TV/Movies Megathread

[KRonn]

http://www.cineplex.com/News/Liam-Hemsworth-joins-Jeff-Goldblum-and-Bill-Pullman-in-epic-first-teaser-for-iIndependence-Day-Resurgencei.aspx

A new Independence Day movie is due out in 2016. Could be interesting if you liked the original. This will be without Will Smith's character.

[celedhring]

Wookiees and black people get shafted in the Chinese Star Wars poster.

[Syt]

Black people scare and confuse Asians?

[The Brain]

After Jar Jar Binks yes they do.

[Valmy]

Black people scare and confuse Asians?

All Asians are racists.

[lustindarkness]

Wookiees and black people get shafted

That would be a whole different movie.

[Ed Anger]

I'd rather have Lena Dunham shit in my cereal than watch that stupid Independece Day sequel.

[MadImmortalMan]

BB-8 got bigger.

[Tonitrus]

Had completely forgotten they were making an Independence Day sequel 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M

And man, does President Whitmore look like a wreck.

Probably lost 20-30 million American citizens under his watch.

I was a bit worried that I'd finally grown up after finding the Star Wars and the latest Batman vs. Superman trailers terrible. I confirm after watching that trailer, that I have not.

You think the Star Wars trailer looks terrible, but like the ID trailer? 

Anyways for the Timmies in the crowd, there's a alt-history / marketing website that sets out the alternate history of the world since ID4.

http://www.warof1996.com/

But does it have a map? 

[celedhring]

According to an article that I've just read, there's been $130m worth of Star Wars ads in the US alone 

Actually there haven't been that many ads for the movie itself over here in Spain, but we're drowned in a deluge of ads for toys, games, and such. Having a Star Wars movie coming out over Christmas is like a perfect storm.

[Syt]

I read an article that of the $4 billion that Disney paid for Lucasfilm, they've already earned half of it back, mostly through Ep. 7 licensing deals and ticket pre-sales.

[Syt]

Well, based on the Independence Day sequel webpage, it appears Will Smith was too expensive for the sequel.

[Eddie Teach]

Smith hasn't been very busy for a while, guess he doesn't LOVE his job like some of these guys do.

[Syt]

He had (at least) one movie release per year from 1995 - 2016, with only a short break between 2008's Seven Pounds and 2012's MiB3. In fact, he's in two 2015 movies (Focus and Concussion), and will be in next year's Suicide Squad (all according to Wikipedia).

[celedhring]

Didn't he chose to do Suicide Squad over this?