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Sony Planning Male-Centric GHOSTBUSTERS with The Russo Brothers, Channing Tatum
http://collider.com/new-ghostbusters-movie-channing-tatum/

A new, female-centric Ghostbusters movie is set to begin production this summer, but Sony Pictures (under new leadership) is already cutting that film off at the knees. Deadline reports that the studio is putting together a “male-driven action-centric comedy” Ghostbusters film that will act as a “counterpart” to director Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters. Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo—who are currently in pre-production on Captain America: Civil War—are looking to direct and produce this “male Ghostbusters” with Channing Tatum and his partners Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan also producing. Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce has been set to pen the screenplay. This is all being put together under the newly formed company Ghost Corps, which includes Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd.

The hope is that Tatum will play one of the Ghostbusters in this other new franchise entry, and no doubt he has the starpower to launch such a film. But frankly, this whole thing is incredibly irksome. Essentially the studio is saying, “Hey guys we’re making a forward-thinking, all-female Ghostbusters, but don’t worry—the real Ghostbusters is coming shortly afterward with men.” This has apparently been part of Reitman and Aykroyd’s plan all along, and no doubt Sony likes the idea of building its own inter-connected Ghostbusters universe of films, but still the basic message is that Feig’s film is a warm-up to a male-centric (ie. “traditional”) Ghostbusters.
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jerseydevil said:
Sony Planning Male-Centric GHOSTBUSTERS with The Russo Brothers, Channing Tatum
http://collider.com/new-ghostbusters-movie-channing-tatum/
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Does THE BLOB Remake Not Have a Blob?
http://collider.com/the-blob-remake-simon-west/

According to West, The Blob remake might not feature much of a Blob. He tells Screen Relish:

“It’s going to be much more sci-fi than the original. It’s a bigger scale type of movie. It’s more Alien meets Predator and designing the creature is a long and involved process cause its very sophisticated. It’s not going to be the goo pouring through windows. So, that’s taking a while to design and construct that.”
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Wait...what?
 
Chris Pratt Could Join That Other ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie, Which We Know A Lot More About Now
http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2015/03/chris-pratt-ghostbusters-cinematic-universe/

Now Badass Digest provides an update on last night’s announcement from their Sony sources, and it ties back to those spin-off and Chris Pratt rumors.

First of all, this new Ghostbusters movie isn’t all-male. It isn’t ‘guy-centric.’ I spoke to three different people who were baffled as to where that came from. But it does have some guys at the center – the concept here is a movie that spins out of the chemistry between real-life friends Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt. […]

As for the movie itself: it’s complementary to the Paul Feig film. This isn’t a sudden reboot or a change of course. The plan is to have this new Ghostbusters universe feel big and have the kind of tonal variety that allows there to be a legitimate shared universe, not just a whole bunch of franchises running in tandem. What’s more, the hope is that after Feig’s Ghostbusters is out and after Tatum’s Ghostsbusters is out the next film will see the two teams co-mingling, Avengers-style. This is planned out, and has been getting planned out for some time – it’s not a sudden change of heart at Sony.
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Years of nothing and now this...
 
If people stay away from them, maybe Hollywood will stop making them.
 
KingInTheWest said:
If people stay away from them, maybe Hollywood will stop making them.
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Yeah but they won't. With the dearth of good movies folks fall into two camps. Youngsters who go based on name recognition, and oldsters who go to either sit and shake their fists or simply due to a misplaced sense of 'maybe this time...'. And one solid weekend is all it takes for a)the trend to continue and b)an eventual sequel.
It just is. Accept it and move on.
 
jerseydevil said:
Yeah but they won't. With the dearth of good movies folks fall into two camps. Youngsters who go based on name recognition, and oldsters who go to either sit and shake their fists or simply due to a misplaced sense of 'maybe this time...'. And one solid weekend is all it takes for a)the trend to continue and b)an eventual sequel.
It just is. Accept it and move on.
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I agree. And even when remakes do poorly, it seems like they're written off as the exception rather than the rule. Which is probably what they are, in box office terms.
 
adgy-san said:
I agree. And even when remakes do poorly, it seems like they're written off as the exception rather than the rule. Which is probably what they are, in box office terms.
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Exactly. They churn these out with relatively low budgets, most of the major decisions being in the casting. Then they take some hack(screenwriter/director) who sells his soul for the potential to garner favor. Lather rinse repeat. You can't stop this because...your average moviegoer.
 
jerseydevil said:
Yeah but they won't. With the dearth of good movies folks fall into two camps. Youngsters who go based on name recognition, and oldsters who go to either sit and shake their fists or simply due to a misplaced sense of 'maybe this time...'. And one solid weekend is all it takes for a)the trend to continue and b)an eventual sequel.
It just is. Accept it and move on.
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If they ALL die the deaths they deserve, then they will stop. But yes, not enough of them are going to die that death and the movie studios will keep making them because a that familiar name might sell six more tickets. I still can't imagine the Robocop or Total Recall remakes were successes under any definition of the word whatsoever.

I always find it deeply amusing that the Mission Impossible movies have absolutely nothing to do with the Mission Impossible television show, other than tarnishing the good name of Jim Phelps in the first one. But they are actually pretty good movies, certainly good enough to not need a little 'Mission Impossible' sticker on them.
 
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