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  1. Here's SpaceX's webcast of the launch with a 45 minute prelaunch show.
  2. The first superhero one I remember is a reprint of WWII Batman and Wonder Woman (two separate stories, one comic). Batman with the Batmobile with the shield and his Gyrocopter. Wonder Woman fighting U-boats.

    Otherwise it would be "safer" comics like Donald Duck or Richie Rich or Archie.
  3. One problem I see is there is a segment of the population that will associate some of the A-string characters to particular actors. That really isn't the fault of the studio but it makes it harder to relaunch a newer series.

    Superman - Christopher Reeve
    Wonder Woman - Lynda Carter

    The image of those actors doing that role is so ingrain in the minds of the public that it's tough to see somebody else doing that role. Heck the last Superman film is a partial remake/homage of the 1978 one.

    Batman was able to avoid this by "Bonding" there way through actors as well as drive the series over a cliff as many actors lined up to play the classic villains of the series. There was nowhere to go but up and it still took 8 years to try again.

    And its not just DC. I believe the part of the reason the first two Hulk movies didn't do so well is because the image of an angry Bill Bixby and a green Lou Ferrigno in a crazy wig has been burned into the mind of the general public. No wonder people didn't accept an 8 to 10 foot sized Hulk after all those TV episodes with Lou.

    The live action TV Flash or Spider-Man didn't last on TV long enough to make a lasting impact. The TV Superman from Lois and Clark wasn't terribly memorable and Smallville's Clark and his pretty 20 something friends was too different to affect the public's image of Superman.

    Nobody in Hollywood has the guts to try and make a WW that intentionally steps away from the public's memory of that character. After all isn't the next Superman film rehashing Superman II's villains. Brave brave Sir Hollywood.
  4. I can see MIB 3 knocking Avengers to the number 2 spot but yes, there are too many action movies coming out over the summer already.

    MIB 3 this weekend
    Snow White and the Huntsman June 1
    Prometheus June 8
    Brave June 22 - more family/children friendly but still will be a huge draw
    ALVH June 22 - may not be a big hit but it was cheap to make
    The Amazing Spider-Man July 6
    The Dark Knight Rises July 20

    So yes a June 29th release date wasn't going to give the movie a big window to recoup it's costs,

    The March date is very early in the season and the 3Ding of it is to help its box office during a traditionally low attendance period. Basically they wrote it off as a summer blockbuster and decided to put it up against the first movie of the new series from Twilight's author, The Host.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    Architect Edition was released a week or so after Issue 14.

    So who knows how much of Issue 14 it actually has. And we are on Issue 22 going on 23.

    Praetoria (all seven zones), the changes to powers for customization, tons of custom artwork for missions, trials, and iTrials, the new atlas park...
    I sort of keep an eye on what file changes when (lots of backups). Freedom, Issue 21, modified every PIGG file in the game except for FONTS.PIGG which was modified by Issue 19.5. Since the PIGG files are 95% of the total disk space of a newly installed version of the game, trying to load any older DVD version first is utterly pointless.
  6. I saw a report that Iron Man 3 will be a joint project between Disney and China. Mandarin anybody?
  7. Father Xmas

    Sanctuary RIP

    Well they did tie it up in a neat bow at the end of last season just in case. Not bad for a green screen series done on the cheap.
  8. Well since you Kajex are currently a F2P/Premium player, you are going to have to subscribe or buy a 160PP monthly license for IOs and a 160PP monthly license for the consignment house or buy IO sets directly from the Paragon Market.
  9. Star Wars came out of nowhere in 1977. It was a dead genre at the time, the studio didn't support it's production and it wasn't until it was screened that the studio knew it had something. I was 15 at the time and the up swell of fandom for that movie was unheard of. Time magazine cover about it's under 40 cast and crew. Merchandising wasn't in the stores until months after the movie came out. Most Star Wars t-shirts were unlicensed knockoffs. I still have a scrapbook I made back then with local newspaper photos of home made R2D2 and little kids dressed as Luke and Leia marching in a 4th of July parade.

    On the other hand The Avengers have been around in comic from since before the first Star Wars film, had five reasonably successful prequel movies leading up to it and a full blown Hollywood hype machine starting four months before the movie was released in the US.

    As for Battleship, it at least got the attention of The Asylum which made a crude knock off that ran on SyFy Saturday night. I find such films interesting in terms of how to make a big budget summer movie concept on a shoestring budget.
  10. Father Xmas

    Robin Gibbs RIP

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Ques up a Bee Gees song.

    Hmm. "Stayin' Alive" might not be the most fitting right now...
    Do you know how hard I tried so I would NOT use that song reference in this thread ...
  11. Father Xmas

    Robin Gibbs RIP

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Baler View Post
    The Bee Gees were so much more than just disco. RIP Mr Gibb.
    Fixed, and very true.
  12. Father Xmas

    Robin Gibbs RIP

    We knew it was only a matter of time so it wasn't that shocking.

    RIP Robin.
  13. Tiger and Bunny has comedic elements like any cop buddy series except they are super powered.
  14. Another surprise voice, J Jonah Jameson of both the Spider-Man movie trilogy and the new Ultimate Spider-Man TV series (voice) is also the voice of Aang and Katara's grown up son in Legend of Korra.
  15. Long time ago Father Xmas was street sweeping outcasts in the north part of Steel (post Issue 2) and as I defeated a Lead Freezer he got off a Freezing Touch and encased me in a block of ice. It lasted long enough for the civilian to run up, thank me with a "I want my children to be just like you" and I couldn't help but think "frozen in ice?".
  16. Green Lantern - We finally get a Blue Lantern and Guardian space is in trouble.

    Young Justice: Invasion - A lot happened in five years. A couple three needle scratching over record moments. At least we find out about Wally and Artemis.

    DC shorts - I don't miss this aspect of the 80s at all. Not one bit.

    Legend of Korra - Surprise! And I like that Toph taught her daughter to "see" with her feet. I'll give Assami the benefit of the doubt for the time being. Sometimes a motorbike accident is just a motorbike accident.
  17. Standard revenge storyline plus a bit of Nolan's first Batman film plus the semi standard CW mix of rich pretty 20 somethings.

    Stir.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by 2short2care View Post
    Tonight when I was watching the season finale of Supernatural they had a commercial for both Arrow and Beaty and the Beast, neither one really caught my attention and it looks like the beast in B and the B is not actually gonna be deformed or anything looks more like he is a shapeshifter and in his human form he has what looks like a scar going down his pretty good looking cheek.
    So Hollywood ugly.
  19. Father Xmas

    Tron: Uprising

    Saw the pilot tonight on Disney. Just hope the lip syncing is better for the series, or it just might have been a problem with streaming all the shorts together in one sitting.

    Interesting idea. To bad I don't get XD.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    And the barkeep Stella in Silverado.
  21. If you want famous actors in early roles.

    Jack Nicholson in the 1963 Roger Corman move The Raven with horror icons Vincent Price, Peter Lori and Boris Karloff. Jack was also in Corman's original 1960 version of The Little Shop of Horrors.

    Helen Hunt in the 1985 B SciFi movie Trancers

    14 year old Eliza Dushku as Arnold's and Jamie Lee's daughter in True Lies

    14 year old Jessica Alba was the hot exotic teen love interest in the 1995 TV series Flipper.
  22. I think Richard Matheson, a science fiction writer whose short stories and novels have been adapted to TV and movies since the late 50s, including the novel I Am Legend five times, was quoted to say that he didn't care how they adapted his works as long as the check was big enough.

    Not everyone is Alan Moore (and we thank the gods for that).
  23. When I realized that Dr Amy Farrah Fowler 20 years ago was Blossom. Then discovering Mayim Bialik actually has a PhD in Neuroscience.

    That Winnie Cooper of The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is now the voice of M'gann in Young Justice.

    Also about Tara Strong, she's also the voice of Bubbles of PPG and Dil in Rugrats.

    Then you have the entire cast of Gargoyles. Besides all the Star Trek actors we also have Detective Elisa Maza becoming Allison Blake in Eureka.
  24. R rated movies don't normally make the amount of money the studio would need to recoup the cost of the FX budget I expect this movie will have. Therefore it must be PG-13 and that means ill informed parents will be taking little Suzy and Billy to it.

    I can't fathom what Hollywood would do today with Lord of the Flies.