The Wrap #21: Kickstarting Firefly

03/15/13 • 10 min

A wrap up to the week talking about ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ box office success and why it’s a bit disappointing in light of ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ doing so poorly, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser Trailer #2 and Anthony Pascale’s deep, shot by shot analysis of that, release reshuffling with ‘RED 2’ and ‘Now You See Me’, ‘Star Trek "3"’ might be out for the 50th anniversary, Emma Watson decides not to become a Disney princess and take the part of the live action Cinderella, a mode of the Enterprise E, an article on motion smoothing on modern TVs and why you should make sure that setting is off on your television set, the ‘Veronica Mars’ Kickstarter meeting its funding goal in short order with many days left to really boost the budget, as well as what this might mean for the future of film, and Joss Whedon considering the options for a Kickstarter with ‘Firefly. And then TJ wraps it up with a look at what’s in the cinemas that you might like to see.

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The Wrap #20: Errol Flynn Robin Hood

In this episode, TJ talks bout ‘Hobbit 3’ getting its release date pushed back, Emma Watson in a live action Cinderella, ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’s’ dismal opening weekend, rumors of Christopher Nolan taking on Justice League with Christian Bale returning as Batman, a DreamWorks version of ‘Robin Hood’ which TJ doesn’t think will be all that great, the upcoming ‘Tomb Raider’ reboot with a younger Lara Croft, the newest trailer for the upcoming ‘Iron Man 3’, why Sam Raimi didn’t do a ‘Spider-Man 4’, soundtrack from the upcoming ‘Oblivion’ which is sounding good, Episode #34 of ‘The MovieByte Podcast’, Joe’s article on the star rating system and how he ranks films, a big ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ spoiler scoop from Anthony Pascale at TrekMovie.com, and what you might want to see this weekend at the box office.

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The Wrap #22: Casa Tony Stark

TJ wraps up the week with a look at Pepper Potts suiting up in an Iron Man suit, the previous weekend’s box office report, a ‘Star Wars’ conspiracy theory expose, a ‘Hansel and Gretel’ sequel and how that might not be warranted, ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ streaming and download in HD, the Apple TV software update and Hulu app update, Joss Whedon’s reaction to the ‘Iron Man 3’ ending, Joe’s review of ‘Emperor’, the new ‘Turbo’ trailer, the ‘Everything Wrong with the Dark Knight’ video and how it’s a bit of a dud, George Lucas sends a drawing to James Cameron, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ international trailer, The MovieByte Podcast 36 in which TJ and Joe discuss ‘The Call’, an ‘Oblivion’ Featurette, and what you might like to see in theaters this weekend.