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Page 2: Blu-Ray, Pathology, Troll, Gotham Knight, Jason Reitman, Kevin Smith, WALL-E, Baghead, and More

Posted By Peter Sciretta On April 13, 2008 @ 2:08 pm In Page 2 | 3 Comments

There has been so much news in the last few days that we just haven’t been able to get to all of it. Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!

Blockbuster had finally announced that they will be rolling out Blu-ray in its 4,000 stores in the US and Canada, after a successful trial run in 1,700 outlets. In other news, Netflix is still better. [[1] gizmodo]

[2] FilmSchoolRejects and [3] Collider both have exclusive images from Pathology.

Our friend Devin Faraci at [4] CHUD has a great rebuttal to our own [5] Hunter Stephenson’s drunken There Will Be Blood rant.
John C Buechler’s Troll remake is set to begin shooting in Vancouver, Canada; Torino, Italy and China starting on June 30th. [[6] Bloody-Disgusting]

[7] Enter for a chance to win a Pro-Poker Prize Pack in a contest to promote the upcoming film The Deal, which hits theaters on April 25th.

[8] KungFuRodeo has new images from the The Dark Knight animatrix-like collection Batman: Gotham Knight.

Jason Reitman and Kevin Smith have decided to blog for the NHL. Wait, do people still watch hockey? [[9] yahoo]

[10] Collider has a new poster-like image from Pixar’s WALL-E. Appears to be a cover to a book or something, but still worth checking out.

Baghead, The Duplass Brothers’ follow-up to The Puffy Chair, had big buzz at the Sundance Film Festival this year and was quickly snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics. Sony has apparently decided to drop the title. I assume they are doing this because “Baghead” would have been too marketable, and Sony Pictures Classics doesn’t want to make money. [[11] cinematical]

Kenny Baker, the 72-year-old actor who played R2-D2 in Star Wars is in a Manchester hospital after suffering a severe asthma attack. We hope he gets better soon. [[12] telegraph]

Our friends at [13] Latino Review have a script review of Tony Gilroy’s next film Duplicity.

And you thought New Line’s Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D was going to be bad… The Asylum, the direct-to-dvd studioknown for producing cheap mockbusters of hot hollywood releases (Snakes on a Train…etc) has released [14] the first photo from their upcoming film, Journey to the Center of the Earth, which hits store shelves on July 1st.


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URLs in this post:
[1] gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/379164/blockbuster-gets-with-the-program-rolls-out-blu+ray-nationwide
[2] FilmSchoolRejects: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/exclusive-six-wicked-new-images-from-pathology.php
[3] Collider: http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/7582/tcid/1
[4] CHUD: http://chud.com/articles/articles/14337/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-SLASHFILM-BLAZES-UP-A-FEUD-WITH-CHU
D/Page1.html

[5] Hunter Stephenson’s drunken There Will Be Blood rant: http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/10/this-is-absolute-bullshit-nations-critics-now-calling-there-will
-be-blood-best-movie-ever/

[6] Bloody-Disgusting: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/11908
[7] Enter for a chance to win a Pro-Poker Prize Pack: http://n4403ad.doubleclick.net/jump/gn.1testwebsite.com/redirect;adid=198322734;sect=redirect;sz=1x1
;ord=[timestamp]

[8] KungFuRodeo: http://www.kungfurodeo.com/kfr_gallery/?level=album&id=28
[9] yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080409/ap_en_mo/celebrity_hockey_blogs
[10] Collider: http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp?aid=7571&tcid=1
[11] cinematical: http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/10/baghead-title-gets-left-in-the-dark/
[12] telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/10/bbr2d2110.xml
[13] Latino Review: http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=77
[14] the first photo: http://www.theasylum.cc/images/journeypic1.jpg