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Aladdin - Official Trailer


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I knew Naomi Scott was beautiful from the pics we have posted here with her husband, but here she looks INCREDIBLY Beautiful!
 
I'm ready for all of the DC CW shows to get cancelled. I'm all caught up on Titans and Doom Patrol, and I'd rather watch shows on DC Universe because they are actually adult and aren't always catering to the "Teen SJW" crowd. I am sold on DC Universe and Depending on how Disney does with their star wars stuff coming out, I might get their app too.
 
When Amazon pursued the rights to a “Lord of the Rings” series in 2017, the company knew it would have to overcome some major obstacles to lure the J.R.R. Tolkien estate to its video-streaming platform.

Amazon was a relative newcomer in video, with no track record of shepherding a blockbuster series. HBO, meanwhile, could tout its long history of hits, most notably “Game of Thrones,” a similarly epic series based on fantasy novels with a rabid fan base. Netflix, with more than 100 million subscribers, pioneered the on-demand model with hits such as “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.”

And not to be ignored, Apple was also in on the negotiations to acquire the rights for the upcoming TV show, according to people familiar with the matter.

Amazon didn’t have much by way of Hollywood cred. What it had was the richest person on the planet in CEO Jeff Bezos, a big “Lord of the Rings” fan, who was promising the Amazon Studios team a huge budget to nab the series, a prequel to Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring.”

But money alone wasn’t going to separate Amazon from the pack — Amazon’s $250 million offer wasn’t even the highest bid for the show’s rights, according to a person familiar with the matter. The ultimate selling point, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations, related to Amazon’s original business from over two decades ago: books.

The Tolkien estate was convinced that in promoting the series, Amazon could sell truckloads of Tolkien’s fantasy novels, including “The Hobbit” and “The Silmarillion” as well as “The Lord of the Rings.” During meetings with the Tolkien estate and publisher HarperCollins, Amazon’s Sharon Tal Yguado, who was hired from Fox in 2017, demonstrated a near encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkien’s characters, stories and geography, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks were private.

Amazon’s ability to connect content to commerce won over the Tolkien estate. But just in case, to seal the deal, Amazon sent representatives of the Tolkien estate and its law firm, Greenberg Glusker, several crates of brand-new Amazon Echo speakers. Tolkien’s people were flattered, though they also joked that Amazon delivered the home assistants to eavesdrop on the negotiations, two of the people said.

The “Lord of the Rings” series will start production in the next two years.

The huge investment in a TV series has made Hollywood wonder just how much Bezos will spend on content. So far, Amazon has dabbled across the TV spectrum, with original content such as “Lord of the Rings,” a growing back catalog of movies and shows, as well as live sports from the National Football League and the Premier League. Just last month, Bezos was spotted chatting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at the Super Bowl, a reminder that Amazon has several opportunities in the coming years to make a big splash in America’s most lucrative sport. Meanwhile, The New York Post reported Thursday that Amazon is nearing a $3.5 billion deal to acquire the YES network, the regional sports network in New York that carries Yankees games.
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SilverSmith said:
New Avengers: Endgame trailer + poster.


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Can we get, at least a couple of superheroes, wearing their superhero masks? Fuck the actors. People want to see the superheros. That's the whole point. And it's one of my few gripes with the MCU. No real secret identities and too much "face time."
 
samson1701 said:
Can we get, at least a couple of superheroes, wearing their superhero masks? Fuck the actors. People want to see the superheros. That's the whole point. And it's one of my few gripes with the MCU. No real secret identities and too much "face time."
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You get them with their masks on in the movie. Producers don't pay for all those pretty faces to not put them on the poster. That's one of the things I love about the MCU, how the costumes work with or without masks. I also love how they ditched the whole secret identity concept except for Spidey (but Aunt May finds out at the end of Homecoming)
 
RicardoCooper said:
You get them with their masks on in the movie. Producers don't pay for all those pretty faces to not put them on the poster. That's one of the things I love about the MCU, how the costumes work with or without masks. I also love how they ditched the whole secret identity concept except for Spidey (but Aunt May finds out at the end of Homecoming)
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Nah, that was always part of the fun of superheroes. Without the secret identities their just specialized adventures. I don't need that much realism in my escapism. That's the worst part of an otherwise flawless MCU.
 
samson1701 said:
Nah, that was always part of the fun of superheroes. Without the secret identities their just specialized adventures. I don't need that much realism in my escapism. That's the worst part of an otherwise flawless MCU.
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We agree to disagree. Stark coming out as Iron Man at the end of Iron Man 1 set the precedent

I'm old school and used to get annoyed at how they would twist the plot solely for the actor to take his mask off (see Michael Keaton revealing his identity to Kim Basinger in Batman Returns or the plot gymnastics to get Tobey's mask off in all three of his Spider-Mans, or The Shadow when Alec Baldwin was only The Shadow at the beginning of the movie and then was Alec Baldwin for the rest).

The MCU just said fuck it and outed them. A secret ID would be old school IRL when all anybody has to do is Google you. It's a great balance between them fully suited up and maskless (Cap: The Winter Soldier where he was plainclothes 2/3 of the movie) but sometime it doesn't work (Iron Man 3)

Secret IDs are part of the old school DC pantheon no doubt (Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne etc), but these were second and third-tier Marvel characters before they blew up in movies. I think it was a good call

My .02
 
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