General movie news thread

I'm in

 

Filmed two years ago, will be released 12/13.

 

https://deadline.com/2024/10/the-running-man-josh-brolin-glen-powell-edgar-wright-1236119282/

Its funny, because Steve Harvey really would have been good in it. I've seen Wayne Brady play scummy guys as well.

 

What the fuck ending are they going to use for Running Man? They can't use the book ending. No fucking way would any studio have the balls.

 

This won’t end until Macchio dies, right?

 

Yeah, flying a plane into a building isn’t gonna be a thing for a long, long time.

 

Conclave is getting awesome reviews.

 

Very much want to see it. Naturally, it's not showing in my town, so may have to drive an hour tomorrow or something.

 

Not exactly "breaking news" but I was this many years old when I found out the same guy who produced all those schlocky Elvis movies in the 1960s also produced Casablanca and True Grit. Hal Wallis had range.
Imagine you are Elvis and you are signing a 10-picture deal or whatever it was thinking "Man, I'm going to be a big movie star!" only to end up in "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "Kissing Cousins" - they cranked out two or three a year of those things.

 

Yes, he did three a year starting in 1962. Most are super goofy. Blue Hawaii and Viva Las Vegas are considered his best. Had a random assortment of sidekicks in those movies....the mayor from Animal House, Schneider from One Day at a Time, Takagi from Die Hard....

And Elvis played a racecar driver in a bunch of them.!

 

I don't think Elvis had much thought about the artistic merit of what he was doing - As long as Parker said to do it, and it helped pay some bills so that he could focus on his true passions, like grooming a 14-year-old.

 

Saw Wicked last night. Amazon Prime members got a special preview night and we were near a theater hosting it.
Now, I'm not a huge "song and dance" musical person. But I do have a soft spot for Wizard of Oz stuff and have seen the stage show six times (my wife is obsessed) and read the book series it was created off of.

Plain and simple: It lives up to the hype.

We brought a friend who had never seen the stage version and she was in love it with. They stick to the play's storyline, they added background where it needed to be added (and to give a C-type plot that the stage version kind of left behind), and the visuals are everything a stage production can't give because of it not having the ability to switch scenery to that crazy of an extent.
Plus, some fun cameos.