{"id":19680,"date":"2015-07-09T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2015-07-20T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:14:29","slug":"iron-giant-returning-theaters-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/iron-giant-returning-theaters-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Giant is Returning to Theaters this Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>is returning to theaters on Sept. 30 and Oct. 4 of this year, deemed the <em>Signature Edition<\/em>. The visuals are getting a spruce up and they&#8217;re adding two extra scenes.\u00a0If you know how great this is, then you know just how great this is. If not, please read this list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>was Brad Bird&#8217;s directorial debut, form that beautiful man who brought us\u00a0<em>The Incredibles,\u00a0Ratatouille, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol\u00a0<\/em>and, to an admittedly lesser impact, this year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Tomorrowland<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Remember how, when\u00a0<em>Guardians of the Galaxy\u00a0<\/em>first hit theaters all the critics and all the tweeters were blown away by Vin Diesel&#8217;s nuanced voice performance as tree-thing Groot? Everyone who saw\u00a0<em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>wasn&#8217;t. Diesel also voiced the titular giant with almost the exact same balance of simplicity and emotion.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>is Vin Diesel, Jennifer Anniston, Harry Connick Jr. and Brad Bird&#8217;s best film, hands down.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>currently sits at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/iron_giant\/\" target=\"_blank\">96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>With a production budget of $70 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=irongiant.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Box Office Mojo<\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>proved a massive box office flop when it originally released in 1999. It made $23 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is redemption to be had, and Brad Bird shall have it. He put up this poster on his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradBirdA113\/status\/618829026610671620\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter account<\/a> just following the announcement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Signature-Edition.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19683 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Signature-Edition.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Iron Giant Signature Edition\" width=\"599\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Signature-Edition.jpg 599w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Signature-Edition-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you read that list simply nodding your head saying &#8220;yeah, man, I get it. We&#8217;re on the same page. The world owes Brad Bird and\u00a0<em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>a lot more money than it gave it,&#8221; then perhaps you should show your love in a different way while you cocoon yourself and await the fall. You should probably buy some awesome stuff from Mondo&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mondotees.com\/collections\/toys\/products\/the-iron-giant-deluxe-figure\" target=\"_blank\">The Iron Giant<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mondotees.com\/collections\/toys\/products\/ig-bolt-replica\" target=\"_blank\">toy line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Iron-Giant-Hogarth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19691 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Mondo.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Iron Giant Mondo Figure\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Mondo.jpg 693w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Mondo-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19689 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Iron-Giant-Hogarth.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Iron Giant Hogarth Hughes Mondo\" width=\"714\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Iron-Giant-Hogarth.jpg 714w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Iron-Giant-Hogarth-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Bolt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Bolt.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Iron Giant Bolt Mondo\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Bolt.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Iron-Giant-Bolt-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We should all be in a place where that last figure means something. Go see\u00a0<em>The Iron Giant\u00a0<\/em>on Sept. 30 or Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iron Giant\u00a0is returning to theaters on Sept. 30 and Oct. 4 of this year, deemed the Signature Edition. The visuals are getting a spruce up and they&#8217;re adding two extra scenes.\u00a0If you know how great this is, then you know just how great this is. If not, please read this list: The Iron Giant\u00a0was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[608,1331],"class_list":["post-19680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-comic-con","tag-the-iron-giant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19694,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions\/19694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}