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Tag: Pitch Meeting

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Pitch Meeting: Dr. Seuss on Film

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 ravenwilder

With The Grinch being a box office juggernaut, it seems inevitable we’re gonna get a deluge of Dr. Seuss based movies in the years ahead. But feature length films based on the works of Dr. Seuss . . . they don’t … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Dr. Seuss on Film

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Pitch Meeting: The Monster Mash

October 29, 2018 ravenwilder

It’s the Halloween season, boys and ghouls! So let’s have a chat about that not-so-venerated horror tradition: the monster mash! Going all the way back to Universal’s Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943, taking two popular horror movie monsters and putting … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The Monster Mash

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Pitch Meeting: Expanding the Bas-Lag Trilogy

October 7, 2018 doctuar

This article will be discussing three of author China Miéville’s novels known informally as the “Bas-Lag Trilogy”; Perdido Street Station (2000), The Scar (2002) and Iron Council (2004). If you have not read any or all of these books, please … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Expanding the Bas-Lag Trilogy

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Pitch Meeting: The New Adventures of Old Picard

September 29, 2018 ravenwilder

As we speak, CBS is developing a new series to add to the Star Trek franchise, and it has many fans quite excited, because for the first time in over fifteen years, Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The New Adventures of Old Picard

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Pitch Meeting: The Alien Franchise

September 23, 2018 ravenwilder

Fox has been trying to turn 1979’s hit sci-fi/horror flick Alien into an ongoing franchise for a while now, without much luck. The only major success to come from this franchising has been the first sequel, Aliens, which was basically a remake of … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The Alien Franchise

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Pitch Meeting: The Fantastic Four in the MCU

September 11, 2018September 11, 2018 ravenwilder

As I type this, the Walt Disney Company is in the process of buying 20th Century Fox film studios. There are still some final regulatory hurdles to clear, but all seems set for Fox and its assets to become a … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The Fantastic Four in the MCU

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Pitch Meeting: The Terminator Franchise

July 12, 2018 ravenwilder

The Terminator franchise hasn’t had the best of luck. After pulling off the rare feat of making one great movie and then a sequel that was even better, it’s struggled to recapture that magic. Repeating the formula of the first two movies … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: The Terminator Franchise

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Pitch Your Horror Movie

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 robertmaitlandarchitecture

Hey everybody, let’s waste a bit of time today by sharing pitches for horror movies we’d like to see made. I’d like to see a vampire movie set in the Massachusetts Bay colony in the middle of the 17th Century. … Continue reading Pitch Your Horror Movie

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Pitch Meeting: H.P. Lovecraft on Film

June 7, 2018 ravenwilder

The works of H.P. Lovecraft are some of the most popular in all of horror fiction, but they’re also notoriously difficult to translate into feature films. There have been several such adaptations, but they’ve for the most part been either … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: H.P. Lovecraft on Film

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Pitch Meeting: Non-Superhero Comic Book Movies

June 3, 2018June 3, 2018 ravenwilder

Currently, movies based on comic book superheroes are all the rage. But there’s more to the medium of comic books than just the cape-and-cowl set. This is a place for people to pitch movie ideas based on non-superhero comics that … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Non-Superhero Comic Book Movies

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Pitch Meeting: Prequels

May 24, 2018 ravenwilder

Tomorrow, that latest Star Wars prequel, Solo: A Star Wars Story, will be released, exploring Han Solo’s life prior to the events of the Original Trilogy. That got me thinking on the prequels in general, and wondering what stories and … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Prequels

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Pitch Meeting: Indiana Jones 5

May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 ravenwilder

For a while now, it’s been known that Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are making a fifth Indiana Jones movie, currently scheduled for release in 2020. So far, however, there’s not much concrete info on what the plot or title … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Indiana Jones 5

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