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Popcorn Movie Season is Starting This Week: Watch Movies For Free!

Posted on April 28th, 2008 in Blogging, Business, Movie by Steve McGrath

The month of May is the traditional official start of the popcorn movie season. If you are like me, you love that period of the year because of all those popcorn movies.

Being in Quebec City, my choice of English movies will be limited but I hope that ALL big movies are made available this year. For example, Transformers was not available in English last year. That was the first time that the major movie of the 4th of July weekend is only in French. I cross my fingers that it won’t happen this year.


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    Piracy Is Good? - The Video

    Posted on January 31st, 2008 in Business, Entertainment, Show, TV by Steve McGrath

    This video is not new because it’s from 2005. The guy was making a case for changing the way we view television show and how it could be distributed. With the current writer’s strike, I though it could be another way to see a show.


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    Stop reading if you don’t want to know about Cloverfield 2.


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    Posted on August 31st, 2007 in Business, Entertainment, Money, Passion by Steve McGrath

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    Why I won’t go see movies in theater made by Universal, Paramount and Dreamworks


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    The 80’s are back but is Hollywood wrong?

    Posted on August 15th, 2007 in Business, Entertainment, Money, Movie by Steve McGrath

    This year, a freighting number of remakes started to be talked about. I wrote that the 80’s were next in Does Hollywood lost some of it’s imagination?. It seems I was sadly right. :(

    Here a list of planned remake of 80’s movies:

    Scanners (2008)
    Escape from New York (2009)
    Footloose (2008)
    Revenge of the Nerds (in the news)
    Prom Night (2008)
    All of Me (2009)
    Further Adventures in Babysitting (2008) (not a sequel)
    Clash of the Titans (2010)
    The Warriors (2008)
    Cannibal Holocaust (2009)
    The Long Good Friday (2009)
    The Evil Dead (2008)
    The Thing (2009)
    Conan the Barbarian (2009)
    Magnum P.I. (2009) like Miami Vice based on a TV series from the 80’s

    That’s not counting the already out in 2007 and before:
    The Hitcher (2007)
    The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)
    Hairspray (2007)
    The Invasion (2007) (1956, 1978(close enough) and 1993) It’s the third Remake but none in 1980.

    This is only a small list just my searching “remake” in the news section of Zap2it for 2007. It still took a few hours of digging first. I can’t imagine what the rest of the year will be like. I found, after that, a “remake of cult classic” tag on imdb.com with only 30 movies. Most movies above did not have the tag but will be very soon.

    I was too young for some of the early 80’s movies to see them in theaters and appreciate them. I might go see them but then again, I might not.

    At that rate, the 90’s won’t be far out.

    Is Hollywood wrong of remaking those? Should they expect blockbuster numbers or should they release them directly to Blu-Ray instead ;)


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