With the big-budget adaptation of Ender’s Game on the horizon, Spinoff’s Anna Pinkert looks back at cinema’s often cringe-inducing depictions of video games, and gamers, on screen.
When it comes down to it, who can really resist the news that Sylvester Stallone is turning Rocky into a stage musical? It’s such unexpected news, such wonderfully weird news, that I couldn’t help myself and started to wonder: What other movie classics would we happily see reincarnated as all-singing, all-dancing theater experiences?
Watching the latest “Everything Is A Remix” video the other day, I realized that we’re probably due for another Matrix sometime soon. By that, I don’t mean another installment of the Wachowski brothers’ uber-successful sci-fi series – I think we’re all done with that one, at least for awhile, right? – but another movie that seems to realign people’s sensibilities about genre cinema, and what it’s there for.
The Lion King? Star Wars? Titanic? Top Gun? It seems as if the new thing for Hollywood is to take an old movie, turn it into 3D and re-release it in theaters for a whole new audience to… I don’t know, pay for. But why stop with those movies? Here are ten more movies that demand a 3D revival.
The erstwhile Neo says that he’ll return to the digital realm of The Matrix for two more 3-D installments, according to a new rumor. Updated!
Has Halle Berry revealed the identity of the first movie since Speed Racer from directors the Wachowski brothers? It seems so, and she’s also saying that it’ll “stretch our brains” more than The Matrix.
With the new rumor that Warner Bros is already thinking about the third Green Lantern movie before the first has even finished shooting, I started to wonder: Why are movies so obsessed with trilogies?
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Hollywood may need more people like Joel Silver. The producer has come out against converting movies to 3D, and specifically spoke about rumors of a 3D Matrix
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