Whenever people ask me why I prefer Twitter to Facebook as my primary social media connection, I’m happy to run off a laundry list of reasons. One of the biggest ones is it gives us direct access to formerly unreachable people, be it politicians, athletes, musicians or, in today’s case, filmmakers. Where else can we directly pose a question to these people and actually get a response?
Marc Webb, the director of 500 Days of Summer and a small upcoming film called The Amazing Spider-Man, is the latest filmmaker to join the ranks of the little blue bird and he’s started things off right, with a cool new image from his July 3rd film. Check it out below. Read More »
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While Beasts of the Southern Wild was the movie everyone was talking about out of Sundance 2012, one of the movies we were really talking about was Josh Radnor‘s Liberal Arts, a joyus, fantastic follow-up to happythankyoumoreplease. The film, co-starring Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney and Zac Efron got picked up by IFC who has just announced a September 14 release date.
Mark it down, it’s a great movie and I cannot wait to see it again. Read my full review here. [Film Stage]
Sony has set a November 1, 2013 release date for their Roland Emmerich-directed action film, White House Down. Written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac) it’s about a “paramilitary take over of the White House,” basically Die Hard meets Air Force One.
Emmerich had previously reserved that date for his sci-fi film Singularity, but with it being put on hold, White House Down will move first, likely to get ahead of a rival project called White House Taken starring Gerald Butler. Emmerich has just begun casting his film. [THR]
Genre and horror fans can do a little celebrating today as the argument regarding the rating of Ridley Scott‘s sci-fi film Prometheus has been settled. Many fans were worried the film would be slapped with a PG-13 to bring in a broader audience and possibly soften the violence and scares.
That is not the case, however, as 20th Century Fox has now confirmed that Prometheus, out in one short month on June 8, will be rated R for “sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language.” Awesome. Read More »
Movie fans love a good movie trivia game and Evan Seitz has created some fun, albiet it quick, ones. Seitz has animated three beautiful, 30 second videos of different, morphing imagery that are all meant to evoke specific movies. There’s one based on colors, another on numbers and a third letters. How many can you name? Check out the videos below. Read More »
UPDATE: The final trailer is now officially online. Watch it here.
Monday morning, Warner Bros. launched a new viral campaign for Christopher Nolan‘s highly anticipated July 20 release, The Dark Knight Rises. Fans were urged to go to different locations to find a specific piece of graffiti which would then unlock frames from the new trailer, confirmed to be playing with The Avengers this weekend.
Well, the Internet is vast and fast and one fan has already spliced together the majority of the frames found into one GIF that basically shows the entire trailer. It’s lo-res, there’s no sound, and very small but it should be a nice bridge until the trailer comes online in the next few days. Read More »
This one is going to be short and sweet. After the jump you can link to Pale Designs, the blog of Jess Fong who has created a gorgeous Pixar themed wallpaper for your iPhone home screen. Check it out below. Read More »
There’s a special place in geekdom for fans who have the patience and skill to make Lego versions of their favorite movies. When a fan makes a real life version of a motorcycle or a working lightsaber, that’s obviously cool and impressive. But doing something similar in Lego feels so much more difficult. Most of the time there are no blueprints, no instructions, just your memory of the movie, knowledge of what Lego components are available and then the ability to not only find them all, but make them look exactly like what they’re doubling. It’s remarkable.
And this set might be the best one yet.
After the jump, check out a bunch of images of Lego renditions of scenes and ships from Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read More »
