Red Dawn' is another casualty due to MGM's financial troubles

Examiner ^ | 06.10.10

[Perdogg]

Well this should not be a surprise to anyone but Red Dawn is the latest film to be put on hold due to MGM’s financial status. With no executives to control the studio, creditors have placed the responsibility of the once great film company on themselves. This move has affected all the movies it was tied to, from the twenty-third Bond film to The Hobbit. Because of MGM’s financial problems Daniel Craig left Bond 23 for Girl with a Dragon Tatoo and Gullimero Del Toro left The Hobbit.

[BenLurkin]

[Rufii]

What????? No more Leo roaring on the screen????

[Dayman]

Most people in Hollywood don’t understand what freedom is and wouldn’t do the original movie justice.

[WildWeasel]

A remake would be a watered down movie anyway. PC Hollywood changed Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears from Palestinian Terrorists to Russians to be PC, they’ll neuter a remake of Red Dawn too.

Just as well there’s no remake.

[Caipirabob]

Methinks their Chinese overlords were displeased...

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“Gold star for you”

Hey, maybe some people didn’t know about that...

[Artemis Webb]

"The 1923 version of “The Ten Commandments” is considerably different from the 1956 version. I saw it in the 1980’s at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. It was accompanied by a very competent organist who had accompanied films during the silent era."

I'm genuinely envious!

[archivist007]

I would like Warner Bros. to purchase MGM. They are good about films. After all they own Turner Classic Movies, which is one of my favorite channels.

In addition, TimeWarner already has the rights to pre-1986 MGM films.

[AGreatPer]

Who made Independence Day?

Great movie because they blew up DC.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There should be an effort to redo some of the classic Ealing Studio comedy films. British comedies with superb story lines that were made on shoestring budgets. Ironically, Ealing Studios are still around.

This was already tried by Americans, and failed, with the remake of The Ladykillers (1955). The 2004 version had top directors, top actors, and a big budget, but still failed terribly. This pretty well proves that the British have to make their own remakes.

But, if they do so, they could choose from a fine selection:

Whiskey Galore! (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

And they then might re-remake The Ladykillers.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Iron Eagle... I thought that was a movie about golf.

[dools007]

Lefties, left to their own devices, eventually screw up their own wet dreams.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

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[Cringing Negativism Network]

+1

Additionally, there’s no way Hollywood could remake the movie, without turning it into a PC bunch of fluff.

No way.

Hollywood is now so utterly leftist, it is impossible for any major studio to turn out anything but propaganda for the left.

Thing is, the left isn’t interested in patriotic movies.

So the movie was guaranteed to be a flop. No conservatives would go because it would be leftist propaganda.

And leftists wouldn’t go because it would be too patriotic.

In other words, it was guaranteed to be a huge flop.

I expect the exact same scenario, for the eventual “Atlas Shrugged”.

[qam1]

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[omega4179]

And LA, Coastal cleanup movie.

[Domandred]

Sci-Fi channel’s Dune I thought was superior to the original.

[Drew68]

So the movie was guaranteed to be a flop. No conservatives would go because it would be leftist propaganda.

No conservatives bothered to see The Hurt Locker either. That movie was a box office flop. Yet it was everything people on this forum seem to ask for from Hollywood; action packed, pro-America, pro-U.S. military, Muslim bad guys. Performed dismally in the theater.

Everyone went to see Avatar instead.

[Celtic Conservative]

Ah yes, "kind hearts and coronets" starring Alec Guinness and... well that's it really. I think he played almost all the roles.

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[conservative cat]

The Gone with the Wind sequel was so bad- you are right. My 12 year old could have written it better. Almost the worst was it appeared that the author didn’t read the first book- just watched the movie (which was excellent, but changed something very big from the book- that Scarlett had more than one child). I want to burn the memory of that from my brain almost more than the Star Wars prequels.