Movie News: 1 Oct 2009

Tarantino Announces His Intention To Make Kill Bill 3 http://bit.ly/4kohvW

James Franco to guest star on 'General Hospital' - http://bit.ly/EXBdy

Ski resort sets helmet rule after Richardson death - http://bit.ly/17AMGy

Roger Avary sentenced for fatal crash 'Pulp Fiction' writer pleaded guilty to manslaughter http://bit.ly/3NFzaL

Stallone Talks Death Wish Remake, Poe, Cliffhanger: http://bit.ly/2bDIO7

Review: The Anarchist’s Wife: http://bit.ly/wKr7C

Six New High-Res Avatar Images http://bit.ly/B1ymm

Transformers 3 Coming in 2011 http://bit.ly/3E1Suk

Watch This: Jim Henson's 'Time Piece' http://bit.ly/4ccaBf (I've seen, this, really quite interesting stuff, it's just a short so won't keep you long)

Jessica Alba joins Meet the Parents franchise in Little Fockers. Read more here: http://shar.es/1cRP9

Dakota Fanning is a Barbie Doll? http://bit.ly/RZnnW

Josh Brolin Steps In For Sean Penn In Cartel http://bit.ly/1P5EOx

First Look at Seth Rogen's 'Green Hornet' Costume http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/10/first_look_at_seth_rogens_gree.php

Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson And Quinton Jackson Film 'The A-Team' http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2009/10/01/bradley-cooper-liam-neeson-and-quinton-jackson-film-the-a-team


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2 More Movies on Del Toro's To-Do List

Bloody Disgusting brings us news that Guillermo Del Toro has yet another 2 movies in the works.

One will be an adaptation on Gris Grimly's Pinocchio, working closely with him on that. The movie will be using puppets which will be from the Jim Henson Company, so it looks like quite an elaborate movie... I have never read the book, but as I understand, it's much darker than the Disney Pinocchio, and when Pinocchio becomes real, he becomes bad instead of good. But the story also has a lot of room for the thinkers, as Del Toro will be discovering what it is actually to be a Real boy. This movie seems like the perfect movie for me as I am a true Del Toro fan, and I've also had a lifelong interest in the Jim Henson Company. More info on this film as it emerges.

The other movie is a feature length stop motion movie, that Del Toro is not at liberty at this time to expose to us. But if you have seen Hellboy 2, you will recall that the stop-motion sequence at the beginning was quite stunning.

Also in other Del Toro news, the second Hobbit movie has been confirmed, so there will definitely be 2 Hobbit movies, 1 based on the actual book, and 1 to breach the gap between the Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.

Hellboy 3 looks more likely to happen after the success of Hellboy 2.

Most of you are probably not aware of this, but there's a new Del Toro movie launched on DVD in the UK and soon to the USA. The movie is called "While She Was Out" it's directed by Susan Monteford, and Del Toro is an executive producer. The movie is not as good as Del Toro's own directed movies, but Monteford certainly seems to be able to build up tension. Anyway go on and check out the movie, it's well worth the watch!

That's all the news for now, I'll hand on any other news that I find!

Drona

Bollywood Superhero Fantasy!

Sounds quite original huh? Well yes and no, it is original, but it's still got that popular fantasy style which will endear it to viewers of not only Bollywood movies, but also the who movie fanbase (as long as you like fantasy).

Drona's life changes dramatically when he realises that he is no ordinary person, he learns to realise that he is the only person in the world that can stop the ever proceding apocalypse... Follow his fantastical journey which will bear a healthy resemblance to Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

What immediately struck me was that this movie is exceedingly beautiful, wonderful colours and a treat for your eyes. There is some great action in there too.

I really enjoyed the movie, and hope that my readers will also have the same enjoyment that I partook of!

It's the first Bollywood movie I have seen, and it was a great experience, so I hope to break into the genre a bit more in the future so stay posted!

Hey also watch out for the little cameo of an Indian Gandalf the White :)

Movie Rating: 9.25/10

Coming soon: City of Ember, and Mutant Chronicles

Puppetry

There are a number of practices we use in the filming industry, one is to simply shoot the whole movie with video cameras, which is the bulk of all movies; another is to create computer animations, such as 3D animations (Toy Story, Cars) or Anime (like the Japanese films); Then there's stop-motion animation, which uses some kind of mechanical puppets and take a sequence of photos to create a full moving picture; but what I'm really interested in today is another filming practice which we call Puppetry!

Puppetry is the one practice that I believe will never die... looking at Jim Henson's Labyrinth, I believe that still competes with the graphics and all that we use 20 years later... this movie is 20 years old... and to me it looks as relevant today as any other movie that you will see! Tell me if you think I'm wrong!

These are a couple points in which I believe puppetry excels in:

• You merely have to create the perfect puppet and film it... no messing around with CGI that may or may not look right.
• Puppets are real objects and thus interact correctly with their surroundings, which is very hard to do with CGI

OK, here are a few examples of good puppets:

• Obviously the Muppets immediately spring into mind, there's some pretty good designs amongst them
• Yoda from Star Wars: way better than the new CGI version found in the latter films!
• Treebeard from Lord of the Rings: when they couldn't use CGI for him, they had to go with puppetry, which worked far better!
• All around the original Star Wars trilogy you will find various

Well perhaps Jim Henson's original ideas evolved since then- We now have a variation called Animatronics, which seems very likely to start to take over CGI as first choice in creating creatures. There is an interesting post that will give detail into how animatronics works... read here!

Del Toro has announced that he intends to use animatronics over CGI while adapting The Hobbit, which was widely used in Pan's Labyrinth and caused a stunning effect!

So it seems that puppetry has had a big boost around the time of Star Wars and Labyrinth... and has laid dormant until Del Toro has recently picked it up, proving it's potential in a modern day audience with Pan's Labyrinth... looking forward to more development in the puppetry industry!

Puppetry will never die!

MirrorMask

MirrorMask is a little known film, which should be much wider known!

A fantasy film by established author Neil Gaiman, this is fantasy for the hard core, even filmed in a weired way.

Made in asociation with the Henson Company and utilising Henson's creature shop, this is no ordinary film. A true original!

Film Rating: 8.5/10