Everyones favourite X-Man will return in a solo-movie after X-3. Snikt!

"Harry Shearer, who voices Rev. Lovejoy, Ned Flanders and a bunch more Springfield nutjobs, was a guest on the Mancow radio show and spilled a tiny portion of the beans when asked about a Simpsons movie. First off, he confirmed the 2-year contract extension for the television show (which will put them at roughly 1000 seasons) and said that the extension will not delay the movie as the actors are already laying down dialogue." Cinematical

"Four guys from the Midwest drive across the country to honor the wish of their dying friend: to watch 'Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace' at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch before the movie's worldwide release. "

This project by Ernie Cline has been a legend on the internet since 1998. The script is supposed to be very sweet and everyone still wants to see it happen. <A target=_blank HREF=www.aintitcool.com">Harry knowles wrote about it a couple of times and now the project will be <A target=_blank HREF=www.imdb.com">a real film. And Kevin Smith will definetely play Harry Knowles.

Very funny movie! Incredibly stupid comments by a bunch of racists!

A Jim Henson-directed 1966 ad for Wilson’s Meats staring Muppets Scoop and Skip.

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Plot Outline: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote (Jones) develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Toby Jones .... Truman Capote Sandra Bullock .... Harper Lee Daniel Craig .... Perry Smith Gwyneth Paltrow .... Peggy Lee Sigourney Weaver .... Babe Paley Jeff Daniels .... Alvin Dewey Isabella Rossellini .... Gloria Guinness

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Cool!!! They also have bloopers, commercials etc.

Ayana und Darius

Ein Film von Oliver Hardt, D 2005, 55 min. "Black Deutschland" ist eine intime Studie über das Denken und Fühlen einer gar nicht so kleinen Minderheit, über schwarze Deutsche und Schwarze in Deutschland.

VINCENT: Als ich nach Deutschland kam und deutsch lernte, da hieß es, Neger bedeutet schwarze Person. Das war soweit ok. Ich habe im Wörterbuch nachgeschaut und tatsächlich bedeutete Neger schwarze Person. Aber wenn du dann auf der Strasse hörst: Nee, das mach ich nicht für dich, ich bin doch nicht dein Neger, dann fängst du an nachzudenken.

Mit Darius James, Sam Meffire, Vincent Mewanu, Tyron Ricketts, Noah Sow, Michael Basden, Ayana Jackson, Bernie Wilmot u.a. Erstausstrahlung am 24. Januar 2006 auf arte

16.03.2006 | 17:00 | ACUD-Kino Berlin

Screening im Rahmen des Filmfestivals globale 06; im Anschluss Diskussion mit Oliver Hardt und Noah Sow

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Quote from time.com: It has often been noted that if Henry Ford were to come back today, he would wonder why no one had come up with a better idea than the internal combustion engine. A similar thought may occur to any visitor to a movie shoot. Dozens, maybe hundreds of technicians adjust the lights, apply the makeup and dress the set, much the way it was done almost 100 years ago. And as in D.W. Griffith's day, the film still runs through a camera, then is processed, reproduced many times and sent to theaters.

The addiction to doing things that way baffles Lucas. "Do you still use a typewriter?" he asks a TIME movie critic. "Do you go to a library and consult books for most of your research? Is your story set in type, letter by letter? No. Your business takes advantage of technological advances. Why shouldn't my business?"

Interesting interview at time.com...

(27 minutes) Award-winning short film from British writer-director Martin McDonagh.

Winner of the 2006 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film, the darkly comic Six Shooter stars Brendan Gleeson as a widower who encounters suicide, a shoot-out and an exploding cow on an eventful train ride with a disturbed young man.

Watch it online at Channel 4...

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Plus they're making him more human and pacifistic. And no special-effects! Whew, a superhero without the super! How about leaving out the great set-design, the stunts, the babes and the exotic locations too? A radical reinvention of James Bond which sounds like a sissy version of Jack Bauer already!

The whole damned thing in lousy quality on youtube or the first five minutes only (better quality).

Diese legendäre Sendung wurde nur einmal ausgestrahlt und damals hatte niemand einen Videorecorder. George Lucas ließ das Ding verbieten und vernichten, aber irgendwie hat ein Bootleg von abenteuerlicher Qualität doch noch überlebt. Viele junge Rebellen mussten ihr Leben lassen um Euch diesen Quatsch zu präsentieren...!

Das "Star Wars Holiday Special" nur als schlecht gemacht, uninspirierte Abzockerei und wahnsinnig dämlich zu bezeichnen ist einfach nicht genug. Erstaunlich ist vor allem, dass George Lucas seine Figuren dafür hergab. Irgendeine Klausel muss der erfolgreichste Independent-Filmemacher aller Zeiten wohl doch übersehen haben und so schien er sich dieses Sammelsuriums aus schlechten Sketschen nicht erwehren zu können. Anyway, Jefferson Starship haben einen Gastauftritt, die Familie von Chewbacca und Boba Fett treten auf, Prinzessin Leia singt ein Lied und das alles ist so unfassbar beknackt, dass man es gesehen haben muss.

Diese fünf Minuten Ausschnitte in halbwegs guter Quali sollten aber genügen um mitreden zu können. Besonders schön ist die kurze Werbung mit R2D" und C3PO am Ende. Damals wurden Spielsachen wohl eher bei den Eltern beworben. Unten kann man den ganzen Vogel komplett sehen. erinnert an selige Zeiten mit abgenudelten VHS-Bootlegs.

"KERA-TV in Dallas was the first PBS station to broadcast Monty Python's Flying Circus, and it was the Pythons' first stop in the US after the premier of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Los Angeles in 1975. This interview footage first aired live on KERA that year, and hasn't been seen by the public since. It was discovered on an old reel that had been saved by an engineer, and as you can see, it cuts off after about 14 minutes... the engineer taped over the rest. It's a look at the group being candidly questioned by fans at the peak of their fame and creative powers." The Sound of Young America has more.

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Mr. Stallone has the Teaser.

Great! Real-life recreation of The Simpsons opening. Via metafilter

Old Apple Brochure created by Simpsons creator Matt Groening: This was created well before the simpsons. It features characters from Groening's Life is Hell comic strip.

Even The New York Times is writing about all these spoofs, but no fan of "Lost" wants to miss this special Sawyer-Episode of "Brokeback Island". Yahoo has collected more parodies like "Empire Brokeback" starring R2D2 and C3PO.

Jon Stewart did one of the voices for this movie. Here is what he had to say: "It reminds me more of something you might have seen on H.R. Pufnstuf in the 70s - without all the hallucinogenic drugs."

Stewart and Roger Ebert talk about "Doogal"

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Tim Burtons latest movie was made for children, but it's definetely one of his best. "Corpse Bride" was okay, the remake "Planet of the Apes" was one of the biggest disasters in the history of film and all copies should be destroyed, but with this adaptation of the classic story by Roald Dahl the "good old Burton" returns.

Incredible cast! Johnny Depp is great as Willy "Michael Jackson" Wonka and it looks like they had a lot of fun making this. Augustus from Düsseldorf rocks! I would love to know how much LSD they took when they came up with the Candyland, the Oompa Loompas and all the other great ideas. An almost perfect film for all ages.

Official Site!

Check the logos on the bottom of the page! There are some hidden links like "Wonka Industries!

Lots of great extra-stuff on disc 7 of the box for season 1. New flashbacks, interviews, fun & games! It's exactly what the audience wants. Go to your video-store or get the torrent...the obvious sites are currently closed down. They're helping out the terrorists, I guess...!

"Iranian cinema of course, began long before 1997. But since then it has become an international phenomenon, a New Wave on par with the French movement of the 1950s and 60s, the German movement of the 60s and 70s and the Hong Kong movement of the 80s and 90s."

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"A scanner Darkly" - the new trailer for Richard Linklaters film based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. Sure looks interesting!

"Though a handful of films - almost all comedies - have sold OK in their PSP-specific releases, the great majority of titles haven't really sold at all. (And, to put this in context, the ones that sell best move only about 100,000 units, which is nothing compared to DVD sales.) As a result, studios are adjusting their release policies, which essentially means that they're both pulling titles (including Goodfellas, which was due from Warner this spring) and generally reducing the number and genre of films that they sell.

In addition to the fact that the PSP hasn't been the blockbuster hit that Sony hoped, the disc format aimed specifically at the unit faces other difficulties as well, primarily the twin facts that PSP discs can't be played in any other players, and that movie can be illegally loaded into PSP memories, thus making legal releases unnecessary."

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In case you're looking for some Muslim comedy!

Fun for the nerds!

Marylin Manson macht zur Zeit wieder die Straßen von Berlin unsicher. Gestern stellte er im Möwenpick Hotel sein Debut als Regisseur und Schauspieler vor, "Phantasmagoria", ein Film über Lewis Carroll, den Autor von Alice im Wunderland. Mit dabei ist neben Angie Jolie auch Gottfried Helnwein, der auf seiner Website ein exklusives Interview mit seinem Kumpel Manson am Start hat. Könnte was sein. Der Trailer hat bei der Premiere jedenfalls nicht nur Brad Pitt schwer beeindruckt. Was macht der Pitt mit seiner Braut eigentlich immer noch in Berlin? Haben die keine Arbeit, lassen sie die in die USA wegen Meckerns nicht wieder rein oder hat es in Amerika wirklich nicht so schöne öffentliche Indoor-Spielplätze wie in Kreuzberg?

They shaved the Cookie Monster and put it in a suit!

Leather is the new Spandex!

"Officials at Texas A&M University-Commerce want Walt Disney Co. and the makers of "Glory Road" to apologize for inaccurately linking their school to some of the film's most racially charged scenes. The movie chronicled the history-making Texas Western Miners, who won the 1966 NCAA title with the first all-black starting lineup in a championship game. (...) Though the Jerry Bruckheimer film opened last month, university officials waited to verify the facts of the game before seeking an apology.

The university has asked Disney, Bruckheimer, director James Gartner and the screenplay writers to apologize for the scenes.

Officials with Disney and Bruckheimer's film company weren't immediately available for comment."

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"Director Ben Rekhi had turned down six figure distribution offers in favor of releasing his 2005 SXSW hit, Waterborne, on Google Video. Under Rekhi's agreement with Google, the movie could be watched via streaming video for free (for its first 10 days of release), or downloaded for less than $5.

According to Rekhi, his movie was viewed over 25,000 times in its first two weeks of release, and was downloaded hundreds of times every day. The film's producer, Smriti Mundhra, told The Hollywood Reporter's Anne Thompson that the decision was an unequivocal success: "The exposure we've gotten though the Google Video distribution model vastly exceeds what we would have gained through traditional theatrical distribution." Furthermore, the movie's presence on Google Video and the associated publicity have led to DVD preorders (currently at about 15,000) that greatly exceeded Rekhi's expectations. All in all, Waterborne has become a great advertisement for the concrete advantages of online distribution to the makers of independent films.

Waterborne comes out on DVD in two weeks."

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