Category: Movies

All right, I’ll ask: straight-up, what was the attraction of a live-action Aladdin?

Because I just ain’t seeing it: “The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action remake of “Aladdin” crushed the competition at the box office this Memorial Day weekend, earning more than $207 million worldwide since its debut.” But here’s the important thing: a live-action Aladdin clearly resonated with people, because it’s making money. And since I don’t know why, clearly I need to be told why, so that I can apparently become less ignorant.

So. What’s the draw here? Again, straight-up. No need to justify it, if you wanted to see it. Just tell me what I missed.

Rotten Tomatoes to limit fan rating to actual moviegoers.

Everything after the first sentence in this Variety article could and will probably be vehemently argued somewhere, so let’s just look at the sentence in question: “Rotten Tomatoes is dramatically changing its Audience Score methodology for movies: The site’s standard user rating will now reflect only moviegoers who can prove they’ve bought a ticket to see it in a theater.” For right now it’s specifically people who bought a ticket via Fandango (which mostly owns Rotten Tomatoes), but they’re already talking about bringing in theater-specific ticket services like Regal’s*. Which they will absolutely have to do if they want this to work.

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The Terminator: Dark Fate trailer.

Or, as @EsotericCD put it: “Terminator 6: So very, very tired.”

Don’t get me wrong; if they Loganed this then Terminator: Dark Fate could very easily not suck. Or am I just being a sucker? I may be just being a sucker. All I know is, I’ve wanted just one more decent movie out of this franchise for a while now, and Linda Hamilton looks the part, at least. So hope springs eternal, what-what?

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DO NOT WANT.

Bryan Cogman is trading one iconic fantasy world for another.

Cogman, who most recently worked as a writer and co-executive producer on “Game of Thrones,” has signed on to consult on the upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon, Variety has learned from sources. He will work alongside the writing team of JD Payne and Patrick McKay, who were announced to be developing the series for Amazon back in July.

Amazon declined to comment.

Via ComingSoon.
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The final, should have been red-banded, Toy Story 4 trailer.

Still doing that “this gets really damned creepy when you think about it too long” thing that the Toy Story movies do. But I guess that’s why people are still watching them, at this point. That little frisson of horror you get when you realize that the trailer flat-out killed a guy, and then showed you the aftermath.