Seeing as the first trailer is out, I have to say: me!



I'm getting hopeful....

...another of the Canal+ movie channel adverts. This time it's for Brokeback Mountain.



Sheep on a rollercoaster!

Some backlot shots of the Vancouver sets for the Watchmen movie have emerged.



In good news, they appear to be very faithful to Dave Gibbons' art - even down to the neon on the GungaDiner...

It turns out that E from Eels is the son of Hugh Everett III, the Everett in Everett-Wheeler.

He's just made a film about him...

Shortly after my father died the phone started ringing. My father was Hugh Everett III. When he was 24 he wrote a ground-breaking thesis about physics most commonly known as “the many worlds theory”. It challenged the accepted notion of how the world works in such a huge way, stating that there were actually countless versions of ourselves splitting off and going through as many different scenarios as you could imagine, and the physics powers that be (Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr) were having none of this. They weren’t about to let a 24-year-old knock their faces off the Mount Rushmore of physics. Getting no encouragement, my father gave up on quantum physics.

Interesting stuff.

That's apparently the 10^th most quoted line from a film, according to a BBC news story.

The rest of the the quotes are pretty run of the mill, and much of what I'd have expected:

1. "I'll be back." The Terminator
2. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Gone With The Wind
3. "Beam me up, Scotty." Star Trek
4. "May the force be with you." Star Wars
5. "Life is like a box of chocolates." Forrest Gump
6. "You talking to me?" Taxi Driver
7. "Show me the money." Jerry Maguire
8. "Do you feel lucky, punk?" Dirty Harry
9. "Here's looking at you, kid." Casablanca

But that number 10? No. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it. And I hang out with a lot of of film-literate folk...

So. Pop quiz time: can any of you remember what film it's from? (No peeking now!).

The CGSociety's annual competition took a different form this year: producing CGI trailers and concept art for a hypothetical film of Greg Bear's Eon.



There's some really fantastic stuff there, like the image I've linked to, and this mix of CGI and live action. Greg Bear was one of the judges, and comments on the images.

I managed to get a reference to my favourite Woody Allen film into a hefty piece on the history of portable media for Tom's Hardware, which I helped marypcb research.

Heh...

The teaser trailer for Ocean's 13 is out.

And I'm looking for clues already...

Twenty scenes from famous films, put together using common pieces of office equipment.

Can you guess them all?

I'm stuck on number 8 and number 9. They don't seem to be "Jaws IV" or "Convoy"...

[link via By The Way...]

So has someone cracked the security on Sky's broadband video on demand service? Or is there another explanation for this email I received this morning?

We’re currently carrying out an essential update to the Sky by broadband security system, and unfortunately this means we’ve had to temporarily suspend access to movie downloads and some sports content. But don’t worry, this won’t affect your computer and you can still bookmark content for when it’s up and running again.

We aim to restore full access to all Sky by broadband content as soon as possible and we’ll keep you posted on progress. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this disruption may cause, and hope you’ll continue to enjoy using the Sky by broadband service.

Inquiring minds and all that...

Watching "The Girl Next Door" I remarked that the film-makers had proved that no-one could remake "Risky Business". After all, they'd tried very hard indeed...

If you ever got bogged down in Kubrick and Clarke's masterpiece, then try this rather spectacular piece of Flash that attempts to explain just what's going on...

I don't agree with chunks of the thesis of this piece, but then I've read Lost Worlds Of 2001, which goes a long way to showing what Clarke and Kubrick were aiming for...

Spot the films in this collection of stick figure re-enactments of famous stills and scenes...



I got 15 out of 20 right, and scored 42 out of 60