Oscar Contenders [UPDATED]

"The Founder" started getting screened for press and awards voters last week and the unanimous consensus is basically this: Michael Keaton delivers an incredible performance. He has just cracked the Top 5 and, who knows, he might go even higher in the weeks to come.

Taraji P. Henson added for "Hidden Figures" and Marillon Cotillard for "Allied" taken off.

Dev Patel is now being pushed as Supporting Actor. Matthew McConaughey gets added for "Gold" which had a very successful test screening a week ago. 

"Live By Night" also seems to be out of the race after this week's screening got mixed to polite responses and Affleck off-handedly acknowledged, on-stage, that it ain't a contender.

Martin Scorsese's "Silence" has NO poster, NO trailer, NO official running time and is STILL being edited as we speak, however the buzz continues to grow for the film. 

11.17.16

Best Picture
1) "La La Land"
2) "Fences"
3) "Manchester By The Sea"

4) "Silence"

5) "Sully"

6) "Lion"

7) "Loving"

8) "Jackie"
9) "Arrival"

10) "Moonlight"

Best Actor

1) Denzel Washington, "Fences"

2) Casey Affleck, "Manchester By the Sea"

3) Tom Hanks, "Sully"

4) Ryan Gosling "La La Land"

5) Michael Keaton, "The Founder"

6) Joel Edgerton, "Loving"

7) Viggo Mortensen, "Captain Fantastic"

8) Andrew Garfield, "Silence"

9) Miles Teller, "Bleed For This"
10) Matthew McConaughey, "Gold"

Best Actress

1) Emma Stone, "La La Land"

2) Natalie Portman, "Jackie"

3) Amy Adams, "Arrival"

5) Ruth Negga, "Loving"

6) Isabelle Huppert, "Elle"

7) Meryl Streep "Florence Foster Jenkins"

8) Jessica Chastain, "Miss Sloane"

9) Taraji P. Henson, "Hidden Figures"

10) Annette Benning, "20th Century Women"

Best Supporting Actor 

1) Mahershala Ali, "Moonlight" 

2) Michael Shannon, "Nocturnal Animals" 

3) Jeff Bridges, "Hell or High Water"

4) Lucas Hedges, "Manchester By the Sea"
5) Dev Patel, "Lion"

6) Liam Neeson, "Silence"

7) Ben Foster, "Hell or High Water"

8) Hugh Grant, "Florence Foster Jenkins"

9) Aaron Eckhart, "Bleed For This"

10) Stephen Mckinley Henderson, "Fences"

Best Supporting Actress

1) Viola Davis, "Fences" 

2) Michelle Williams, "Manchester By the Sea"

3) Naomie Harris, "Moonlight"

4) Nicole Kidman, "Lion"

5) Octavia Spencer, "Hidden Figures"

6) Molly Shannon, "Other People"  

7) Felicity Jones "A Monster Calls"

8) Margo Martindale, "The Hollars"

9) Helen Mirren, "Eye in the Sky"

10) Lupita Nyong'o, "Queen of Katwe"

Best Director

1) Damien Chazelle, "La La Land"

2) Ang Lee, "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"

3) Kenneth Lonergan, "Manchester By the Sea'

4) Denzel Washington, "Fences"

5) Martin Scorsese, "Silence"

6) Pablo Larrain, "Jackie"

7) Barry Jenkins, "Moonlight"

8) Paul Verhoeven, "Elle"

9) Clint Eastwood, "Sully"

10) Jeff Nichols, "Loving"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Elle"
"Toni Erdmann"
"Neruda"
"The Salesman"
"Under the Shadow"
"From Afar"
"Fire At Sea"
"The Age of Shadows"
"Julieta"
"Land of Mine"

Best Animated Film
"Zootopia"
"Kubo and the Two Strings"
"Finding Dory"
"Moana"
"The Red Turtle"
"Sing"

Best Documentary Feature
"OJ: Made in America"
"The 13th"
"Lo and Behold"
"Before the Flood"
"Weiner"
"Gleason"
"Cameraperson"
"Jim: The James Foley Story"
"Amanda Knox"
"Zero Days"

"Bleed For This" earns its blood, sweat and tears

*** (R)

Although "Bleed For This" does not break any new ground when it comes to Boxing movies, I was thoroughly absorbed by some moments in Ben Younger's latest film. No, it's no "The Fighter" or "Creed," those were two groundbreaking boxing movies that tried to reshape the way we saw the genre. "Bleed For This" is about it performances and, sometimes, great performances and solid direction can crack through an ordinary screenplay.

Teller is a joy to watch. Playing former champion Vinny Paz, Teller bings terrific intensity in his portrayal of the "Pazmanian Devil" a man that could never be counted out, even after a career threatening injury almost left him paralyzed. Teller never loses sight of the humanity, and cockiness, of Paz and it's in that realness of character that we come like the character.

His coach, Kevin Rooney, is hilariously played by a balding Aaron Eckhart, another possible, deserving Oscar nominee. Eckhart is one of the great unsung character actors and, these last few years, he's struggled to really gain back some of the momentum he had going in the late 90s and early 2000s with  performances "In The Company of Men," "Erin Brokovich," "Nurse Betty," and "Thank You For Smoking." Now he's had a kind of rejuvenation with this film and Clint Eastwood's "Sully."

The chemistry between Eckhart and Teller is the heart and soul of the film. The best boxing films are the ones that focus as much of their time on the goings on outside of the ring as much as in it. That's where Younger gets it right here. He decides to focus his attention much more on the characters than the actual ring. Wise choice, the cliches only start to appear once the final fight starts, before that the passion in the filmmaking and performances is beautifully rendered and showcases how driven an individual Paz had to be to get back to his best in the ring.

Reaction to Ben Affleck's 'Live By Night' seems to be mixed

There is a conspicuous embargo for Ben Affleck's "Live By Night" that won't be lifted until Dcember 21st, just 4 days before the films rolls into theaters. The film seems to be an old-school highly stylized gangster picture that will likely not be in the running for Best Picture, but might have a small, but pronounced following. It will also possibly try to sneak into the tech categories come Oscar night, but that might also be a long shot according to some sources. At least that's hat I've gathered from talking to people that attended last night's world premiere in Los Angeles, a screening that was mostly attended by pundits and Awards voters.

Even Ben Affleck had to lower expectations at the screening, saying that this ain't "Best Picture" material, it's more a way to delve into a genre he always wanted to tackle.

“This wasn’t a movie where I said, ‘Come on, we’re gonna win Best Picture,’” Affleck says. “This was a crowd-pleasing, genre movie. I wanted to do something really different from ‘Argo.’ I had planned this even before ‘Argo’ came out, but I wanted to challenge myself and this was really more deliberate and more classic where everything was determined and I knew where everything was going to be in each shot. I challenged myself that way and having Bob Richardson made it infinitely easier.”

Variety's Kris Tapley on the other hand has these safe, but cautious words to say about the film:

“It makes sense that Warner Bros. is leading the conversation on Live By Night with crafts,” Tapley wrote, “because all of those bits and pieces — as well as the sound design — are what could register in the upcoming awards race.”

An insider very much in the industry emailed me with this: "Hard to tell how it's going to fare, Jordan. (Off the record, just on background) I only spoke to a couple of LA Times colleagues after the screening. Of the three of us, two disliked it, one was mixed. WB and Affleck are doing their best to tamp down expectations. Affleck says he was going for a crowd-pleaser. I have a feeling it's not going to be a critics-pleaser ... let's just say that."

On 9.26.16 I had this to say:

"I know, I know. Ever since I have been doing this site I have pretty much been underwhelmed by what Affleck has done as a director. Not a fan of "Gone Baby Gone" and "Argo" I find those films not that visually exciting and Affleck almost parodying some of his influences. I will say that "The Town" features some great action, those heist sequences play like gangbusters, but at the end of the day he was influenced by Michael Mann's "Heat" and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" with those and it really isn't his own voice."


"Now it seems like he's gone the gangster route and, although this could turn out to be a pleasant surprise, the visual style is again a rehash of much of what we've seen in the past. I know someone that went to a test screening and came out underwhelmed by the film. Right now it is expected to com out late December, but this looks like the kind of film that would fit better with a spring 2017 release. "Gangster Squad" anyone?"

I have a particular interest in watching "Live By Night" for Robert Richardson, a cinematographer I have long admired that has a chance to really just let 'er rip with his photography here. Gangster pictures tend to be heavenly territory for cinematographers, especially if it's from a certain time period. The movie can't be all that bad with these kinds of images?

Finally! Trailer for Scorsese's 'Silence' being released next week!

I don't believe it until I see it ....

Source: Trailer Track

"Consumer Protection BC have rated the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s long-in-the-making epic Silence. And with a runtime of over two minutes, it does sound quite more substantial than the short sub-minute teaser shown off at a Paramount press event last month."

The 2010s have had a wide variety of really good science fiction movies

Ex Machina, Looper, Arrival, Edge of Tomorrow,  Source Code, Melancholia, Attack the Block, Upstream Color, Her, Interstellar, Snowpiercer, Inception, Gravity, Prometheus, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Super 8, Limitless, Under the Skin, Predestination, Dredd, Safety Not Guaranteed, Pacific Rim, The Martian, Midnight Special, Arrival

That's 24 good to great Science Fiction films in the last 6 years. I think we can safely assert that we're living in a sort of golden-age for sci-fi. 

1) The next time I bitch about how the only movies coming out anymore are sequels, remakes and Marvel garbage please LINK TO THIS POST! 

2) From a "WORLD OF REEL" commenter "This is why I call B.S. when people trash "Avatar" and say it didn't have any cultural impact. It reignited the craving for science fiction at the movies. Look at the years preceding Avatar; there was almost no studio backed sci fi coming out. Then Avatar comes out, makes the most money, gets some Oscar noms, and introduces alot of new technology, and it made studios realize they could make money hopping on board the band wagon and visionary directors figured out they could suddenly realize visions they didn't think were possible."

'Sicario' facebook page just posted this, hopefully followed by a trailer soon?

'Kong: Skull Island' posters

I like these, but I am still mixed about this remake happening. I thought Peter Jackson's 2005 film was well done and epic in scope. How can you really go from there? It might have had some over-length issues, but, man, if that wasn't as personal and passionate a Kong project as we're likely going to get. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is no Peter Jackson. Yes, he made an admirable feature-length debut a few years ago with "The Kings of Summer," but that was all it was: admirable, but slight. A full-length trailer is supposed to pop-up anytime this afternoon, so I'll edit this page with it when that happens.

We'll wait and see to find out how this 'Kong' film will turn out when it comes out on March 3rd, 2017.

Michael Shannon continues his Trump ranting, this time over at RogerEbert

No mincer of words.

Nick Allen over at Roger Ebert seems to have followed my crying call for all journalists interviewing Michael Shannon to please, OH PLEASE, mention Donald Trump to the guy. Shannon seems to be really pissed off about the election results and these interviews almost feel like therapy sessions for the him to unload. Hell, Nick Allen doesn't even mention Trump, it's Shannon that decides to have the conversation tilt towards that topic.

Full interview can be found HERE, but here are all the Trump quotes, which seem to compromise more than 80% of the interview. I was already a big fan of Shannon's work, but these rants just put me head over heels in love with the guy.

You can find yesterday's rants with Metro UK by clicking HERE

Thanks for talking, Michael. Happy Friday to you. 

[Pause] Really? [Laughs] Not so much. It’s not one of my happier Fridays ... now that the Orange Man is running the world. 

And Leonard Cohen just passed … 

I think Leonard Cohen died rather conveniently after Trump was elected president. I think he killed him. 

Can you make sense of any of that for me—how Trump was elected? 

Yeah, I’ll tell you how to make sense of it: This country’s filled with ignorant jackasses. The big red dildo running through the middle of our country needs to be annexed to be its own country of moronic assholes. You can call it the United States of Moronic Fucking Assholes. 

Do you think those assholes started off that way, or that people are inherently good and lost? 

I don’t know how people got so goddamn stupid. But it’s really weird, because it’s like the last eight years, now it feels like a lie. Like, this has been festering underneath the whole time. Racists, sexists. And a lot of these people, they don’t know why the fuck they’re alive. They know it. They’re doing drugs, fucking killing themselves. Because they’re like, 'Why the fuck am I alive? I can’t get a job, I don’t know anything about anything, I have no curiosity for life or the world.' So this Trump thing is like getting a box of firecrackers, or something. It’s like, 'Well, this will be fun for a little while, this’ll kill some time.' Because, y’know, the jackass will be amusing on television, stay stupid shit. Make everybody clap. Hillary would have been too boring, I suppose. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened. It’s the worst. This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don’t have any idea why they’re alive. 

Do you think this idea of purpose comes down to education, or finding a job that they like? 

I don’t know! I mean, yeah, to a certain extent I agree with Trump. Yeah, NAFTA was fucked up and people need to have jobs. People need to have a way of supporting themselves, they need a way of having self-respect, pride and dignity. You take that away from them, this is what you get. 

And it's particularly interesting then, if the life you’re living is as an actor. 

Yeah, well some people wonder like, ‘All you do is act, are you going to lose touch with quote-unquote reality, if you’re insulated?’ But, so far so good, I guess. I don’t mean to sound cocky, but I guess the one thing I always try to do, I always resist the notion that I’m sort of star or something. I still walk down the street, take the subway, try and stay in the real world as much as possible. It’s so you don’t become some insulated pompous asshole who doesn’t have the slightest idea how the world works. Like Donald Trump. 

'Being Jeff Goldblum' What could have been!

Courtesy of Gizmodo:

"Two years ago, Los Angeles art gallery iam8bit presented a great idea: an art show filled with work based on sequels that don’t actually exist. They called it SEQUEL—and now that show has its own sequel. SEQUEL 2 opens on November 30, both online and at the gallery proper. You’ll be able to find it here, and below you can check out a few of the pieces in the show. In each, check out tons of small Easter Eggs that hint at what each artist thinks the sequel could be about."

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' - Official Trailer (2017)

Taken from review of the original 2014 film:

"Maybe it's about time Marvel looked at a film like "Guardians of the Galaxy" and rethought its entire plan for future films. That is meant as a compliment to James Gunn's silly, but fun pop culture ditty. The outcasts in the film are so well written and portrayed that the execution almost feels all-too effortless. Sure the plot is kind of silly and its over-the-top climax a little too contrived, but the film's good natured message of friendship is hard to not like. Gunn also shows surprising flair for visuals, which bode well for his future and Marvel's as well. There's a prison breakout sequence that is too great to miss and reinescent of watching Lucas' original 1977 "Star Wars" for the first time." [B+]

Carrie Fisher Reveals She Had an Affair With Harrison Ford on Star Wars: ‘It Was So Intense’

No surprise here.

Fisher spoke to People about the affair, full article HERE

“It was so intense,” the actress-author, 60, tells PEOPLE exclusively of the real-life romance die-hard fans of the franchise have wished for since Han Solo and Princess Leia captured hearts on-screen. “It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend,” she says. 

After spending their first night together following a birthday party for director George Lucas, Fisher was wracked by self-doubt. “I looked over at Harrison. A hero’s face — a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow,” she writes. “How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes of me?” 

Although their unlikely romance took Fisher by complete surprise and ran its course once the film wrapped, she remembers the time fondly. “I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him,” she says. “He was kind.”

Paramount Rebooting 'The Green Hornet'

Gavin O'Connor ("Warrior," "The Accountant") set to direct a reboot of "The Green Hornet." If you remember director Michel Gondry's misbegotten attempt at the superhero in 2011 with, wait for it, Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet then you clearly wouldn't think this would be a good idea, but Paramount seems to think that there could be money to made here and for good reason. Superhero reboots are not uncommon. They happen. Just look at Spider-Man, you just keep on trying until you get it right. O'Connor knows how to shoot action like not many others in Hollywood. The action scenes in "The Accountant" were very well-shot and fluidly realized by O'Connor, he also brought a lot of grit to the boxing scenes in "Warrior." This makes sense, but remember ... It's already been attempted and the dire results have not left our memory.

“I’m beyond excited to bring The Green Hornet into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way; modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to The Green Hornet that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration,” O'Connor told Deadline.“I want to re-mythologize The Green Hornet in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time, incorporating themes that speak to my heart. The comic book movie is the genre of our time. How do we look at it differently? How do we create a distinctive film experience that tells itself differently than other comic book movies? How do we land comfortably at the divide between art and industry? How do we go deeper, prompt more emotion? How do we put a beating heart into the character that was never done before? These are my concerns…these are my desires, my intentions, my fears, my goals.”

“When we meet Britt Reid he’s lost faith in the system. Lost faith in service. In institutions. If that’s the way the world works, that’s what the world’s going to get. He’s a man at war with himself,” O’Connor added. “A secret war of self that’s connected to the absence of his father. It’s the dragon that’s lived with him that he needs to slay. And the journey he goes on to become The Green Hornet is the dramatization of it, and becomes Britt’s true self. I think of this film as Batman upside down meets Bourne inside out by way of Chris Kyle [‘American Sniper’]. He’s the anti-Bruce Wayne. His struggle: Is he a savior or a destroyer?”

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Godfather' Notebook

The Hollywood Reporter has posted about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather production Notebook. A sneak peek of sorts for an upcoming new book filled with Coppola's "Never-Before-Seen Photos, Handwritten Notes." "The Godfather Notebook" (Regan Arts, $50) will be available on November 15th in bookstores or, if you're a big spender, a signed $500 limited edition is also available and even comes in a "replica three-ring binder."

For more click HERE

Michael Shannon: "No offense to the seniors out there, but if you’re voting for Trump, it’s time for the urn."

Michael Shannon has not been holding back on his thoughts about President Elect Trump. I decided to post a few of the hilarious and dead-on quotes that have come out of his mouth the last few days because, well, Shannon is pissed off. Courtesy of Metro.

"I’m on tenterhooks here. I have two young children. Basically this man is probably going to destroy the earth and civilization as we know it. It’s kind of terrifying."

"The wall isn’t between the U.S. and Mexico; the wall is between people who voted for Trump and people who didn’t. And we’ve got to do something about it. I don’t want to live in a country where people voted for Trump. I want to live some other f—ing country. But I don’t want to run away. So we’re just going to have to bust thing thing up."

"There’s a lot of old people who need to realize they’ve had a nice life, and it’s time for them to move on. Because they’re the ones who go out and vote for these assholes. If you look at the young people, between 18 and 25, if it was up to them Hillary would have been president. No offense to the seniors out there. My mom’s a senior citizen. But if you’re voting for Trump, it’s time for the urn."

When the interviewer told Shannon that her parents voted for Trump and she doesn't know what to tell them he replied "F— ’em. You’re an orphan now. Don’t go home. Don’t go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Don’t talk to them at all. Silence speaks volumes."

Shannon is in, count 'em, six movies this year (Elvis and Nixon, Nocturnal Animals, Midnight Special, Complete Unknown, Frank and Lola and Loving.) The man is a working beast and it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon, he's set to be in 6 other films being released next year. 

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" Delivers FX magic, but fails to grip

This movie will make plenty of money at the Box-Office this coming weekend. Hell, the screening I went to of David Yates' "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" was filled with Harry Potter fanatics. You see, J.K. Rowling, in origin-story mode, wrote the film and has signed on to write 5 more! The year is 1926 and the fantastic beasts in the title have escaped from the suitcase of expelled Hogwarts magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). They are wreaking havoc in New York City.

Yates directed that last four Harry Potter movies although, for my money, Alfonso Cuaron's "The Prisoner of Azkaban" was the only film in the franchise to have any kind of cinematic edge or style. The film follows Scamander as he teams up with Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a No-Maj (i.e. a non-wizard or Muggle), magic investigator Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston of "Inherent Vice" fame) and her psychic, mind-reading sister Queenie (Alison Sudol in a sultry performance). They team up because Newt's beasts are being hunted by Wizard cop Percival Graves (Colin Farrell).

Here's the problem with Rowling's screenplay. It takes too much time introducing all the new characters and doesn't build enough drama in the process. Yes, she has to introduce a new world far removed from the one we're familiar with in the Potter books, but the film doesn't really pick up until more than an hour has elapsed. The saving grace is, of course, the beasts and the FX is tremendously achieved by Yates' team. 

Watch out for Niffler and Pickett, the highlights of the beasts created by Rowling. They invigorate the screen with enough magic to make you forget about a secondhand screenplay. Rowling's imagination can sometimes be contagious, but her ways of expressing emotion on the screen suffers [C+]

Jim Sheridan's misbegotten "The Secret Scripture"

From my 9.11.16 TIFF review for The Film Stage

"Writer-director Jim Sheridan has built a career off the plight of the Irish working class, with his best films (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The Boxer) all starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Lately, without Day-Lewis, Sheridan has been stuck in a rut of average American films (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Brothers, Dream House) and yet I still had somewhat decent expectations for his newest work, The Secret Scripture. It does, after all, star one of the very best actresses working these days, Rooney Mara. As evidenced in Carol, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Her, The Social Network, and more, she can detail a world of emotions with just a glance at her piercing green eyes."

"The Secret Scripture has Mara playing young Roseanne McNulty, a free-spirited Irish woman whose beauty lures every man in her small town, even Father Gaunt (as played by Theo James), who seems to want to relinquish his priesthood for a shot at love with Roseanne. She doesn’t want anything to do with it and instead falls for wounded soldier Jack McNulty (Aidan Turner). She shelters the wanted man as authorities search for him. Gaunt, knowing of McNulty’s presence, advises authorities, who then come to arrest Gaunt and kill him. That’s not all though: Gaunt also writes a letter to the looney bin, with the recommendation that Roseanne go to a mental ward due to “nymphomaniac” tendencies. Roseanne’s 40 year stay at the mental facility will be filled with abuse from nurses, a failed escape, and the supposed death of her newborn baby (which is Jack’s)."

"As the film jumps back and forth in time, accompanying the aforementioned Mara storyline — which is set at the turn of the 20th century — Vanessa Redgrave plays present-day Roseanne. A woman in her 80s, she ends up being visited by the chief psychiatrist of the hospital, Eric Bana, a man that tries to put the pieces of her puzzled story together. The plot structure is convoluted and all-too familiar, leaving almost no trace of originality or curiosity at the table."

With all that to consider, you’d also think Sheridan and Mara teaming up for The Secret Scripture, an adaptation of Sebastian Barry‘s beloved novel of the same name, could be a recipe for success. However, the result falls flat and all too conventional for the talent involved. The problem lies more in Sheridan’s direction than in Mara’s acting, which is to say that she does deliver another good performance here, but everything else does her talent a major disservice. Redgrave is also a stand-out, but the film feels like an Irish soap opera filled with moments that forcefully demand the audience to cry, get mad, and get riled up, and as a result, it perpetrates one of the biggest sins you can make when creating a feature film: a lack of subtlety. The end result is an experience that feels all too tidy and gift-wrapped.

"To make matters worse, a last-minute twist does nothing to help the film’s impending fate. It worsens it, in fact, by being one of the more implausibly ludicrous turns to come around in eons. As if this misbegotten movie needed more flaws, it ends with a Kelly Clarkson song that puts a toxic exclamation mark for what we had endured for the past 100 minutes. It’s a mess that might seem genuine and well-intentioned, but gives out the feeling that its creators have lost touch with what made Barry’s book praised in the first place. One should not give up on Sheridan, but in making The Secret Scripture, he puts another nail in the coffin of his once illustrious career and does a grand disservice to honorably old-fashioned, tastefully artful novel." [D]

The film hasn't been picked up for distribution yet and, given the negative buzz at TIFF, I don't know who would want to give this film a chance. Maybe a VOD release will suffice for Sheridan's misbegotten film.

'Beauty and the Beast' Official Poster

Michael Shannon fell sleep watching 'Batman v Superman'

How do you like them apples.

“People ask me about this all the time. Okay, I’ll tell you the god’s honest truth. Zack [Snyder] is gonna kill me for this – he’s gonna kill me. I watched it once and I fell asleep,” he admitted. “I know, I know… I was on an international flight and I was tired….I shouldn’t have been watching it on a plane. But I never go to the movies anymore! I don’t have time to see anything. I used to go to the movies all the time when I was 20 years old and wasn’t working 10 days a week.”

Source: Fandango

'Logan' International Teaser Poster

Disney Wants to Purchase Netflix

Good god, next thing you know Disney's CEO's will be candidates for the American Presidency. The monopolization of Disney is ridiculous. They will take over cinema and diminish the quality of movies, as if they haven't already done that, and they will most likely have no other competitor left. That's my doomsday scenario for you on this lovely mid-Monday afternoon. Read it and weep:

"A new report from TechCrunch suggests Disney is now eyeing to purchase Netflix, and the rumors seem to be intensifying after the announcement of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. While Netflix is king among the subscriber bases of platforms like Amazon, Hulu, and HBO Go, writer Peter Casthy argues it can’t match the content output the deal from AT&T affords. Plus, Disney is experiencing a massive decline in ESPN subscriptions."