Film
Hughes Brothers to tackle live-action ‘Akira’
Aint-It-Cool-News reports that directing duo the Hughes Brothers have signed on to bring Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to the silver screen. I can’t say I’m a fan – From Hell was an abomination, but only because they jettisoned all the cool mystical stuff that made the original comic so amazing. In all fairness, I can’t see [...]
James Cameron vs. China: The Na’vi are Tibetans?
Newsweek speculates that China’s uncertainty (wait – didn’t they name a mountain range after the movie?) about Avatar has less to do with its usurpation of local cinema fare (namely a recent Confucius biopic starring Chow Yun-Fat) and more to do with uncomfortable parallels between the Na’vi and Earth’s Tibetans, who are not exactly blue [...]
Viva the ‘Nam
Aint-It-Cool-News has a great write-up on a new feature film, Viva the Nam, which is kind of like Robot Chicken’s take on Full Metal Jacket. Apparently the whole thing is a Vietnam flick made with twelve-inch G.I. Joe figures. Seriously. Here’s the trailer.
Those of you lucky enough to live in Austin can check out the [...]
‘Oldboy’ remake beaten to death with claw hammer
The Will Smith / Spielberg (no need for a first name there, I presume) remake of Oldboy is dead. I presume Dreamworks couldn’t wrap their head around the concept of Will Smith fucking his daughter. Neither could I, for that matter.
‘Cup of Tears’ – Samurai action for the ‘300′ crowd
Gratuitous use of CGI + samurai = awesome, in my book. Not sure if the story holds together, but who farking cares. This looks amazing.
The Cup of Tears film trailer. Dir. Gary Shore from Gary Shore on Vimeo.
Live-Action Ghost in the Shell gains screenwriter
Good news: someone has finally been hired to pen a screenplay for the live-action Ghost in the Shell flick. Bad news: they suck. Okay, maybe suck is a bit pejorative. But take a look at this resume and tell me if it inspires confidence in you.
2002
Birds of Prey
Executive producer, writer for episodes “Slick” and “Premiere”
2004
Alexander
Screenwriter
2006
Night [...]
Metal Gear Solid Fan Film – MGS: Philanthropy
You know, this is actually not total shit. Seriously. Okay – it’s kinda shit. But, it’s pretty polished shit. It even leans towards watchable at times.
Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy from Hive Division on Vimeo.
(Night of the Living Dead – Romero) + anime = huh?
Hellsing6
I suck at algebra, but I’m good at telling when something needs to be left well-enough alone. I think this title is in and of itself a big signal flare alerting us all to incipient suckage: ‘NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: ORIGINS‘.
Srsly?
Isn’t Romero doing enough to entomb his own reputation without others heaping dirt on [...]
New to Netflix Instant Watch: Chan-wook Park’s ‘Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance’ and ‘Lady Vengeance’
Fans of Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy who haven’t had a chance check out the preceeding and following installments of the so-called Vengeance Trilogy will be happy to know that they are now available via Netflix’s Instant Watch feature. Although Oldboy has gotten the most attention, all three installments are well worth your time.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Lady [...]
New to Netflix Instant Watch – three from Korea, one from Hong Kong
Netflix just added a whole slate of new Asian cinema – trailers and descriptions below.
The Bow (Ki-duk Kim) 2005
Arang (Sang-hoon Ahn) 2006
Natural City (Byung-chin Min) 2003
Election (Johnnie To) 2005
Shinya Tsukamoto announces ‘Tetsuo: The Bulletman’ at ComiCon
Holy shit – Shinya Tsukamoto announced a new Tetsuo film at ComiCon. The sequel (or ‘threequel’, as the case may be…) is called Tetsuo: The Bulletman, and has been (will be?) filmed in English. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the better part of two decades, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo [...]
New ‘Thirst’ clip – “I’m not Catholic.”
New clip from Park Chan-wook vampire flick, Thirst – opening July 31st in select cities.
Facebook page for Chan-wook Park’s vampire flick ‘Thirst’ now live
The PR machine for Oldboy director Chan-wook Park’s upcoming horror flick Thirst is running full-steam ahead in advance of the 7/31 release date. You can become a fan of the film at http://www.facebook.com/ThirstMovie.
If you want to see why you should be a fan of the film, check out the red-band trailer embedded below…
More Thirst Info
See – I’m not the only one optimistic about ‘Keanu Bebop’…
Angry Asian Man recently chimed in on the whole Keanu Reeves / Cowboy Bebop thing.
Don’t hate me for saying this, but I don’t think this is an entirely bad idea. Keanu gets a lot of hate for his low-charisma surfer-dudeness, but in the right role, he isn’t half-bad. For Spike, I’d argue the most important [...]
