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Blue filter manufacturer’s get economic boost
Director James Cameron to make first movie in 10 years. In his first film since Titanic, James Cameron is going to make a 3D film due in 2009. Called “Avatar”, it will combine photography and photorealistic CG. The filming is all in controlled conditions… no water, no weather, and so it should avoid the cost…
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The Hobbit won’t direct The Hobbit
New Line Cinema informs Peter Jackson his services aren’t required for “The Hobbit” It sounds like this is directly the result of a lawsuit which Jackson brought against New Line regarding the reported profits for “Fellowship of the Ring.” It’s sad that Jackson will not be involved since LOTR was his baby and while any…
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“Popeye” director passes away
Director Robert Altman dead at age 81
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Jeez, go away for a weekend…
I’m really not on the ball for you guys, and I’m sorry. Here the Spiderman 3 trailer has been out for three days already and I hadn’t linked you to it yet. Enjoy!
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…but he’ll still do push-ups at next year’s Oscars!
“The man ate bacon at every meal… you just can’t do that!” I ended up completely missing the news that the great Jack Palance had passed away on Friday. Amazingly enough, the rugged old cowboy lived another 15 years past making the hilarious “City Slickers“…even outliving Bruno Kirby, who played one of the yuppies having…
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Superman sequel set for 2009
“Superman Returns” is barely a break-even movie, and it had a LOT of problems and took itself way too seriously with a disturbing plotline where Superman’s courting Lois would be breaking up a family and it’s just not a very enjoyable, fun movie… but they’re going to make another one. Bryan Singer Signs On for…
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Let’s get the band back together!
Christopher Guest has made another ensemble picture with his usual suspects called For Your Consideration. This one is about an offbeat movie which is up for consideration for Best Picture and the reaction the stars have to this possibility. I just realized, this may be the first movie in ages that didn’t star people in…
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Fighting bunnies
The Bunnies reenact Fight Club in 30 seconds. Just noticed: the page name reads “flight club”.
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George Lucas directs Lord of the Rings
This was too good to leave buried in the comments section of the previous post. “I don’t use locations. I have computers.”
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How Superman should have ended
Hilarious. Erik Burnham was just today telling me about this cartoon when we were at FallCon. I come home and find that Blue Spider has linked to the site, which saved me a whole lot of web searching. So here it is: How Superman Should Have Ended. This requires a DIVX player plugin. They also…