37 Things We Learned from J.J. Abrams s Super 8 Commentary Thank you, Steven. where we sit and listen to filmmakers talk about their work, then share the most interesting parts. In this edition, Rob Hunter revisits Amblin’s triumphant return to YA action/adventure, Super 8.
Steven Spielberg‘s production company, Amblin Entertainment, began life with some more traditional comedies, but it quickly became synonymous with with family friendly genre adventures. 1982’s
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial started that ball rolling, and the years that followed saw Amblin produce the likes of
Gremlins (1984),
Harry and the Hendersons (1987),
Arachnophobia (1990), and more.
The company slowly moved away from such fare, but 2011 brought their first new stab at it since 1998’s
This week's new Blu-ray releases include the fifteenth and final season of Supernatural as well as Chaos Walking, Super 8, Happily, The Birds, Psycho, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and more!
How Movie Theaters Can Still Win Big In The Streaming Wars
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A glut of streaming titles and shorter theatrical windows could lead to multiplexes reasserting the big screen as an arbitrator of event movie status.
For those so inclined, Zack Snyder s
Army of the Dead opened last night for a one-week theatrical run before its May 21 debut on Netflix. This marks the biggest nationwide release for any Netflix streaming flick, around 600 theaters thanks to participation from Cinemark, America s third-largest multiplex chain. I do not know whether we ll get box office grosses for the semi-wide release (I m guessing not). However, the release could pave the way for more high-profile/prestige streaming flicks to debut in theaters before streaming, even outside the award season.
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The opening credits for the zombie-packed heist thriller “Army of the Dead” play out over a buffet of Boschian images, emphasis on the buffet. The walking (and running) dead have overtaken Las Vegas, and the director, Zack Snyder, illustrates the fallout with a series of painterly Grand Guignol tableaus. Slot-machine junkies lose their earnings and their innards; infected strippers turn a Roman bath into a bloodbath. An aging Elvis impersonator wanders down the Strip, with only a telltale smear around his mouth to suggest he’s having an unusual morning. Military forces are sent in to contain the threat, and when that fails, they firebomb and wall off the entire city. What splatters in V
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