Bad News: Fox is pushing about their MASSIVE ANTICIPATED sequel to Independence Day back to 2016. The good new is that that allows the sequel a handy marketing tool since it will at that point be exactly 20 years since the film movie came out. The only fly in the ointment is that Sony will be releasing their equally anticipated Angry Birds movie the same day, unless somebody blinks and moves to another date.
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Speaking of hot properties, the CW is mulling a redo of Tales From the Darkside. There’s no reason it can’t work (and little chance it will), but is TFTD enough of a thing that its worthwhile to name it that instead of something else? Guess it really doesn’t matter much. I don’t think there’s been a sucessful anthology show for a long time, so we’ll see how it does. Paramount is also planning a TV show based on the Patrick Swayze movie Ghost.
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Man, there hasn’t been a lot of word on that Godzilla movie, right? I mean, it’s supposedly out next May. You’d think there’d be a trailer or something by now.
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Disney will have to wait six more months to get back the film rights to the Fantastic Four, since Fox’s presumed-to-fail third bite at the apple has been moved from March of 2015 to June of 2015. The one lick of interest this project has earned was a bit of controversy when it was reported that they were looking at a black actor to play Johnny Storm. Anyone who looked askance at this was quickly labeled racist by Their Betters, even those like me who just felt that if Johnny was to be black, Sue should be too. Given that, you know, they’re brother and sister. I guess they could say one of them was adopted, but that screws with the characters’ dynamics a lot more than just casting both of them as the same race.
