While I’m surprised Skyline is still going, I’m not going to turn down the opportunity to see Scott Adkins and Iko Uwais go toe-to-toe.

My worry is Favreau has shown that he doesn’t only crap gold here - The Book of Boba Fett was bad and even The Mandalorian has fallen from its high point when it was simply Star Wars Lone Wolf & Cub. Going big as the movies demand, will see this diluted further. I’ll, obviously, watch it but Lucasfilm pretty much betting the farm on this and the Rey film (where Donald Glover’s Mando interests me more or something… different. Horror maybe) could turn out killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

The Bumper Book of Magic has been in the pipeline that a number of contributors are dead but the novel he is promoting now is the first in a series, we already know the name of the next one.

He effectively retired from writing comics in mid-2019 but signed a book deal with Bloomsbury for his short story collection and the five novel series we are starting to get. At the time he declared himself to be “bursting with fiction”. I’m not aware of anything that suggests he is ready to throw the towel in quite yet. In fact, he seems reinvigorated.

Does “disrupted business environment” include releasing a series of flops?

• Megalopolis
• Never Let Go
• The Crow
• Borderlands
• Boy Kills World
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Imaginary
• Expend4bles

There’s nothing that looks like it’ll make them any money appearing from them until the middle of next year and they are all sequels/prequels/remakes (John Wick, Hunger Games, Saw, Dirty Dancing, and Now You See Me).

Lucky they now have an AI deal to help replace all the people they are sacking, when they really need help with quality control.

Yeah, I watched it in my local fleapit when it was out with a bunch of my friends, we were pretty disappointed.

I wonder if he’s in a tricky position where he needs big names attached to get funding.

“That’s a wild idea Terry, but who’s starring in it that I’ve heard of?”

It seems to date back to The Fisher King after he ran out of Python momentum in the 80s.

So… “use AI”?

Hellboy’s back in cinemas

Not for the Yanks, it ain’t!

But what’s noteworthy about Hellboy: The Crooked Man (directed by Crank co-director Brian Taylor) is just how small-scale it looks compared to the visually sumptuous movies director Guillermo del Toro served up in the 2000s.

This was intentional - most Hellboy stories are small-scale. I love GdT’s original Hellboy but it wasn’t really your average Hellboy tale, going full Avengers Endgame without the build-up.

I didn’t know this would work.

and not including Everything Everywhere All at Once?

It’s #4

They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

Have you considered it’s because of this?:

My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

I wouldn’t run an instance that didn’t allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn’t seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

Pinning threads is buggy across instances.

Not having Enter the Dragon at #1 is just messing with us.

Glad Shang-Chi got a mention, as well as EEAAO, as both films had top notch action choreography (the former just lost it in the last act) - the Martial Club (especially Andy Le) did great work on both and have a tonne of behind the scenes videos on their YouTube channel (been a bit quiet recently so they may be working on something new).

His films of the last 25 years have been both critical and commercial misfires.

That’s the problem and that plot outline, while sounding like something he can get his teeth into, doesn’t have the look of box office gold.

• House (1977)
• The Drifting Classroom.(1987)
• The Happiness of the Katakuris (2003)
• Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
• Executive Koala (2006)
• Big Man Japan (2007)
• Fish Story (2009)
• HK: Hentai Kamen (2013)

That’s one Hell of a 5 year run!

I also appreciate the fact that they didn’t include JCVD, as it would have given the list a note of… “seriousness” or “credibility” but you do have to have a few of his films under your belt before watching it. They could also have thrown in Predator for the surprise factor but the graphic may wink to that.

We dodged a bullet there.

I don’t think they liked it.

Is it wrong that this kinda makes me want to watch it more?

There aren’t many remakes where you think “well that is overdue”.

The only ones I am looking forward to are Edgar Wright’s Running Man and Barbarella but they are technically re-adaptations.

Well that didn’t take long.