What was it Jeff Nichols said a studio executive told him in a meeting? “We make $200 million movies to make $400 million, not $20 million to make $40 million.”

I was in the Green Party for a couple of years and I can attest they are an organizational mess. It's what happens when nobody's interested in being the leader who does the tedious, unglamorous stuff.

I’m tempted to write this off as another lousy international junk production, but Zimou’s involvement gives me (slight) hope, even if he’s not the same director who made “Raise the Red Lantern”.

It seems like many of the Bernie dead enders on my FB page could really care less what he has to say now. Right after the endorsement, the common words were “sell out” and “traitor”. Seems like reason isn’t something that’s going to work for them. They seem to be as much chaos candidates as the Trump die hards.

Can you imagine who Christie would pick to replace Booker? And “progressives” actually entertained that idea?

The campaign would get ruff.

Possibly, but some people who went to the event are saying that Fisher also said Harrison Ford shot scenes for VIII. It could be a funeral, or a flashback, however unlikely.

Also, you missed that Carrie Fisher revealed that Han Solo’s funeral will be in VIII. http://theplaylist.net/rian-johnson-t…

I’m really curious to see how what the “12 o’clock High” influence will be. That movie was a series of conversations with Peck and the men on his base. It certainly wasn’t an action filled movie, as it was more about military order and the toll it takes on the human psyche.

I was really surprised to find out that he’s younger than the actor who played Jojen Reed (who played Liam Needson’s kid in “Love, Actually”)

At the end of the day, it’s just good politics for HBO to have the author on their side, as they seem to want to be in the GRRM business even after Thrones. If that means D&D horse trading on story elements (George gets to keep Jon’s resurrection, we get Hold The Door), they probably think that’s a fair trade (if that…

Sorry, if I remember, I’ll post it. I didn’t actually hear it, but read an article that contained a few quotes from it, and it was last week, which, to me, seems like months ago.

I think I’m in the minority of people who preferred S1 of Leftovers to S2 (though I enjoyed it, also), but I’m really surprised how it got shut out, too. I thought at least Carrie Coon would be a nominee.

Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if in the book Jon spent hundreds of pages inside Ghost, which really wouldn’t work for TV.

I was really intrigued by Benioff’s interview last week on a podcast where he was cagey about how Jon returns in the books. He said something like, “I don’t know how to talk about that without spoiling George’s book”. It made me wonder if this was just the usual change from the source material for TV production sake,…

I think Emilia and, to a lesser extent, Dinklage the last two years, are just the automatic choices because they’re the faces of the franchise. I like them both, actually, but I didn’t think they had the material that allowed them to stretch this season (their best scene was the one together, ironically). I didn’t…

No Sophie Turner? That’s a real oversight.

Personally, I don’t mind Kaine. He seems like a logical choice. His one downside is he doesn't fire anyone up (note: I find that quality overrated in a VP pick since that excitement usually fades after a week or so anyway unless its a weirdo choice like Palin).

He would. Can you imagine a debate between Franken and Newt? But it’s going to be Tim Kaine. HRC is going to make the safe choice. Just get ready for it.

I hope you don’t mean as a potential launch for a presidential bid. If Clinton wins, that would be 8 years before another Dem would be up for nomination (assuming HRC ran for re-election) and would put Warren in her 70s by then.