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“On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added

Matrix is a secure open source chat system. I wondered if anyone was interested in setting up a chat room for people in this community to get real time chatting.

Just an idea.

The new story is not meant to be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, the name of the overall arc of the popular and pop culture-dominating Star Wars movies known as Episodes 1 through 9. The intent here is to have brand new characters and a new story, and not have it be a continuation, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. (Although that does not mean that some characters could not or would not pop up.)

Kinberg already has strong Star Wars ties. He co-created the animated series Star Wars: Rebels with Dave Filoni as well as Carrie Beck. The Emmy-nominated ran for four seasons, from 2014-2018.

He also helped out on the relaunch of Star Wars after Disney bought Lucasfilm, acting as a consultant on 2015’s The Force Awakens.

Kinberg is an established presence in the genre space. He had a hand in the Fox X-Men movies, being one of the producers of Logan and the first two Deadpool movies, among many other creative duties. And he is about to go into production on Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King tale The Running Man for Paramount.

How long before this project is cancelled, or we never hear of it again! 😆

The article finishes with a reminder:

Lucasfilm has tried to chart paths forward before. Kennedy previously signed filmmaker Rian Johnson (Knives Out) to develop a trilogy as well as Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. None of those came close to fruition, with the company facing occasional scrutiny over the years.

Speaking with Gad about his new Dark Horse comic, The Writer, the Wolf Like Me actor said MGM would lock him in a Culver prison cell if he shared too many details about his Spaceballs sequel. Still, he did say, “Everybody who’s read it has been blown away. The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career.”

When pressed for more details, Gad continued, “It was sort of a fever dream that this all happened. Mel has been so unbelievably supportive, involved, and electrified by this because it’s the one that surprisingly got away. It’s a dream to be able to finally make the reality prophesied by Yogurt in the first movie happen. I can’t say more than that. I can’t tell you anything beyond [the] process at this point, but I can tell you every hour of every day right now is spent making this project closer and closer to reality — and I think we’re nearing the end zone here.”

Box-Office: “Venom” Sinks & “Here” Bombs by Garth Franklin

The first weekend of November, once a booming time for movie ticket sales, was more of a bust this year.

“Venom: The Last Dance” looks set to fall to $22.2 million in its second weekend – a decent drop of around 56% from its domestic debut – and will retain its crown as there are no other real contenders for now.

Rober Zemeckis’ new poorly-reviewed, VFX-heavy, Tom Hanks-led “Here” is looking to be a bomb on impact with just $5.2 million for the weekend – just over 10% of its production budget. It will debut in fourth.

“The Wild Robot” looks to be back in second place with $6.7 million, while “Smile 2” will be third with $6.4 million for its third weekend. “Conclave” closes out the top five with $5 million.

Out of the top ten, the Liam Neeson-led “Absolution” is looking to open at just $1.1 million, pretty much confirming his action film days are over.

Warner Bros. Pictures os not reporting grosses on Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” which is playing on 35 screens and reportedly did $90,000 on Friday night alone. That film scored very strong reviews but Warners seems intent on burying it.

Even though he gets some stick, the first Resident Evil was fun (I watched a few sequels but can't remember them), and I'll always have a soft spot for the original Mortal Kombat.

I vaguely remember director Uwe Boll's House of the Dead, which had an illegal rave taking place on an island that is overrun by zombies. It wasn't good.

TLDR

10 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Budget: £19.3m. Worldwide gross: £22m

9 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Budget: £2.3m**. Worldwide gross:** £3.2m

8 Strange Days (1995)

Budget: £32.3m. Worldwide gross: £13.1m

7. The Thing (1982)

Budget: £12m**. Worldwide gross: £15.9m**

6. Donnie Darko (2001)

Budget: £3.5m**. Initial US gross: £398,386**

5. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Budget: £2.45m**. Worldwide gross (approx): £2.54m**

4. Blade Runner (1982)

Budget: £21.6m**. Worldwide gross: £32.2****m**

3. Citizen Kane (1941)

Budget: £646,602**.**Recorded loss: £123,202

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Budget: £2.1m**. Initial gross (approx): £2.3m**

1. Vertigo (1958)

Budget: £1.9m**.** North American gross: £2.5m

The copyright to the original Tremors screenplay is now back in the hands of its creators at Stampede Entertainment

In short, Stampede created Tremors, it's three sequels and the 13 episode television series. They wrote a script for a fifth film, but Universal decided that it didn't want any help from the creators.

Universal went ahead with its own ideas and created films 5, 6 & 7, which are frankly crap. Now Stampede has the rights back to the original film, they can make their own sequels with graboids and characters from that first story. They can't use anyone, or creatures from the rest of the film series. That's a bit of a shame as I really like the Shriekers from Tremors 2.

One of Martin Lawrence's biggest hit movies as a solo star is going to get a sequel, with Sony announcing Blue Streak 2 is in the works.