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Negromancer News Bits and Bites for the Week of August 17th to August 23rd, 2014 - Update #20
NEWS:
From TheVerge: Marvel's movie business is crushing DC's
From TheWrap: MPAA earns ire of "R" rating for gay drama, Love is Strange.
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From HuffingtonPost: Hugh Jackman can deadlift 400lbs.
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From Screenrant: Jennifer Lawrence reportedly in talks to appear in Quentin Tarantino's next film, "The Hateful Eight."
From YahooHealth: "Fat" Daphne controversy in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy.
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From TVLine: Shad Moss, also known as the rapper, Bow Wow, is a cast member of the "CSI" spin-off, "CSI: Cyber," as a baby-faced hacker.
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From IMDbBlog: FX renews "The Strain" for a second 13-episode season. The current season gets better with each episode.
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From BuzzFlash: Emmy winner Harry Shearer impersonates Richard Nixon preparing to resign.
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From Hello: Jack Nicholson and his lookalike son, Ray.
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From HuffingtonPost: Neil Patrick Harris, who is gay, talks about having sex women.
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From Variety: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (estimated box office take of $28.4 million) win the August 15-17, 2014 weekend box office. This is the film's second consecutive win, having finished at #1 when it debuted during the August 8-10, 2014 weekend. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy finished at #2 ($24.7 million) for a second straight week, after finishing at #1 during its debut weekend. The Expendables 3, this weekend's big debut movie, is considered a flop after ending up in third place with an estimated box office tally of $16.2 million.
From Variety: You may have heard that a "DVD-quality" copy of The Expendables 3 ended up on the Internet a few weeks ago. Did that affect the film's puny box office during its debut weekend? Variety discusses that. Here is an interesting tidbit:
However, some research suggests that piracy can take a big chunk out of ticket sales. A 2011 study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that when a film is pirated prior to release, it loses nearly 20 percent of its potential revenue.
That study can be found here.
STAR WARS:
From YahooScreen: More Episode VII rumors (video)
COMICS BOOKS - Movies and Comics:
From WeGotThisCovered: 8 comic book movies that actually feel like comic books.
From YahooScreen: Seven actors who almost played Batman
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From CinemaBlend: Director Marc Webb confirms three planned members of "The Sinister Six," the Spider-Man spinoff movie. They seem to be "The Gentleman," "Mysterio," and "Kraven the Hunter." [I'll pretend to be interested. Well, maybe I'm a little interested.]
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From ScreenRant: Actor Brian Patrick Wade of MTV's "Teen Wolf" well play the villain, Absorbing Man, on the upcoming season of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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From YahooMovies: From the set of "Batman Vs. Superman," the mysterious green legs of Scott McNairy.
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From YahooFinance: Another article about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson appearing in a DC Comics superhero movie - maybe playing hero Shazam and anti-hero Black Adam
From ScreenRant: Marvel is listening to fan requests about movie... or maybe not
From CBB and Nexopia: Zak Edwards is brilliant on the piece about diversity in American comic book publishing from the major companies.
OBIT:
From TheWrap: Don Pardo, the announcer for "Saturday Night Live," reportedly died yesterday (Tuesday, August 19, 2014) at the age of 96. Pardo was also the on-duty booth announcer for WNBC-TV on the day (November 22, 1963) that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; thus, Pardo was the first to announce the shooting to NBC viewers.
MISC:
From VOX: The geniuses behind your favorite pop songs
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From YahooFinance: How Kobe Bryant started the current weight loss trend among NBA players like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwayne Wade, to name a few.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Negromancer Asks You to Help the ComicBookBin
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
Paul Walker Dead at 40
by Leroy Douresseaux
Paul Walker apparently died in a car crash yesterday, Saturday, November 30, 2013 in Southern California. Walker had been acting since the mid-1980s, but he is best known for starring in five installments of The Fast and The Furious film franchise, beginning with the first film in 2001.
Go to the ComicBookBin for a small write up about Walker's passing or got to Hitfix, which is giving extensive coverage of the actor's life, work, and death.
The first time I saw Walker, I did not think that he would be an actor I liked, but over the last decade, I have become a big fan of his. I will miss him. Negromancer sends condolences to Walker's family, friends, and colleagues. R.I.P. Paul Walker.
Paul Walker apparently died in a car crash yesterday, Saturday, November 30, 2013 in Southern California. Walker had been acting since the mid-1980s, but he is best known for starring in five installments of The Fast and The Furious film franchise, beginning with the first film in 2001.
Go to the ComicBookBin for a small write up about Walker's passing or got to Hitfix, which is giving extensive coverage of the actor's life, work, and death.
The first time I saw Walker, I did not think that he would be an actor I liked, but over the last decade, I have become a big fan of his. I will miss him. Negromancer sends condolences to Walker's family, friends, and colleagues. R.I.P. Paul Walker.
Christmas 2013: The Desolation of Negromancer
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Friday, November 1, 2013
11 Months a Negromancer
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Rock October 2013 with Negromancer
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Review: Cruise Dominates Visually Splendid "Oblivion"
Oblivion (2013)
Running time: 124 minutes (2 hours, 4 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, brief strong language, and some sensuality/nudity
DIRECTOR: Joseph Kosinski
WRITERS: Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn (based on the original graphic novel story by Joseph Kosinski)
PRODUCERS: Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Duncan Henderson, Joseph Kosinski, and Barry Levine
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Claudio Miranda (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Richard Francis-Bruce
COMPOSERS: Anthony Gonzalez (score), M83, and Joseph Trapanese
SCI-FI/DRAMA/ACTION with elements of a mystery
Starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Melissa Leo
Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama from director Joseph Kosinski. The screenplay is based on an unpublished graphic novel that Kosinski created for Radical Comics. Oscar-winning screenwriter, Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine), wrote the final draft of the screenplay under the penname, Michael deBruyn. Oblivion the film stars Tom Cruise as technician who begins to question his mission on a war-torn future Earth, now a dying planet.
Oblivion opens in the year 2077. Earth was nearly destroyed 60 years earlier by an alien race called the “Scavengers” (Scavs). Most of humanity has moved to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. Jack Harper, Tech 49 (Tom Cruise) and his lover and partner, Victoria “Vika” Olsen (Andrea Riseborough), are among the last humans on the planet. Jack is a drone repairman, maintaining the planet’s defensive drones that guard massive ocean-borne power stations.
After a crippled starship enters his territory, Jack discovers that its sole occupant, a mysterious woman named Julia (Olga Kurylenko), seems familiar. This leads Harper to make some shocking discoveries about himself and about the world.
My friend and colleague, Hervé St-Louis, wrote a review of Oblivion, from which I’ve selected the following lines:
...the plot is rather thin and much of the movie is lengthy and boring. It was a film produced for Tom Cruise’s ego... This movie is meant to show Tom Cruise on the best possible angle at all time and nothing more. (http://www.comicbookbin.com/Oblivion001.html)
Tom Cruise apparently received good notices for his performance in Oblivion, but as is the case with most movies in which he appears, the film becomes about Cruise. Here, the focus on Cruise/Jack Harper comes at the detriment of the other actors and the characters they play. Thus, the mysterious, intriguing Julia remains a cipher, her captivating past and purpose subverted to serving the interests of Jack Harper’s quest. This is the case with the equally captivating and cagey Vika, as it is with other characters I won’t name here in order to avoid creating too many spoilers.
That is not to say that Harper isn’t a great character. There is so much to him, and while this isn’t among Cruise’s best performances, he makes Harper worth following. However, it is as if we never really get into any depth with Harper. Perhaps, the problem is the film’s screenplay. Conceptually, Oblivion is like a novel, covering events that occur over a period of 60 years and happens on a worldwide level. The actual screenplay for the movie mainly focuses on what would be the equivalent of two short stories at the end of the Oblivion saga.
That makes the film’s plot thin, but Oblivion offers good character drama and sci-fi. Still, there are long, empty spaces in the story that seem to amount to nothing more than Harper staring off in the distance or flying in that cool Bubble Ship (which I want).
Oblivion is visually striking. The aforementioned Bubble Ship, the drones, the power stations, and Tower 49 (Jack and Vika home and base) are sleek, showing off a production aesthetic that recalls The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and 1970s science fiction films like Logan’s Run, Silent Running, and Star Wars (of course). It is the visual experience of Oblivion that makes me a fan of this film, in spite of my misgivings about the plot/screenplay and the diminishing of the supporting characters.
7 of 10
B+
Friday, September 13, 2013
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Negromancer (Won't Be) Labor (the) Day September 2013
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Negromancer Limps into August 2013
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