The Status: “Missing from Radar”.

I did a series of articles about anticipating games, flicks and books. It seemed that everything is scheduled, but when you have attention to independent projects, it is possible they may not come. And there have been a few projects that disappeared from the radar lately.

If I visit a theater, it will likely be for a known good film rather than anything contemporary. I had that the silver screen wish in watching from the XXth century.

I did seeing in this year much of familiar, many of which are movies from the nineties. They became greater, and there were discoveries of impressive details. I saw that John P. Ryan deserved Oscar for Runaway Train. I can’t accept that he wasn’t even nominated. He did a meticulous performance. Or my familiarity with TMNT comics a few months ago made to see how spectacular the trilogy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is, which the second and the third parts I finally watched entirely. The filmmakers took from original materials the elements with potential and turned them into the ideal. There have been many times when I saw how cinema creates such miracles. A meeting with Shredder and his Foot Clan in a pawn shop was wasted and overdramatized in the comics, while strong and magnificent in the adaptation. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is only and did it flawless in sending heroes to Feudal Japan; personal love is that they’re phenomenal in these armor suits. Turtles themselves perceive as real and I madly adore the design of Splinter. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop made authentic in the first and the second movies, and they should have stayed instead of All Effect Company, which did topnotch, but the adding of black spots to turtles hurt their natural look.

I opened never-seen before flicks, such as it was Stakeout duology, which existence was only disclosed not so far ago. Comedy isn’t a main genre here, but I had a grandiose laugh from the humor that has gone nowadays.

A new tantalizing film is a train that constantly delays and you almost never get an information on when it will arrive. I realize that no movement with Clint Eastwood’s film if passed half a year. He would have made it. Either the legend in searching for a script or his relationship with Warner Bros., which I rely more as the reason. He hadn’t often box-office failures, and it was plethora times when Eastwood’s movie’s margin exceeded budget by multiple times. The director has always held a special status in this company. He received budgets, which never were big, on artistic self-expression. Cry Macho didn’t turn a profit, having 33 million dollars and collecting 16,5 million dollars. A new installed CEO of corporation–who lives in his imaginary world, which lead to financial failures and following put the company for sale for overvaluing sum, because if take all factors, which I pointed in the past, it can’t cost more than 30 billion dollars, and Paramount’s first offer already was a raw deal–didn’t like that treatment to Eastwood. It was just arrived man, who, as it usually, if not always, didn’t glance at person’s past achievements. Only the present matters in business. He didn’t want to finance after box-office of Cry Macho, and did worst with the director’s next movie Juror #2 by giving limited screens. That made a big outcry. People felt that the picture deserved a wide release, but that CEO never wanted to leave his wonderland. This flick had acclaim from critics and audiences. I believe, it could have been a rare hit for Warner Bros. as can look that international box-office of over 27,3 million dollars against a 35 million dollar budget. Despite on review that I wrote about Juror #2, but I had a rapture of doing it because this was the flick on which can reason broadly. It was a greeting from old times.

No reports on that Eastwood has contacted another studio. It’s only known that he didn’t quit, as that hints his last interview, which he made at the end of October. Knowing his constant working attitude, it means that there is no active project now. However, I always wishful that he will be involved in filming.

The hanging status of Best of the Best 5: Honor the Brave doesn’t make me to believe in its realization because that’s not easy to discover a requiring budget. Phillip Rhee wants to win by collecting an original cast. However, he intended to stage a series remake ten years ago, which didn’t happen.

Paradark Studio doesn’t post about ExeKiller since October 31, while used usually to do three appearances per month. A developer’s confidence in finding another publisher still didn’t help them. Even though the game was associative with a straightforward falling shot plane, and the last posting shows a short video revealing that body physics and artificial intelligence aren’t up to par (unreal engine, if to be succinct), though the former was noticed long time ago, but I still would like to see what this electronic composition is about.