Last week there was a
kerfuffle in the Chinese media about Red Dawn when someone over there got wind
of the fact that the baddies will be good old ChiComs. Considering that
China has a propaganda movie, The Karate Kid, hitting
theaters this weekend they shouldn’t be so offended. And maybe if they
stopped being a totalitarian police state they wouldn’t get treated so
badly by the media.
But at any rate their problems with Red Dawn may
be evaporating… along with MGM. According
to the LA Times the film,
originally scheduled to be released this November, has disappeared into
the Siberia of TBA – to be announced. No one knows when, or if, the
film will be released.
This all comes on the heels of the
continuing meltdown of MGM. The situation is so bad that the next 007
movie has been delayed indefinitely and Guillermo del Toro has been
forced off The Hobbit, which can’t start production
until the studio’s financials get back in order. Or someone buys them.
Other
movies sit in the danger zone, including Drew Goddard’s Cabin in
the Woods,
which was all ready to go but then held back a year to be
post-converted into 3D. If the studio can’t even get enough funds to
release Red Dawn,
which looks to be very commercial, what hope is there for the weird and
meta Cabin?
I
attempted to get a comment from MGM but didn’t hear back at the time of
publication.
13 comments
Didn't Sony/Columbia buy MGM a while back or did I imagine that? Aside from the fact Sony Studios used to be MGM, I thought they actually bought them or a large share of them at some point a few years ago.
I thought they were already shooting this? I thought I remember seeing some stills from the set or something?
Hahahaha. 'Publication'. Anyway, I was secretly looking forward to this, if only out of morbid curiosity. And yea, comment#2, I do believe they've filmed a good portion of it, if I'm not mistaken.
This reminds me of when the Onion published its "we've been bought by the Chinese" issues. "Greetings to our benevolent and wise overlords".
LMAO. I love the contrast between Devin's post and the LATimes. Devin, who we all know is a big-time bleeding heart lib (not that there's anything wrong with that) actually manages to dispense with the actual news (Red Dawn's fate), and little else, while the LATimes article (which is supposedly 100% more "professional") spends most of its half dozen paragraphs sniping at those of a different political ideology. I love it.
They filmed in Detroit late last year. I thought they were aiming for a summer '10 release. When did it become Nov 24 (per LAT)?? Red Dawn screams "cheesy summer popcorn fare". Can't imagine trying to open it during the holidays even if MGM had the cash.
It most certainly does not take a year to post convert for 3D.
Maybe its just as terrible and dumb as the original, so its just being buried.
I keep telling people that the way to remake this is to be either a) in Baghdad with americans as the invaders or b) in Mazar-y-sharif with the taliban as invaders. Maybe both as a double feature.
@ Coco – You are so right. That LA Times article was very poor journalism. Real journalism does not start off with some lame false political conspiracy theory about film – that was akin to some Glen Beck crap right there.
I'll pay 200 american dollars -in cash- for MGM. I will expect all employees to work until they have produced at least an unspecified number of original films.
And maybe if the US stopped invading and bombing and generally being a dick to the rest of the world, there wouldn't be so much anti-Americanism around.
I think this film will not be delayed.
A spokesman for MGM said the film was still on for November 24th 2010.
But who knows. It would be a shame to allow the press in China to decide that this film not be released.
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