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The new nostalgia: Releasing multiple updated versions of childhood memories

In the modern era of filmmaking, ushered in when Steven Spielberg accidentally created the summer blockbuster with Jaws, cinema has become increasingly linked with nostalgia. For example, the early films of Spielberg and George Lucas were inspired by their childhood love of 40’s and 50’s adventure serials, yet directors from the next generation (most notably …

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In Defense of ‘Tomorrowland’

It hadn’t been 2 weeks since its release when Brad Bird’s new film Tomorrowland had been dubbed a “failure” by the very studio that released it. In those two weeks the film was beaten at the box office by the sequel to a movie where glee club girls slid around in vomit, was projected unable to make back its reported 190 million dollar budget and became Disney’s convenient scapegoat for scrapping production on “Tron 3” – which caused internet trolls to take a break from complaining about Tron: Legacy and the abundance of sequels and remakes to complain that they won’t get to see “Tron 3”.

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‘Tron 3’ canned by Disney after poor performance by ‘Tomorrowland’

It looks like that new Daft Punk album won’t be happening. Bummer. The Hollywood Reporter broke on Friday that Disney would not be moving forward with a sequel to 201o’s Tron Legacy. The sequel was supposed to begin filming this fall in Vancouver, but it seems like the Mouse House isn’t too keen on diving …

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Simon Pegg pens thoughtful essay on ‘infantilization’ of mainstream films

Simon Pegg is still a nerd and proud of it. This week however the nerd community was ready to cast him out on account of some comments he made to the Radio Times. Pegg, who despite writing Star Trek 3 and leading the Cornetto Trilogy and likely cameoing in Star Wars VII, felt that he …

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Most Anticipated Blockbusters of 2015 (That Aren’t Already Hyped to Death)

Most of the most anticipated movies of the year, quite frankly, don’t need any more hype than they already have. You’re probably reading this very article nestled in your Avengers: Age of Ultron officially silenced snuggy (“there are no loose threads on meeee…”) or standing in the obsidian-dark shadow of a three-story Jurassic World banner ad. So in the name of shedding more light on those 2015 cinematic hopefuls that don’t have marketing budgets so well funded that they could stage a coup in a small Latin-American country, we’re taking a look at some of 2015’s lesser-hyped blockbusters.

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