1. Ant Man (2015) director Edgar Wright leaves the project due to "creative differences"
- If you did not know already, there is an Ant Man movie in development set to come out in July 2015 fresh off the heels of Avengers 2. Paul Rudd is playing the title character, and features a cast that also includes Patrick Wilson and Oscar winner Michael Douglas. The most interesting aspect about this film was who they got to direct, and that man was Edgar Wright. You may be familiar with his films "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". Wright is a very different director when compared to the other directors who have helmed Marvel properties, most notably his style which revolves heavily around comedy and humor; which made the Paul Rudd casting make a lot of sense. This pairing gave me high hopes for a film about a character who I knew virtually nothing about. You can then understand my disappointment when it was announced that Wright is stepping down as director and leaving the film altogether. What I have heard is that Marvel and Wright had differing views as to where the story was heading, and eventually caused Marvel to request a re-write of the script from one of their in house screen writers. The new script was presented to Wright who did not approve, and it sounds as if Marvel could either keep Wright or keep their new script. Read the title of the article and you know which route Marvel took. It is a sad piece of news, but if it means that the end result is a really awesome Ant Man movie, then I think most people will get over it. And do not worry about Edgar Wright, he is as talented as they come and will have no trouble finding other work.
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past Wins the Box Office with $111 million Friday-Mon Opening Weekend
- First off, if you have not seen X-Men: Days of Future Past; I honestly do not know what is wrong with you. Do you enjoy awesome things? If you do, then go see it. As for these opening weekend numbers I am not sure whether or not they are encouraging or disappointing. On the one hand, DOFP is doing much much better than X men first class, The Wolverine, and X men origins: Wolverine, and that is great. On the other hand, that's not really saying much. This film was tracking a couple weeks ago to open at around $125 million for the memorial day weekend, and judging by the crowd on opening night; that figure seemed very reachable. I don't know what happened. It didn't go under expectations for the same reason that The Amazing SpiderMan 2 did. Spider man underachieved because it sucked, X Men had to have lost that extra 15 or so million because the last couple X men films, with the exception of First Class, were sub par films. Don't get it twisted, $111 million dollars domestically in 4 days is pretty damn good, and this movie will make the studio buckets of cash; but I just can't help but feel a little disappointed. Let's not forget the important thing here, the movie was fantastic, and if you keep making X Men movies of this quality on a consistent basis then the box office will inevitably rise. Look out for X-Men: Apocalypse, which is the next film in the series set to come out in 2016, as this film could cross the billion dollar mark easily if it is of equal or greater quality. Nevertheless, the latest X Men film has me as excited as ever for the next installment in the saga, and that is all I can really ask for.
3. Alfonso Cuaron Denies Director Chair for New Harry Potter Spin-Offs
- JK Rowling apparently has missed the billions of dollars being dumped into her lap since the last Harry Potter movie came out, because we have more movies on the way that take place in that same magical world. The new movies will be based off Rowling's book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Supposedly the events of the story take place about 70 years before the birth of Harry Potter or something like that. All Warner Brothers sees is dollar signs, and rightfully so. If they can repeat the success of Harry Potter, then they will be doing cart wheels and grabbing each others wands. I had no interest in the project until it was reported last week that Oscar winning director Alfonso Cuaron was the front runner to direct the first film. Cuaron, famous for making last years "Gravity", also was the director of "The Prisoner of Azkaban". Throw in his knowledge of this world with his world class directing skills, and this movie could turn out to be something special. However it was reported today that Cuaron has declined the job due to his desire to stray away from visual effects based movies. He just wrapped a five year production on a movie that was all visual in Gravity; so it is understandable that he would want to stay away from the green screen for a while. He has earned that right to pick and choose his jobs, but it will be interesting to see where Fantastic Beasts looks next to helm this big budget spectacle.
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- Big D
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