Released on: 2005
Rating: 6.80
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Schwarzen-Watch: Arnold Shops Fifth "Terminator"
IFC.com's film writer, Matt Singer, is the biggest Arnold Schwarzenegger fan on the planet. He blogs any time any news about Schwarzenegger's return to acting, no matter how flimsy or improbable, hits the Internet.
Deadline better not be playing. They say that Arnold Schwarzenegger "is attached to star in a rights package that CAA is shopping today that will revive 'The Terminator.'" I would write my reaction but it's hard to type while your crying. While I wipe away the tears of joy, let me give you a little more of Deadline's report:
"Universal, Sony and Lionsgate, and CBS Films are looking hard at the package... Rumor is the project price tag is at least $25 million upfront, against a purchase price near $36 million, not including paydays for Schwarzenegger or [director Justin] Lin... there is no set price, but this will likely be a whopping sale by the time the»
- Matt Singer
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“Blow Out”
The ending of Brian De Palma’s Blow Out hits you in the chest like a hammer. It’s not supposed to be this way; American studio movies don’t end like that. But of course it’s the heartbreaking denouement that has partially helped to make the film endure in the 30 intervening years since its commercially disastrous release, though one can certainly fathom how it alienated audiences at the time (for the record, some critics were passionate defenders; it’s just that most viewers don’t savor being implicated in the spectacle of violence as it is quickly transformed into tragedy). As De Palma himself has wryly observed, the studio likely just expected another erotic romp like Dressed to Kill (De Palma’s previous surprise hit for the Filmways outfit) and were unprepared for a downbeat but cinematically exhilarating last gasp of bravura filmmaking, political critique, and social cynicism»
- Travis Crawford
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