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All of you Tom Cruise fans or Herge fans know that although your movie ticket purchasing in the past helped the studios and actors out, your money is now in second place. Mission Impossible and Tin Tin are to premier outside of America. Why is that? Is it an economic shift? A test to see if it affect piracy? Is it the typical move of trying to take a billion people’s money before they open? It’s going to happen in India and it’s a shifting market move. Tin Tin is a month early, Mission Impossible is five days early. Video report is below.
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The Asian film concepts keep coming out. This time, it’s an author named Don Winslow, who writes thrillers and is now the place to get your blockbuster thriller movie ideas. Satori is a story about an American who’s raised in post World War 2 Japan and taught by a martial arts master to kill. Leo’s character also becomes a master of Go – a strategy board game, much like chess. In a Bourne Identity type story line, he’s trained to kill someone, then things go wrong, he gets crossed and then travels and sneaks through everywhere and we’re sure he’s going to end up killing his double crosser. But who knows, it could end up being different and it could become a series. (deadline – Satori)
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Remember this movie? Red Dawn was a huge movie back in 1984. Check out the photos below of Swayze, Howell, and Sheen. It was recently remade but not released. MGM went bankrupt, but here’s the big problem. In the two years since it was shot, China has emerged into a Mega Gigantic Superpower from it’s merely Gigantic Superpower status. Who were the foes in Red Dawn 2 – The Chinese Invasion? What film company wants to piss off China in any way? No one. Who wants to kiss their ass? Everyone. Who was peeing in their pants? The new cast of Red Dawn 2, the director, the releasing company, and the studio. Who are these guys below? The new cast. Guess who their new enemy is? It’s North Korea. Red Dawn is now said to be digitally altered from being Chinese to North Korea. Imagine… if they were trying to change it from Chinese to Libyans? Or Canadians to North Koreans. Or Mexico to Mongolians? (LA Times – Red Dawn Remake)
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It’s back to the Yakuza movies for Beat Takeshi and it’s about time. The film is a 2010 release and will be hitting the US in December. Outrage looks to be like one of his classics. It’s made the festival rounds and it seems like everyone has seen this except us which makes us think that it’s not a hard one to find. Or wait for it on the big screen. The reviews are mixed but that sounds about right for a Beat Takashi gangster movie! [youtube]VH9Auqz0A8I[/youtube]
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[youtube]PdnnC43Cotw[/youtube] In our age of Green Lantern, X Men, and the upcoming Avenger series, Japan has their own super hero redo, and it’s Zaborgar, a 70s kids superhero known as “Denjin Zaboga” which was a motorcycle that transformed into a robot to fight enemies using the commands by his helmet wearing “master”, Yutaka Daimon. But unlike the superhero movies produced by Hollywood that are now focusing on perfect CG and reality, this film is sort of an Austen Powers version that spends a good deal of time poking fun at the fiction and glorifying the groovy 70s. Some of the jokes are loud but some are so subtle, they challenge you to find more. The beginning half puts the character in it’s heyday it’s the 70s, where the technology is throw back future. Lit up buttons, rivets, and stainless steel paneling made for the right look. The lead good guy, Daimon is the product of a crappy upbringing. When the enemies, led by Dr. Akunomiya and the testicle bag of a ship invade Earth along with the heroine Miss Borg. She’s clad in a metal bra and is often fighting but also crushing on Daimon. The movie takes a comedic turn when it beams forward 25 years and the stars are now of a different generation. Daimon now is a driver, the secret police force are out of work, and the diabolical Dr Akunomiya is still up to no good. The results of the 25 year leap quickly turn into focus. Love children, robots, children turning into robots, cell phone babbling, and more. Noboru Iguchi, known for his low budget girl exploitation movies, adds a little bit of his boob funk to the henshin redux. See this at Los Angeles Film Festival. Sponsored by us (Giant Robot) *It was a live action show that’s been long forgotten and put away. It did air in Hawaii, and I’m pretty sure it aired in the mainland, as I recall seeing it.
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