X-Men Origins: Wolverine teaser poster

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Batman: Arkham Asylum – Joker’s Trap

Batman: Arkham Asylum 'Joker's Trap' trailer

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Rick Astley never did give up. He’s writing a movie

Rick Astley is writing a musical and he has told The Times all about it as well as what he thinks of the whole Rick-rolling phenomenon. Including the whole V for Vendetta thing at the Church of Scientology HQ.

“My wife’s now a movie producer so I read a lot of scripts and I’m really passionate about films,” he says. “One day I thought, ‘Well, why don’t I write one?’ And it turned into a musical — but not for the stage. It’s dominated by the songs I’ve written — they tell the stories — so I hooked up with a guy in California and we wrote the script together. We’re at the point of speaking to a few different agents and getting people to read. I’m not fooling myself — nothing may come of it and I totally understand that, but as a process I have loved it. When you’re writing frothy pop songs the lyrics can be a bit ‘whatever’, they are hooky and you just sing them because they work. But writing these songs . . .” He falters. “Do they call that a libretto?”

The synth sounds of the Gary Numan world will figure highly, because it’s set, “would you believe, in the 1980s! The working title is New York Cowboy because it’s about a young guy who sets off from a small town — not Newton-le-Willows [Astley’s home town], ha-ha — to go to New York.”

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The Thing from Another World – Cool scene and soundtrack

I love this scene: the discovery and “explosive digging” of the flying saucer in Christian Nyby’s The Thing from Another World (1951). Produced by Howard Hawks.

“this scene is presented with the entire isolated music soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the eeriest and strangest soundtracks ever created for a sci-fi movie. With lots of theremin, the music suits perfectly the outer-worldly icy scenes in the film, and it creates a living, breathing atmosphere of unease.”

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Clint is cool

Clint Eastwood didn’t arrive at this evening’s tribute event with any pomp or airs. A friend simply drove him up and dropped him off a block south of Santa Barbara’s Arlington theatre. Clint walked up the sidewalk and into a cluster of fans waiting behind metal barriers. Realizing he’d boxed himself in, he climbed over the temporary fence (with the help of said fans) to cheers and guffaws. This just happened about 25 minutes ago. I hope someone took a shot.

From Hollywood Elsewhere

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Clint is cool

Clint Eastwood didn’t arrive at this evening’s tribute event with any pomp or airs. A friend simply drove him up and dropped him off a block south of Santa Barbara’s Arlington theatre. Clint walked up the sidewalk and into a cluster of fans waiting behind metal barriers. Realizing he’d boxed himself in, he climbed over the temporary fence (with the help of said fans) to cheers and guffaws. This just happened about 25 minutes ago. I hope someone took a shot.

From Hollywood Elsewhere

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Downloading Nancy – Trailer starring Rufus Sewell, Maria Bello and Jason Patric

When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.

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The Twins in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen

The Official Transformers Game website has revealed the robot modes of the twoAutobot Twins. Apparantly they act like brothers and can join together to form a big robot dude. Who knew?

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Public Enemies – Fan trailer for Depp and Bale gangster film

You would think the Super Bowl would be the ideal time to debut the trailer for Johnny Depp and Christian Bale’s upcoming Michael Mann John Dillinger film “Public Enemies,” filmed in Wisconsin.

Unfortunately there is no indication that this is the case.

Several fan trailers are posted on YouTube, combining still photos and video footage captured while the film was on location in Madison, Oshkosh and Columbus, and with vintage gangster movie footage added.

Thanks to Pamela for sending me the link.

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I Love You, Man – Poster

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