AngularJS 1.3: a new release approaches

Heads up! A new Angular release is on its way. Since we plan to discontinues support for old browsers, we wanted to give you plenty of notice. As a secondary goal, this release will cover features to improve performance, and small API fixes that require small breaking changes and removal of apis that were previously deprecated. We're also making a change to how we number stable/unstable releases.

AngularJS 1.3 discontinues support for Internet Explorer 8

Why we're doing this:

• Modern browsers have evolved. Although our stats tell us that only a small percentage of users are on Internet Explorer 8, maintaining compatibility requires code that slows the rest of AngularJS down.
• In April 2014, Microsoft will be ending support for Windows XP, which means the end of support for the operating system most of Internet Explorer 8 users use.

Dropping support for Internet Explorer 8  will enable us to add more exciting features to Angular faster, decrease Angular's support burden, and cut our build time in half, while affecting only a very small proportion of users.

But what if your users still rely heavily on Internet Explorer 8? If your app needs to keep supporting older browsers, you have a few options:

• Keep using Angular 1.2.x.
• Use 1.3 and test (or if you're feeling lucky, hope for the best). The changes in version 1.3 won't be actively removing the hacks in Angular that make Internet Explorer 8 work. Most things that work now will probably keep working. But we're going to stop testing against Internet Explorer 8 in our CI server configuration. And we won't be fixing issues that are solely related to support for Internet Explorer 8 users.
• Look for commercial support outside the core project - the Angular ecosystem is now big enough that it wouldn't be shocking to us if a company started offering commercial support for Angular apps on IE8. (entrepreneurs: hint hint!)

Removal of deprecated apis

We are aiming at the promise unwrapping in Angular templates that we deprecated before v1.2.

New naming conventions for release versions

Since our long term goal is to move to semantic versioning (semver) for Angular 2.0, starting with AngularJS 1.3 we are replacing odd/even versioning we used previously with semver's pre-release notation.

What does that mean?

• The first stable release under the 1.3.x release train will be 1.3.0.
• Unstable releases toward 1.3.0 will use semver's pre-release notation (#.#.#-text.#) So, for example, 1.3.0-beta.1 and 1.3.0-beta.2 would be unstable releases.

New features for 1.3? Tell us what you care about.

We have a handful of things that we want to add, but we also want to hear from you! Since there is no good way to create a poll on GitHub, we are going to abuse GitHub a bit — if you care about a particular Issue or PR please post a comment with text "+1" on it. When the poll closes Mary Poppins will count the votes casted during the duration of the poll, *de-dupe* them and count them. (She'll then delete the vote comments and replace them with a summary comment.) The poll will close on January 2 and we'll use the results when deciding what to add to the 1.3 release.

OK. But when is Angular 1.3 actually coming?

We still have a few things lined up for the 1.2.x release train, and we want time to consider your votes. In spite of that you should see the first beta builds of 1.3.0 starting to roll out in January with the usual 1-2 week frequency.

On launching AngularJS 1.2: what we learned, what we're changing

You might have noticed something new since we launched 1.2... Now that we're caught up, we've begun pushing a new release every week or two to stay on top of things and keep the PR queue responsive. Unless there's something big or noteworthy, we're also no longer blogging about every release.

We learned a lot from launching 1.2. Here are our own notes on the 1.2 launch process, and what we'll be improving, in case you're curious too.

1.2 took way too long!

• The community uptake and increase in github activity alongside 1.2 caught us by surprise. We got swamped, and it took some time to get on top of the new volume of contributions. We're back in the flow now, with a few new folks on the core team, and we're taking steps to keep from getting overwhelmed.
• To handle this new volume, we needed better infrastructure in place. We were depending too much on manual processes; managing them took time that couldn't be spent on development. We've since improved the CI server, and added more automation to our launch processes and tests. We're also looking for more ways of automating and streamlining the release process.
• Some of our 1.2 goals turned out to be much more challenging than we anticipated. Animations, for example -- we realized that we needed to do something different, to make it really easy to use by thoroughly anticipating use cases, instead of putting the burden on the developer to implement. Getting it right took longer.
• Our release schedule wasn't all that well organized. Because the core team was overwhelmed, we often sat on fixes and features for too long, delaying the feedback loop with contributors. We're generating pre-release builds from the CI server and working on providing them via bower (either nightly or even after each commit) so that we can get feedback faster.

Underscore issues and the revert in 1.2.1

Shortly after 1.2, we issued 1.2.1, reverting a late change around hiding "private" properties prefixed with an underscore. We tested the change on hundreds of apps at Google, and with a few minor exceptions, nobody was affected, so we assumed it was safe to proceed. But we missed the real impact on apps elsewhere.  We reverted the change within a week, but we'd like to avoid making the same mistake again.

What steps are we taking?

• We're committing to release more frequently, reducing the feature pressure on any one release.  With a consistent release schedule, we'll have more time to fully consider the implications of the features that we add and the changes we make.  
• New pre-release builds from the CI server provide greater visibility into what we're working on. No surprises.
• Even if the impact seems small, no more breaking changes in the last release before a final major version. We learned this lesson and we really mean it.

Farewell, Disqus

tl;dr: We are removing Disqus comments from the AngularJS docs.

Problems with Disqus

Besides making it difficult to moderate off-topic or inflammatory comments, many comments are specific to past versions of Angular. We think the documentation should be versioned alongside the code so there's never a question of whether information is out of date.

Disqus has been great for allowing us to get feedback and allow developers to share tips about AngularJS, but we think there are better ways to do this now. You'll always be able to see the Disqus comments in past versions of Angular (<=1.2.2), but going forward, here's where we think the things previously posted in comments should belong:

Questions

Post questions to StackOverflow or the mailing list. They tend to get answered more quickly and stay up-to-date because of the active community there.

Bug Reports (Issues)

Bug reports should go on Github. It's useful to be able to see everyone's issues, workarounds, and the progress towards fixing them all in the same place. See the relevant section of the contributing guide for more.

Improvements to the Documentation

We think the best way to improve the docs is by directly improving the text. You can do this via the "improve this doc" button at the top of each page.

AngularJS 1.2.1 - underscore-empathy available now

Our first stable release in the brave new post-1.2 world is available now.

AngularJS 1.2.1 underscore-empathy reverts hiding "private" properties, improves $compile for transcluded directives by making it possible for the child elements of a transcluded directive to access the transcluded directive's controller, and fixes a few minor bugs.

We introduced "private" properties (for properties prefaced with an underscore) in 1.2 thinking that this would be a fairly uncontroversial change. Oops! Apologies (and thank you) to the folks who filed bugs alerting us to the larger consequences in your code of making this breaking change. We've reverted this feature.

For full details in this release, see the changelog.

Thanks to the 33 superheroic individuals who contributed PRs!

Aaditya Talwai, andre, Andrei Korzhevskii, Ari, Ben Wiklund, Brian Ford, Caitlin Potter, Chirayu Krishnappa, Derek Peterson, Eddie Monge Jr, gdi2290, Igor Minar, James deBoer, Jeff Cross, Julien Sanchez, Martin Field, Mathis Hofer, Mauro Carrero, Miško Hevery, mkolodny, PatrickJS, Pete Bacon Darwin, Peter Kosa, Phillip Alexander, rsnapp, Sebastien Roul, smarigowda, Stéphane Reynaud, Tatham Oddie, Tobias Bosch, victorbjelkholm, Vojta Jina, xdhmoore.

AngularJS 1.2.0: timely-delivery

Our much-anticipated release of AngularJS 1.2.0 has landed. Pinch yourself; you're not dreaming.

AngularJS 1.2.0 timely-delivery fixes many issues found in 1.2.0-rc3, and introduces several new features since the previous stable release.

Since our last stable release, the most notable changes are:

• Animations and Transitions
• Better error messages (including error minification)
• Strict Contextual Escaping
• Track By function to prevent duplicates in ng-repeat
• Controller As syntax to access controller instances in templates
• Promise A+ Compliance
• Separation of ngRoute into its own module

The team has spent a lot of time consolidating, simplifying, improving content, and improving the user experience of our documentation. This is a work in progress, so stay tuned for more improvements.

For full details in this release see the changelog.

See the full migration guide on our guides.

Thanks to the 294 superheroic individuals who contributed PRs toward 1.2.0!

@supercobra, Adam, Adam Bowen, Adam Kent, Adam Shannon, Adam de Baugh, Alan Klement, Alex Olshansky, Alex Young, Alexander Kaidalov, Alexander Shtuchkin, Anders Hessellund Jensen, Andreas Marek, Andreas Sander, Andrew Jackson, Andrew O\'Brien, Andrew Peterson, Andrew Stuart, Andy Gurden, Andy Hitchman, Andy Joslin, Angel Balcarcel, Anthony Tran, Artemy Tregubenko, Arun Israel, Ash, Balázs Suhajda, Ben Holley, Ben Lesh, Ben McCann, Ben Ripkens, Ben Tesser, Boris Serdyuk, Brad Green, Braden Shepherdson, BrainCrumbz, Brenton, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brian Ford, Bruno Coelho, Butch Peters, Buu Nguyen, Caio Cunha, Caitlin Potter, Calvin Fernandez, Carl Danley, Chirayu Krishnappa, Christopher Hiller, CloudDueling.com, Colin Casey, Colin Frei, Dag-Inge Aas, DanS, Dang Nguyen Anh Khoa, Daniel Herman, Daniel Lamb, Daniel Luz, Daniel Tse, Dave Peticolas, David, David Barker, David Bennett, David Gonzalez, David Mosher, David Sanders, Dean Peterson, Dean Sofer, Derek Hammer, Dmitry Kichenko, Dmitry Shirokov, Domenic Denicola, Dusan Bartos, Eddie Monge, Eduardo Garcia, Ehsan Ghandhari, El Juli, Emmanuel, Eric Hagman, Eric Large, Eric Subach, Felix, Francesco Pontillo, Fred Sauer, Freek Wielstra, G Lormeau, G.H. Naylor, Gabor Csizmadia, George Bonner, Gias Kay Lee, Gowtam Lal, Greg Thornton, Grzegorz Lachowski, Hack Reactor Students, Henning Teek, Henry Hazan, Hubert SABLONNIÈRE, Igor Minar, Ilia Choly, Itamar Rogel, ItsLeeOwen, J Bruni, J. Tangelder, Jad Naous, James, James Daily, James Davies, James Dunn, James Roper, James Talmage, James deBoer, Jamie Mason, Jamund Ferguson, Jan Kuča, Jan Laußmann, Jared Forsyth, Jarrett Harris, JasonM23, Jeff Cross, Jeffrey Palmer, Jen Bourey, Jens Rantil, Jesse Palmer, Joao Sa, Joe Grund, Joe Hanink, JoeLeCodeur, Joey Organisak, John Bohn, Jordan Klassen, Josh McAdams, Josh Schumacher, Josh Taylor, Julie, Julien Bouquillon, Jussi Kosunen, Jérémy, Ken Chen, Ken Sheedlo, Lane Goldberg, Leandro Ostera, Lefteris Paraskevas, Leif Halvard Silli, Luc Morin, Lucas Galfasó, Maarten Stolte, Manuel Kiessling, Marc Tamlyn, Marcel Morgan, Marcin Wosinek, Marco Vito Moscaritolo, Mark Campbell, Mark J. Titorenko, Mark Striemer, Marko Bonaci, Martin Cortez, Martin Probst, Matias Niemelä, Matias Niemelä, Matthew Kleiman, Matthew Windwer, Merrick Christensen, Michael Kueller, Michael Stewart, Michal Bendowski, Michał Gołębiowski, Michiel Staessen, Mikk Kirstein, Misha Moroshko, Misko Hevery, Mr.Raindrop, Nelson Blaha, Nepoxx, Niall Smart, Nick Donohue, Nicola Peduzzi, Nicolas Brugneaux, NimaVaziri, OpherV, Ore Landau, P. Envall, Patrick Canfield, Patrick Drechsler, PatrickJS, Paul Meskers, Paulo Scardine, Pavel Vasek, Pawel Kozlowski, Paxton Hare, Pete Bacon Darwin, Peter Bacon Darwin, Peter Fern, Preston Marshall, R. Merkert, Randi Hillerøe, Renan Ivo, Reto Aebersold, Ricardo Bin, Richard, Richard John, Richard Sentino, Rob Culliton, Rob Dodson, Robb Shecter, Robbie Ferrero, Robert Fauver, Roberto Bonvallet, Roland, Ron Waldon, Rory Douglas, Sam Dornan, Santi Albo, Saul Maddox, Sean Fahey, Sebastian Müller, Sequoia McDowell, Siddique Hameed, Simeon Willbanks, Spencer, Spencer Applegate, Stefan hr Berder, Stephen Merity, Steven Sojka, Tay Ray Chuan, Thomas Tuts, Tim Graham, Tim Ruffles, Tim Statler, Tobias Bosch, Tom Dunstan, Tom Elovie Spruce, Tyler McGinnis, Umur Kontacı, Uri Goldshtein, Valentyn Shybanov, Vineet Kumar, Vojta Jina, Walter Higgins, Wesley Cho, Woody Peterson, Yang Pengcheng, Yuriy Bilogub, Zachary Friedman, adamshaylor, andre, anilgulecha, basarat, bolasblack, brakon, cjmling, commonlisp, douglascalhoun, ebeal, exex zian, gabriel-tessier, gdennie, gdi2290, ghodss, granteagon, jakub-bochenski, janhartigan, jankuca, joscarsson, joshbowdoin, joshkurz, joshrtay, jquadrin, justinrknowles, lorint, mgechev, micole, mmieszek, mtaran-google, naomiblack, naorye, neilmcgibbon, netpoetica, paolo-delmundo, phamdt, phanboy4, pzajdel, rjferguson21, rodbv, rodyhaddad, royling, sarkasm, sdesmond, sflahave, tgkokk, thorn0, tigbro, tomazy, ts-web, wiebl, Étienne Barrié

AngularJS 1.2.0-rc3: ferocious-twitch

Our last release candidate for 1.2, version 1.2.0-rc.3 is available. Onward to 1.2!

AngularJS 1.2.0-rc3 ferocious-twitch fixes a number of high priority issues in $compile and $animate and paves the way for 1.2.

This release also introduces some important breaking changes that in some cases could break your directives and templates. Please be sure to read the changelog to understand these changes and learn how to migrate your code if needed.

For full details in this release, see the changelog.

Please try it out, review the docs, and report any issues. If you find anything new affecting this release, be sure to note the version 1.2.0-rc.3 in your report.

Barring any exciting showstoppers in the next week, we'll wrap this up and declare it the official 1.2-release.

Thanks to the 117 superheroic individuals who contributed PRs!

Adam Kent, Alexander Kaidalov, Angel Balcarcel, anilgulecha, Anthony Tran, Ash, basarat, Ben Lesh, Ben McCann, Ben Tesser, Boris Serdyuk, brakon, Brian Ford, Butch Peters, Buu Nguyen, Caitlin Potter, Calvin Fernandez, Chirayu Krishnappa, cjmling, Colin Casey, commonlisp, Dag-Inge Aas, Dang Nguyen Anh Khoa, Daniel Luz, Daniel Tse, Dave Peticolas, David Barker, David Bennett, David Gonzalez, Dean Sofer, Eric Large, Felix, Francesco Pontillo, Fred Sauer, Freek Wielstra, gdennie, Gowtam Lal, Hack Reactor Students, Henning Teek, Henry Hazan, Hubert SABLONNIÈRE, Igor Minar, Ilia Choly, J Bruni, J. Tangelder, jakub-bochenski, James, James Daily, James Dunn, James Roper, Jamie Mason, janhartigan, jankuca, Jared Forsyth, JasonM23, Jeff Cross, Jen Bourey, Jesse Palmer, Joe Hanink, joscarsson, jquadrin, Julie, Ken Sheedlo, Lane Goldberg, lorint, Lucas Galfasó, Maarten Stolte, Marc Tamlyn, Mark J. Titorenko, Marko Bonaci, Martin Cortez, Matias Niemelä, Matthew Kleiman, Michael Kueller, Michał Gołębiowski, Michiel Staessen, Misha Moroshko, Mr.Raindrop, mtaran-google, naomiblack, naorye, Nick Donohue, Nicola Peduzzi, paolo-delmundo, Patrick Canfield, Patrick Drechsler, Paxton Hare, Pete Bacon Darwin, Peter Bacon Darwin, pzajdel, R. Merkert, Randi Hillerøe, Ricardo Bin, Richard, Richard Sentino, Rob Culliton, Roberto Bonvallet, rodyhaddad, Ron Waldon, royling, Sam Dornan, Saul Maddox, sflahave, Simeon Willbanks, Stefan hr Berder, Steven Sojka, Thomas Tuts, Tim Ruffles, Tim Statler, Tom Elovie Spruce, ts-web, Tyler McGinnis, Umur Kontacı, Uri Goldshtein, Vojta Jina, Woody Peterson, Zachary Friedman.

Weekly Rant #2

The Last Stand bombs... Broken City bombs! Well that didn't take long. 2013 has begun and we have our first box office duds. It's unfortunate for The Last Stand because reviews were not terrible, but the movie trailer was. Johnny Knoxville is NOT who you want in a movie anymore.. and I guess neither is Arnold. Oh well, at least it will be on Blu-ray in a couple of weeks. :)

JJ Abrahams, Paramount, and Bad Robot have bought the rights to Cycle of Lies: Lance Armstrong Biopic. I don't think he even had finished his interview with Oprah yet and the deal was done. Here is the problem I have with that. The man still isn't done lying!!!! Did they buy the rights knowing they could have a possible sequel?? Who in their right minds will want to watch this garbage? This is a lifetime movie, or CBS movie of the week... not Hollywood!! Ugggh!! Maybe we can get John Mayer to play him in the movie.. he's a big slime ball too. 

Brain DePalma, and Al Pacino are set to do a Biopic on Joe Paterno. The working title for this film is called Happy Valley.
SMH!! If any are relatively new to the social networking world we live in, SMH stands for Shaking My Head. The forums out there were running wild with jokes, and theories on who might play Jerry Sandusky, the man who sexually abused 10 children (that we know of) and is sentenced to life in prison. 
Is this Hollywood's lack of creativity screaming out again? Are studio execs saying... screw it, let's have a week of choosing to make films about low down, no good, sleeze-bag filths??!!
Pacino and DePalma are notorious for their Scarface film. 
Ok, c'mon.. it's ok, let it out... you know you wanna say it... all together now, "Say Hello To My Little Friend". I'm wondering if Sandusky's character will have that line in the movie? 

Well, overall it was a quiet week for my rants. I'm still pissed about Ben Affleck not being nominated for Best Director. I am also pissed off that Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't nominated for Django Unchained. The Academy members are idiots, always have been. Who votes for The Best Years of Our Lives over It's a Wonderful Life???? SMH! Do you know where It's a Wonderful Life is ranked on AFI top 100 films of all time? It's 20!! Do you know where The Best Years of Our Lives is? It's not on the list!! Enough Said. However, I am going to finally break my vow. I am going to watch the damn film this week for the first time. Tune in next week and you can hear me rant more about this. 

-Jason Traylor

-Editor SS77

DJango Unchained Review

Grade: A

Shoot em up Fun

First I have to say, I watched this movie and had a smile on my face from beginning to end. The movie is just fun! Creative and ingenious from one of the most daring and unconventional directors... maybe ever. The soundtrack is fun, the cinematography is brilliant. I have to say this is my favorite Tarantino film since Pulp Fiction. I loved Inglorious Bastards, but this is better. The performances in this film are A+++. 

I can't say who is better. Leonardo DiCaprio was born to play a Respectable Southern man. He is just flat out brilliant!!! I can't believe he didn't get an Academy Award Nomination for Supporting Actor. Christopher Waltz is so ridiculously funny with every line he delivers it should be illegal. I am happy he scored another nomination for Supporting Actor. Samuel Jackson's performance is way overlooked because of everything else going on in the film. 

Jamie Foxx plays the slave turned bounty hunter (Django), thanks to Christopher Waltz's character who frees him from bondage. 

After the first act of bounty hunting, the film turns to them both going after Django's wife who is a slave at DiCaprio's plantation. Foxx and Waltz devise a scheme to fool DiCaprio so that they can legally buy her freedom. All I can say is things go south so to speak, and all hell breaks loose. 

Best Picture Nominee and most deservingly so. The script is fresh, raw, and off the radar. I wanted the movie to continue when it was finally over. The dialogue is very intense at times, and it keeps you reeled into the screen. Tarantino just creates these vivid characters through his scripts. He is an actors dream come true. I highly recommend this film to anyone and everyone... as long as you can deal with over the top blood gushing gunshots and violence. 

This is the caviar of Popcorn films. 

-Jason Traylor

-Editor@SS77

Zero Dark Thirty Review

Grade: A

Intense Reality

My thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty are first and foremost, this is an intense film. Intense about the reality of what our CIA operatives went through after 9/11 to catch The Most Wanted man UBA as they refer to him in the film. I actually like what Mike Epps calls him better.. ol Lodi Dodi. :)

The movie follows a CIA operative (Jessica Chastain), as she journeys through the middle east trying to dig up evidence that might lead her to the whereabouts of UBA. Fighting not only Al Qaeda members who are sworn to secrecy, but her own governments politics. Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker) does a fantastic job of pacing this movie from the beginning. I for one am glad the scenes of torture were depicted. If you are going to tell a story, do it right. 

It's a harrowing example of the continuing sacrifice Americans have made in fighting  terrorism. Nominated for Best Picture which rightly so I believe it should be. Jessica Chastain winner of Golden Globe for Best Actress and Academy Award Nominee has a great shot at winning. I have seen this film twice and must say it's powerful. It almost leaves you with an empty feeling at the end. This is no popcorn film about catching Bin Laden, No Michael Bay helicopter shots, this is gritty and daring.  Hopefully seeing this film will give a bit of closure to the decade we had, the decade that was unjustly took from so many due to an evil plot, and evil man. 

We need more honest films like this in Hollywood. Films that choose to take bold chances no matter who it might offend, and to preserve it's integrity. 

Red 2 Trailer

August 2nd Release Date for Red 2

Summit Entertainment released the first trailer for Red 2. 

I am really excited about this. The first was a lot of fun. I think adding Catherine Zeta Jones and Anthony Hopkins is great. 

Check out the trailer here: 

Thanks to ComingSoon.com 

Jack the Giant Slayer Trailer #2

Warner Bros. released the 2nd Trailer for Jack the Giant Slayer today. 

The film is approaching it's release date on March 1st.

Starring Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, About a Boy), Ewan McGregro, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Ian McShane. 

The forums have been writing this film off since day one. The second trailer may actually help this film out. 

I think it looks fun. It has potential to be a box office bomb though I must admit. 

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The first thing that I found enchanting about this film is it's score. I have seen this film several times and never realized the Bernard Herrmann was behind this masterpiece of music. Herrmann was the music behind many Hitchcock films. In an interview Herrmann said that Mrs. Muir was his finest score. I disagree only a little, I feel his Vertigo score was mesmerizing. 

1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir hit the silver screen. Nominated for it's sole Best Cinematography Academy Award. Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady, Doctor Dolittle, Cleopatra) and Gene Tierney (Laura, Leave Her To Heaven, Heaven Can Wait) share a haunted love story set by the sea. A newly widowed (Tierney) decides to find a home by the sea. On a budget, she decides to move into a home that is haunted by it's prior owner, a dead sea captain (Harrison). 

Captain Gregg tries to play tricks on Lucy to get her to move out, after all a sea captain needs solitude. Lucy unshaken by the forceful gestures of the Captain, she comes to pursue a bargain with him. 

Lucy decides to write the memoirs of the Captain. 

In London Lucy visits a publisher that takes more interest in her than the Captain cares to entertain. 

The playful banter and chemistry is fun between the two. 

A ghostly love story of two people who seemingly met at the wrong time. Gene Tierney is exquisite, and Rex Harrison was deserving of a nomination for Best Actor. One of my favorite things is to watch Harrison's slow subtle way of falling in love with Lucy. The monologue he delivers at the end is spectacular. 

In 1990 20th Century Fox was close to remaking the film with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. Poor box-office results of The Russia House led to it's demise. 

Some fun trivia is that this is one of the few films that doesn't intro with the famous trumpets and 20th Century Fox image. Instead we are introduced to our film through Bernard Herrmann's magical score. 

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is an old timeless romance film. 

I highly recommend if you haven't seen it, you need to. 

-Jason Traylor

-Editor@SS77

2013 Possible Box Office Bombs

Last year we saw some huge disasters on the screen. 

Let's recap

John Carter was the first of these bombs. 

A production budget of 250 million.

73,078,100 Domestic (Ouch)

209,700,000 Foreign 

Just barely making back what it cost to make. 

I honestly didn't think the film was that bad... it was marketed really bad. 

Battleship is next on the sinking money ship. 

A production budget of 209 million. 

65,422,625 Domestic (sunk)

237,602,860 Foreign

Foreign ticket sales saved Universal, but overall this ship never had a chance. Once again... I actually enjoyed Battleship... wrong release date, and lack of star power killed it. 

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter sucked the life out of a lot of critics, and Fox. 

A Production Budget 69 million. 

Domestic 37,519,139 (wow)

Foreign 78,952,441

Yeah they made back the budget, but that's not the point behind studios making movies... they want a lucrative profit. Some liked this film... I was not one of them. 

DREDD and that's exactly what people did.. dreaded this film. 

A Production Budget of 50 million.

Domestic 13,414,714 

Foreign 19,344,901

The loud scream you've been hearing is Lionsgate. The film really wasn't a bad movie, it's just you are not going to put people in seats with Karl Urban & Olivia Thirlby. 

Cloud Atlas failed to make it's budget back, much like the 

Wachowski's Speed Racer. Now this is one of the few that really bombs, and yet it was an attempt to think outside the box for once. I admire the attempt, and I enjoyed the outcome. It's sad to see a movie that aspires to be something great, and yet no one went and saw it. That's not to say there are not flaws in the film.
A Production Budget of 100 million. 
Domestic 27,036,298
Foreign 44,085,649
I think after this launches on Dvd and Blu-ray Warner Bros. will make back it's production cost for the film. There could be a long cult following for this film as well. I have been in the forums abroad and have read a lot of positive reviews. 

NOW, on with the 2013 Possible Box Office Bombs

#1 The Lone Ranger

This movie was supposed to have cut it's production budget and failed!! 250+ million with Armie Hammer your lead star. Armie who?? Exactly!! I don't like the guy to be honest, and that's why maybe I'm biased and have this listed. Armie Hammer has been in films such as The Social Network, J. Edgar, and Mirror, Mirror. Snooze fest. He is boring, and has the acting range of Rodney Dangerfield. Ok, maybe I am being to harsh. The movie also stars Johnny Depp as Tonto. Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer are hoping that lighting strikes twice and Tonto is as popular as Jack Sparrow. 

In the last 20 years Westerns have not faired well with box office returns, unless your name is Eastwood or Tarantino. 

Gore Verbinski, who brought the first Pirates of the Caribbean 

to the screen is trying to break that trend. I don't see this film doing well domestically. It will make money in the foreign market because of Depp, but Disney is hoping to double it's investment.... I don't see it happening.  
Wild, Wild, West and Jonah Hex were along the same lines. 

#2 Turbo

I don't care how many stars you have voicing the film, it's uninteresting, and unoriginal. Oh, it's also releasing on July 19th, 2 weeks after Despicable Me 2, and a month after Monsters University. That's all I have to say about this wanna be pixar Cars film. 

#3 Grown ups 2 

Shoot me now please!!! Adam Sandler movies are becoming increasingly more unappealing with every new film. Yes, the first Grown ups made money, so do politicians. Every critic said it was the worst movie they had ever seen. A sequel?? The best thing  Kevin James could do is to leave Happy Madison and Adam Sandler, they are killing him. I enjoyed Paul Blart mind you, but Sandler rehashes the same crap in every movie. We get it already... WE KNOW YOU ARE JEWISH AND PROUD!!!! I think it's quite bold to release this film on July 12th amidst 15 to 20 other much more creative summer films. The last grown ups cracked 100 million foreign. Domestically this thing will not make back it's production budget. 

#4 After Earth 

I have been on the fence about this film. I like Will Smith, I like Jaden Smith, I like M. Night Shamalama ding dong. I really do. The trailer to this film.... yeeeaaahhh not impressed. It looks like CGI threw up everywhere. Will's character looks like his isn't even in the film. It looks like a bootleg Avatar ripoff in my opinion. Will it make money? Yes. I still think this could bomb... I know.. when was the last time a Will Smith movie bombed? Something just seems very unappealing to me about this film, and it has competition from a lot of other more interesting Sci-fi films. We will see. 

#5 The Wolverine

Another one that could go either way, I'm choosing to go with my gut. X-men Origins: Wolverine was boring and pretty stupid. I mean... it even had Deadpool, and Gambit and still managed to disappoint. Jackman was the best thing about it. This new sequel has been in development hell, and the film is based in Japan. 

I am really hoping this doesn't bomb. As a journalist though I am skeptical, as I should be. 

Understand that a film can make money and still be a
 Box Office Bomb.

 Other Notable Possible Bombs:
Riddick, Enders game, GI Joe Retaliation, The Last Stand, The Croods, Epic, and The Great Gatsby. 

Schindler's List Blu-ray Preorder

Schindler's List 20th Anniversary Blu-ray is coming to Blu-ray

on March 5th, 2013. 

Steven Spielberg personally supervised the extensive high definition transfer, lossless audio, and packed special features. 

One of the most incredible true story films shot entirely in Black and White. 

This is one to own in the best possible format. 

I must say, Universal has done a tremendous job on all of Spielberg's films on Blu. I am really looking forward to this release. 

Once we have this in hand, we will take some pictures and video the unwrapping so you can take a look. 

Screen Rants #1

Ben Affleck being screwed over by the Academy was what set the tone for this last week. How the hell do you not nominate him for Best Director for Argo?? It's like the Academy has a Sixth Sense of Overachieving Stupidity. Well, after wins from the Film Critics Association and now A Golden Globe Winner for Best Director... I hope the Academy takes a long good look at the voting process and realizes how screwed up it truly is. 

The Academy didn't stop with Affleck...no, no, no... Let's not Nominate SkyFall and Nominate Amour in two categories. Best Foreign Film and Best Picture. What the Hell is the point of having a category for Best Foreign Film when you are just going to nominate it for Best Picture as well?????? SkyFall deserved a nomination for Best Picture out of the nine. Really, it's ok if it wasn't a typical Academy choice. The damn Oscars is really starting to be a joke. If a film makes any money.. it must be a popcorn film right?? WRONG!!! 

Zero Dark Thirty has dusted up a shit storm this week from a bunch of idiots in Hollywood!! Namely Ed Asner and Martin Sheen, who want the Academy members to rally and not vote for it in protest for filming the depiction of the U.S. using torture methods after 9/11. ARE YOU F%&$#*& KIDDING ME??? (sarcasm) I am pissed off that Steven Spielberg didn't depict German Soldiers better in Schindlers List!!! I bet that there were some soldiers who gave flowers to the Jews.
 (end saracasm) Scratching my damn head. Kathryn Bigelow also a Academy Snub for Best Director did an Amazing Job with the film. We need to show those victims of 9/11 that we were doing everything in our power to find the Son of B%&#@ who killed over 3000 innocent people. I bet those depictions of planes flying into damn buildings has just vacated ol Ed and Martins brains. 
I am so sick of hearing about Movie Violence, and Video Game Violence as the cause of this countries woes and criminal activity. The cause is lousy parenting in the home and terrible school systems. The cause is our ridiculous Government and Congresses over inflated wallets to sit on their asses and not do anything but put us more in debt. It's not violence in movies, removing guns from innocent people protecting themselves isn't the answer. I wish celebrities would realize they shouldn't be allowed to preach on pulpits different than mine just because they our actors. If you are going to preach do it for the good of humanity and not your own political agenda. 

Last but not least... Michael Bay is defending the script and name change of the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie. It will be called Ninja Turtles and they are from space.... one will be called Optimus Prime......... no wait..... that's another Bay Film. Is it me, or is Hollywood losing it's creativity??? A reboot of a franchise that hasn't really fared to well to begin with in it's last 3 attempts. Bay needs to find some originality for God's sake!!! Produce something for once that didn't come from the 80's... get your own ideas. GEEZ!!! 

Whew!! I feel much better now that all that is off my chest! 

-Jason Traylor

-Editor@SS77

Golden Globe Recap

Argo comes up big at the 70th annual Golden Globes. 

Winner of Best Picture for a Drama and Best Director for a Drama... Argo has quickly become 2012's best. 

After being snubbed or I like to call it screwed.. by the Academy of Motion Pictures for a Best Director nomination, Ben Affleck has won twice in less than a week. The Film Critics Association honored him, and now he wins a Golden Globe. 

The Academy should feel like a bunch of idiots. I couldn't be happier for Ben. Even George Clooney who was a producer on Argo commented on Affleck's talent behind the camera. 

Affleck backstage jokingly asked the media why no one said he was snubbed for Best Actor for Argo. Clearly trying to make light of the fact that the Academy seemingly likes to make mistakes year, after year, after year. 

Les Miserables took home Best Picture in a Comedy or Musical. Hugh Jackman took home the Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for Les as well. 

Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. 

She looked gorgeous. 

Daniel Day Lewis and Jessica Chastain took home the Dramatic Globes for Actor and Actress. I was very pleased with the outcome of both categories there. Zero Dark Thirty won the weekends box office as well amidst all the controversy surrounding the film. 

Supporting Globes went to Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) and Christopher Waltz (Django Unchained).

Quentin Tarantino won for Screenplay (Django Unchained) and raised a lot of eyebrows backstage answering questions about the use of the N word, dropping it himself. He talked about how he is true to his stories and will not conform. 

I was happy Adele took home Best Original Song for SkyFall. 

The only award I really was upset with was Animated Film. Wreck it Ralph should have won hands down over Brave. 

Oh, well... can't win em all. 

Amour won for Best Foreign Film which was no surprise to anyone. 

For T.V. Results Click the Link Below, I don't really follow T.V. so I can't make comments. 

Golden Glove Television Winners

Here are more red carpet images. 

Next Up SAG and then The Oscars 

- Jason Traylor

- Editor@SS77

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