Alien squid hijacks movie trailer – Although the story itself has nothing to do with aliens (and unfortunately no extraterrestrials actually appear in the film), it happens to be set in Hakodate, which is home to an unconventional tourism campaign involving giant robots that defend the city against alien cephalopods seeking revenge on a population that eats too much squid. This tourism campaign has now wrapped its tentacles around the film.
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary – Chinatown turns 35 this year, and with it, a new, deluxe DVD of the film hits shelves October 6 from Paramount Home Video, remastered in high-definition, and featuring a commentary track with Towne and director/fan David Fincher. Robert Towne sat down over cigars in his study recently to share a few memories of how his new wave detective story was created.
Hollywoodin Production Coden tarina – The story of the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 begins in 1929, with a group of Catholic clergy and lay Catholics from Chicago coming together in the conviction that movies were undermining the moral structure of the nation. – It is both an idealistic document and a prescription for bad art in an authoritarian, patriarchal culture. As such, it might be the purest expression of the frightened traditionalist spirit than we have ever had in America.
Beeswax-traileri – mumblecorea, mutta täähän näyttää aika sympaattiselta
Virtual TV Academy – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation today launched its Virtual Academy, an information destination website that gives users exclusive access to taped "state of the art" discussions with leading entertainment industry professionals.
NYTimesissä kirjoitetaan Hollywoodin tärkeimmästä uutismediasta eli Nikki Finkestä – In the three years since she started Deadline Hollywood Daily, a daily blog about the entertainment business, her combination of old-school skills — she is a relentless reporter — and new-media immediacy has made her a must-click look into the ragingly insecure id of Hollywood.
Advertising Mad Men – Schupack’s job, or part of it, is to advertise a show about advertising. With the third season just weeks away, she and her staff were putting the finishing touches on a local blitz they call “New York’s Gone Mad.”
Joss & Co. reveal plans for a Dr. Horrible sequel: Maybe a movie? – We want to do the product the same way we did the first one, which is out of our hearts, and then go to people [and say], 'OK, if you're interested in this, this is what it is.' Besides, it could be something theatrical. It could be something on the Internet again, where it's done on the fly and it all comes from us. We don't know how we want that to be. The best thing to do is to write it. Then we can start deciding a business model based on the script.
How Tony Gilroy surprises jaded moviegoers (New Yorker) – Tony Gilroy is best known as a writer of movie thrillers. The screenwriter William Goldman says of him, “Right now, he is as good as the game.” “Duplicity” will be the eleventh of his movies to be produced in little more than a decade. Among them are “Dolores Claiborne” (1995), “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997), and the three movies in the Jason Bourne series (2002, 2004, and 2007). One of Gilroy’s specialties is the potent, reflective, and often beleaguered action hero, a man with, as he says, “an incredible toolbox of skills that he has let rust.” In 2007, “Michael Clayton,” which he wrote and directed, received seven Academy Award nominations, including one for his screenplay and another for his direction.