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Quote:No idea. But I'm willing to bet money that if the show goes to series there will be at least one scene just like this. Seriously, Kelley likes this sort of thing.Originally Posted by Residentx_EU
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Quote:You missed my point: I'm saying that Bale DOES have to participate, because as of right now he is inextricably associated with Batman the way Christopher Reeve was associated with Superman. Hence my usage of the phrase "uphill battle".Originally Posted by Chrome_Family
Um hence the Batman reboot taking place after the next film.
the article in the OP even states the following
In short Bale doesn't have to participate. I wonder if we can get a dark grey batman with a navy blue cape and cowl this time
They can reboot Batman in 10 years, but just as no one would've bought someone else playing Capt. Kirk for Star Trek III, audiences aren't going to buy someone else as Batman the summer after Dark Knight Rises. ESPECIALLY when The Dark Knight featured Batman impostors. There will be posts after the JLA movie saying, "I was watching this Batman impostor wondering when Bale was going to run him over with the Bat-tumbler." -
You know what SyFy series I liked? Face Off, a take on the Top Chef format using special effects make-up. Unfortunately, I was traveling and didn't see how it ended, but they can clearly find things which are similar to other shows but with a sci-fi slant.
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Quote:Rhona Mitra?Originally Posted by BrandX
I can't think of a single actress who has ever had the look of a DCU Amazon.
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Quote:Remember that show in the 1980s about the little judo kid? We always thought that was hilarious, with this teeny tiny 8-year-old smacking around these big guys, as if martial arts were magic.Originally Posted by Antigonus
What can I say? I like my fighting women to actually [i]look[/] like they can fight and inflict real damage if necessary. And I never really cared for skinny women anyway.
It's something of a byproduct of my military and MMA training. I have taken real punches from people roughly her size, and I know that no matter how hard she might wind up for it, it's not gonna hurt much because she simply doesn't have the physical mass behind it. I have a really hard time with suspension of disbelief when it comes to things like that. I have a feeling that with the growing popularity of televised MMA, a lot of shows like this will have to be more realistic in their depiction of fighting if they want to get viewers on board. -
Quote:Every guy my age who saw that in the theatre had the exact same reaction: bouncy!Originally Posted by MentalMaden
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I can not think of any time in cinema history where a studio has hatched the plan to create an intertwined series of films the way Marvel is doing it. There have been one-off crossovers and two different series jammed together (Jason v. Freddy, Alien v. Predator), but as far as I can recall intentionally creating a "movie cycle" is unique.
A JLA film is going to have an uphill battle if Christian Bale doesn't participate, because the Marvel plan is so audacious and the individual characters have established audiences behind them. If they're starting off fresh, that's a chore and a half for them. -
Quote:They wrote the song.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I don't know who that is.
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I like this one better, though. -
Quote:They just want to rule the world. Plus they need moolah for belts.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Actually, it makes these two very happy. -
Quote:I think you meant "sucker punch."Originally Posted by Innovator
Awww....noooo...you'll gut punch me, again.
"Ironik brings it home, sticks the landing! 10 points from the French judge!" -
Quote:Women in the most-prized demographic (18-49) watch slightly more TV than men currently at 9 minutes per month, older audiences watch a little more than younger.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
It seems like it's harder to keep a show on the air when you just stock it with hot women as opposed to good looking dudes. I mean look at Birds of Prey, Dark Angel, and Dollhouse. Maybe the balance of viewership has shifted toward females.
I like to think the writing has the most impact, which kept Buffy and keeps Supernatural on the air.
Asians watch the least, blacks watch the most. That last part I find interesting. I wonder if they're actually watching TV or if they just have it on in the background.
Asians - 96 h 36 m per month
Hispanics - 131 h 24 m per month
Whites - 139 h 32 m per month
Blacks - 211 h 8 m per month -
Quote:As I pointed out earlier, this is a show by David E. Kelley. This likely isn't going to be the action series fans want but more like Ally McBeal: Superhero. Set expectations accordingly. It could be brilliant in the way Boston Legal was brilliant: funny, preachy, with hefty dollops of meta-humor. It could be more action-oriented (particularly based on those photos) but it's a safer bet it'll have elements of both the 1970s series and the 1960s Batman.Originally Posted by Lothic
That's just a downright stupid comment, even if you think this particular show is going to fail. Shows in production (especially shows that haven't aired yet) constantly change/update their costumes before they settle on the "final" look. With very little effort you could dig up "prototype" test pictures of just about any genre show you could think of. To think that the first Wonder Woman picture we saw at the top of this thread was going to be the "final" version of the outfit was just silly on your part.
At least come up with some reasonable reasons to dislike this show. -
Notice how much more muscular the stunt woman is? That's more how I envision WW.
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Quote:Big hug!Originally Posted by Innovator
You Ironik, our disagreements are long standing, since pretty much the beginning. Happy Anniversary, buddy (give or take a couple of weeks)!
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This is super nice of you, Twizded.
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Quote:He's maaaagic!Originally Posted by Lothic
As someone who HAS seen the movie I will vouch for everything TrueGentleman has said related to Sucker Punch as significant and germane to the conversation. Ironically enough TrueGentleman seems to understand the movie much better than others here who've actually seen it. Go figure...
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Quote:Yeah, they'd have to be altered to avoid the silliness, although wasn't the point of them being kind of silly was that they were actually the pets of an extinct alien race? And the reason they were invading was because their dead masters had wrecked their planet's ecosystem? That right there makes it ten times better than most other alien invasion motivations.Originally Posted by Chyll
I'd second Footfall, though the intelligent alien elephants probably wouldn't be particularly excepted as other than campy.
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Quote:Put it this way: it cost $75 million for prints and advertising for Prince of Persia. That's at least $65 million in ads for that movie, and it had nowhere near the saturation Superman Returns had.Originally Posted by BrandX
Beat me to it.
Now if the 209million budget doesn't include the 90million advertisement mentioned (I have no idea on this number myself), that's still over 90million in profit from it's theater release. -
Quote:Your info is incorrect. The official production budget was $270 million. The actual budget was $295 million. (Some costs were charged against other projects or written off to previous attempts at making the movie.) Many people in the know claim the REAL budget was closer to half a billion dollars, due to all the years of trying to get the thing off the ground. Tim Burton reportedly had a pay-or-play contract (meaning he was paid regardless of the film getting made) to the tune of $10 million, maybe more.Originally Posted by Innovator
It made $200,081,192 in North America and $191 million internationally, earning $391,081,192 worldwide. It had a budget of US$209 million. I don't think anyone considers that breaking even.
Striking a 35 mm print costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,500. The film was shown in about 5,000 theatres. That's seven and half million dollars just to make the actual reels. Throw in things like shipping, dubbing and/or subtitles for overseas markets as well as advertising which increase your costs, minus the distribution fees in all those territories, which cuts deeply into your profits.
End result: barely breaking even with a global box office take of $391 million. -
What's weird is that there are so many truly cool alien invasion novels in the science fiction pantheon. Why can't anyone just throw twenty grand at one of those authors for the rights and adapt one of those? We really don't have to keep remaking War of the Worlds and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, we can try one of the others.
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Quote:We will fight dumbness on the beaches, in the trenches, against foaming squirrels and atop park benches!Originally Posted by Innovator
What's hilarious to me, is I think me, Lothic, TrueGentleman and Ironik have been going around for nine pages basically saying the same thing.
Plus some of this was about District 9. -
Quote:I don't recall the others offhand, but Superman Returns barely broke even. TV and cable sales tipped it over into "slightly profitable" but the cost of advertising and cutting prints ate the $90 million profit it made in theatres.Originally Posted by BrandX
I mentioned some of those in my busts.
Superman Returns MADE lots of money! Was a hit that got treated as a failure. And they're still making Superman movies. -
Quote:Gotta call a spade a spade here: that's just a stupid comment.Originally Posted by Innovator
I have problems with Sucker Punch too, and I've stated such. The better of the three movies to me is actually Pan's Labyrinth, as it interconnects the dream sequences better to the reality segments and at the end leaves you wondering which reality is real. What's funny is, Guillermo del Torro actually states that Brazil remains one of the most important films of his life, obviously that must mean he totally ripped it when making Pan's Labyrinth.
Del Toro claiming Brazil is one of his favorite movies is NOT the same thing as Snyder saying he based Sucker Punch on Brazil. Stop making straw men to try and diminish the actual, real fact that Snyder based his movie on another movie and completely missed the point. You like Sucker Punch, fine. Stop trying to pretend that Snyder didn't say and do what he said and did. -
The Well by any other name is Magic, so that's what we're all going to be soon. Yay.
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Quote:Hey-ohh!Originally Posted by mousedroid
Yeah, but doing Sister Psyche every four weeks is going to get old quick too.
Just ask Manticore.
Give it up for mousedroid! Don't forget to tip your waitresses, ladies and gents!