The Guardian has an article which reveals some more information about the upcoming Bond film, Casino Royale. The article states:
Martin Campbell, who will direct Casino Royale, reveals that freshly-minted sixth 007 Daniel Craig will fall in love with a female agent called Vesper Lynd in Bond instalment number 21.
“She’s …
For anyone who doesn’t know, Defective Yeti regularly collects some of the best bad movie reviews in a section called The Bad Review Revue. Normally I’m not a fan of movie criticism, just because I don’t think that someone who sits about and watches movies without ever having tried …
Kottke pointed me in the direction of an interesting article on the technical process behind the creation of The Corpse Bride. What’s astonishing is they’re using hardware and software that is not only available to the average Joe, but affordable too.
They used Canon EOS-1D Mark II still cameras (this …
The Guardian has an interesting article that investigates a quote on the movie posters for Guy Ritchie’s Revolver, a film that seems to have been universally hammered.
The quote, apparently, is from The Sun (Online) and states Revolver is “Brilliant … Guy Ritchie back to his best!” James Silver, author …
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I’m a big fan of the books by Douglas Adams but didn’t rush out to the cinema to see this because it seemed to be getting tepid reviews. I can now see why. Don’t get me wrong, I think the film was okay, but that was …
You may have heard that Aardman Animations, makers of Wallace and Gromit, recently suffered a fire at their warehouse which has destroyed the entire archive of figures and props used in all their previous films including both Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, but also covering earlier works like Morph …
Ian Failes from vfxblog.com dropped me an email regarding an article he has about the effects on the recently released Pride and Prejudice (through a Keira Knightley site I have). Now, you may be thinking ‘it’s a period drama, why the hell did they need effects on it?’ …
It has been announced that the new James Bond will be relative unknown Daniel Craig who’s biggest role to date was his portrayal of a smart drug dealer in Layer Cake, the gangster film directed by Matthew Vaughn.
Craig has had roles in the original Tomb Raider, Road to Perdition, …
Howl’s Moving Castle is the latest work by master animator Hayao Miyazaki, the man behind the oscar winning Spirited Away as well as many other films and TV series. It tells the story of Sophie, a normal girl who works in her mother’s hat shop, who gets mixed up …
A few days back I posted some links to screenwriting blogs and noted that there seemed to be very few UK ones. Danny Stack left a comment pointing me in the direction of his blog and I popped over to have a look. It was good stuff, a …
At last, the film industry has come out to say that, despite all the media coverage, things at the box office aren’t all that bad and that while people have been predicting the end of the cinema, actually, it might have just been bad movies after all.
A couple of quotes …
Considering how excited I was about Sin City it’s a little odd that I didn’t manage to see it at the cinema and only got around to it when it came out on DVD. I think I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t be all that it was …
The movie version of the Halo computer game series landed another talent to add to the production crew in the form of Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jackson and his team will produce the movie and provide special effects through WETA Workshop, their special …
Another rundown of the trailers for new movies that caught my eye.
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Jason Biggs (American Pie) stars as an army recruit bound for Hawaii who gets dumped on a base that doesn’t officially exist in Greenland. His slightly nutty CO won’t let him transfer out so he’s stuck on …
