Predictions: My choices first then (The Globes with options)
Director: George Miller (Ridley Scott)
Picture: Mad Max  - (The Revenant)
Actor: Leonardo Dicaprio
Actress: Brie Larson (Cate Blanchett)
Picture Comedy: The Martian (Trainwreck)
Actor Comedy: Matt Damon (Al Pacino: Do you Think I'm Sexy)
Actress Comedy: Amy Schumer (Melissa Mccarthy/Mirren/Tomlin)
Actor Suppt: Sylvester Stallone
Actress Suppt: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Screenplay: Spotlight
Soundtrack: Ennio Morricone, Hateful 8 (Sakamoto, Noto 'The Revenant')
Song: See You Again, Furious 7
Animation: Tie: Shaun Sheep, Peanuts (Inside Out for crying out loud, uuggh).

The Force Awakens Finally Gets That No. 1 Spot

"We finally did it, now about that international box office....."
New Radio Show now playing: The Force and Golden Globes. Pic of Cameron included below links.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-force-852274
Finally the No. 1 of all time for U.S., lol. It kind of drag there for a while. But it doesn't look like it will hit the international all time as stated in this article. China really needs to cough up some serious money for this to hit all time and no one is to sure how that's going to work out.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-box-office-avatar-biggest-movie-all-time-1201673235/
Well not so fast, lol. While this article was posted earlier it's Hollywood Reporter with the latest news. But here they adjust for inflation and surprise, TFA is actually No. 21 with Gone with the Wind as all time and Star Wars New Hope at No. 2. Who does the math around here? Force Awakens is No. 1 U.S. and we'll leave it at that.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-box-office-1201672676/
Leo should tie this up with no problem as TFA has already run it's course. Even tho $8M a day is nothing to sneeze at but with no more holidays and repeats already a done deal The Revenant will get it's due. Still a 4 out of 5 just for that Bear scene, CG and all.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/644625-producers-guild-award-nominations-announced
StarWars: TFA did not make the cut but somehow Sicario did, a way overrated film. But my Minions did for Animation as did The Peanuts Movie but somehow Shaun the Sheep did not. Doesn't matter as Inside Out is going to get it which is THE most over animation of the year.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/hasbro-rey-token-left-out-of-star-wars-monopoly-to-avoid-spoilers-20160105?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=010616_16&utm_medium=email
While I can see why they did't include Rey, most of the original board games, original trilogy had Princess Leia so why not, meaning she's one of the main characters that should be there. Good for little Annie to write that letter.  The force is strong with her.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/what-pga-nominations-mean-oscar-852287
The breakdown on how this works. So 19 out of the past 26 went to win Best Picture and the last eight won the Oscar. Well so much for Star Wars.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/martian-straight-outta-compton-writers-guild-nominations-1201672993/
Again the usual suspects have been nominated with Trainwreck by Amy Schumer was a surprise, with Sicario get much support for some reason.

http://www.latino-review.com/news/first-look-of-paul-reubens-as-penguins-father-in-gotham
Batman Returns sucked big time! But the idea of the father giving away Penguin was an interesting angle even tho you didn't see much of Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens so him to play the father on the show is so cool. Again it's these little touches that the show does adds so much for the fans.

Coming tomorrow:
My prediction list for the Golden Globes as there was no room in today's blog.

You know I'm still this far ahead internationally at No. 1, don't you?