Tag: Sonic the Hedgehog
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Box Office: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Speeding to $65 Million Opening Weekend
“Sonic the Hedgehog” is speeding to a $65 million opening at the North American box office this President’s Day weekend, according to estimates.Paramount’s action-adventure, based on the Sega video game character, had been pegged to generate $40-45 million prior to its launch. Should estimates hold, it could break the $54 million record set last year…
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‘Fantasy Island’ Review: Blumhouse’s Awful Reboot Is a Total Nightmare
Just how dire is Hollywood’s dependence on intellectual property? The “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie wasn’t even this week’s most desperate attempt to bring an old brand into multiplexes. Not that rebooting ABC’s “Fantasy Island” for the big screen was an inherently bad idea — the 1977 television show’s “‘Twilight Zone’ in paradise” vibe is always…
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Featurette: Zany Jim Carrey from the ’90s Is Back as Dr. Robotnik
Jim Carrey had a meteoric rise to fame in the 1990s thanks to a string of comedy hits like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb & Dumber, not to mention a campy villainous turn as The Riddler in Batman Forever, all in the span of a year and a half. It’s been a…
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The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React to the New ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’, The Evolution of Movie Runtimes & More
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, the visual effects arts from Corridor Crew are…
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The Morning Watch: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Trailer Fixed, Entire ‘X-Men’ Franchise Recap & More
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a new version of the Sonic the…
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Pushed Back 3 Months to Rework Lead Character’s Look
The live-action “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie has been pushed back so that the visual effects artists can make adjustments to Sonic’s character, the film’s director Jeff Fowler announced on Twitter Friday.It will now open Feb. 14, 2020 after being originally slated to be released Nov. 8 of this year.Fans of the video game character were…
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Toy story: why Hollywood can’t stop kidulting
From Detective Pikachu to Sonic the Hedgehog, when did audiences Ok the big brand movie?Orson Welles memorably described his final role, voicing the baddie in 1986 animation The Transformers: The Movie, as “a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys”. Such dismissiveness would be way out of line in today’s moviescape. Instead, we…
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Sonic the Hedgehog to be redesigned after criticism of film trailer
Director thanks fans who objected to the appearance of the video game character and assures them it will be modifiedSonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler has announced that “changes” will be made to the forthcoming movie based on the video game after the trailer premiere was met with blistering criticism.Thank you for the support. And…
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Director Says Design Changes ‘Going to Happen’ After Fan Backlash
“Sonic the Hedgehog” director Jeff Fowler has responded to fan criticism over the appearance and design of the titular blue hedgehog, writing on Twitter that design changes are “going to happen.”“The message is loud and clear,” Fowler wrote on Twitter Thursday. “You aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going tp happen.…
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New ‘Child’s Play’ Poster Murders a ‘Toy Story’ Character
Marketing! Who can tell what is good or bad anymore, truly. Is it a good idea to reveal Sonic the Hedgehog has horrific baby human teeth to the sound of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”? Is it ethical to shoot and show false footage to maintain the secrets of Avengers: Endgame? Should Disney have maybe finished the…