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May 1, 2018

Hasbro Owns The Power Rangers Now

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Deadline broke the news this afternoon that the Power Rangers franchise has just been purchased by Hasbro. The deal also included some lesser 80s properties like My Pet Monster and Popples, but Power Rangers was the big get. The Power Rangers brand has ping-ponged around several businesses in its 25-year existence. Billionaire Haim Saban came up with the whole notion of translating Super Sentai for America, and co-owned Power Rangers with Fox up until around 2002, when Fox sold its Family Channel and much of its children-centric properties to ABC and parent company Disney. Disney kept the Power Rangers going on ABC Family until the late 2000s, when Saban bought the rights back from them and continued the series himself on Nickelodeon. No one knows at this point what convinced Saban to sell again, but perhaps it had something to do with his big Power Rangers relaunch movie failing at the box office. Hasbro already has a venue for the Rangers — the Discovery Family channel — and our best

August 31, 2017

Black Ranger Ludi Lin Reveals Cut Bloody Scene

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The future of the Power Rangers movie franchise is still very much in the air right now. The film did decently in the box office, and did make a profit, but it was hardly enough to justify a full on sequel, let alone the five that Saban had planned. The home DVD sales were promising though, as Power Rangers was #1 in the nation when it came out. Still, it’s uncertain what will happen next. Interestingly enough though, we’re still hearing about things that almost made it into the film, including a bloody fighting between Zack and Jason. Actor Ludi Lin (who played Zack, the Black Ranger) was talking about his role in Aquaman when the topic of Power Rangers got brought up. So, he decided to have some fun and reveal that scene that didn’t make the cut “I’ll tell you about this scene that never made it into the Power Rangers movie because it was too violent… too bloody,” Lin shared to the Ara Show. “It was a scene between

June 26, 2017

Was The PG-13 Rating What Doomed Power Rangers?

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This year has had a lot of risky and interesting films come to the Box Office, from Wonder Woman, Fast and Furious 8, Justice League coming later, there’s a lot of films that were/are banking on big box office returns. One of the early films of the year to do this was Power Rangers. This was the modern take on the original classic kids show. And while the film didn’t fail per se, it didn’t really make a box office splash. The film is about to come to DVD/Blu-Ray, and many are hoping that the sales of it boom so that a sequel will come. But you have to wonder, why didn’t it do so well in the box office? Well, Director Dean Israelite told ScreenRant that it may have to do with the films PG-13 rating: “…there’s been market studies on it, and the findings have been that if the movie were rated PG — I don’t want to go into the specific numbers — but if the movie had

March 23, 2017

Saban Plans To Make Six More Power Ranger Movies

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Haim Saban’s big Power Rangers movie is days away from release. This is the point in a movie’s lifespan where the people involved make ridiculously bold, incredibly optimistic predictions about the success of the thing they labored over for years. Which, from that perspective, I understand, but going by the middling reviews and the dour, unappealing-looking trailers now running on TV, I would not jump the gun so far as to predict you’ll be making six sequels. Saban sure seems to think so, though. “We already have a six-movie story arc,” he told Variety. And believe it or not, movie studio Lionsgate was also talking that many sequels BEFORE this. Power Rangers could have a good opening weekend purely based on nostalgia and the pent-up desire to see childhood heroes targeted at an ‘adult audience” — only problem is, the people going in hoping for that kind of thing aren’t going to get it. There are a couple of spicy lines that give the flick its PG-13, but largely Saban

October 8, 2016

NYCC: Power Rangers Teaser Trailer Shown

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After much teasing, the official teaser trailer for the upcoming remaking of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was revealed at New York Comic Con. The trailer itself shows the brief backstory of the Rangers coming together, getting their powers, and even encountering Rita Repulsa. As this is a modern remake, not everything lines up with the classic kids show,but it does have some classic Power Rangers flair. “SABAN’S POWER RANGERS follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too late, band together as the Power Rangers.” Power Rangers arrives in theaters March 2017.

October 7, 2016

NYCC: Power Rangers Posters Shown Off

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At New York Comic Con, five character posters were shown for the upcoming Power Rangers movie, ones that showed off the Rangers themselves in their full Ranger garb. Also interesting to note is that the words “Go, Go” appear on the posters. Which is a reference to the class Mighty Morphin Power Rangers song that sang, “Go, Go, Power Rangers!” There is a panel scheduled for the Power Rangers movie tomorrow. We’ll keep you informed of any solid info that comes out of that. You can check out all five characters posters here. Power Rangers arrives in theaters March 24, 2017.