Like all Looney Tunes fans, I'm excited about The Day the Earth Blew Up. I believe it's been picked up for a German release and another country or two- hopefully it will hit USA theaters here soon. I talked about it some semi-recently over at https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com.
It just hit Annecy, got RAVE reviews, and now there's more of it to preview - here's one of the scenes. 🌎💥
@jake4480 I grew up with Looney Tunes! German release is scheduled for August 1th. The German release title is slightly different btw. - apparently the publisher didn't like the "world blowing up" part so instead they went with "A sticky adventure: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig save the planet" 🤔 Anyway. Can't wait to see it!
@jake4480@horror I believe the correct phrase is 'edited for time and content'. ;>) Love this film. Did end up seeing it in the theater a few weeks back, and I watched UHD version a few days ago. There really isn't much to edit in this film, and if you do, you end up losing some iconic, pivotal moments. It's a stone cold classic!
📽️ I discovered earlier that HISTORY OF THE OCCULT is available on #Kanopy, so I guess tonight's movie is settled.
(It's also on #Tubi for those of you who don't have Kanopy, but if you have a library card in the U.S., I beseech you to check and see if you can access their amazing library of #films.)
@stina_marie@horror I wish my library offered Kanopy but it only offers Hoopla, and with such a low daily organizational limit that I can never watch anything in the evening.
@dave31175@horror Yeah, I have to be judicious even with Kanopy. I get 5 "tickets" a month & most movies take 2. But I'm not complaining, I'm thrilled they have this as an option at all.
@jake4480@horror I'm supposed to see it today, but I feel so poorly that I'll probably wait until tomorrow. 'The Mummy' is also out in theaters today. I'm going to do a double-feature when I'm feeling better. They both run through Thursday at my local theater. No sleep sucks, bro...
What are some of your favorite movie partnerships, be it actor and director, producer and director, or on screen pairings that just work that lose their magic when apart?
@filmfileuk Also, the collaborations between Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten make for a pretty remarkable list: Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man, Touch of Evil.
But they did both do good work separate from one another, of course.
While its good to see that books still hold their own (in revenue generating terms) with films & music (they outperform both), the big news is that video games generated more revenue globally than books & music combined.
As someone who has never played a video game, but reads a lot of books, I'm not sure how I feel about this... but it tells us something about where the globe's creative & receptive energies seem to be spent.
If they are located in Iceland or similar which is 100% renewable that's perfect. UK is between 50 and 100%.
No idea where the servers are. Guess many are in US for shorter lag times for the greatest number of players.
As someone pointed out, the carbon footprint on the player's systems is the larger footprint. These can be all over the world.
It will improve in time as the contribution of renewable energy increases.
There are many alternate castings or directors that were attached to projects but left before filming began, and there are flops that should have been hits, or vice versa.
But what alternate possibilities are ones you'd have loved to see play out and why?
It is 40 years since the release of the original #Ghostbusters. As far removed from that point in time as 1944 was from 1984.
Can you imagine a studio executive in 1984 insisting that they should invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a loose sequel to Double indemnity or the Woman in the Window?
I mean... I wish they were making sequels to #films from 1944 as this list of releases is insane modern #Hollywood hasn't made this many great films in the last decade.
@deinol I think that our cultural institutions have grown a lot more conservative and stagnant so rehashing stuff from 40 years ago seems more preferable to producing anything genuinely new.
So Shin Godzilla is the fifth Godzilla movie I've seen and so far I've really enjoyed the original, Minus one, and this! Are there other good ones that I've been missing out on?