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Agreed. And McFarlane is good friends with Kunis, but Seyfried is in his new western comedy. There is a story there. I don't care for Seyfried much, but it's hardly important. Kunis was a shrew in the first one...bears before hoes.
 
Review: Eva Green gives a cant-miss performance in the crazy new 300 sequel

The first question that would seem to apply when regarding any sequel is "Does this feel like it is of a piece with the first film?" It doesn't have to be the same movie to be a successful sequel, but it should do something interesting. It should either be a response to the first film or a deliberately different type of film or it should build on some interesting story thread or it should enhance our understanding of the world or the characters. By that standard, "300: Rise Of An Empire" is a worthy sequel to "300," stylistically consistent and equally loony, featuring what may well be the first truly can't-miss performance in a film this year.

It would not shock me if, twenty years from now, people talk about this film the way they talk about "Poltergeist" now, simply accepting it as common knowledge that Zack Snyder "really" directed the film. It is so precise in the way it builds off the first film's visual style and so carefully built to wrap around the events of the first film narratively that it feels more like deleted scenes from the first film instead of something that stands alone. That may sound like an insult, but it's not. I would assume Snyder, who co-wrote the script with Kurt Johnstad, probably signed off on every single storyboard, and I am sure Noam Murro was given full access to all the resources that Snyder had at his disposal. It's remarkable how much this feels like it is simply more of the same story, told the same way.


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GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Director Ivan Reitman Exits the Helm; Sony Eyes Early 2015 Production Start in New York | Collider

“It’s a version of Ghostbusters that has the originals in a very minor role,” he said. “When I came back from Harold’s funeral, it was really moving and it made me think about a lot of things. I’d just finished directing Draft Day, which I’m really happy with and proud of. Working on a film that is smaller and more dramatic was so much fun and satisfying. I just finally met with Amy and Doug Belgrad when I got back. I said I’d been thinking about it for weeks, that I’d rather just produce this Ghostbusters. I told them I thought I could help but let’s find a really good director and make it with him. So that’s what we’ve agreed will happen. I didn’t want all kinds of speculation about what happened with me, that is the real story.”
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Sooooo it's a handoff/reboot.I get that this is gonna happen, just wish it wouldn't. At least it will make GB2 look good in comparison.
 
TERMINATOR: GENESIS Wants John Boyega to Play Miles Dyson’s Son | Collider

Would much rather see him in the Star Wars flicks, but the part in Terminator is a good fit. Read a thing the other day about how Ahnold explained how his Terminator has naturally aged due to the skin being biological. Ohhhhh kay. Can you explain why he will have that orange black hair that only old men seem to get when they dye their hair? I dunno, all the threats of Terminator going all time travel/Back to the Future just has me very leery that a franchise that has done nothing but disappoint since T2 will continue to do so in spectacular fashion.
 
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