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| 09-26-12 12:55pm - 4280 days | #871 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
It got good reviews at Rotten Tomatoes but an R rating and 3D almost guarantees that the movie will bomb at the box office. It cost me 14.50$ to see it on Sunday. It's too bad for the movie because it truly is very good. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-26-12 03:09pm - 4280 days | #872 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I spent $15.50 to see the latest Resident Evil in 3D and Imax. That is with a senior discount. I didn't enjoy the movie. I thought the first Resident Evil film was the best in the series. The later movies are getting repetitious. THE 3D effects on the latest movie were interesting. This is only the second 3D I've seen since they started doing 3D again. But I wouldn't have paid for 2D OR 3D if I had known the movie would be so disappointing. | |
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| 09-26-12 05:27pm - 4280 days | #873 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I think I saw the first one in theater but I know that I saw the second one on dvd and then I stopped watching all the otherss because the second one was already getting really to dumb for me. I know all of them have played on tv but I've never actually watched any of them all the way through. I was so out of the loop that the fourth one played on tv last week and I caught the beginning and end part of it and I was surpsised because I thought the world was destroyed by the virus in the third movie. The first RE was perfect but man they screwed the pooch with all the others. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-26-12 08:46pm - 4279 days | #874 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The only 3D movie I might see in the near future is The Hobbit, if I can get to a theater displaying it at 48 Frames Per Second. I've been largely unimpressed with most of the 3D movies, it just doesn't seem to add any benefit and instead mostly detracts from the experience because it is slightly harder to watch. That is that it is frequently reduced in visual dynamic range, visibly darker, sometimes there is image flicker, and frequently you must look at only the areas where the film maker wants you to look - you can't browse around the screen as you'll see two distinct images if you try to focus on parts of the screen that aren't in focus for the camera. The only film that I've seen that used 3D effectively was Michael Bay's Transformers 3. Apparently he was obsessive about it (as he is about many things) and each copy of the movie was delivered to the theaters with a letter by Bay directed toward the projectionists as a how-to for displaying his film to ensure optimal playback. The Hobbit with its double frame-rate is supposed to be much easier on the eyes for 3D. That said, apparently they can't provide HD (4000 pixel resolution), 3D and 48 Frames Per Second. Since they have to choose just two, I'd ideally like to see it in HD with 48 FPS, but I'd settle for 3D and 48 FPS. I'll probably have to call around to find a theater that has the capability. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 09-27-12 10:06am - 4279 days | #875 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Most 3D movies seem to always make the movies darker than they should be and most of the scenes that I've seen of The Hobbit appear to be rather dark so hopefully the conversions doesn't darkern the movie to the point where you can't see the beauty that must be there. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-27-12 12:05pm - 4279 days | #876 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That would be unfortunate - hopefully Jackson has corrected for it in the same way that Bay did. I've actually contacted Cineplex on facebook to find out if any of their local theaters will be displaying the movie in 48 FPS. (They are looking into it and said they'll get back to me.) I'm afraid I may have to go to NYC to see it that way. I have family down there, but it is still a pain in the ass just to see the movie the way Jackson intended it. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 09-27-12 06:44pm - 4279 days | #877 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't know how much they can actually correct. I think it's a question of technology rather than cost but it wouldn't surpise me if doing a light correction is little too expensive for most studios so they don't do it. Aftwerall studios can't live on the hundreds of millions of dollars a movies makes at the box office. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-27-12 06:55pm - 4279 days | #878 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Am I correct in sensing a wee bit of sarcasm in that last comment? lol Anyway, apparently there is a lot that can be done to correct the 3D - and while I haven't seen a lot of the new 3D (I did see the original "Kiss Me Kate" (1953) in 3D using two film projectors with polarized lenses; the 3D effect, colors and clarity were excellent, even if it was a silly movie) but of that small sampling, Transformers 3 was by far the best visually. Apparently this is the letter that Bay sent out. The article discusses some of what causes the bad visuals in other productions. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-13-12 07:39pm - 4263 days | #879 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There are two new movies about Alfred Hitchcock: The first movie about Alfred Hitchcock is from HBO, and stars Toby Jones and Sienna Miller. It premieres on HBO on October 20 (this coming Saturday). The second movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. This will be in the movie theaters. I'm looking forward to the Anthony Hopkins movie. Great actors. And the movie seems to have a bit of humor to it (not comedy, but sort of off-kilter takes on Hitchcock. The first one, with Toby Jones, appears to paint Hitchcock as a creep. Hitchcock is widely recognized as a master director. He might have had an obsession about his blonde leading actresses, but I don't regard him as a creep: just an extremely bright and gifted director who had a thing for beautiful blondes: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, etc. | |
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| 10-13-12 10:30pm - 4262 days | #880 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^See what you described is why biopics never appeal to me and that goes double for people who I like or who's work I admire. It's quite possible that Hitchcock was a major dick who loved to torment his leading ladies in order to get a certain shot. I seem to remember stories that he terrorized Tippi Hedren during the filming of The Birds so that she would act more manic. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-14-12 05:59pm - 4262 days | #881 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I'd prefer to see it in 48 FPS and HD, then decide if I want to pluck down the money (well, more money) for the 3D experience along with the higher frame rate. Plus, you'd only really be able to see the original 48 FPS in a theater, right? I'd imagine most people's HD TVs would have to be adjusted, assuming the Blu-Ray or whatever version hasn't had the frame rate changed in the first place. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-14-12 08:42pm - 4262 days | #882 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I think they have special High Frame Rate 3D TVs coming out soon, but most high quality 1080p LCD or LED TVs can handle 60 FPS (a lot of sports are broadcast at this frame rate), so they'll have no trouble handling 48 FPS. Of course, 3D TVs would have to operate at 96 FPS to present the Hobbit at 48 FPS in 3D. My computer's LCD monitor can handle 120 FPS, so the technology is out there, the question is simply: How much will it cost? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-15-12 09:14pm - 4260 days | #883 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Well, we actually mean refresh rate, right?  (If this was a video forum there would be a massive flame war already.)I read somewhere around the time the Hobbit trailer was released that a cinematographer had done some tests with audiences in the 1980s that frame rates "maxed out" at 72 FPS, that is there seemed to be no measurable benefit beyond that frame rate (the human brain could not process the information to visualize a "better" picture). Of course, I don't think they were watching sports footage or anything that might have really needed such high frame rates. I've heard that some people didn't like the 48 FPS trailer because it lost the filmic 24 FPS look that we all expect from movies, as opposed to the "fake" look of 30 FPS video that it reminded people of. Figures that I've gotten to a point where I prefer all my porn be shot in home video-looking 30 FPS (or Euro-style 25 FPS), lest I know it's truly all fake!  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-16-12 02:16am - 4260 days | #884 | |||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha, yes - in the case computer monitors and televisions "refresh rate" is the term preferred. I figured it is easiest to stick with one term than mix it up - though yes, technically FPS and Refresh Rate are different things, in this discussion they are addressing the same issue.
I believe the cinematographer you were referring to is Douglas Trumbull the inventor and proponent of Showscan, the failed 60 FPS film format. Personally, in regards to monitor refresh rates, I found with the old CRT monitors that I could detect a flicker at 75 Hz, but not at 85 Hz. Then again, 72 FPS might have been the average maximum, not the absolute maximum.
Peter Jackson & Co. argue that the reason the 48 FPS footage the showed looked "fake" was it hadn't gone through any post-production work (color correction, et cetera.) and was just displayed as raw, direct-from-the-camera, footage to show off the increased FPS. I think they are regretting not running it through post-production first. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |||
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| 10-16-12 02:25am - 4260 days | #885 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
You can't keep a good man down. Not even if he's dead. Agent Coulson is alive and well. Fighting the good fight against evil doers. I'm not sure if he is a zombie, a clone, or just what-the-heck the explanation is for his re-appearance after death. But we, and all true fans of the Avengers, will be cheering wildly when we see his handsome face again! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Agent Coulson Lives! Clark Gregg is set to star in ‘Avengers’ TV spinoff By Meriah Doty Movie Talk – 15 hours ago To the extreme delight of hard core fans who have been campaigning to bring Agent Coulson back to life, they have indeed succeeded. In spite of his character dying in this summer's megahit "The Avengers," Clark Gregg will reprise his role as Agent Phil Coulson in Joss Whedon's new "S.H.I.E.L.D." television pilot, which is being positioned to air on ABC next fall, 2013. And Gregg -- who recently spoke with Yahoo! Movies about his character's death -- couldn't be happier: "I almost can't speak right now," he told Marvel.com over the weekend at New York Comic-Con as he was visibly brimming with excitement. Gregg, 50, has played Agent Coulson in a number of recent Marvel movies, and fans were pretty shocked when his character was killed by the evil Loki on the big screen this summer. Gregg seemed equally shocked to learn he would be getting another chance to play Coulson, tweeting over the weekend that he's only known about it for a week and confirming with an @-reply to a fan that he is, indeed, feeling "pretty f***ing good right now." Joss Whedon himself broke the news over the weekend during a NYCC panel: "There was never going to be a 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' show without Agent Phil Coulson!... He's headlining the 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' show and always was." Though it is not yet clear how Coulson will be made alive again. Will the TV version be an Avengers prequel? Will we learn that Coulson somehow cheated death? Or will he simply rise from the grave in some reanimated form? Whedon added, "We all love Clark Gregg, there's no doubt about that... From before we made 'The Avengers,' we discussed whether there was a way for him to be a part of the Marvel Universe, perhaps a part of a TV show, even after his death." Marvel Studios Kevin Feige was with Whedon as he made the announcement via video at the NYCC Marvel TV panel. Gregg is also appearing in Whedon's upcoming version of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." | |
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| 10-16-12 05:25am - 4260 days | #886 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I read a couple of articles and it's unclear just yet as to when the TV show takes place so if it's before the event in The Avengers movie then he could be playing the character for a long time. THis is Whedon and everyone might as well get ready for surpise deaths since he loves to kill off main characters at random. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-16-12 10:08am - 4260 days | #887 | |
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Joseph20 (0)
Suspended Posts: 20 Registered: Oct 15, '12 Location: Nagpur/MH, India |
Thanks for the link and valuable info. | |
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| 10-16-12 10:11am - 4260 days | #888 | |
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Joseph20 (0)
Suspended Posts: 20 Registered: Oct 15, '12 Location: Nagpur/MH, India |
I read your post and saved my $15 as I was about to purchase the latest Resident Evil movie. Thank you. | |
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| 10-16-12 08:52pm - 4259 days | #889 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Ya'know, lk2fireone, I, too, had a thing for those same blond actresses .... especially Kim Novak. After seeing her in that short, sexy dancing attire she paraded around in (in the film "Pal Joey") I too was obsessed with and blessed with many months of "private-time" action-fantasies. If she only knew how many times I tapped that honeycomb!  | |
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| 10-16-12 11:35pm - 4259 days | #890 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I'm not a huge fan of blondes, but I do make a few exceptions. I'm in agreement with Hitchcock in regards to Grace Kelly, and then there is also the great, but oft forgotten, Veronica Lake with her classic "peek-a-boo" bangs that became all the rage in the 40s. (Interesting Trivia: She was actually commissioned by the government or parties similarly interested in the war effort to cut off her peek-a-boo bangs in an advertisement so the women working the factory machines would be similarly inclined as they were worried about accidents with hair being caught in machines.) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-17-12 02:28am - 4259 days | #891 | |
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Micha (0)
Active User Posts: 321 Registered: Jul 04, '10 Location: san jose ca |
I just saw Atlas Shrugged Part Two. It was excellent and followed the book closely. Thirty years ago, When the possibility of a film was discussed, the joke was "Who's got two weeks to sit and watch it?" That still holds true. While the film, divided into three parts, will last approx 6 hours, I doubt that's long enough to faithfully treat the story line. One thing I found disturbing was that no actor in Part One carried their part into the second film. All of the same characters were portrayed by a totally new slate of actors. A very bad move for me. In the trailers preceding this showing was a movie about Alfred Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins plays the part. From what I saw, I will not miss this one. unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. | |
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| 10-17-12 05:18am - 4259 days | #892 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
I agree heartily. Veronica was also a favorite of mine. But it seems I recall her hair sorta draped over one side of her face, actually covering her eye. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought "bangs" was hair cut straight across the forehead .... The beetles, for example. Thanks for sharing the trivia. It brings back fond memories. | |
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| 10-17-12 07:44am - 4259 days | #893 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, etc. were lovely blondes who starred in Alfred Hitckcock movies. Kim Novak was probably the most obviously sexual of that group. But Grace Kelly was drop-dead gorgeous. I remember reading that when she did High Noon (the western with Gary Cooper), the director (or cinematographer?) spent so much time photographing her, because she was so goddamn lovely, that they had to edit part of the movie. | |
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| 10-17-12 08:11am - 4259 days | #894 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I think maybe I used the wrong term with bangs, but yes, the her face was partially covered by her hair, draped as you said, hence the nickname it earned: "peek-a-boo". Here's a good example image. And another example :-). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-17-12 08:18am - 4259 days | #895 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That's pretty funny about High Noon, I hadn't heard about that. The Kim Novak sexual comment reminded me of Zsa Zsa Gabor, another blonde, and so very sexual in Touch of Evil (1958) as the "Strip-Club Owner" - talk about a character, she didn't even have a name but she was memorable than Janet Leigh. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-18-12 04:51am - 4258 days | #896 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Emanuelle was one of the first porn movies I saw in a movie theater. Today it would be considered softcore or maybe midcore. But it had a strong plot/story, and it was photographed in a very professional style. One of the best softcore porn movies from the 1970s, along with The Story of O. ==================== ==================== 'Emmanuelle' star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60 By MIKE CORDER | Associated Press – 16 mins ago THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Actress Sylvia Kristel, the Dutch star of the hit 1970s erotic movie "Emmanuelle," has died of cancer at age 60. Her agent, Features Creative Management, said in a statement Thursday that Kristel died in her sleep Wednesday night. Kristel, a model who turned to acting in the 1970s, had been fighting cancer for several years. Her breakthrough came in "Emmanuelle," a 1974 erotic tale directed by Frenchman Just Jaeckin, about the sexual adventures of a man and his beautiful young wife, played by Kristel, in Thailand. She went on to star in several sequels to "Emmanuelle," as well as in Hollywood movies including "Private Lessons" in 1981. In Hollywood, she sank into a world of drink and drugs. "I wish I could have skipped that part of my life, she said in a 2005 interview with Dutch newspaper De Volkkrant. Her agent described her as one of the Netherlands' biggest movie stars, with more than 50 international films to her name. Among them were many erotically tinted films, including a 1981 adaptation — also directed by Jaeckin — of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Mata Hari," four years later. She was honored in 2006 with a special jury prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for a short animated film she directed called "Topor et Moi." Kristel told De Volkskrant, "love dictated what I did," saying her former partner, Belgian author Hugo Claus, persuaded her to star in "Emmanuelle." "He said, 'Thailand, that's nice, we've never been there and anyway the film will never come out in the Netherlands so you won't put your mother to shame,'" Kristel said. "In the end, 350 million people saw it worldwide." Jaeckin, the director who is also a sculptor and has a gallery in Paris, said by telephone that he and Kristel maintained contact, calling each other every three to four months. But he said he hadn't spoken with her since February. "I am very sad ... She was like a little sister," Jaeckin said. "We started together ... 'Emmanuelle' brought us big problems. We were a bit marked," he said. "It was a highly contested film then and now it is a cult film." He said that he knew immediately that Kristel was destined for the leading role. "When I saw her face, I was thunderstruck," he said. In an interview with the French Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, which has an online edition, Jaeckin explained that he went to the Netherlands to cast the role and, "I saw a quantity of very beautiful girls." Then by chance he saw Kristel, who worked at the agency and was not in the casting call, and immediately knew ,"This is Emmanuelle." Kristel is survived by her partner Peter Brul and a son with Claus, Arthur Kristel. She is to be buried at a private funeral. Further details were not released. ____ | |
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| 10-18-12 12:33pm - 4258 days | #897 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Thanks, IK2, for bringing this sad news to my attention. I've had a burning, vicarious appetite for this sexy lady from the first moment I saw her on celluloid. She was flat mesmerizing. Didn't know she was 60 yrs. old. She held her age well. This shocking loss will add to the other great women of erotica who're still alive and well in the recesses of my memory.  | |
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| 10-18-12 12:56pm - 4258 days | #898 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
You might be interested to know leading man in High Noon Gary Cooper ( Hollywood's legionary lady's man) was said to have flipped pretty hard for Grace Kelly. In fact, it's well known she had that effect on all her leading men of films. a'peers the only guy loaded enough with notoriety, power, name and money to nail her into a marraige was Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. | |
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| 10-18-12 01:33pm - 4258 days | #899 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Royalty can give one quite an edge in that sort of competition. I was just surprised that she was interested in ending her career. She basically quit at the top of her game, she was only 26 when she got married. People that get to the top like she did usually are insanely competitive and won't stop competing ever, even when they probably should. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-18-12 05:54pm - 4258 days | #900 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Grace Kelly was a major star, appearing in movies with the leading men of her time: Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, etc. And she won major awards, including the Academy Award. But her family, especially her father, was not impressed by her career. In Wikipedia, it states: her father viewed acting as "a slim cut above streetwalker". And Grace Kelly was a woman who, by most accounts, desperately wanted her father's approval. Again, from Wikipedia: "Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier with a dowry of 2 million USD in order for the marriage to go ahead." In the US, it's not that common that the bride's family has to provide a dowry. But that was Prince Rainer's demand/condition for the marriage. Grace Kelly's father was a wealthy businessman. But he was also a staunch Catholic, and Prince Rainer was Catholic as well. In those days, and maybe even today-but less so-religion can be a force in determining who you will marry. Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper were supposed to have had an affair during the filming of High Noon. Gary Cooper was (semi-)famous for having had affairs with most of his female costars. The same was true of Grace Kelly, except her affairs were with the male costars. That was not public knowledge, but supposedly well known in the industry. Edited on Oct 18, 2012, 06:41pm | |
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| 10-18-12 06:06pm - 4258 days | #901 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I read something similar in regards to Grace Kelly having an affair with most of her costars. Mind you isn't that what is said about most Hollywood actor and actresses from the early days to today. The only major difference is that it's next to impossible to keep something like that a secret now. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-18-12 06:11pm - 4258 days | #902 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Kelly's father must have been a seriously wealthy businessman. That $2 million USD dowry in 1956 equates to $16.3 million USD in 2011 dollars.  Source: The Inflation Calculator "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-19-12 06:21am - 4257 days | #903 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The event of the century, that will live forever, is coming this November 16: Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2. Bella attacks the evil vampires. See this on the big screen, in moving pictures with colors and actions that will shock you to the core! Bella is married (did that happen in Part 1, I haven't been following the story that closely?). Now she has her baby. And the evil vampires are coming to do something terrible, which is why Bella, her vampire friends, her werewolf friends, and other assorted good vampires, are banding together to fight the Volturi, who are the largest and most powerful coven of vampires. The Volturi enforce the laws of the vampire world. But even Vampire cops can make mistakes. Just like human cops. Which is why Bella and her friends must fight the Volturi, because Bella is gorgeous (I personally think Kristen Stewart is slightly pretty, not gorgeous, but true Twi-hards think she is royally gorgeous). And Bella is kind. And Bella is fighting to protect her daughter and her family. Can we make November 16 a PU day to remember, where we join with Twi-hard fans everywhere to celebrate this joyous occasion (where Bella will emerge triumphant, with her vampire husband, vampire child, vampire friends, werewolf friends, and other good people, in defending their right to survive?). Onward, ever onward, we shout! (Thanks to Wiki, for the background on the Volturi vampires.) | |
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| 10-19-12 09:02am - 4257 days | #904 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Vampires don't sparkle. 'nuff said. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-19-12 09:04am - 4257 days | #905 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I read the books and they aren't bad. They are definetely not written with men in mind and certainly not older men. This is your typical softcore girl fantasy movie sadly aimed at a way too young audience. I also saw all of the movies and they are pretty much what you'd expect movies based on these types of books to be. I know that it's quite common for movies to stray from the source material because some things don't always translate well from written words to the big scvreen but for some reasons the people responsible for these mivies strayed pretty far on some major key points while adding stuff that really wasn't needed. I've only seen one trailer for the lastest installement but I can already tell that this one will stray pretty far from the source material in a few places. ON a related note. There's a rumor that they want to make a spin-off Twilight TV show or movie(s) featuring none of the characters from the movies or books. See the below link for more info. http://moviehole.net/201258815exclusive-...breaking-dawn-part-2 Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-19-12 09:08am - 4257 days | #906 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
You are assuming that he's the one who dished out the casj when it was probably Grace who did the paying. I mean how many peasant(couldn't think of another word) girls can say that they married a honest to goodness prince? Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-19-12 02:07pm - 4257 days | #907 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
According to Wikipedia, she signed a 7-year contract with MGM in 1952 for $850 a week, about $45,000 a year before taxes. She got married in 1956 - maybe she succeeded in renegotiating her contract, but I found no mention of it. She may have provided a few hundred grand of the dowry, but I would bet the lion's share came from her father. Jack Kelly is also attributed to paying the dowry in his own Wikipedia page, though they do use the word "purportedly". I must admit, I doubt that Jack's parents, when immigrating from Ireland, would have thought that their granddaughter would become one of the most famous movie actresses ever. Or that their son would become a 3-time Olympic Champion. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-19-12 03:37pm - 4257 days | #908 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Interesting wedding fact (not a movie, but could be the basis for a movie): India's Nawab of Junagadh held a royal wedding in 1922. The princely ruler hosted a lavish ceremony with thousands of guests to celebrate the wedding of his pet dog Roshanara to a golden retriever named Bobby. The bride was carried on a silver palanquin (a covered sedan chair), while the groom wore a gold necklace and silk cummerbund. It was a pompous affair. Fifty thousand guests were invited, including the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, who declined the invitation. An overwhelming sum at the time, of Rs. 22,000, was spent on the wedding, straining the state coffers. The bride, Bobby, shampooed, perfumed, adorned by jewelry and dressed in intricately designed brocade, was brought in a silver palanquin to the Durbar Hall, where the wedding was to take place. The groom, Roshanara, wearing gold bracelets and a necklace, was received at the railway station by 250 of his kin dressed in brocade, a military band and a guard of honour. The Nawab of Junagadh, Muhammad Mahabat Khan III, has been documented to be an exceptional animal-lover. | |
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| 10-19-12 10:58pm - 4256 days | #909 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I liked this Resident Evil movie, mainly because it made me think of the next level of interaction between the audience and the film Since Resident Evil was launched from a video game, it would make sense to have a theater equipped with X-Box style controllers, where, during the battle scenes, audience members would be able to control some of the characters on screen - some of them could control some of the zombies, some could control some of the defenders against the zombies - like with games such as Borderlands 2, you would have the main Non-Playable characters in the battles along with a lot of playable characters controlled by the audience. It would be a blast, I'm sure there are many gamers that would be willing to pay a premium for such an experience | |
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| 10-20-12 12:21am - 4256 days | #910 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That would become chaos so soon - but it would be very funny. I'd probably be the annoying player trying to make my zombie dance Gangnam Style. In regards to Resident Evil: Retribution, quality asside, it appears that they continued the previous film's trend away from nudity. That was part of the fun of the series I thought, that and its tongue-in-cheek attitude toward the plot. It is an R-rated zombie series, why not have nudity? Hell, they started the series with what Milla herself (in the Audio Commentary) described as a "twat shot", and fulfilled the prediction/request of showing both nipples in the second film. Being a fashion model, she doesn't seem too concerned about nudity, so why the sudden stop? My guess is it is some studio/marketing decision, but it is a strange if perhaps unimportant change in the series. In case people are going to theorize that Milla herself is stopping the nudity due to either her 2009 marriage to the director of the films (1st, 4th & 5th) or giving birth to his daughter, Ever (2007), I would like to direct your attention to Milla's announcement to the world that her post-pregnancy body was fit and ready to be back in front of the camera: Purple Magazine, full-frontal nude photo shoot (2009) (I've linked to this set before, but it doesn't hurt to link to it again.) I haven't seen the 4th and 5th movies as I was frequently told that they were rather shite and almost completely without a sense of humour. The 2nd movie has been my favorite largely because it tried to be funny almost as often as it tried to be scary. Plus, it had a great finale cliff-hanger (that was basically ignored in the 3rd movie). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-20-12 01:45am - 4256 days | #911 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There was a movie, called Gamer, starring Gerard Butler that came out in 2009. The movie was about convicts forced to battle to the death, who were controlled by players like in a video game. The movie didn't do that well at the box office. The script for that movie sounds a lot like what PinkPanther is describing. | |
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| 10-20-12 02:40am - 4256 days | #912 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I rather loved that movie; it was by the same guys that directed Crank and Crank 2. Cheesy, but tons of fun. It even had a few musical interludes. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 10-20-12 12:29pm - 4256 days | #913 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I thought Crank was great fun. Lots of action, humor, plus Amy Smart, plus interesting and crazy characters. But Crank 2 was disappointing. First, I had a hard time swallowing that Jason Statham, who died at the end of Crank 1, was still alive (or came back to life?) in Crank 2. At the end of Crank 1, Jason Statham fell from a helicopter that was way up in the sky, Statham bounces off a car and lands on concrete. There's no way anyone is going to walk or crawl after getting smashed like that. His bones would have been smashed. His skull would have been smashed. He would have been dead, dead, and completely dead. But this is the movies. And then Crank 2 tries to outdo Crank 1, which is also impossible. Crank 1 was the original, it had everything. They should have left it at that. Without a sequel. I'm sure they had a great time making Crank 2, trying to top the original. But for me, at least, Crank 2 was a mistake. If you enjoyed Crank, you would probably enjoy Smokin' Aces, which came out around the same time. Smokin' Aces has a good story, lots of good actors, plot twists, action, humor, interesting characters, good dialogue, just a well-written and well-acted crime movie. Crank and Smokin' Aces were two of my favorite movies from that year. Highly enjoyable. | |
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| 10-20-12 12:53pm - 4256 days | #914 | ||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Crank and Crank 2 are intended to be following the rules of a video game (the directors have frequently described it as such) and I'd agree that the concept should have been better communicated. That being the case, Chev Chelios can simply try again anytime he dies, just like how he can use adrenalin, caffeine, or electricity to restore his health.
I did see Smokin' Aces, but was a bit dissapointed by it. You are right that it had a fantastic cast and interesting characters. However I figured out the "twist" plot within the first 10 minutes of the film and I felt the movie sort of got lost in its own "awesomeness". Where Crank succeeds, a concise, driven plot line with a clear, if absurd goal and path to it, Smokin' Aces was sort of a mess. It is almost as if the writers came up with these characters and then sat down in a meeting and came up with amusing suggestions of things for the characters to do. In the end, I feel you ended up with a visually striking movie with a fun cast of actors that was ultimately failed by a boring and unoriginal plot with some really confused writing. Also, it gave a large role to Ben Affleck, which, as a rule, is usually a bad idea. I'll also say I had rather highly anticipated Smokin' Aces - it looked like it was a fun new movie trying to out "Guy Ritchie" Guy Ritchie. I think I'll stick with Lock, Stock as the benchmark for ridiculous, large cast crime chaos movies. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | ||
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| 10-20-12 01:13pm - 4256 days | #915 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
You're right, Smokin' Aces was in the style of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I don't appreciate everything Guy Richie does, but Snatch (with Jason Statham again, and Brad Pitt) was very good. One point: if you highly anticipate a movie, it's hard to be surprised on the upside. Much better to keep your expectations low. Just a psychological thing, at least for me. Maybe it's a mind games thing. But I only find a few really enjoyable movies in any one year (I'm talking about new movies. There are plenty of great older movies that I can watch, and watch again.). | |
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| 10-20-12 01:24pm - 4256 days | #916 | ||
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Agreed, Guy Ritchie doesn't shit gold, but Lock, Stock was amazing, Snatch was fun (but basically a bigger budget, less well written version of lock,stock). There has been some movies of his I'd rather forget. The Holmes stuff has been good when Downy Jr. was on screen, but mostly pretty forgettable. I was always surprised that Rock 'n Rolla hasn't gotten much attention, as I thought it was his best film since Lock, stock.
Over-hyping a movie can be a big problem - it is easier to enjoy a crap film if you go into it expecting it to be crap. I'm sure I'd enjoy Smokin' Aces much more in a group / party session where people are commenting on it and watching it intensely only in the really bat-shit crazy scenes. Crank and Crank 2 both work well in that setting, but I think Crank is actually succeeds as a seriously observed film as well, largely because it brings a lot of new ideas to the table while happily and blatantly accepting its genre role. It isn't high drama, but it is an important movie to see if one wants to keep up with the language of film as it is today. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | ||
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| 10-20-12 10:51pm - 4255 days | #917 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
A movie that has a story-line involving gamers controlling the action is probably not going to have the "special" appeal of a movie where the audience actually would control some of the action. It's true that it would be chaotic and could get silly with some people making their controlled-characters dance as opposed to any other actions. But that would be the fun of it. Certainly the whole midnight-movie phenomenon was fueled by the fact that audiences could have "inappropriate" responses - cheering the villians in silly slasher movies, etc. It shouldn't be under-estimated how huge the gamer-audience is. I went to PAX Prime, one of the biggest gaming conventions, in August - it sold out completely in less than 2 days - all 3-day-badges, all single-day tickets. This weekend, there was a campaign for gamers that stream their game-play for other gamers to enjoy, to do so for 24 hours and solicit donations for childrens hospitals in various cities in the US. There's one particular trio, who I find really entertaining, that participated in this campaign, had pretty humble expectations of what they would raise - in fact, as a trio, they raised almost $15,000 - they couldn't even set "goals" fast enough before they'd blown through them. Their larger team of gamers raised about $47,000 - and that was just one team in a larger campaign. It's a hungry and generous audience with money in hand. There are all kinds of ways that the intersection between games and movies, could, and should, be explored. | |
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| 10-23-12 03:11pm - 4253 days | #918 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Marvel Paid Robert Downey Jr. a Fortune as Iron Man in The Avengers May 16, 2012 The Avengers has already crossed the $1 billion mark at the box office and is forcing its way up the top ten highest grossing movies of all-time. Obviously Marvel and Disney are making astronomical profits from the film with many more millions to come, but what about the film's stars? Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson are reported to have made anywhere between $2 million and $6 million for their work in The Avengers, plus small bonuses. Robert Downey Jr., however, made more. A lot more. Marvel has a history for being especially tight with the wallet when it comes to paying the stars of feature films based on Marvel Comics properties. Terence Howard, who co-starred in Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr., was the highest paid actor in that film despite bigger names such as Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow and, of course, Downey Jr. He ultimately was not brought back for Iron Man 2 due to that contract, and the learning experience from it has reverberated down through the ranks. Rumors also swirled around the Internet regarding Samuel L. Jackson's difficult negotiations with Marvel regarding his paycheck for every appearance as Nick Fury, no matter its size or importance. At one time it looked as if Jackson might not sign with Marvel after his Iron Man cameo, but thankfully that was worked out. It also took Mickey Rourke several months of negotiations before he landed a deal to appear in Iron Man 2. When Iron Man became a box office sensation in 2008 because of Robert Downey Jr. and not its highest paid actor Terence Howard, Downey Jr.'s agent and lawyers renegotiated a deal with Marvel that would pay him a set fee for every appearance as Tony Stark or Iron Man, plus a percentage of Marvel's movie revenue. One source at The Hollywood Reporter claims that percentage is between 5 and 7 percent, while another one refutes those numbers. Performing a little simple math, Robert Downey Jr. is in line to earn upward of $50 million or more for his work in The Avengers, or about 10 times more than his superhero co-stars. Another huge payday awaits with the release of Marvel's Iron Man 3 next May. Source: THR | |
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| 10-23-12 06:41pm - 4253 days | #919 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Those numbers don't surprise me and getting a percentage of box office profits is nothing new since Jack Nicholson got a gigantic paycheck for playing the Joker and that was in the 80's. Downey's Iron Man is a cash machine for the studios. The first Iron Man made 585 millions at the box office and millions more in dvd/Blu-ray sales. Iron man 2 made 623 millions at the box office and probably just as much if not more in dvd/Blu-ray sales. Thor and Captain America respectively made 449 Millions and 368 millions at the box office. These are excellent numbers but they are still at their first movie. All this is telling me is that The Avengers 2 movie may have a harder time getting made. 1.5 billions at the box office plus all the dvd/Blu-ray sales are numbers that the studios will consider when deciding to do another Avenger movie but you will have at least 3 other Marvel movies coming out before this one is even begun and if these movies don't make as much money as the studios are hoping for then that might make the studios reticent to invest hundreds of millions in an Avenger sequel. If the 3 new Marvel movie make a lot of money then that could be an even bigger incentive as to why the studio will not do another Avenger because every performer will want a huge raise or part of the profits. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-23-12 09:58pm - 4252 days | #920 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Different tastes - I really enjoyed Smokin' Aces - I thought it was fun and breezy and had great sexy babes. I thought Snatch was un-watchable. | |
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