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#197412
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Comics Fans
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Bryce Dallas Howard, aka the Blind Chick from that travesty of a film The Villiage. She's playing Spider-Man's new love interest in the the new movie...I must say the blonde hair is a MASSIVE improvement over an already impressive look.

http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/bryce-dallas-howard/

Also posting in Beautiful Women...


Bryce looks ugly with blonde hair.

Does anyone know what's going on with the film adaptation of Frank Miller's 300?
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#197407
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Superman Movie
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You know, as much as it is to imagine Superman ripping apart the Batmobile or Bat-Wing or any given Bat-vehicle, I'm afraid I can't go along with this Batman VS. Superman thing. It's just too... Freddy VS. Jason.

Now, on to the new thing from Variety.

Tights in a twist
Rival tentpoles test limits of studios' franchise factory

By TED JOHNSON

A year or so ago, Bryan Singer was working feverishly on a third edition of the "X-Men""X-Men" franchise when he suddenly jumped from Fox to Warner Bros. to take over "Superman." Shortly thereafter, Brett Ratner, who'd been working on "Superman," jumped over to Fox to take on "X-Men 3: The Last Stand."

This summer's battle of the comicbook blockbusters comes down to the Bryan-and-Brett show, with roughly half a billion dollars in production and print and ad costs on the line.

The switcheroo may be less a coincidence than a symptom of the uphill battle that any studio faces in trying to revive a lucrative and pricey franchises whose pricetag can run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

The value of these tentpoles can't be measured just in terms of B.O. and DVD sales -- or in their cultural cachet as prime movers of the dueling D.C. and Marvel comic-book dynasties.

The hope is that each will lead to a legacy of projects. "Last Stand" is the final "X-Men" film and Fox hopes to spin off characters into their own pics; Warner Bros., as it returns an important major franchise, is making plans for Singer to direct a "Superman" sequel.

Both projects will test the limits of the tentpole strategy in an era of ever heightened expectations for storylines and special effects; more sophisticated techniques of marketing and even a wider network of licensing and promotion.

By the time "Superman Returns' comes out June 30, the "S" logo will be used to sell everything from soft drinks to motor oil. And toy manufacturers hope that products like the Superman InflatoSuit will help revive a sluggish licensing industry.

In style and substance, each director has unique capabilities. Singer, 40, and Ratner, 37, both come with oversized, charismatic personalities (Singer speaks to the set via a voice-of-God like microphone; Ratner is notorious for juggling as many as three cell phones simultaneously); an affinity for the nightlife; a special skill at working within the system; and, perhaps most importantly, a knack for showmanship.

Singer chronicled his experience making "Superman" in an antic-filled video blog on bluetights.net. Ratner sent out holiday cards with him dressed as X-Men's Wolverine, surrounded by the other mutants.

The projects still generate almost a daily noise and speculation, such as "Superman's" long and occasionally disorganized shoot. (Warners execs say they're more than pleased with the results). Fan sites, meanwhile, have mused on such things as the size of Halle Berry's role (small in the first two, bigger in No. 3) and the size of Superman's bulge.

And, as with all high-profile projects, there is speculation on the budget. Sources say the budget of "X-Men" hovers near $150 million. WB says "Superman" cost $184 million. But as any studio vet can tell you, quoted figures have a way of being much different than actual costs.

Singer's stamp is all over the first two "X-Men" pics, and when he ankled the "X-Men 3," Fox turned to "Layer Cake" director Matthew Vaughn. But Vaughn backed out, reportedly because he didn't want to relocate his family to Vancouver for the length of the shoot.

Ratner was hired when the film was in pre-productionpre-production. He was an unknown factor to the actors who'd been in the first two. "It's always a test with great acting talent," says Marvel CEO Avi Arad, a producer on the pic. "But the talent got to meet and know him. If they had gotten uncomfortable we would have had a problem. But Brett is a real actor's director."

is straying from the usual marketing conventions. It is trying to brand the tentpole as a "thinking person's action film," in the words of studio co-chairman Tom Rothman.

Downplaying doubts expressed on a few noisy Internet sites, Fox notes that the franchise has been embraced by geeks and fans; a recently unveiled trailer, studio execs say, has been well received. And the pic has the brand recognition after the first two, which grossed $700 million worldwide

The marketing pitch is darker and more ambiguous than those of its predecessors. The plot, which hinges on what happens when a "cure""Cure" for mutantcy is developed, explores big ideas about identity and race. The posters and billboards are as moody as a fashion shoot. They show isolated X-Men characters posed against the somewhat cryptic copyline, "Take a Stand." The trailer, which debuted in March during "24," is similarly somber.

"We wanted this film to be different from all of the other movies in the summer," Rothman says. "We wanted people to stop and not have it be so immediately apparent that we're selling a movie. We're interested in selling an emotion and an idea."

Warner Bros. has taken its lumps in the press after laboring for some 13 years through different Superman ideas and reinventions (see timeline). The studio at one point abandoned it altogether after spending almost $20 million in production and development costs.

Singer's approach was to create a much more traditional story that is a loose continuation of 1978's "Superman: The Movie" and 1981's "Superman II," using parts of John Williams' score and even old footage of Marlon Brando, while at the same time injecting new twists and turns. In the new pic, Superman returns to Earth after a long absence, only to find that Lois Lane has moved on with her life. The big question is whether she or anyone else still needs a superhero.

"The best thing we did was to engage Bryan Singer," says Jeff Robinov, president of production at Warner Bros. "From the second he came on, a lot of the energy -- both positive and negative floating around the movie before that -- dissipated and shifted. It became about what Bryan was going to do. He had a very specific story in mind, and it is very different from any story we've had before."

There will be subtle deviations from tradition. The slogan "Truth, Justice and the American Way" won't be heard; instead, newspaper editor Perry White says "Truth, justice, all that stuff." It's a nuance that could help bolster international appeal, at a time when the image of the United States is not exactly at its zenith.

The studio also sees even greater marketability in the character than, for example, Batman, a franchise that was itself revived last year with "Batman Begins." That character's dark persona is harder to translate into toys and promotional partnerships.

"Superman isn't caught up in the same angst that other characters like Spider-Man or Batman are," says Gaetano Mastropasqua, Warners' corporate senior VP of global promotions and partner relations. "Superman stands for truth, justice and a positive way of life."

The studio is undertaking what it calls an unprecedented campaign to promote "Superman Returns" with corporate partners that include Pepsi, Perfect Match.com, Burger King, Duracell and Quaker State Motor Oil. The "S" Superman logo will on Quaker State's Q Line, used for high-performance cars like Ferraris.

The idea is to get across Superman's "power, strength and durability," Mastropasqua says.

Promotional partners for "X-Men 3" have not yet been revealed.

All of this stands in sharp contrast to the way the previous "Superman" feature franchise was launched in the 1970s, when few people took the idea of a big-budget comicbook picture seriously. Back then, Warner Bros. execs were indifferent when producers Ilya and Alexandre Salkind wrangled movie rights to Superman from the studio's sister division National Periodical Publications, forerunner to DC ComicsDC Comics. In fact, only when Marlon Brando signed on to play Jor-El did the studio take interest, and only then as distributor.

By the time "Superman: The Movie" was released in 1978, the budget had swelled to $110 million, and "we owed about $60 million," Ilya Salkind recalls. Only when two sequels were released in 1981 and 1983, respectively, did they begin to recoup their investment.

The franchise died out after the failure of 1987's "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace," which was farmed out to Golan Globus' Cannon Films. Although distributed and co-produced by Warner Bros., Cannon skimped on the budget, forgoing elaborate sets of Metropolis for a London industrial park.

After the success of "Batman""Batman" in 1989, Warner Bros. re-acquired the rights to "Superman" from the Salkinds, intent on reviving the franchise, but it struggled with how to reinvent the character as a feature film. Through four different directors (including Tim Burton) and about a dozen screenwriters, different scenarios were broached in which Superman is darker and more neurotic, and one in which Superman battles Batman.

Commercial prospects sometimes ran up against artistic efforts. When Burton was attached to the film, some screenwriters complained of demands to put in such things as spaceships that could be spun off as toys. And senior execs seemed reluctant to redo Superman as an existentialist hero, which conflicted with what enthusiasts have come to expect from the character. In fact, before they left their posts as studio chairmen, Robert Daly and Terry Semel shelved the project, which was later revived under Barry Meyer and Alan HornAlan Horn.

In marketing Singer's version, Warner Bros. has paid particular attention to the comicbook's fan base, some of whom were wary of previous incarnations and expressed their opinions so on high-trafficked Internet sites. Last summer, in the midst of shooting, the studio flew Singer via private jet from the film's Australian location to San Diego, where he screened footage at the annual Comic-Con comic book convention. The response was enthusiastic.

"You are never going to satisfy everybody," says producer Michael E. Uslan ("Batman," "Batman Begins"), who has started a new company called Comic Book Movies with financier M. Jonathan Roberts. "But if you can't satisfy the main part of the fan base, you are going to have problems. These are people who are not only schooled in the characters, the mythology and the history but also in the creators over the years. They know what they like."

(Additional reporting by Nicole LaPorte and Pamela McClintock in Los Angeles and Michaela Boland in Sydney.)
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#197401
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spider man 3
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197401/action/topic#197401
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
Sounds like a pretty convoluted storyline. Too many villains for one, and to my mind, Sandman seems like a lame villain choice - what can they possibly do with him?

If they did it right in the first place and kept with comic continuity, this all could've been sweet. For instance, Gwen Stacy in the original, have her die at the end when Spidey has to make the choice (like the comics); introduce MJ in the sequel, develop the second Green Goblin/Hobgoblin story to the point where someone actually assumes the identity by the ending...


I agree.

Shall I cut & paste the plot synopsis for those who don't feel like cutting and pasting the URL into their net headers?
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#197330
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197330/action/topic#197330
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I HATE THAT MY WIFE WOULD RATHER SPLURGE OUR MONEY INSTEAD OF PAY THE BILLS. SHE ALWAYS COMPLAINS ABOUT NOT HAVING MONEY TO PAY THEM, BUT WHEN WE DO GET SOME CASH SHE BLOWS IT ON STUPID CRAP.


I hate splurging as well.

I hate Daylight Savings Time. I hate losing that hour. And I hate it that they scheduled me to work at 7:00 AM on the day that begins Daylight Savings Time. Damn you, managers of GIANT!
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#197316
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BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197316/action/topic#197316
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Bryce Dallas Howard, aka the Blind Chick from that travesty of a film The Villiage. She's playing Spider-Man's new love interest in the the new movie...I must say the blonde hair is a MASSIVE improvement over an already impressive look.

http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/bryce-dallas-howard/

BTW: Use caution if at work...nothing overtly horrible just be careful.


You're crazy. She looks HORRIBLY UGLY with that blonde hair, like all the other ugly fake bottle blondes running around out there.
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#196824
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Superman Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196824/action/topic#196824
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Peterson still wants Batman Vs.Superman

Posted by Clint Morris on March 20, 2006

It was all set to go a couple of years ago, it just never, excuse the pun, took off. Talking of course about the much talked-about “Batman vs. Superman” – the script of which, has been widely available on the internet longer than Frank Castle’s been The Punisher – which director Wolfgang Peterson was set to steer into production, before he got a woody for swords and swords and went and done “Troy” instead.
You remember the one? In it, Batman and Superman have a bit of a skirmish. Capes fly, as they say. Everyone from Jude Law to John Travolta (priceless!) to Colin Farrell was apparently in talks to take part in the production. At the end of the day, Warner decided to ditch the idea – for the meantime anyway – and relaunch the solo adventures of Clark and Brucie, respectively.
There are rumblings that the Superhero teaming will happen at one stage, but not until after a couple of solo efforts for the new “Batman” and “Superman”, which would make sense. Having said that, it’s a shoe-in that both Brandon ‘Superman’ Routh and Christian ‘Batman’ Bale will reprise their roles for the two-hander.
IESB caught up with Peterson and asked him whether he was still interested in bringing “Batman Vs.Superman” to the big screen still – even if it is in twenty years time – and though he reminds that it’s “on the shelf right now”, he did confirm that “at one point” he might do it.
The script for "Batman Vs.Superman", by "Se7en" writer Andrew Kevin Walker, sees an aged Bruce Wayne - who lost Robin, the boy wonder, some five years before - retired from Batman duties and retiring with new fiancee Elizabeth. Unfortunately, Batman's old foes return just after their wedding - namely, The Joker - and Elizabeth is murdered. Hell-bent on getting revenge, Bruce dons the cape again in a mission to destroy the clown prince of crime. Superman, fearing Batman is about to cross the line and become a murderer like the criminals he chases, ends up clashing with the Caped Crusader over his motives - and the heroes are set on a violent collission against each other. Unbeknownst to the heroes, their actions are falling in line with a villainous plot by Lex Luthor, who is responsible for the resurrection of the Joker.