Game of Thrones : The season 6 cost many dollars

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

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.

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.




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.

The Big Short : A pleasant acting

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 ! 

10, Cloverfield Lane : congratulated by the American press

US press review guaranteed without spoiler




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.

                                                 

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Hollywood's 10 favorite movie quotes

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

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.

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 

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. 

Game of Thrones, season 6 : Jon Snow will act as a corpse

"Yes I did act few scenes of the season 6 ", confirms Kit Harigton, the english actor of Jon Snow

Kit Harington, who has incarnated Jon Snow for 5 years in Game of Thrones,reveals, in an interview for Time Out London, that he does will appear briefly in the season 6 ; indeed, he will act as... the corpse of Jon.. Warning spoilers ! 

Arrow : The insane archer

Created by : Andrew Kreisberg ( 2012 ) 

With : Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Willa Holand

Nationality : USA 

Serie genre : Action, Drama, Fantastic 

Format : 4 seasons / 42 min per episode

Description : The new adventures of Green Arrow/Oliver Queen, super efficient fighter from the DC Comics ' universe, and above all a very talented archer who belongs to the Justice League. Lost in sea with his father and his girlfriend, he is recovered alive five years later on an island near China. But during all this time, Oliver Queen has changed : he is strong, brave and determined to clear Sterling City from its crooks. 

My opinion : A true character made in DC Comics ! The story of Oliver Queen, a normal guy who tries to organize his daily life with his family, his friends and the girls as much as he can during the day, and a hero during the night who tries to honor his words he told to his father by killing the crooks which destroy his home town. The story is not so original but so well produced and realisated that you will become quickly an Arrow addict ! The character of Arrow appears so strong which allows stunning action scenes ; besides, during the first season you will follow the adventures of Oliver Queen after his come back in Sterling city, but also some flashbacks on what happened to him during the five years on the Island where he learnt to become a killer ! That allows a break between all his "killing missions" and for me that is the more exciting part, that gave me the desire to continue watching, and I did well : the following season explains with more details the life on the island and I really enjoyed it ! 
More over, for those who don't really like action series, do not worry, you will find also few love stories all along the serie ! 
To conclude, the serie could be repetitive during the first season for some people but trust me, it is a very good serie lenghtwise. 

Rate : 7/10


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The Revenant : DiCaprio's Oscar

Directed by : Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 

With : Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson 

Film genre : Western, Adventure 

Nationality : USA 

Description : In a wild America, Hugh Glass, a trapper, is attacked by a bear and is serioulsy wounded. Abandoned by his team members, he is left for dead. But Glass refuses to die. Alone, armed with his will and worn by the love he dedicates to his wife and his son, Glass begins a journey of more than 300 km in a hostile environment, on the runway of the man which betrayed him. His thirst for revenge is going to be transformed into an heroic fight to defy all the obstacles, to return at his home and find the redemption.

My opinion : Finally an Oscar for Sir DiCaprio in The Revenant ! And he truly deserves it ! From a cinematographic point of view, this movie is a little jewel : first of all, the story takes place in stunning and spectacular landscapes made in Canada, which cut the spectator 's breath. Watching this movie is like watching a paint, Emmanuel Lubezki, the image director did not use artifical lights but only the natural light which make us feeling the nature as we were inside ! Innaritu, the director, wanted to recreate the life's conditions of the trappers in the old and deep america of the 1970's and he created a kind of natural hell, which perfectly shows how the fight of Glass is difficult... These conditions make the acting of DiCaprio again more spectacular, and behind the screen, the spectator feels how hard it could have been to shoot this movie. The movie starts with the attack of Glass by a bear, which is one of the more spectacular scene I have seen and everybody should watch The Revenant at least for this scene ! From this moment and until the end of the movie, we feel the will of Glass, his suffering, his hatred and we want to fight with him ! To resume, on a cinematographic plan, the movie is quiet perfectly directed, and the acting of DiCaprio is upsetting. 

However, the bias taken by Innaritu to act in a so hostile environment creates some long and slow scenes, which slows down the story and the spectator sometimes waits for more action. Last but not least, I expected a better and more spectular end, but that is only my opinion, it is your turn to give your by commenting this post ! 

Rate : 7,5 /10

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