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George RR Martin’s Sandkings film adaptation to Netflix

George RR Martin’s Sandkings book, which came out in 1979, is getting a film adaptation on Netflix. Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is taking on this project, according to a latest update with Collider. What can we expect from the Sandkings movie?

George R. R. Martin’s Sandkings

The book Sandkings was written by George RR Martin, better known for his Game of Thrones book series. Sandkings is about a child named Simon Kress, who has a love for collecting exotic animals. One day he buys a terrarium with four colonies of all animals, called the Sandkings. These animals eventually grow to be as big as the tank they are in. The four colonies compete against each other and eventually escape from the terrarium.

This story will eventually be made into a film by Gore Verbinski. Yet the production of the film is not far along at all. Verbinski is only now working on creating new ideas for the new film, it is not known when real production will start.

Gore Verbinski

Sandkings is Verbinski’s latest project. He says he thinks RR Martin’s book is a brilliant short story that he loves very much. But Sandkings is not the first major project he has made in his life. What other films has he created?

Gore Verbinski is best known for directing the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, in which Johnny Depp played Jack Sparrow. He has also directed films such as The Weather Man with Nicolas Cage, Rango, The Lone Ranger and A Cure For Wellness. Sandkings is the latest title he can add to his name.


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“It’s the best battle scene ever filmed.” Martin Scorsese assures that this film surpasses ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘Braveheart’ or ‘Avengers: Endgame’


Throughout the history of cinema we have seen countless combat sequences, with some unforgettable examples such as the confrontation at Helm’s Deep from ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’, the battle of Stirling Bridge from ‘Braveheart’. ‘ or the climax of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but Martin Scorsese It is very clear which is the film that shines the most in this section: ‘Chimes at midnight’.

Written, directed and starring Orson Welles‘Chimes at Midnight’ is based on several works by William Shakespeare and is set in the Hundred Years’ War that faced France and the United Kingdom in the 14th and 15th centuries. Welles himself did not hesitate to say at the time that it was his favorite film of all the films he has made and it is evident that the director of ‘The Departed’ is also a great lover of it.

“There has never been anything like it”

Scorsese recently spoke with Time magazine on the occasion of the imminent premiere of ‘Killers of the Moon’, his new collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, and there he had time to review some films that made a great impression on him. Especially striking is what he says when talking about Orson Welles:

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The ‘Chimes at Midnight’ scene that Scorsese refers to takes place late in the film and focuses on the decision of the son of King Henry IV of England to go to war in his father’s name to face the Battle of Shrewsbury. the troops of the seditious Hotspur.

If you have been left wanting to know if Scorsese is right or not when it comes to elevating that scene as the best battle in the history of cinema, you have available ‘Chimes at Midnight’ in the Flixolé catalog. You can also see the scene in question here, but I already warn you that the image quality can be greatly improved and thus it cannot be enjoyed properly.


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‘Mario film gets solo Donkey Kong spinoff’

Sources reportedly told GiantFreakinRobot that a Donkey Kong movie is coming. It would be a spin-off of the Mario Bros. upcoming movie. Just like in the Mario movie, Seth Rogen will provide the voice of Donkey Kong.

It has been known for some time that a Super Mario Bros. film is in the making at film studio Illumination. Now, according to sources, the company is also working on a Donkey Kong spin-off film. Donkey Kong gets the same voice actor in this film as in the Mario film, namely Seth Rogen.

Will there be a Nintendo ‘MCU’?

The Donkey Kong movie would be a spin-off of the Mario movie. It therefore seems likely that both films take place in the same universe. It’s starting to look like a larger Nintendo movie universe.

That would also make it possible for many more of Nintendo’s favorite characters to get their own movie, but for now the rumors are really only about a Donkey Kong movie. It is likely that we will see well-known Donkey Kong characters in that film, such as Cranky Kong. Just like Donkey Kong, he has a role in the Mario movie.

Who will we see besides Seth Rogen in the Mario movie?

The cast of the Mario movie was recently announced, but opinions are divided about the choices made. In addition to Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, the film features Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi and Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach. Charles Martinet has a number of cameos in the film and will continue to voice Mario in the games for a long time to come.

The Mario movie will be released at the end of 2022. Only after that time can we expect a solo Donkey Kong film, if this film actually happens. So we will have to be patient for a while.

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Bad news for fans of ‘John Wick’: the brutal fourth film starring Keanu Reeves is left without a physical edition in Spain because “it is not financially viable”


Any Spanish collector of films in physical format was already smelling it, but it never hurts to have this sad certainty: the brutal ‘John Wick 4’ is left without a physical edition, since the distributor Diamond Films He has recalled that he does not plan to publish any of his films on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD, justifying this decision with “”.

Demand is very low

The truth is that no Diamond Films film has been published in physical format in our country for a long time, so the only thing we needed was an official explanation from him. We finally got it, and this is what it says:

Since we started our activity in Spain, we are committed to the creation and distribution of DVDs and Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, the company in charge of manufacturing and logistics ceased its activity permanently, due to the low demand for these products, so we had no choice but to stop editing our films in these formats. We understand that there are still some collectors who continued to bet on the physical format and we are very grateful that you are interested in keeping it, but we hope you understand that the demand is so low that its manufacture is not economically viable.

That the physical market in Spain is not going through its best moment is something indisputable. Gone are the years of strength in which there were countless buyers. Many of them were disappearing with the rise of streaming and something tells me that the obsession created around 50% offers, very common a few years ago and rarely seen today, does not help to be profitable either. Now it seems that the only thing that really sells are steelbooks – and I am the first to give them priority over simple editions.

All in all, movies continue to be released in our country and there are distributors like Reel One Entertainment that subsist solely on DVD and Blu-ray sales, so profits should continue to give. Perhaps few and very focused on certain titles –I don’t have the slightest doubt about the good sales of ‘John Wick 4’, but what about the rest of the releases?-, so one can understand that they have opted for other sources of income. Which is it? I suspect that the exclusivity that Diamond Films titles have for a time with Prime Video when they are released on streaming must be more profitable than what they could earn without it and the extra of the physical format.

Obviously, ‘John Wick 4’ is not the only title affected -the same will happen with the recent ‘Talk to me’, the polarizing ‘Beau is afraid’ or the still pending release ‘The last trip of Demeter’-, but surely the most striking. Let’s not forget all the trouble that occurred with the physical format edition of its first installment, which did not appear for sale in our country until this very 2023. By the way, this will also affect future releases, so if ‘John Wick 5’ has just been done, you can count on the same thing to happen.

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Heineken hooks up in a hilarious way on Barbie film


The Barbie movie is a huge success worldwide and numerous different marketing campaigns have been started around the movie. Everyone wants to get their share and the Dutch beer brand Heineken is also happy to participate.

Whoever talks about Barbie, is of course also talking about boyfriend Ken. This is also evident in Greta Gerwig’s film, which has been in theaters since last week. In addition to Margot Robbie in the lead role as Barbie, there are also many Kens in the blockbuster. Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa, John Cena, Rob Brydon and Tom Stourton play all kinds of Ken.

Heineken is now responding to the Barbie film by means of a special billboard in which a specific part of the beer brand is given extra attention. It concerns the last three letters of Heineken that are enlarged, while a small text can be seen at the bottom right of the board. It concerns the text: “Come on… Let’s go party!”.

Check out the ad for yourself below!

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