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The Teacher's Lounge is currently streaming on iPlayer. Superb suspense drama, Leonie Benesch was also excellent in the similar Late Shift from last year. Highly recommended.

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Manhunter is getting the 4K remaster treatment, both visuals and audio and it seems like it's *not* being done with AI!

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To that end, a new 4K scan of the original 35mm negative (with a few shots from an interpositive) was conformed and digitally restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna. Both the theatrical version and the UHD HDR & SDR video color gradings were performed by Stefan Sonnenfeld at Company 3 in Los Angeles under Mann’s supervision. Sound restoration was done at Audio Mechanics from an original 35mm magnetic 6-track printmaster to release a new 5.1 mix by Luke Schwartzweller at Fox. Technical coordination and deliveries were managed by L’Immagine Ritrovata. The project was supervised by Becca Mann and StudioCanal’s Jean-Pierre Boiget and Delphine Roussel.

“We have carefully remastered the film to try to evoke that mood and intensity, heightened with audio sourced from the original 5.1 35mm analog masters,” Mann added. “This latest iteration is that version of the film with which I’m most satisfied.”

 

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He's just resurrected Dr. Evil for a phone commercial in the US. Presuming this comes out in 2027 (or later), more time will have passed between when the original was released and the present day, than when Austin was frozen and thawed out in the first movie.

Considering how big those films and the character was in the late nineties, I'm surprised how forgotten about those movies seem to be these days.

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the only way that it could be remotely worthwhile is if it somehow finds a way to pastiche Austin Powers movies and the culture of their time, in the same way the movies first parodied '60s spy flicks, rather than just regurgitating catchphrases and warming over comedy from twenty-odd years ago.

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I'm half expecting the kind of "jokes" a Netflix stand-up with a show called Triggered makes for this one, he 100% bumps into a blue haired non-binary person called Anne Tifa.

(I might be thinking of the wrong person actually, was sure Mike turned in to a right-wing nobhead)

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5 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

This film is going to be a massive bag of shite and I'm definitely going to go and watch it.

I unashamedly love all the Austin Powers films. My Dad absolutely adores them as well, and it's one of the only things we've ever bonded over. He never claimed to have invented the question mark though. 

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51 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

I'm half expecting the kind of "jokes" a Netflix stand-up with a show called Triggered makes for this one, he 100% bumps into a blue haired non-binary person called Anne Tifa.

(I might be thinking of the wrong person actually, was sure Mike turned in to a right-wing nobhead)

Mike Myers is not right wing, seems more left/centre left as he backed Mark Carney. He hates Trump and Elon too. Can't see him going all anti woke on a new Austin Powers, I'd expect they lean more into just how out of touch the character is.

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1 hour ago, SuperBacon said:

I unashamedly love all the Austin Powers films. My Dad absolutely adores them as well, and it's one of the only things we've ever bonded over. He never claimed to have invented the question mark though. 

Me too. Renting 1&2 from Blockbuster with my mum before Goldmember came out was one of the better memories of my childhood honest.

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10 minutes ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

Mike Myers is not right wing, seems more left/centre left as he backed Mark Carney. He hates Trump and Elon too. Can't see him going all anti woke on a new Austin Powers, I'd expect they lean more into just how out of touch the character is.

If anyone other than me and @Bellenda Carlisle even watched The Pentaverate you'll see that his sense of humour has remained pretty much the same, for all the both good and bad that that brings. 

As a fan of his work I think I'll enjoy it but really not sure how well it'll connect with a new audience. 

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