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Thought of the Week: Original Sells
As mundane as it may sound, Hollywood really needs a good smacking to fully comprehend this point, but many of this year’s biggest hits are original films. Original meaning, non-remakes, non-sequels, and non-adaptations. So why are we still talking about “rebooting” the Bourne series that ended a whole three years ago? Why is it even [...]
If We Pitched It: The Spider-Man Reboot
Last week, Sony announced that our favorite webslinger was going back to high school in a newly-confirmed reboot project, which would roll Parker’s story back to his teen years and start completely from scratch with another origin story. Today, it’s been confirmed (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb will helm the new project, which has [...]
Thought of the Week: If Actors Weren't Paid So Much, Studios Wouldn't Hesitate To Make More Original Films
Don’t get me wrong, I love Will Ferrell.I think his better movies are pretty funny. His humor just clicks with me. Yet as Forbes reported, he is officially the most overpaid actor in Hollywood. The article starts out with, what I think is some pretty powerful information, “[Land of the Lost] ended up costing an estimated [...]
Thought of the Week: Fandango and AMC Make Buying Movie Tickets A Pain in the Ass
I’m going to go see “Avatar” opening day, not the midnight show because I have other things to do, but still I’ll be seeing it the Friday it opens. I live in San Francisco, so the logical place to see it as it the AMC Metreon 16 which has an IMAX screen that is among [...]
Thought of the Week: 3-D Horror- I See A Trend Coming On…
While Eminem’s “Shady Talez” a 3-D horror flick, was announced a couple months back, new titles seem to spring up every week. This week there were 3, one I already talked about “Saw VII” in which the 3-D seems to be a last attempt at revitalizing a seemingly dead franchise. However other new announcements include [...]
Thought of the Week: Twilight Is Big News, But What About It's Cast?
Twilight now has two entries, soon to be a third next summer with “Eclipse”. The 2nd film recently had the biggest opening day for any film in history, and in its two entries, the series has made a domestic gross of over $420 million and counting, with budgets of just $37 million and $50 million respectively.