Film

on movies eating video games…

Warning: the following rant includes low-level language and minor spoilers for a tres cliched new release action film. k, so the other day I was watching the new film Next. Now, firstly I’m gonna say that this was clearly made by the SFX people, because any scene that wasn’t action was horrible, cliched horrible’ness – […]

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..WALL-E Promo Postcards..

from Paleo-Future WALL-E Promo Postcards In what seems to be another example of postmodern paleo-futurist design (repurposing past visions and versions of the future) we have promotional postcards for the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E. Apparently these were given out at Comic-Con 2007. (via The Disney Blog) You can view the teaser trailer for WALL-E here. […]

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…Neuromancer comes…

from JoBlo.com Neuromancer comes After more than two decades of influencing countless modern sci-fi stories and concepts in film, TV, videogames, books and comics, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel NEUROMANCER is finally heading to theaters. Producer Peter Hoffman will essentially make the movie as a $70 million indie. Director Joseph Kahn, whose […]

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..Can MTV Stay Cool?..

But the MTV empire today is a staple of the media Establishment and faces a slew of new threats. After all, it’s the iPod era, a broadband world, and the online generation is defining for itself what is edgy and new. Ratings may be strong for many of the channels, but the original MTV isn’t the must-see it was. “We watch it because it’s there,” says Marie McGrory, a Manhattan 10th grader. Can McGrath keep her empire cool enough and nimble enough for Marie’s generation and beyond?

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profile of Nigeria’s film industry

from theage.com.au Nigeria becomes a B-movie factory Chike Bryan, the hapless director of “The Last Sacrifice,” had named his movie well. Plagued by technical glitches, filming had dragged into its third week – an eternity by Nigerian standards. The unpaid cast and crew were holding the executive producer for ransom in his stuffy hotel room. […]

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