Judd Apatow, Sacha Cohen, Will Ferrell teaming up doing a comedy Sherlock Holmes…
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fascinating
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
An absolutely fascinating graphic produced by the NY Times….
Who would have thought National Treasure would be that eclipsing. There was a piece on BBC regarding how producers and executives in the film industry recognize that they need to put out “popular” projects (eye-candy, popcorn matinées, etc) to support the truly “great” films that they [...]
wonderful world of pixar
Monday, December 10th, 2007
The more obvious ones I got, but the sheer expanse of tie-ins to other projects is really remarkable! Additionally, I’m very excited for the WALL-E movie… I’m hoping it continue the quality production and story that Ratatouille ushered in. The crew they have going there and the consistency of the story telling as [...]
writers on strike… what to do?
Monday, November 12th, 2007
You know what this means right? More Survivor, American Idol, Amazing Race… Reality TV! [Shudder] Its going to be bad folks. In addition, the contracts for Director’s Guild and Actor’s Guild are due up in June! The hope is that the work that goes into the WGA contract can be [...]
lessons from pirates
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Old link, but I’m still trying to catch up…
Mark hit the nail on the head here… Though I think the blame is shared between the retailers and the content owners, this is more to do with retailers than the latter. But there is a new world emerging… Streaming Video. And I’m not [...]
Scotty down Pegg[ed]
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
“She can’t take much more captain! I’m giving her all she’s got! We need to get to the Winchester!”
From the “that suddenly improved the stakes” department comes news that JJ Abrams remake of Star Trek picked up Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shawn of the Dead) to play Scotty! Yes, they are going back [...]
pale blue dot
Monday, June 18th, 2007
When I was about 9 or so, my grandmother gave me an old hardback edition of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. That was really the start of my interest in space in general and my love of theoretical literature from the likes of Graham Greene and Stephen Hawkins. Its pretty woefully out of date [...]