Thursday 14 April 2016

Game of Thrones season 6 : what do we learn from the new trailer ?

Game of Thrones restarts on the 24 of April and it is going to hurt 

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Still 10 days before the beginning of the season 6 of Game of Thrones on HBO and the pressure is higher and higher ! On the heels of the preview, the channel released a second trailer ultra dense which puts a little more the stakes in this sixth eagerly awaited season. After the semi-disappointment of the season 5, the show   of D.B Weiss and David Benioff is early from now on the Georges Martin's saga and the excitement is for its height at the fans. 

Thursday 31 March 2016

Game of Thrones : The season 6 cost many dollars

HBO betted a lot of money this year, by increasing again its budget 


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It is not a secret : Game of Thrones is a very expensive serie for HBO. The channel invests a lot of greenbacks every year to produce the new episodes which we are all waiting for. But how many exactly? How much did the season 6 cost for HBO ? 


The website Entertainment Weekly brings the answer. The website announces this week that the season 6 's budget is " above 10 million $ per episode" , so the total season of 10 episodes should cost around 100 million $ ! 

Which represents a huge increase against the previous seasons ! We know, for instance, that the first episode of the serie cost around 5 millions $ and that the first season cost in total around 50-60 millions $. The budget of the season 2 was lightly superior, because of the "BlackWater" battle which necessitated a 8 millions $ cheque. And for the few last years, we estimate that the medium budget of an episode has swung between 6 and 8 millions $.

The success of the serie is increasing, but the production's costs too. Despite of all, HBO invested again a huge amount of money this year, we all hope that it will appear on the screen ! 

This season 6 of Game of Thrones will begin on the 24th of April on HBO . We remind you that the season 5 is already available as DVD since the the 14th of March.

Thursday 24 March 2016

Batman vs Superman : Why will Batman always be more popular than Superman ?

The fight of the century is coming and the bets are opened ! One thing is almost sure, even if Batman does not win, he will be always more popular than Superman.

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Difficult to not irritate the fans of Superman by pleading that Batman is more popular than the man of steel. There is no question about it, the man bat is going to get a big beating in the movie. But it is still possible to believe that Batman will beat the son of Krypton in Batman vs Superman ! Bruce Wayne is more or less used to get knocked, while Clark Kent is sensitive only to Kryptonite and he is not used to losing.


Thursday 17 March 2016

The Big Short : A pleasant acting


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Produced by : Adam McKay 

With : Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt 

Film genre : Drama, Biopic, Comedy 

Nationality : USA 






Description : Wall Street. 2005. Taking advantage of the generalized blindness in the big banks, the media and the government, four outsiders anticipate the explosion of the financial bubble and develop the breakage of the century ! Michael Burry, Mark Baum, Jared Vennett and Ben Rickert : visionnary and outstanding characters who are going to bet against banks and to try to take the pot ! 


Saturday 12 March 2016

10, Cloverfield Lane : congratulated by the American press

US press review guaranteed without spoiler

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According to the American criticisms, 10 Cloverfield Lane, the claustrophobic thriller produced by J.J Abrams, whose promotion intrigues the web, does not achieve perfection. Nevertheless, this mysterious closed-door sci-fi carried by of actors ( John Goodman, Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr ) looks even more intriguing when we made the tour of the Hollywood reviews.
This is what I learnt about 10, Cloverfield Lane :




  • A false sequel of Cloverfield : We already knew, thanks to J.J Abrams and more generally to the promotion of the movie, that both movies were bound by some elements of science-fiction but also that 10, Cloverfield Lane would not be a direct suite of Cloverfield. It is from now official if you read the criticism of Variety : "This sensational and efficient semi-suite does not looks like its predecessor at all, either through its narrative or through its style". And it is finally a good thing for The Hollywood Reporter : " If some people will regret the momentariness of an unchained Kaiju destroying everything on his passage, 10, Cloverfield Lane knew how to take advantage of its style and tone's changes. It is , in a completely different genre, even more powerful than Cloverfield."

  • A former film genre : " It's tense, frightening and the rhythm is graduated with the precision of a Swiss clock" writes Entertainment Weekly who blames simply the movie of not being enough as terrible as we would like ! According to Variety : " The tension, rooted in the psychology rather than in the gimmick of the genre, testify of the old school's adroitness. The result is very refreshing." You would have understood it, the movie plays on a whole pallet of feelings which work perfectly together : the fear.

                                                 

                                              10, Cloverfield Lane Trailer #1




Friday 11 March 2016

Hollywood's 10 favorite movie quotes

Females went with Gone with the wind , while males looked to The Godfather 

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When the Hollywood Reporter polled 1,600 industry professionals for their top movie quotes of all time, lines from these four films ended up in the five of the top 10 spots for both men and women. Gone With the Wind's final line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", received the top spot among women and landed in second for men ( it came in at No.1 on the list overall). For men, "I'm going to make an offer he can't refuse" from The Godfather, landed at No.1.


Two quotes from Casablanca landed on both lists : "Here's looking at you, kid" and " Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine". In fact, Casablanca's writers Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein and Howard Koch won the oscar for best screenplay in 1944. Philip Epstein's son recently told the Hollywood Reporter that he keeps his late father's oscar in a safe, while the film's iconic piano recently sold for over $3 million at a classic movie auction.

Overall, five quotes landed on the top 10 list for both genders, including famous lines from Star Wars and Jaws. Where they differ, the women chose lines from The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Fight Club and When Harry Met Sally, while the men went for quotes from The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Terminator and Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back.

Thursday 10 March 2016

Magic in America : Stories by J.K Rowling

The author of Harry Potter unveils some historical anecdotes about the magic in America, while she is still writting her next trilogy : The Fantastic Beasts 

Magic in America : Des histoires de J.K. Rowling en attendant Les Animaux Fantastiques


With the Fantastic Beasts, J.K.Rowling wants to go on discovering the universe of Harry Potter by telling a new story which takes place around 70 years before the adventures of the sorcerer with glasses. The first part of this trilogy will take place for the first time in the North America, which allows his author to expand his magic world. For instance, she imagined new schools, as the American school "Ilvermorny" where the Muggle are called No-Maj.

For this project, J.K.Rowling has directly written the scenario of the first movie, without publishing a real novel before. From yesterday (09/03)  until the end of the week, the author proposes to his loyal readers a short texts serie on  Pottermore.com and explains some details about the history of magic in America. For the moment you will be able to read three of these stories, and I encourage you to have a look ! 

We learn within these few paragraphs that wizards lived in North America much before the arrival of the European colons in the XVIIth century. Numerous indians had powers and they had specially the gift to be transformed into animal. Known under the name of " Skin Walkers", they were often persecuted during the history. The future narratives of J.K will detail some events which happened between the IVth century and the XXth century, as the trial of the witches of Salem or the implementation of restrictives laws 300 years ago by the Magical Congress of the USA, the equivalent of the british Ministry of Magic. It sounds very good, doesn't it ?! 

Go on Pottermore to read more ! 

The Fantastic Beasts, produced by David Yates will be in your cinema on the 16 of November 2016.