The Big Magic Book is a pilot for a new children's puppet series that's been in the works for awhile. The amazing Nate Pacheco - an animator who also happens to be a very talented puppet builder - has been putting together the show's title sequence and with the help of Ann Walker and Peter Michail, it looks amazing. There's still very little actual footage from this project available, but if the puppetry lives up to Nate's work and the excellent looking puppet characters built by Pasha Romanowski, The Big Magic Book may be something very special.
March 15, 2007
Movie Stuff
Shazam! Movie Gets a Writer
John August, writer of Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish, has been hired to pen New Line's Shazam!, a take on the DC's Captain Marvel character.
The comic book series focuses on Billy Batson, a teenager who becomes the superhero known as Captain Marvel when he utters the magic word "Shazam!" The name is an acronym for six gods and heroes of the ancient world as well as their attributes: the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Aries, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury.I think they might be wasting their money writing an entirely new script for this tale of teenage transformation. They've already got Teen Wolf, so why not just change the wolf parts into Captain Marvel parts and call it a day? For instance, any instances of Teen Wolf howling are rewritten as "says Shazam!" Playing basketball as a wolf would be rewritten to say, "plays basketball as Captain Marvel." It seems pretty straightforward to me.
Michael Myers
Rob Zombie has released the first shot of Michael Myers from his upcoming take on Halloween. Judging by the hair, I'd say the classic William Shatner mask from the original has been replaced by a Da Vinci Code-era Tom Hanks mask, an undoubtedly scarier guise.
Skinwalkers Poster and Trailer
In Skinwalkers, two rival werewolf families war over a boy and his mother. If that isn't silly enough, the trailer wasn't able to convince me anyone actually turned into a wolf. The werewolf fights were composed of driving motorcycles and shooting at each other. In fact, it may have been an episode of the early-'90s action series Renegade with werewolf lines overdubbed.
March 13, 2007
March 12, 2007
One week of art works
Somedays I feel like Flooby Nooby simply isn't big enough to hold all the cool and creative things I find. Please watch this through, it's awesome time-lapsed mural-making fun.
March 11, 2007
The Smurfette Show
The years have gone by and the little blue people have gotten older.
TV Funhouse cartoon on SNL.
March 10, 2007
March 09, 2007
Zodiac
According to Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere, “Anyone who doesn’t see Zodiac (Ruffalo, Gyelylehalnyealynhyal, Downey, Jr., and others) is going miss one of the most oddly arresting and excitingly different cop thrillers of all time. It is sure to be a disaster at the box office.”
I agree, I'm sure no one will go see this great cop movie, one of my favorite directors crafted this film with amazing attention to detail, yes it's VERY long, but GO SEE IT!
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