In 2012, The Walt Disney Company gained the rights to Lucasfilm and started work on a new Star Wars film. Usually, you would expect fans to be joyful at this news. Star Wars and George Lucas have an immense fan-base and they were surprised with another film in the franchise. There has been a lot of discourse against Disney, however. Disney has made some great films, but none in the league or even the same genre as Star Wars. So the question is, can they pull it off?
by Gemma Williams
In 2012, The Walt Disney Company gained the rights to Lucasfilm and started work on a new Star Wars film. Usually, you would expect fans to be joyful at this news. Star Wars and George Lucas have an immense fan-base and they were surprised with another film in the franchise. There has been a lot of discourse against Disney, however. Disney has made some great films, but none in the league or even the same genre as Star Wars. So the question is, can they pull it off? by Robbie Jones Experiment 626 (which may, or may not be Stitch's real name) is an event embarked on by the I'm With Geek Film Team. Film knowledge was unearthed, truths were found and a DVD exchange took place. These are the true life stories from that experiment... To Robbie from Cookie - Third Star Right. So you and I, Robbie have very polarising points of views that are natural in the film criticism world. While there are movies I really want you to see, there is an opinion of yours that I really want to explore more; your complete disdain for Benedict Cumberbatch... by Graeme Stirling I, Frankenstein hits cinemas 29th of January. Graeme gives us a quick overview of previous and future incarnations. Few characters have made more appearances in film – or in any other media, for that matter – than the monstrous green gentleman from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. From non-canonical sequels to traditional remakes and from comic books to comedy musicals, he makes Sherlock Holmes look lazy. by Laura W With the release of August: Osage Country this weekend, we look at the best stage to screen adaptations. Recently, I wrote about stage musicals that had made the successful transition to the big screen. Those included Sweeney Todd, Chicago and The Sound of Music. However, this article will focus more on plays that have received the Hollywood treatment and have made the jump to the big screen. There are numerous plays that have done so, including such shows as War Horse, Closer, and Frost/Nixon. Here are three shows that have made the leap and done so well. by Jo Johnstone Last week film fans were revelling in the news that master director, Quentin Tarantino, had named his latest screenplay, The Hateful Eight before moving forward into production. This week, disaster as news hit that Tarantino had shelved his latest project after its script was leaked on the internet. Tarantino added, after the announcement, “I’m very, very depressed. I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn’t mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten out today.” |
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