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Today's Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter R. That stands for "remake" and "reboot." I wonder if nutritionists and pediatricians will force Cookie Monster to give up cookies and start eating kale and açaí berries. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
Anne Hathaway's Sesame Street movie lands winter 2021 release; Tom & Jerry slated for April 2021
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...elease-1194256
I haven't read this story yet. I'm still trying to make sense of the headline.
The Wonder Woman sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, is not actually a sequel
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...uel/ar-BBUMEd5
I'm not joshing -- here comes another reboot:
Drake Bell teases a Drake & Josh reboot: 'We're working on something'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/dr...ing/ar-BBUPd3g
"The only person I let in on the fact that I was still alive was a six-year-old kid." Thanks to Hollywood's unoriginality, we all know Chucky is still alive.
Mark Hamill to voice Chucky doll in Child's Play reboot
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...oot/ar-BBVrfc3
"They're creepy and they're kooky" -- and they're back. Charles Addams' single-panel cartoons of a macabre family appeared sporadically in The New Yorker from 1937 until his death in 1988. Addams did not give the characters names until 1964, when he and ABC made a deal for an Addams Family television series.
The Addams Family teaser trailer welcomes home Charlize Theron and Oscar Isaac
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...aac/ar-BBVLArv
There have been 13 Star Trek movies and eight Star Trek television series. Three more Star Trek tv series are in development. Some day there will probably be a full-time Star Trek tv channel.
Nickelodeon and CBS TV Studios team up for animated Star Trek series
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/enter...ies/index.html
Pinhead is a character in Hellraiser – and Hollywood is filled with pinheads who can't come up with any original ideas.
Hellraiser reboot in the works with David S. Goyer to write and produce
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...-goyer-1207685
Wouldn't it be nice if producers would go on a diet and cut out all the reboots, remakes and sequels?
USA Network slates The Biggest Loser reboot for 2020
http://realscreen.com/2019/05/13/usa...boot-for-2020/
Somewhere the ghost of Art Linkletter is thinking, "Hollywood producers do the darnedest reboots."
Kids Say The Darnedest Things reboot hosted by Tiffany Haddish coming to ABC
https://www.inquisitr.com/5437376/ki...things-reboot/
This means I'll have to find my 1986 "Punky Power" button and once again wear socks that don't match. I wonder if she kept Henry Warnimont's photography studio.
Punky Brewster follow-up series starring Soleil Moon Frye is in the works at UCP
https://deadline.com/2019/06/punky-b...cp-1202626648/
If Hollywood can't start coming up with original ideas fast, I'm going to be furious.
'It feels like a miracle': Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez begin filming Fast & Furious 9
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...cle/ar-AADmn72
Sure, why not? It couldn't do any worse at the box office than the recent female-led remakes of Ghostbusters, Ocean's Eleven and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Mike Richardson, creator of The Mask, teases a female-led reboot may be in the works
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...rks/ar-AADUvfH
In one episode of Nash Bridges, Nash told his daughter, "We're going to listen politely, act sympathetic and then come to the same conclusion that it's a terrible idea." They were talking about Nick's father wanting to move into a retirement home. They could just as easily have been talking about plans for a Nash Bridges revival.
Nash Bridges revival with Don Johnson is in the works at USA Network
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...etwork-1225380
Here is some gossip. I heard this from Blair, who heard it from Jenny, who heard it from Nate, who heard it from Serena – but apparently it's true:
The original cast of Gossip Girl has been asked to come back for the HBO Max reboot
https://www.thewrap.com/gossip-girl-...ghton-meester/
More reboots and remakes. Now we know why Kevin McAllister is screaming.
Home Alone, Night At The Museum, Cheaper By The Dozen, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid to be rebooted at Disney
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ney/ar-AAFrkbX
Zack Morris is now the Governor of California? Wow. Well, I guess if "The Terminator" could become Governor or California, so could Zack. NBC's streaming service launches in April 2020 and will also include a new Battlestar Galactica series.
Saved By The Bell reboot with Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley to debut on NBCU streaming service Peacock
https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...cock/23814467/
The new movie will feature a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex. We can consider Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures to be unoriginal Indominus Sequelmakers.
Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Sam Neill will reunite for Jurassic World 3
The three actors starred in 1993's Jurassic Park.
https://people.com/movies/jeff-goldb...urassic-world/
Once again, Star Trek is not-so-boldly going where hundreds of movie producers have gone many times before: another sequel.
Paramount in talks with Noah Hawley to write and direct next Star Trek film
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ilm/ar-BBX0JjR
Quote from the second National Treasure movie: "We found a clue that led us here." "And that will lead you to another clue and another clue." And, obviously, another sequel. This year will also see Venom 2, The Croods 2, Fast & Furious 9, another Top Gun, another RoboCop, another Godzilla, another Saw, another Conjuring, another Chicken Run, another Escape Room, another Scooby-Doo, another Dr. Doolittle, another Wonder Woman, another Invisible Man, another Bill & Ted, another Hansel & Gretel.....and producers wonder why ticket sales are down.
National Treasure 3 in the works with Chris Bremner attached to write screenplay
https://www.thewrap.com/national-tre...-write-script/
We are not-so-boldly going where we have gone many times before: yet another Star Trek series.
New Star Trek series based on the USS Enterprise is heading to CBS All Access
It takes place a decade before the original series.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/2...k-captain-pike