20th Century Fox – A Full Rich Blather

A Full Rich Blather

This blog shall stop at nothing and stay there, bringing all undiscerning readers up to date information about significant items of interest and intrigue that will certainly be interesting to someone somewhere at sometime. I shall also try to avoid being vague.

Almost Equal Sequels Part XX: Aliens

Franchises are not always obvious. Who knew that taking the framework of 1958’s It: The Terror Beyond Space while mixing in some HR Giger artwork and then coating everything with KY jelly would result in such a hit with audiences? But there was 20th Century Fox, suddenly sitting pretty with Alien’s sizeable box office returns …

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Almost Equal Sequels Part XVII: Hot Shots! Part Deux

Ah, comedy! Remember when Hollywood made comedies? I know it seems like an eternity ago, but at one time in the dim and dark past, despite the dysentery and the covered wagons, studios thought that comedies were a worthwhile enterprise. They figured that audiences might pay to laugh at something on the big screen. And …

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