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Getting the Boulder Rolling (Again)
It’s official: Indiana Jones has tenure with his movie-going fans.
“Steven Spielberg will direct Harrison Ford in the untitled fifth installment in the classic action-adventure franchise, which will open July 19, 2019, Disney announced Tuesday.”
—, The Hollywood Reporter
Nostalgia adds another win in its ever-expansive cinematic column.
Indiana Jones will theatrically throw his hat back into the ring (or cave) and return to the adventure-seeking professor genre to challenge his 21st century rival, Robert Langdon (Inferno arrives in theaters this fall). While rumors of Indy’s next movie has been gently swirling for some time (including a possible successor?), the opportunity for bringing Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall back together clearly proved too good to pass up.
The success of an older, yet still very capable, Han Solo in the 2015 indie sleeper The Force Awakens surely tipped the scales for the actor and director alike to crack the whip fire the gun once more.
Obviously, virtually zero details are known about Indy’s high-five to the franchise’s fans. The only one certainty about this future blockbuster appears to be its release date (3/4 past films premiered in May and one on June 1st).
Three years out, the options for Indy V are officially being weighed by Disney.
Hopefully, in equal, simultaneous fashion.
Weather’s Awakening
Global warming.
Climate change.
Global cooling.
As climate scientists at national and international institutions continue to change their minds as to what the exact disastrous term should be used regarding their apparent Kung-Fu grip on weather, meteorologists provide the public with daily weather observations and insights. To be blunt, their job really is to tell us coat-or-no-coat.
And yet, they don’t always make the right prediction.
However, one British meteorologist did something that was all kinds of right during yesterday’s newscast.
A beautiful woman who has a stunning smile, a cute accent, a great sense of humor and is a fan of Star Wars (with no ring on the left hand).
Will you marry me?
The Bold, Fabled Glance
Steven Spielberg has done it again.
Roald Dahl wrote The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) in 1982 for generations of children to enjoy. Regardless of whether or not this was your favorite book growing up, it most likely ranked high on your list. And let’s not forget Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (made into a movie), Matilda (made into a movie), The Witches (made into a movie), James and the Giant Peach (made into a movie) and many more Roald Dahl literary classics that scream adventure and imaginative euphoria.
I present to you the first teaser trailer for The BFG released this morning.
Come next summer, we’ll get to be a kid again…a big kid.
O George, Where Art Thou?
Movies from the early 20th century are exciting because of the high-quality of writing, cinematography and acting from these pioneering days of the movie business. What we enjoy today was made possible because of the risks and excellence in storytelling from decades earlier. Films from its earliest years are some of the industry’s greatest achievements.
It’s no wonder contemporary writers, directors and actors return back to that original “golden era.” Think The Rocketeer and The Artist.
The Coen brothers are the latest to reminisce, explore and highlight this treasured time in the major motion picture business. They are once again teaming up with this small-time actor George Clooney (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, Intolerable Cruelty).
Here’s the first trailer for, “Hail, Caesar!”
When does this movie arrive in theaters?
The future.
(Specifically, February 5, 2016)
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