Mitä tähteys tarkoittaa ja miten se toimii Hollywoodissa: tapaus Sandra Bullock – Especially without Julia Roberts. Bullock wasn’t even on Fox’s short list for the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy, the larger-than-life conservative Christian woman who took Oher in—literally a pistol-packing mama who raised a future NFL star. Quite a few years had passed since Bullock was pulling in big box office with Miss Congeniality and Two Weeks Notice. As Fox was weighing the fate of The Blind Side in 2007, the studio was struggling with another Bullock film, All About Steve, which eventually wound up with a miniscule 6 percent favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As the insider on The Blind Side puts it, “Sandy Bullock wasn’t hot.” Especially not at Fox.
Stanley Kubrickin Napoleon-kirja painaa 10 kiloa – The immense shell opens to reveal six smaller books, each with a different theme (costumes, locations, production) plus three small notebook-style volumes. There’s also a reproduction of Kubrick’s screenplay, the first he’s known to have written on his own.
Richard Linklaterin haastattelu vuodelta 1993 – Now, at 31, Linklater is finishing up his first Hollywood film. A reflection on his high school years, Dazed and Confused is scheduled for release this summer by Universal. (via @villetikkanen)
USC professor creates an entire alien language for 'Avatar' – Frommer has spent four years laboring on the language of the Na'vi tribe and his work will not end on the day of the film's release. He plans to keep expanding the language until he's, well, blue in the face. "I'm still working and I hope that the language will have a life of its own," the professor said. "For one thing, I'm hoping there will be prequels and sequels to the film, which means more language will be needed. I spent three weeks in May, too, working on the video game for Ubisoft, which is the name of a French company. That's not a French word, though, I don't know where they got Ubisoft."
