Big 6: OH BROTHER soundtrack at 10, more
‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack grows with age A decade later, the “O Brother” soundtrack ranks as one of the 200 bestselling albums of all time, according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America. It’s been certified platinum eight times over for sales of more than 8 million copies. Read the full LA Times article Streaming Video’s Emerging Bounty The shelves of the two leading services, Netflix Instant and Hulu Plus, seem to be full of films you’ve never heard of, arranged in no particular order. The latest hits haven’t arrived yet, and there’s no one around to help you out except for the digital equivalent of the surly, underpaid clerk: those “recommended for you” algorithms that pretend to know your taste but come up with the oddest suggestions imaginable. Read the full NY Times article Pop-up cinemas: top...
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Big 6: IRON MAN 3, Remembering 1982, more
‘Iron Man 3′ and Robert Downey Jr. start Shane Black era “My sense of it is that we need to leave it all on the field — whatever that means in the end,” Downey said of the May 2013 film. “You can pick several different points of departure for that.” Read the full LA Times article With Conan and The Thing back at the cinema it’s like 1982 all over again In 1982 there was an unprecedented investment in the fantastic. Subjects that would previously have been confined to B-movies, to exploitation flicks, to drive-in fodder became the stock-in-trade of the mainstream. It was a year that changed Hollywood, a year that the movies have never quite recovered from. Read the full UK Guardian article What Spooks the Masters of Horror? JAMES GUNN, director of Slither: I saw Henry: Portrait...
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Superhero film set pics: You’re f*cking with the magic
There’s a little story back from the early days of Google. The Google guys go to visit Viacom, and they show the then-head of the media conglomerate how the Google ad model worked–with trackable and measurable analytics. The Viacom executive, who had made his reputation on traditional blind TV ad buys, looked at the Google ad model and said, “You’re f*cking with the magic.” The internet has been f*cking with the magic for years now. I’m writing this on a blog, for example. And there are a lot of blogs, aren’t there? As someone who has spent the last 10 years of his life following movies online and writing about them, I’ve seen the community grow. But I’ve never seen anything like the excessive coverage of The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, and Man of Steel. I understand that...
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David Lynch album coming Nov. 8
Because your life is not complete without a David Lynch transmedia experience, the master filmmaker is making his solo debut as a music artist this fall. Lynch’s album, Crazy Clown Time, will hit stores on Nov. 8 and includes 14 tracks: “Pinky’s Dream” “Good Day Today” “So Glad” “Noah’s Ark” “Football Game” “I Know” “Strange and Unproductive Thinking” “The Night Bell With Lightning” “Stone’s Gone Up” “Crazy Clown Time” “These Are My Friends” “Speed Roadster” “Movin’ On” “She Rise Up” Musical collaboration has always been a major part of any Lynch project, from Badalamenti’s Shostakovich-inspired score for Blue Velvet to the Reznor-produced soundtrack to The Lost Highway. Here’s what Lynch had to say about this album: “The love of experimenting with sound and music is what’s driving this boat,” explained the self-taught ‘non-musician’. “All of the songs on the album started...
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Why AMC fired Darabont from THE WALKING DEAD…
In the good ol’ days, Hollywood kept its fights behind the scenes. We’d wait a few years, maybe decades, for a good storyteller to come along and really put the pieces together. Mark Harris’s Pictures at a Revolution and Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures are just two recent examples. Those days are long over, of course. But even by today’s standards, AMC’s battles with the creators and studios behind Mad Men and Breaking Bad were highly-publicized. (Nobody in Hollywood likes a winner, especially a creative upstart like AMC.) Nothing, however, disrupted the basic cable network’s public reputation like its recent falling out with Frank Darabont over The Walking Dead. There’s been a lot of talk about why Darabont and AMC parted ways. I’ve mentioned to people that Darabont, a writer who directs only every few years, might not have made the transition to the...
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First Look: A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS
If you’re going to leave the White House, you have to have a very good reason to do it. And what better reason is there than to make a 3D Christmas/stoner flick. Kal Penn returned from Washington, D.C., in 2010 to reprise his role as Kumar in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, with John Cho (Harold) and Neil Patrick Harris (Neil Patrick Harris) coming back as well. Here’s the first still from the film, courtesy of The Playlist and Yahoo! Movies: /Film also had this synopsis: After years of growing apart, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold’s house ends with the “high grade” contents...
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