Wednesday 2 December 2009

Hollywood Babble On & On #405: Miscellaneous Musings...

Welcome to the show folks...

1. YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP MOVIE

Just when you thought making a movie out of a board game couldn't get any lamer, Hollywood doth provides. Director Peter Berg announced that his upcoming adaptation of the board game
Battleship will feature naval battleships battling ALIEN battleships.

I always thought making movies out of board games was a form of pulling ideas out of one's ass, but now they seem to be reaching past the colon for nuggets like this.

2. WHO AM I TO BUCK A TREND?

Since I'm sheep like in my trendiness, I'm going to post this amusing little video about how James Cameron got the money for all those expensive special effects in
Avatar. (h/t Nikki Finke and it's NSFW)



3. AND IN SORT OF RELATED TO JAMES CAMERON NEWS...

Cash strapped prodco Halcyon is now selling off the props and costumes from Terminator: Salvation.

Now some folks are thinking of reviving the franchise somewhere else, all I can tell them is to back away. The franchise is cursed!

2 comments:

  1. Terminator Salvation was supposed to be the start of a trilogy. 2009 was a horrible year for big budget blockbusters. Terminator, Land of the lame were both bankbusters who lost out to smaller lower budgeted movies that succeeded on word of mouth not expensive PR and promotions.

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  2. battleship...more like battleshit.

    This is why HW is losing the 16-35 male demo to the Video game market. There are more xbox games coming out that I get excited about than films these days.

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