Hollywood Hotline - Week of May 30, 2024
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Howdy Hollyweridos,
Been kind of a slow week here in Hollyweird. Woke up Tuesday morning first day back from the three-day weekend to another doom-and-gloom panic article courtesy of the LA Times. Can’t they just let us rot in peace!?
Without further ado, let’s dive right in:
Cinema is dead! That’s a wrap! That’s all folks! Move along! Nothing to see here! Here’s a novel idea: why don’t movie studios spend money to make movies for theatrical release and see what happens? Book a 12 month release schedule, peppering it with various kinds of genres of various budget sizes and then use different marketing strategies for each title and demographic, respectively. Maybe have more than one tent-pole blockbuster title open on or around Memorial Day?
“Fable Studio, an Emmy-winning San Francisco startup, on Thursday announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial release, users will be able to watch AI-generated series and create their own content — complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and shot types, among other controls.” What could go wrong? Thanks, I hate it
AI can ruin your favorite movies when “upgrading” them to 4k. YouTuber Nerrel breaks down two examples from James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) and TRUE LIES (1994), respectively, and it’s pretty eye-opening just how fucking bad it all is. Why can’t we just get the original negative scanned a la Criterion and just move on with our lives?
The director of DREAM SCENARIO (2023), (one of my Top 10 Favorite Films of last year) is attached to direct and EP for MAX: “THE SHARDS is based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name, and is set in the early 80s and tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles High School friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. There is also a podcast which dropped in 2022.” This sounds like my kind of movie. Sign me up please.
Director Mike Flanagan is directing an EXORCIST spin-off. “The next movie here about demon-possessed people and the Jesuit priests that wrangle them is billed as “an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is NOT a sequel to 2023’s THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER per the press release.” This IP has been burned and buried too deep to be resurrected or reanimated. I have very little faith in Dr. Sleep operating on this patient.
Distributor Neon is on a hot roll in that they have US rights to Sean Baker’s Palm d’Or winner ANORA.
Coming Soon:
WOLFS - looks like ChatGPT wrote this shit
The other trailers, BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F., and REAGAN trailers I can’t even bring myself to watch, let alone send out in a newsletter.
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