Big things can come in small minds

Adam Savage is a special-effects artist, fabricator, model maker, and as Disney would put it an imaginer. Since 2002 Adam and another film industry veteran Jamie Hyneman have been the host of the Discovery channel hit show “Myth busters”, where they take unlikely and see if it could be made likely.

Adam had spoken to college students on “how simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries” and the speech was posted for TED.com.  Adam went on to talk about inventors of the past and how their own curiosity and dedication to finding the truth behind something is what led to great discoveries and inventions used throughout the ages; Inventors and theorist such as Richard Feynman a scientist of quantum physics and Aristoteles also known as Aristotle- theorist in natural philosophy. The story of Richard Feynman was significant because, when Feynman was a child he asked his father why the ball in the wagon moved to the back of the wagon when you pulled it and his father explained it to be inertia.  Feynman credits this conversation with his father to be the catalyst for his obsession and career. I believe the story of Richard Feynman to be important because it shows how an idea no matter how small can stick with us throughout our days and influence us through the paths of life.

Adam kept his young audiences attention with animated visuals complementing what he was talking about, and high energy, which was fueled by his passion of the subject.

Adam does not speak of adversity he dealt with personally or anything about himself at all, but he does speak of how Galileo was replaced in history for the one who discovered the earth was round, over 1800 years later by Christopher Columbus. Yes many others that were highly educated or well versed in the work of Aristoteles would know that Columbus did not discover the fact that the earth was round, but the fact that there were two astute individuals that found their major discoveries through entirely different yet simple methods should be enough to inspire anyone to rediscover a theory or even dig deeper into a forgotten dream from their youth.  

Hasbro presents Transformers 4

What comes to mind when you hear these names Shia laBeouf, Josh Duhamel, and Tyrese Gibson? Correct Transformers; but according to Hasbro that’s not the way it’s supposed to be!

Transformers is produced & distributed by Paramount pictures in association with Hasbro Entertainment, because Hasbro has all licensing rights to the transformers characters and universe.

Paramount collected a whopping $709 million in gross box office sales world wide for the first Transformer movie in 2007, $836 million for the second movie in 2009, and $1.12 billion for the third installment in 2011. It seems that the films are a great asset and continue to bring in the revenue, but not for all. Hasbro being one of the main forces behind Transformers being on the silver screen has hit a roadblock in the sales of their friendly robot counterparts. So Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has geared Michael Bay the Producer/Director for all the films, into writing the fourth installment of the Transformer franchise towards having more robotic characters and focusing more on the robots.  At a UBS "Best of America 2012 Conference" Goldner opened with presentation talking about how more robots and directed more towards the production of a wide range characters he believes will entice children into wanting to collect the characters they do not have already and with a redesign of the older characters make them want to purchase old Optimus and Bumble bee all over again. Transformer sales will rise again. 

I believe it’s a great idea, because it opens whole new paths for the direction of the franchise, and with the films geared towards toy production, maybe the new characters will have a design that makes the toys look more practical in there transformation. In the films when the robots transform it looks like every square inch of the fiberglass fenders and hoods rotate and bend making it less realistic and impossible for the toys to compare in an opposable sense.

I don’t collect the toys now but maybe the film will inspire better quality figures and encourage the development of characters that you just can’t pass up in the store. I don’t know about all my readers here but I am looking forward to seeing an explosive Michael Bay film again. 

Writer/Producer Ehren Kruger the writer for the last two Transformer films is working on the screenplay for the new film and Paramount hopes to release the film June of 2014

Sequel in Development

If it’s one thing Hollywood’s good for its building suspense, suspense in the sense of film sequels that are in development. Everyone hears the buzz coming from all over the net or from your brothers’ friends’ cousins sister-in-laws aunt (lol).

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Remember the scene in Back to the future 2 when Marty arrived in the year 2015 and was attacked by a hologram shark on top of the movie theater showing Jaws 19, that’s an example of how into sequel’s our society has been for years.

I browse through the International Movie Database (Imdb) all the time, reading about what is in production, post-production, and most of all in-development, because I want to know if our theories and dreams of bringing back old favorites will come to be, like Jaws 19.

Sequel’s such as James Cameron’s Avatar 2, 3, and 4 have been confirmed via a Fandango article and other sources, and Dan Aykroyd has promised that Ghostbusters 3 will be a reality soon, but other hopefuls on the development list such as; Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Bad Boys 3, and Jurassic park 4, have gained interest by the studios, but most likely these films will forever maintain the status of being at the “pitch” or “treatment” process, in other words not going to happen.

UnLikely

Likely

Sequels are a tactic by the studios these days and examples would be “The Bourne legacy, Expendables 2, and the Dark knight rises” sequels currently released. The box-office numbers of the examples also prove how audiences are not going to the theater as in prior years.

Yes it is nearing the end of summer but that is still no excuse for box-office sales to be down 20% from last year’s tickets sales around this time. DNA states Analyst believe the remakes and sequels that are coming out at full force are the problem, because audiences desire more originality. Studio execs are afraid to try original scripts due to the economy and tiptoe by with big name franchises that guarantee a decent buck, like The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises.

$621Million Gross

Its sad that "The Possession", the highest grossing film last weekend only made 9.3 million dollars, that only shows audiences are losing faith in the entertainment industry to entertain them, they will only wait for movies that they know, such as The Avengers, which promote the production of The Avengers 2 and other super hero movies.  

Like I said before sequels and remakes are a safe tactic in filmmaking, and I believe its ok because people have proved they will see them, that is why studios continue to make them. Analyst say that sequels and remakes are causing the downfall, but I say they’re just a sign of the times and what direction we’re heading.

After the 2010 flop which was M. Night Shyamalan “The Last Airbender”, do you think audiences will trust to see another M. Night Shymalan film or even sequel? I know I wouldn’t. That is why audiences are sticking with what they are comfortable spending their $10-$15 dollars on and sticking to the filmmakers they know and impress them as well.