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Doctor Who is like a nice car, originally advanced and ahead of its time, then it became a cool and desirable classic, more fun than useful, but now its a rusting pile of unserviceable junk just waiting to be scrapped because its owners didn’t look after it. This is a sad situation for perhaps the …
Welcome to a new series on Screen Wolf. With “Hidden Gems & Unsung Heroes” my intention is to give some long overdue attention to some movies and movie professionals that I don’t feel get the credit they deserve. To start, I’m looking at a trio of movies and an interesting phenomenon in cinema. Over the …
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With the 2023 wrap up out of the way, it’s time to take a look at what movies are coming to our screens in 2024. I’m doing this in two halves, so this is just the first six months. It’s worth noting that several of the big names were actually due out in 2023 but …
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When looking at the box office, in past years I’ve used a more accurate spreadsheet that takes into account the slight variation in percentage of ticket sales that goes to the studio for the opening week and global territories. This year however I’m just using the simple 3 X production budget formula. What that effectively …
The final part of my Skynet Trilogy, Terminator movie pitch. This is effectively the movie everyone wanted to see after the original film. Even after T2, the only thing that truly drove up interest was the idea of seeing the dark future and John Connor in action. So finally, we are here. But this is the “Revenge of the Sith” of the trilogy, it has to create the link between my trilogy and the original movie. Fortunately that’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
And yes, I totally used Norman Reedus as the older John Connor in the concept art.
Part two of my Terminator pitch, the Skynet trilogy. Here we avoid time travel and take a hard look at AI and the dangers of humans infecting it with their own biases. Then we blow up the world! Come in and enjoy.
Following on from my “Dead or Misunderstood” articles, here I present my bare bones pitches for a new Terminator trilogy.
The Second Part of my look at the Terminator Franchise. In this part I look at the first two movies and examine how time travel may work in the franchise.
So James Gunn has finally dropped the plans for the DC movies going forwards and it was a bit of a mixed bag and frankly overall somewhat disappointing. Not that I’m going to join the Snyder fans or Henry Cavill fanclub in calling it DOA before a single trailer or even casting decision. But my …
A breakdown of all the major movies due out in 2023. The good, the bad and the indifferent.