General movie news thread

This seems....so specific

'Sex'-y love story of Berlin’s Terri Nunn and radio DJ Richard Blade to be made into biopic

 

Very sad. Cool actor. Disappeared in January.

Actor Julian Sands confirmed dead after going missing on winter hike in California

 

Explosive GQ Profile of CNN Honcho David Zaslav Mysteriously Disappears After 1 Day — Here’s What It Said

Maybe Zaslaw was just hired to take a chainsaw to WB - the guy who comes in and clears out the deadwood and then they'll hire someone with a more creative bent and better relationships with Hollywood to rebuild the company.

 

Aren't most movies "co-produced" by some Chinese entity these days to ensure they get on as many screens as possible - and with that, filmmakers make sure there is nothing to censor. See the the unnamed enemy in Top Gun Maverick.

Sidenote on that movie - given the classified nature of that mission at the end - would the flight deck crews even fully be aware of where the pilots were headed and what they were up to? Would they even know they should be fist-pumping when they get back to the carrier? How informed is ship's crew while something like that is going on - its like they were watching the mission on TV, not even sure they would be looped in on radio.

 

Yeees...a major studio biopic!

 

If its anything like the recent run of music biopics - done with the cooperation of survivors/family - it will be a hagiography paint by the numbers "and then this happened" kind of deal. I thought Ray and Walk the Line were excellent because they told a specific story (in both cases, musicians overcoming their drug dependencies) and didn't try to tell the life story.
Come to think of it - Rocket Man had the same plotline as Ray and Walk the Line.

 

Cocaine Bear was pretty damn entertaining, though I imagine people who haven't overly indulged in ya-yo at some point won't appreciate it in the same way, or if at all. It kinda reminded me of Sean of the Dead, like a black comedy that was occasionally ultra violent. It's directed by Elizabeth Banks, which no doubt helped attract some of the cast to this material, including Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matthew Rhys, his real life wife Keri Russell, and Ice Cube's son, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Not to mention Ray Liotta in one of his last roles. No disrespect, but his skin looked almost gray and in retrospect it's not surprising he died soon after. He lived hard man, but at least he died in his sleep.

Spoiler

He had a much worse fate in Cocaine Bear lol.

 

But did

My cousin who was a career Navy aviator said the final "pep rallies" at the end of Top Gun just don't happen - the deck crews would only know that planes took off with a shit ton of bombs and stuff and came back empty - that's all. With zero idea what transpired. Perhaps word gets out over a meal here and there, but generally flight deck ops are too busy.

 

That still isn’t the Bluegrass Conspiracy story I wanted to see made into a movie.

 

Now I’m intrigued about bluegrass.