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WarnerMedia’s Spring Sci-Fi Cable Movie Lineup

WarnerMedia’s Spring Sci-Fi Cable Movie Lineup

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WarnerMedia owns TNT, TBS and HBO, and this spring, they’re teaming up to deliver a bounty of on-demand movies for sci-fi lovers. They sent us the list this morning….here are the movies you can currently get on-demand that fall in the sci-fi genre. Our recommendations: besides the obvious classics, The Abyss still isn’t on Blu-ray and at this rate never will be, so here’s the only way to see it in 1080p. And speaking of Cameron films, Alita: Battle Angel deserves a lot more respect. (It was originally going to have his full involvement, but he had to choose between it and Avatar, and passed the directing duties to someone else.) Also, if you want a good MST3K-style laugh, The Island is a very mockable Bay film. The Adjustment Bureau Abyss Aliens Alien Alien 3 Alien Resurrection Alita: Battle Angel The Bicentennial Man Cyborg Gamer Godzilla: King of the Monsters The Island Midnight Special The Predator Rise of the Planet of the Apes Upgrade The War of the Worlds X-Men:

HBO Max News #1: Greg Berlanti Announces Two New DC Shows

HBO Max News #1: Greg Berlanti Announces Two New DC Shows

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Today WarnerMedia revealed just about everything we’d been wanting to know about HBO Max; so much that it can’t be contained in one article. We’ll be posting multiple news stories in succession, starting with this one. The first news is the news that’s been most crucial: the price of this thing. Rumors had it at $17.99 a month, which sounded pretty ridiculous even with all the crazy new shows and exclusives they’ve been shoring up. Fortunately, that is not the case: the price is actually $14.99, which still puts it at the more expensive side (especially when compared to Disney+) but somewhat more manageable. In fact, it’s the price HBO currently costs to stream by itself, and all of HBO’s content is included here, so either a reduction in cost is coming for THAT app, or it’s being retired. We’ll see. The next big piece of news is our first headline: “Greg Berlanti,” which we’re now convinced is not a person but the name of an AI program designed to

gen:Lock Is Locked In For A Second Season

gen:Lock Is Locked In For A Second Season

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Last year Rooster Teeth launched their most ambitious project to date, a CG cel-shaded mech series called gen:Lock. The first season has gotten a fair amount of exposure — you might have seen it on Rooster Teeth’s streaming channel, on Crunchyroll, or on Toonami during its broadcast run (which ended last month). By the time the season ended, the storyline was far from resolved, but it won’t be cliffhung. Rooster Teeth and WarnerMedia just announced a second season is now under production, and it’s heading to…………..HBO Max. What else were you expecting? No, this does not render all Rooster Teeth subscriptions useless, though it may make consumers consider dropping one for the other. The second season of gen:Lock will be an HBO Max exclusive for just the first three months of its release….after that Rooster Teeth’s FIRST members will get to see it. By that point though they’ll probably have switched to HBO Max already. “We’re beyond excited to be producing a second season of gen:LOCK for HBO Max,” said

HBO Max Acquires Streaming Rights To Studio Ghibli Library

HBO Max Acquires Streaming Rights To Studio Ghibli Library

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Two days ago, Polygon ran a news story entitled “Why You May Never See Studio Ghibli’s Movies On Streaming Services.” The article based its information on a quote the site received from US distributor GKIDS much earlier in the year, which stated “Studio Ghibli does not make their films available digitally, whether for download or streaming, anywhere in the world. They continue to believe that presentation is vital and particularly appreciate opportunities for audiences to experience the films together in a theatrical setting.” The AV Club took that article and basically Xeroxed it a day later, parroting Polygon’s information but using the more blunt headline “Studio Ghibli Films May Never Be Available For Streaming.” The reasoning was that Miyazaki himself was very traditionalist and slow to adapt to changing technology, and therefore, he would never allow such a thing to happen. This went up yesterday. Well. Don’t YOU guys feel stupid right now. WarnerMedia has won the rights to exclusively stream the Ghibli library through their upcoming HBO Max streaming

We’re Getting That Gremlins Cartoon

We’re Getting That Gremlins Cartoon

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Last February there were reports that Warner Bros was finally letting Gizmo out of his cage again to star in a Gremlins TV series, this one animated. Now we have confirmation that this show will really happen. WB and Amblin formerly announced it today, and as the rumors suggested, it’s a prequel about how Gizmo met Mr. Wing: Set in 1920s Shanghai, the series will tell the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins. Given that Mr. Wing winds up keeping Gizmo as a pet until his dying breath, we don’t think Gizmo is going to succeed in

DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Cancelled After One Episode

DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Cancelled After One Episode

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Yikes…..Warner Bros’ DC Universe streaming service just canned its latest series after uploading just one episode to the server. Is what just happened to Swamp Thing a sign of bad times ahead for DC Universe as a whole? On the surface, any new venture cancelling one of its projects this prematurely is never a good look. But there’s no real need to panic, unless you liked Swamp Thing (and you’ve barely had any time to develop an attachment). According to industry journalist John Gholson, WB originally greenlit this show to film it in North Carolina, hoping to take advantage of a tax break that is no longer available. “North Carolina promised a $40m tax rebate that, due to a paperwork error, they were unable to deliver. That was roughly half the proposed budget for [Season One] (which is estimated at $80m). When NC discovered the error, the corrected. WB shut down production, realizing they’d be taking a bath on the rebate and paying for far more of it than assumed.

Gremlins Animated Series In Development

Gremlins Animated Series In Development

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Gremlins are great, and there aren’t enough minutes of screentime devoted to them. Every now and then we hear about a Gremlins 3 movie in development, but it never goes anywhere. Which is why we’re thrilled with the announcement from Variety that Warner Bros is developing a Gremlins TV series. We’ll take it! The downside is that we won’t get to find out what Billy and Kate are up to because the proposed series is a prequel. It would be about the young adventures of Mr. Wing, Gizmo’s original caretaker, as he travels with his companion Mogwai around the world. The second downside is that this series is meant for WarnerMedia, the upcoming exclusive streaming service for WB properties (they’re also considering yanking Friends from Netflix and putting it on this). We have mixed feelings about every single major studio and corporation launching their own streaming service. On the one hand, no mortal human can possibly keep up with them all, and no human earning less than six figures can