I saw on the internet the other day that the long race that every major studio in Hollywood seemed to want to win bar Disney after Sony's deal to distribute James Bond internationally ended after "Spectre" has now finally been won... thank goodness I say because as a fan of James Bond I was a bit worried there for a minuite because it's already been said that Danny Boyle will direct this next film but if no one owns the rights to distribute this internationally then how the fuck is anyone in any other country going to see this next James Bond as the franchise is owned by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson who own Eon Productions which is based in London and the films are made at Pinewood Studios but Sony is American so if no one came in to internationally distribute this next film in the Bond franchise this would be more than a bit tricky for Barbara Broccoli and Michael G.Wilson as Bond 25 would just be stuck and maybe would become a moot point...heaven forbid!
Anyhew... I digress
According to Deadline.com's website in a deal that was just signed between Eon's Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, chairman of the board at MGM Kevin Ulrich, MGM's Motion Pictures Group President Jon Glickman and Universal Pictures President Donna Langley, through a joint venture with Annapurna Pictures MGM will distribute James Bond 25 domestically (in the USA) and Universal will distribute James Bond 25 internationally as well as through home entertainment.
MGM still retains digital as well as worldwide television rights to James Bond 25 and while the distribution domestically will be distributed by the joint venture of MGM and Annapurna Pictures this film will still go out under the MGM label.
Not only this but according to this same article on Deadline.com's website but Barbara Broccoli announced the exciting news that:
"...We will begin shooting Bond 25 at Pinewood Studios in December with our partners at MGM..."
Bond 25 will be released in the UK on 25th October 2019, if you live outside of the UK here is the list of release dates for this movie from IMDb.com's website:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382320/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf
Tuesday 29 May 2018
LOOKS LIKE CBS TV AREN'T THE ONLY ONE'S THAT WANT TO REBOOT MAGNUM P.I FOR TV!
I was perusing the Internet the other day as my sister had told me she'd heard on the grapevine that some tv station in America was going to be rebooting Magnum P.I and that it was going to be produced by Eva Longoria but she didn't know which tv station this was or if this was true or just a rumour.
So I of course googled this to find out more...and I saw on Deadline.com's website that Universal TV, Eva Longoria's UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and through his banner Kung Fu Monkey John Rogers has picked from a catalogue of titles owned by Universal to be rebooted "Magnum P.I"...according to Deadline.com's website:
"...They identified "Magnum P.I" as particularly viable and relevant, and Rogers unlocked a way in with Thomas Magnum's daughter that he took custody of in the show's finale..."
According to this same article on Deadline.com's website this TV reboot will follow Lily "Tommy" Magnum who returns to Hawaii to pick up the mantle of her father's P.I firm. Her and her friends will mix tropical beaches with the seedy underbelly of international crime and modern day espionage, whilst she tries to find out what happened with the blown undercover operation that her father was killed in...
This although this website says it's suppose to be action packed sounds to me like it's going to be more in line with "Baywatch" and that was bloody hilarious!
John Rogers who created "Leverage" will write the script for this as well as executive produce through his banner Kung Fu Monkey alongside Eva Longoria's UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Ben Spector along with Kung Fu Monkey's Jennifer Court, and since UnbeliEVAble Entertainment is under an overall deal with Universal and is based there as well as Universal already owning the original rights to "Magnum P.I" Universal will be the studio that this rebooted series will be distributed by.
So I of course googled this to find out more...and I saw on Deadline.com's website that Universal TV, Eva Longoria's UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and through his banner Kung Fu Monkey John Rogers has picked from a catalogue of titles owned by Universal to be rebooted "Magnum P.I"...according to Deadline.com's website:
"...They identified "Magnum P.I" as particularly viable and relevant, and Rogers unlocked a way in with Thomas Magnum's daughter that he took custody of in the show's finale..."
According to this same article on Deadline.com's website this TV reboot will follow Lily "Tommy" Magnum who returns to Hawaii to pick up the mantle of her father's P.I firm. Her and her friends will mix tropical beaches with the seedy underbelly of international crime and modern day espionage, whilst she tries to find out what happened with the blown undercover operation that her father was killed in...
This although this website says it's suppose to be action packed sounds to me like it's going to be more in line with "Baywatch" and that was bloody hilarious!
John Rogers who created "Leverage" will write the script for this as well as executive produce through his banner Kung Fu Monkey alongside Eva Longoria's UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Ben Spector along with Kung Fu Monkey's Jennifer Court, and since UnbeliEVAble Entertainment is under an overall deal with Universal and is based there as well as Universal already owning the original rights to "Magnum P.I" Universal will be the studio that this rebooted series will be distributed by.
Friday 25 May 2018
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS TO BELIEVE IT: A NEW! REBOOTED MAGNUM P.I. TV SERIES!
I was perusing YouTube.com's website the other day and this came up on the homepage and I just couldn't believe it...CBS TV over in the USA is rebooting Magnum P.I into a TV series with the help of the writers from "Fast and The Furious" Justin Lin.
Here is the link to YouTube.com's website to see this NEW! rebooted Magnum P.I TV series trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADAeeJclFIU
This pilot for CBS TV will star Jay Hernandez who you may or may not recognise from films such as "Suicide Squad" where he played El Diablo (the one who could manipulate fire and had a skull tattoo on his face) Netflix's "Bright" that also starred Will Smith and also you may or may not recognise from the "Bad Moms" film franchise as Thomas Sullivan Magnum, if your like me you'll probably already know that this was originally played by Tom Selleck and will be directed by Justin Lin who you may or may not already know directed four of the "Fast and The Furious" films which I'm guessing was done so as CBS TV could get lots of people watching this and this could therefore transfer into them making a lot of money.
But you can also guess that with Justin Lin's involvement that there are going to be a lot of action and maybe some crazy ass stunts.
I have to say though even though I can't believe this has been rebooted into a television series I can see why some of the websites I've seen this morning are a bit against it as this to me does look like this is just the original with a couple of modern day tweaks with everything from the original Ferrari's that were synonymous with Magnum's character are back, Zeus and Apollo (the two Doberman's that Higgins had to chase away any unwanted guests at Robin Masters house in Hawaii), there seems to be a new Higgins this time she's an ex-MI6 British Intelligence employee who now works for Robin Masters as his property manager, there is still a TC and he still has a helicopter with the exact same paint job as the original TC's helicopter had and there's still a Rick.
All that seems to have changed according to Houston Press's website is the backstory for Magnum...instead of being an ex-Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam this time around it looks like the new Magnum will still be an ex-Navy SEAL that served in Afghanistan and instead of being hired by Robin Masters as his "estate security" is now hired by Robin Masters to have his exploits used as inspiration for his adventure novels.
But it also looks like from this trailer that CBS TV are trying to cross over or link this new reboot series with their "Hawaii Five-O" rebooted series and that perhaps the network are trying to pool fans of both series in so that maybe there are more viewing figures that will show if this series on the strength of this pilot will actually be a success or not if it were to ever become more than just a pilot.
Here is the link to YouTube.com's website to see this NEW! rebooted Magnum P.I TV series trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADAeeJclFIU
This pilot for CBS TV will star Jay Hernandez who you may or may not recognise from films such as "Suicide Squad" where he played El Diablo (the one who could manipulate fire and had a skull tattoo on his face) Netflix's "Bright" that also starred Will Smith and also you may or may not recognise from the "Bad Moms" film franchise as Thomas Sullivan Magnum, if your like me you'll probably already know that this was originally played by Tom Selleck and will be directed by Justin Lin who you may or may not already know directed four of the "Fast and The Furious" films which I'm guessing was done so as CBS TV could get lots of people watching this and this could therefore transfer into them making a lot of money.
But you can also guess that with Justin Lin's involvement that there are going to be a lot of action and maybe some crazy ass stunts.
I have to say though even though I can't believe this has been rebooted into a television series I can see why some of the websites I've seen this morning are a bit against it as this to me does look like this is just the original with a couple of modern day tweaks with everything from the original Ferrari's that were synonymous with Magnum's character are back, Zeus and Apollo (the two Doberman's that Higgins had to chase away any unwanted guests at Robin Masters house in Hawaii), there seems to be a new Higgins this time she's an ex-MI6 British Intelligence employee who now works for Robin Masters as his property manager, there is still a TC and he still has a helicopter with the exact same paint job as the original TC's helicopter had and there's still a Rick.
All that seems to have changed according to Houston Press's website is the backstory for Magnum...instead of being an ex-Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam this time around it looks like the new Magnum will still be an ex-Navy SEAL that served in Afghanistan and instead of being hired by Robin Masters as his "estate security" is now hired by Robin Masters to have his exploits used as inspiration for his adventure novels.
But it also looks like from this trailer that CBS TV are trying to cross over or link this new reboot series with their "Hawaii Five-O" rebooted series and that perhaps the network are trying to pool fans of both series in so that maybe there are more viewing figures that will show if this series on the strength of this pilot will actually be a success or not if it were to ever become more than just a pilot.
NEW! MUSIC YOU JUST HAVE TO LISTEN TO RIGHT NOW THIS MINUITE!
I heard the other day on Facebook the very exciting news that Stevie Wolf who I am a HUGE fan of has had his first radio play on NPR Music Washington DC with "Yves Kleine Blue"...if you want to hear this first listen again here is the link to have a little listen to it on NPR Music:
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/04/24/604446291/new-mix-beach-house-tank-and-the-bangas-stevie-wolf-more
You can hear "Yves Kleine Blue" at the 27:30 mark...just in case your wondering. But I have to say when I heard this first play I was really loving their Tiny Desk Winner's song "Soft Spoken" I have to say that Naia Izumi does some really sick things on that guitar that he plays during the song which if you haven't heard it yet you just have to stop what your doing right away and sit down and listen to this, here is Naia Izumi playing "Soft Spoken" as part of NPR Music's concert which showcases the winner of this competition's talent as well as it being a small intimate music concert which as well as "Soft Spoken" being played and heard in a small intimate audience environment two other songs are also showcased these are "As It Comes" and "Soul Gaze", here is the link on YouTube.com to have a little gander and see what you think for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MiCMJ6DJU
I can't believe that this hasn't been played on Radio yet because I think with these songs chilled relaxed summery vibes that are played at this intimate concert people would go wild for these songs, because I think like me with summer coming around the corner and particularly as I've seen on some fashion websites this morning that it's nearly bikini season this would be perfect for being played if you were on holiday somewhere chilling by the pool with its chilled vibes, or this would also be perfect to put on in the background of a bar if you were going to go out for drinks with friends or if this bank holiday you were just chilling at home.
Also I've been listening a lot on soundcloud.com's website to an artist from Stockport, Manchester called Darren Peers that goes by the name pitbulljones in case you want to head on over to his soundcloud.com page to have a little listen to other tracks by him. In particular I've been listening to the remastered mix of "Laid My Claim" a hell of a lot recently and you can have a little listen to this track as well as other tracks of his and see what you think for your self with this link to Darren Peer's soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/pitbulljones
I was just listening to pitbulljones's first mix "Braver" this to me sounds so much like it should be on one of those compilation albums for chilled songs.
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/04/24/604446291/new-mix-beach-house-tank-and-the-bangas-stevie-wolf-more
You can hear "Yves Kleine Blue" at the 27:30 mark...just in case your wondering. But I have to say when I heard this first play I was really loving their Tiny Desk Winner's song "Soft Spoken" I have to say that Naia Izumi does some really sick things on that guitar that he plays during the song which if you haven't heard it yet you just have to stop what your doing right away and sit down and listen to this, here is Naia Izumi playing "Soft Spoken" as part of NPR Music's concert which showcases the winner of this competition's talent as well as it being a small intimate music concert which as well as "Soft Spoken" being played and heard in a small intimate audience environment two other songs are also showcased these are "As It Comes" and "Soul Gaze", here is the link on YouTube.com to have a little gander and see what you think for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MiCMJ6DJU
I can't believe that this hasn't been played on Radio yet because I think with these songs chilled relaxed summery vibes that are played at this intimate concert people would go wild for these songs, because I think like me with summer coming around the corner and particularly as I've seen on some fashion websites this morning that it's nearly bikini season this would be perfect for being played if you were on holiday somewhere chilling by the pool with its chilled vibes, or this would also be perfect to put on in the background of a bar if you were going to go out for drinks with friends or if this bank holiday you were just chilling at home.
Also I've been listening a lot on soundcloud.com's website to an artist from Stockport, Manchester called Darren Peers that goes by the name pitbulljones in case you want to head on over to his soundcloud.com page to have a little listen to other tracks by him. In particular I've been listening to the remastered mix of "Laid My Claim" a hell of a lot recently and you can have a little listen to this track as well as other tracks of his and see what you think for your self with this link to Darren Peer's soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/pitbulljones
I was just listening to pitbulljones's first mix "Braver" this to me sounds so much like it should be on one of those compilation albums for chilled songs.
Tuesday 15 May 2018
GUESS WHO'S BACK...MR.WORLDWIDE! PITBULL FT. ENRIQUE INGLESIAS "MOVE TO MIAMI"
I was just perusing YouTube the other day and this popped up on the homepage "Pitbull ft Enrique Iglesias "Move To Miami"...and I have to be honest as Pitbull and Enrique Inglesias have had no singles out for a while now and the fact that it's Pitbull my interest was piqued.
If you haven't seen the music video for this NEW! Single "Move To Miami" here is the Youtube link for you to have a little gander at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l884wKofd54
I have to say that this does definitely get my toe tapping and I can see that this along with Liam Payne ft. J. Balvin and J Balvin's official song for the 2018 World Cup "Positivo" will definitely be on people's party playlists...well this song "Move To Miami" is already on my party playlist along with Pitbull's "Fireball", "Fun ft Chris Brown", "Hey Ma", "I Know You Want Me" "International Love" the list goes on as they are all party anthems.
If you haven't heard these songs here is the YouTube link's to have a little listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqgVXSvwGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbR7u8J5PU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLY8tFp8RBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXesX6mYUE
If you haven't seen or heard J. Balvin "Positivo" the official song for the 2018 World Cup here is the link to YouTube for you to have a little gander at for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ9M_7zSa3s
I have to be honest I have heard Jason Derulo ft Maluma's song for the 2018 World Cup 2018 "Colours" and I have to be honest I much prefer this version as to be honest this sounds like shit pop music to me and like it should be an advert for CocaCola....and not surprisingly it even has a bottle of CocaCola Zero product placed in the music video.
I just realised if you haven't seen this music video my bad for spoiling this for you...but if you want to have a little gander at this for yourself here is the YouTube.com link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmxh5Uft0Y
If you haven't seen the music video for this NEW! Single "Move To Miami" here is the Youtube link for you to have a little gander at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l884wKofd54
I have to say that this does definitely get my toe tapping and I can see that this along with Liam Payne ft. J. Balvin and J Balvin's official song for the 2018 World Cup "Positivo" will definitely be on people's party playlists...well this song "Move To Miami" is already on my party playlist along with Pitbull's "Fireball", "Fun ft Chris Brown", "Hey Ma", "I Know You Want Me" "International Love" the list goes on as they are all party anthems.
If you haven't heard these songs here is the YouTube link's to have a little listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqgVXSvwGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbR7u8J5PU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLY8tFp8RBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXesX6mYUE
If you haven't seen or heard J. Balvin "Positivo" the official song for the 2018 World Cup here is the link to YouTube for you to have a little gander at for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ9M_7zSa3s
I have to be honest I have heard Jason Derulo ft Maluma's song for the 2018 World Cup 2018 "Colours" and I have to be honest I much prefer this version as to be honest this sounds like shit pop music to me and like it should be an advert for CocaCola....and not surprisingly it even has a bottle of CocaCola Zero product placed in the music video.
I just realised if you haven't seen this music video my bad for spoiling this for you...but if you want to have a little gander at this for yourself here is the YouTube.com link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmxh5Uft0Y
Friday 4 May 2018
Bourne Ordered By The USA Channel A Scripted Pilot Of "Treadstone"!
I was perusing the Internet yesterday to see when or if there was going to be another New Jason Bourne Adventure book out by Eric Van Lustbader and I saw this headline on FilmSchool Rejects.com's website "Treadstone Will Again Attempt Jason Bourne Without Jason Bourne"...and as I am a massive fan of the Jason Bourne film franchise and I've seen all these films including "The Bourne Legacy" and including "Jason Bourne" (if your not sure which one this is in the grand scheme of things "Jason Bourne" is Bourne film no. 5 in this film franchise) countless amounts of times my curiosity was naturally piqued.
According to FilmSchoolRejects.com website and Variety.com's website USA Network the #1 cable entertainment network has ordered a scripted pilot for a series called "Treadstone" this will come from Universal Cable Productions and is said according to Variety.com's website:
"...to explore the origins and the present-day actions of a CIA black ops program known as Treadstone, a covert operation that uses behavioural modification protocol to turn its agents into nearly unstoppable human assassins. Jason Bourne, the central character in Universal Picture's "Bourne" film franchise, was a product of the program. The series follows new sleeper agents across the globe as they're mysteriously "awakened" to resume their deadly missions."
Tim Krang will also according to Variety.com's website will serve as executive producer and writer, along with Ramin Bahrani will direct this pilot as well as executive produce this pilot, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner will executive produce on behalf of Captivate and Justin Levy will executive produce with Bradley Thomas on behalf of Imperative Entertainment.
Also if your like me and are wondering if there is a NEW! Jason Bourne Adventure book coming out you are in luck my friends because I found on Amazon.com's website that out on the 1st September 2018 "The Bourne Nemesis" by Eric Van Lustbader will be available but you can go and pre-order this now either in Hardcover form or in Paperback form or you can even get this for the Kindle.
According to FilmSchoolRejects.com website and Variety.com's website USA Network the #1 cable entertainment network has ordered a scripted pilot for a series called "Treadstone" this will come from Universal Cable Productions and is said according to Variety.com's website:
"...to explore the origins and the present-day actions of a CIA black ops program known as Treadstone, a covert operation that uses behavioural modification protocol to turn its agents into nearly unstoppable human assassins. Jason Bourne, the central character in Universal Picture's "Bourne" film franchise, was a product of the program. The series follows new sleeper agents across the globe as they're mysteriously "awakened" to resume their deadly missions."
Tim Krang will also according to Variety.com's website will serve as executive producer and writer, along with Ramin Bahrani will direct this pilot as well as executive produce this pilot, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner will executive produce on behalf of Captivate and Justin Levy will executive produce with Bradley Thomas on behalf of Imperative Entertainment.
Also if your like me and are wondering if there is a NEW! Jason Bourne Adventure book coming out you are in luck my friends because I found on Amazon.com's website that out on the 1st September 2018 "The Bourne Nemesis" by Eric Van Lustbader will be available but you can go and pre-order this now either in Hardcover form or in Paperback form or you can even get this for the Kindle.
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