Lights! Sound! Camera! Action! Shoot!: Poster

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Sunday, 15 February 2009

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Poster for s.Darko - Donnie Darko sequel

Monday, 2 February 2009

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Franklyn preview & QA with writer Gerald McMorrow in London

The London Film School are having a preview of Franklyn & QA with writer Gerald McMorrow

"An urban fairytale set between the parallel worlds of a contemporary London and the futuristic faith-dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn is a breath of fresh air for British cinema and is the most impressive, daring feature from a first-time writer/director I've seen in some time" Eye for Film . More info can be found here: http://thesamescene.blogspot.com/2008/11/preview-of-franklyn.html

I jumped, when given the opportunity to see a preview of Franklyn last November 08. My

curiosity had been piqued as it: has a solid cast, was set in a dystopian future and the visuals I had seen looked awesome. Yet there was very little information kicking around about it. A little worried that this may be my only chance to see what could be a real gem that is never released because of legal or financial wranglings.

The visuals that I had seen so far evoked imagery of V for Vendetta /Equilibrium /Watchmen /Bladerunner /The Matrix somehow set against my favourite city London as the back drop.

Frankly is a real gem. The kind of film that filmakers can't make anymore. 4 Stories from seemingly disparate realities entwined into a single thread. It delivered on all it promised, including an intricate otherworldly vigilante story set in an alternate world. Acting from the cast that includes; Eva Green, Bernard Hill, Art Malik, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley and Susannah York was solid all round but the real winner was the magic in bringing all the stories together in a credible way. The level of visual detail in the alternative world is spectacular. Put this on your list of films for 2009.

Starring Eva Green, Ryan Philippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill, Art Malik, Susannah York

Preview screening of FRANKLYN followed by Q&A with director Gerald McMorrow

Monday February 9, 2009 at 5:30pm

The London Film School

24 Shelton Street

London,

WC2H 9UB

For tickets: http://www.lfs.org.uk/qa/index.php

Sunday, 25 January 2009

Was this the last know activity of Rorschach from the Watchmen?

In June 2007 I was alerted to the launch of a new site: www.rorschachsjournal.com. When visiting the site all there was to see was the following large graphic.

Curious! What did this mean? Was this supposed to be the Rorschach? My curiosity was piqued. When I clicked the rr image an email addressed to: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com popped up? Anyway I sent off the following:

From: Craig Grobler
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:11 AM
To: rorschach@rorschachsjournal.com
Subject: is this

a site for the Watchmen?

Not really expecting a response. However about a week later I received the following:

Subject: is this

a site for the Watchmen?

yes.

.RR.

I shoot back to the site and find that the following had been added:

On clicking the right option the following pops up:

Naturally thinking this was aimed at a US audience as well as a little puzzled by the complete lack of iconic visuals I thought I'd wait till the site evolved to include some "official" Watchmen info or graphics. A couple of months later I visited again and it was gone?

This is a far cry from the current viral marketing that has been unleashed onto the internet, that has actively included a UK audience (http://watchmen-screening.pbwiki.com/). Awesome!. Have you seen the Social Media tool kit available here: http://www.i-watch-the-watchmen.com/ww/ ?

As good as it is - any Watchmen fan worth their salt has already started creating their own profile pic;):

Friday, 16 January 2009

Just released - the official Crank 2: High Voltage trailer

On it’s release Crank! was an injection of pure testosterone straight into the politically correct, sanitised & revisionist heart that currently pumps Hollywood's lifebood. The producers risky
slap tradition in the face strategy paid off. It cost $12 Mill to make and earned $44,777,321 - £30,401,940 worldwide. Keen to capitalise on the fan following Chev Chelios has garnered Crank 2: High Voltage will hit (kick, blowup and more than likely drive over) screens April 2009. Hopefully the sequel will stay true to the original winning formula whilst adding more layers.

At the time of it's release Crank embodied the same original, anti establishment, devil may care stance that John Mclaine brought to the screen in 1988 With Die Hard. There were no half measures and it cer

tainly never tried to be anything other than a fun film. An important factor that many film makers of this genre often overlook.

Unlike many action films released in the last 15 years Crank did not hedge bets with trying to downplay it's adult content, add in a feel good ending or try make the lead sympathetic so that we forgave his rough edges - Oh no! It was made clear that this was a film for adrenaline fans who enjoyed high action and was not kowtowing to financiers demanding that it be watered down to ensure the large teenage market that dominates this genre could view it.

If only all of Jason Stratham’s half hearted films were as good Crank there would more talk of

the obvious effort he puts into these roles to make them credible and less of his bad film choices.

The not safe for work (Red band) version:

Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor the writer/Director team of the the Cranks are also releasing the

sci-fi game film "Game" in 2009 starring Gerard Butler (300, Rocknrolla) and may currently be in pre-production on the film version of the Western bad ass "Jonah Hex" the adaptation of the DC comic with Josh Brolin.

Most recent rumours have it that the Awhile ago the Internet was abuzz with rumours that Thomas Jane was going to be Jonah Hex.

Looks like Game is being scheduled to go up against James Cameron's Avatar and T2ON. To shoot Crank the team used high end cameras this time they are using consumer grade cameras.

Notice the UK's very own Mike Figgis's Fig Rig used to keep cameras stable while shooting.

Thursday, 15 January 2009

Crank 2 Poster

Crank 2 is on it's way! I loved Crank equating it to a pumped up contemporary Die Hard. If this teaser poster is anything to go by the sequel is going to be just as good.