#The Safran Company

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First footage of Peacemaker season 2.

Season 2 of Peacemaker will premiere on Max in 2025.

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'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' Movie and 4K Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. I’ve never quite understood the appeal of Jason Momoa as an actor. I’ve never walked away from a movie of his and been impressed or blown away by his performance.  He has the look of a movie star, but he doesn’t really stand out in his film roles.  He’s merely just a buff dude on screen. Of course, we have seen…

[thebutcher-5]

The Nun - La vocazione del male

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo parlato di animazione, arrivando a introdurre sul blog Blue Sky Studios, uno studio che purtroppo non esiste più ma che riuscì a realizzare opere di un certo interesse e una di queste era certamente Robots. Rodney Copperbottom è un giovane robot che ama inventare e vorrebbe incontrare il suo idolo, Bigweld, un robot che ha…

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27.08.24

#Mira-Marathon | The Conjuring

Film Name: The Conjuring (2013); Production Studios: New Line Cinema, The Safran Company, Evergreen Media Group; Director by: James Wan; Screenwriter: Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes; Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Shanley Caswell; Genres: Horror, Detective, Mysticism; Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes;

The Conjuring is a great film for horror fans that combines classic gothic horror elements with modern techniques.

Features of the film:

- Atmosphere: A tense and densely fear-filled atmosphere that does not let go of the viewer.

- History: Based on real events, the story of the Perron family keeps you in suspense.

- Characters: Strong and courageous demolition workers Ed and Lorraine Warren.

- Scary Moments: Psychological and scary scenes that effectively build tension.

Cons: Some moments may seem predictable or dated, but the overall impression of the film is very positive.

Conclusion: The Conjuring is a classic horror film that manages to scare and intrigue, especially thanks to the true events behind it.

My rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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The Princess Royal visited two businesses in Cwmbran today.

Her Royal Highness was taken on a tour of the new Crane Process Flow Technologies site - formerly known as the Saunders Valve Company – and unveiled a plaque.

Her Royal Highness then visited Safran Seats GB.

@torfaencouncil | 6 December 2024

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[justforbooks]

The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos: what can we expect from Amazon’s James Bond?

With one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises signed over to Amazon MGM, 007 could be facing down the barrel of spin-offs, quasi-crowdsourcing and a cinematic universe to rival Marvel

The ink could hardly have dried on the contract between Amazon MGM and Eon Productions, the legendary Bond film company run by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, before Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos put up a social media post that went to the heart of the conundrum faced by one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises: “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?”

The reality underlying Broccoli and Wilson’s decision to cede control to Amazon, the company that has since 2021 been responsible for co-producing Bond films after its purchase of MGM, is that since it became apparent that Daniel Craig wanted to leave the role, the franchise has been struck by a kind of creative paralysis. We are used to increasingly long gaps between their release, but with no new lead actor in sight, Bond 26 has still not even reached the starting gate. Eon kept the quest for a new Bond behind completely closed doors, like a sort of state secret, but Bezos’s first act has been to throw the gates open, with an Elon Musk-esque act of quasi-crowdsourcing. It may be just a PR-grabbing gesture, but it demonstrates that Amazon is planning to do things differently from now on.

The focus, understandably, is how Amazon might develop the franchise. Eon’s method has been to protect the brand like hawks, pouring all their efforts into one huge film, and refusing all suggestions of spin-offs, adaptations, remakes. And it worked: every Bond film has been a box office giant, meaning that this 60-year-old spy-movie series is still bigger than Batman, Lord of the Rings or X-Men. (The only time Broccoli and Wilson caved in to the pressure of a TV spin-off was Amazon’s poorly recieved challenge show 007: Road to a Million, which they presumably felt was far enough removed from the core Bond purpose that it couldn’t really dilute it.) Amazon will be undoubtedly looking to other mainstream “cinematic universes” as a model, and seeking to imitate Star Wars and Marvel’s mix of “main narrative” feature films, standalone spin-off films (Moneypenny: The Early Years and the like), and streaming shows (Rosa Klebb’s Adventures in Space/Time, with any luck) to extend the reach of the storylines.

Of course, picking a new Bond is vital, and who Amazon settles on will determine the nature of what follows. Eon, to outsiders, seemed caught between keeping the traditional audience on side by picking someone not dissimilar to previous incumbents (ie British, white, male, in early middle age) and following its own liberal instincts by installing an actor outside that demographic (towards which they made a tentative move giving Lashana Lynch a role as 007 in No Time to Die). Idris Elba for years was touted as a possible replacement but, as the actor himself said in the past, the blunt truth is that, at 52, he is probably to be too old. The bookies’ choices are more traditional: Happy Valley’s James Norton, Aaron Taylor Johnson (Kick-Ass, Kraven the Hunter, Nocturnal Animals etc), and Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson. Will Bezos go down the progressive route? In the current political climate it’s – frankly – become much less likely.

However, Amazon’s first order of business isn’t casting; it’ll have to appoint an executive (or team) to supervise the franchise. (Experience has shown that even the biggest movie operations need focused figureheads to run things, a la Kevin Feige at Marvel, Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars, and James Gunn and Peter Safran for DC.) What Amazon is really after, in common with the other standalone giants Netflix and Apple, is to crack the blockbuster movie business, something that for all its prowess in delivering product, it has never really managed – in sharp contrast to the streamer’s conquest of high-end TV. All the while the established Hollywood studios, led by Disney and Warner Bros, have used their film-making prowess to make inroads into the streamers’ core business, using their own bespoke players (Disney+ and Max respectively). Purchasing expensive IP, as Disney did with Star Wars and Marvel, as Netflix did with Narnia and Amazon itself with Tolkien, is the main weapon.

The way Bond films are financed will probably change also. Eon was the master of the brand partnership, with which it accrued vast amounts of production funding: leaked emails revealed that Heineken paid £28m to be involved in Skyfall; in return, they got Craig for a huge global advertising campaign. With less need to focus on individual films’ finances, Amazon may feel less obliged to continue Bond’s brand-stuffed aesthetic, and may feel less inclined to cast a lead who looks good holding a beer can. But it remains to be seen how far Amazon will go in developing Bond as a “universe”; Eon made its own tentative attempts to establish a set of potential spin-off villains in Spectre, but appeared to retreat from that back to winding up Bond’s personal narrative in No Time to Die. There is a finite amount of original Bond material to draw on, however, and that point seemed to be reached several movies back, with Quantum of Solace the most recent title actually taken from a Fleming story. (All practical possibilities seem to have been exhausted; we’re never likely to see films called The Hildebrand Rarity or Risico.)

The timing of the deal means that Broccoli and Wilson have chosen to bow out as the series is at a crossroads; decisions made now will affect it for years. Having shepherded Bond together since 1995, the half-brother and sister team have overseen two major transformations (to Pierce Brosnan, and then Craig) and can look back with complete satisfaction. The keys to the Bond kingdom are now entirely in Amazon’s hands.

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Seemingly, it's full steam ahead for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's Two Robins movie DYNAMIC DUO...

Dated June 30, 2028.

This all comes from an overall DC movie slate announcement earlier today, from the Gunn-Safran leadership. A live-action, small scale, horror-tinged CLAYFACE also got announced today for a 9/11/2026 release. Mike Flanagan writes, and the budget will apparently be below $50m. Could be a villain movie that does something that the JOKER movies and the Sony Villain-verse movies didn't, and a new alternative to the usual now that the comic book movie faces some changes going forward... We'll see on that one.

Currently, DYNAMIC DUO is the latest big-time animated movie to have a concrete release date. As in, the month, the date, and the year. No other animated movie has a firm date for 2028. Nothing from Disney, Universal, etc. Looks like Warner are all in on this one and it's moving along quite nicely.

Their slate so far:

03/06/2026 - THE CAT IN THE HAT

07/23/2027 - BAD FAIRIES

11/05/2027 - MARGIE CLAUS

06/30/2028 - DYNAMIC DUO

TBD 2028 - SUPER-SECRET LOONEY TUNES FILM

TBD - MEET THE FLINTSTONES

TBD - THING ONE AND THING TWO

TBD - OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO

TBD - THE LUNAR CHRONICLES

TBD - EMILY THE STRANGE

TBD - UNTITLED TOM & JERRY FILM

Quite something that Warner, of all companies, has all the latest dates. The very company that recently purged some completed and close-to-completion movies, more than two of which were cartoon movies.

I wonder when Disney and Universal play ball. I'd imagine Disney starts locking some 2028 dates for WDAS and Pixar sometime soon, making for more release date chess for me to play on my downtime lol.

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France will invest 13.3 billion euros in SCAF and Rafale by 2035

In total, all payment credits already allocated to these two programs reach 1.6 billion euros for SCAF and 11.7 billion euros for Rafale.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/13/2023 - 21:25 in Military

Behind the United States, France wants to maintain its leadership in combat aviation. That is why it will invest colossal amounts during the period 2023-2026 in the European SCAF program and Rafale.

France is investing massively in its combat aviation to remain in the major leagues. Thus, the Future Air Combat System (SCAF) program, led by France, is gaining momentum. And this is very clearly seen at the budgetary level. This emblematic European program between Germany, Spain and France is also beginning to weigh on the budget of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. Thus, over the four years of the period 2023-2026, the payment credits for the system of air combat systems of the future (combat planes, drones, weapons, combat cloud, etc.) reach 1.36 billion euros. In addition to 2026, the Ministry of the Armed Forces also plans to spend almost 300 million additional euros. Or 1.65 billion euros in total already budgeted.

Signed in December 2022, the contract for phase 1B of the SCAF, whose value reaches more than 3 billion euros equally financed between Germany, Spain and France, has an approximate duration of 36 months. The current work concerns the development of a technological demonstration program aimed at bringing innovative capabilities in the field of combat aviation. To this amount are added national investments from France. Thus, the main commitments planned for 2024 for the SCAF concern investments in the technical direction centers of the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) and the national work in support of the demonstration program.

While waiting for the commissioning of the SCAF program beyond 2045, France continues to invest massively in Rafale. There are 6.4 billion euros, including 128 million for the nEUROn (UCAV) recently released from the naphthalene under the military programming law 2024-2030, during the period 2023-2026. The Ministry of the Armed Forces has also budgeted payment credits in the amount of 5.36 billion euros in addition to 2026. This represents a total of 11.76 billion euros, which will partially end up in the coffers of Rafale's main contractor, Dassault Aviation, which will then redistribute to the 400 companies working in this crucial program for France, including Thales and Safran. This figure includes economic increases due to inflation.

Of this total, France continues to finance the Rafale F4 (2.27 billion euros), whose standard qualification 4.2 delayed one year (2025 instead of 2024). This version will make it possible to face evolving threats in more contested engagement contexts, notably improving connected collaborative combat capabilities. The Ministry of the Armed Forces begins the reinforcement of the Rafale F5 program (111.9 million euros) at the budget level with, in 2024, the continuation of work related to the RBE2 XG radar and risk reduction studies. But most of these budgeted credits refer to payments on the delivery of Rafale, 13 copies of which will be delivered in 2023 and then in 2024. This represents a total of 8.5 billion, including 3.7 billion during the period 2023-2026.

The ministry is currently negotiating with Dassault Aviation a new Rafale order for the French Air Force, which should be announced by the end of this year (42 units). The future LPM foresees a Rafale (Air + Maritime) fleet of 178 aircraft by the end of 2030 and 225 aircraft by 2035.

Source: La Tribune

Tags: Armée de l'air - French Air Force/French Air ForceMilitary AviationDassault RafaleSCAF

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James Gunn shares first look at a new character for season 2 of Peacemaker

Who might this be?

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'Blue Beetle' Movie and 4K Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. For those of you who keep up with my reviews on this website, you are familiar with my feelings on most superhero films. It is not my favorite genre, but I’m always willing to give it a try and hope for the best.  It hasn’t happened in a while, which is why I was so pleased to be completely enamored with “Blue…

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This spring, engineers at TAP Air Portugal’s maintenance subsidiary huddled around an aircraft engine that had come in for repair. The exposed CFM56 turbine looked like just another routine job for a shop that handles more than 100 engines a year. Only this time, there was cause for alarm. Workers noticed that a replacement part, a damper to reduce vibration, showed signs of wear, when the accompanying paperwork identified the component as fresh from the production line. On June 21, TAP pointed out the discrepancy to Safran SA, the French aerospace company that makes CFM engines together with General Electric Co. Safran quickly determined that the paperwork had been forged. The signature wasn’t that of a company employee, and the reference and purchase order numbers on the part also didn’t add up. To date, Safran and GE have uncovered more than 90 other certificates that had similarly been falsified. Bogus parts have been found on 126 engines, and all are linked to the same parts distributor in London: AOG Technics Ltd., a little-known outfit started eight years ago by a young entrepreneur named Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala.

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U.K. Makes Arrest in Probe Into Jet-Engine Parts Scandal

Fraud watchdog launches criminal investigation into AOG Technics with dawn raid

The Wall Street Journal

By Benjamin Katz

December 6, 2023 11:28 am ET

The U.K. has launched a criminal investigation into alleged fraud at an aircraft-parts supplier suspected of selling thousands of jet-engine components with fake safety certificates that have been found in dozens of jets, including some operated by major U.S. airlines.

The Serious Fraud Office said Wednesday it had raided an address and arrested an individual as part of its probe into AOG Technics. The London-based company’s lone director and shareholder is Jose Zamora Yrala.

AOG Technics didn’t respond to a request for comment, and a lawyer who previously represented Zamora said he no longer acted for him.

Aviation regulators in the U.K., U.S. and European Union earlier this year issued notices warning airlines that it suspected AOG of having provided false documentation for engine components. Those parts, ranging from simple nuts and bolts to more critical turbine blades, went into engines manufactured by General Electric and France’s Safran, which are used to power one of Boeing’s best-selling jets.

GE and Safran subsequently took AOG to court demanding records to help them identify and track where the unapproved parts had been supplied. The engine makers won the case, and AOG has provided the documentation.

Suspected unapproved parts have since been found on more than 100 engines, including on jets operated by United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines. GE said it had also found the parts in its own workshops. 

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Touya’s second outing into the world (garden)! 🌱🤍

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Concept art for a Batman Beyond movie pitch by some of the artists behind the Spider-Verse films have finally been revealed.

A tweet by Spider-Verse visual development artist Yuhki Demers revealed that he and My Dad the Bounty Hunter director Patrick Harpin approached Warner Bros. and DC Comics five months ago with a pitch for a Batman Beyond feature film project.

"Before we pitched, they warned us ‘There is absolutely no way we can do a Beyond movie’, but they loved our enthusiasm," Demers wrote on X. "We pitched the outline for the entire film, and what started as a 'never' turned into a 'maybe.' In the time since, we've been pitching our way up the company hoping to get to James Gunn. But for now, here's a taste of what we've been cooking.”

The three pieces of concept art showcase a hero shot of Terry McGinnis standing in front of a cyberpunk skyline of Gotham, walking down a neon-drenched alleyway, and being chased through traffic by the shapeshifting villain, Inque.

Plans for a live-action Batman Beyond movie were put on hold following James Gunn and Peter Safran’s restructuring of the DC Cinematic universe. The film, which was being penned by Flash and Batgirl writer Christina Hodson, was rumored to have been eyeing Michael Keaton to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne.

Toward the end of his tweet, encouraged his followers to drum up public support in a bid to get a sit-down meeting with James Gunn to greenlight a Batman Beyond animated film by liking and sharing his tweet.

Batman Beyond initially aired in 1999. The show, set in 2019, follows Terry McGinnis, a new Batman charged with defending a futuristic Gotham City under the tutelage of a retired Bruce Wayne. Batman Beyond aired for three seasons before concluding in 2001. The series received a direct-to-DVD film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, a 3D sidescroller of the same name the Nintendo 64 in 2000, and numerous comic book runs.

Editor's note: A previous version of this story referred to Yuhki Demers as a producer and production designer on the Spider-Verse films. The story has been updated to reflect that Demers was actually a visual development artist.