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Saturday Trending Topics: Not Groovy? (Also: SUPERMOON)

Saturday Trending Topics: Not Groovy? (Also: SUPERMOON)This is strange: "Award Pictures are pressing ahead with plans to produce the new sequel Evil Dead: Consequences without the involvement of Sam Raimi or his company, Renaissance Pictures. Award's claim is that Renaissance abandoned the Evil Dead trademark, and amongst their evidence is a quote from Raimi, published in a book in 2000,* wherein he says that he would "never" make another sequel."

Also: It appears to be time to re-open last year's SUPERMOON poll.

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Here's a cautionary tale for filmmakers everywhere, to teach them that they should never say never. Not unless they want to waste their time in courtrooms, anyhow.

 


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Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler. Machine Learning hobbyist. Vintage paper addict.
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