Okay, here's my theory. If a "flop" hangs around long enough, more recent movies will get so bad, it will end up looking good.
How else to explain the resurfacing of Kevin Costner's Waterworld on the U.S. SyFy channel? The 1995 movie, set in a water-covered Earth even Al Gore couldn't foresee, with Kevin Costner on a raft, breathing through gills and drinking his own filtered urine.
Once the template for a movie bomb (though it apparently broke even on video), it's become a cable hit of late, racking up 400,000 viewers per screening, according to Forbes.
The uptick has the network talking series, and maybe even a movie "reboot."
'Prometheus 2' moves forward with new writer If you were angry when screenwriter Damon Lindelof announced earlier this year he had no plans to write a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, breathe deep. Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox and Scott Free are turning to Jack Paglen to ... Read more
First look at DiCaprio and Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street' Guess what? Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are working together again. Surprised? Me neither. Happy? You betcha. I love Leo’s collabs with Marty and after 2010′s cerebral thriller, Shutter Island, it looks like this fall’s The ... Read more
No Loki in 'Avengers 2'? Tom Hiddleston has had quite the run as the villainous Loki in Marvel’s Thor and The Avengers. After a snippet from this November’s Thor: The Dark World revealed that the actor will be doing a three-peat on the character, the natural assumption ... Read more
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