20th Century Fox has released a new video clip from James Cameron’s Avatar on the Fox-owned site IGN. The clip features Sam Worthington’s character Jake Sully in Avatar form, trying to escape from a Thanador, one of the violent creatures of Pandora. You might remember that a 30 second segment of this clip was released through LG, and previously ran on the site. The new clip is two and a half minutes long, and goes beyond the end point showed at Comic-Con and Avatar Day. Watch it now embedded after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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This deleted scene from Judd Apatow’s Funny People shows us one of the scrapped conversations from the car drive from Los Angeles up to San Francisco. George (Adam Sandler) and Ira (Seth Rogen) debate about watching Hellboy and discuss ideas for possible future movie projects for George. The deleted scene is included on the DVD/Blu-ray release, which hits stores on November 24th. Watch the clip now after the jump.
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A song can make all the difference to a trailer. This first footage from Noah Baumbach’s new comedy / drama Greenberg could be seriously depressing, were it not for the bouncy ‘All My Friends’ by LCD Soundsystem. Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Greta Gerwig star in the film that was called Greenberg, then was untitled, and is now apparently called Greenberg once more. Check it out after the break. Read More »
Amazon has an awesome deal on Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seasons 1-6, on sale for only $79.99 with free shipping included. Not sure how long this deal will last, so get it while you can.
If you haven’t seen some of the other Black Friday Week Deals we posted early this morning, I have included those after the jump.
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Casting is underway for the next theatrical iteration of The Crow, and the actor chosen will face the still-daunting task of walking in the late Brandon Lee’s Goth-approved footsteps. Last month, I reported on an update of the script written by Blade director Stephen Norrington, and today brings an update from producer Ryan Kavanaugh (Brothers, Nine). So, what guy will be chosen—re: a female Crow is not being considered—to reprise the role of an undead rock musician who wreaks havoc on mortal goons? Let us know what you think of Kavanaugh’s comments and leave your own below.
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EDIT: When I originally ran this an hour ago, I completely forgot that we’d basically presented this before, a point which the first comments were quick to point out. (It’s not the end of the world, guys, really.) But there is new content here — this is the first time we’ve been able to link to the actual scripted scene, rather than just a description. If that’s bait enough for you, then by all means carry on. Original article follows.
Now that Star Trek is out on DVD you can review the surprisingly successful J.J. Abrams film in all its glory.What you won’t see in any extra material on the disc, however, is the scene scripted early on that would have brought William Shatner into the film as the original incarnation of Captain Kirk. Personally, I didn’t miss him, but it’s easy to say that in hindsight. Check out what might have been after the break. Read More »
Adidas Originals has teamed up with LucasFilm for their Spring/Summer season line, which will include a special Star Wars collection of footwear and apparel. The new collection hopes to seamlessly fuse “inspiration from legendary Star Wars characters and scenes with iconic adidas Originals silhouettes.” You will begin to see some of these pieces hit Adidas Originals stores and other select retailers in January 2010. More photos after the jump.
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Directed John Lasseter, Pixar’s co-founder and director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug’s Life and Cars (along with co-director Rob Gibbs), Unidentified Flying Mater is the fifth in a series of Cars short films (originally titled “Cars-toons”). The computer animated short premiered on The Disney Channel on Friday, November 20th 2009.
Mater tells a tall tale about the time he met a UFO and saved him from a group of government scientists in this Cars Toon. Mater finds a small UFO called Mator and they have a night out. When Mator is captured by the military forces, Mater saves him with the help of Lightning McQueen and Mator’s mother.
Also of note: An older press release claims that Mark Mothersbaugh (”Devo”) composed the music for the short film. Watch the full short film, embedded after the jump.
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James Cameron is a seriously detail-oriented guy. Every major profile of the filmmaker written since Avatar has hit the promo trail has pointed that out, whether via anecdotes about making minor tweaks to technology designs, foliage coloration or the physics of CGI breasts. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Cameron hired a linguist to create an actual alien language for the giant blue Na’vi. The result is as close to a real working language as any newly-minted fake sound system is likely to get. And the guy behind it all hopes that his creation will live on after the film. Read More »
A casting notice for a film called The Blair Witch Remake would seem to suggest, obviously enough, that The Blair Witch Project is being remade, but a close look at the circumstances raises a few questions. The characters listed are Dennis Hither, Michael Adams, Donald Walker and Allison James as opposed to Heather Donahue, Josh Leonard and Mike Williams. What’s more, the female role is apparently not one of the filmmakers this time around, with Dennis listed as the main role. I’ll put the full casting notices after the break.
Another question mark hovers over the use of the Blair Witch name. I’d be very surprised if Lionsgate, who hold the rights to any sequels, would allow another film to pitch up on their turf like that. We know that Myrick and Sanchez have recently been talking about a third Blair Witch film… could this possibly be it?
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