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CCI: Whedon Confirms He's Directing "Avengers" - Comic Book Resources http://goo.gl/fb/bfcQK
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July 22 2010, 5:40pm | Comments »
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CCI: Whedon Confirms He's Directing "Avengers"
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27373
During his and JJ Abrams' Comic-Con panel, Joss Whedon confirmed for the audience that he is indeed directing Marvel's upcoming "Avengers" film. SPINOFF has the details.
July 22 2010, 5:06pm | Comments »
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Really looking forward to this one. TV Review – Steven Moffat’s Sherlock: A Study in Pink… http://goo.gl/fb/Kf2MJ
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July 22 2010, 3:52pm | Comments »
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Eoghann Irving: TV Review – Steven Moffat’s Sherlock: A Study in Pink
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Really looking forward to this one. - Eoghann Irving
July 22 2010, 3:51pm | Comments »
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TV Review – Steven Moffat’s Sherlock: A Study in Pink
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Really looking forward to this one.
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have together re-created Sherlock Holmes for a new BBC/PBS co-produced TV series called, simply, Sherlock. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, Martin Freeman as his associate Dr. Watson and Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade. Should other key figures from the stories up… well, it’s not for me to spoil that now. Let’s just say there’s a cameo or two. The big idea this time is that this is Holmes is living in the present day, free of any of the period trappings and tropes that seem to have so distracted other tellers of these tales. I’m sure, thought, that we’ve met so many versions of Holmes and we know him so well that it’s not the big idea this show is ultimately going to stand or fall on. It’s the small ones. Thankfully, most of the small ideas are wonderful. On paper, this is as good a retelling of Sherlock Holmes as I would reasonably expect. It’s tightly plotted – of course it is, this is Moffat doing Conan Doyle – and full of zippy dialogue that deftly shades the characters even as it’s whipping up laughs. Crucially, the script also manages to plant the leaps of deduction on the right side of implausible while still deep into the improbable. There are some disappointments, many of them in the look of the thing. This Holmes absolutely loves mobile phones and text messaging. In several sequences the screen is covered in subtitle-style text showing us the messages being sent or received. Indeed, in the first instance we see several phones all receiving the same message at the same time, the legend “Wrong!” rising from each in unison. This might be a pretty economical way of avoiding endless cut-aways to cellphone screens, but it is inherently distancing and will, I think, date rather badly. Score one against director Paul McGuigan. There’s a lot of artificially defocussed images too, where part of the screen has been fed through a post production filter. At best this is a little off-putting, at worst it is ugly and quite irritating. See also: some curiously forced compositions (see Watson’s therapist before the opening titles for a particularly stressed example) and a few quick-cut deduction sequences that just seem silly. It’s hard to visualise Holmes’ brilliance and rat-a-tat thought processes. So hard, in fact, that I’d advise directors never to even try. It’s in his head, so leave it there where it belongs. If you show us the clues that Holmes sees and the outcome of his deductions, we’ll both keep up and remain enthralled. Thoughts can’t be photographed, they can only be implied through editing, actions and dialogue. Where this show comes unstuck is in trying to go beyond implication into some kind of expressionistic realisation. We’re served up the workings of subtle mind, disappointingly rendered without subtlety. Understandably, many of the plot points in A Study in Pink are the same as in Conan Doyle’s first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet but the overall shape is different in many important respects. Moffat is clearly very interested in setting up a larger narrative arc than this one story can contain, weaving in set-up and hints throughout. He’s aided in this by having had the whole Holmes pantehon completed and laid out for him before he even began, but nonetheless, he’s managed to tell both a self contained story and allude to a larger one quite superbly. Maybe it’s even more impressive, seeing as this is, of sorts, an origin story too. As we begin, Dr. Watson has yet to meet Holmes, and in the very last seconds it is stressed that they are now a team and that, from here on out, we’re properly up and running. Sensibly, Watson is our protagonist throughout, though the structure is adroitly cheated a little here and there to allow focus on Holmes instead when it most counts. We do have another modern Holmes on TV, if more loosely adapted, in the form of Gregory House MD. The creators of his show decided to foreground the character’s drug problems while Moffat and Gatiss have, at least thus far, allowed it to remain almost entirely hidden – present, but only just. The character’s other addictions, to unusual mysteries and the thrill of the chase, are as prominent and openly acknowledged here as they are in the medical show. As yet, this Holmes has only threatened to play the violin and has yet to pick it up. As with the best of mysteries, the clues are laid out very openly, even brazenly. If I were to draw your attention to them, however, I’d be spoiling the fun. To get the best out of this one, record it and start again at the beginning when it’s all over and you’ll see that, even in the opening scenes, key clues drift by almost invisibly. Familiarity with A Study in Scarlet will help you solve the mystery to a very large degree, but the meanings of some very famous bits and pieces have been shifted hugely. There’s two more feature length episodes to come in this series, neither of them written by Moffat. I’m curious to see how Stephen Thompson’s reinvention of The Adventure of the Dancing Men plays out next week, before we finish with an episode written by co-creator Mark Gatiss. The middle episode has been directed by Dr. Who veteran Euros Lyn, and it remains to be seen if he’s more restrained than Paul McGuigan. A Study in Pink airs on BBC One in the UK this Sunday at 9pm; the US premiere is set for October 24th. You may wish to try and stay spoiler free.
July 22 2010, 3:51pm | Comments »
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Pixar… The Muppets… What?!?!?! - Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors http://goo.gl/fb/XzFI4
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July 22 2010, 3:46pm | Comments »
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Karl Urban is the New Judge Dredd?
http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/07/22/karl-urban-is-the-new-judge-dredd/
I've had high hopes for the upcoming Judge Dredd reboot ever since it was announced that frequent Danny Boyle collaborator Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) would be writing the script. I don't have quite as much faith in director Pete Travis (Vantage Point), but I think there's still a very good chance this will be an improvement on the original film. However, the most important question still has yet to be answered, and that is, who will play Judge Dredd? Sylvester Stallone had his flaws, but at least he made an imposing presence on screen. Fortunately, it looks like the actor they have in mind to replace him is a solid choice: Karl Urban.
Bleeding Cool recently caught wind that Karl Urban is the man who will be offered the lead role in the new movie, and although there is no guarantee that he will accept, I think we can all agree that it would be a great fit. Urban has essentially built a career on mid-range action/genre movies like The Chronicles of Riddick, Doom and Pathfinder, but he is now known to mainstream audiences everywhere as Dr. Leonard McCoy in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. He also played Eomer in The Lord of the Rings movies, and has some acting ability to back up his physical size. Do you approve of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd? Here's to hoping we hear more about this project coming out of Comic-Con this weekend.
July 22 2010, 12:18pm | Comments »
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Karl Urban is the New Judge Dredd? - Film Junk http://goo.gl/fb/WjsWJ
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July 22 2010, 12:18pm | Comments »
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White House apology over sacking - BBC News - Home http://goo.gl/fb/Bxn6O
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July 22 2010, 10:16am | Comments »
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White House apology over sacking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10726561
The White House has apologised to a black US official fired after a video appeared to show her making racially charged remarks about a white farmer.
July 22 2010, 4:21am | Comments »
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Pixar… The Muppets… What?!?!?!
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If you’ve got a problem with phantom characterisation and dangling plotlines, who ya gonna call? Having already stepped in to give feedback on Tron Legacy, and by all accounts punch up a couple of the film’s key emotional beats significantly, the top dogs at Pixar have been put into action on Jason Segel and James Bobin’s upcoming Muppet movie. It’s been Hollywood Reported that on Wednesday, members of the creative crew of the Muppet picture were at Pixar’s Emeryville campus where they took part in a table read and feedback session with Pixar’s best and brightest. The consultation panel is listed as including: John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Michael Arndt, Bob Peterson and president Ed Catmull but the story then says: Docter is a particularly avid Muppets fan, so he almost certainly was one of the attendees He was there/he was “almost certainly” there. The reporter doesn’t appear too sure on precisely who was at the session. They didn’t list Brain Trustee Lee Unkrich, which makes sense as he’s been here in the UK promoting Toy Story 3. Then, in terms of naming the visitors, they’re pretty darn sure Segel was there, but not so committed to who was with him: Muppets director James Bobin and producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman were likely in the room along with Segel. They’re right, that is likely. But is it true? I wouldn’t be surprised if these Pixar consultation meetings don’t go down in legend, and are recounted decades from now in exaggerated, highly dramatic revisions. Everybody credits Rich Ross, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and Sean Bailey, the studio’s head of production, with encouraging this kind of talent pooling. One has to wonder why nobody else had thought of it. For the record, I thought the script for this Muppet picture was pretty good as it was. I’d be very surprised if the film doesn’t turn out great – especially now.
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July 22 2010, 1:14am | Comments »
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You should have seen the one that got away... whale lands on couple's yacht - BBC News - Home http://goo.gl/fb/lXpd5
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July 21 2010, 2:37pm | Comments »
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You should have seen the one that got away... whale lands on couple's yacht
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10712323
A couple sailing off South Africa describe their lucky escape when a 10m (33ft) whale lands on their yacht.
July 21 2010, 7:46am | Comments »
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H.G. Wells short story contest bans science fiction, and gets no entries [Perversity] - io9 http://goo.gl/fb/rLgJh
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July 20 2010, 6:38pm | Comments »
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Murray still says Ghostbusters 3 isn't happening - Filmstalker http://goo.gl/fb/wYZZP
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July 20 2010, 11:06am | Comments »
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Murray still says Ghostbusters 3 isn't happening
http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2010/07/murray_still_says_ghostbusters.html
Bill Murray is still talking about Ghostbusters 3 and it's not in the positive either, he's continuing to talk about how it's just not going to happen this time around, and it's not down to him it seems.
He's clearly saying that it was the poor performance of Year One which ended the idea of the scripting and therefore Ghostbusters 3, and the overall story is still no third film. ...Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.
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July 20 2010, 9:55am | Comments »