Since modern movie making began Hollywood executives have always looked upon something successful and wondered "How can we do it again"? Whether it was the rash of formulaic teen comedies in the '90s that followed "Clueless" or the attempts to clone the Japanese horror trope of "The Ring" or countless other examples, movie studios and producers haven't been able to help themselves avoid ridiculous levels of copycat syndrome. All you need to do is cast a similar star, hire a director to mimic the first film's tone, find a way to make it just different enough to seem "original" and you've got an easy product to market to a global audience. The latest trend producers can't seem to get enough of? Rip offs of the Liam Neeson blockbuster "Taken" and that’s likely why someone decided to option Jean-Patrick Manchette's 1981 novel "The Prone Gunman” as a movie in the first place.
- 3/17/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Lets face it; most of us, if not all of us have dabbled with videogames at some point. Even if you haven’t and don’t know your joystick from your joypad you’ll have heard of the likes of Pacman, Sonic, Mario, Streetfighter and so on. Unfortunately over the years, video games that have been the inspiration for movies have ranged from rubbish to septic. But now, thanks to Wreck-It Ralph that trend has changed in a smashing big way. Finally, the words video games and movie can go together without people cringing, running away or feeling a little queasy. Wreck-It Ralph has been knocking around Disney since the 80’s where it had the working title of High Score. Fast forward to the late 90’s and that changed to Joe Jump. Mid 00’s it was titled Reboot Ralph and now, as you can imagine, it’s called Wreck-It Ralph.
- 2/3/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Reuters has launched ReutersTV, a new YouTube channel that will cover hard news, finance, politics and technology, the company announced Tuesday. The new channel is part of YouTube’s programming initiative, announced in October of 2011, which unites YouTube and almost 100 partners to create Internet-based programming. Reuters, with which TheWrap has a content syndication partnership, is the biggest news provider of YouTube's partners. Among the 10 shows that will air are “Felix TV,” featuring finance blogger Felix Salmon, “Tech Tonic,” hosted by social media editor Anthony De Rosa and “Fast Forward” a show...
- 1/17/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
We just discovered that a network is going to remake the infamous show of yesteryear The Odd Couple!
In case you are unfamiliar with The Odd Couple, it was originally a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, which was followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot is about two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing.
The show is about the two characters, one named Felix Ungar, who is a neurotic, neat freak newswriter (photographer in the television series), is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter. In its original Broadway run, Ungar was played by Art Carney and Madison by Walter Matthau. Matthau was later replaced with Jack Klugman.
Fast forward to 2010 and we hear that Comedy Central...
In case you are unfamiliar with The Odd Couple, it was originally a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, which was followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot is about two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing.
The show is about the two characters, one named Felix Ungar, who is a neurotic, neat freak newswriter (photographer in the television series), is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter. In its original Broadway run, Ungar was played by Art Carney and Madison by Walter Matthau. Matthau was later replaced with Jack Klugman.
Fast forward to 2010 and we hear that Comedy Central...
- 5/8/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
- Humor Mill Magazine
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