Jay 37,351 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Jurassic World Director Colin Trevorrow To Direct Intelligent Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Jesse Eisenberg (some kind of mini Woody Allen), Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart to star in next Woody Allen movie:http://deadline.com/2015/03/jesse-eisenberg-bruce-willis-kristen-stewart-woody-allen-1201388945/First pic of Matthew McConaughey in Gary 'The Hunger Games' Ross' new movie called The Free State Of Jones: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Can he still sell Lincolns if he's playing a Confederate soldier? Turns out he can because Newt Knight was against secession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Even a free bird such as Terrence Malick is put under pressure to increase his output! A threat if there ever was one. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,351 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson Announce Zoolander 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Inexplicably, I find this sorta interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Yes, the golden age of the Studio System. Directors were under long-term contracts and had to produce on mass. That was before my time!Bergman certainly wasn't. But I see your point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Inexplicably, I find this sorta interesting. Emmerich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 A skipper, if ever there was one! Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Looks fun, everything east of the San Andreas fault line sinks into the Atlantic. Belgium and the Netherlands are destroyed by mass flooding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Crank the Maiden and run to the hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Inexplicably, I find this sorta interesting. Emmerich?More like a modern-day Irwin Allen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Looks fun, everything east of the San Andreas fault line sinks into the Atlantic. Belgium and the Netherlands are destroyed by mass flooding.So we lose Cosman and Cremers? That doesn't sound fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 If Alex won't watch then he'll have to live it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 If Alex won't watch then he'll have to live it.As will I.I'll just say this in advance in case it happens:It was nice knowing you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Kate Mara joins Ridley Scott's son's directorial debut Morgan:http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/kate-mara-joins-ridley-scotts-sons-directorial-debut-morgan/Usually their debut films are amongst their best so you better look out for this one, folks!Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,005 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Tim Burton to direct a live-action remake of... Dumbo?What the...?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 With Depp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Tim Burton to direct a live-action remake of... Dumbo?What the...?We already have that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Burton continues to make completely uninteresting movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,005 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I'm told Big Eyes is not bad.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 i keep wondering what are they gonna do with the crows -in my opinion they are not racist, though they are played by white actors so I get why people can get pissed off. Still, all an animated movie requires from an actor -esentially- is their voice. So why should color matter? It's even worse when people say King Louie from Jungle Book is racist although he's played by a white jazz player, Louie Prima. So aren't they the ones that are racist by automatically assuming a jazz singer is black? I truly hope I don't start a chain reaction here but just wanted to express what I've been thinking for many years in a few words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 I do apologise, but it's something the filmmakers will also have to ponder about. Though with Transformers track record, I'm not too sure how tastefully they'll handle it. And the rustabouts... Ok, I should shut up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Once 605 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 With Depp?Depp wasn't in his last two, and won't be in his next either. They might re-team again for Dumbo, but I doubt it.I wonder if he's gonna do this one before or after Beetlejuice 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 But your comments about King Louie... Doesn't that describe the entire principle of blackface? A white actor using makeup, or in this case an animated character, to portray a caricature of a minority, when the minority actor wouldn't? And even though Louie is an orangutan, an ape is similar to a monkey (which comprise his kingdom), which carries racial overtones. I never thought of Louie as being racist, just really funny, unless he's a black man kept down by the white man he wants to be like, except the white man in this case is an Indian orphan. Movies are a product of their time, and Disney cartoons are no exception. There aren't many Disney stories from that time with black main or supporting characters, and the few that were drawn are seen as being racist now because racism then was prevalent and deemed socially acceptable by those in charge, the folks who made and saw the films. Should the crows be black now? No, they don't have to be, and they should not be racist caricatures. Were the crows jabs at Jim Crow laws? I don't know. I think in a larger sense, we have to think of Dumbo's crow friends as simply coming from a different walk of life than he. Dumbo was born in a circus, which looked fancy and upper class, but he was abandoned. He learned his true value and abilities with the help of some folks from the lower class. So the new crows could just be poor folks that help Dumbo fly, the race card doesn't need to be played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 But your comments about King Louie... Doesn't that describe the entire principle of blackface? A white actor using makeup, or in this case an animated character, to portray a caricature of a minority, when the minority actor wouldn't? And even though Louie is an orangutan, an ape is similar to a monkey (which comprise his kingdom), which carries racial overtones. I never thought of Louie as being racist, just really funny, unless he's a black man kept down by the white man he wants to be like, except the white man in this case is an Indian orphan.Maybe, but the complaints about Louie being insensitive started arising more recently, long after Prima was dead. In the 60's, audiences knew it was Louie Prima's voice and so far I haven't been able to find any complaints about that subject from those days, it seems to be a more recent thing. Of course Kipling's work can be very racist at times, so maybe unintentionally that got carried into the movie, although the movie and the book couldn't be more different if they tried. I remember reading and interview with the Sherman brothers where the producers of the movie originally wanted to hire Louie Armstrong for the role, but Shermans told them they were gonna get in a lot of trouble so went with Prima instead, to avoid exactly this problem. But again, it's the voice that matters here. Why does the color of your skin matters? Maybe I'm being too innocent...And yeah, Mowgli is Indian. He talks like an average american kid from those days, but still I think it was the first non-white main character from a Disney animated movie and it's kinda overlooked.Movies are a product of their time, and Disney cartoons are no exception. There aren't many Disney stories from that time with black main or supporting characters, and the few that were drawn are seen as being racist now because racism then was prevalent and deemed socially acceptable by those in charge, the folks who made and saw the films.Should the crows be black now? No, they don't have to be, and they should not be racist caricatures. Were the crows jabs at Jim Crow laws? I don't know. I think in a larger sense, we have to think of Dumbo's crow friends as simply coming from a different walk of life than he. Dumbo was born in a circus, which looked fancy and upper class, but he was abandoned. He learned his true value and abilities with the help of some folks from the lower class. So the new crows could just be poor folks that help Dumbo fly, the race card doesn't need to be played.If Disney's intention was to laugh about them, then it's sadly inexcusable. And sure, hiring actual black actors would have been a great progress, but still the crows are the only good characters from the movie that care for Dumbo -that aren't Timothy or his mom. As a kid I always watched the Spanish-dubbed version, and they put them what would be a variation of Spanish accents from Spain, specifically from Andalucía: the andaluz dialect. So that was never an issue for me until I watched the original version with the english voices, and yeah, it's weird. But still the crows are good is what I'm saying. Isn't that in a way a positive thing? Now if they were the villains, that would be inexcusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I don't think you two have really grasped the concept of a different past. Truth is that Disney was a rather liberal man who even thought he would advance black causes with movies like SONG OF THE SOUTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I don't think you two have really grasped the concept of a different past. Truth is that Disney was a rather liberal man who even thought he would advance black causes with movies like SONG OF THE SOUTH.If I may add to this...If you were to compare Disney films during that time period against other cartoons from studios such as Universal and Warner Bros., Dumbo and Song of the South were rather tame in racial depictions. I'm not going to post the videos here out of fear of the mighty banhammer, but I can still give out titles scuh as Universal's Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat (1941).And WW2 propaganda cartoons don't count either, because it was no-bars hold for racial depictions of the enemy as everyone was doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'm told Big Eyes is not bad.KarolI want to see that one ... despite the lukewarm reactions. I'm in for a non CGI overloaded Burton movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 It's good. Carried well by the cast, but it leans more on the sentimental side. And its ultimately inconsequential in its place in his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'm sure he felt a connection with those paintings and their actual artist. A connection strong enough to warrant a feature-length dramatization of those events set to the music of Danny Elfman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,351 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Disney Announces ‘Frozen 2′ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,351 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 A24 Films uses Tinder to promote Ex Machina in the US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,351 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Kevin Smith will direct Mallrats 2 after Clerks III, Yoga Hosers, Moose Jaws, Hit That, and Anti-ClausSo the main who claimed a few years ago he was retiring after Zack and Miri, Cop Out, and Red State all bombed was basically full of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Kevin Smith has been full of it for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Is that a fat joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Rocky Balboa (trainer of grandson Apollo Creed) returns to the Rocky Steps for Creed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nightscape94 965 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Okay, I laughed at the end part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Does Dinklage need a booster seat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,351 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I didn't laugh once. Great concept, poor execution Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Looks awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Take A Look Michael Fassbender As Steve Jobs Selling NeXT Computers In This PosterWho's Steve Jobs and why should I care? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 He was bigger then Jesus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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