That's an odd choice on their part. The Mars Trilogy is pretty high concept SF with a lot of discussion about terraforming, philosophy, and societal development (especially in the second and third books). It also has a large sprawling cast.

Hurray, it's another Star Trek movie! It's totally cool to see another NuTrek movie . . . right? Maybe?

Anyone want to take odds on whether they'll reinvent the series versus literally doing the same damn storyline and thematic setup they did for both of the previous sequels, except with someone new to be the "rookie shown the ropes"?

See, that would be a worthy Futurama joke in its own right.

Definitely mixed feelings on this. "Yay, I'm glad Futurama is back in some form!" and "Oh no, it's just a mobile game!"

You joke, but I'll bet they'll get a super-star set of actors for this movie in addition to Branagh.

I wonder what he'll bring to it. The most recent one I saw with Suchet was really good because it showed Poirot as actually being angry and upset, whereas in the original story he was just "Welp! On to the next case!"

I don't get it, either - especially since the original movie was not a big box office success. I could imagine movies set in that universe (and Soldier sort-of was), but the movie itself had a great ending in the Final Cut and was effectively a closed story. What's the point of dragging Deckard back again?

Oh, joy. I eagerly await the trailer where they somehow shoehorn in a giant battle with goddamn horn music overlay near the end of it.

I liked it, although I'd prefer it honestly if a Warcraft movie started smaller and escalated. That's basically what happened in the first Warcraft game - the Orcs started showing up in Azeroth in growing numbers, and while the humans had some initial successes the Orcs eventually got their shit together in terms of…

Perry's victory is even more impressive when you consider that Perry's not riding off of a highly successful album that came out only about a year ago, like with Swift. Prism came out nearly three years ago.

I'm stoked. I loved Crystal Skull, and would love another Indy movie.

Eh, Grint's sitting on what, $30-40 million? He can afford to indulge. IIRC He barely had any major personal expenses before the Harry Potter films ended, because he was living with his parents.

Did they change up her appearance for this? I could have sworn Kara in the demo looked like Ellen Page too (continuing Cage's Ellen Page fixation).

Christ, that still pisses me off. What an ignoble way to end one of the Great Franchises in the video game business - imagine if all future Mario games were cancelled except for a shitty Tetris knock-off (that's the sound of a Dr Mario shaped boot stomping on the face of Mario fans, forever).

I loved The Blair Witch project. Found footage can be annoying, but they used it effectively to get you to self-insert into the characters' plight - their fear of the night noises, growing exhaustion from being lost, and so forth.

Witch Hunter looked like one of those C-grade action fantasy movies, like I Frankenstein or whatever the hell Underworld or Resident Evil* movie we're on. I can see why it tanked - those always seem rather generic and bleh. You won't really walk away feeling that you wasted your time, but it's not a movie you'd…

That's disappointing. I liked the idea that essentially he'd had "enough trouble for a life-time" by the end of the 7th book, and his adult years were much more banal and satisfied.

Native Americans serve as shallow window dressing, papering over anything remotely supernatural in the plot with claptrap about “indigenous mysticism.” The script is written in a way that shows no sort of engagement with actual indigenous peoples or their beliefs,

That sounds fantastic. It might be cheap enough so that you'll see a lot more people trying out home-made motion-capture-and-CGI for short videos.