Face me now, Bitch!
Either way, a lot of these studios are gonna realize that nothing will ever be the same again even after the Pandemic is done.
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reported that Francis Ford Coppola wants to swing for the fences and get his dream $100M+ movie “Megalopolis” finally made, including willing to match studio contributions dollar for dollar.
He also wants Oscar Isaac, Cate Blanchett, and Forest Whitaker among other names to star.
Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 2nd 2021 at 8:18:42 AM
The trailer for Netflix's Red Notice, otherwise known as "Holy Shitballs, That One Scene Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds Had In Hobbs & Shaw Was So Great, We Had To Give It A Movie": The Movie, is finally online.
Okay, I jest, but seriously: Dwayne Johnson is an FBI profiler. Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot are international thieves with red notices. Something happens and now The Rock and Deadpool join forces to arrest Wonder Woman.
Stuff happens. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Netflix-exclusive spectrum...
A trailer for Adam McKay's new movie Don't Look Up just dropped online.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are two low-level astronomers who go on a big media tour. Why? To warn the world that a comet is going to destroy Earth. Extremely dark hilarity ensues?
Netflix probably has a lot of faith in this one because it's getting a limited theatrical release for December before having the movie on streaming for December 24. (Because nothing screams "Merry Christmas" better than the possibility that a flying space rock will freaking kill us all.)
Oh, wow — for some reason when that premise and All-Star Cast was announced I thought it was going to be another Big Space Drama in the vein of Interstellar/Gravity/The Martian, so I'm pleasantly surprised that it's not.
Why does it feel like Fight Club and The Matrix in terms of messaging and symbolism? It doesn't feel like a coincidence that they both came out in 1999.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
Right? I know it's just a trailer, but the music alone is really selling me that the world is seriously about to get crushed by a comet and the guys who can actually do something about it are too brain-dead to actually take it seriously. It's like Dr. Strangelove if instead of the looming threat of nuclear warfare, it's a freaking space rock. (Note that Dr. Strangelove might not be the best analogy for Don't Look Up, but it's the closest I can think of.)
And holy crap, is this the first time we see Leonardo DiCaprio as a perpetually nervous trainwreck? Because this is a far cry from the self-assured guy like Jack Dawson or Dom Cobb and I actually like it. 
(Though to be fair, if I knew a comet was about to blow the people of Earth all the way to Kingdom Come and I was Surrounded by Idiots, I'd be slamming into constant panic attacks in the bathroom myself.)
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 9th 2021 at 2:37:57 PM
Bumping this thread, because the trailer for the next film by Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley finally dropped tonight! And it asks you but one question: Is he Man or Beast?
In NIGHTMARE ALLEY, an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn
Fun fact: this is actually the second film to be called Nightmare Alley. The first one was a 1947 piece from 20th Century Fox based on the book released the year prior.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 16th 2021 at 9:43:04 AM
Carol 2 looks wild!
New clip of Don't Look Up is online!
Oh wow. The apathy in those White House guys is something else.
...They're all gonna die, aren't they?
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Director Peter Jackson, who helmed the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogy, was no fan of Weinstein. As Wood explained, Jackson initially set up Lord Of The Rings at Miramax, with Weinstein wanting one film comprised of the entirety of Tolkien’s epic. All the while, he threatened to replace Jackson with Quentin Tarantino before agreeing to make a two-part, $75-million movie that definitely would’ve sucked. Eventually, Jackson made his way over to Bob Shaye at New Line Cinema, and the rest is history.
“I think the lore is that they were coming with two, and it was Bob Shaye who said, ‘We have to do three,’ which is insane,” Wood said. “An incredible risk. Miramax thought there was no chance in hell.”
Given what we know about Weinstein, he does sound like a good candidate for orc model. Wood explained that on a recent episode of another podcast—Frodo’s making the rounds—Sean Astin said he had seen the Weinstein orc.
“It’s funny, this was recently spoken about because [Dominic Monaghan] and [Billy Boyd] have a podcast, The Friendship Onion,” Wood said. “They were talking to Sean Astin about his first memory of getting to New Zealand. He had seen these Orc masks. And one of the Orc masks — and I remember this vividly — was designed to look like Harvey Weinstein as a sort of a fuck you.”
“I think that is okay to talk about now, the guy is fucking incarcerated. Fuck him.”
The ring bearer speaks the truth.
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Oh my god, that's awesome.
I was trying to think which Orc had the better resemblance to Harvey Weinstein to pinpoint which one it is (given Wood didn't specify). Most articles used Gothmog as the implied example because Gothmog is memetically ugly, but in the behind the scenes they discuss briefly that Gothmog was more created as a walking mass of tumour (and indeed that's what he looks like) rather than Weinstein or some such and I don't see a resemblance.
I think the Weinstein orc here may actually be this guy:
Full scene here, timestamped with his full appearance from 1:41 to 1:59. He's the lieutenant who talks with Saruman about the lack of resources they have, prompting Saruman to order him to burn down the forest of Fangorn. He actually does bear a resemblance
◊ to Harvey Weinstein, namely with the full jowls, pig-like nose and heavyset frame.
Edited by Gaon on Oct 5th 2021 at 6:39:59 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Peter Dinklage is starring in an adaption of Cyrano de Bergerac.
It's a bit late, but anyone remember how Timothee Chamalet was cast as a young Willy Wonka?
We got our first look at that a while back.
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So, some test footage for a potential Robin Williams biopic just came out, and if you haven't seen it... oh my god, I literally do not see an actor here, it genuinely feels like I'm seeing him again.
Someone please pick this up for a full movie.
Edited by lbssb on Oct 13th 2021 at 3:52:23 AM
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Holy crap, that is uncanny... 
Like, the voice, the tone, even the face looks like a really young Robin Williams.
Yeah, where is this movie? (I mean, as a massive sucker for Robin Williams, this biopic will probably mess me up emotionally, but I still want to see it be fully realized.)
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 13th 2021 at 7:23:22 AM
From what I can gather, this seems to be another project by Jamie Costa. He's done a lot of work on You Tube before, you can see his channel has a few Star Wars fan films he made. I seem to vaguely recall him blowing up a few years ago over social media because he made some videos doing impressions of various Robin Williams characters, but this really shows he has serious acting chops that move beyond a basic impression of the man himself. It's one thing to do an impression, it's another to transform yourself into the role, get the voice, the body language, the emotions so right.
I'm here for our date, Rose!
Ethan Hawke plays against type as the Grabber in Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone.
I hear he normally refuses to play the heavy. Go figure.
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I almost think it will always be Too Soon for a Robin Williams movie
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Right, this is the guy who made some waves with his Han Solo impressions some years ago.
That footage...weirded me out. Like the imitation is good for sure, but it felt a bit skeevy, probably because it's such an emotional moment framed not as a "fun Tiktok impression" or similar, but as "test footage", like a full-on pitch for a biopic. And it still feels Too Soon. Do we need a Robin Williams picture?
I think nothing put it into perspective as much as Zelda Williams's reaction to the footage did.
Honestly I was under the impression Costa was making a short film and this was just test footage of it.
Cinema Con has apparently gone off to an interesting start. The big news was obviously the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer, but there's been a ton of material and for-convention-goers eyes only there as well, including a sizzle reel for the Uncharted movie, fresh from Development Hell, a rather positively viewed screening of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and a trailer for Matrix Resurrections. There are still two days of Cinema Con to go, and all the studios are either attacking or apologizing for the same-day releases that were a staple of the pre-vaccine pandemic (a big part of Sony's presentation was them saying point-blank their movies belong in the theater). Neon, Universal, Paramount, and Lionsgate all have panels as well.
There's a thought. Last summer, Lionsgate was rumored to have begun casting their Naruto movie. It might be ready for production if that wasn't bogus.
Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 25th 2021 at 11:27:14 AM