“We Need to Talk About Kevin” Trailer
Oh, look, another movie about a sociopath that I need to see. And it involves Tilda Swinton? This gets more and more promising.
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” gets a limited USA release in December.
The first ‘Battleship’ movie trailer earning Michael Bay comparisons made me think about the art and sound departments for the ‘Transformers’ franchise today. While the storytelling for those films has been all over the place, the art and sound design has been consistently exciting to me.
This SoundWorks Collection featurette exposes some of the work behind the sound design and effects for ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon.’ Key crew members, including supervising sound editor Erik Aadahl, talk about mixing the film for 7.1 surround sound and a few of the experiments done to capture and create initial ‘wild sound’ for the film.
Recording the sound of dry ice against different metals still strikes me as especially cool. If that movie didn’t have a runtime of half my life, I’d watch it again to try to nail down some of these elements.
DJ Caruso premieres the first installment of “Inside”
It’s July 25th, which means the first installment of director DJ Caruso’s experiment in social media filmmaking hits the Internet today.
The movie’s website is currently overloaded, but the full episode is available on Youtube. So far the main character Christina, played by Emmy Rossum, has woken up to find she’s been trapped in a room. She tries to get some photos of her location uploaded to Facebook, and then her internet connection dies. Story of my life, really.
DJ Caruso and Emmy Rossum invite users ‘Inside’ one of the first social films
If you like thrillers, the internet, the idea of being in a movie and have been looking for a way to combine these interests for a long time, then wait no more. Director DJ Caruso has the vanity project for you: his new social media film experiment ‘Inside.’
The premise is relatively simple. Emmy Rossum stars as Christina, a 20-something who finds herself trapped in a room with nothing but a computer. Viewers and internet users then get to play a key role in her attempts to free herself. DJ Caruso and team will cast real social media users, and those people will get to interact with and influence Rossum’s character.
Almost every crime procedural TV show or movie has done some episode where a killer broadcasts a murder via untraceable web connection, has hits kill victims faster, some super computer uses wireless to direct electronics to kill us, and so on. DJ Caruso even got in on the technology thriller game with 2008’s ‘Eagle Eye,’ but ‘Inside’ will challenge him, Rossum, writers and crew to execute a story that actually calls upon and engages ordinary social media and internet users live.
Social media users can audition to play a role in ‘Inside’ now. Then, on Monday, July 25th, pieces of the film will be released on various social media platforms until the film’s conclusion. All parts will be collected and edited together after that and released as a single project on August 14, 2011. Judging whether or not the film works or sucks will, of course, happen concurrently.
For all updates related to ‘Inside,’ keep an eye on TheInsideExperience.com.
‘Another Earth’ Seems Like A Space Movie I Might Dig
When a friend sent me the trailer for “Another Earth,” I was initially skeptical. I thought, “ugh, I hate when it’s aliens,” which is what I always think about space-related movies. Obviously there are exceptions, but I find a lot of invasion movies annoying, and my least favorite plot twist in the whole world is when — surprise! — aliens were behind the mystery the whole time! (Dear ‘The Forgotten’: die in a fiat.) By the time I got about 20 seconds into this trailer, though, I decided to board the “Another Earth” train anyway, because it seems like it’s potentially heading into a town I want to visit after all.
Awkwardly-proportioned aliens who need a sandwich or two aren’t my style, but the kind of messed up existential confusion shown here definitely could be. In an with daemonsmovies.com, lead actor William Mapother says that it’s not about immediate danger or planetary threat at all, really. Instead, the movie uses science fiction to tell a story about human connection.
“Another Earth” won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2011, and it’s now slated for a July 22nd release.
Watch the Trailer for ‘Fright Night’ Remake
Last weekend, I watched the original Fright Night with a couple friends, and then mentioned several times that I was extremely excited to see how the 2011 remake shaped up. Two reasons:
a) Colin Farrell is hot.
b) Hot Colin Farrell gets to be dangerous and seductively threatening toward Anton Yelchin.
Those are the facts, and I’m voting yes, and now the first trailer is online.
I appreciate that they’ve decide to make Charlie more badass than he was in the ’80s. It’s also a miracle that there don’t seem to be any uncomfortably overkill shenanigans with animatronics. (Was Evil Ed’s death prolonged or what? I do not want to see Christopher Mintz-Plasse naked and mutating for that long, let’s establish this right now.) In 2011, we’ve evolved to throwing people around and figuring out what else can be turned into a flamethrower.
The film also stars Imogen Poots, David Tennant, and the always magnificent Toni Collette. Between the cast and Colin Farrell hunting folks down, this looks like an amazing way to start winding down the summer when it hits theaters on August 19th.
‘The Batman Complex’ Is My Favorite Movie Never Made
The Internet is a magical place, evidence #6930875379046c —
Themanbatman is one of those glorious online fan producers dedicated to “visual creative writing” by chopping up other movies and media to create new narratives. As the name suggests, many of them are in some way related to Batman. In February, “The Batman Complex - Teaser Trailer” hit YouTube, and now the full-length trailer has started making the rounds.
“The Batman Complex” reorganizes several Christopher Nolan films (plus a few other movies on Christian Bale’s resume) and ends up with this perfect Megazord psychodrama experience. If this had been a real full-length feature film, then “The Batman Complex” would be the only movie I’d ever watch for the rest of my life, forever and ever, amen.
