Napoleon Dynamite, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic – on hankala ennustaa, mitä mieltä dvd-katsojat niistä on (NYT Mag) – Juttu Netflix-skabasta, jossa huomioni kiinnitti tämä hauska kohta: A list of his 25 most-difficult-to-predict movies, I noticed they were all similar in some way to “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”
4 John Hughes Screenplays – National Lampoon's Vacation – April 30, 1982, 4th draft. The Breakfast Club – 1985 Shooting Script (possible transcript). Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – July 24, 1985 Shooting Script. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation – April 14, 1989 draft
Bollywood told to stop stealing Hollywood films – Twentieth Century Fox took the Mumbai-based BR Films to court, alleging that the Indian company's forthcoming Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai (This Guy is Fearless) was an illegal remake of the American studio's Oscar-winning crime caper My Cousin Vinny, which was released in 1992. This week BR Films agreed to pay Twentieth Century Fox about $US200,000 in an out-of-court settlement.
Must-Own Film Books – Anne Thompsonin listalla on mm. Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hit & Run, The Studio, The Kid Stays in the PIcture, Down and Dirty Pictures, A Killer Life
Joe Dante selittää, miksi kannattaa katsoa vanhoja elokuvia – It’s context—what people are seeing at the time, what’s cool, what’s in. All that is ephemeral. It passes. And what’s left is the movie. The advertising is gone. Nobody remembers the trailer, the TV spots, the reviews, but the movie still lives and speaks for itself.
Renny Harlin has been set to direct an untitled drama based on the five-day Russia/Georgia conflict – "When I got this script two weeks ago, it was exactly what I had been looking for, a great human story, with tragic, serious overtones. I saw it as my opportunity to use my experience in action films to tell the story of a complex conflict that is impartial, but makes a strong anti-war statement."
