Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 25.02.2010

Olli 26.02.2010 //

600-kiloinen kierrätysmetallista tehty alien-kuningattaren patsas – maksaa vaivaiset 6000 dollaria!
Mitäs Hollywood-agentuurit oikeastaan tekevätkään? – while movie studios slash costs, television is booming, creating big opportunities for the agencies and their clients. WME2, which put together shows such as Lost, packaged more than half of the 80 scripted drama and comedy pilots commissioned this year by America’s TV networks. CAA, meanwhile, helped its client Simon Cowell negotiate the transfer of his UK show The X Factor to the US . ICM has a growing TV business, acting for, among others, Shonda Rhimes, producer of network hit Grey’s Anatomy, and David Shore, who created House MD, which has topped ratings in Europe and the US. UTA, which put together acclaimed shows for HBO, such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, recently scored again with the vampire series True Blood.
18 upcoming scifi TV shows – osa vasta kehitteillä, osalle näytetty vihreää valoa pilottia varten
The making of Old Spice's commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like – unfriggingbelievable – videohaastateltavat selittää, että melkein koko homma on itse asiassa yhdellä otolla kuvattua oikeaa matskua

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 23.01.2010 – 24.01.2010

Olli 23.01.2010 //

Videoessee: THX 1138 ja halvalla hyvännäköistä scifiä –
Hood 2 Hood is a five-hour recon mission into the worst ghettos in America – Like gangsta rappers before them, the next crop of 'hood filmmakers lets the thugs provide color commentary in their own words. What seemed liked boastful hyperbole when fictionalized behind recording studio walls takes on a disarming vérité without the soundtrack. The storytellers are driven by the same motivation — proving that their block is the hardest, and that they are the hardest on that block.
Joko Toolin nokkamiehestä JMK:sta on tullut viinintekijä tai tämä on taas yksi omituinen pila – Blood Into Wine -traileri

Olli 20.12.2009 //

Olli 19.12.2009 //

Montage of magic "photo enhancement" in cop shows and movies –
How would space combat actually go? – The marauding space fleets are going to be governed by orbit dynamics – not just of their own ships in orbit around planets and suns, but those planets' orbits.
Name That Movie – Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars (via VSL)

Olli 9.11.2009 //

Mathematicians find the formula for a hit film sequel (The Observer) – The research, which will be published in the Journal of Marketing this month, examined data from all 101 movie sequels released in North American theatres between 1998 and 2006 and a matched subsample of stand-alone films with similar characteristics. According to the formula, upcoming sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon should be expected to return $34m more for the producers in its US run than a comparable vampire/ teen romance movie with the same characteristics that is not a sequel.
Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles (io9) – Bat-autoja, Akira-prätkä, Mad Max -rasseja, KITT, DeLorean jne.
Fight Clubista on 10 vuotta, blu-ray tulossa Jenkeissä (NY Times) – Not only has “Fight Club” performed exceptionally well on DVD — it has sold more than six million copies on DVD and video, and is being issued in a 10th anniversary Blu-ray edition on Nov. 17 — but it has also become a kind of cultural mother lode.
Charlie Brooker arvioi The Execution of Gary Glitter -dokudraaman – It's illegal to laugh at this, see; it's not a comedy show, but "an intelligent and thought-provoking examination of the issue" which "confronts viewers with the possible consequences of capital punishment in the UK". There's going to be an online debate afterwards and everything, which should help clear up all our thoughts about the death penalty.