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It was announced last week that Colin Trevorrow will no longer direct Star Wars: Episode IX. In finding his replacement, Lucasfilm turned to a familiar face... J. J. Abrams:
J.J. Abrams, who launched a new era of Star Wars with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to complete the sequel trilogy as writer and director of Star Wars: Episode IX. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio. Star Wars: Episode IX will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Abrams, Bad Robot, and Lucasfilm.
The release date has been moved from May 24, 2019 to December 20, 2019.
Also at Entertainment Tonight. Here's another article about Trevorrow's firing.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:00PM (2 children)
Good movies are still made. Not all movies are made in Hollywood.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:21PM (1 child)
Good movies are still made. Not all movies are made in Hollywood.
1) Depends on what genre you're interested in. If you like sci-fi movies (the kind set in space, with spaceships, not stupid ones about some guy with an earpiece), you're not going to find any of that from Bollywood or small indie studios. You might occasionally find something interesting out of France [wikipedia.org] if you don't insist on it being in space, and don't mind it being incredibly weird.
2) As I mentioned, there's some pretty interesting movies coming out of other countries sometimes. "Let the Right One In" is a really excellent Finnish vampire movie, for instance, and the Swedish "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" movies were a big hit. But if you're an English-speaking American, you can probably only handle so much foreign-language cinema and having to read subtitles. It's fun and mind-enriching to see some of that, but it's not going to be something you'll want to do every single time you watch a movie, just like most Americans probably don't want to eat Indian food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week, though they might certainly enjoy it a lot a few times a month.
3) I did say that 99.99% of everything is crap, not 100%. That still leaves room for a good one once in a while. (I might have overstated the number too, 99% is probably more accurate, given the number of movies produced by Hollywood in a year.)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 14 2017, @01:39AM
The barrier to entry for quality CGI is falling and will fall even further. You'll see more of it from India [wikipedia.org] and other countries [wikipedia.org]. You'll see more of it on TV [wikipedia.org]. And eventually you'll see amateur filmmakers capable of making good looking feature-length projects using CGI. A single person could produce a computer-generated city/world. But with crowdfunding, amateurs can also get a hold of professional quality cameras and other equipment without relying on a single investor (not that you need pro cameras, an iPhone with a tripod might be sufficient).
So even if 99% of content is still crap (99.99% is obviously complete hyperbole, find 2-3 good shows or movies a year and you've more than busted past 1 in 10,000), there are growing means to get stories that would never be told by Hollywood distributed to a large audience (online). And they can have special effects.
(Before the inevitable reply: It's already understood that CGI alone doesn't make a film or show good. But it can expand the possibilities available for talented writers/directors/filmmakers to tell a compelling story.)
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