Ehehehe. One of my fav horror stories posed that Charon used the subway to take souls to the underworld. Apparently, this put him in the living world instead of on the Styx for millennium, and he realized how all-fired bored he was getting. He started wanting company on his runs, so he prematurely takes the soul of…

Yeah, well, if you had to spend eternity housing people, would _you_ be Mr. Happy?

Can't grab cash if there's no audience to shell out, no? ;)

Humph—Universal should have done some thinking themselves considering how much money they are sinking into this franchise. ;)

"Edge of Tomorrow would have been so amazing if he had been left out of
it and the movie revolved Emily Blunt's character."

I honestly thought that he would turn out to be Leo Vincey/Kallikrates from SHE, given his surviving the plane crash.

Honestly, what this needed to really work was someone alluringly clammy like Alice Krige in GHOST STORY.

Ahem—Emily Blunt deserves high props as well.

Because he apparently badly wanted to do a horror movie and del Toro's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (which Cruise was slated for) fell through.

The prospect of Bill Condon doing Bride of Frankenstein is the best one of the lot.

This whole Dark Universe idea doesn't add up. How can Universal be sure fans of one monster will turn out for another—it's not like you have decades of MCU backstories to convincingly draw on. (And that's before you get into the generational not-your-Dad's-monster divide.) As well, there's a rooting/interesting…

Coulda been worse. The protagonist's early-draft name was Tyler Colt. ;)

You're welcome! He was the original Pal Joey on Broadway, so when he hit Hollywood, he played a fair number of heels before he gained good-guy stardom.

Ehehehe. Back when I was in college in Virginia, THE CHANGELING was sneak-previewed before a showing of SATURN 3. The former was so scary that the latter's badness came as a real relief.

The book "Roadshow: The Fall Of Film Musicals in the 1960s" has a nice blow-by-blow chronicle of Dolly's disastrous making.

Relatedly, Usher did a terrific step-and-charisma-perfect redo of the "Singin in the Rain" number for some TV special called "Rockin the Movies." Even a hard-core Kelly fan like my mom thought he was terrific—and she's tougher than I am. It's on You Tube.

Does this book cover the battle behind making "Hello, Dolly!" which Kelly (unfortunately) directed? Just about every major player on that set fought like cats and dogs/hated each other's guts, including him and Streisand.

Check him out in the noir "Christmas Holiday." His psycho spoiled-mama's-boy heir is arguably a Norman Bates forerunner. With Deanna Durbin as his unknowing wife. And they are both quite good, amazingly enough.

Hee. Theodore Sturgeon called that "The Kid Trick"—often used in soap operas to bring back angelic babies/kids as scandal-causing teens.

Nope—nothing could be more annoying than the Transformers franchise, just from the racism/sexism angle alone.