Showing posts with label disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disney. Show all posts
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Travel Through a Real Black Hole -- Better than the Disney Remake?
Since the new Disney remake of The Black Hole will reportedly strive to be more scientifically accurate than the 1979 original film, the director, writer, and producers might want to watch this video, courtesy of New Scientist magazine, showing what it might be like to travel to a real black hole.
The Black Hole Remake Coming from Disney
Tron: Legacy has gotten Disney all excited about resurrecting its almost forgotten and often not successful early forays into big-budget science fiction. Next up is a reboot of The Black Hole, according to Michael Hickerson at Slice of Sci Fi.
Joseph Kosinski, director of Tron: Legacy, wants to direct a remake of The Black Hole, the 1979 outer-space thriller that Disney gummed up with annoying robots and scenery-chewing acting. (Other than that, actually, there are some pretty good points in the movie.) The new version will reportedly retain some elements of the old version -- including the unique design of the big ship, the Cygnus -- but will strive to be more scientifically accurate.
Hmmmm.
Joseph Kosinski, director of Tron: Legacy, wants to direct a remake of The Black Hole, the 1979 outer-space thriller that Disney gummed up with annoying robots and scenery-chewing acting. (Other than that, actually, there are some pretty good points in the movie.) The new version will reportedly retain some elements of the old version -- including the unique design of the big ship, the Cygnus -- but will strive to be more scientifically accurate.
Hmmmm.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Um, Didn't We Just Have a Reboot of the Fantastic Four? And Now ... Again??
From Slice of Sci Fi comes this: The Fantastic Four movie series, which was recently reborn with what I thought were two successful movies in (very) recent years, is going to be "rebooted" with a new production.
Oh, wait, apparently Spiderman will, too.
And this isn't even part of the Disney-Marvel marriage party, which will eventually see the Marvel movies migrate to Disney. It's just Hollywood silliness.
Oh, wait, apparently Spiderman will, too.
And this isn't even part of the Disney-Marvel marriage party, which will eventually see the Marvel movies migrate to Disney. It's just Hollywood silliness.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Why Is Disney Buying Marvel Comics?
Starlog.com has a short note that media giant Disney has purchased Marvel Comics for about $4 billion.
The New York Times reports that "Isaac Perlmutter, Marvel’s chief executive, will continue to oversee his company’s properties, including more than 5,000 characters that also include Iron Man and the X-Men." So who knows what Disney has in store for the creation of new characters or the print side of the Marvel comics universe, but it will certainly put it in a great position to exploit the characters in film and television. In the past decade, there have been numerous wildly successful Marvel movies, including the X-Men and Spiderman series and the first Ironman.
So it'll be great for business. Time will tell if it will be great for readers and other audiences.
UPDATE at 7:15 am: The Wall Street Journal posted the official press release. Read it here. In it, Walt Disney chief Robert Iger says those magic words that make fans' hearts go pitter-patter: "We believe that adding Marvel to Disney's unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation." Which means, they'll get richer. But hey, if it gives a sound financial backing to a major comics publisher, who's really going to complain?
The New York Times reports that "Isaac Perlmutter, Marvel’s chief executive, will continue to oversee his company’s properties, including more than 5,000 characters that also include Iron Man and the X-Men." So who knows what Disney has in store for the creation of new characters or the print side of the Marvel comics universe, but it will certainly put it in a great position to exploit the characters in film and television. In the past decade, there have been numerous wildly successful Marvel movies, including the X-Men and Spiderman series and the first Ironman.
So it'll be great for business. Time will tell if it will be great for readers and other audiences.
UPDATE at 7:15 am: The Wall Street Journal posted the official press release. Read it here. In it, Walt Disney chief Robert Iger says those magic words that make fans' hearts go pitter-patter: "We believe that adding Marvel to Disney's unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation." Which means, they'll get richer. But hey, if it gives a sound financial backing to a major comics publisher, who's really going to complain?
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