Film forum off topic/random chat thread

Not to out do Robert De Niro, Al Pacino is expecting a child with his 29-year-old girlfriend Noor Alfallah

Some bad news coming from the UK.

Network Distribution, which provides home video sales of archived British Film & TV shows, had reportedly gone into liquidation since Wednesday.

Some of the movies that were sold under The British Film label from Network would be things like The Importance of Being Earnest, Ballad in Blue, Robbery, The Man in The Iron Mask, Around the World in 80 Days and lots of the movies that starred Tommy Steele.

The TV boxsets produced under this company would be things like The Saint starring the late Roger Moore, Heartbeat, Monty Phyton's Flying Circus, The Persuaders, The Professionals, The Avengers, The Bill, The Adventures of Rupert Bear and the Gerry Anderson Blu-rays like the complete series of UFO, Stingray, Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons and Joe 90.

The company run on behalf of the late Gerry Anderson put up a notice about the closure of Network earlier on social media.

What a bolt out of the blue.

I somewhat the funny side of it from some of that article but it is definitely not reality for people living in the UK at the moment.

A lot of these people living there, due to the severe cost of living crisis, have cut back on streaming services. They do not see them as an essential item when they are trying to pay their huge energy bills.

There is a large section of that population who had once regarded as well paid jobs in the UK who are now relying on food banks to get through their day to day expenses.

Paying for a non-essential thing like a streaming service would be the last things on these people's minds.

To make things more painful if you were trying to buy a title in limited availability from Network at this point.

The prices for buying a DVD or Blu-ray from them has started to increase over the past 2 days as the stock is eventually getting depleted.

I had observed this trend when looking at Amazon and Rarewaves websites from the UK. A lot of the stock on Rarewaves website have lots of 'Low Stock' notices displayed on a lot of Network's catalogue since Thursday.

Id like to see Carpenter direct again, but a Thing 2 shouldn't happen.

Well, the 2011 picture was a prequel so it's of a number 0, and in all honesty it wasn't that bad. The let down being the CGI overlaid effects, obviously. But, really, the practicals weren't that great from what I've seen, so I can't blame the producers for panicking about deadlines. But the actual story harmlessly added an extra dimension to the Carpenter movie and it did it quite well. I just don't see a sequel doing that.

But, 1982's 'The Thing' is an almost perfect film and it ends perfectly too. That's where this story should conclude. Making a sequel will only ever be an unnecessary addition to what we have now and you could argue that the sequel was as well. Plus, I have no doubt that everyone will want to go "bigger" and any sequel will end up being stupid.

If I had my way, the 1982 film would be the only one and I'd place a barring order on any prequels/sequels. 😡 😁

I'm pretty sure there was a thread about this when the guidelines were introduced in 2020.

I'm not necessarily for them but I also don't think they're going to hinder anyone's ability to make a great film.

Warner Bros Discovery looking to sell off half of it's film, tv and music catalog to raise money reports saying they want $500m for that.

Seems cheap to me when they full buyout of WB was bought for $5.3B.

This takeover seems to have been a bit of a total financial disaster.

Maybe Netflix will end up buying the Snyerverse that fans have been crying out for and continuing it.

Mad about the wiretapping... hopefully someone makes a movie of that :)