I have always been a big fan of David Bowie and his music...I mean who wouldn't be a fan of David Bowie's music? and I still can't believe such a music legend is dead, not only this but I saw the other day the unbelievable news that a new Labyrinth was going to be made.
I know people say that this film is a cult classic but I think it's just soooo bad it's hilarious...but then again now I think about it according to Entertainment Weekly "...this was the last film that the Muppets master Jim Henson made before his death in 1990..." so obviously this was a man that had had previous with working with puppets and making family fun films for the cinema screen...but this did fail commercially when it was released in 1986 so says Entertainment Weekly....can't think why maybe it had something to do with the dulux dog puppet that looked very much like it ran on wheels at the end of the movie.
Anyhew...for all the movie's faults this is still something I would say you should definitely take a look at if you haven't seen the film, but if you have already seen the film you'll already know that the story to this film sees David Bowie playing the role of King Jaroth the Goblin King who snatches away a teenage girl's (played by a young Jennifer Connelly) baby brother away after she wishes her baby brother away and takes him to his fantastical castle where she has to get him back before the King turns her baby brother into a goblin....with the help of some muppets of course.
I've just read on Rollingstone.com and I didn't even know this but apparently this film was originally written by Monty Python Terry Jones and produced by George Lucas...so I think I'm right in thinking that this film was suppose to be a comedy of sorts.
According to both Empire Magazine's website and Rollingstone.com this film will not be a remake it will a sequel of sorts to the original movie.
And according to Rollingstone.com:
"TriStar ( an arm of Sony's) has inked a deal with the Jim Henson Company to produce a new version of the film, with Guardians of the Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman charged with penning the new Labyrinth script."
So apart from this there is nothing else known about what will become of this, whether it'll just be an idea that never sees the light of day or whether it'll actually get the green light as they say and gets made we'll never know.
Monday 25 January 2016
Friday 8 January 2016
Fast and Furious 8 News Update!
Since news of Fast and Furious 8 broke Vin Diesel's Facebook page and the movie news website's have started revving up their engines-sorry about the pun I just couldn't resist!- for any news regarding this film.
According to a report on Empire.com's website that was posted yesterday director F. Gary Grey has just returned from an investigatory trip to Cuba as well as having eyed up locations to shoot this film in both Iceland and Russia eventhough you may or may not have heard that through the medium of Vin Diesel's Facebook page Fast and Furious 8 would be going for a New York location.
Universal Studios has confirmed that "they're seeking approval" from the USA and Cuban governments and the special licences have been applied for as you may or may not already know that for years American and Cuban relations have been as described by The Guardian Newspaper "cold war hostilities" as for years Cuba has been isolated by America, and as of a report on their website posted on the 17th December 2014 President Barack Obama has said he intends to take steps to relax travel as well as commercial and diplomatic restrictions in exchange for releasing Americans as well as dissidents held in Havana.
And as a step towards this relationship between America and Cuba beginning to be repaired Empire.com reports that last year Bob Yari's independent Ernest Hemingway biopic "Papa" which starred Giovani Ribisi (in case your wondering who this is he played the bad guy in both Ted films) was allowed to be filmed in Cuba as via loopholes this was classed as a documentary.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has already been confirmed as returning for this 8th film in the Fast and Furious film franchise. Also Empire.com says that Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast members are looking like strong contenders to be also coming back for this 8th film that has a pencilled in release date of April 14th next year.
According to a report on Empire.com's website that was posted yesterday director F. Gary Grey has just returned from an investigatory trip to Cuba as well as having eyed up locations to shoot this film in both Iceland and Russia eventhough you may or may not have heard that through the medium of Vin Diesel's Facebook page Fast and Furious 8 would be going for a New York location.
Universal Studios has confirmed that "they're seeking approval" from the USA and Cuban governments and the special licences have been applied for as you may or may not already know that for years American and Cuban relations have been as described by The Guardian Newspaper "cold war hostilities" as for years Cuba has been isolated by America, and as of a report on their website posted on the 17th December 2014 President Barack Obama has said he intends to take steps to relax travel as well as commercial and diplomatic restrictions in exchange for releasing Americans as well as dissidents held in Havana.
And as a step towards this relationship between America and Cuba beginning to be repaired Empire.com reports that last year Bob Yari's independent Ernest Hemingway biopic "Papa" which starred Giovani Ribisi (in case your wondering who this is he played the bad guy in both Ted films) was allowed to be filmed in Cuba as via loopholes this was classed as a documentary.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has already been confirmed as returning for this 8th film in the Fast and Furious film franchise. Also Empire.com says that Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast members are looking like strong contenders to be also coming back for this 8th film that has a pencilled in release date of April 14th next year.
XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage News Update!
I have just seen this bit of exciting news update about the new XXX film "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage" on ComicBook.com, and I just had to put it up on here for all to see.
According to a post on The Hollywood Reporter's website posted yesterday Nina Dobrev (last seen playing the character Elena Gilbert in "The Vampire Diaries"), Ruby Rose ( from "Orange Is The New Black") and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone are at various stages of negotiations to join the cast of this new instalment in the XXX film franchise which is already starting to cast as the film is said to be starting production later in January and will shoot in the Philippines and Toronto.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Nina Dobrev will play a sarcastic and witty techie, Deepika Padukone will play a huntress and a former lover of Xander Cage's and Ruby Rose will play a sniper.
Other than this plot details are very sketchy, but all that is known at the moment is also according to The Hollywood Reporter this new "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage" will focus on Vin Diesel's character Xander Cage but will see him much like the Fast and Furious films surrounded by a core team of sexy badass's and comic relief player's.
But I'm just wondering now I'm writing this that in the last XXX movie "XXX: The Next Level", Scott Speedman's character Agent Kyle Christopher Steele did say that Xander Cage had died and that's why they needed someone who was more aggressive than before...so whatever the story line for this film how are the script writers going to address this and not just use "it was a cover" as this really to me at least doesn't make sense and it would be a really shitty excuse and I think whatever the plot it will just be so annoying as I would probably or other cinema goers would probably just sit watching the film thinking "Why On Earth Say That If It Was A Cover, Why Do That?" and let the whole story for this film down and will probably have cinema goers walking out of the film thinking that they've just wasted their time watching this...but then again if all involved did do this the distraction would have people wanting to go back to the cinema and spending their money again.
Also one thing is for sure Samuel L. Jackson will be returning to this film franchise as the Head Of The National Security Agency reprising his role as Augustus Gibbons.
Also according to The Hollywood Reporter this project is already on the verge of finding a distributor with several sources saying according to The Hollywood Reporter that Paramount will be the home of this film franchise.
Vin Diesel, Vin Diesel's producing partner and sister Samantha Vincent, Joe Roth, Joe Roth's production partner Jeff Kirschenbaum and Neal H. Moritz will produce this new movie, with D.J Caruso directing with F. Scott Frazier, John Brancato and Michael Ferris are on script writing duties.
I've also just seen on Empire Magazine's website that according to a post on the 4th January Jet Li and Tony Jaa are also rumoured to be joining this movie but as yet much like the plot for this movie it's not known yet what their roles are or whether they'll be on the side of the goodies or the badies, but it's also rumoured according to this post on Empire.com that current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor will also be taking a role.
There is no release date for this yet but Empire.com that it might be somewhere in between Fast and Furious 8 and Riddick 4.
According to a post on The Hollywood Reporter's website posted yesterday Nina Dobrev (last seen playing the character Elena Gilbert in "The Vampire Diaries"), Ruby Rose ( from "Orange Is The New Black") and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone are at various stages of negotiations to join the cast of this new instalment in the XXX film franchise which is already starting to cast as the film is said to be starting production later in January and will shoot in the Philippines and Toronto.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Nina Dobrev will play a sarcastic and witty techie, Deepika Padukone will play a huntress and a former lover of Xander Cage's and Ruby Rose will play a sniper.
Other than this plot details are very sketchy, but all that is known at the moment is also according to The Hollywood Reporter this new "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage" will focus on Vin Diesel's character Xander Cage but will see him much like the Fast and Furious films surrounded by a core team of sexy badass's and comic relief player's.
But I'm just wondering now I'm writing this that in the last XXX movie "XXX: The Next Level", Scott Speedman's character Agent Kyle Christopher Steele did say that Xander Cage had died and that's why they needed someone who was more aggressive than before...so whatever the story line for this film how are the script writers going to address this and not just use "it was a cover" as this really to me at least doesn't make sense and it would be a really shitty excuse and I think whatever the plot it will just be so annoying as I would probably or other cinema goers would probably just sit watching the film thinking "Why On Earth Say That If It Was A Cover, Why Do That?" and let the whole story for this film down and will probably have cinema goers walking out of the film thinking that they've just wasted their time watching this...but then again if all involved did do this the distraction would have people wanting to go back to the cinema and spending their money again.
Also one thing is for sure Samuel L. Jackson will be returning to this film franchise as the Head Of The National Security Agency reprising his role as Augustus Gibbons.
Also according to The Hollywood Reporter this project is already on the verge of finding a distributor with several sources saying according to The Hollywood Reporter that Paramount will be the home of this film franchise.
Vin Diesel, Vin Diesel's producing partner and sister Samantha Vincent, Joe Roth, Joe Roth's production partner Jeff Kirschenbaum and Neal H. Moritz will produce this new movie, with D.J Caruso directing with F. Scott Frazier, John Brancato and Michael Ferris are on script writing duties.
I've also just seen on Empire Magazine's website that according to a post on the 4th January Jet Li and Tony Jaa are also rumoured to be joining this movie but as yet much like the plot for this movie it's not known yet what their roles are or whether they'll be on the side of the goodies or the badies, but it's also rumoured according to this post on Empire.com that current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor will also be taking a role.
There is no release date for this yet but Empire.com that it might be somewhere in between Fast and Furious 8 and Riddick 4.
Wednesday 6 January 2016
Nooooooo!...There's going to be another Indiana Jones 5 film!
I hope you all have had a lovely Christmas and a very merry New Year, I saw this the other day on The Metro Newspsper's website and really couldn't believe what I was reading...there will be ANOTHER Indiana Jones movie.
You may or may not have heard this news but according to Metro.com in an interview with Bloomberg CEO of Disney Bob Iger spoke of "...more great stories with George Lucas' Star Wars-and Indiana Jones, by the way which will be coming..."
Now I'm an avid fan of these films but "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" was just crap, and to me it seemed like nobody involved with this film knew what they were doing story wise as what the hell was going on with the Russians wanting some crystal alien head to achieve all knowledge and to achieve great power,-now that I think about it this sounds like to me that the writers involved with this film maybe got carried away with how two of these films involved Harrison Ford's character Indiana Jones having to find very powerful historical artefacts before the Nazi's try to obtain them in order to take over the world such as The Ark Of The Covenant or The Holy Grail, and how in "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom" Indiana Jones has to stop an age old dormant cult from rising back to power when they steal three powerful religious stones, one of these stones having been stolen from an Indian village where they have a shrine dedicated to it as well as this cult stealing all this village's children to work in a mine where the leader of this cult hoped to find 2 more of these stones as originally there were 5-.
So I hope with this idea for there to be another Indiana Jones film being supported by both Disney Studios chairman Bob Horn and the director of these films Steven Spielberg still being interested in doing these films with him saying:
" So as long as there's more adventure's out there, I've got a bullwhip, a fedora, a leather jacket and a man on a horse who knows how to get the job done".
that I hope that this film will in the words of Ralph Fiennes from the James Bond film Skyfall "Don't cock it up" and will hopefully be a hell of a lot better than "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull"!
And I have also just seen on metro.com's website that Harrison Ford has reportedly told Entertainment Weekly that:
" Yeah I'd love to do another Indiana Jones. A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director-what's not to like?"
But this to me sounds very different to after "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull" came out as I remember reading in a newspaper that Harrison Ford hated that movie and thought it was a terrible idea to bring Indiana Jones back...I guess somebody has told him he might get a lot more money if he returned for another film if there ever was another film.
But also according to metro.com Harrison Ford would be turning 79 this year so I'm thinking something has to be done about that, either have a new person in as Indiana Jones and have an idea like a professor has been hired by the museum to get priceless historical artefacts from around the world, and they get thrown into this action adventure world where he's not the only person after the historical artefact that the museum wants and that he has to muddle through and be prepared for people doing anything and everything imaginable to stop him from getting the artefacts and getting hold of these for themselves...and I was thinking that this new film should definitely keep the joke in that the curator of the museum once got lost in his own museum and now that I've just thought about it this could tie in with having the idea that the curator of the museum is completely oblivious to the methods that Indiana Jones a.k.a Dr. Henry Jones employs to getting hold of these priceless historical artefacts.
And it looks like I'm not the only one that has had this idea of replacing Harrison Ford with another actor as according to both metro.com and screendailiy.com there has been rumours going round that Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper are just some of the names being suggested to play Indiana Jones.
But according to screendaily.com Steven Spielberg has already said in an interview with Screen International that:
"I don't think anyone could replace Harrison as Indy, I don't think that's ever going to happen..."
He goes on to say that:
" It's certainly not my intention to ever have another actor step into his shoes in the way there have been many actors that have played Spider-Man or Batman. There is only going to be one actor playing Indiana Jones and that's Harrison Ford."
As well as this Frank Marshall the producer has also said of these rumours according to an interview with Total Film that:
" There are a lot of rumours. We haven't even sat down to talk about Indy yet...at some point we'll sit down. But there's a bunch of people who could probably take the baton."
He goes on to say that:
" We're not doing the Bond thing where we're going to call somebody else Indiana Jones...we have to figure this out".
So, it sounds like this needs to be figured out quick smartish as I think if the filmmakers get Harrison Ford back to do all the action when he's 79 it'll be really cringey to watch the movie in cinemas and then audiences will just see on the end credits of the film loads of names of different stuntmen that had to do the stunts and it'll probably just look non amazing stunts with CGI poorly cut and pasted into the film like in "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull", which totally in my mind detracts from these films as in "Indiana Jones and The Ark Of The Covenant" there is that legendary stunt where someone goes all the way underneath a moving truck to the back of the truck just get back inside to have a fight with one of the bad guys and is now tried to be replicated in lots of films I've seen nowadays and it'll look like why on earth didn't you retire grandpa and get someone that can do stunts and look like they can pull them off...it'll probably be cheaper for the filmmakers as now I think about it if they don't have to employ so many stuntmen which will probably increase the size of the crew.
You may or may not have heard this news but according to Metro.com in an interview with Bloomberg CEO of Disney Bob Iger spoke of "...more great stories with George Lucas' Star Wars-and Indiana Jones, by the way which will be coming..."
Now I'm an avid fan of these films but "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" was just crap, and to me it seemed like nobody involved with this film knew what they were doing story wise as what the hell was going on with the Russians wanting some crystal alien head to achieve all knowledge and to achieve great power,-now that I think about it this sounds like to me that the writers involved with this film maybe got carried away with how two of these films involved Harrison Ford's character Indiana Jones having to find very powerful historical artefacts before the Nazi's try to obtain them in order to take over the world such as The Ark Of The Covenant or The Holy Grail, and how in "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom" Indiana Jones has to stop an age old dormant cult from rising back to power when they steal three powerful religious stones, one of these stones having been stolen from an Indian village where they have a shrine dedicated to it as well as this cult stealing all this village's children to work in a mine where the leader of this cult hoped to find 2 more of these stones as originally there were 5-.
So I hope with this idea for there to be another Indiana Jones film being supported by both Disney Studios chairman Bob Horn and the director of these films Steven Spielberg still being interested in doing these films with him saying:
" So as long as there's more adventure's out there, I've got a bullwhip, a fedora, a leather jacket and a man on a horse who knows how to get the job done".
that I hope that this film will in the words of Ralph Fiennes from the James Bond film Skyfall "Don't cock it up" and will hopefully be a hell of a lot better than "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull"!
And I have also just seen on metro.com's website that Harrison Ford has reportedly told Entertainment Weekly that:
" Yeah I'd love to do another Indiana Jones. A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director-what's not to like?"
But this to me sounds very different to after "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull" came out as I remember reading in a newspaper that Harrison Ford hated that movie and thought it was a terrible idea to bring Indiana Jones back...I guess somebody has told him he might get a lot more money if he returned for another film if there ever was another film.
But also according to metro.com Harrison Ford would be turning 79 this year so I'm thinking something has to be done about that, either have a new person in as Indiana Jones and have an idea like a professor has been hired by the museum to get priceless historical artefacts from around the world, and they get thrown into this action adventure world where he's not the only person after the historical artefact that the museum wants and that he has to muddle through and be prepared for people doing anything and everything imaginable to stop him from getting the artefacts and getting hold of these for themselves...and I was thinking that this new film should definitely keep the joke in that the curator of the museum once got lost in his own museum and now that I've just thought about it this could tie in with having the idea that the curator of the museum is completely oblivious to the methods that Indiana Jones a.k.a Dr. Henry Jones employs to getting hold of these priceless historical artefacts.
And it looks like I'm not the only one that has had this idea of replacing Harrison Ford with another actor as according to both metro.com and screendailiy.com there has been rumours going round that Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper are just some of the names being suggested to play Indiana Jones.
But according to screendaily.com Steven Spielberg has already said in an interview with Screen International that:
"I don't think anyone could replace Harrison as Indy, I don't think that's ever going to happen..."
He goes on to say that:
" It's certainly not my intention to ever have another actor step into his shoes in the way there have been many actors that have played Spider-Man or Batman. There is only going to be one actor playing Indiana Jones and that's Harrison Ford."
As well as this Frank Marshall the producer has also said of these rumours according to an interview with Total Film that:
" There are a lot of rumours. We haven't even sat down to talk about Indy yet...at some point we'll sit down. But there's a bunch of people who could probably take the baton."
He goes on to say that:
" We're not doing the Bond thing where we're going to call somebody else Indiana Jones...we have to figure this out".
So, it sounds like this needs to be figured out quick smartish as I think if the filmmakers get Harrison Ford back to do all the action when he's 79 it'll be really cringey to watch the movie in cinemas and then audiences will just see on the end credits of the film loads of names of different stuntmen that had to do the stunts and it'll probably just look non amazing stunts with CGI poorly cut and pasted into the film like in "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull", which totally in my mind detracts from these films as in "Indiana Jones and The Ark Of The Covenant" there is that legendary stunt where someone goes all the way underneath a moving truck to the back of the truck just get back inside to have a fight with one of the bad guys and is now tried to be replicated in lots of films I've seen nowadays and it'll look like why on earth didn't you retire grandpa and get someone that can do stunts and look like they can pull them off...it'll probably be cheaper for the filmmakers as now I think about it if they don't have to employ so many stuntmen which will probably increase the size of the crew.
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