Category: Daily Links

Jeff Jarvis on the PR company for the new Oliver Stone film ‘World Trade Center’ (bizarrely, they are the same folks who “swiftboated” John Kerry in the 2004 US election)

Now is this a good or bad thing?

The Movie Blog reports that Heath Ledger will be The Joker in the forthcoming Batman sequel

The incredible rise of YouTube continues as web traffic to the video-sharing site grew 75% just in the week ending July 16, from 7.3 million to 12.8 million unique visitors.

The LA Times on the doom and gloom sweeping Hollywood despite the success of Pirates 2 and The Da Vinci Code

Kevin Smith takes issue with critc Joel Siegel who loudly walked out of a press screening for Clerks 2

David Putney on the highs and lows of ‘Star Wars’

The Cultural Gutter with a wise list of movie cliches

The new Venom flavoured Spider-Man 3 poster…

Interesting Blade Runner fansite

If you haven’t seen writer-director Kevin Smith talk about his (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to write a script for Superman then it is very funny tale of Hollywood madness and confusion. (Its 20 minutes long but stick with it)

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Head on Flickr

This wasn’t perhaps the best way of getting fans excited about the new film.

A flash presentation from the NY Times looking at Kevin Smith and his work (link via Digg)

An interesting Flickr group consisting of crappy bootleg DVD covers.

The AV Club with the 15 types of DVD commentator… (link via Movie City News)

Very surreal …but it did make me laugh out loud.

The first time someone has shot a film on a phone?

Another reason why The Simpsons movie will be a monster hit next year.

Bond DVD collection are restored using 600 (!) Power Mac G5s

Jack Black talks to USA Today about ‘Nacho Libre’ – his new comedy directed by the makers of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’

Francis Ford Coppola blogs on the site of his new film ‘Youth Without Youth’

The trailer for the next Pixar film (the one after the upcoming ‘Cars’)

Various horror directors describe their favourite scary movies (link via Movie City News)

Erik Lundegaard of MSNBC on how the Internet has been portrayed on film

Buisness Week on how how Hollywood studios might learn from the porno industry

It could be a bad film but for now the teaser poster for ‘Transformers’ is actually quite effective.

A truly surreal Star Wars inspired performance by Gnarls Barkley at the MTV Movie Awards.

Some intertesting hi-res set photos from the New York set of Spiderman 3 (link via AICN)

Jeff Wells has seen Superman Returns and appears to have liked it a lot.

The writer, director and actor from ‘Garden State’ and ‘Scrubs’ has just launched his a new blog.

The Omen opens and Fox still can resist that 666 number, even putting it into their opening day figure…

An interesting article on the actor who played the German victim in United 93. For the record I thought the article by John Harris on the Comment is Free blog was way off the mark.

The Reeler on an amusing evening with the Brothers Weinstein.

Harry Knowles at AICN takes a peek at Martin Scorcese’s latest film.

Nikki Finke on the remarkable tracking numbers for Pirates 2. It may be people at Disney talking the film up but this could well turn out to be the biggest film of the summer if Superman Returns doesn’t do as well as expected.

Bruce Willis is doing an interview (it looks like Cannes) and he gets hit by a wave.

Some excellent set pics of Spider-Man 3 from AICN readers.

Google venture into Apple Trailers territory with their new trailers section.

An interesting piece on why someone DIDN’T become a film critic. Or “movie reviewer”.

A site with the latest horror news

A sad day for fans of Paul Gleason. His most memorable two roles were as the principal in ‘The Breakfast Club’ and as Clarence Beaks in ‘Trading Places’.

It looks like Spider-Man 3 is filming in New York this weekend and AICN has some set photos.

Casablanca gets the Angry Alien treatment

This one is definitely going to get the fans excited even though it uses some of the footage from the previous trailers.

The Da Vinci Code makes a ton of money worldiwde on its opening weekend but will it nosedive next week when people realise how dull it is?

AICN on the latest X-Men film…

Trailer for the film of Eric Schlosser’s book about fast food. Apparently its a YouTube exclusive…

Unusual competition this. RES Magazine are asking people to submit the best remix of the trailer for the upcoming Philip K Dick adaptation ‘A Scanner Darkly’. (Link via Boing Boing)

The latest reviews for today’s big release (the average score at the time of writing was a generous 51)

The presence of a Zoolander poster in the trailer for ‘World Trade Center’

Manohla Dargis of the NY Times on the political dimension to some of the films at Cannes

Engadget with some ideas on how YouTube can capitalise on its success.

The latest trailer for ‘World Trade Center’

Something to chew on ahead of the release of The Da Vinci Code this week.

Marvellous fake trailer for the “sequel” to Titanic

Kim Masters with a piece in Slate on the hush hush release strategy for the Da Vinci Code.

The 2nd trailer for the new film from Pixar.

Reuters on the increasing Hollywood dominance of Cannes.

Time Out on the (highly unlikely!) link between the director of ‘Donnie Darko’ and terrorism.

The latest ‘Miami Vice’ trailer.

The Guardian with news that the 2nd biggest cinema chain in the UK is to float.

David Poland with a lengthy analysis of how different releases will play at the box office this summer.

Poseidon gets a mixed reaction from US critics (an overall score of 49 at the time of posting)

The legendary composer of the ‘Mission: Impossible’ theme chats with Jake Coyle of the AP.

Reuters report on the game of ‘Heat’ that is in the works for a 2007 release. Pacino and De Niro are “in talks” to reprise their roles.

Jeffrey Wells reports that Sofia Coppola’s latest film with Kirsten Dunst as the famous French arstiocrat will open in France and Belgium in a couple of weeks (May 24th). But it won’t open here until September and the US gets it even later in October. Str

Time Out report that Chris Weitz is back in the director’s chair for The Golden Compass – the first filmed adaptation of Philip Pulman’s His Dark Material’s trilogy

The Hollywood Reporter review Poseidon

Anne Thompson at The Hollywood Reporter on C-Span’s disappointing attitude to the Stephen Colbert video. Whilst I sympathise with them to some degree, don’t they see what incredible reach and free publicity YouTube has given them?

Capone from AICN interviews Terry Zwigoff about ‘Art School Confidential’

A strange but intriguing piece on Lindsay Lohan in – of all papers – the New York Times.

The AP report on how Maggie Gyllenhall nearly quit ‘World Trade Center’ over remarks she made last year.

A mjor Hollywood studio finally realises that BitTorrent technology can work FOR them rather than against them.

If fans of World Of Warcraft can drag themselves from actually playing the game then they might catch the film version currently in the works.

Buisness Week with a story about the FBI going undercover to bust pirates. Maybe this could be the basis for MI:4 ;- )

A movie about Daniel Pearl – the WSJ reporter who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002 – is going to be made according to the AP. Based on the book “Who killed Daniel Pearl?” by Bernard-Henri Levy it will star Josh Lucas as in the title role.

Cinematical on Al Pacino’s podcast. I’m a couple of days late with this one but it was too good not to link to.

David Poland at the Hot Blog dissects the performance of MI:3 at the box office this weekend.

The New York Times work the “negative publicity” angle in their report on the MI:3 disappointment

Cinematical thinks that Cruise media overkill has gone too far.

The Guardian’s obituary to Phil Brown – a character actor probably best known for his role as Uncle Owen Lars in Star Wars.

Nikki Finke reports on catholics who are risking eternal damnation (or something like that anyway) by planning to see the Da Vinci Code.

The official site for Oliver Stone’s ‘World Trade Center’ gets a significant update.

Tilda Swinton with an interesting and heartfelt speech at the San Francisco Film Festival.

James Bond’s new Aston Martin in ‘Casino Royale’

Is this serving Star Wars fans or ripping them off? I’m still undecided…

Cinematical reports that a Star Wars TV show is still some way off.

Some film bloggers predict what will hit, flop and sleep this summer. I think The Da Vinci Code and Pirates are going to be the two biggest films (closely followed by Superman Returns) whilst Poseidon is looking shaky. Snakes On A Plane and Nacho Libre lo

JJ Abrams talks to the AP about making M:I:3 and his career up to this point.

Highly amusing montage of Tom Cruise running in his films. He does it more than you might think and – come to think of it – there is a classic “Cruise run” towards the end of M:I:3.

Boing Boing with the latest on the Stephen Colbert saga.

Salon with their theory on the Colbert episode.

The excellent teaser poster for ‘Snakes On A Plane’.