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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:24 pm

It got pushed up to my favorite month, yay. They are doing a limited release of the movie in July. I expect everyone here to have a bootleg copy of the movie before it comes out then go pay to see it in theaters at least thrice.
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Postby Sidotsy (?) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:29 pm

Oooh! Maybe they'll show it near Anime Expo :3:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:52 pm

Hmmm. This year's October is all dull horror films, but next year, that opening weekend has Blade Runner 2 and X-Men: Gambit, as well as "Untitled Fox/Marvel 2017 Project." Could be a pretty crowded weekend. But November would have opened against Thor, followed by a Grinch movie the next week that could divide the young audience.

I guess anytime at the end of the year is tricky for movie releases, but I'm nervous that it's going to get trampled unless parents don't take their kids to see a million superhero films.

I don't see anything about a limited release in July, though. I think that's just for the Woody Allen film they're rescheduling in the same press release.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:20 pm

:sweetielarm: Kristen Chenoweth has been on my MLP wishlist since S1 :awesomedash:

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:40 pm

Wayoshi wrote:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-pena-uzo-aduba-talks-887465

Hope they don't do too many stars.


[quote]Much of the talent from the hit TV series is involved with the movie. Jayson Theissen, the supervising director of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, is helming the movie, currently in production and centering on Hasbro's carrel of magical horses that are forever concerned with apples and friendship.

:twasnothin: Applejack movie confirmed!
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:32 am

DerFurShur wrote:So looks like we'll need to change the topic title since the movie has been pushed up a month to October 6, 2017.

Thanks for mentioning it. There's still been relatively little coverage of this movie, after all, so the usual channels for FiM info aren't quite so useful for anything about this.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:21 am

The Doctor wrote: :twasnothin: Applejack movie confirmed!

There's a lot of strange reporting about the movie.

ComingSoon wrote:The voice cast is set to include Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, The Girl on the Train) as a brand new character with Kristin Chenoweth, Tara Strong, Cathy Weseluck, Andrea Libman, Tabitha St. Germain and Ashleigh Ball voicing the Mane 6 — Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity.

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 4:32 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:There's a lot of strange reporting about the movie.


:bwuh:


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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:46 am

Kind of like what I was saying in my last post, it is a bit odd to see anything about FiM or this movie being reported on by outlets that aren't either running with Hasbro press releases or are sites from within our fandom.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:05 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Kind of like what I was saying in my last post, it is a bit odd to see anything about FiM or this movie being reported on by outlets that aren't either running with Hasbro press releases or are sites from within our fandom.


Funny to think we still have such a vague idea of what this movie is going to be. I don't suppose we'll have a sense of that until we can see what it looks like.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:37 pm

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Funny to think we still have such a vague idea of what this movie is going to be. I don't suppose we'll have a sense of that until we can see what it looks like.

Well, we're still a year and half away, and Hasbro seems to play their marketing pretty close to their chest. Jem's first trailer was May of last year, and the movie came out in October.

I suspect we won't hear anything from them until at least the end of this season, since there could theoretically be spoilers.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 3:25 pm



If that's accurate then it seems they totally abandoned Meghan's original script from the Sony leaks. Sounds kind of low key for a bit movie though, so I'm not sure if I buy it yet.


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:delight: Oh good, we're going to be in the movie.

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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 5:18 pm

The Doctor wrote:
If that's accurate then it seems they totally abandoned Meghan's original script from the Sony leaks. Sounds kind of low key for a bit movie though, so I'm not sure if I buy it yet.

I thought so too at first glance, but as some speculated on a different board, that might actually not be the case.

For reference, here is an excerpt from said leaks:
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The plot revolves around collecting three elemental stones: Aquos, Aeris, Ignis.

The part about the Sea Ponies could be the search for Aquos (with "Princess Water Lily" as their ruler), while Aeris would involve the mentioned hippogryphs, and Ignis the dragons or some other new race.

During the presentation they said:
"the characters will undergo "changes""
"for a portion of the movie, our main characters will transform into other creatures"

Considering the plural being used, I could see the Mane 6 temporarily taking the form of those different species in order to be able to visit their kingdoms.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 5:28 pm

Interesting. I don't remember ever seeing that part about the three stones. Makes sense.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 9:23 pm

Wait so are the images in the article seriously meant to be unrelated to the movie


Like they claimed they're unrelated, but what the hell there's no way they have shit as HQ as that just for some random presentation ready to go, let alone also thematically appropriate (seaponies) and shit, right? These have to be from the film, or at least concept art for it
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 9:26 pm

October 6? That's a few days before my birthday. :3:
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 9:36 pm

Ruflux wrote:Wait so are the images in the article seriously meant to be unrelated to the movie


Like they claimed they're unrelated, but what the hell there's no way they have shit as HQ as that just for some random presentation ready to go, let alone also thematically appropriate (seaponies) and shit, right? These have to be from the film, or at least concept art for it

They just meant those aren't screenshots, of course it's official art.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 9:48 pm

I'm not convinced of the "just concept art" part either. Like most of it probably is, but that image of Twilight writing what I presume is the invitations with Spike looks really like it could be from the movie itself
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 10:54 pm

ilcane87 wrote:I thought so too at first glance, but as some speculated on a different board, that might actually not be the case.

I agree, but this might be a discussion to take to the spoiler forum. :modesty:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 11:12 pm

Yeah, I'll start an all-purpose thread for the movie now in spoilers.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun May 01, 2016 11:13 pm

There's already one there: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10090
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 2:14 am

The Russians are beating us in the pony spoiler race. How is that even possible? It is made here!
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 4:11 am

I didn't click that EQD link so I don't actually know how it leaked, but I'm guessing that info handed to international distributors made its way into the wild there, because it's Russia.
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Postby Bremen (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 4:17 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I didn't click that EQD link so I don't actually know how it leaked, but I'm guessing that info handed to international distributors made its way into the wild there, because it's Russia.


Nah, apparently Hasbro did a presentation at a Russian MLP convention.
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 5:57 am

Soft Snow wrote:The Russians are beating us in the pony spoiler race. How is that even possible? It is made here!
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It snows in the Philippines? :cooliebelle:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Mon May 16, 2016 10:14 pm

Aaaaaaa! Taye Diggs! :ponydrugs:
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Postby drunkill (?) » Tue May 17, 2016 4:39 am

Hopefully Liev is reprising his role in Ray Donovan as a bagman for rich ponies.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue May 17, 2016 5:43 am

They are pulling out the big guns now.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:51 pm

I'm a bit concerned. The Warcraft movie, despite having having a large fandom, sticking true to the lore and wonderful effects, bombed in the box office. What if the pony movie, despite having a large fandom and sticks true to the characters, also fails? What if they decide to cancel the squeals they are undoubtedly already working on? What will this mean for the franchise? What if they decide to cancel the show? What if they decided to completely scrub it off the internet because of how much shame it brought them?! Can Hasbro do that? They might be able to do that! Who will I hang out with if they shut down the Round Stable?!?!
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:06 pm

I think the movie is just a big send-off for the show either way, to be honest. Though then again I think it's still doing well so maybe not? :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:38 pm

My Little Pony also has a much, much bigger cultural footprint than Warcraft does. If the movie can still be enticing to fans who knew MLP from the '80s and '90s, as FiM first was back in late 2010, then I think it will surely find success.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:46 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I'm a bit concerned. The Warcraft movie, despite having having a large fandom, sticking true to the lore and wonderful effects, bombed in the box office. What if the pony movie, despite having a large fandom and sticks true to the characters, also fails? What if they decide to cancel the squeals they are undoubtedly already working on? What will this mean for the franchise? What if they decide to cancel the show? What if they decided to completely scrub it off the internet because of how much shame it brought them?! Can Hasbro do that? They might be able to do that! Who will I hang out with if they shut down the Round Stable?!?!
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Well okay, a couple of things here. First up, Warcraft had its work cut out from the beginning because it was a game-to-film adaptation, which Hollywood finds notoriously hard to get right. Translating the kind of stories told in games into a something that works as a film script is apparently pretty tricky. The transition from the TV world to the film world isn't quite so much of a leap.

Secondly, I think we all need to make our peace with the possibility that the film might fail, critically if not commercially. Making a film that satisfies fans, critics and the general public equally is not something that happens very often, and the mere fact that FiM is being used as a basis for this film rather than just the generic "MLP brand" suggests they're leaning towards pleasing existing viewers. There's a very real chance that in writing something compelling for fans of FiM they totally alienate critics, and maybe even new viewers to some extent.

As for the future of the IP, who knows I guess? Maybe it's like Highbrow suggested and the film was always intended to cap off the series? Maybe the TV show is getting rebooted post-film and the FiM storyline is morphing into the rumoured Guardians of Harmony thing? Maybe it just all ends. We had a good run, either way. Better than most shows.
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Postby AmericanErrorist (?) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:54 am

PaulloDEC wrote:Secondly, I think we all need to make our peace with the possibility that the film might fail, critically if not commercially. Making a film that satisfies fans, critics and the general public equally is not something that happens very often, and the mere fact that FiM is being used as a basis for this film rather than just the generic "MLP brand" suggests they're leaning towards pleasing existing viewers. There's a very real chance that in writing something compelling for fans of FiM they totally alienate critics, and maybe even new viewers to some extent.


I'm interested in the possibility that critics could love the movie but it would leave fans cold. Is such a thing even possible?
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:24 pm

Soft Snow wrote:I'm a bit concerned. The Warcraft movie, despite having having a large fandom, sticking true to the lore and wonderful effects, bombed in the box office.


Not in China, it didn't! :hi:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:09 pm

AmericanErrorist wrote:
I'm interested in the possibility that critics could love the movie but it would leave fans cold. Is such a thing even possible?

Only if it takes twelve years to make.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:58 pm


But I don't want it to become popular in China, I want it to become popular here.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Mon Jun 20, 2016 11:04 pm

Let's be honest it probably isn't. Most of the people that are gonna be interested in this are people already fans of the show.
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