Another Reason Hollywood Stinks

[empther]

know this, but they really rarely do it(on major Hollywood productions), because it entails a radically diffrent approach to the standard production procedure and when you are working with a schedule(say, a date on which the film must be ready to hit cinemas), it can be difficult for producers to work around the extra restrictions(including of the budgetary kind) which are placed on them by having young lead actors.

No doubt a producer can get into trouble signing contracts with difficult or impossible demands, but it need not be that way.

They are filming the second “Hunger Games” movie, “Catching Fire”, this summer, 2012, but the movie won’t hit the theatres until Nov 2013 !!!

When there is a potential of tripling or quadrupling your money in a year and a half, creditors can wait.

Count on it. There are people in Hollywood whose job is nothing but coordinating all parts of a film project so that everybody and everything is in place when needed, with a margin for error. If they are hired and listened to, there should be no problems. It’s not a government operation. :extrahappy: If some clown thinks he can do it all himself and gets in trouble, oh well !

 

[Arizona_Mike]

I’ve wanted to see a World War 2 movie from the German perspective that shows the life of an average German soldier. Yea I am a WW2 buff

Sgt. Tom, have you ever seen CROSS OF IRON? Directed by Sam Peck(name removed by moderator)ah, set on the Russian front in 1943, starring James Coburn as a Wehrmacht grunt, with James Mason and Maximilian Schell.

 

[Tenofovir]

…And why the ten plagues being dropped on it would do a lot of good.

Robocop remake needs to be made though. The poor sod has been running DOS as his operating system. The references to COMMAND.COM are still burned in my memory when looking at the world through his visor. Now he needs to run Windows 8 or even iOS 6! Plus he can be a hipster.

 

[Tenofovir]

I’ve wanted to see a World War 2 movie from the German perspective that shows the life of an average German soldier. Yea I am a WW2 buff . There is really an endless list of books and ideas that could be made into films. I think Hollywood is trying to be safe and sticking to names people can recognize. Original films are too risky. That’s not always the case though. There may be a lot of crumby movies made but there are still some good ones.

I like almost any movie genre except horror. It really depends on my mood. I too am interested in trying to get into movie making. Maybe not Hollywood necessarily though that is where the big money is.

As for Oscars, what does the academy know anyways.

-]A good/-] The best WW2 Eastern front film, based entirely on objective truth as carefully researched by the director, is “COME AND SEE”. It is available on an English language DVD…

amazon.com/Come-See-Aleksey-Kravchenko/dp/B0000BWVCR

This film is highly recommended. It was originally rejected by the Soviets. It’s not a propaganda film but the work of one man, Elem Klimov, and his careful research (survivor interviews of mostly non political peasants) to immortalise the “holy” suffering of the people who went through the hell of WW2 in the East. This should strike a chord with any theistic or theistic leaning person.

 

[KevinAK]

No doubt a producer can get into trouble signing contracts with difficult or impossible demands, but it need not be that way.

They are filming the second “Hunger Games” movie, “Catching Fire”, this summer, 2012, but the movie won’t hit the theatres until Nov 2013 !!!

When there is a potential of tripling or quadrupling your money in a year and a half, creditors can wait.

Count on it. There are people in Hollywood whose job is nothing but coordinating all parts of a film project so that everybody and everything is in place when needed, with a margin for error. If they are hired and listened to, there should be no problems. It’s not a government operation. :extrahappy: If some clown thinks he can do it all himself and gets in trouble, oh well !

The reason for Catching Fire filmimg so far in advance is that Jennifer Lawrence is also signed to reprise her role as Mystique in the X-Men First Class sequel.

What confuses me is, if the remaining films in The Hunger Games seried are being released in November, why not release the first film in November as well.

 

[KevinAK]

Yet another needless remake:imdb.com/news/ni33710751/

 

[SGTTOM]

Sgt. Tom, have you ever seen CROSS OF IRON? Directed by Sam Peck(name removed by moderator)ah, set on the Russian front in 1943, starring James Coburn as a Wehrmacht grunt, with James Mason and Maximilian Schell.

I’ve seen scenes from it and have heard a lot about it. It seems people either love it or hate it. I’ll probably watch it someday. Its not quite the film I had in mind when I said “the life of an average German soldier”. Probably something along the lines of Band of Brothers though from the other sides perspective.

 

[didymus]

I’ve wanted to see a World War 2 movie from the German perspective that shows the life of an average German soldier. Yea I am a WW2 buff . There is really an endless list of books and ideas that could be made into films. I think Hollywood is trying to be safe and sticking to names people can recognize. Original films are too risky. That’s not always the case though. There may be a lot of crumby movies made but there are still some good ones.

Now that would be interesting. Actually, make that German & Red Army soldiers, I can’t recall ever seeing a WW2 movie about the Eastern Front.

 

[benjammin]

Now that would be interesting. Actually, make that German & Red Army soldiers, I can’t recall ever seeing a WW2 movie about the Eastern Front.

Have you ever seen enemy at the gates? I don’t know if its that great, but I like it. It’s about the battle of Stalingrad and these two Snipers who battle it out. The russian is played by Jude Law and Ed Harris plays the Nazi. It’s interesting just because its the eastern front and there haven’t been many movies that I can think of about the eastern front in ww2

 

[colliric]

Yet another needless remake:imdb.com/news/ni33710751/

Technically that’s not a remake, but an adaptation.

And I liked “The Muppets”, so hopefully Alf turns out to be the same. Sounds like they’re going to use the old puppets just like Muppets did.

Although Muppets wasn’t perfect either. Frankly I think the lack of references to Kermit’s years as a reporter at Sesame Street was something I didn’t actually like about it… they could have gotten some great comedy out of that(Suggested that it was how he remained famous while the others didn’t and somehow he sold out to Sesame Street)… They could have suggested a “Sesame Street revival” sequel!!!

If there’s ever another Sesame film, Kermit has to be a lead role in it…

I guess Copyright issues didn’t allow that natural cross-over to happen.

I will support an Alf film, especially if it helps director Joe Dante realise Gremlins 3 should also now be made!!!

 

[SGTTOM]

Now that would be interesting. Actually, make that German & Red Army soldiers, I can’t recall ever seeing a WW2 movie about the Eastern Front.

Yeah there are a few Eastern Front films. Stalingrad comes to mind. Many films show the extremes of war but I am looking for more of the norm not extreme or rare situations. Take Saving Private Ryan for instance. It was an excelent film no doubt. However the whole idea of saving private ryan just never would have happened.

Technically that’s not a remake, but an adaptation.

And I liked “The Muppets”, so hopefully Alf turns out to be the same. Sounds like they’re going to use the old puppets just like Muppets did.

Although Muppets wasn’t perfect either. Frankly I think the lack of references to Kermit’s years as a reporter at Sesame Street was something I didn’t actually like about it… they could have gotten some great comedy out of that(Suggested that it was how he remained famous while the others didn’t and somehow he sold out to Sesame Street)… They could have suggested a “Sesame Street revival” sequel!!!

If there’s ever another Sesame film, Kermit has to be a lead role in it…

I guess Copyright issues didn’t allow that natural cross-over to happen.

I will support an Alf film, especially if it helps director Joe Dante realise Gremlins 3 should also now be made!!!

I really hated Gremlins 2 so I am not sure about a 3rd. The first film was quite amusing though.

 

[KevinAK]

The remake of Red Dawn has not been shelved nor has it been re-elegated to direct to DVD status. The film will be released to theatres on 11/21/2012 – appropriate as 11/22/2012 is Thanksgiving and this will more than lilkely be a turkey.

I stand corrected. Red was filmed in 2009 and sat on the shelf for three years. It probably would not be getting a release now if the cast didn’t include the star of Thor and Josh Hutcherosn from Hunger Games.

 

[KevinAK]

1. The sequel to Red Dawn has already been made but apparently shelved. To update the movie, the filmmakers made the bad guys the Red Chinese. Apparently, they didn’t realize that the Red Chinese are 1) Among the biggest overseas markets for American films and 2) Rather touchy. Once the distribution company was told that if the film was released, none of its other products would ever be distributed in the PRC, they first tried to CGI in North Korean patches over the ChiCom patches (which didn’t work too well), on the business theory that a) North Korea isn’t much of a market for American films, and b) They couldn’t possibly hate us any more than they already do. I think it is currently slated for direct to DVD sales.

Maybe they can edit the film to make it more contemporary. They wouldn’t need to invade us. Barack H. Obama would welcome them with open arms. They would be the heroes and the American resistance movement would be the villains.

 

[Paul1Up]

comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94813
And here’s what the new Robocop looks like. And in other movie news, there’s going to be an Independence Day 2 and 3. I’ll be perfectly honest and say that I will certainly wind up watching all these films. I’m a sucker for action films. Whether I’ll enjoy them, well, we shall see…

 

[GEddie]

Maybe they can edit the film to make it more contemporary. They wouldn’t need to invade us. Barack H. Obama would welcome them with open arms. They would be the heroes and the American resistance movement would be the villains.

It’s not going direct to DVD. My local theater is full of promotional art for it; and this is a minor town.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

Anybody know what happened to “Lost Symbol”, “Flash Gordon” remake, or the “Fantastic Voyage” remake? All 3 were once slated to release this year, but seem to have landed in development hell.

ICXC NIKA