Category: Movies

Movies of the Week: ‘Universal Monsters: The Essential Collection.’

I get the impression that Universal Monsters: The Essential Collection is going to be what Universal draws from for their Dark Universe franchise (plus, of course, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde). That second link indicates that The Bride of Frankenstein is next up, and that something involving The Invisible Man is definitely on the calendar.  Assuming that the Mummy doesn’t crash and burn, of course.

Anyway, I should ask for this collection for Christmas.

Tweet of the Day, …No. Please. No Spaceballs Sequel. Seriously. No.

Don’t do this to us.

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The final “The Mummy” trailer.

They are promising a Dark Universe filled with gods and monsters, and I can get behind that.  Assuming that this doesn’t suck, of course. But it may not: this featurette suggests that we’re going to see Jekyll go Hyde in the film itself, and it would be amazingly cool if Mr. Hyde was the highly pragmatic monster who can count and act in enlightened self-interest that we saw in the original League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic. Anyway, final trailer below: Continue reading The final “The Mummy” trailer.

The new Dark Crystal won’t wreck your childhood, but it’ll probably make you miss it.

Yeah, there’s a reason why nobody up until now has decided to go back to The Dark Crystal.  It’s because Jim Henson’s dead, and it has become abundantly clear since then that nobody’s nearly as good as he is with continuing the stories of his creations. But it looks like they’re going to run ten thousand volts throught the corpse and get The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance bursting out of the chest cavity.

“Age of Resistance.” Gee. Can’t imagine what the subtext is gonna be for THAT.

Netflix developing The Witcher series.

See, this is where you do the goram dark and gritty.  Please, by all means, make it dark and gritty.  That’s what The Witcher is for.

Netflix has announced that they will be developing a new epic fantasy series based on the hit video game franchise The Witcher. The game itself is based on a series of novels written by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. There are eight novels and they will serve as the main inspiration for the new series.

But who do you get to play Geralt? Worse: how do you reconcile the voice of the games with the voice of the eventual actor? Because I don’t know if Doug Cockle has the right look.  He’s obviously got the right voice, but the right look?

…And they were never heard from again.

Don’t tell me that the Mouse doesn’t have wetwork squads.  Seriously, don’t tell me. I don’t want to be involved.  I’ve already attracted too much attention by linking to this article:

Disney’s upcoming Johnny Depp film Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has been pilfered by ransom hackers seeking payment from the studio. The hackers have demanded an enormous amount of money be paid to Bitcoin. Disney is currently working with the FBI and will not pay.

Seriously, if you never hear anything about this story in the future, well, look at the title.  Maybe said title ended up being pretty freaking ironic there, don’t you think? Or perhaps ‘prophetic…’ no, really, I don’t want to be involved.

I have a complicated reaction to Seth MacFarlane’s ‘The Orville.’

On the one hand, The Orville appears to be a highly sarcastic send-up of the entire existing Star Trek broadcast oeuvre. On the other hand, The Orville appears to be a highly sarcastic send-up of the entire existing Star Trek broadcast oeuvre.  And on the gripping hand, Seth MacFarlane can be a bit unpredictable.

:raised hands in a shrug: Gotta roll them bones, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0

Via ComingSoon.