Monday’s “Community showrunner fired, Ryan Reynolds to be the Highlander? and Jackie Chan quits action movies” news

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Hyde Park On Hudson, starring Bill Murray

Theatre

Canadian TV

  • Kate Kelton and Southland’s Dorian Missick join Haven

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Tim Roth working on FX bank robbery drama

Monday’s “Community showrunner fired, Ryan Reynolds to be the Highlander? and Jackie Chan quits action movies” news

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Hyde Park On Hudson, starring Bill Murray

Theatre

Canadian TV

  • Kate Kelton and Southland’s Dorian Missick join Haven

UK TV

US TV

US TV pilots

  • Tim Roth working on FX bank robbery drama

Friday’s “Partridge flies to Sky, bye bye Breakout Kings, Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt and Sean Bean’s 4th Reich” news

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Words with Bradley Cooper
  • Teaser for Slasher with Elijah Wood

UK TV

US TV

  • Trailer for ABC Family’s Bunheads
  • Trailer for Political Animals with Sigourney Weaver
  • A&E cancels Breakout Kings

US TV pilots

  • USA picks up Paging Dr Freed (again) and Sirens, announces development slate

The joy of premakes: The Empire Strikes Back, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump and Gone With The Wind

We all know abut remakes, right? You take an old movie or TV show and then make it again, updating it for today’s audiences. Think of Battlestar Galactica, Batman, Psycho et al.

So how about premakes? The idea here is to take a modern movie or TV show and then create from it an imagined original version made decades ago to show you how effects, etc, have changed over the years. Here’s what I mean.

Is there anything you’d like to see pre-made?

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The joy of premakes: The Empire Strikes Back, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump and Gone With The Wind

We all know abut remakes, right? You take an old movie or TV show and then make it again, updating it for today’s audiences. Think of Battlestar Galactica, Batman, Psycho et al.

So how about premakes? The idea here is to take a modern movie or TV show and then create from it an imagined original version made decades ago to show you how effects, etc, have changed over the years. Here’s what I mean.

Is there anything you’d like to see pre-made?

[via]