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[Super Sentai Dredd]

Domo arigatou, Squaxx, but I only found it.

On another earth there's a Super Sentai Dredd with a warbling theme tune just like Supaidaman.

Looks like Judge Minty and Judge Giant make cameos – bottom left panel – meanwhile Joe & Rico change into their civvies and go for sushi.



JD apparently has a teaching job – training cadets in elementary school? Fuck knows.



Hall of Justice and Chief Judge Tom of Finland –



There's another 30 or so pages of this curio.

Tackling a perp in a hostage situation JD puts the infamous Double-Whammy to better use by properly blowing both arms off at once –

As a follow-up to this ancient forum thread, a long scavenge of Japanese sites and vendors turned-up an elusive copy of the Shonen Jump AutumnSpecial – it features a promotional comic tie-in to the release of the 1995 Judge Dredd film.



It's unbelievable I know, but I can't read Japanese, so on a very superficial reading of panels, the 45 page story by Hitoshi Matsumoto & Mitsuyoshi Takasu looks like another re-imagining of the Rico yarn but in this version 'Rico' – I presume it's still Joe & Rico – seems to be a good 'un who gets cut down in the line of duty and 'Joe' must avenge him – both Judges are identified by the initials JD printed on their helmet badges.

The beloved hue and texture of bog-paper remains in the scanned and untouched pages bleow. For the unManga'd of us, read the panels from top right to left working downwards – the first 11 are sequential.

How many Doomlord collections has Hibernia ever released?

One

The ball hairs. They're different.

[The studio will continue to make two to three French films per year and will likely ramp up its TV business in the U.S.]

Concentrating on making more USTV content is part of the new scaling-down strategy at EuropaCorp after the financial disappointment of Valerian.

In the wake of "Valerian," which cost $180 million to produce, EuropaCorp is expected to cut its English-language slate to two to three movies per year, compared with five or six previously, with modest budgets from $25 million to $35 million apiece, according to a source close to the company. The studio will continue to make two to three French films per year and will likely ramp up its TV business in the U.S., which has been profitable with franchise-based series such as "Taken."


Luc Besson, EuropaCorp Face Day of Reckoning With Shareholders Over Flop of 'Valerian'

Another future-cop show with a satirical bent goes into development.

Luc Besson's EuropaCorp has acquired the rights to Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! for development as a television series.

I'm not sure it holds together from one moment to the next - what exactly was the point of the opening scenes on a desert planet, if the ship didn't know the captain was in trouble how could it see the starfleet symbol etc - and I'm not feeling that derivative and aimless theme tune.

The desert bits seemed to be a general theme-setter for newbies – the Federation's function. The Star Fleet sign's only function is to be a cute end shot before the credits.

Generally I thought it was OK – no better or worse than the general run of old Trek TV I've seen – but I haven't seen this many Dutch-Angles since Battlefield Earth.

Hmm. It's* curious, that It is largely disliked by viewers here, considering how well it's doing. That being said, I've seen negative views elsewhere too, although overall it seems to have done well.

Similar to the TV series back in the day, the film's a very mainstream version of the story made to appeal to the broadest of audiences. Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga's version of the screenplay was much closer to the tone of the book and presumably would've had some of the True Detective vibe if it had made it to the screen.

It would really screw with audience expectation to have a mid-budget Star Wars film.

Thing is, the average punter doesn't have a clue about movie budgets - it's not as if you'd have to market it as such, and there's no need for a low or midrange budget movie to look cheap in this day and age - I'm just saying that maybe not every single blockbuster needs to end with a 45 minute cacophony of cgi excess?

It's nearly always clear in a trailer how 'expensive' or 'big' a film looks – even at a sub-conscious level it registers with the audience – unless you have an expensive cast, which can amount to the same thing.

Deadpool, American Sniper and IT prove otherwise

The noteworthy point is that these are exceptions.

The most noteworthy point is this is Star Wars – the most exceptional brand of all – but in this case it's more about the scale of profit rather than no profit.

I've little doubt a smaller scaled $50 million Star Wars film would make money but at this point Lucasfilm would rather spend 3-5 times that amount on one, more spectacle driven film with the chance to reach a billion+, than several smaller films that would take longer to make and release, then wouldn't amount to as much success when combined.

They're better-off sending their smaller scale stories to VOD where the marketing/distribution spend is lower.

Yes, FIre Walk With Me is very relevant throughout Season Three as the latter contains important callbacks and references to multiple story elements only contained in the film - especially the very end of both. Some of the feature length cut of unused scenes - The Missing Pieces - is also relevant as a companion to the film.

David Harbour as Hellboy

Not an equivalent but Dublinese has the similar sounding Up in Nelly's room behind the wallpaper – sounds like the location of a sinister presence in a horror film – which is a slang response to the question of something's whereabouts.