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The INDIANA JONES Movies Are Getting a 4K-Ultra HD Release

The INDIANA JONES Movies Are Getting a 4K-Ultra HD Release
Good news for fans of the Indiana Jones movies. Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm have announced that they will be releasing a 4K Ultra HD collection for the four films that exist currently. The Indiana Jones franchise is celebrating its 40th anniversary. You’ll be able to pick the collection up for yourself on June 8th! I can’t wait to watch it all in glorious 4k.

Each film has been remastered from 4K scans of the original negatives with visual effects work done to ensure the best and highest quality image. This work was all approved by director Steven Spielberg.

Scifi Staff by — March 16, 2021 in Movies/TV 0
First Trailer For The Mandalorian

First Trailer For The Mandalorian
The first trailer for The Mandalorian is here and it looks like it is going to be a wild ride of a show. Disney and Lucasfilm may just be able to bring Star Wars back from the brink with this show. I’m cautiously optimistic since Disney Star Wars has been a train wreck so far. Maybe they got the memo that we want actual great storytelling. That is my hope anyway.

This Disney+ series looks like it’s going to be pretty amazing.

After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.

The Mandalorian will arrive on Disney+ on November 12th, 2019.

Scifi Staff by — August 24, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
Avengers: Endgame On Track To Hit $340 Million In First 3 Days

Avengers Endgame On Track To Hit 340 Million In First 3 Days
Avengers: Endgame is killing it at the box office in it’s first 3 days. On Friday, it broke the record set Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015 for highest-grossing opening day. Endgame made $156.7 million on Friday, and $60 million in Thursday night previews. That beats the $119.1 million record set by The Force Awakens by over $38 million.

The new film is now expected to set a new opening weekend record at about $340 million in its first three days. Some think that it will hit the $350-$375 range.

This isn’t the manufactured buzz of captain Marvel where they stir up all of the “woke” NPCs with Brie Larson acting like an activist idiot about race and gender. There were no drives to get underprivileged girls into theaters, which would count toward the box office. And we are also not seeing any shady movie ticket buying where half of the theater is empty, yet those tickets have sold.

No. This is genuine excitement as this movie was 20 years in the making. All of the MCU has been leading up to it. These numbers will go way up.

Scifi Staff by — April 27, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
Daisy Ridley Says The End of The Rise Of Skywalker Was Changed While Filming

Daisy Ridley Says The End of The Rise Of Skywalker Was Changed While Filming
We got a lot of Star Wars news this past weekend. We got the first trailer for the film along with a bunch of panels and interviews at Star Wars Celebration. So some behind-the-scenes stuff was bound to leak out. Like the fact that the ending was changed during shooting. This info came directly from Daisy Ridley herself.

Once the movie comes out, maybe we will learn just how the ending was changed.

Scifi Staff by — April 16, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Teaser Trailer

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Teaser Trailer
So the new trailer for Star Wars Episode IX is finally here and… Disney Star Wars is as strange as ever. I want to have hope for this franchise but they don’t make it easy. Why is Kylo Ren chasing Rey in his TIE Fighter on the ground? Why does he not just shoot her? Why does Rey perform a Matrix move as if she’s going to cut the vehicle in half? As usual this is some terrible writing and editing, and this is JUST the trailer for this movie.

Also, that title sucks. The only thing that Disney has done with the skywalkers is to make Luke an A-hole who tries to kill his nephew, lives on an island all grumpy and drinks titty milk from a sea creature. Then he dies. So I don’t want any more Disney-Skywalker. The only good part of this trailer was Lando and even he is tainted thanks to the SOLO movie.

Here’s to hoping that one day Disney can get Star Wars right.

Scifi Staff by — April 14, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
New X-Men: Dark Phoenix TV Spot

New X-Men: Dark Phoenix TV Spot
The takeaway from this new X-Men: Dark Phoenix TV Spot? Do not mess with Jean Grey. Seriously. It’s a bad idea. Fans seem to be split, with half thinking that the movie doesn’t look great, while the other half sees a lot of potential. What do you think?

In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite — not only to save Jean’s soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.

Scifi Staff by — April 9, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
Zack Snyder On Batman Killing People – “Wake The F**k Up”

Zack Snyder On Batman Killing People
One of the controversies regarding Ben Affleck’s Batman in Batman v Superman was the fact that he killed. In the comics, Batman had a strict no killing rule. It’s one of those tough questions when writing Batman because if Batman were real, he would be forced to kill from time to time. On the other hand, his strict moral code is so ingrained in his character and is a beautiful thing.

During a recent Q&A, Zack Snyder talked about this part of Affleck’s Batman and the way he handled the character, and he was surprised that fans had a problem with it:

“Someone says to me: [Ben Affleck’s] Batman killed a guy. I’m like, ‘fuck, really? Wake the fuck up.'”

He explained further:

“I guess that’s what I’m saying. Once you’ve lost your virginity to this fucking movie and then you come and say to me something about like ‘my superhero wouldn’t do that.’ I’m like ‘Are you serious?’ I’m like down the fucking road on that.”

“It’s a cool point of view to be like ‘my heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn’t fucking lie to America. My heroes didn’t embezzle money from their corporations. My heroes didn’t commit any atrocities.’ That’s cool. But you’re living in a fucking dream world.”

via Comicbookmovie

Scifi Staff by — March 26, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
New Avengers Endgame Super Bowl Trailer

New Avengers Endgame Super Bowl Trailer
Marvel Studios has released the Super Bowl trailer for Avengers: Endgame and uh… It’s got a pretty depressing tone. We see some new footage from the film which shows the surviving members of the Avengers, well, surviving. Naturally, things seem pretty gloomy after what happened in Avengers: Infinity War. The trailer features Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, Tony Stark Nebula, Thanos, Rocket, Hawkeye, Ant-Man, and War Machine.

Scifi Staff by — February 4, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
Aquaman Is The Highest-Grossing DC Superhero Movie Ever

The First Trailer for Aquaman Is Epic
James Wan’s Aquaman has now become the highest-grossing DC superhero film of all time, surpassing Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.

According to Box Office Mojo, Aquaman has earned $1.09 billion worldwide. This surpasses The Dark Knight Rises, which earned $1.08 billion worldwide in 2012. When you take inflation into account, Dark Knight Rises earned about $1.187 billion, which puts it only slightly ahead of Aquaman. That’s not bad at all for a Superhero from the sea. Aquaman has now earned its spot as the eighth highest-grossing superhero movie of all time. There will no doubt be a sequel.

At a time when Marvel’s MCU is slowing down and featuring second and third-tier characters, this bodes well for DC if they can keep producing good movies.

Scifi Staff by — January 27, 2019 in Movies/TV 0
New Trailer For DC’s Shazam!

New Trailer For DC’s Shazam!
Warner Bros. has outed the next new trailer for DC’s Shazam! and it brings lots of fun and action. There’s lots of new footage here. This movie really looks like it will be a lot of fun. Among the scenes that we get to see here are young Billy Baston testing out his new powers, buying beer, and Shazam! battling against Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. If it is even half as awesome as it looks this movie is going to do very well at the box office. I can’t wait.

Scifi Staff by — January 20, 2019 in Movies/TV 0