I completely forgot they're doing a live action How To Train Your Dragon and still wonder why they're doing one.

Wow! Winning the lottery wouldn't be enough, you'd have to be one of the lucky ten that's picked!

If you didn't read, they're building ten life sized Tumblers, officially sanctioned by Warner Bros., at a cost of $2.9m. They're picking ten people who apply to be a customer.

> Glen Powell has been spotted on the set of Edgar Wright's take on The Running Man, and he was running at the time

There are four pictures linked via X 🤮, here's one of them.

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> 1. It will be a man. 2. He will likely be in his 30s. 3. Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films. 4. “Whiteness is not a given”.

Not exactly a massive revaluation but I hope they're bold enough to be different.

No offence to Daisy but surely Rey's story is done. Especially when you end it so badly.

Branch out! Pick a different time! You've got a whole universe to play in!

Just in time for the holidays, we can enjoy Ron Howard and George Lucas' family-friendly fantasy adventure film Willow finally arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray with deluxe SteelBook packaging.

The George Lucas / Ron Howard team-up Willowmight have been something of a box office misfire at release, but the film has grown into a fan-favorite fantasy adventure classic. Now we can enjoy the exploits of Warwick Davis' Willow and his pal Madmartigan and the beautiful Sorsha in full 2160p with HDR. The press release wasn't specific about HDR grade, remember Disney is punching Dolby Vision onto their 4K discs on a case-by-case basis - so this one might not have made the cut. We'll see if any clarification comes out on that. But we can at least expect HDR10 on the BD66 disc with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. We also don't have a breakdown of extra features yet, but it's a safe bet those will be on the included Blu-ray. Hopefully, if this sells well, maybe we'll get the abandoned series' first season on disc too.

***Willow - 4K UHD SteelBook ***

[!](https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/140748/willow4kuhdsteelbook.html "Willow 4K UHD")

***[!](https://cdn2.highdefdigest.com/uploads/2024/11/12/willow-davis-howard-kilnmer-4kubh-bluray-steelbook-disney-beauty.jpg "Full Glory Image") ***

Here's all of the specs as we know them:

Cast\ **Val Kilmer **as Madmartigan\ **Joanne Whalley **as Sorsha\ Warwick Davis as Willow\ Billy Barty as High Aldwin\ Jean Marsh as Queen Bavmorda

Produced by\ Nigel Wooll

Executive Producers\ George Lucas

Written by\ George Lucas\ Bob Dolman

Directed by\ Ron Howard

Product Specifications\ Release Date\ Digital: December 10, 2024\ Physical: December 10, 2024

Product SKUs\ Digital: 4K UHD\ Physical: 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code SteelBook®

Feature Run Time\ Approx. 126 minutes

Rating\ U.S.: Rated PG

Disc Size\ 4K UHD Blu-ray: 66GB\ Blu-ray: 50GB

Aspect Ratio\ Digital: 2.39:1\ Physical: 2.39:1

Audio\ 4K: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 DTS-HDHR Language Tracks\ Blu-ray: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and French 5.1 DTS Digital Surround Language Tracks\ Digital: English 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital and French 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital

Subtitles\ 4K: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles\ Blu-ray: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles (Specifications Apply To Film Content Only)\ Digital: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles

> Marshall wrote on Instagram, “Since so many fans keep asking, I figured I couldn’t keep the disappointing news to myself any longer. Your unwavering loyalty deserves better. For the past 6 years myself and original UK producer of Dog Soldiers, Christopher Figg, have been working tirelessly to negotiate for the rights to make a sequel with the US Producer/rights holder David E. Allen and his company Dash. 6 years!! That’s as long as it took to write and make the first movie. Unfortunately these negotiations came to a sudden and unexpected halt when, earlier this year, we were due to finalize and sign the agreements and….they disappeared. Vanished. Cut off all communication. Refuse to answer emails or calls. Why, you ask. I don’t know why. That’s the point. We simply don’t know what happened or why, but the end result is that we don’t have the rights to make a sequel without this deal in place, thus rendering it effectively dead. I’m sorry. We tried. We really did. And in Chris Figg’s case spent a lot of money on legal fees doing so. We wanted this for you. For all the countless fans who’ve asked for it. But in the end, perhaps it’s just not meant to be. The original film was lightning in a bottle, and perhaps lightning doesn’t, and in some cases shouldn’t, strike twice. So there it is…“

> Nineteen hours later, he revealed that he hopes to make a separate project called The Werewolves of London. “Since I dropped such a clanger last night, I thought I’d give fans a little moonlight at the end of the tunnel today… While I do not have the rights to make a Dog Soldiers sequel, there’s nothing to stop me making another werewolf movie…. Which is exactly what I intend to do. It’s early days and I’m not giving away any plot details just yet, the plan is to bring as many of the original team back for this as possible, and then all we need is the money to make it!“

> Over the years, the original Star Wars films have been subject to many changes and additions. According to Lucas, the original cuts have been lost to time. Well, sorry George. We the fans cannot let that happen. This is the story of how the fans saved Star Wars.

> This is Part I in a new series I'm creating documenting the fan preservation of the Theatrical Cuts of Star Wars. This episode focuses on Laserdisc Bootlegs.

This bought back some memories. I remember downloading the TR47 bootlegs which were really good copies for the time.

We now have a series of rooms via Matrix to have a good old natter about the films we love and hate.

What's the Matrix? Well, Neo An open network for secure, decentralised communication, so were keeping in theme with the Fediverse.

To join the chat, you'll need a client and there's plenty of choice, from a simple browser, to your operating system of choice.

Once you're set up, join us here.

> “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for “On Borderlands, nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong: it sat on the shelf for too long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added long during the pandemic, and reshoots and rising interest rates took it outside the safety zone of our usual strict financial models,” Feltheimer said. With a budget of around $120 million, Borderlands stands to lose the studio a lot of money. Although Lionsgate did mitigate some of the risks by selling foreign rights, sources told Deadline that Borderlands could still lose as much as $30 million. “The success of our financial models doesn’t take the place of also getting the creative right,” Feltheimer added

Matrix is a secure open source chat system. I wondered if anyone was interested in setting up a chat room for people in this community to get real time chatting.

Just an idea.

> The new story is not meant to be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, the name of the overall arc of the popular and pop culture-dominating Star Wars movies known as Episodes 1 through 9. The intent here is to have brand new characters and a new story, and not have it be a continuation, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. (Although that does not mean that some characters could not or would not pop up.)

> Kinberg already has strong Star Wars ties. He co-created the animated series Star Wars: Rebels with Dave Filoni as well as Carrie Beck. The Emmy-nominated ran for four seasons, from 2014-2018.

> He also helped out on the relaunch of Star Wars after Disney bought Lucasfilm, acting as a consultant on 2015’s The Force Awakens.

> Kinberg is an established presence in the genre space. He had a hand in the Fox X-Men movies, being one of the producers of Logan and the first two Deadpool movies, among many other creative duties. And he is about to go into production on Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King tale The Running Man for Paramount.

How long before this project is cancelled, or we never hear of it again! 😆

The article finishes with a reminder:

> Lucasfilm has tried to chart paths forward before. Kennedy previously signed filmmaker Rian Johnson (Knives Out) to develop a trilogy as well as Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. None of those came close to fruition, with the company facing occasional scrutiny over the years.

> The feature piece, which goes into the finances of Riot Games, has revealed the company spent approximately $250 million to produce and promote Arcane’s two seasons which totaled 18 episodes.

> That works out to a cost of around $13.9 million per episode – the highest amount of money ever spent on an animated series on streaming or linear TV.

> The trade says the reason was that the “profligate spending and unrealized ambitions are a reflection of the company’s inexperience navigating the intricacies of entertainment production.”

> In total the first season cost over $80 million to produce and $60 million to promote. The second season came in around $100 million and entered production without scripts for every episode, causing major delays.