MGM & Amazon In talks to bring He-man to live action again!

[gaastra]

MGM and prime is wanting to take a swing at a live action he-man. Don't forget they do release films to theatres now!

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/mast ... 235789957/

[Soperypear]

Nice!!
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[gaastra]

Bumblebee and kubo director may helm he-man movie.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/masters-of ... 235824500/

[Randall]

The original film gets some serious love Down Under in a deluxe Blu-ray set:
https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/collect ... r-artcards

[Ben]

The movie that killed Superman IV!

There’s also a paperless edition without the poster and cards (but retains the slipcover) for half the price! Who knew paper was so expensive!?


Travis continues to make "interesting" choices…!

[EricJ]

The movie that killed Superman IV!

I thought it was Sylvester Stallone's over-the-top salary that first killed Golan/Globus!

[Ben]

Was that the over-the-top salary for Over The Top…?

That was the beginning of their over-reaching troubles, yes, but it was budget overruns on MOTU that saw "the bad news Jews" as they were known around town shave the SIV budget in half so they could give those funds to He-Man so director Gary Goddard could actually finish that film, effectively wiping out SIV's entire post budget.

Ironically SIV actually grossed its budget back, but only because it was so minuscule, while MOTU did not. A few more years of this disastrous business model saw them lose the rights to Spider-Man (yes, the Jim Cameron one) and a proposed MOTU sequel, and after limping along for a while, Cannon folded in 1994. MGM own the library now.

[gaastra]

This spider-man movie?

[Ben]

Yeah…that be the one. I still have a Cannon print ad somewhere (one of a few for projects that never happened) for that. Funny how they used a bit of Superman music in that teaser. The Cameron script came later, after Cannon was folding and the rights were going crazy. It was going through many iterations, filmmakers and production companies, with Cameron's one ending up at Carolco in the end.

He would have done it after T2, I believe, but the Cannon mess ended up torpedoing all versions until ten years later when, after loads of litigation and who-owned-what, Columbia emerged victorious as the new owner, after previous rights with other companies had elapsed and they had proven the claim to Spidey on the screen as producer of the Nicholas Hammond series (the theatrical release of which, of the pilot and a couple of stitched together episode compilations, gave them theatrical film rights as long as they kept making them), and they aggressively pursued these in the light of X-Men being so huge for Fox.

This is all part of why the Marvel movie rights were and still are in some cases so fragmented as, as we know, they were selling licenses left and right just to stay afloat. X-Men and Raimi's Spider-Man really did set the template for the modern superhero movies, after the Burton Batmans derailed with the last two films. Essentially, when CG came in, that meant a whole new ballgame for superhero movies, hence the huge amount today.