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December 04, 2006
Fantastic Premonition Lake
Posted by poland at December 4, 2006 12:30 PM
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It does seem pretty similar to THE LAKE HOUSE, but what's the deal with FANTASTIC FOUR?
Posted by: Goulet ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 4, 2006 12:43 PM
It's because Julian McMahon is in both movies.
Ho, ho, as Roger Ebert would say.
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 4, 2006 01:27 PM
Yeah, this has been out for a while. Seems to give away everything, doesn't it?
Question: why is Sony using the TriStar banner for this? I haven't seen the pegasus for a while...why pull this particular brand out of mothballs?
Posted by: Wrecktum at December 4, 2006 04:27 PM
No, they've been using it for a while; RUNNING WITH SCISSORS and OLIVER TWIST, to name two.
Posted by: Cadavra at December 4, 2006 04:49 PM
In other words, they use it for movies that nobody is going to see.
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 4, 2006 05:34 PM
The TriStar logo is one thing; The other day I saw a trailer that kicked off with the HOLLYWOOD PICTURES logo. Some lame horror movie with the kid who played Cruise Jr. in WAR OF THE WORLDS. HOLLYWOOD PICTURES???? I had flashbacks to 1995, when they seemed to put out every middling, TV-movie looking potboiler from RICH MAN'S WIFE to METRO to TIE THAT BINDS. Have they still been around the last 6 or 7 years, or is this a comeback?
Posted by: LexG at December 4, 2006 05:56 PM
Wow, I thought they got rid of that thing when it became common knowledge that if it was the Sphinx, it stinks.
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 4, 2006 06:10 PM
Hollywood released Stay Alive earlier this year. Next year they have both Invisible (the "lame horror movie" mentioned above) and Primeval (the new one-sheet just coming out today on AICN).
I read somewhere that Hollywood was revived for genre films (like Fox Atomic, maybe?), but Disney is publicly moving away from releasing films like that in the future, so you probably won't see the sphinx much longer.
But I'm still interested in TriStar's reemergence. I looked around and I noticed that Silent Hill was also TriStar, so clearly Sony has some sort of strategy. Interesting (to me at least).
Posted by: Wrecktum at December 4, 2006 08:13 PM
Hollywood Pictures released Quiz Show, the best film Robert Reford has ever directed -- featuring a great cameo by Martin Scorsese -- so I don't think you can say everything from the Sphinx stinks.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 4, 2006 10:16 PM
Er, the best film that Robert REDFORD ever directed.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 4, 2006 10:17 PM
I prefer Ordinary People, which is exquisite.
Hollywood Pictures had a few other good movies in its ignoble history:
Tombstone
Sixth Sense
Crimson Tide
Nixon
Joy Luck Club
Grosse Pointe Blank
Evita
but mostly crap:
Judge Dread
The Associate
Gone Fishin'
Son in Law
Just Visiting
Super Mario Brothers
The list goes on and on.
Posted by: Wrecktum at December 4, 2006 10:54 PM
ahem...
Judge Dredd
I am the LAW!
Posted by: Lota at December 5, 2006 12:12 AM
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