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Home Alone Director Slams Disney Reboot

Disney is still ploughing through its back catalogue – which is pretty massive thanks to its acquisition of Fox – for viable remakes and reboots. After deciding to cherry-pick 1990’s Christmas classic Home Alone for the Disney+ reboot treatment late last year, and announcing that Jojo Rabbit’s Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and comedian Rob Delaney would star in it, the machine didn’t stop for objections. Chris Columbus, who helmed the original Home Alone, definitely has some though. “Nobody got in touch with me about it, and it’s a waste of time as far as I’m concerned,” he…
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Slams Cats Movie as ‘Ridiculous’

Cats is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But it is a memorable one. With ghastly (and often unfinished) CGI fur sprouting from the faces of stars as varied as Idris Elba, Ian McKellen, and Taylor Swift, it was the kind of garish spectacle that only comes around once in a decade or two… just a woeful misbegotten concept executed with high levels of craft in its individual parts which nonetheless result in a sum total that’s undeniably wretched. So of course the 2019 movie has become a type of legend in its own right—though clearly…
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Cyborg Actor Slams How Joss Whedon Handled Justice League Movie

The DCEU’s Cyborg, Ray Fisher, just took a major shot at Joss Whedon and the theatrical cut of Justice League. Fisher who appeared (very briefly) as Vic “Cyborg” Stone in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and (more substantially) in Justice League offered a sharp critique of that latter film’s co-director Joss Whedon and presumably his vision of the finished product that eventually made it to theaters and underwhelmed both critics and fans. Whedon, of course, came on to replace Snyder as the director of Justice League after Snyder suffered a family tragedy that left him unable to complete the…
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