Coolness: Etch-a-Sketch Movie Drawings
I stumbled across these while browsing the internet. Some genius has drawn characters and scenes from movies on an Etch-a-Sketch. He has done around 329 drawings, and you can see some of them below.
Nick Cage’s KNOWING Trailer
I’m not a huge fan of Nicolas Cage. I mean, he’s had a couple good movies, but it’s hard to imagine him in movies like Ghost Rider (awful!) and Next (haven’t seen it, but it LOOKED awful!).
Knowing actually looks pretty good, though. He’s playing a smart guy, which is the kind of guy we expect him to play. The fact that he has a piece of paper that predicts major disasters, and possibly the end of the world, is actually kind of intriguing. He doesn’t have any super powers, hasn’t made any pacts with the Devil, he just uses his brain to figure something out and that’s all we really need from him.
Check out the trailer below!
Second Hobbit Film Not Certain
Things are never simple when it comes to The Lord of the Rings. There was lawsuit after lawsuit, and now the second Hobbit film, that was supposed to be a bridge between The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring, could be at risk.
It seems there is an issue of copyright, which Guillermo Del Toro points out:
In the four books that are in the domain of the copyright, there are appendices and ideas and things that can be traced without risk. But I have to be careful not to overstep. We believe there is a way to create this film and make it interesting, but it’s too early.
So they can create a second film from the ideas and appendices that exist, however they have to be careful about wandering into other areas they don’t own the copyright to.
Del Toro also went on to say:
We believe there is a second movie, if there isn’t, there will not be. If we find it, we will shoot it, but by God, if we do not find it, we will not shoot it. I am anxious to shoot the book, and I’m willing and able to dedicate myself to shooting the [second film].
It seems at the moment nothing is certain and they still do not know whether to split The Hobbit into two movies, or contain it into one.
Guillermo Del Toro says on the TORn message boards that things will get started once he has finished his Hellboy 2 rounds and Peter Jackson has finished work on The Lovely Bones.
Looks like those Deadwood movies aren’t happening after all
Deadwood fans have been treated like yo-yos for the past several months. Some days we hear that the movies are a go and some days we hear that the movies are a no.
Take this as one of the “no” days.
And it comes from a pretty good source, Ian McShane himself. He’s interviewed by Ryan Stewart over at our sister blog Cinematical, where he reveals that a good friend of his called him last week and told him that the movies weren’t going to happen and that the production company is tearing down the sets. He also says that even if the movies were going to be made in the next year, he wouldn’t be able to do them because he’s too busy with his film schedule.
This is why God made DVDs. Now we’ll just have to be happy with the seasons we had, and if we want the further adventures of Swearingen and gang we’ll have to just do our own private puppet shows or maybe fan fiction.* David Milch has already moved on to another show for HBO, about cops.
* Just kidding. Please don’t write any fan fiction.