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Short Attention Span Theatre: True Skin

Bangkok-set sci-fi short that's drawn big studio attention for director Stephan Zlotescu. Shot on Canon 5D Mark II, good use of on-location detail to make a convincing calling card. More details at Wired: 

Six months after a trailer appeared on Vimeo, aspiring feature filmmaker Stephan Zlotescu‘s six-minute short achieved viral lift-off last week after the director’s manager spread the word about the work. “Industry response has been insane,” said manager Scott Glassgold in an e-mail to Wired, citing 230,000 views in five days for the True Skin video (embedded above). “Within hours of release, we were receiving calls from major studios and financiers.”

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19th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Hitchcock

Anthony Hopkins fat-suits up for this biopic looking at the period when Hitchcock made Psycho. Helen Mirren plays his partner Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson gets shower duties. Like a lot of those (entertaining and generally well done) BBC4 dramas based on classic TV shows, it's a bit hard to know exactly what we'll be getting out of this that a good documentary wouldn't show. Well-made tail-chasing?

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10th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Happy!

After directing The Man With The Iron Fists, RZA is lining up to adapt Grant Morrison's graphic novel Happy! according to THR:

Happy! centers on Nick Sax, a scummy corrupt ex-cop and hit man. After a hit goes bad and Sax is left gravely injured, he is suddenly able to see Happy, a cheerful little blue horse who won’t give in to adversity, no matter what unpleasant obstacles are in the way. Days before Christmas, Sax teams up with the saccharine horse to save the life of a troubled kid and maybe find redemption amid the squalor of his city.

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10th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

After Dark: Remastered

Listened to this "Italo Disco, Krautrock, Electro, Giallo Cinema" compilation from Chromatics man Johnny Jewel non-stop when it came out in 2007; here it is in remastered form blended together, with news of a new movie soundtrack and vol 2 on the way

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10th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet