I don't quite know how you'd describe JJ Abrams these days. I'm one of those mass amounts of people that believe he can do no wrong. I seem him as an adult geek that tries to always treat his audience as a very intelligent breed, and I appreciate it.
Even though his beloved Lost officially wraps in a a mere couple weeks, we'll continue to see his name everywhere. He has a new TV series that NBC picked up. It's called Undercovers, and it follows a married couple of retired FBI agents that have to go back to the job. I'm not quite sold yet.
But his other new pet, is a movie called Super 8. There was a teaser that came out during the previews of Iron Man 2 this weekend. It's the same sort of release that he did with Cloverfield a few years back. I've watched it a few times now, and I'm sure we all can't stop thinking about how this looks like it'll be a Cloverfieldsequel. Little is known about Super 8. Abrams won't leak any info and he's just letting the buzz grow and grow. But the one thing that he has stated is that Super 8 is NOT a sequel to Cloverfield. He has not denied it being a prequel though... Start the countdown to 2011.
Back in '08, Kevin Smith had to change the name Zack and Miri Make a Porno to Zack and Miri. He then had to change his posters too. This is all due to the MPAA and their decision that it was too explicit and they thought that the word Porno would not be well received by the public. Ugh. Stupid. It's especially ironic since the Weinstein Company originally approved the project right after they just heard the title of the movie.
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So Smith's next project just had their trailer released. And despite him promoting the film for month's as A Couple of Dicks, it too has gone through the MPAA wringer. Now it's titled Cop Out. It's just not the same. Smith did argue this newest change, bringing up the Inglorious Basterds title that was approved. But due to the purposely misspelled Basterds, it was allowed. So Smith rebutted with A Couple of D.I.C.s (Detectives In Charge) and they still didn't accept it! I think they've seriously got something personal against Smith. Idiots.
To learn more on the MPAA and their unnecessary power, I'd suggest watching This Film is Not Yet Rated. It deals more with the ratings (PG-13, MC-17, R, etc) but still shows the struggle that film makers have.
Two quick movie updates. First is Robin Hood. I think it's safe to say that many people are excited for this movie, not just myself. The Disney version hands down one of my favorite movies ever. Back to the point. A trailer for the new movie was released yesterday. Looks like it's got potential. It looks like it'll be more graphic and dark, which'll be a different way of seeing Robin Hood. He always seems to happy-go-lucky. Thank goodness for Ridley Scott. You are a truly solid director.
But quite possibly better than that, is the new Alice in Wonderland trailer that just came out. They had a shorter teaser released a while ago, but this newly cut full trailer is just more awesome. Quite possibly the best movie of 2010 perhaps?
Movies: They can awesome. Music: This too can be awesome. A music movie?! DOUBLE AWESOME!
I found this trailer this morning and it looks like it'll be a solid, fun movie. It follows around Jack White (White Stripes), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and The Edge (U2) as they meet up for a day to share their music, techniques and stories. I usually find it cool when good musicians get together to collaborate and play together, especially when they're from different generations and genres.
Yaaa! I just saw this this morning!! It sort of reminds me of a James Bond meets Sleepy Hollow. I love this English era. Gah! Whoo! I can only hope it'll be a great Christmas present for all.
OH! And also, the full trailer for the movie '9' was just released! I had posted about this a while back. It looks like it'll be good, not great. But good is still good! Watch it here.
Sam Rockwell is one of those guys that seems like he's in everything these past few years: The Green Mile, Assassination of Jesse James, Frost/Nixon. Despite this, most people don't even know who he is, or even recognize him. But it looks like he's got himself a cool little movie coming out this summer. I think it has some potential. I mean, come on, space can be cool! Right?
I heard about this movie a while ago. I have been unbelievably excited this movie and with its trailer just being released, my anticipation has just grown. I love this era. I love this culture. I love hearing these stories.
It's nice that it's a change from another Capone movie. I'm also excited for the main components of this film. Depp, Crudup, Bale, Ribisi. That's just a talent pool. Plus Michael Mann; I can only hope that he can reach the same levels that he did with Collateral, Ali or Heat. Ugh, yes!! Why can't this be out now?!
One. I've been waiting 2 years for this. I can't wait until it finally gets released:
June 19! Put it in your iCal. Two. Tomorrow (Tuesday), Zack and Miri Make A Porno comes out on DVD.
There's a bunch of deleted and extended scenes, a Zak and Joey documentary, 'Money Shots Shorts' and bloopers, just to name a few things on the 2-disc set. And if you're a fan of Smith, as I most certainly am, you've still got one day to go over to the View Askew-niverse and order an autographed copy.
Despite not receiving a reply to a letter I had written to him a few years back, as well as him not being a fan of Kevin Smith in any way, I still remain a Tim Burton fan. Kevin's take on the incident (watch out for language)
His reliably different Gothic style, where things tend to simply just be black/depressing/death-ish, only sets the stage to have all of his characters pop more from the scene, both visually as well as emotionally. To have such a palette in which no one seems to be able to come near to replicating, speaks directly to how influential he is to cinema in our generation. His hair is also quite possibly the one person's worse then mine.
This simply brings me to a new movie that he's got coming out, "9". This movie was actually made into a feature film, after it had actually been nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2006 Academy Awards (The Moon And The Son: An Imagined Conversation was the winner). Though, beware. Tim is not the director. He is not the writer. He is merely a producer. But with that said, it looks to be that he had some influence in the character models and cinematography.
My life can simply be summed up as random. Random events. Random people. Random stories.
So following what I know, I figured I should just write about that.
I enjoy learning about miscellaneous things, mostly relating to some sort of graphic design, films or architecture.
As is with most others, music and movies are a big part of my life. I can only hope of one day being more involved in either industry.
Awesome.
5/08/2010 10:08:00 PM
mikey b.
