Concord was so much worse than we thought. The claims that it cost $200 million appear to have been just a rumor. Try $400 million.Sony is starting to leak largely because people are starting to get the ax because Sony has to cut corners now. Sony’s PlayStation CEO Herman Hulst was a relentless champion of Concord. So far as he was concerned it was going to be Sony’s biggest franchise. He was convinced it would be a (pre-Disney) Star Wars level hit....
This show started life as a gag. Truthfully it wasn’t a bad gag. WandaVision was a show that was half good and half godawful. Wanda Maximoff having lost her mind and created a TV show world she could hide in was not itself a terrible concept. But it was the first of the M-She-U entertainment products. Regardless, the Agatha All Along demi-Munsters theme song was genuinely funny and became something of a novelty hit on YouTube.A novelty hit is no...
The poster was ready before the picture was finished. When Peter Cushing saw it, he insisted on running his friend through with a spear so as to not cheat the audience. “Cursed be those who disturb the rest of a Pharaoh. They that shall break the seal of this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose.” - Translation of the Curse of Wadjet. That was the actual curse placed upon those who would dare disturb the tombs...
Probably. But just look at her. If anything she's overqualified.Muppet Hair and Berekley Smirk.
I'd heard about this but I didn't believe it. Warner has too much of its own skin in the game but Zaslav actually greenlit this thing.This is the team that did The Thick of It, The Veep, and The Death of Stalin a Comedy of Terrors. In the trailer below you can see a very clear reference to Kevin Feige. They are actually going there. This is supposedly based on all the stuff that everyone in Hollywood...
His nickname was “Props Pete” because of his preferred method of performance. Most actors only interact with props if a director gives them specific instructions to do so. But Props Pete was forever picking up this item or that one during a performance and used it casually with apparent long-accustomed familiarity. It added depth to the role he was playing. He was trying to sell the audience on his character being an expert in whatever field the part was meant to be brilliant...
I’m honestly not the biggest horror movie guy out there. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them.Exactly.I just hate what they have turned into. There is so little artistry to it these days. So little concern with trying to provoke the “delightful shiver.” These days it’s all built around scenes that spend as little time as possible building tension and then clobbering the audience with a jump scare, followed by gory body horror. Modern body horror only works if you don’t actually look at...
From Professor Tom Shippey’s: Tolkien as a Post-War Writer“(The works of these) five authors, Lewis, Orwell, Tolkien, Golding and White, seem to me to hang together in unexpected ways; they are all non-realistic works, whether one regards them as science fiction, fantasy, fable or parable (all descriptions which have been applied); and they are all books insistently marked by war, all works by writers who are “post-war” in more than an accidental or chronological sense.”…“Finally, all five authors share a...
It’s not the worst thing I’ve seen this year. I have to give it that. I’m afraid I can’t give it a lot else.Beetlejuice x 2, is a sequel that feels like a sequel. Tim Burton didn’t really want to make it. Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega didn’t really want to star in it. But Michael Keaton delivered on it.I suspect this movie only got made in the first place because Ryder and Keaton’s stock has risen in the past...
Normally the Arkhaven Blog isn’t a political blog. But this crosses over onto my turf. Dana Walden has up until now been the most likely candidate to succeed Bob Iger as the CEO of Disney. This may… I must stress, may have just been changed. The ABC WhistleBlower covered his tracks, his affidavits sworn on penalty of perjury were mailed before the debate. Basically he predicted everything that happened that night.Dana Walden is already taking questions from the very friendly Variety. Meaning...
