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blackbloodunderthemoonlight · 3 years

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16 MOVIES WORTH CHECKING OUT - NORTH AMERICA RELEASES JUNE 2021

All Light, Everywhere (2021) dir. Theo Anthony - A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras. - Release Date Jun 4, 2021 - RT

Censor (2021) dir. Prano Bailey-Bond - After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance. - Release Date Jun 11, 2021 - RT

Holler (2020) dir. Nicole Riegel - To pay for her education, and the chance of a better life, a young woman joins a dangerous scrap metal crew. - Release Date Jun 11, 2021 - RT

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020) dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland - The work, lives and personal journeys of two iconic American artists coalesce with creative combustion in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. - Release Date Jun 18, 2021 - RT

A Crime on the Bayou (2020) dir. Nancy Buirski - A Black teenager bravely challenges the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the help of a young Jewish attorney. - Release Date Jun 18, 2021 - RT

Gaia (2021) dir. Jaco Bouwer - An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest. - Release Date Jun 18, 2021 - RT

Sweat (2020) dir. Magnus von Horn - Fitness influencer Sylwia seemingly has it made, but as she starts to share more and more online, the rising pressure from concerned sponsors and increasingly obsessive fans forces her to confront her deepest insecurities and the exhaustive demands of her lifestyle. - Release Date Jun 18, 2021 - RT

Sweet Thing (2020) dir. Alexandre Rockwell - Two siblings struggle to find solid ground in the homes of Adam, their alcoholic father, and Eve, their negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves around the town of New Bedford, MA. - Release Date Jun 18, 2021 - RT

Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019) dir. Ena Sendijarevic - A young woman travels to Bosnia to see her sick father for the first time. - Release Date Jun 11, 2021 - RT

Against the Current (2020) dir. Oskar Pall Sveinsson - Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” This achievement has been said to be comparable to climbing the mountain K2. - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019) dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska - In a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water and manages to grab the cross. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

I Carry You With Me (2020) Heidi Ewing - Two Mexican men maintain a romantic relationship that spans decades. - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020) dir. Jonathan Cuartas - Dwight prowls the streets after dark. He searches each night for the lonely and forlorn, looking for people who won’t be missed. Dwight takes no joy in this, but he needs their blood. Without fresh human blood, his fragile young brother Thomas cannot survive. - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

Sun Children (2020) dir. Majid Majidi - 12-year-old Ali and his three friends work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. To gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers. - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

Werewolves Within (2021) dir. Josh Ruben - After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger Finn and postal worker Cecily must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community. - Release Date Jun 25, 2021 - RT

Zola (2020) dir. Janicza Bravo - “Y'all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” Thus began the odyssey of one A'Ziah King, aka ZOLA. From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola’s stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. - Release Date Jun 30, 2021 - RT

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citizen-undead · 6 years

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10 Years of Cloverfield: Part Two

By Jay Truant

I love monster movies. When I was a wee prehumous lad, my dad spent many weekend afternoons introducing me to classic monster movies such as Toho’s Godzilla series, King Kong, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Them! and many more. My fascination with giant city-destroying monsters developed quickly and would follow me into adulthood – so when I saw the first teaser trailer for the JJ Abrams-produced found footage monster flick Cloverfield, I was all in. I followed the movie’s Alternate Reality Game (ARG), bought a Slusho t-shirt and even took the day off of work to catch the earliest showing of the film on 1-18-08. I was excited by Abrams’ desire to make the Cloverfield monster America’s equivalent of Japan’s Godzilla, and patiently awaited further sequels. As it would turn out, it would be nearly a decade before a sequel arrived in theaters – and once it had, it completely defied any and every expectation that fans had for it.

Cloverfield was a huge success for Paramount Pictures and producer JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. On a production budget of $25 million, the film quickly turned a profit during its opening weekend, debuting in 3,411 theaters with a final weekend gross of $40 million. Rumors that Paramount were eager to push a sequel into development were the talk of the Internet that Monday morning, and director Matt Reeves addressed the possibility of a follow-up in an interview with Coming Soon:

There’s a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a guy filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees him filming and he turns over and he sees the ship that’s been capsized and sees the headless Statue of Liberty, and then he turns back and this guy’s briefly filming him. In my mind that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there are so many different points of view, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just saw one piece of another.

Over the next eight years, Reeves and Abrams would discuss the sequel in interviews, despite Abrams’ confirmation of the monster’s death at the end of the original film in an interview with Rolling Stone. In January 2016, Cloverfield fans would have their patience rewarded when a surprise trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane debuted ahead of Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

10 Cloverfield Lane was conceived as its own original story independent of the Cloverfield universe in a spec script by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken titled The Cellar. In 2012, the script was sold to Paramount Pictures and earned a spot on the Tracking Board’s year-end hit list.

In the script, a young woman named Michelle wakes up in an underground bomb shelter with a man named Howard who claims to have rescued her from a nuclear attack that has rendered the air outside the shelter contaminated. Howard’s claims are backed up by Nate, who arrives at the shelter in a hazmat suit and quickly forms a bond with Michelle. Throughout the script, Howard and Nate’s credibility is repeatedly called into question and the reader is left to wonder if an apocalyptic event has truly taken place, or if Michelle has been the victim of an elaborate kidnapping.

Paramount hired Bad Robot to develop The Cellar for their fledgling Insurge Pictures division. Based on Paramount’s success with 2009′s found footage horror flick Paranormal Activity, Insurge was created to focus on the development of micro-budget films. Whiplash director Damien Chazelle was hired to further develop the script, and Dan Trachtenberg signed on to make his feature directorial debut. Chazelle made several updates to the script which included further development of the film’s characters. The character of Nate was changed to Emmett, and retained none of the sinister qualities he possessed in the original spec script. Howard subsequently became a more cagey and volatile character, while Michelle is much stronger-willed than she appears in the script.

During the film’s production, producer JJ Abrams began to feel a kinship between Trachtenberg’s contained science fiction thriller and the original Cloverfield. In interviews, Abrams explained that while 10 Cloverfield Lane wasn’t a direct sequel to Cloverfield, it was a ‘blood relative’, stating that the series would take on an anthology approach similar to Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone where each film would be connected in tone only.

“The spirit of it, the genre of it, the heart of it, the fear factor, the comedy factor, the weirdness factor — there were so many elements that felt like the DNA of this story were of the same place that Cloverfield was born out of. It just became clear that as we were working on the movie, this could be something that is not the sequel that anyone might expect. It’s not the continuation of the story that people might think of, but it was so clearly associated.”

–JJ Abrams, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

A large portion of the success of the original Cloverfield can be attributed to the film’s innovative viral marketing campaign. In-game websites such as the now defunct 1-18-08.com and Slusho.jp (temporarily down) were initially discovered by fans who obsessively analyzed the film’s teaser trailer looking for potential clues that would help them understand the nature of the film’s monster. The teaser for 10 Cloverfield Lane was similarly picked apart upon arrival, though fans would have to endure a certain degree of misdirection before the official ARG started.

At one point in the teaser, the film’s characters can be seen drinking Swamp Pop, a Louisiana-based soft drink. Fans immediately began scouring Swamp Pop’s official website for clues, believing the cola to be 10 Cloverfield Lane’s equivalent of the fictional Slusho that appeared in the original film. Swamp Pop, however, is a very real product that can be purchased in stores and was likely featured in the film to pinpoint the story’s regional location. This didn’t stop the company from having a bit of fun with fans, however, as their online store offered a “long-term shelter supply” for a brief period of time.

Fans also began investigating Tagruato’s website for potential updates that would point them in the direction of the film’s ARG. Several fans began e-mailing Tagruato with in-game questions, hoping to illicit a reply from the fictional Japanese mining company that played a key role in the Cloverfield ARG. While this tactic initially seemed far-fetched, fans would eventually begin receiving replies from Vanessa Gwon, Tagruato’s employee of the month for January 2016. This would lead to the discovery of Tagruato’s “Employee of the Month” page, which featured a picture of John Goodman as Howard Stambler. Howard is listed on the page as a Telemetry Analyst for Tagruato’s subsidiary company Bold Futura whose work had resulted in a significant breakthrough diagnosing transmission complications with two of Tagruato’s governmental clients’ orbiting satellites. Fans also noticed that he was wearing a shirt containing the phrase “Radioman70″. Visiting radioman70.com redirected fans to FunandPrettyThings.com, the first and only original website of the 10 Cloverfield Lane ARG.

The homepage of FAPT features a number of images that directly reference the film’s teaser trailer. One of those images is a screenshot from Pretty in Pink that prompts the entry of a passphrase when clicked upon. Entering the phrase “Do you want to talk?” leads to a message board with posts from Howard Stambler.

The first post on FAPT’s message board is used to set up the premise of the film’s ARG: Howard Stambler is posting these messages for his daughter Megan to warn her of an impending danger, and instructing her to get to his underground shelter as quickly as possible. Towards the end of his message, Howard insinuates that Megan’s mother has been keeping her from him, potentially due to her belief that Howard is mentally unstable. Further updates from Howard would reference his disdain for Megan’s mother, as well as his longing to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Fans soon discovered another page on FAPT titled “Life Preserving Information”. The page featured a survival guide that Howard put together for Megan, complete with tips on how to put together a bug-out bag or hot-wire a car. Howard also provided links to other (real) survival websites and included widgets that provided weather updates and train schedules. Subsequent updates featured a link to a real news article about a train track fire in New Orleans.

Similar to the original Cloverfield ARG, FAPT also provided fans with some background information on Howard. In one of Howard’s message board posts, he mentions that he used work with spy satellites. He references a discovery that he and his team made while in space and explains that the government is now trying to cover it up. Howard also mentions that he worked on Seasat, the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth’s oceans. Conspiracy theorists believe that the military shut down Seasat when they discovered it could also be used to track submarines, using a short circuit as a covering story. Finally, Howard explains that his mentor was accused of spying and sent to prison for 365 years. It is assumed that Howard’s mentor was a real life Navy Radioman named Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker Spy Ring who was sentenced to 365 years for selling secret information to the Soviets.

Howard also designed a text-based survival simulation game for Megan to help her practice surviving inside of the bunker. Fans were able to interact with the game, and could even post their high scores. One user was able to pass 1,000 days inside the bunker, and was rewarded with a secret message from Howard revealing the location of a dead drop in Chicago. Reddit user helveticatt went to the locker at the HI Chicago hostel and found a Paris bag containing a cellphone. The phone had one voicemail, which was a message from Howard to Megan:

“Megan, as promised - a phone just for you and me to talk. Keep it hidden so your mother doesn’t ruin this too. I put my number into your contacts. Call me as soon as you can. I need to hear your voice, and I gotta get you out of Chicago before everything happens. Your life is in real danger, Radiogirl. But I promise to keep you safe. Call me please. Love, dad.”

After the discovery of the dead drop, FAPT continued to be updated regularly. In one message board post, Howard made reference to his estranged wife Denise selling their family heirlooms. Fans quickly found a listing from Denise on Craigslist that contained a picture of the heirlooms with one of Megan’s school notebooks visible to the side of it. Fans e-mailed Denise to ask about her husband, and her replies relayed frightening stories of Howard’s “extreme prepping” and suggested that something terrible may have happened to Megan:

Howard was always worried about emergencies. I used to think it was just how he’d learned to see the world from when he was in the Navy. But things got so much worse when he started working at Bold Futura. He used to come home at night and sit through dinner without saying a word. He became obsessed with building his fallout shelter, putting all our money into it. I didn’t even think he’d mind too much when we left. That way he could keep building his bunker without anybody to get in his way. But reading everything you’ve shown me on this site. I can see that it’s just made him more obsessed. This is not the first time he’s done this. Every few years there’s some new danger that’s going to kill us all. But the disaster never happens. And then he just finds something else to obsess about. During one of his panics, he made us hide in the cellar. Megan must have been about 11, and she wouldn’t stop asking him why we were hiding. So he put his hand over her mouth to keep her quiet, and kept it there so long that she couldn’t breathe. That was the moment I knew that I needed to get us away from him. Maybe if I’d realized it sooner, things wouldn’t have turned out so badly.

The last update on FAPT came from a message board posting by Nikolia Roza, a fellow employee of Bold Futura. Linked in the message is a strange audio file, which starts out as haunting music, but appears to contain some sort of encoded message. Playing the audio file, while running a decoder program, generated an image of one of the alien spaceships from the film approaching the earth.

The trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane would return to theaters ahead Deadpool. Depending on which theater fans attended, a brief image would quickly flash at the end of the trailer, containing random numbers. By combining the numbers featured on each of the five images, fans were given geographical coordinates to a second dead drop.

Reddit user MugensKeeper discovered the dead drop, which contained survival gear, dry food, a puzzle piece and a USB drive. The USB drive was loaded with an audio file that contained a recording of a Mission Control conversation concerning a large burst of unexplained magnetic energy. At the end of the conversation, they are instructed to cover up the incident.

Shortly after the discovery of the second dead drop, the outgoing message on Howard’s cellphone was changed:

This phone belongs to my daughter. I don’t know how you got it, but it doesn’t matter much anyways. It’s happening… and, I wish everyone just listened to me. I could have helped you all if you just listened.

Howard also texted Megan’s phone, instructing her to delete all the messages in her voicemail box so he could leave her a new message. The final message from Howard arrived a few days later:

“It’s my fault, I see that now. Now it’s too late for you to leave Chicago. I was never going to see you again. You were my little girl, and it was my job to protect you. I failed. I’m going to make it up to you, I know how to make it right, I promise.”

10 Cloverfield Lane yielded another success for Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions. The film was met with critical and commercial acclaim, earning a 90% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and $110 million at the worldwide box office. Some fans, however, felt as though the movie was marketed under false pretenses; at the end of a TV spot that aired during the Super Bowl, a clear variation of the Cloverfield monster’s roar can be heard, leading them to believe that this movie would be a direct follow-up to the original This roar would make its way into the film as one layer of the sound the alien spaceship makes after its blown up by Michelle. Despite their disappointment, these fans nonetheless admitted to enjoying the film as a standalone movie, praising the performances of John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr.

After the release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, Paramount and Bad Robot announced that they would be adapting a screenplay from writers Doug Jung and Oren Uziel called God Particle with Julius Onah set to direct. The synopsis of the film described a crew aboard a space station finding itself alone after a scientific experiment caused the Earth to disappear. Fans immediately began speculating that the audio file contained in Howard’s dead drop was a reference to the crew and station set to appear in God Particle. A leaked synopsis from the online survey website Swagbucks also made reference to an alien attack, leading many to believe that the next film in the Cloverfield franchise would be a direct follow-up to 10 Cloverfield Lane. As they would discover two years later, the next film in the series wouldn’t be quite so easy to figure out.

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walkaboutlife · 5 years

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“First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the woman” -Scarface I’m feeling nostalgic and grateful. For the first time in two years after starting the pursuit of film making as a career/life; it seems possible to make a living doing it. 6 months ago Liz Landers (and her big heart) invited me to work in the Hollywood South (New Orleans), doing craft service; basically making sure the film crew is hydrated, fed, and happy (check out the giant snowball). Then, to my surprise, it paid union wages... I grew up in Texas where 100 degree days in the oil field are the only real way to make a living. However, It just so turns out that Film Makers work the same hours and get paid the same as rough necks, we just finish the day a little cleaner... After 6 months in Louisiana I returned to Texas flew a drone, made some more great friends, then stopped at my dads to take a week off. For the first time in two years I had enough time and money to stop, not think about work and enjoy the good things in life. What I’m trying to say is that If you have dream which seems possible, then pursue it, work for nothing, make friends, refine your craft, and at some point it will pay you back. Thanks to @ft_journey @ty5tewys.0 and others for the photos, thanks to Josh, Ramsey, Liz, Julie, Charlie Jeff @alexanderbrianmcconduit @kelceycockrell @katelynecurtin and everyone else for your friendship and hard work. I’ll be in New Orleans next week, so let’s make some movies! Much love, and sleep tight! https://www.instagram.com/p/B1pVYpHgZTN/?igshid=17qlj4d18zzmo

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Another Amazing Kickstarter (Chronicles of a Wererabbit by Michelle Zeman —Kickstarter) has been published on http://crowdmonsters.com/new-kickstarters/chronicles-of-a-wererabbit-by-michelle-zeman-kickstarter/

A NEW KICKSTARTER IS LAUNCHED:

Welcome to the Kickstarter for SNOW ISLAND, the third book of Chronicles of Wererabbit—a hopeful young adult paranormal/fantasy series about a girl who can shift into a rabbit and her journey to become a hero. The book contains themes of self-empowerment, environmentalism and finding the hero inside each of us.

A mysterious island with a dark secret…

Vampires, werewolves, unicorns, pterodactyls, and other creatures from myth or brought back from extinction

A deadly monorail with an insanely cheery AI that really doesn’t like anyone who does not have a ticket…

A vampire queen with an evil plan

A fortune teller’s frighteningly accurate prediction of death

And Snow the only rabbit shifter in the world, is about to face it all…

YA Fans

Science Fiction and Fantasy fans

Animal lovers

Nature lovers

People who love Star Wars, Star Trek and Disney movies

People who love rooting for an underdog.

Set in the modern world where vampires and werewolves live side by side among humans, Chronicles of a Wererabbit is set to be a seven book YA Science Fiction/Fantasy series about a girl rabbit shifter and her journey to become a hero. Each book is another step on that journey. There is also an overarching story involving her father’s evil vampire sister that spans the series.

The first two Snowball and Snow Bunny were published last year to great reviews. Snowball reached number one in the “Coming of age” category on Amazon on its debut. You can read the first chapters free on Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature.

Snowball on Amazon

Snow Bunny on Amazon

This campaign is for the third book, Snow Island. It is finished and at the copy editor’s now. Jason Moser, my wonderful illustrator, has already created the cover and four B&W illustrations for the inside. You can see his beautiful artwork for Snow Island in the book trailer. He colorized them for the trailer!

Snowball lives with James Lima

I always wanted to create a new female superhero. Snow is a true underdog. She has an ability that is not powerful: she shifts into a rabbit. She was not born with a great destiny but a very bad one: to live and die as a laboratory experiment.

She has to forge a new destiny for herself. She is also still grappling with the question: who am I? Why am I here?

Most heroes’ journeys begin when they are given a task or when they obtain super powers. I want to explore what makes them who they are to begin with—the kind of people (or animals) they are. Where do their values come from?

That’s why the first book begins with Snow’s childhood when she learns about the world and develops her values. When Snow does get her strength at the end— it comes from inside herself rather than the result of a power or event.

She finds out that everyone has a hero inside them.

Like George Lucas, I am a fan of the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell which describes the portrayal of the hero’s journey throughout time and used it as one of my references.

The series does touch on many serious themes and issues but is overall hopeful. It has more in common with Star Wars, Star Trek, Narnia and superhero movies like Superman and The Avengers.

Other influences range from James Bond and Raiders of the Lost Ark to the books of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Michael Crighton, Rick Riordan, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, J. K. Rowling, James Dashner, Tolkein and C.S. Lewis.

My favorite comparison is to the movie Guardians of the Galaxy “because it has humor, action and heart.”

Ilustrations by Jason Moser from Snow Island

I love illustrations in books like The Dark Tower series by Stephen King and Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan. I believe with the advent of ebooks they are, sadly, becoming a lost art form.

Jason Moser, who designs my covers creates five beautiful b & w illustrations for each book. Four are included in the ebook and a bonus one in the paperback version.

Something I’ve always been very passionate about is the way we are all connected (humans-nature-animals) and dependent on one another. An ongoing theme is the need to protect our environment and care for animals. Many species are endangered and on the verge of extinction. Scientists estimate that a quarter of the world’s plant and vertebrate animal species will face extinction by 2050 if something is not done about it. Snow’s father has made it his life’s work to catalog and preserve the DNA of all species so that this does not happen. Book four and future books will also deal with topics such as climate change.

Delta from Wonderland Rabbit Rescue

Real science facts are woven in with the science fiction for a few reasons. It grounds the story in reality. Since girls are not often encouraged in math and science, it is important to me to have a female heroine who is interested and excels in science. Finally, some science facts are just plain cool! Like the fact that rats do laugh. They just do it at a higher frequency than humans can hear!

Snow has two dads. Even though there have been great advances in LGBT rights over the past decade, there are very few gay characters and even fewer gay parents in YA and middle school literature. I believe it is very important for books to reflect the modern family and one of the only ways that children will grow up knowing that it is perfectly normal is to include it our literature. In the series, her father being gay is not dealt with as an issue. It is simply a fact.

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What seems to be a fun Jurassic Park type island holds a dark secret that will place Snow in more danger than she has ever faced before. This trailer includes color versions of the illustrations from Snow Island.

The first book, Snowball sets up the world and follows Snow as she grows from a baby to a fourteen year old and the moment when she first discovers her inner strength and ability to fight as she saves a werewolf.

Theme: is learning to love and accept yourself.

Snow Bunny back tracks for a few chapters to let readers get to know Josh (the werewolf she saved) and learn about werewolf society. It was important to keep all information about him out of the first book so that when Snow decides to save him she is all the braver for saving a stranger. The rest of the book follows their budding romance and winds up in giant action finale.

Theme: the importance of family and the fact that it is not necessarily made of those people you are related but those you choose to be with.

Snow Island begins five months later with Snow, now 15, receiving an ominous prediction from a fortune teller. She travels to a mysterious island with Josh, her dads, her friend David (a werewolf who can not shift) and Charlene (a mouse) to find out what happened to the creatures and werewolves that have been disappearing.

Theme: Snow is looking outside of herself wondering about the big questions like does fate exist? Is destiny set or something that can be changed?

Signed Paperbacks; ecopies of all three books; signed postcards and refrigerator magnets are all available. And as an extra special treat: a crochet mouse, bunny and unicorn handmade by my Mom!

Also you have the chance to include a photo of your pet at the end of Snow Island in a section called ‘Snow’s Friends’.

If that isn’t enough you have the chance to a name a character. In Snow Road Snow and Josh travel across country and receive help from people along the way. One of those people could be you or someone you love!

If you don’t see a reward combination that you are interested in – let me know and I’ll be happy to work with you to create a custom reward!

It will be used for beautiful illustrated cover and inside sketches; professional copy-editing and proofread.

Any money above the goal will be very gratefully used for ISBN and Library of Congress number; printing and formatting cost for paperbacks; paperbacks to bring to Northeast Bunfest and other fairs. Marketing and advertising the book. It will also enable me to have time to continue writing book four and the series.

STRETCH GOALS to be Announced

Here is your chance to join this adventure with me and help to bring Snow and her friends to life!

Every backer will also receive emails during the campaign to keep you updated. I will also share some trivia, anecdotes and a sneak peek at Snow Island.

I hope we can go on this amazing journey together as Snow learns that one person can make a difference because we are all connected. We are the hope for the world.

And every single one of us, no matter how small or furry has a hero inside.

BIG THANKS to all of the fabulous bunnies who modeled in the photos above!

Snowball lives with James Lima. She is one brave bunny as a survivor of both kidney stones and cancer!

Dusty is available for adoption at Wonderland Rabbit Rescue along with her twin sister Delta. The two bunnies traveled all the way to Michigan from Louisiana when their rescue flooded. If you can give them a forever home contact Wonderland Rabbit Rescue.

And thanks again to everyone for taking the time to visit.

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY Kickstarter.com and Kicktraq.com VISIT PAGE SOURCE

#Chronicles #Kickstarter #Michelle #Wererabbit #Zeman

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back-and-totheleft · 4 years

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Where others fear to trend

It’s a conversation any father and son might have -- a quick chat about baseball, families and world affairs. But when the speakers are President George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush, even a seemingly innocuous conversation can suddenly carry great weight, especially when Oliver Stone is at the controls.

With sweat cascading down his face on a steamy June night in Louisiana, the Oscar-winning director was directing James Cromwell (playing the elder Bush) and Josh Brolin (starring as President Bush) through a critical moment in “W.,” Stone’s forthcoming -- and potentially divisive -- drama about the personal, political and psychological evolution of the current president. Although the father-son patter was ostensibly friendly, the subtext was anything but, hinting at the intricate parent-child relationship that Stone believes helps to explain George W. Bush’s ascension.

While the Bushes in this scene from 1990 were talking about the Texas Rangers (of whom George W. once owned a share) and Saddam Hus- sein (against whom George H. W. was about to go to war in Kuwait), there was much more at stake, as Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser saw the fictional conversation unfolding.

“You need to back him down and take him out -- like you did Noriega,” George W. tells his father about Hussein. The elder Bush wasn’t sure he was going to be that rash. “You know I’ve always believed in leaving personal feelings out of politics,” the 41st president told his son. “But Saddam -- this aggression cannot stand. Not gonna allow this little dictator to control 25% of the world’s oil.”

As the architect of the outspoken dramas “Platoon,” “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and “JFK,” Stone stands apart as one of the most openly political filmmakers in a business where it’s usually the actors who wear their beliefs on their sleeves. A longtime backer of Democratic candidates (recent donations include a gift to Sen. Barack Obama), Stone is either the oddest person to chronicle the life of the current president or the most inspired.

Whatever the verdict, the marriage of director and subject has left nearly as many people running for the sidelines as wanting to be a part of the director’s undertaking.

Indeed, “W.'s” combination of story and filmmaker and the poor track record of recent biographical movies scared off at least three potential studio distributors and any number of actors, including, initially, star Brolin, and even Major League Baseball, which declined to cooperate with the production.

Yet as Stone guided Cromwell and Brolin across Shreveport’s Independence Bowl stadium, doubling for the Rangers’ home field, it was possible to see that “W.” could be, in a complicated way, sympathetic.

The father was belittling a son, George H. W. cautioning George W. to stick to simple things: “Maybe better you stay out of the barrel,” the senior Bush told his son, and leave the family’s political legacy to younger brother Jeb. “Well, son, I’ve got to say I was wrong about you not being good at baseball,” the father ultimately said, tossing him a scrap of a compliment.

The future president didn’t quite get what the reproving “barrel” idiom meant, but he realized his father didn’t respect him. Brolin took in the snub, but then his bearing grew determined: George W. would have to prove himself beyond anyone’s imagining.

Stone said it’s part of what drove the younger Bush into the White House: to show his doubters wrong. “Someone who could step into that path and out-father his father,” Stone said in his air-conditioned trailer during a break in filming. Racing to film, edit and release the film before the November election, Stone was not always getting five hours’ sleep. Even though it was nearly midnight and the crew was just finishing its lunch break, the 61-year-old director grew increasingly animated talking about “W.”

“I love Michael Moore, but I didn’t want to make that kind of movie,” Stone said of “Fahrenheit 9/11.” “W.,” he said, “isn’t an overly serious movie, but it is a serious subject. It’s a Shakespearean story. . . . I see it as the strange unfolding of American democracy as I have lived it.”

Stone, Brolin and the filmmaking team believe they are crafting a biography so honest that loyal Republicans and the Bushes themselves might see it. Given Stone’s filmmaking history, coupled with a sneak peek at an early “W.” screenplay draft, that prediction looks like wishful thinking.

Still, it’s a captivating challenge: Can a provocateur become fair and balanced? And if Stone is, in some way, muzzling himself to craft a mass-appeal movie, has he cast aside one of his best selling points?

Dressed in a suffocating Rangers warmup jacket earlier on that scorching June day, Brolin kept running into an outfield wall, trying to make a heroic catch as part of the film’s baseball-oriented fantasy framing device.

Stone worried the leap wasn’t quite athletic enough and chose to add the baseball’s falling into Brolin’s mitt through visual effects -- allowing the “No Country for Old Men” star to throw himself into doing everything else.

Brolin spent countless hours studying the president’s speech patterns and body language but said he wasn’t trying to concoct a spitting-image impression, which ran the potential of becoming a “Saturday Night Live” caricature.

“It’s not for me to get the voice down perfectly,” the 40-year-old Brolin said, even though he came close. More important, the actor said, was to unearth Bush’s inner voice -- “Where is my place in this world? How do I get remembered?”

Like other actors approached for the film (including Robert Duvall, who was asked but declined to play Vice President Dick Cheney), Brolin had more than vague misgivings about starring in “W.” He was, in fact, dead set against it. “When Oliver asked me, I said, ‘Are you crazy? Why would I want to do this with my little moment in my career?’ ” Brolin recalled. Then, early one morning during a family ski trip, Brolin read Weiser’s original screenplay, which covers Bush from 1967 to 2004. “It was very different than what I thought it would be,” Brolin said, “which was a far-left hammering of the president.”

Brolin said many friends still weren’t buying it. “There were a lot of people I tried to get involved, who were very, very reluctant to do the movie,” Brolin said. In addition to Cromwell, the cast includes Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, Richard Dreyfuss as Cheney, Toby Jones as Karl Rove and Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld.

While noting Bush’s low approval ratings (23% in a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released this week), Brolin, like Stone, said “W.” isn’t intended to kick the man while he’s down. “Republicans can look at it and say, ‘This is why I like this guy,’ ” Brolin said. “It’s not a political movie. It’s a biography. People will remember that this guy is human, when we are always [outside of the movie] dehumanizing him, calling him an idiot, a puppet, a failed president. We want to know in the movie: How does a guy grow up and become the person that he did?”

Stone, who was briefly a Yale classmate of Bush, is clearly no fan of the president’s politics but said he’s amazed by the man’s resilience and ambition. The movie is basically divided into three acts: Bush’s hard-living youth, his personal and religious conversion, and finally his first term in the Oval Office.

“He won a huge amount of people to his side after making a huge amount of blunders and really lying to people,” the director said. What further fascinates Stone is Bush’s religious and personal conversion: a hard-drinking C student who was able to become not only Texas governor but also the leader of the Free World.

“We are trying to walk in the footsteps of W and try to feel like he does, to try to get inside his head. But it’s never meant to demean him,” Stone said.

The movie has hired a former Bush colleague as an advisor, and labored to get the smallest details right. For all the historical accuracy, though, “W.” is clearly a work of fiction.

“We are playing with our own opinions and our own preconceptions of him,” Stone said. “This is his diary -- his attempt to explain himself.”

This wasn’t the movie Stone was supposed to be making. Instead of “W.,” the film was going to be “Pinkville,” a look at the Army’s investigation into 1968’s My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

Only days before filming was set to begin, with many sets already built and department heads in place, “Pinkville” star Bruce Willis pulled out of the film last fall, unhappy with a script that couldn’t be rewritten because of the writers strike. Stone flirted with casting Nicolas Cage in the lead role, but enthusiasm from United Artists -- whose war movie “Lions for Lambs” had just flopped -- had waned on fears that “Pinkville” was too violent.

At the same time, Stone had been working on the “W.” script with screenwriter Weiser, the author of Stone’s 1987 hit “Wall Street.” Stone was at first worried the topic was almost too timely -- “When I made ‘Nixon,’ ” the director said, “he had died.”

Said “W.” producer Moritz Borman: “He wasn’t sure. He worried, ‘Is there enough material about Bush? Or will there be more once he’s out of office?’ But then a slew of books came out.”

Soon after “Pinkville” imploded, Stone returned to “W.,” and by early 2008 he was convinced it was not only the right time to make the movie but also imperative the movie hit theaters before the next presidential election, because its impact would be greatest then, when everybody was obsessing over our next president. But that early release date created a post-production timetable that would be half of Stone’s most hurried editing schedule. Before he could set up his cameras, Stone and his team first had to answer a key question: Who in the world was going to pay for it?

“You put the two names together -- Bush and Stone -- and everybody had a preconceived notion of what the film would be. But look at ‘World Trade Center,’ ” Borman said of Stone’s commercially successful 2006 movie about two Port Authority policemen rescued from Sept. 11 rubble. “There was an uproar when it was announced and then, when the movie got closer to release, the very people who protested it preached from the pulpit that it was a film that had to be seen.”

Still, Borman and Stone knew few studios would commit to the movie, especially given the desired October 2008 release date, because studios often plan their release schedules more than a year in advance. What they needed was an independent financier, someone not afraid of challenging material -- a person like Bill Block.

Block had formed QED International in 2006 as a production, financing and sales company interested in the kind of highbrow drama that studios increasingly shun. Block saw in “W.” not a troublesome jeremiad but a crowd-pleaser, and QED colleagues Kim Fox and Paul Hanson quickly assembled the “W.” deal.

“What Oliver is making is a splashy, commercial picture,” Block said. “This is not a static biopic. It’s kinetic.”

In addition to footing the film’s $30-million budget, QED also raised money to underwrite its prints and advertising costs upon release. Any distributor committing to “W.,” in other words, would have no money at risk: It could release the film, take the distribution fee of about 15% and move on. “I think it’s a no-brainer,” Stone said. All the same, “W.” could spark a potential inferno inside the White House. “You never know exactly why” a studio rejects a movie, Stone said, while noting that all the major studios are small cogs in global conglomerates. “But at the highest levels, it didn’t pass. Some would say it’s too much of a risk and too much of a hot potato politically.” Stone declined to name names, but two people close to the film said among those considering but passing on the film were Paramount, Warner Bros. and Universal.

Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Co. aggressively pursued the “W.” deal, but QED, Borman and Stone picked Lionsgate Films in part because of its strong balance sheet. Also, because it’s not part of a larger studio, Lionsgate is one of the only truly independent distributors left.

Lionsgate worried about fitting “W.” into its October schedule and has discussed a post-election release if the film isn’t ready in time. But whenever it comes out, the company is ready for any backlash -- after all, it’s the distributor of the “Saw” and “Hostel” films.

“To the extent there is going to be heat,” said Joe Drake, president of Lionsgate’s motion picture group, “we can take the heat. That won’t be a problem.”

-John Horn, “In defining Bush, Oliver Stone goes where others fear to tread,” Los Angeles Times, June 29 2008 [x]

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The crudely written ransom notes in movies 20-30 years ago may have been replaced by more modern, digital missives – like a texted photo a la Liam Neeson’s “Taken” – but the message remains the same: Pay up or else.

That is the quandary business owners, municipal governments, school administrators and even librarians are now facing on an almost daily basis as a growing number of employees come to work only to find when they turn on their PCs that they’re staring at a computer screen with a plaintext message from an attacker demanding a bitcoin ransom in exchange for the keys needed to decrypt data being held hostage.

According to the FBI’s 2018 Internet Crime Report, 1,493 ransomware cases were reported last year, costing each victim on average $3.6 million. The FBI did list a few caveats with that figure, noting it does not include estimates of lost business, time, wages, files, equipment, or any third-party remediation services contracted by a victim. Also, not every victim reports a loss and some underrepresent the cost.

Any competent business advisor would likely tell a client that spending $76,000 to fend off an incident that could cost that organizations millions would be money well spent, but that calculus is more complicated when the initial outlay is not to pay for a cybersecurity preventative measure, but rather for a cybercriminal’s ransom demand.

Unless an organization is the corporate equivalent of Neeson’s Bryan Mills in “Taken,” who relentlessly pursues kidnappers (through two sequels at that), meting out justice and violence in equal measure, it typically has three choices – pay the ransom and take the chance the bad guys will do as promised and send along the decrypt keys; begin the recovery process using an established plan and backed up data; or refuse to pay the ransom and then try to rebuild from scratch.

Two major U.S. cities recently chose that last tactic – at great cost.

When Atlanta was hit with SamSam ransomware in March 2018 it refused to pay the $51,000 ransom demand with the end result of being unable to work around the encryption and then spending $17 million and many weeks to rebuild its network. Baltimore is now in the same boat, having refused to pay the attackers $76,000 and instead looking at a potential $18 million bill and months of repair work to get back online from Robbinhood ransomware.

Jackson County, Ga., though, caved to its attacker’s demand to cough up $400,000 for decryption keys last March. The gamble paid off, as County Manager Kevin Poe told SC Media. The county was willing to take the chance that the criminals would honor their word and let them regain access because there was no other choice.

Poe says forensic evidence showed the network had been infiltrated for quite some time and the attackers were able to essentially throw a switch and turn everything off, including its 911 emergency system.

Most recently, on June 17 Riviera Beach, Fla., shelled out 65 bitcoins, almost $600,000, in an attempt to regain access to its completely shuttered network. To add insult to injury the city also had to spend more than $900,000 to replace damaged computer equipment. Riviera Beach was followed just one week later by Lake City, Fla., which bowed to a ransom demand and paid about $400,000 to its attackers.

The greater capabilities being built into modern ransomware have pushed some victims to shell out ransom payments.

“A few years ago, if a company was locked out of its data by hackers, it wasn’t necessarily inclined to pay the ransom demand. That’s because there used to a ‘silver bullet,’ in that if the company was doing regular backups of its systems, it could restore its data,” says Robert Rosenzweig, vice president and national cyber risk practice leader at Risk Strategies.

Now more complex malware gets hackers into the production environment as well as the backup system to deploy the ransomware encryption, meaning there’s no longer a perfect mitigating control.

If they pay up, though, organizations run the risk that the bad guys, like those in the “Taken” series, keep coming back for more, or another set of cybercriminals pop up with new demands. Shortly after Jackson County, Riviera Beach and Lake City decided to pay up, the U.S. Council of Mayors passed a resolution at its annual conference pledging not to pay ransoms.

The resolution contends paying ransoms merely encourages others to conduct similar attacks by showing there could be a financial benefit, and that it behooves municipal governments to de-incentivize these attacks to prevent further harm. The Conference of Mayors is composed of mayors representing cities with more than 30,000 residents.

“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the United States Conference of Mayors stands united against paying ransoms in the event of an IT security breach,” the resolution says.

While paying the ransom or dealing with the exorbitant recovery costs are bad enough, some companies simply opt to go out of business. After being a victim of a ransomware attack in April, Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek, Mich., told local TV station WWMT that when the $6,500 payment was not received all its files were wiped, so the doctors simply decided to close up shop and retire early.

In June Belgian aerospace manufacturer ASCO Industries was forced to shutter several factories due to a ransomware attack. ASCO, currently in the process of being acquired by Wichita, Kan.-based Spirit AeroSystems, brought in outside help, but declined to offer any additional details. Reports at the time also indicated ASCO has shut down some of its Belgian factories, putting more than 1,000 workers on the sidelines, but the company has not made an official statement.

Organizations that had the forethought to buy cyber insurance with specific coverage for ransomware have a system in place to ease budgetary pain. Lake City and LaPorte County, which paid $130,000 ransom in July, both say having cyber insurance policies that would cover the majority of the ransom factored into their decisions to bow to their attackers’ demand.

It’s no surprise businesses increasingly find themselves victims of ransomware attacks. A Malwarebytes study found ransomware rose a shocking 365 percent from the second quarter of 2018 to the second quarter of 2019. Meanwhile, consumer detections of ransomware have been on the decline, decreasing by 12 percent year over year and 25 percent quarter over quarter. The shift makes perfect business sense, at least from the criminal’s perspective.

“Cybercriminals are searching for higher returns on their investment, and they can reap serious benefits from ransoming organizations over individuals, who might yield, at best, a few personal files that could be used for extortion or identity theft. Encrypting sensitive proprietary data on any number of endpoints allows cybercriminals to put forth much larger ransom demands while gaining an exponentially higher chance of getting paid,” the Malwarebytes report says.

Forrester Senior Analyst Josh Zelonis believes the option of paying the ransom, while odious, is a perfectly legitimate business decision and calls Baltimore Mayor Jack Young’s immediate choice to not pay “shortsighted,” adding that emotion has to be removed from the equation when deciding how to get a business or city back up and running.

“Forrester’s guidance is not a recommendation of whether or not to pay a ransom, but [rather a way] to recognize paying the ransom as a valid recovery path that should be explored in parallel with other recovery efforts to ensure that you’re making the best decision for your organization,” he wrote.

Chris Bates, vice president of security strategy at SentinelOne, says there is only one truly correct answer to the problem. Take a proactive approach and update legacy defense systems susceptible to sophisticated attacks, in addition to allocating additional resources to security team staffing, training and support because the odds of regaining access to your data is not in the victim’s favor.

“Riviera Beach took the opposite approach of Baltimore but paying the ransom is not the answer either as recent research shows us that 45 percent of U.S. companies hit with a ransomware attack paid at least one ransom, but only 26 percent of these companies had their files unlocked. Furthermore, organizations that paid the ransoms were targeted and attacked again 73 percent of the time as attackers treat paying companies like ATMs,” Bates tells SC Media, citing the Sentinel One 2018 Global Ransomware Research Report.

American voters agree with Bates. A Harris poll commissioned by Anamoli found:

• 64 percent of registered voters will not vote for candidates who approve of making ransomware payments.

• 66 percent of Americans believe that government organizations should never make ransomware payments to cybercriminals.

• 64 percent of Americans believe that businesses should never make ransomware payments to cybercriminals.

• 86 percent of Americans agree that when organizations make ransomware payments, they are encouraging cybercriminals to continue with such attacks.

• 70 percent of Americans agree that when organizations do make ransomware payments to cybercriminals, it is likely because they were left with no other choice.

There’s plenty of proof that being prepared pays off. The state of Louisiana under Governor John Bel Edwards won kudos for having a plan in place that when activated, as it was this summer when Edwards declared a state of emergency after three school districts were hit with ransomware, makes a number of resources available to battle attacks.

“The Louisiana school districts benefited from pre-emptive measures that the state had taken to prepare for malicious cyber incidents, which led to the rapid deployment of technical assistance to the affected organizations. The quick response has so far allowed these school districts to avoid paying a ransom to those responsible for the attacks according to state officials, who caution that data recovery is not yet complete,” Moody’s said in a report.

Resources include the Louisiana National Guard, Louisiana State Police, Louisiana Office of Technology Services and Louisiana State University (LSU) coordinated by the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP).

Being prepared with the proper security in place and backups ready to go is a necessity for any company or municipality and while it helps to have deep pockets to pay for advanced levels of protection those organizations that have to count their pennies can still take precautions.

Ionut Nechita, threat labs senior analyst at Comodo Cybersecurity, advocates taking steps like restricting normal user access, so when ransomware is accidentally activated, it can’t do as much damage.

“Given ransomware is typically known to target and delete backups, having a backup of critical data, ideally in a different location, can keep your data away from attackers,” Nechita says.

But all is not lost for those organizations that don’t prepare in advance – a number of steps taken after the fact can help mitigate the situation and possibly even result in full recovery.

The first is possibly the most obvious – disconnect the impacted devices from the network and inform IT, says Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection at Proofpoint.

“Once disconnected, information security operations teams must determine the scope of the attack. Not all ransomware is the same. To properly respond it’s crucial to determine the attack type, who on the network is compromised, and what network permissions the compromised users may have,” DeGrippo says, adding organizations also bring in law enforcement and other outside resources at this juncture.

“The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the federal government’s lead civilian cybersecurity agency, has a number of resources to help state, local, tribal and territorial governments defend against the growing threat of ransomware. This includes exchanging the latest threat information, providing technical services and expertise, and supporting incident response,” says Scott McConnell, press secretary for CISA.

As beneficial as these steps and resources are to a victim, they are still being taken after the proverbial horse has left the barn. More prudent is putting a plan in place before suffering an attack. That way, an organization might avoid the agonizing decision of whether to pay or not to pay. N

Cyber insurance’s impact on the decision to pay a ransom

It is likely more companies and municipalities will use their cyber insurance coverage to offset any potential costs related to being hit with ransomware, including paying the ransom, says Judy Selby, an insurance lawyer specializing in assisting firms purchasing cyber coverage.

Judy Selby

“If you have the coverage you may as well take advantage of it,” Selby says, although she does not believe having the coverage will lead to victims simply opting to pay because the insurance companies will demand every other method of recovering the data be tried first.

However, as with any policy, putting in a claim is likely to result in higher premiums down the road. Selby says right now pricing is still pretty soft, but she expects to see a bit of tightening in the cyber insurance market as it matures and it becomes easier for insurance actuaries to get a handle on these types of claims.

“We have data on every other industry, but little on cyber,” says Jeffrey Smith, managing partner at Cyber Risk Underwriters, during a presentation at Black Hat in August.

Other factors likely to come into play are insurance companies demanding their customers put proper cybersecurity measures in place during the underwriting process and possibly turn over control of any ransom negotiation or recovery process to the insurance company and its partners. This could be particularly true in cases where negotiations and haggling take place with the attacker over the ransom amount, Selby says, adding that this will be quite helpful for small businesses and municipalities that do not have the internal resources to deal with the situation.

Despite the obvious benefits of having a cyber insurance policy, not all companies opt for that protection. Smith notes that the cyber insurance penetration rate is less than 50 percent and only about one percent of insurance premiums collected industry-wide are from cyber policies. Some of the companies that seemingly decided against having cyber insurance paid a heavy price for this negligence.

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So far as big screen superhero adventures go, the two biggest names in the industry are Marvel Studios, the group behind , and Warner Bros., the studio responsible for assembling the . However, long before Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Length of Justice, until Iron Man, and even before 2002’s genre-defining Spider-Man, there was Bryan Singer’s .

Released way back in 2000, X-Men combined a group of super-powered people in a thought-provoking action blockbuster that had been half summer scene, and half an thought-provoking drama. The end result was a franchise which, while it has noticed its ups and downs over time, has endured and lived for seventeen decades, and is still showing no signs of quitting. The tenth and latest film from the series, , started into a spectacular $88 million, and is now closing in about $200 million people and $550 million worldwide.

What is next for Deadpool, Wolverine, Professor X, and the rest of 20th Century Fox’s stable of Marvel characters? Let us Look at Each Fox/Marvel Project Currently In Development.

The X-Men movie series has generally skewed towards largely self-serious, timelinessalong using a strong serving of big-budget action/adventure. 2016’s eschewed all of the internal logic and stoic characterization of this franchise in exchange for broad and raunchy R-rated comedy… And it worked! Deadpool, despite being the smallest budget of any X-Men movie at just $58 million, proceeded to function as highest-grossing movie in the series yet — shooting in a remarkable $783 million worldwide.

Though the talent has been changed around slightly a sequel was quickly green lit. The first Deadpool has been helmed by Tim Miller in his own directorial debut, and it was anticipated that he would return for the protagonist. But, Miller finally awakened ways with the job due to creative differences with celebrity and producer Ryan Reynolds. Eventually, David Leitch (John Wick) stepped in to take the reins on Deadpool 2.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, it is known (based on the post-credits stinger of their very first movie) which Cable will take a look. Since that time, a amount of actors were rumored for the job, by Pierce Brosnan and Brad Pitt into Stephen Lang and Russell Crowe, it looks like every middle-aged top man has been considered for the time-traveling cyborg. The current frontrunner appears to be none besides Michael Shannon (Man of Steel). Whatever the case turns out to be, a formal announcement is anticipated soon. In the meantime, Drew Goddard (Netflix’s Daredevil, Cabin in the Woods) has been brought in to gloss the script to the subversive superhero sequel, which will feature Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as fan-favorite comic character Domino.

Deadpool 2 has no formal launch date however, but Fox includes March 2, 2018 and June 29, 2018 penciled in to their Marvel movies, and it is fair to anticipate Deadpool to property on the earlier date, together with the second being earmarked for New Mutants (but more about this in a little).

For a time, it was speculated that, after Deadpool 2, Deadpool 3 would ostensibly focus on the X-Force group, together with Deadpool himself becoming part of the film’s costume of mutants. Recently it was confirmed that Deadpool 3 and X-Force are, in reality, two individual films, both of which are being proposed at the same time. Based on how scheduling finally ends up, it is possible audiences might receive two movies starring Deadpool over the course of a single calendar year. Deadpool 3 does not have a director yet, however Joe Carnahan (Stretch, Narc) has been connected to write and possibly direct X-Force.

It’s too early to tell exactly what Deadpool 3 might entail, although it’s likely it might set the stage for X-Force. In the comics, the X-Force is a top-secret squad of mutants sent on key black-ops missions (believe Stryker’s team at X-Men Origins: Wolverine), and the rotating roster of mutants on the group has showcased Cable, Deadpool, Wolverine, Psylocke, Domino, and a lot more, incluing — that is the case — Dead Girl. It’s currently unknown which, if any, of these mutants will show up in the movie, although it’s exceptionally improbable which Wolverine will look, despite Ryan Reynolds’s fantasies.

Between Deadpool, Logan, also X-Force, it is clear that Fox is willing to let the X-Men brand stretch its legs and research new thoughts outside of their franchise’s recognized confines. This trend is set to continue at the approaching X-Men spin-off, New Mutants. The creative group behind The Fault in our Stars (director Josh Boone, writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) are top this particular X-Men story, which is being described as “John Hughes meets Stephen King.”

New Mutants, such as seemingly any big-name blockbuster nowadays, is being pitched as a trilogy, and will likely include the iconic Demon Bear from the comics. The throw is now unknown, however, with filming scheduled to occur in May, formal announcements ought to be right around the corner.

The movie is expected to contain characters like Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Magik, and Sunspot, all of whom will likely be played by teenaged actors. Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) will be firmly rumored to the Use of Wolfsbane, and James McAvoy might make an appearance as Professor X. While no release date has been announced, expect this one to heat up quickly, as it is forecast to enter full-tilt production.

2016 saw two X-Men movies hit theatres. To begin with, Deadpool arrived and blew away expectations, making well over ten times its own funding in global grosses. It was. 2016’s other X-Men movie, Apocalypse, while by no way a dismal failure, failed to enrapture audiences such as Deadpool or 2014’s Times of Future Past, earning $543 million worldwide on a funding of $178 million. Not a collapse, however maybe not a lot to write home about.

Still, the X-Men brand is stronger compared to the box-office under-achiever here and there, and production on the next chapter of this mainline X-Men saga is now underway. It was previously rumored that the movie would be eligible X-Men: Supernova, however, that’s since been revealed for a mere placeholder, and also the picture’s true title stays under wraps. However, dependent on this working title, as well as plot threads out of Apocalypse, it is likely that the new film, set from the 1990s, will inform its own version of the Dark Phoenix Saga, which explores the immense energy inside Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). This story was previously hinted at in X2: X-Men United, and then made into a subplot within 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s now anticipated that the movie will give that story the attention and care that it deserves.

It’s currently unknown which cast members are returning, because the contracts for show leads James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, and Michael Fassbender have all run their route. In terms of directing responsibilities, Bryan Singer is stepping aside to let somebody else take the reins, and the current frontrunner is Simon Kinberg — q longtime writer for the franchise, dating back into The Last Stand.

Gambit’s very first appearance at the X-Men movie world arrived from the oft-maligned Origins: Wolverine, in which the card-playing cajun had been played by Taylor Kitsch. A Gambit sacred movie was rumored to follow along, but after the tepid critical reception to Origins, it quietly faded away.

The legend goes that, until the character has been cut out of X-Men: The Last Stand, a young Channing Tatum had auditioned to perform with the explosively-charged mutant. In the past several decades, Gambit has surfaced as a potential star vehicle for Tatum. For a little while, it was anticipated the Gambit, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), could hit theaters in summer 2018, however the film struck a snag in August 2016 if the director dropped out to unite DC’s Dark Universe.

As of right now, the strategy will be to get Channing Tatum to return to Gambit after he completes work on Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, where stage Fox will have found a new director, and — hopefully — a script. Whether this strategy finally stands outside, or when Gambit is met with much more delays, is anyone’s guess. Thinking about the standing of Louisiana’s favorite mutant superhero, it is far better to wait a little longer to get a movie that is better than to be stuck using a sub-par product.

This year, X-Men expanded into the area of tv with Legion, a cerebral and visually enthralling take on mutants and their abilities which feels like a cross between 1960s psychedelia and the movies of Nicholas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon, Just God Forgives). At best, it is only tangentially-related into the larger X-Men movie series, but that should not be held against the series; after all, this criticism is every bit as true of Logan and Deadpool. The series has been shown to be successful, and David Haller’s journey by his own psychosis will continue at a second season, which was recently purchased by FX.

Legion might be a far out trip into the outskirts of this X-Men world, but a more traditional television project is also in the works; a series together with the working title of Gifted has been ordered to series from Fox, and is likely to broadcast this fall on the community. The very first incident is being directed by Bryan Singer himself, the guy who was at the helm to the first movie and also three of its sequels. While plot details are being withheld, the series will center on a set of youths that are mutant and their parents on the run by the authorities. It will be set within the larger X-Men world, although it is unknown if some big-screen actors will soon be making appearances on this series.

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Which of these projects are you most excited about? Do you think there is still hope to get a Wolverine/Deadpool teamup movie someplace down the line? Sound off in the comments!

Key Release Dates

Deadpool 2 launch date: Jan 12, 2018

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17 Must-Read Books Becoming Movies In 2017

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Release Date: January 6, 2017 (watch trailer) Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.

Live by Night by Dennis Lahan

Release Date: January 13, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Ben Affleck, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana

Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed, “a master” (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” (Baltimore Sun). And, “Boy, does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard).

A Dog’s Purpose: A Novel for Humans by W. Bruce Cameron

Release Date: January 27, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Britt Robertson and Dennis Quaid

The soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall

Release Date: February 3, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Renée Zellweger, Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch.

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Release Date: March 3, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Zoey Deutch

The Before I Fall movie—based on Lauren Oliver’s beloved first novel and starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley—is opening in theaters in spring 2017.

This special enhanced edition of the New York Times bestselling Before I Fall by award-winning author Lauren Oliver includes two brand-new stories set in the world of Before I Fall, an essay by the author about the “greatest hits” of her life, and extra behind-the-scenes content on the making of this bestseller.

Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last.

The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death—and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

Release Date: March 31, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl

A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these “guests,” and human names for the animals, it’s no wonder that the zoo’s code name became “The House Under a Crazy Star.” Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story―sharing Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,” while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism. Winner of the 2008 Orion Award. 8 pages of illustrations

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Release Date: April 7, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson

I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.

The Lost City of Z by David Grann

Release Date: April 21, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.

The Circle by Dave Eggers

Release Date: April 28, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, Bill Paxton

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge. -Vintage Books

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Release Date: May 5, 2017 Starring: Laura Linney, Richard Gere

An internationally bestselling phenomenon, soon to be a major motion picture: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal.

It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.

Captain Underpants by Dave Pilkey

Release Date: June 2, 2017 (Watch the Trailer) Starring: Ed Helms (voice), Kevin Hart (voice)

The first book in Dav Pilkey’s mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series. Now with super-cool foil covers! Shiny! Fun!

George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school–and now they’re going to bring him to life! Meet Captain Underpants! His true identity is so secret, even HE doesn’t know who he is! Acclaimed author and Caldecott Honor illustrator Dav Pilkey provides young readers with the adventure of a lifetime in this outrageously funny, action-packed, easy-to-read chapter book. With hilarious pictures on every page, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS is great for both beginning and chapter-book readers. And like Dav’s other best-selling books of humor, it is sure to provide even the most reluctant readers with hours of fun. Great product!

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Release Date: July 28, 2017 Starring: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

Release Date: October 20, 2017 Starring: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet Release Date: October 20, 2017 On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter plane that can take him around the storm and drop him in Denver to catch a connection. And when the pilot says the single engine prop plane can fit one more, if barely, Ben offers the seat to Ashley knowing that she needs to get back just as urgently. And then the unthinkable happens. The pilot has a heart attack mid-flight and the plane crashes into the High Uintas Wilderness– one of the largest stretches of harsh and remote land in the United States.

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

Release Date: November 10, 2017 Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton

State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and, inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s most valuable mole in Moscow. Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fateful double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington; hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the US military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin’s intelligence service. Dominika and Nathaniel’s impossible love affair and twisted spy game come to a deadly conclusion in the shocking climax of this electrifying, up-to-the minute spy thriller.

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Release Date: November 22, 2017 Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks…including Murder on the Orient Express, the most famous Hercule Poirot mystery, which has the brilliant detective hunting for a killer aboard one of the world’s most luxurious passenger trains.

Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Release Date: December 22, 2017 Starring: Russell Peters (voice), Donald Sutherland (voice)

Ferdinand is the world’s most peaceful–and–beloved little bull. While all of the other bulls snort, leap, and butt their heads, Ferdinand is content to just sit and smell the flowers under his favorite cork tree. Leaf’s simple storytelling paired with Lawson’s pen-and-ink drawings make The Story of Ferdinand a true classic. Commemorate the 75th anniversary of the book’s original publication with this beautiful and affordable 8×8 paperback edition. Great book!

Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel

Release Date: TBD, Late 2017 Starring: Amy Schumer, Haley Bennett, Miles Teller

In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel follows many of those same men as they return home and struggle to reintegrate―both into their family lives and into American society at large. He is with them in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like―not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for?

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