The Movie Blog pointed me to this fantastic fan film on YouTube. Sacha Feiner, a movie and animated movie director, special effects creator and sculptor in Brussels, made his own version of the famous Gremlins 2 scene where the gremlins take over the projetor's booth. In the VHS version, the gremlins insert themselves into a John Wayne movie. Sacha has taken it further, and his film is just amazing. He made new gremlins puppets himself, and over two months filmed them with blue screen, and then did computer animation to put them in the other classic films. Watch the making of film here!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Gremlins Fan Film
Friday, August 29, 2008
First Che Trailer
Che is a 2008 film about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro as Che. The film is actually a merged version of two films by Soderbergh: The Argentine and Guerrilla. The first part focuses on the Cuban revolution, from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. The second part focuses on the years following the Cuban revolution. It begins with Che's trip to the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 1964, until his death in the Bolivian mountains in 1967.
Che was screened on May 21 at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival reportedly running over four hours. Del Toro won the Best Actor Award at the festival for his portrayal of Guevara in the film.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Forgot a button!
Just Jared posted this pic today of Gerard Butler out and about in New York. Gerry forgot a button ... or three. Not that we mind much...
Australia will now have Thanksgiving release date
Variety reports that Australia's US release date will now be at Thanksgiving, on November 26:
"Australia" was slated to release Stateside Nov. 14, about 48-hours after its November 13 world preem Down Under, but now the Oz date will also shift to tally with the U.S. Recently, Warner Bros. moved its next "Harry Potter" movie from Nov. 21 to next summer.
Saga of an English woman (Nicole Kidman) who comes to remote Australia and falls for a rugged cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) is set against the backdrop of World War II.
Pic lensed in locations around Oz during 2007, and director Baz Luhrmann is currently shooting pick-ups in Australia with lead thesps. Fox's date shift will buy Luhrmann a little more more time to finish the film.
Other Thanksgiving pics include Disney toon "Bolt," Cormac McCarthy adaptation "The Road" and another literary adaptation "Time Traveler's Wife."
Aaron Sorkin to write Facebook film
Hollywood Reporter writes:
Aaron Sorkin is about to get a whole lot of friends on Facebook.
Sorkin, one of the town's biggest writers and show creators, is in negotiations to write an untitled film project about the founders of the popular social networking site that Scott Rudin will produce for Columbia.
Sorkin broke the news on Facebook when he opened up his own account.
"I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name -- which I find more flattering than creepy -- but this is me. I don't know how I can prove that but feel free to test me," he wrote before going on to talk about the movie project.
"I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)"
Sorkin also asked the Facebook public for any stories relating to the site.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg while studying at Harvard along with pals Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, membership was restricted to Harvard students, then expanded to all Ivy League schools before going on to open up for all universities and high schools in Canada and the U.S. The site now has more than 100 million users worldwide.
Despite offers in the billions of dollars, Zuckerberg has steadfastly remained independent.
"I feel about this introduction the way I felt about 'Sophie's Choice': It could have been funnier," Sorkin finished.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Brad Pitt & George Clooney at Burn premiere
Your gratuitous George Clooney pic of the day, with a bonus dollop of Brad, thanks to Just Jared. Burn After Reading had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and Variety was unfortunately not overly thrilled in its review. I'll be seeing it anyway, to judge whether it's "too silly" myself.
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