That Netflix strategy to conquer the movie world may need to be rethought. Apparently, buying up every movie in sight and then just dumping it on your cloud to no advertising fanfare isn't an air tight business model, nor is forking over nearly $100 million with no broader release strategy to earn your money back. (David [...]
https://youtu.be/IE8nbiL_Msk Lucasfilm has their fiction down to a science - or, at least, their marketing. This side-by-side comparison spliced together by The Playlist is impressively (or eerily) exact. I don't know whether to be pumped or worried. For now, I'll choose the former. Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens December 15, 2017. UPDATE: The teaser [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4X4N-8fEM In case you missed it on (Good) Friday, here is the full hour-long panel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi at Star Wars Celebration 2017. Hosted by Josh Gad (keeping it all in the Disney Corporate Universe), it has Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, writer/director Rian Johnson, and stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Mark [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt5omARZT8E Day 1's main event at Star Wars Celebration 2017 was capped off by a moving tribute to Carrie Fisher by Star Wars creator George Lucas and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, who set up a tribute video. It was followed by a surprise Star Wars concert conducted by John Williams. You can watch the "40 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTqmkkw22vs The Original Crew is back - including creator George Lucas - to talk about the four-decade legacy of Star Wars. This is the complete panel discussion from Star Wars Celebration 2017. It was followed by a moving Carrie Fisher Tribute and Star Wars Concert - conducted by John Williams himself - in a video you can [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB4I68XVPzQ The long wait is finally over. Here is the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The Force is with it, but Luke Skywalker is in a very dark place. The Last Jedi opens on December 16, 2017. You can watch the full Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration by clicking here.
** out of **** Rated R (for some sexuality, nudity, drug use, and strong language) Released: March 17, 2016 limited; expands in April Runtime: 129 minutes Director: Terrence Malick Starring: Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Holly Hunter, Bérénice Marlohe Terrence Malick used to make movies. Now he makes liturgies. Ever since his cosmic [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for prolonged sequences of violence and destruction, suggestive content, and language) Released: April 14, 2017 Runtime: 136 minutes Director: F. Gary Gray Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jason Statham, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell, Scott Eastwood, Kristofer Hivju, Helen Mirren The Fast and Furious films are [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE99le5FBrY The princess that every man loved and every woman wanted to be, and for all the right reasons. Capping off a 2-hour "40 Years of Star Wars" panel at this year's Star Wars Celebration (which included Star Wars luminaries like Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, and other surprises), this 5-minute video is a fitting [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFeWsDpy9y0 The Academy Award-winning writer/director team behind The Hurt Locker (and then Zero Dark Thirty) are back with a dramatization of the Civil Rights era riot that rocked Detroit in the summer of 1967. Director Kathryn Bigelow (the only female to ever win the Best Director Oscar) and writer Mark Boal tackle intense subject matter yet again, but this [...]
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