Hello, World!
I did some math and added some numbers up. Before I discuss why, let me back track a bit. If you pay attention to news outlets regarding the situation with Russia and how it seems that Obama is instigating a potential war that could be all-out catastrophic and that Hillary Clinton has had the biggest, raging hard on for wanting to go to war with Vladimir Putin to the point of saying that Breitbart and Alex Jones and virtually everyone who is of the "Alt-Right" is in his pocket. While discussing this, Hillary Clinton is in the back ground of what I have to discuss. She is the over all theme, but, she not the main issue of this post ... it's Disney! And Sony as well for their reckless shaming of Donald Trump. More so with Disney as with their comic's via Marvel have poked lots of fun at him recently even to the point of making him M.O.D.O.K. in one of the comics.
So, let's discuss what a war with Russia would cost Disney. This isn't a whole number as there's lots of factors involved that are not fully known, like licensing rights for toys and various miscellaneous things. Before I begin to do a break down, I want to discuss why I feel that a potential war with Russia is wrong. The main reason is economics. It would hurt everyone financially in the long run. I myself have been getting some connections in terms of Russian studios for potential deals to import films from Russia to the States and likewise with exporting my films to Russia. To be honest, anyone who's an artist; be it writers, musicians, filmmakers; or any field that requires some sort import/export type situation will be impacted. So, let's talk money and how we all know that Mickey Mouse loves his "cheese".
How much do you think Disney films make in Russia? Probably a few million here and there? You would be somewhat correct. They are not the big money maker like China is proving itself to be, but, the numbers might surprise you. I am going to link all the movie titles back to their Box Office Mojo pages so you can check numbers for yourself. You might be surprised. And just a quick note, Star Wars: the Force Awakens was not a factor in this research as it was released at the end of 2015, only a week and a half before the start of the new year. And Box Office Mojo will be abbreviated as "BOM".
The first film of the year that Disney released was the Finest Hours, starring Chris Pine of the rebooted Star Trek film series. BOM does not list a "Production Budget" cost for the film; however, Wikipedia has an estimated $80 million for the film. The film bombed hard, and brought in a world wide gross of $52 million. In the U.S, the film made over $27 million and in Russia, the film made $3,195,800.
The second feature was one of Disney's highest earners of the year, Zootopia. No need to give an explanation on it as I am sure most are aware of the film and it's story. Again, no production budget is listed on BOM, but, Wikipedia states it was $150 million to make it. The film made $341 million in the States and in Russia, it made $32,228,883. In Russian theatrical sales, even though studios have to give theaters a cut, the film made a fifth of budget back alone in Russia.
Third feature of the year is the Jungle Book. The live action adaption of Rudyard Kipling's classic story, mainly just a live action adaption of Disney's beloved animated film. Don't worry, there's another live action Jungle Book movie coming from WB with Benedict Cumberbatch doing the voice of Shere Kahn. Disney's Jungle Book was made for $175 million and made $364 million in the States. While in Russia made just a little over $20 million; to be exact, $20,359,503.
Fourth film is Disney's second highest grossing film this far in the year, Captain America: Civil War. Made with a $250 million budget and made $404 million in the States. In Russia, surprisingly, only $16,557,300. Not a big money maker over there as compared to Jungle Book or Zootopia.
The fifth film that Disney released in 2016 was the box office bomb, Alice Through the Looking Glass. Made for $170 million and only bringing in $77 million in the States. It just shows proof that if you want to make a sequel, strike while the iron is hot and don't wait six years! Another movie series that waited six years and bombed as well, Silent Hill! Back on point, the film only made $9,955,014. Just couldn't get past the double digits in the millions ... so close.
Sixth film of the year is their highest grossing so far (as we still have Doctor Strange and Star Wars: Rogue One), Finding Dory! No production budget is listed on BOM, but, Wikipedia states $200 million for the production budget. The film made $485 million in the United States, but, didn't make as much in Russia. I think the same applies to Finding Dory as to what I said about Alice Through the Looking Glass, strike while the iron is hot. The film only made $9,220,953. Yes, the Russian filmgoers flocked to Alice over Dory.
Seventh film that Disney released was yet another box office bomb, Steven Spielberg's the B.F.G! Made with a budget of $140 million and only grossed $55 million in the States. In Russia, it only made $5,877,446.
The eighth film of the year that Disney released was the moderate success that is the 2016 remake of Pete's Dragon. The film was made for $65 million and made $75 in the States. Film only made $3,551,751 in Russia.
The ninth film, the Light Between the Oceans, is probably considered a box office flop in Russia. Then again, I am not sure how the film's release is being handled over there. I know it was given a small, limited release here in the States. Made for a micro-budget by Disney standards, $20 million, and grossed only $12 million in the States. In Russia, the film made only $186,064.
The tenth film of the year, Queen of Katwe, did not get a Russian release as of yet. The only countries with box office results are Colombia, South Africa, and the U.K.
So, did you add that all up? What did you get, class? The answer is $101,132,708. While that is not the final number as I cannot find home video sales; merchandise costs; etc, etc, etc. I hope Disney is happy. I hope that they can live with themselves for this blatant ignorance for wanting a war monger as the first president of the United States.
I am sure you wondering why I said Sony as well? Well, given the whole backlash against men in general over Ghostbusters and pandering to Hillary Clinton by having Kate McKinnon and the crew on some shitty day time talk show on the same day as Clinton. As well as tweets aimed at the Clinton regimen. I am not going to go into vast details over Sony titles, because fuck 'em, that's why.
I am putting the film in order of their release this year as well as the production budget in parenthesis.
The 5th Wave ($38 million) - $3,593,787
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ($28 million) - $532,267
Risen ($20 million) - No Info
The Brothers Grimsby ($35 million - Wiki) - $2,306,082
Miracles from Heaven ($13 million) - No Info
Money Monster ($27 million) - $1,251,875
The Angry Birds Movie ($73 million) - $11,996,823
The Shallows ($17 million) - $3,137,750
Ghostbusters ($144 million) - $4,870,811
Sausage Party ($19 million) - $2,596,072
Don't Breathe ($10 million) - $2,243,766
When the Bough Breaks ($10 million) - No Info
The Magnificent Seven ($90 million) - $3,439,947
While it's only a third of what Disney has in terms of viewer output, Sony films made only $35,969,180. So, I hope it is all worth it. I really do. Sony also have Playstation, I am sure those sales will hurt too.
Playing with fire. That's all it is.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Monday, October 10, 2016
Last Night.
Last night was really interesting. I laugh now in retrospect of it all. How society views people today is just down right sickening. This wave of feminism that hates on Caucasian males and views them as these oppressors is fucking hilarious. These BETA male cuckolds are just as equally hilarious and pathetic that you have to play along and be stringed along by your significant other and have no fucking balls.
And I am going to talk politics; because this comes into play and I have never really brought politics up in my blogging because it's not really a fundamental part of my life. I do like stirring the pot on Facebook and Twitter, but, I like to keep my blog personal. I do not like Hillary Clinton. However, I find this amusing that they can make fun of Trump's wife who gave a speech that was reused from Michelle Obama and even that speech was reused. A reused speech within a reused speech, that's like sixteen reused speeches. But, can't shit on Bill Clinton. I brought up Bill Clinton because of the whole; "Grab them by the Pussy". Which was said and not actually done. If it was done, we would have heard way more about it and a lot earlier, as in 2005 earlier. And the woman whom Trump was talking in this leaked audio recording, has even gone on the record and stated that this is not about her.
Above is the video. I don't have a problem with this as compared to the incidents with Paula Stone which Bill and Hillary Clinton had to pay almost a million dollars in damages because it was proven that Bill was sexually inappropriate with her. Even the people whom I was conversing with kept bringing up Monica Lewinsky. Let me be clear, Monica Lewinsky is the most famous, but she's really the tip of damn Clinton iceberg. I bring this up and a few images of Bill making faces, which make him look guilty. So, to the few people whom I was debating, needless to say, I got blocked. And I hilariously got blocked by several people over the past few days.
Two of the people who blocked me were supposed to work for me. They're lucky contracts were not signed or it would have became a legal nightmare for them. I have been too busy working on getting Toaster released which has been the main priority over getting the new segment shot for Traumatic Possession 3D: the Tape and finishing Into the Madness: A Documentary. I have to go back and forth with the rights owners of Toaster to make sure everything is okay because at the end of the day, I want my clients to be happy with the product that I am selling. To sum it up, the main one who was going to be acting for me quietly blocked me.
One of the other people who blocked me is now a former friend who I was friends with in my film classes since all the way back to 2004; I feel sorry for you and at the same time say; "Shame on you" for playing the victim card. This friend, who decided to bring up that his current girlfriend was sexually assaulted by an ex from a previous relationship. Which I am sure if she knew, would probably be thrilled that I know that bit of information. If anyone is sexually assaulted, probably don't want it thrown back in their faces constantly for someone else's gain, like my now former friend. You move on from it, at the end of the day it does not own you.
I would know as my previous fiancee cheated on me, numerous times. That was traumatizing and I could chose to sit in a corner and go on and on about how "life isn't fair" and blah blah blah. I moved on. After a year and a half of being single, I met my now fiancee and have a wonderful family that we've built. I didn't get to this point in my life by playing a god damn victim.
But, I get a response of "I really can't be friends with someone whose values are so different than mine." This is the point of having friends, you dumb shit. You have friends and you respect them and their views. Not, "you like this and I don't, good bye"! You can't have friends who like every single thing that you like down to the smallest detail, it's fucking impossible. I replied; "That sounds like you thin out the herd pretty hardcore then. Before you know it, you'll probably have no friends".
Let me rewind to what started this back and forth that lead to the FUCK OFF. I made the comment about how Donald saying it and not doing it is harmless compared to what Bill Clinton has done. Again, you can shit on Melania but you dare not shit on Bill! So, I made the statement that I can say something around the lines of; "I'm going to grab Hillary by the pussy and shove my hand in that ass!" That doesn't mean that I am going to do it, now does it?
Good luck to your film career. I haven't heard you say one thing in the past two years about what you have been doing or how much you love it. Wasn't that the reason why we took film classes? And good luck to your blogging career too. Started writing for some blog site and last article he wrote was when the first Suicide Squad trailer dropped. That was what, July 2015?
Then the other one who blocked me had a white knight cucked BETA male who decided to call me out as sexist which is bullshit. I said what Donald Trump is what guys say when guys are alone, be it hanging out or at work or wherever. And he said something along the lines of; "I don't want be a 'guy'. Because that's sexist." With his cuckold wannabe punk rocker name that he had on Facebook. He proceed to go on about how no woman deserves my respect. Which I got a laugh out and I called my fiancee over to read the comment. She scratched her head and said; "The hell is he talking about"?
My fiancee told me to say that what he was going on about was sexist too because he was generalizing women, which was true. I think she was kinda annoyed because I made my impression on my fiancee and made a relationship that works. That kinda flustered them. And again, defending Bill Clinton, but shitting on Donald and Melania Trump.
What I see is a generation of; "I WANT THIS AND I WANT IT NOW"! They complain when they don't get X,Y, and Z as opposed to working for it. Main person who started this conversation cried on Facebook repeatedly about things not happening her way. Why aren't I in a band? Why haven't I ever had a boyfriend yet? I want to be an artist. I gave this person several chances to show her talents with make up, kept bailing repeatedly. Good riddance. Where I live, you won't get the chance to show talents. Where we live is a small city on it's deathbed since General Motors closed down.
In my personal and professional opinion; you get nowhere by being a submissive, BETA male. I didn't get to this point in my life and career by being submissive. You take life by the horns and you run with it. I didn't get to work on the TV show Lost because I said; "Please". I had my work shown from my film classes and I had recommendations! I don't have people from other studios messaging me because I'm a little submissive bitch. I had an offer to sell American Nightmare 3D once it's finished but I passed because I am not going to hand over all the rights to my work for a quick buck.
I never made connections because I was nice, I made them because I had the balls to show I got what it takes.
And I am going to talk politics; because this comes into play and I have never really brought politics up in my blogging because it's not really a fundamental part of my life. I do like stirring the pot on Facebook and Twitter, but, I like to keep my blog personal. I do not like Hillary Clinton. However, I find this amusing that they can make fun of Trump's wife who gave a speech that was reused from Michelle Obama and even that speech was reused. A reused speech within a reused speech, that's like sixteen reused speeches. But, can't shit on Bill Clinton. I brought up Bill Clinton because of the whole; "Grab them by the Pussy". Which was said and not actually done. If it was done, we would have heard way more about it and a lot earlier, as in 2005 earlier. And the woman whom Trump was talking in this leaked audio recording, has even gone on the record and stated that this is not about her.
Above is the video. I don't have a problem with this as compared to the incidents with Paula Stone which Bill and Hillary Clinton had to pay almost a million dollars in damages because it was proven that Bill was sexually inappropriate with her. Even the people whom I was conversing with kept bringing up Monica Lewinsky. Let me be clear, Monica Lewinsky is the most famous, but she's really the tip of damn Clinton iceberg. I bring this up and a few images of Bill making faces, which make him look guilty. So, to the few people whom I was debating, needless to say, I got blocked. And I hilariously got blocked by several people over the past few days.
Two of the people who blocked me were supposed to work for me. They're lucky contracts were not signed or it would have became a legal nightmare for them. I have been too busy working on getting Toaster released which has been the main priority over getting the new segment shot for Traumatic Possession 3D: the Tape and finishing Into the Madness: A Documentary. I have to go back and forth with the rights owners of Toaster to make sure everything is okay because at the end of the day, I want my clients to be happy with the product that I am selling. To sum it up, the main one who was going to be acting for me quietly blocked me.
One of the other people who blocked me is now a former friend who I was friends with in my film classes since all the way back to 2004; I feel sorry for you and at the same time say; "Shame on you" for playing the victim card. This friend, who decided to bring up that his current girlfriend was sexually assaulted by an ex from a previous relationship. Which I am sure if she knew, would probably be thrilled that I know that bit of information. If anyone is sexually assaulted, probably don't want it thrown back in their faces constantly for someone else's gain, like my now former friend. You move on from it, at the end of the day it does not own you.
I would know as my previous fiancee cheated on me, numerous times. That was traumatizing and I could chose to sit in a corner and go on and on about how "life isn't fair" and blah blah blah. I moved on. After a year and a half of being single, I met my now fiancee and have a wonderful family that we've built. I didn't get to this point in my life by playing a god damn victim.
But, I get a response of "I really can't be friends with someone whose values are so different than mine." This is the point of having friends, you dumb shit. You have friends and you respect them and their views. Not, "you like this and I don't, good bye"! You can't have friends who like every single thing that you like down to the smallest detail, it's fucking impossible. I replied; "That sounds like you thin out the herd pretty hardcore then. Before you know it, you'll probably have no friends".
Let me rewind to what started this back and forth that lead to the FUCK OFF. I made the comment about how Donald saying it and not doing it is harmless compared to what Bill Clinton has done. Again, you can shit on Melania but you dare not shit on Bill! So, I made the statement that I can say something around the lines of; "I'm going to grab Hillary by the pussy and shove my hand in that ass!" That doesn't mean that I am going to do it, now does it?
My fiancee told me to say that what he was going on about was sexist too because he was generalizing women, which was true. I think she was kinda annoyed because I made my impression on my fiancee and made a relationship that works. That kinda flustered them. And again, defending Bill Clinton, but shitting on Donald and Melania Trump.
What I see is a generation of; "I WANT THIS AND I WANT IT NOW"! They complain when they don't get X,Y, and Z as opposed to working for it. Main person who started this conversation cried on Facebook repeatedly about things not happening her way. Why aren't I in a band? Why haven't I ever had a boyfriend yet? I want to be an artist. I gave this person several chances to show her talents with make up, kept bailing repeatedly. Good riddance. Where I live, you won't get the chance to show talents. Where we live is a small city on it's deathbed since General Motors closed down.
In my personal and professional opinion; you get nowhere by being a submissive, BETA male. I didn't get to this point in my life and career by being submissive. You take life by the horns and you run with it. I didn't get to work on the TV show Lost because I said; "Please". I had my work shown from my film classes and I had recommendations! I don't have people from other studios messaging me because I'm a little submissive bitch. I had an offer to sell American Nightmare 3D once it's finished but I passed because I am not going to hand over all the rights to my work for a quick buck.
I never made connections because I was nice, I made them because I had the balls to show I got what it takes.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
"Ghostbusters: Answer the Call" Spoilers...
Before I start my review and thoughts, I want to post this video for references. This video is by Midnight's Edge and documents the problems with the film's production. Needless to say, I'll be making a few references and time points from their video on Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.
Before I ended up going to see the film, I ultimately chose to skip it. However, the drive in theater which I frequent ended up doing a triple feature back over the weekend. With Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, it was playing with Central Intelligence and the Shallows. So, for the price, I couldn't pass it up because this was the first film of the night and it couldn't get any worse, could it? The answer, nope!
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, starts off with a house tour of the ghost that slimes Kristen Wiig that you see in the trailer. A tour guide is finishing up the tour and notices a knocked over candle holder. Then things start to happen and the man is frightened. He ends up in the basement of the house and it seems like as before the title card hits the screen, that this man has surely met his maker as the screen turns green around the man as he screams in sheer horror.
Cut to Kristen Wiig's character doing a mock college lecture which we see her dancing around which was used in the trailer. Ed Bagely comes up to her showing her the book she co-wrote with Melissa McCarthy's character. She denies that she co-wrote book and dismisses as she wants tenure from the university she teaches at. She tells Ed's character that she's not interested and it was all a joke.
Wiig's character goes to where McCarthy teaches and we learn that she's obsessed with Chinese food and wanton soup. Wiig's character is mad that the book got published without her knowing. They bicker back and forth before we are introduced to the worst character of the film, Kate McKinnon's character.
Let me derail this review for a moment to discuss the marketing. Sony was in a pickle because with the exception of McKinnon, none of these are remotely attractive. There's no real sex appeal. Behind the scenes Sony wanted Elizabeth Banks, Amy Schumer, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and several other actresses who almost all declined. And I honestly believe that Kate McKinnon was meant to be Elizabeth Banks. And I will go on the record to state, she's the poor man's Elizabeth Banks and it shows.
Wiig's character goes to where McCarthy teaches and we learn that she's obsessed with Chinese food and wanton soup. Wiig's character is mad that the book got published without her knowing. They bicker back and forth before we are introduced to the worst character of the film, Kate McKinnon's character.
Let me derail this review for a moment to discuss the marketing. Sony was in a pickle because with the exception of McKinnon, none of these are remotely attractive. There's no real sex appeal. Behind the scenes Sony wanted Elizabeth Banks, Amy Schumer, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and several other actresses who almost all declined. And I honestly believe that Kate McKinnon was meant to be Elizabeth Banks. And I will go on the record to state, she's the poor man's Elizabeth Banks and it shows.
In Midnight Edge's video above, at the time mark 17:35, it is noted that Melissa McCarthy fought on set with an unnamed co-worker. I honestly believe that was Kate McKinnon. Wiig and McCarthy have worked together previously and both have mentioned in frustrations over the film while in the same time frame on the video above. I don't believe it to be Leslie Jones as she's a writer and comedienne who has been doing this for twenty years whereas McKinnon has more or less been doing this for under a decade.
McKinnon's character comes off as the female village idiot next to Kevin, played by Chris Hemsworth. But, we'll get to that later. We are soon introduced to the villain and Leslie Jones' character in a subway station. Rowan, who is the name of the villain, makes a strange comment about Jones' character being the last one to die. Which after he leaves, causes Jones' character to watch him on the security cams and sees him going into the tunnels and she goes to investigate. We see Rowan is freeing a ghost. She freaks out and then we cut to something or other.
Now, we meet Hemsworth character who is a complete and total idiot who has some sort of mental retardation. But, then again, there's this over recurring theme of men being idiots. Hemsworth's character, Kevin, asks while in the interview if his cat can come to work. Then, he spiels on and on about how he doesn't have a cat and that he has a dog which leaves Wiig, McCarthy, and McKinnon's characters to question what he's going on about. Then Kevin kinda laughs and goes; "I have a dog called Mike Hat". Because a cunt joke can't be told in a PG-13 film?
So, Kevin leaves and we see Jones' character sitting in a corner and one of the women tells her that the Chinese restaurant is downstairs. Jones' then makes a joke about retardation about her cousin who is slow just like him and will work for cocktail sausages or something like that. Jones' tells the crew about the incident in the subway. We then venture to the subway and then we meet some tagger who spray paints the ghostbusters logo on the walls.
So, something happens and then we cut to the phone call about a rock concert about a possible possession. Then we have what we see in trailer, Leslie Jones has the ghost dragon on her, etc, etc, etc. Well, one of the only jokes that my fiancee laughed at was comedic actor Michael McDonald from MadTV saying something about screaming like a girl. Then, towards the end of the whole sequence with the ghost dragon demon, he screams and my fiancee was quiet. No laugh. I just sat there sighing the whole time.
So, we establish a smaller fraction of Rowan and the Mayor of New York who appreciates capturing the ghost. More horrible acting from Kate McKinnon going on about how she magically creates these weapons to fight ghosts. How did this happen? Within capturing the ghost to meeting the mayor, how did she magically make these weapons? More continuity errors are presented.
Bill Murray's character is a skeptic who believes that ghosts don't exist, he pops up once or twice before we hit the sequence where he meets the female Ghostbusters crew. He wants to see the dragon demon that was captured from the concert. McCarthy or McKinnon strongly advises against the idea to Wiig's character. Wiig unleashes it and due to poor effects work, we see Murray's character thrown from the building and is dead. I am not sure if it was meant to be funny that he's just magically thrown from the building.
So, something or other happens that leads the ladies to track ghost encounters on a map. They start drawing over a map with "X" for four locations. These four small "X" make a larger one once they trace it. The center of the map leads them to hotel where Rowan works. We got to the hotel where Annie Potts works because we needed another cameo. Somehow, while Rowan is working, he's building a device to unleash ghosts from the other dimension. How and why did he manage to build this at his place of work without anyone noticing it? How?
The women confront Rowan and he's killed by electrocuting himself. The ladies are there giving their statements to police and the book that McCarthy and Wiig's characters wrote was present at the crime scene. One of the ladies has a reveleation that Rowan's tech was not too far off from theirs. So, the book is taken from the crime scene and everyone leaves. However, McCarthy's little toy is left behind which starts going off, meaning there's a ghost hanging out.
We cut to Wiig's character being off on her own and the other three ladies are at the Chinese restaurant. Wiig goes through the book which Rowan has drawn and written over pages which causes Wiig to go to the Mayor of New York. While this is happening and Wiig's character has no knowledge of this, the Rowan ghost takes possession of McCarthy while she's in the bathroom. She comes out, McKinnon's character makes some comment about a metal rod that is then picked up by the possessed McCarthy character who starts breaking equipment with it. The fight ensues as seen in the trailer and Kevin pops up at the wrong place at the wrong time and this time totally dropping his American accent and going Aussie on it.
Kevin is possessed and high tails it out of there to start wreaking havoc upon humanity. At the same time, Wiig is screaming at the mayor that the end is coming, for no reason what-so-ever as she has no idea that Rowan is actually alive as a ghost. Possessed Kevin reignites his machine and ghosts start coming through. The sky is turned dark and now it's ghost's running loose all over New York. The military is brought in and Kevin magically possesses them and makes them pose, as if they are about to dance ... but, it cuts, which I will discuss later.
McCarthy, Jones, and McKinnon get their car hijacked by Slimer who is eating any and all food he sees. So, the three get to the hotel where we see the frozen/possessed soldiers and police. The giant twenty foot tall Uncle Sam shows up for two seconds before getting zapped. More ghosts pop up. Then as they are drawing in, we see a parade of float ghosts which are zapped and then out of nowhere, the fucking Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man lands on them and starts to slowly crush them. Wiig shows up and blasts him. They are all glad to be together, because, GIRL POWER. The soldiers then fall down after the ghosts are defeated for no reason ... again, I'll explain in a bit. The team goes inside the hotel where all hell is breaking loose.
Possessed Kevin / Rowan is waiting for them. Kevin is freed from Rowan's possession and asks the team what appearance would they like him to take, kinda like how we got the Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man from the first film. He turns into an animated cartoon of the Ghostbusters logo. Then magically morphs into a 400 ft tall version of the Ghostbusters' logo.
While they are fighting Rowan/Godzilla sized Ghostbuster logo, McCarthy starts shooting it in the genital area. The other three figure that a nuclear equipment in their car can be dropped in the hole to stop the ghost invasion, because why not? Slimer and his wife are tricked to driving into it while McCarthy is grabbed and pulled in by Rowan. The hole is mostly closed and Wiig grabs a rope and goes in to save her friend. Hole closes and then inside the ghost dimension, Rowan is evaporated into the ghost cosmos of sorts. Wiig grabs McCarthy and it turns their hair white. They are pulled free and no real time has passed from their time inside the ghost dimension.
Kevin pops back up while the ladies are celebrating their feat. Kevin tries to take the wrap for saving everyone while eating a sandwich. One of the ladies is fed up with his "special ed" antics and slaps the sandwich out of his hand. So, it flies out of his hand and someone throws him another one and there's a look of puzzled confusion on everyone's faces while Kevin starts munching on this new sandwich. The movie ends with them sitting at a table at a bar or restaurant with the mayor's aide telling them that they will now be government funded. Cut to the classic fire house with Ernie Hudson yelling at Leslie Jones, ROLL CREDITS.
Now, the unfunny thing, is that the end credits is a dance sequence from when possessed Kevin is controlling the soldiers and police. On the video above, at 13:27, this whole dance was in his original pitch to Amy Pascal. He envisioned this and Tom Rothman who is now at Sony took it away from him because it didn't help the pacing. This was cut from the film which caused Paul Feig to have a completely meltdown and cry uncontrollably while in production and post-production. Going back to 17:30, this is mentioned. It is awkwardly cut from the final product and it shows. This is was something that I brought up to my fiancee who noticed it being jarring as well.
Overall, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call is a horrible film and is definitely in the category of bad films with the Josh Trank 2015 Fantastic Four. The chemistry is non-existent as McCarthy fought with a co-star probably McKinnon and Wiig storming off to her trailer between takes. There is no real feeling of peril as the villain just comes and goes. The impending doom is not felt at all, similar to Trank's Fantastic Four; it's rushed. McKinnon is ultimately like the female Peter Griffin from Family Guy. Kevin's character is basically a rip-off of Brick from Anchorman.
Jones was the only character who was grounded in reality as she's the only one who gives rational real world solutions to their problems. I didn't laugh. My fiancee only laughed three times. And even then, she said upon retrospect, they weren't that funny. Ultimately, she thought that the film was bad film where men were made to be all idiots. Even she caught that.
McKinnon's character comes off as the female village idiot next to Kevin, played by Chris Hemsworth. But, we'll get to that later. We are soon introduced to the villain and Leslie Jones' character in a subway station. Rowan, who is the name of the villain, makes a strange comment about Jones' character being the last one to die. Which after he leaves, causes Jones' character to watch him on the security cams and sees him going into the tunnels and she goes to investigate. We see Rowan is freeing a ghost. She freaks out and then we cut to something or other.
Now, we meet Hemsworth character who is a complete and total idiot who has some sort of mental retardation. But, then again, there's this over recurring theme of men being idiots. Hemsworth's character, Kevin, asks while in the interview if his cat can come to work. Then, he spiels on and on about how he doesn't have a cat and that he has a dog which leaves Wiig, McCarthy, and McKinnon's characters to question what he's going on about. Then Kevin kinda laughs and goes; "I have a dog called Mike Hat". Because a cunt joke can't be told in a PG-13 film?
So, Kevin leaves and we see Jones' character sitting in a corner and one of the women tells her that the Chinese restaurant is downstairs. Jones' then makes a joke about retardation about her cousin who is slow just like him and will work for cocktail sausages or something like that. Jones' tells the crew about the incident in the subway. We then venture to the subway and then we meet some tagger who spray paints the ghostbusters logo on the walls.
So, something happens and then we cut to the phone call about a rock concert about a possible possession. Then we have what we see in trailer, Leslie Jones has the ghost dragon on her, etc, etc, etc. Well, one of the only jokes that my fiancee laughed at was comedic actor Michael McDonald from MadTV saying something about screaming like a girl. Then, towards the end of the whole sequence with the ghost dragon demon, he screams and my fiancee was quiet. No laugh. I just sat there sighing the whole time.
So, we establish a smaller fraction of Rowan and the Mayor of New York who appreciates capturing the ghost. More horrible acting from Kate McKinnon going on about how she magically creates these weapons to fight ghosts. How did this happen? Within capturing the ghost to meeting the mayor, how did she magically make these weapons? More continuity errors are presented.
Bill Murray's character is a skeptic who believes that ghosts don't exist, he pops up once or twice before we hit the sequence where he meets the female Ghostbusters crew. He wants to see the dragon demon that was captured from the concert. McCarthy or McKinnon strongly advises against the idea to Wiig's character. Wiig unleashes it and due to poor effects work, we see Murray's character thrown from the building and is dead. I am not sure if it was meant to be funny that he's just magically thrown from the building.
So, something or other happens that leads the ladies to track ghost encounters on a map. They start drawing over a map with "X" for four locations. These four small "X" make a larger one once they trace it. The center of the map leads them to hotel where Rowan works. We got to the hotel where Annie Potts works because we needed another cameo. Somehow, while Rowan is working, he's building a device to unleash ghosts from the other dimension. How and why did he manage to build this at his place of work without anyone noticing it? How?
The women confront Rowan and he's killed by electrocuting himself. The ladies are there giving their statements to police and the book that McCarthy and Wiig's characters wrote was present at the crime scene. One of the ladies has a reveleation that Rowan's tech was not too far off from theirs. So, the book is taken from the crime scene and everyone leaves. However, McCarthy's little toy is left behind which starts going off, meaning there's a ghost hanging out.
We cut to Wiig's character being off on her own and the other three ladies are at the Chinese restaurant. Wiig goes through the book which Rowan has drawn and written over pages which causes Wiig to go to the Mayor of New York. While this is happening and Wiig's character has no knowledge of this, the Rowan ghost takes possession of McCarthy while she's in the bathroom. She comes out, McKinnon's character makes some comment about a metal rod that is then picked up by the possessed McCarthy character who starts breaking equipment with it. The fight ensues as seen in the trailer and Kevin pops up at the wrong place at the wrong time and this time totally dropping his American accent and going Aussie on it.
Kevin is possessed and high tails it out of there to start wreaking havoc upon humanity. At the same time, Wiig is screaming at the mayor that the end is coming, for no reason what-so-ever as she has no idea that Rowan is actually alive as a ghost. Possessed Kevin reignites his machine and ghosts start coming through. The sky is turned dark and now it's ghost's running loose all over New York. The military is brought in and Kevin magically possesses them and makes them pose, as if they are about to dance ... but, it cuts, which I will discuss later.
McCarthy, Jones, and McKinnon get their car hijacked by Slimer who is eating any and all food he sees. So, the three get to the hotel where we see the frozen/possessed soldiers and police. The giant twenty foot tall Uncle Sam shows up for two seconds before getting zapped. More ghosts pop up. Then as they are drawing in, we see a parade of float ghosts which are zapped and then out of nowhere, the fucking Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man lands on them and starts to slowly crush them. Wiig shows up and blasts him. They are all glad to be together, because, GIRL POWER. The soldiers then fall down after the ghosts are defeated for no reason ... again, I'll explain in a bit. The team goes inside the hotel where all hell is breaking loose.
Possessed Kevin / Rowan is waiting for them. Kevin is freed from Rowan's possession and asks the team what appearance would they like him to take, kinda like how we got the Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man from the first film. He turns into an animated cartoon of the Ghostbusters logo. Then magically morphs into a 400 ft tall version of the Ghostbusters' logo.
While they are fighting Rowan/Godzilla sized Ghostbuster logo, McCarthy starts shooting it in the genital area. The other three figure that a nuclear equipment in their car can be dropped in the hole to stop the ghost invasion, because why not? Slimer and his wife are tricked to driving into it while McCarthy is grabbed and pulled in by Rowan. The hole is mostly closed and Wiig grabs a rope and goes in to save her friend. Hole closes and then inside the ghost dimension, Rowan is evaporated into the ghost cosmos of sorts. Wiig grabs McCarthy and it turns their hair white. They are pulled free and no real time has passed from their time inside the ghost dimension.
Kevin pops back up while the ladies are celebrating their feat. Kevin tries to take the wrap for saving everyone while eating a sandwich. One of the ladies is fed up with his "special ed" antics and slaps the sandwich out of his hand. So, it flies out of his hand and someone throws him another one and there's a look of puzzled confusion on everyone's faces while Kevin starts munching on this new sandwich. The movie ends with them sitting at a table at a bar or restaurant with the mayor's aide telling them that they will now be government funded. Cut to the classic fire house with Ernie Hudson yelling at Leslie Jones, ROLL CREDITS.
Now, the unfunny thing, is that the end credits is a dance sequence from when possessed Kevin is controlling the soldiers and police. On the video above, at 13:27, this whole dance was in his original pitch to Amy Pascal. He envisioned this and Tom Rothman who is now at Sony took it away from him because it didn't help the pacing. This was cut from the film which caused Paul Feig to have a completely meltdown and cry uncontrollably while in production and post-production. Going back to 17:30, this is mentioned. It is awkwardly cut from the final product and it shows. This is was something that I brought up to my fiancee who noticed it being jarring as well.
Overall, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call is a horrible film and is definitely in the category of bad films with the Josh Trank 2015 Fantastic Four. The chemistry is non-existent as McCarthy fought with a co-star probably McKinnon and Wiig storming off to her trailer between takes. There is no real feeling of peril as the villain just comes and goes. The impending doom is not felt at all, similar to Trank's Fantastic Four; it's rushed. McKinnon is ultimately like the female Peter Griffin from Family Guy. Kevin's character is basically a rip-off of Brick from Anchorman.
Jones was the only character who was grounded in reality as she's the only one who gives rational real world solutions to their problems. I didn't laugh. My fiancee only laughed three times. And even then, she said upon retrospect, they weren't that funny. Ultimately, she thought that the film was bad film where men were made to be all idiots. Even she caught that.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Who You Gonna Call? Not this Piece of Shit!
Ghostbusters is getting ready to come out next weekend. So, I had been discussing it with friends at my previous day job. I am with everyone that the film is going to be horrendous. The trailer does nothing in terms of selling me on it. It feels like the same rehashed bullshit about Melissa McCarthy being fat and Kristen Wiig being a goofy twat. And two other female celebrities who aren't as famous as Melissa and Kristen. And I'll address those two in a bit.
I will first say off the bat that while I did like the original films, I never fully went out of my way to watch them religiously like other people in the fandom. If you know me, I really love Godzilla. Godzilla is my thing and hands down I will watch a Godzilla film over anything else, even over Star Wars. But, going back, I still enjoyed the shtick and the chemistry between the original Ghostbusters team. Seeing this trailer feels like the same recycled jokes from Bridesmaids and the Heat just with ghosts. While I never saw Spy, I can pretty much get the assumption that it's going to be just that with secret agents.
Going outside of Paul Feig, the two films that Melissa McCarthy wrote and were directed by her husband; Tammy and the Boss, were horrible films that both myself and fiancee did not enjoy. Mainly, it was jokes about Melissa's character being fat and just screaming "Fuck" over and over again and it became a gimmick which got old very fast. I'm not saying that I don't like McCarthy at all, but, she hasn't reached her potential and like other comedic actors like Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, who fell into this horrid typecast which is sad. Vaughn did Lost World: Jurassic Park and the Cell. Wilson did Anaconda and the recent No Escape. McCarthy did a film with Ryan Reynolds called the Nines. That film which was three different short stories stitched into one film shows her play three very different personas which she did amazing. But, that film was nine years ago and she kinda fell into obscurity, in my eyes at least, until Bridesmaids.
But, when Ghostbusters was announced and that it was a female cast, I instantly knew that it was going to be Wiig and McCarthy. And ultimately, my fears were a reality. All though, even though she has said things about haters on Ellen, it's been revealed that Melissa McCarthy did not like the film's story and wanted to make something close to the original. That was something that caused much tension on set with her and director Paul Feig. Apparently, Wiig wasn't too enthusiastic about it either during the filming process. Sony has forced non disclosure agreements on all the cast and they can't trash the film at all, which is why they are trying to joke about the haters; even though apparently Feig's muse, McCarthy, made him weep and brake down several times during filming.
As far as the other two cast members go, Leslie Jones was in Top Five which is the only thing that I've seen her in. She was ok. My thing about the other chick, Kate McKinnon, Initially, the Sony heads wanted Elizabeth Banks for a role. That is clearly visible with how wacky Kate McKinnon acts in the film. Yes, I am saying she is second rate Elizabeth Banks. I also had the same feeling of deja vu while watching the film Ant-Man with Evangeline Lilly's character.
According to Wikipedia, the approximate budget for Ghostbusters is $154 million dollars. It will bomb. For the U.S, I predict, opening weekend at the most, $30 million and that's being generous. Ghostbusters is going to be contending against the following films which are packing heat; Finding Dory, Secret Life of Pets, Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year; as well as opening up against the Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston. At most, it'll probably end it's theatrical run in the U.S. with $50 to $60 million dollars. Worldwide, the film will probably make over $100 million total but fall completely short of making it's money back.
The backlash is that strong.
I will first say off the bat that while I did like the original films, I never fully went out of my way to watch them religiously like other people in the fandom. If you know me, I really love Godzilla. Godzilla is my thing and hands down I will watch a Godzilla film over anything else, even over Star Wars. But, going back, I still enjoyed the shtick and the chemistry between the original Ghostbusters team. Seeing this trailer feels like the same recycled jokes from Bridesmaids and the Heat just with ghosts. While I never saw Spy, I can pretty much get the assumption that it's going to be just that with secret agents.
Going outside of Paul Feig, the two films that Melissa McCarthy wrote and were directed by her husband; Tammy and the Boss, were horrible films that both myself and fiancee did not enjoy. Mainly, it was jokes about Melissa's character being fat and just screaming "Fuck" over and over again and it became a gimmick which got old very fast. I'm not saying that I don't like McCarthy at all, but, she hasn't reached her potential and like other comedic actors like Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, who fell into this horrid typecast which is sad. Vaughn did Lost World: Jurassic Park and the Cell. Wilson did Anaconda and the recent No Escape. McCarthy did a film with Ryan Reynolds called the Nines. That film which was three different short stories stitched into one film shows her play three very different personas which she did amazing. But, that film was nine years ago and she kinda fell into obscurity, in my eyes at least, until Bridesmaids.
But, when Ghostbusters was announced and that it was a female cast, I instantly knew that it was going to be Wiig and McCarthy. And ultimately, my fears were a reality. All though, even though she has said things about haters on Ellen, it's been revealed that Melissa McCarthy did not like the film's story and wanted to make something close to the original. That was something that caused much tension on set with her and director Paul Feig. Apparently, Wiig wasn't too enthusiastic about it either during the filming process. Sony has forced non disclosure agreements on all the cast and they can't trash the film at all, which is why they are trying to joke about the haters; even though apparently Feig's muse, McCarthy, made him weep and brake down several times during filming.
As far as the other two cast members go, Leslie Jones was in Top Five which is the only thing that I've seen her in. She was ok. My thing about the other chick, Kate McKinnon, Initially, the Sony heads wanted Elizabeth Banks for a role. That is clearly visible with how wacky Kate McKinnon acts in the film. Yes, I am saying she is second rate Elizabeth Banks. I also had the same feeling of deja vu while watching the film Ant-Man with Evangeline Lilly's character.
According to Wikipedia, the approximate budget for Ghostbusters is $154 million dollars. It will bomb. For the U.S, I predict, opening weekend at the most, $30 million and that's being generous. Ghostbusters is going to be contending against the following films which are packing heat; Finding Dory, Secret Life of Pets, Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year; as well as opening up against the Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston. At most, it'll probably end it's theatrical run in the U.S. with $50 to $60 million dollars. Worldwide, the film will probably make over $100 million total but fall completely short of making it's money back.
The backlash is that strong.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Really? Since January? Dang.
Hello, Dear Family, Friends, Fans, Stalkers;
As I was going through some stuff on my computer, I decided to hit up my blog. To my horror, there hasn't been a post almost half a year. I officially launched Orlando Eastwood Films. It was a proud moment in my life. On top of launching the studio, we licensed out our first feature film, Toaster. The Amazon DVD-R release as well as Amazon Instant streaming will be up and ready around the late Summer. Probably around the Mid-September.
July through September is also going to be a crazy few months. We're going to be shooting the first of many sequels to Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape. While Afterlife: Traumatic Possession 3D is on hold until we get American Nightmare 3D finished, we're going to make the first film in the "Alternate Universe" trilogy which is Simon Lange Reborn 3D. I'm leaving the term "cannon" up to the viewers as it's possible to see everything as connected as opposed to it being "Alternate Universe". Simon wakes up magically after being murdered and wakes up to find himself caught up in a mass legion of the dead. That's right, Simon Lange is fighting zombies! And he's not happy one bit about his situation as he ponders how he came to be reanimated himself.
In my personal life, it's been hectic. I quit my day job after working there for almost six years. I am working at a specialty store that caters to restaurants. It's different but, it gets the bills paid. I got to spend money to make money and I got to work like the dog that I am to make that money.
I have had a lot on my mind lately too, like moving my ass back to Hawai'i. I got my fiancee interested in moving there which was a hard task. We have been looking at real estate listings around the islands. It looks like we might move to the Big Island. Even though I was sick as a dog back then when I lived there, I did love living in Hilo. But, the studio will need to take off and fast so we can move there. Hopefully in another year or two.
And I am dying over here on my end for Godzilla Resurgence "シン・ゴジラ" to come out here in the States so I can see it. I have been watching the above trailer like a million times since it came out in April. I have my own theories on the film and I am excited to see how it plays out. I personally believe that Godzilla is not the only monster in the film. The supposed synopsis came out on Sci-Fi Japan which is a site I take no credibility too states that this film is going to the first time that Japan has seen Godzilla in this timeline. I call "Bullshit" to that. The rumors spreading is that he's supposedly the original Godzilla from 1954, much like the 2014 American film, and to give spoilers to a 62 year old film; he died. I can buy that he's the original Godzilla, he looks mean as shit like the original.
I also believe that this is not the only Godzilla in the film. It's still something that we haven't really seen with the exception of the dynamic that Godzilla has had with Minilla / Baby Godzilla in prior films. Toy sell sheets posted by August Ragone has two mystery toys listed as "Godzilla 2016: Monster A/B". As seen in the Parco ad above for Godzilla Resurgence, Godzilla is growing. At the ten second mark, look under the street lamp in dust; he has noticeably the classic large dorsal fins on his tail as opposed to the little nubs on his tails as we've seen in the trailer. So, "Monster A" could be Godzilla regenerating as he has been rumored to be.
And "Monster B" is another Godzilla. Again, going back to the Parco ad, it looks like there's another monster in the spot where the Parco Panda is standing. That looks like he's in a stance. Even in the trailer, he is roaring as if he's antagonized by something in the first shot of him roaring. But, we notice as the military is trying to kill him with tanks and helicopters is that it's not doing shit to him. We see the shot him look like he's about to say; "Really?"
I also have a studio announcement coming up for 4th of July which I am excited about. It's something that I have been wanting to do for a while. So, keep your eyes open for when we get to announce it.
-Orlando Eastwood.
As I was going through some stuff on my computer, I decided to hit up my blog. To my horror, there hasn't been a post almost half a year. I officially launched Orlando Eastwood Films. It was a proud moment in my life. On top of launching the studio, we licensed out our first feature film, Toaster. The Amazon DVD-R release as well as Amazon Instant streaming will be up and ready around the late Summer. Probably around the Mid-September.
July through September is also going to be a crazy few months. We're going to be shooting the first of many sequels to Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape. While Afterlife: Traumatic Possession 3D is on hold until we get American Nightmare 3D finished, we're going to make the first film in the "Alternate Universe" trilogy which is Simon Lange Reborn 3D. I'm leaving the term "cannon" up to the viewers as it's possible to see everything as connected as opposed to it being "Alternate Universe". Simon wakes up magically after being murdered and wakes up to find himself caught up in a mass legion of the dead. That's right, Simon Lange is fighting zombies! And he's not happy one bit about his situation as he ponders how he came to be reanimated himself.
In my personal life, it's been hectic. I quit my day job after working there for almost six years. I am working at a specialty store that caters to restaurants. It's different but, it gets the bills paid. I got to spend money to make money and I got to work like the dog that I am to make that money.
I have had a lot on my mind lately too, like moving my ass back to Hawai'i. I got my fiancee interested in moving there which was a hard task. We have been looking at real estate listings around the islands. It looks like we might move to the Big Island. Even though I was sick as a dog back then when I lived there, I did love living in Hilo. But, the studio will need to take off and fast so we can move there. Hopefully in another year or two.
And I am dying over here on my end for Godzilla Resurgence "シン・ゴジラ" to come out here in the States so I can see it. I have been watching the above trailer like a million times since it came out in April. I have my own theories on the film and I am excited to see how it plays out. I personally believe that Godzilla is not the only monster in the film. The supposed synopsis came out on Sci-Fi Japan which is a site I take no credibility too states that this film is going to the first time that Japan has seen Godzilla in this timeline. I call "Bullshit" to that. The rumors spreading is that he's supposedly the original Godzilla from 1954, much like the 2014 American film, and to give spoilers to a 62 year old film; he died. I can buy that he's the original Godzilla, he looks mean as shit like the original.
I also believe that this is not the only Godzilla in the film. It's still something that we haven't really seen with the exception of the dynamic that Godzilla has had with Minilla / Baby Godzilla in prior films. Toy sell sheets posted by August Ragone has two mystery toys listed as "Godzilla 2016: Monster A/B". As seen in the Parco ad above for Godzilla Resurgence, Godzilla is growing. At the ten second mark, look under the street lamp in dust; he has noticeably the classic large dorsal fins on his tail as opposed to the little nubs on his tails as we've seen in the trailer. So, "Monster A" could be Godzilla regenerating as he has been rumored to be.
And "Monster B" is another Godzilla. Again, going back to the Parco ad, it looks like there's another monster in the spot where the Parco Panda is standing. That looks like he's in a stance. Even in the trailer, he is roaring as if he's antagonized by something in the first shot of him roaring. But, we notice as the military is trying to kill him with tanks and helicopters is that it's not doing shit to him. We see the shot him look like he's about to say; "Really?"
I also have a studio announcement coming up for 4th of July which I am excited about. It's something that I have been wanting to do for a while. So, keep your eyes open for when we get to announce it.
-Orlando Eastwood.
Saturday, January 2, 2016
The "Godzilla Resurgence" Plan. Rant on the Release Date on the "Attack on Titan" Movies.
Happy New Years to all. Since myself and others are still working on the planned "Orlando Eastwood Films Channel", I just finished up the re-framing to 16:9 process on the first Public Domain film, The Abe Lincoln of Ninth Avenue.
We're working on creating 720p HD masters for broadcasting/streaming on our planned network. As stated before 2017 is aimed goal. Myself and the other people involved in the production are working very hard. Next movie I am working on reframing is Arizona Days from 1928, a silent western.
So, my fiancée and I have been discussing getting a new television as my old Vizio is hitting five years. And our plan, especially if we meet our goal with selling international distribution rights, is to get a very nice and oh, so sweet Samsung 4K Curve and with 3D on top of it to get the Stereoscopic 3D conversions created and finished for my films. And this is all for GODZILLA RESURGENCE! That's right, I am going all out and it's all for the King!
Going from the release date and how Toho is scheduling their home video release for the Attack on Titan films, I have until probably late February on 2017. Which leads to my ranting. I am sure Toho has some deal in place where the studios that licensed it out internationally cannot release it until it hits home video in Japan, IF and IF you want the original Japanese audio. So, the first film was released in Japanese theaters on August 1st and does not come out until February 17th. SIX DAMN MONTHS! I caught the U.S. theatrical release to which you've read my rant about shitty kids who shouldn't go to theaters and it's been practically three months all ready. So, let's question why it has to take this long.
These movies should have been released in time for Christmas to get that money for the holiday season. Because the first movie had a subtitled screener leaked onto the internet about a month after it's release. Damage control would have gone into effect ASAP if I had a say. Then, on top of that, in Russia, you can get a nice DVD copy sans Japanese audio. So, right now, on the internet you can get digital copies of both movies. That is money just pouring down the drain and that means that I just have to wait longer for these damn movies to make their U.S. releases stateside.
And enjoy SEKAI NO OWARI!
We're working on creating 720p HD masters for broadcasting/streaming on our planned network. As stated before 2017 is aimed goal. Myself and the other people involved in the production are working very hard. Next movie I am working on reframing is Arizona Days from 1928, a silent western.
So, my fiancée and I have been discussing getting a new television as my old Vizio is hitting five years. And our plan, especially if we meet our goal with selling international distribution rights, is to get a very nice and oh, so sweet Samsung 4K Curve and with 3D on top of it to get the Stereoscopic 3D conversions created and finished for my films. And this is all for GODZILLA RESURGENCE! That's right, I am going all out and it's all for the King!
Going from the release date and how Toho is scheduling their home video release for the Attack on Titan films, I have until probably late February on 2017. Which leads to my ranting. I am sure Toho has some deal in place where the studios that licensed it out internationally cannot release it until it hits home video in Japan, IF and IF you want the original Japanese audio. So, the first film was released in Japanese theaters on August 1st and does not come out until February 17th. SIX DAMN MONTHS! I caught the U.S. theatrical release to which you've read my rant about shitty kids who shouldn't go to theaters and it's been practically three months all ready. So, let's question why it has to take this long.
These movies should have been released in time for Christmas to get that money for the holiday season. Because the first movie had a subtitled screener leaked onto the internet about a month after it's release. Damage control would have gone into effect ASAP if I had a say. Then, on top of that, in Russia, you can get a nice DVD copy sans Japanese audio. So, right now, on the internet you can get digital copies of both movies. That is money just pouring down the drain and that means that I just have to wait longer for these damn movies to make their U.S. releases stateside.
And enjoy SEKAI NO OWARI!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)