On the one hand, Sony has a vested interest in making sure MADAME WEB doesn’t suck. On the other hand, you could have said the same thing about MORBIUS. And on the gripping hand: is the era of the superhero movie over, anyway? – Because if it is, it’s all gonna crash in slow-motion and that’s going to be fascinating to watch.
#commissionearned
This is good news, right? It feels like good news.
Sony has begun communicating with developers about its plans for timed game trials for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers. According to sources speaking to Game Developer, developers working on games that have a wholesale cost of $34 or higher (€33 in Europe, ￥4000 in Japan) are now required to create time-limited game trials of their games. (Update: This number was previously referred to as the retail pricing, it has been updated to reflect that it refers to wholesale pricing.)
These trial versions must be at least two hours long.
At least, for game players. Game companies might have a different opinion. And there’s something about this that I’m missing…
At least, I think this is interesting (SPOILERS for SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME):
Continue reading Interesting detail about SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME.I dunno. Looks fun, but origin movies can be exasperating.
People pooh-pooh the Ed Norton HULK, but I genuinely enjoyed how they put the entire origin in the opening credits and then went on with the film We didn’t need much backstory for BLADE, either – or miss its absence. People can usually figure it out as they go along.
MORBIUS comes out April 1st. I’ll probably see it, of course. It’s my kind of flick.
#commissionearned
When did that become allowed?
Sony’s highly-anticipated sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage is releasing two weeks earlier than its previous date, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will now debut on October 1 instead of October 15, opening against Warner Bros.’ Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark and United Artists’ The Addams Family 2.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m happy to see it make it to theaters sooner. I’m just… surprised, that’s all. The last two years has been one long litany of movie after movie being delayed or archived or sent off somewhere that isn’t its natural environment (a movie theater). I am so [expletive deleted] tired of it. Movie theaters are safe, dammit. But I can’t go to them if the studios freak out every time Twitter does.
So well done, Sony.
Not only do my children approve; they are ready to see SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME in theaters. You have no idea how hard it is to convince them to do that. We are also binging Spider-Man flicks this week, on general principles.
…before they yoinked that sucker. It definitely looks real, if extremely unfinished*. Dr. Strange, Peter Parker being upset about how everybody knows who he is now, the two collide — the dialogue is not from previous movies, and neither were the scenes that I saw. My children have already shown an interest in a Spider-Man marathon this week; which is good, because we were going to have one anyway…
*Which may be why they haven’t released a trailer yet. The CGI didn’t look finished. Mind you, the video quality was uber-crappy.
That’s the rumor. They’re supposedly going to Sinister Six it, which makes sense. Doc Ock and Electro were already announced, complete with the actors who played them in past Spider-Man movies. Never saw THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN movies, so can’t speak to Jamie Foxx; but Alfred Molina was solid as Doc Ock and Dafoe — well, as Weird Al once noted, the dude was even scarier without the mask on. So… I’ll allow it.
Astoundingly, this may still be a fun movie summer. I mean, starting Sunday the two week clock starts on full immunization for me.
Am I gonna see VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE? Yeah, sure. The first VENOM was fun, if not exactly high cinema. And that’s fine with me. I’ve spent far too much time over the last year and a half being stuck with myself. Time to go just… do and see things. Things I didn’t make.
Ha! Was able to match the original scansion. Anyway: “Disney has set a massive movie licensing pact with Sony Pictures for the U.S. that promises to bring Spider-Man and other Marvel properties to Disney Plus starting with Sony’s 2022 release slate… The agreement comes on the heels of Sony’s output deal with Netflix for titles in the lucrative post-theatrical release Pay 1 window.”
Continue reading Sony to Netflix to… Mouse.