Guillermo del Toro adds co-directing a stop motion Pinocchio to his unending list of products in development. Cinema Blend The long-gestating Chaplin musical is finally coming to Broadway this fall. Slow and steady wins the race? I hope so. Broadway World Shock Till You Drop has a huge write-up of visiting the set of ParaNorman. Im seething with jealousy. I want to visit the set of a stop motion horror movie for kids. Shock Till You Drop Hitchcock may have disliked actors, but he sure had a way with kids...
Im doing a ton of pre-writing today to get me through the weekend and Monday. I go from rehearsal to a big event in NYC to a 6AM train to DC tomorrow morning to a 3PM dress rehearsal on Monday afternoon. As such, Ill be updating Sketchy Details again on Tuesday.
Joss Whedon thanks his fans for sticking with him in a way only Joss Whedon could. Cinema Blend Film Crit Hulk guest writes for The New Yorker with a personal evaluation of Mark Ruffalos interpretation of him in The Avengers. The New Yorker Update: James Cameron wants to make all the Avatars and maybe Battle Angel Alita. SlashFilm Aussie horror The Loved Ones is coming to America. 24FramesPerSecond The Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers act out with all the maturity of a Kindergarten student told to...
Maurice Sendak passed away today at 83. He wrote great little childrens books and took no guff from nobody. Pajiba I used to try to build elaborate domino displays. When I finally got my first one to workfull dining room table, ramps to the chairs and floorI realized I did not have the patience to commit so much time to such a fleeting art form. Thank goodness the creator of this elaborate Nintendo tribute didnt come to the same realization. Kotaku Apparently, Cabin in the Woods requires a companion book...
Well, there goes that Battle Angel Alita movie. James Cameron only wants to do Avatars from now on. Cinema Blend Spike Lees Oldboy remake is going to keep the octopus scene and the hammer fight. Now if he could just keep the original actors, screenplay, sets, costumes, sound, score, effects, and direction and just opt to do a US release of the original, wed be all set. IndieWire io9 imagines what would have happened had Edward Gorey illustrated H.P. Lovecraft. io9 An oldie but a goody. How to Use an Apos...
Its so hard to retell a story that has been told so many times before. In the case of Pariah, its almost unfair to say that its just a coming out story. Yet describing it as a coming of age story where a bright teenage girl begins to explore her real identity despite the consequences is just as short-sighted. Theyre both accurate descriptions of the film. I just think that labeling Pariah as this or that is a great disservice to a beautiful film. Writer/director Dee Rees adapts her own short Pariah into ...
Is this what Joss Whedon is like when he gets to control everything on his productions? If so, I love this side of him. The Avengers could have easily been a catastrophe. Instead, under his steady hand, it might actually be the superhero movie that plays the most like a living comic book. Loki has returned to Earth to steal The Tesseracta glowing blue cube of pure energyfrom S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to take over the world. The S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives convince the members of the disbanded Avengers projec...
Clearly number 11 on this list of the 10 worst romantic subplots in comic books is Spider-Mans torrid love affair with his emo haircut in Spider-Man 3. Number 12 is the original Spider-rape/suicide ending of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. io9 Studies about the benefits of video games arent new. This one is just phrased funny. Shooting virtual people makes you more attentive. Kotaku Alfred Hitchcock was offered the first James Bond film by Ian Fleming himself. Letters of Note Felicia Day or kitties? Kitti...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot is a series of posts over at The Film Experience. Nathaniel programs a series of films to watch each week and choose your favorite still from. This week centers on Pariah and should really bring about a lot of discussion. Back when I made my Top 10 Films of 2011 list, I specifically mentioned that I had to exclude Pariah because I hadnt seen it. Now I have and I can gladly report that it would easily have made the list. Top half, even. Im enamored of it. A big reason for the su...
Have you heard about micro-celebrity? Its a new buzz term that means nothing. Anyone who has a couple hundred followers online is a micro-celebrity. Big whoop. Now how do you monetize it for real? Pajiba Looks like Jonathan Franzen doesnt get to have another meltdown about the appropriation of The Corrections. HBO pulls the plug on the TV adaptation. IndieWire Have a screenplay or documentary in the can and dont know what to do with it? Why not submit it by Friday to Independent Film Week? Independent Fi...
