TV News and Juicy Images

Here’s a wrap up of bits of pieces of TV news and some movie images that are dying for your attention 😉

Dreamworks

It may seem pretty easy, making a production right? What’s so difficult about taking a proven fan-favorite character or characters and making something out of them for the masses to enjoy and give you money for? From a fan’s point of view, nothing difficult!:-)  BUT on the other side of the table, the ‘powers that be’ have to think and negotiate through budgets and rights…

Dreamworks Animation have spent $150 Million in purchasing the rights to certain well known and classic characters: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Dick Tracy, He-Man,Archie, Voltron, Gumby, Felix the Cat, Veggie Tales, Lassie, Where’s Waldo and the Lone Ranger.  Yes, if you’re as old as i am i.e. born in the 80s, you remember them!  Classic Media is a company that originally owns the rights to all those characters and it was grabbed up to.  Whether or not it means there will be an immediate production or re-emergence of those characters, we don’t know.  Guess we’re left with nothing but hope and anticipation for now… 😉

Source: Nerd Bastards

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CGI, 3D, IMAX, you can’t have a meaningful production based conversation and argument these days without dropping any or all of those terms.   It seems that every retelling/reboot/ or adaptation OR sequel has to have one of those terms appearing in it’s official synopsis to sort of add weight to it and win appeal. Maybe?  Case in point, Nickelodeaon’s upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CGI series. Have a look…

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AND the theme song, pretty cool i’d say

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Well, change is rarely accepted. Especially when we’re talking about beloved movies/series.  This may take time to grow on me, if it does…

Source: Nerd Bastards

Movie Posters

The Campaign

Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, the Jay Roach film pits the actors against each other as opponents in a political race for a seat in North Carolina.  The Campaign opens August 10th.

Lawless

Starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska, the John Hillcoat film is a throwback to the Prohibition era.  Lawless opens August 29th.

Source: Collider.com

 BONUS

AND…

From ComicCon, here’s what dreams and creativity are made of.

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