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When it was shown at Cannes there was a scene where someone in the film has a conversation with someone in the theater audience. I doubt we'll get that in most showings on general release but important cities with important theaters may get replicate that bit.

I was at a showing of Honey I Shrunk the Children that worked like that. At least until the ushers threw the guy out.



But yeah, Megalopolis sounds train-crashier every time I hear about it.

Transformers One is almost out! I'm absolutely delighted at the idea of a fully robot Transformers, without any time spent on humans. And it looks delightful.

I really hope this leads to unconnected animated projects bouncing out every few years- a Last Stand of the Wreckers film would be amazing! Not at all fun if they did it right, but amazing.

A pair that needs no introduction...

Christmas comes early this year.

Not sure why anyone thought we needed a movie of Minecraft but here we are. I'll reserve judgment at least until we see a proper trailer.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Not sure why anyone thought we needed a movie of Minecraft but here we are. I'll reserve judgment at least until we see a proper trailer.

Unfortunately, this feels like it could be another Borderlands; originally intended to exploit the initial popularity a decade ago and been churning through development hell since and is only being released due to massive corporate inertia and sunk costs. We shall have to see.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Not sure why anyone thought we needed a movie of Minecraft

It isn't about need it is about making money.

 Jadenim wrote:
Unfortunately, this feels like it could be another Borderlands; originally intended to exploit the initial popularity a decade ago and been churning through development hell since and is only being released due to massive corporate inertia and sunk costs. We shall have to see.

Eh whilst Minecraft hit its geek popularity quite a while ago and has dwindled in traditional gaming channels since; I'd argue that its casual market is vast. MS paid billions well after its geek bubble had burst and it continues to thrive. I think its just that its now heavily populated with kids/casuals and so whilst the gaming market is focused on SpaceMarine 2 and other stuff; there's a whole massive playing active market for Minecraft out there that's still gaming and still big.

I think where the film might end up tripping up is that it maybe tries to be so inclusive of so many target market that it loses focus on what its trying to be. Or its a kids film and adults don't engage with it.

 Ghaz wrote:

For anyone who thought Borderlands was a low as it could go

All Minecraft needed for a movie was the animation tech they already use for Minecraft cinematics, with a compelling in-universe storyline. But no, we have to make another Jumanji style isekai, and because we have no functional plot, we'll throw in Jack Black and bad standup oneliners.

 Ahtman wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Not sure why anyone thought we needed a movie of Minecraft

It isn't about need it is about making money.

Maybe it will turn out to be awesome like Tetris, still the best computer game movie made

I know a lot of folks who still play Minecraft.....

I think I had a stroke watching that trailer. I have literally no idea what happened in that time frame of my life.

There had better be villagers. And Proclaimers parodies…

(Where’s my wood gone)

Yikes, that trailer looks horrid, feels like they're just chucking Jack Black in every video game adaptation that they can find now ever since he did well as Bowser in the Mario movie. Borderlands and now this?

The best part is that given the general negative reception to the trailer, media articles are already rolling out claiming that the movie isn't for you, doing terrible damage control as usual. The funniest aspect of this for me is that they'll always say this, but when it inevitably fails they'll then turn around and say its failure is all your fault, to deflect from the fact it was just bad to begin with.

It is clearly a Jumanji rip-off, and that is what really kicked off Jack Black in these kind of things. Plus, it is an easy paycheck for him, so why not take it.

Wolfman

Or maybe Wolf Man

From the director of Upgrade and The Invisible Man.


It’s a modern version of the classic Universal monster. From the trailer it also looks the horror allegory version of the ‘man turns out to be abusive’ film that’s all the ..er, rage at the moment.

Apparently the Hollywood Horror Nights version of the costume for the film has leaked on social media and it looks awful.

And to no surprise, a fan can make something that looks better in 2 days

They should have just given Element Animation eleventy billion pounds and ordered a feature length Villagers episode.

Remake of the classic film 'Salem's Lot' based on the Stephen King novel of the same name:

Ooooh! We’re getting another entry to Predator, coming from Prey’s director, and he’s working on a sequel to Prey.

I’m cautiously optimistic.

Prey was an excellent film, playing with the tropes of the series in interesting new ways and not over engineering the wheel. So I’m confident Dan Trachtenberd is a safe pair of hands.

But, my caution comes in at their being two in development at the same time, by the same director. My fear is Good Ideas could end up unevenly distributed, or there not being enough to go round at the time.

I absolutely want to be proven wrong, but my caution must remain.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ooooh! We’re getting another entry to Predator, coming from Prey’s director, and he’s working on a sequel to Prey.

I’m cautiously optimistic.

Prey was an excellent film, playing with the tropes of the series in interesting new ways and not over engineering the wheel. So I’m confident Dan Trachtenberd is a safe pair of hands.

But, my caution comes in at their being two in development at the same time, by the same director. My fear is Good Ideas could end up unevenly distributed, or there not being enough to go round at the time.

I absolutely want to be proven wrong, but my caution must remain.

Taking the optimistic view; less pressure for the “I have this really cool idea, but it doesn’t really suit this film” stuff to get crammed in regardless. Just throw it in the other one.

That is true!

Only Fangs

A horror-comedy about a coven of female vampires who discover new opportunities once video of one of them feeding goes viral. Looks super low budget, but 100 times more fun than Morbius.

To be fair, having seen it? Putting myself through a mangle, the rollers of which have been thoroughly coated in tiny bits of broken glass, into a vat of vinegar, five times in a row is still 100 times better than watching Morbius.

Well, this looks interesting...

The Substance is getting some interesting reviews, as a weird, disgusting, love it or hate it film. I hope I get a chance to see it.