Catch'em if you can

Warner Brothers, Fox, Universal and Sony are going to give the rights to Direct TV to show their movies now just 60 days after they hit the theatres. The Box Office giants want to fight back by boycotting their films, but how do you have any movies to play if you boycott the big four?!!! All movies make theri most money right out of the gate, depending on the strenght of advertising, but nowadays , not many movies actually last past 4-6 weeks. But, Wait, I don't have Direct TV, now what do I do? We'll have to wait and see the terms and lenghts of the conracts Direct TV will get for these movies.

Ghostbusters

In the Future, Movies may get worse, as Craig blogged about remakes and re-do's of trilogies, I too am weary of the future of movies. I have recently read that Sony intends on making another Ghost buster's movie, Awesome right? Wrong! They have at their disposal the original director, willing and able, however, Sony is going to use a guy that is only credited with directing a music video. This could go really bad, bad like Russell Crowe and Kate Blanchett doing the prequel to Robin Hood, but without any of the Robin Hood tale too it. Their is also talk of re shooting the Spider-mans again, already, as Craig also said, again, already. Again, However they are looking to use another up and coming director only credited with directing a music video. Those things are so subjective, and artsy fartsy, We all have reason to be concerned the future of cinema

CGI to Claymation

AS the future of movies hits with each individual new flick, the next big thing is just around the corner. This was the same senario in the late 70's and early 80's with a record breaking world renowned movie trilogy called "Star Wars", however at the same time that these movies were making blockbuster records, another more simpler sci-fi fanatasy genre was being born. It happened simultaniously and suffered for it. The George Lucas- Jim Henson claymation fantasy and most of the times dark movies began to hit all around the early eighties, and most of us have a secret vise for these movies like, Willow", "The Labrynth" and "The Dark Crystal". THey did not fare well at the box office due to an overshadowing of the great trilogy also making records at the same time. view: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/apr/27/clip-join-80s-cult-fantasy-cinema

Movie Ticket Prices in the Future

Being the movie buff that I am, I keep almost all of my ticket stubs after I go to the movies. I was looking through them and found the price ranges from $4.75 to $11.50. I still find it hard to spend money on movie tickets when gas prices are almost 4 dollars a gallon. Every year the ticket prices are going to raise just like gas prices. There has to be a movie coming out that I would spend top dollar to see otherwise I am just wasting gas money. I think its just better to wait for it to come out on DVD and Blu Ray.

What comes after a remake or reboot?

Ever since the year 2000, many films have been getting remade such as Horror films and Slasher films. Most of those films are got remade since there are no more original ideas out there anymore. There is going to be a day when every film has been remade. I'll go crazy if someone ever remakes Jurassic Park. I have a feeling that remakes are even going to be remade someday because nothing original is coming out anymore. I read recently that Spider-Man is getting rebooted in 2012. I don't think that is a good idea because I think the Spider-Man trilogy could have kept going. This is going to happen to many great films or franchises someday and its upsetting.

Scream 5 and 6?

When the Weinstein Company announced Scream 4 was going into production, they said that film was going to reboot the franchise and be the start of whole new trilogy. I got excited when I heard that because the Scream franchise is my favorite Horror trilogy. Scream 4 went into production on June 28th, 2010 and wraped on September 23rd, 2010. The film was given a release date of April 15th, 2011 which I thought was very interesting because it is 4/15/11. I looked at all those numbers and realized there was a great connection. 4th movie, 15 years after the original, 11 years after the 3rd film. After waiting so long for Scream 4 to come out, I went to the midnight showing and had alot of fun watching it. If the film made over its 40 million dollar budget, it should get a sequel but sadly the film only grossed 18 million its opening weekend making it the second lowest opeining of the franshise. The film recieved alot of mixed reviews but the only positive reviews are from fans of the original. With the ending of Scream 4, I don't really know if there can be a 5th and movie but I am always ready for a Scream!

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