Archive for September, 2009

The first pic of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet shows up online

UPDATE: Looks like the embed is down but you can go HERE to check out the video.

Never was a huge fan of the Green Hornet character in general but the one thing that peaks my interest in this modern day remake is it’s director Michel Gondry. Always cool to see someone work in a genre outside of the norm and for this superhero piece, it should be cool to see if the Frenchman can carry a film like this and make it standout. Nothing much to see in the video for the most part, I mean if you count a cool explosion & a bulldozer being dropped on a car, of course. No, but really, it’s footage shot from a long way out…

28 Days Later sweded in one minute

It seems like this might be the next level of the swede in that the University of York Filmmaking Society have retold the entire movie in a single, one minute long take. They have made some more of these in the past including Kill Bill & Forrest Gump and although I have yet to see Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, those seemed to be pretty awesome adaptations of the original stories. So if anyone was looking challenging way to make a swede for the upcoming Swede Fest, here’s an idea that you might want to consider. Shoot away!

Watch Whip It with the NOtown Roller Girls this Friday

Who wouldn’t want to watch a movie with a room full of beautiful women that could undoubtedly beat the living piss out of you but don’t because they’re all nice? In a truly excellent cross promotion idea, the NOtown Roller Girls are inviting one and all to go watch Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It this Friday, October 2nd at Edwards Theater at Riverpark with members of the team and will also be doing a meet & greet. Head on over here for the official announcement & more details as the exact times will be announced later this week.

Dem Trailers: A Nightmare On Elm Street

It’s that time of the year when movie goers begin salivating for scary movies (I personally can’t wait to go see Saw 17 and see some wacky dismembering action) and the teaser trailer for one of the films from my childhood that caused me to lose some sleep. Jackie Earle Haley takes over for Robert Englund as Freddy Kruger which I think is pretty awesome casting but the “Produced By Michael Bay” title card only hurts the films chances for me. But visually, it looks pretty damn good and it looks to be stepping far away from the caricature Freddy became in his latter films. Check it out and see what you think!

Swede Fest 4 update: venue set, local blogs & podcasters called out

In in a continued effort to keep the nomadic theme of the Swede Fest going, we’ve finally got our next venue in place: Audie’s Olympic has graciously accepted to host the next Swede Fest! As we announced earlier this week, it is all going down on Saturday, November 7th at 5pm so you have plenty of time to get your entry ready for the big day.

Now, Bryan & I always do one each for the festivals and that’s a given. But we want to call out all the other local blogs and podcasters here in town to step up to the plate, have some fun and create a Swede! I’m talking to you Fresno Beehive, The Fresnan, ArcHop, The View Looks Good From Here Fresno, Late Update, Strangers With Comics, Fresnocentric,  This Is Conlan, The Married Gamers, Mike Scott, It’s Worth Recording… the list goes on and on. Get out there and represent! Get your team together, grab a camera and get out there & shoot! Mad props to Michael Banti, Travis Sheridan & Famous Whitewater who’ve been participating in the event. They real, they real!! Those first guys up there: not so much. SAY SOMETHING!! (that is merely me talkin’ smack to serve as motivation) I really hope to see some new entrants this time around or at very least come on out in November and see what your fellow creative Fresnans have put together!

Entertainment Tonight visits Iron Man 2 set

Man, there are some pretty cool images in this pretty long behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming Iron Man 2 produced by those pretty people over at Entertainment Tonight. They touch on some things that might be considered spoilers so if you want to go in fresh into the film next year, I suggest you stay away but something tells me you won’t. One notable tidbit was Robert Downey Jr. mentioning that he has to go back and do some reshoots for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. I wonder if that has anything to do with the rumors that Brad Pitt will make a cameo as Moriarty in the film. Hmmm…

Dem Trailers: Symbol

A teaser trailer, but what a teaser. Visually captivating but honestly I know nothing about the film so lets see what our friends at Slash Film had to say about it:

Matsumoto plays the main character, a man who wakes up in an empty, white, windowless room and evidently can’t help looking bewildered. As seen in the teaser above, the man notices a dick-and-balls thing protruding out of the wall. According to a synopsis at IMDB, before the monochromatic, freaky angels circle around him, a pink toothbrush falls out of the wall “setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in an absurd escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game...”  The man surrounded by dogs in the trailer is an aging Mexican wrestler who is (non-) preparing for a big match, much to the concern of his family. There is a spoiler-worthy meta-sounding connection between the two.

Yep, craziness! But the trailer did make me jump. What do you think? More foreign mumbo jumbo and a case of style over substance or not? Call it now, gaijins! [via Slash Film]