Saw TV Series Reportedly in the Works Jigsaw, though there could be even more unsettling adventures for the franchise in the near future, as Lionsgate Television chairman Kevin Beggs recently confirmed that conversations are happening about potentially adapting the concept into a TV series. Given the inherent brutality of the franchise, it s hard to imagine such a series being developed for a standard network, with a premium cable provider or streamer seeming more likely as a home, though with Beggs confirming those ideas are just at the conversation stage, it s unknown if those plans could ever come to fruition. We’ve just wrapped up
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Recent headline events – most notably the COVID-19 pandemic – have illustrated the fragility of tourism capitalism, prompting forward-looking analyses among critical scholars. While grappling with political and philosophical implications, commentaries have tended towards the prescriptive and general: contemplating the collapse of tourism as-we-know-it, and foregrounding opportunities to reconstitute more sustainable, resilient and inclusive forms of tourism. Heeding Haraway’s call to ‘stay with the trouble’, I briefly outline three sympathetic critiques, integrating insights from more-than-human theory, disaster studies and climate change adaptation literatures. First, I unsettle temporalities of disruption and change that emphasise singular moments, such as lockdowns, rather than multiple temporalities of vulnerability and resilience. Second, a lurking species exceptionalism, which positions humans as the locus of agency, is contrasted with nonhuman capacities to
The Dark Tower Producer Has a Lot of Regret Over Disappointing Stephen King Film
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Few Stephen King narratives are as beloved as his Dark Tower series, spanning multiple novels and exploring horror, fantasy, and drama in ways only the author could, making fans immensely excited for the 2017 feature-film adaptation, only to result in both critical and financial disappointment. One of the producers of that film, Akiva Goldsman, recently expressed his regret over the project, which had toyed with a TV series crossing over with films in hopes of capturing the sprawling nature of the series, similar to what other popular franchises have accomplished across other mediums. Sadly, even with the support of fans, Amazon Studios passed on a pilot for a Dark Tower TV series last year.
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Movie review: New Tom and Jerry is school holiday fodder
14 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Slapstick reigns in Tom and Jerry, which is in cinemas now.
Toby Woollaston is a film reviewer for NZME regional mediatoby.m.woollaston@nzme.co.nz@TMWoollaston Those looking for a version of Tom and Jerry with substance might be a bit disappointed it s a lightweight flick that aims low. A cat and mouse slugging it out for almost two hours does wear a bit thin and this rendition, a glossy modern adaptation of the Hanna and Barbera original, disappointingly drapes a wafer-thin plot over the top of its action. The result is an Acme factory brimming with crash-bang-wallop but little else.