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11 items from 2012
Watch Orson Welles’ Final TV Interview, Recorded a Few Hours Before He Died
30 March 2012 2:54 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The term “genius” is perhaps applied a bit too liberally when we, as fans of film and television, discuss the people we admire and their works. But it’s a word that doesn’t do justice to Orson Welles. An unparalleled talent of stage, radio, and silver screen, the man left an indelible impression on each medium. In 1938, he conducted the most infamous radio broadcast of all time, an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds that, because of its ‘news bulletin’ format, led many listeners to believe an actual alien invasion was underway. A few years later, still in his mid-20s, he wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, often lauded as the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. And let’s not forget: he was the voice of Unicron in 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie. Hit the jump for more, and to watch the final »
- Matt Currie
Sony Picks Up White House Down and The Royal Honours Society
30 March 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Sony Pictures has closed deals to acquire action script White House Down and the literary-themed action-adventure pitch The Royal Honours Society , according to Variety and Heat Vision . White House Down , from The Amazing Spider-Man screenwriter James Vanderbilt, is described as Die Hard meets Air Force One . Vanderbilt will also produce with his Mythology Entertainment partners Bradley Fischer and Laeta Kalogridis. The Royal Honours Society , meanwhile, comes from Ernest Lupinacci and will be produced by Joe Roth and Palak Patel. According to the trade, the movie is "described as the iconic stories of some of England's greatest writers from the late 19th century - among them H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man), Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues »
Brit Lit heroes in The Royal Honours Society bought by Sony Pictures
29 March 2012 11:25 PM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
Think of this new movie project like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but done for the writers of the League characters. Sony Pictures has bought an idea for a movie called The Royal Honours Society which postulates English 19th century novelists H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and some unrevealed others.
The idea was pitched by Ernest Lupinacci and has producers Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland) and Palak Patel (Snow White and the Huntsman) working on it. Lupinacci hasn't any screenwriting credits to his name but he sold another idea, called the Museum of Supernatural History, to DreamWorks a while back.
THR is describing The Royal Honours Society as an action-adventure, which would fit in the same sort of style as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I admit there's some decent »
- Patrick Sauriol
Sony Picks Up Literary Adventure 'Royal Honour Society' (Exclusive)
29 March 2012 7:43 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
In a pre-emptive move, Sony has picked up The Royal Honour Society, a literary-themed action-adventure pitch from Ernest Lupinacci. Joe Roth and Palak Patel are attached to produce. Details are vague, but it's described as the iconic stories of some of England's greatest writers from the late 19th century -- among them H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man), Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) -- together in an action-adventure tale. Think of it as a reverse
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- Borys Kit
10 (Kind Of) Great Classic Sci-Fi Flicks You May Have Never Heard Of
16 March 2012 11:27 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
We know the greats; movies like Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977).
And there are those films which maybe didn’t achieve cinematic greatness, but through their inexhaustible watchability became genre touchstones, lesser classics but classics nonetheless, like The War of the Worlds (1953), Godzilla (1954), Them! (1954), The Time Machine (1960).
In the realm of science fiction cinema, those are the cream (and below that, maybe the half and half). But sci fi is one of those genres which has often too readily leant itself to – not to torture an analogy — producing nonfat dairy substitute.
During the first, great wave of sci fi movies in the 1950s, the target audience was kids and teens. There wasn’t a lot in the way of “serious” sci fi. Most of it was churned out quick and cheap; drive-in fodder, grist for the Saturday matinee mill.
By the early 1960s, »
- Bill Mesce
The Posters of the Mondo Gallery Opening
10 March 2012 5:42 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
As we just mentioned in our Photo Tour of the New Mondo Gallery, the folks at Mondo opened their gallery today to a great deal of fanfare. Lines of soaking wet devotees stretched down Guadalupe St., press packed in early to mingle and in some cases (yours truly) spend all of their hard-earned allowance, and despite the terrible weather, an incredible time was had by all. And now that we’ve presented you with a photo tour, it’s time to give you a close-up look at some of the art presented for the opening. There’s a little Tyler Stout, some Phantom City Creative, some Aaron Horkey and plenty more to satiate your hearts desire for great cinematic art. And this is just the tip of the iceberg… Be warned: We’ve decided to keep this gallery to all one page (it looks better that way), that may cause some slower than usual load times for »
- Neil Miller
The Oscars, The Battle of Los Angeles & The Top 10 Movies in Which Aliens Attack L.A.
24 February 2012 1:39 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Celebrities will invade Los Angeles this weekend for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. Searchlights will blaze and flashbulbs will pop as Hollywood stars will descend from the heavens -- or maybe just the Malibu hills -- to touch the ground that regular Angelenos walk on each day. They'll smile and snarl our traffic. They'll toss their hair and forget to thank their husbands. They'll praise each other for their bravery, while collecting $75,000 gift bags. L.A. is accustomed to such strange invasions, of course. If you're a movie fan, you already know that L.A. has been invaded over the years by everything from giant atomic ants (Them), to buff cyborgs (The Terminator), to rampaging 3D zombies (Resident Evil: Afterlife). So Angelenos take invasions from movie stars in stride. But this weekend marks an anniversary of an invasion you might not know about: L.A.'s first alien invasion. This »
- Jason Apuzzo
In defence of found footage movies
3 February 2012 5:20 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Are found footage movies a cheap-to-make fad, or are they a natural extension of classic storytelling? Here’s Ryan’s view of a divisive genre…
The finest storytellers are confidence tricksters. It’s their ability to convince us that what they’re telling us is real that makes their tall tales so engrossing – they blur the lines between fiction and reality, to the point where are brains struggle to see the join between one and the other.
This is why so many novels and short stories were written in the first person, or incorporated real-world events: their writers wanted to convince their readers that what they were reading was fact, even as the stories span off into unreality. Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe as a first-person account of a castaway. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was written in the style of a traveller’s work of non-fiction, »
Astrojive: Stupid Aliens
24 January 2012 12:11 AM, PST | AirlockAlpha.com | See recent Airlock Alpha news »
It.s a new year. Perhaps we could use a New Year.s resolution to improve science-fiction. I.ll propose one: No more stupid alien invaders. I suggest this with a certain trepidation, knowing as I do that hostile extraterrestrial dumbasses have a long, proud history in sci-fi dating back to H. G. Wells. "The War of the Worlds," you may remember, is a story in which Martians invent interplanetary travel and the heat ray to conquer us but fail to notice our planet has germs on it. As a result, they catch Earth sniffles and die. Despite the unlikelihood of this, we enjoy the novel because it.s a seminal work and Wells was a brilliant writer. But science has advanced since his day, and countless sci-fi writers have mulled over the underlying logic of the tropes he invented. We could have »
The growing influence of videogames on movies
23 January 2012 5:27 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
As videogames have grown in popularity, their influence is becoming increasingly apparent in the movies. Ryan takes a look at how games have affected film...
Forty years ago, a series of mysterious objects appeared in bars across America. These brown, wood-effect cabinets were home to Pong, a crude simulation of tennis that played out on flickering black-and-white screens. Like the dark monoliths of 2001: A Space Odyssey, these blocks of chipboard ushered in a new cultural era: that of videogames.
The game industry’s growth since 1972 has been stratospheric, and something that was once regarded as a strange, passing fad has grown into a lucrative strand of popular culture.
It’s easy to see the effect that movies have had on the evolution of games. When creating what would become the seminal Space Invaders, designer Tomohiro Nishikado was inspired to switch tanks and planes for aliens after reading a magazine article about Star Wars. »
Extended Thoughts on Treasure Island
5 January 2012 8:44 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Walt Disney and the word “simple” don’t go together. Disney and the concept of simplicity don’t go together, either. This isn’t to say that some attractions at the various Disney theme parks aren’t simple in their design or their impact, or that some classic Disney movies don’t have simple story structures or character development. No, this means that while Walt Disney was able to tap into the inner recesses of people’s psyches for maximum effect, something that may seem simple, he rarely created something that didn’t have some complex thought placed behind it. So there is–I hope–some complex idea behind the first fully live-action film from Walt Disney Productions, 1950′s Treasure Island. I just don’t know what it is.
Based on the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island is a boy’s adventure through and through. Though we »
- Josh Spiegel
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