Turns out, that the ‘literally out of nowhere, new installment in the Crocodile Dundee franchise that was announced’ was actually a hoax, an incredibly intelligent marketing campaign, actually. The initial ‘trailer’ that was released will be a part of a series of videos that will air during the 2018 Super Bowl to promote Tourism Australia. Unfortunately, we probably won’t be getting a Danny McBride Dundee movie anytime soon, but who knows what the future holds.
See below for our original story that was posted on January 19, 2018.
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Literally out of nowhere, a new installment in the Crocodile Dundee franchise was announced. What came as even more of a surprise, not that Danny McBride is starring in it, but that it is due to come out this summer!
The premise is presumed that Crocodile Dundee is missing in the Australian Outback and, his son, Brian Dundee, played by McBride, has to go find him. The site’s official synopsis reads:
“Crocodile Dundee is back! Well, actually, he’s missing in the Outback and, the only person who might be able to find him is the loudmouthed American son no one knew he had. Introducing Danny McBride as ‘Brian Dundee’. This son of a legend is forced to channel his ‘Aussie’ roots as he embarks on the ultimate adventure in the ‘land down under’. It’s time to live up to the family name. Unlike his father, Brian grew up a true city kid. But that won’t stop him from picking up his dad’s oversized knife and launching into the Australian Outback, completely unprepared for what lies ahead.”
In an interview with People Magazine, McBride touched on how he has always wanted to be in a Crocodile Dundee film and how much he loves the franchise.
“Crocodile Dundee is a film that has stood the test of time,” McBride proclaimed. “It was a defining moment in my life and one of my proudest accomplishments. Throughout the past few years, I’ve been thinking about how to bring Dundee to a new generation. I’m excited to introduce the new Crocodile Dundee to the world.”
Navigating the Australian Outback is no joke and a big city boy will soon find out. Though, he does have one thing working in his favor, a special garment passed down from father to son.
“I’m not going to lie to you,” McBride said. “To be a real Crocodile Dundee, I think 95-percent of it is the vest and then 5-percent is just being able to not fall down and stay on your feet.”
Click HERE for McBride’s complete interview with People Magazine.
Pacific Rim Uprising has a new trailer, and it looks rather awesome.
John Boyega has joined the fray as Idris Elba’s son, and while this obviously has the Guillermo Del Toro story behind it, this sequel looks… brighter. Different. Who knows if that is a good or bad thing.
Check it out:
John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous “Kaiju.” Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.
Jake is joined by gifted rival pilot Lambert (The Fate of the Furious’ Scott Eastwood) and 15-year-old Jaeger hacker Amara (newcomer Cailee Spaeny), as the heroes of the PPDC become the only family he has left. Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure on a towering scale.
Pacific Rim Uprising opens March 23. What do you think? Gonna check this out or nah?
Seven Seconds is Netflix’s new crime anthology series, and it definitely has a True Detective vibe to it. Although, it’s from the producers of the underrated drama The Killing, so perhaps that’s a more apt comparison.
Check out the trailer here:
In an instant, life is forever changed for Brenton Butler and his family. After a white cop accidentally hits and critically injures a black teenager, a northeastern city explodes with racial tensions, an attempted cover up and its aftermath, and the trial of the century. From creator and executive producer, Veena Sud (The Killing) comes Seven Seconds – a thrilling new anthological crime drama that explores the human stories behind the headlines.
The series stars two-time Emmy winner Regina King (American Crime) alongside breakout British actress Clare-Hope Ashitey (Doctor Foster), Russell Hornsby (Fences), Beau Knapp (Sand Castle), Michael Mosley (Ozark), David Lyons (Safe Haven), Raul Castillo (Special Correspondents), Zackary Momoh (A United Kingdom), Nadia Alexander (Blame), and Coley Speaks (Circle).
The cast is a who’s who of “oh yeah that person,” and what looks to be a strong leading performances from Regina King and Claire-Hope Ashity. We’ll see how the mystery all pans out when Seven Seconds hits Netflix February 23.
God Particle, the long-gestating Cloverfield sequel, may have found a home at Netflix.
Originally slated for a February 2017 release, God Particle has bounced from date to date, from February to October 27, to February 2, to April 20, 2018. There are a few conflicting reports about the reasons behind the rescheduling; whatever the case may be, Paramount is ready to hand over the anticipated sci-fi sequel to Netflix.
No deal is nailed down as of yet, but typically when Netflix jumps into the fray they end up getting what they want. According to the report in Deadline, if Netflix does land God Particle, the release date could move again, this time shuffling up to an earlier release date. Whatever the case, the sequel already has a viral marketing campaign underway.
There is Tagruato, a website for a fake mining company. There are a few interesting breadcrumbs, and The Playlist had someone decode this message:
Tokyo – January 18 2018 Tagruato has begun development on a revolutionary new energy technology In what Ceo Ganu Yoshida called a technological great leap foreward for our planet This renewable technology will take at least 4 year to complete with along with another six years International regulatory bodies to bring the powerful revolutionary energy source by april 18 2028.
God Particle stars David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ziyi Zhang, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl and Chris O’Dowd as astronauts who do… sci-fi astronaut things. That isn’t as interesting as what 10 Cloverfield Lane turned out to be, not on paper anyway. We’ve had plenty of space movies the last five years.
With the first month of 2018 down, it’s time to look at the new releases coming to Netflix. In the month of Valentine’s Day, it’s important to find something which makes your heart pitter patter. So let’s showcase the shows which deserve your Geek love.
The third movie finally came out? How did I miss it? This is the joy of having Netflix though, it allows a person to catch up on the films they didn’t watch when they were in theaters. This time around, the film will finally explain the origins of the Creeper. After waiting over a decade, it better at least answer this burning question from the previous two films.
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Which releases are you looking forward to in February? Leave a comment below and let us know.
Winston Churchill is easily one of the most revered British Prime Ministers, being the man who faced the Nazi threat when no one else would. Stories of his life have been told countless times, and the story about him becoming Prime Minister has been a passion project for writer/producer Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything).
It’s May 1940, the War on the Western Front has begun, and due to failures, the Labour Party refused to serve in a Grand Coalition headed by Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup). Only one man is able to command the support of the opposition parties, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman). But Churchill has to face as many threats at home as well as the approaching Nazis.
Darkest Hour is the second film over the course of a year to focus on Winston Churchill during a crucial moment of the war, the first being the Brain Cox led Churchill. It’s also the second film in the space of a year to focus on the time of the Dunkirk Evacuation, the other being Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. It is even the second film in Joe Wright’s about this period – his previous film about 1940 was Atonement and this amazing tracking shot.
Compared to Churchill,Darkest Hour is a much better film: it is bigger, grander, and had a stronger cast. Churchill looked like a glorified TV film which was set in some nice manor houses but couldn’t hide its budget limitations. Darkest Hour looked cinematic, and that was due to director Joe Wright. Wright is an acclaimed director but suffered a setback with the Peter Pan origin film Pan, so with Darkest Hour, he moves back to material he is more comfortable with.
Wright’s talents were entirely on display as well as his usual bag of tricks. The costumes are lavish, make-up was great, especially on Gary Oldman, and Wright uses his favorite trope: the tracking shot. This time Wright worked with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel instead of his collaborator Seamus McGarvey. Delbonnel’s work is deliberately drained of color compared to the bright visuals McGarvey offers but Delbonnel’s style works because of the wartime setting, and there are some striking visuals like a beam of light shining like a spotlight on the Parliamentary dispatch box. There were also moments of scale like showing some events of the war in Calais and the civilian boats sailing from Dover to Dunkirk.
Oldman and Cox both are terrific actors, and Cox looked the part more, but Oldman gave a much better performance. Oldman had to spend a lot of time in the make-up chair, and the film spent $30,000 on cigars to help him get into character. Oldman mastered Churchill’s oratory skills, whether within the House of Commons or on the radio and showed the trademark Churchill wit. There are similarities in both performances: both versions of Churchill are men who are constantly writing and editing their speeches, and they are reassured by their versions’ of Clementine, Churchill’s wife, when in doubt.
One of the key themes is the isolation Churchill suffers in his new position. He gets the job he always longed for at the worst possible time, and he has the weight of a nation on his shoulders – Churchill has to make life-and-death decisions, like whether to risk 4,000 lives to save the 300,000 men trapped at Dunkirk. Churchill is hated by his party and the establishment because he changed parties twice and as a couple of Conservative MPs put it, ‘He comes up with 100 ideas a day, only four are any good, and the rest would lead to disaster.’ Churchill is surrounded by enemies in the War Cabinet with Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane) wanting to trap the PM so he can usurp his position. One great visual showing Churchill’s isolation is after he makes a disastrous call to President Roosevelt and is shown to be alone and dejected in a private room.
Darkest Hour also tackles the idea of how much a government should tell the people about the war situation. Churchill keeps saying the Allies are winning the war to keep morale up when he really knows that France and the Low Countries are about to fall. However, this leads to some people thinking Churchill is at best giving the public false hope and at worst delusional and has no understanding of modern warfare.
There are parallels to the German film Downfall about the last days of Hitler and the Nazi Regime. Both films show the leader of their respective country on the verge of collapse, and they are similar scenes of the leaders looking at maps and ordering impossible counter-attacks although both men have different reasons for their actions. They have a subplot involving their secretaries, and both men are shown to treat their assistants differently – Hitler was compassionate to his, while Churchill berated Elizabeth Layton (Lily James).
Darkest Hour is a film for history enthusiasts, and people interested in British politics and the film does go into great detail. As George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) states, every ministry Churchill worked in was a disaster. Churchill was even partly responsible for the downfall of Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) because of the failed plan to assist Norway. Of course, some liberties were taken for dramatic effect like Halifax and Chamberlain’s plotting to bring down Churchill when they are shown to be entirely in the wrong instead of being men doing what they thought was best for Britain. But there was one scene where the suspension of disbelief was too difficult: it was clearly trying to replicate a scene in William Shakespeare’s Henry V where the king walks amongst his subject to find out what the followers are really thinking: but the way it was portrayed in Darkest Hour was too ridiculous.
Darkest Hour was a great effort from Gary Oldman and Joe Wright and compared to McCarten’s previous film, Darkest Hour actually focused on the work of its subject. This one is for the history buffs.
The WWE took a ride on The Ho Train down memory lane with stops at Dudleyville and Suplex City with RAW 25, a celebration of the longest running weekly episodic show in television history.
For the first time in its history, WWE Monday Night Raw was broadcast live from two different locations in the New York City area, the Manhattan Center and the Barclays Center. The Manhattan Center was the location of the first Monday Night Raw, which debuted on January 11, 1993 on the USA Network. The Barclays Center in Brooklyn hosted most of the night’s events, and is a more typical location for the weekly show.
With a party of this magnitude, it wasn’t surprising that they’d start the show with a bang. This bang, although, was the sound of breaking glass and the thunderous applause from the fans in attendance. Stone Cold Steve Austin has always had a vendetta against the McMahon family, with whom he shared a few Steveweisers and Stone Cold Stunners. There’s no better way to start a party than with a few beers!
To kick off the action of the night, the women of the RAW roster competed in an 8-woman tag match, which was a great way to showcase the Women’s Revolution. After the match ended, Asuka threw her teammates over the top rope, signaling that she is ready to make history as the winner of the first Women’s Royal Rumble. The anticipation of this battle is high, and this was a perfect set up for it.
The Undertaker hasn’t been seen since his retirement defeat at Wrestlemania 33. As he appeared at The Manhattan Center, he was noticeably NOT wearing his signature hat and duster, which he left in the ring after being defeated by Roman Reigns. When he left the ring at Wrestlmania, he did so in silence. His promo at RAW 25 was vague. Was this him saying that he’d consider another match? Was this the retirement speech we’ve waited almost a year for? I couldn’t tell. I was also surprised of his lack of audience response, even considering the small crowd size.
The night was chock full of action from current superstars, including matches featuring Roman Reigns vs The Miz and Bray Wyatt vs Matt Hardy. Even though we’ve seen these matches numerous times before, we can’t seem to get enough of these battles. Reigns may have lost the Intercontinental Championship, but perhaps this is a set up for him to dominate at the Royal Rumble then main event Wrestlemania for the fourth year in a row. Woken Matt Hardy is borderline insane, but his gimmick makes him so fun to watch.
The D-Generation-X reunion wasn’t as flamboyant as the guys once were, but with a PG feel that the WWE now encourages, the Attitude Era antics just can’t fly anymore. I did however, catch myself chanting along with The Road Dogg Jesse James as he introduced himself and Badd Ass Billy Gunn, just like it was 1999 all over again. It was “Too Sweet” to include Scott Hall and the Balor Club to take down the “Professional Wrestlers” Revival tag team.
The rest of the night featured random appearances from a plethora of superstars, managers, and announcers of yesteryear, and most of them didn’t even say a word. While this was the “go home” RAW before the annual Royal Rumble, I expected more story and more action from both current talent and those stopping by for the reunion. Perhaps there were just too many stars to feature in only three hours of show.
Overall, the program was amazing. The real only disappointment was that there were no real surprises, especially for a company known for keeping talent and storylines hidden until the big reveal.
What are your thoughts on RAW 25? Were you expecting anyone else to make an appearance? Which superstars were you happy to see back with the WWE?
The Joker is Batman’s greatest villain, and the FOX show Gotham took an interesting approach to the character with Jerome Valeska.
Fans are excited by Cameron Monaghan’s character and took Jerome as a new interpretation of the Joker’s origin, but the series backtracked on the Joker and stated Jerome is only an influence. FOX has a plan for the Joker, and apparently, the cast and crew know the details as the scoop is starting to leak out.
David Mazouz was the first to comment on the Joker situation.
“He is not the Joker, that’s all I’m saying. He is definitely the inspiration for the Joker and the way that the Joker comes into the show is, in my opinion, one of the most brilliant things Gotham has ever done,” said Mazouz to Discussing Film.
Monaghan chimed in after the podcast episode aired.
“What we’ve cooked up and discussed is something not to be missed. It’s a twist on familiar themes, both new and old echoes of the mythos. Something entirely new, but we believe true to the spirit of the show as well as the comics. Proud I got to be a part of it,” said Monaghan in a now deleted tweet.
Gotham is in the middle of season four and ratings for the show have declined each year, could the Joker be a ratings boost? Now that the characters are established, and now that the series is past clunky origins, the show is a fun hybrid of Tim Burton and Christoper Nolan’s versions of the Caped Crusader.
What are your thoughts on a new TV version Joker coming to the small screen? Comment below.
If you are looking for the one, true B-Movie superstar to rule them all, look no further than Joel D. Wynkoop. The veteran actor has turned in a laundry list of films, spanning over several decades, and has become a cult favorite for fans of humorous low-budget releases.
Wynkoop has been making movies since 1975, when his father gifted him a Super 8mm Camera. His neighbor, whom he took care of, Tim Ritter, became his filming partner and, together, made Twisted Illusions in 1985.
“Scott wanted a return of my character, Dr. Dan Hess, from the series,” Wynkoop said. “Tim had already written the script and they both loved it. After a few rewrites, I thought it did the character a bit more justice, it was super cool and we were all so excited to make the movie. All these great people have come together to make a really cool movie and, so far, the reviews coming in are extremely promising. So, we’re all really excited.”
Look, these are B-Movies. They’re probably not going to garner national recognition, accolades or worldwide laurels, but that is not why the movies are made. It is an art. It takes amazing talent to be able to deliver these characters, including some of the lines that are scripted. It’s more about entertaining than it is to churn sales. You don’t have to convince the actors otherwise. Just reading about some of these titles, including, but not limited to, Creep, Dirty Cop No Donut, The Demon Monster from Outer Space, Strip Club Slasher and Slash Cam, one might think it a waste of time. Don’t do that. These are fun. They’re meant to be enjoyed with a group of friends. These movies, in time, grow on you.
“I have always wanted to do this,” Wynkoop said. “I thought it would be funny at first, but I never thought I’d be able to make a career out of it. Whenever I get to the point where I feel like I’m getting sick of doing it, someone will recognize me from one of my movies, freak out and make me want to keep on doing it.”
When asked if a specific project seems to stick with him, he was quick in answering, Lost Faith. It was his fifth movie, but required ‘most of his heart’, as he wrote, directed, produced, casted and choreographed all the fight scenes. The film stars a young Wynkoop and the premise is simple: “He lost his wife. He lost his patience. He lost his faith. Steve Nekoda, kicks ass!”. That alone is reason enough to watch this film. Well, that and the movie poster.
“I also really loved doing Creep, one of Tim’s movies,” Wynkoop said. “He let me just run with it and knew I was having so much fun doing it. I also really enjoyed doing The Bite. When my friend, Phil, sent it to me, it was originally supposed to be just a three-minute short. I messed around with it and then all of a sudden, we had a 90-minute movie. I owed him for that, so I ended up writing him a 20-minute short to make it up to him because he basically gave that project to me.”
Another project he is extremely fond of, The Uh-Oh Show. Not so much because it was one of his highest-grossing films that he was in, but because the mastermind behind it was none other than Herschell Gordon Lewis, aka ‘The Godfather of Gore’.
What makes these kind of projects great, though, is the camaraderie behind the scenes and the lifelong friendships that form. One day on set, Lewis, Wynkoop and friend Brooke McCarter (The Lost Boys) were planning a joke to play on Andrew Allen, the producer. Over 150 people were present on stage and behind the cameras when Lewis initiated the joke by asking why a prop was missing from the set. Wynkoop responded with, “I don’t know. What, do you want me to pull it out of my ass?”, to which Allen convened, “Calm down here. You shut your mouth, Joel!”. From there, pure chaos. The two men began screaming in each other’s faces, which prompted Allen to start dragging Wynkoop from the set by his neck through a crowd of people that were under the assumption he was surely fired. Just as the two were making their way to the door, Lewis screamed, “Andrew! Andrew!”, to which Allen responded with a frustrated, “What?”. Lewis responded, “April Fools!”. Allen looked at Wynkoop and told him that he was the ‘best damn actor in the world’.
“To have the opportunity to work on one of his sets was a huge honor,” Wynkoop said. “He’s been doing it since the 1950s. He was a legend. He passed away in 2016, but told my wife that I was one of the most-talented actors that he had ever worked with in his life. That was so cool to hear that.”
His current venture, when he’s not making movies, is creating his own comic books. He has put together two sets of graphic novels, a superhero team called Force 9 and a buddy team of Ray Blast and Sonic Man. His depictions feature various characters which draw comparisons to select Marvel characters as an ode to his fandom. In conjunction with artist Jessy Hansen, who has previously illustrated for Marvel, Wynkoop will re-release the books through Ka-Blam.
“I’ve also started a book called, Stay Hungry: The Joel D. Wynkoop Story,” Wynkoop said with a grin. “Joe Lovece will be writing it and I’m excited about that and the comics projects.”
Wynkoop stays busy, aside from acting, writing and drawing, he is also into martial arts, boxing, has been both a stage performer and musician, stunt actor and acting coach, among other various hobbies and skills. You can keep up with him on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
A few years ago we got a RoboCop reboot with charisma void Joel Kinnaman, and it came and went without so much as a whisper across the pop culture landscape. So it makes sense then, since franchises never ever go away anymore, that MGM would want another shot at bringing the chrome cop back to the big screen in a RoboCop sequel.
This time around, creator Ed Neumeier wants to make a sequel to the original 1987 movie, possibly ignoring the existence of Robocop 2 (bad idea) and 3 (good idea). Here’s what he said to Zeitgeist Magazine:
“We’re not supposed to say too much. There’s been a bunch of other ‘RoboCop’ movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old ‘RoboCop’ we all love and starting there and going forward. So it’s a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So it’s a little bit more of the old school thing.”
See how he’s reminding us all there was a remake back in 2014? Nobody remembers that shit.
As for this sequel, it sounds like a bad idea just like the new James Cameron-produced Terminator movie sounds terrible. We can’t let things go, so now I suppose they will try and get 71-year old Peter Weller to stomp around in the suit? Probably not, but it would be fascinating to see.
You know what else isn’t happening? Paul Verhoeven isn’t coming back to direct this, so let’s just not do it and say we did.
