I Am Link

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--- The Fountain has been pushed back from October 13th to November 22nd. While this sits good for Warner Bros. faith in the film – it’s now opening the week before Thanksgiving which is a golden release date for a movie – it angers me… I’ve been waiting for five fuckin’ years for Aronofsky’s next film, and now I have to wait an entire month longer! Urgh!

--- Dark Horizons has the first picture of Buffy Summers Sarah Michelle Gellar in her next film, The Return, which comes out on November 17th. DH describes the film thusly:

“The new supernatural thriller has Gellar playing Joanna Mills, a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her… she fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she's never met, at the hands of a heartless killer - a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target.

Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. Once there, she will discover that some secrets can't be buried; some spirits never die; and that BLAH BLAH BLAH WHY DON'T YOU JUST SPOIL THE WHOLE MOVIE, GOD.”

--- The British horror film, The Descent, which is descending (ugh, I know, shame on me) upon theaters this Friday, has been altered!!! They've taken off the original ending because it is too hopeless or some shit and given it a more hopeful ending for us lowly Amurkans. WTF? It's a horror film!!! Guess I'm skipping it in theaters and seeking out a DVD of the original version. Fuckers.

--- David Fincher plans on using a brand spankin’ new technology for filming his next film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which will involve showing Mr. Angelina Jolie aging backwards. The NY Times has a piece on the new technology, and says:

“A former Apple Computer engineer… is now putting the finishing touches on Contour, a futuristic camera system that will add photorealistic three-dimensional effects to digital entertainment…

The system could change the nature of cinematography in several ways, according to leading Hollywood producers and technologists who are planning to use the system. For example, it will make it possible to create compellingly realistic synthetic actors by capturing the facial movements of real actors in much greater detail than is currently possible. “Instead of grabbing points on a face, you will be able to capture the entire skin,” Mr. Fincher said. “You’re going to get all of the enormous detail and the quirks of human expression that you can’t plan for.”

The technology will let filmmakers transform the appearance of actors in the computer, raising the possibility of a new form of digital video in which the viewer can control the point of view — what is being described in Hollywood as “navigable entertainment.

--- George Clooney’s starring in a remake of Stephen King’s Pet Semetary? The original film’s pretty sucky, so this is fine by me, though it does seem an odd choice for Clooney at this serious stage of his career.

The one thing the original got right, though, was casting Miko Hughes as the kid, because that was one creepy little mother-humper, so let’s hope they get an equally dead-eyed youngster this time around. Too bad Dakota's gotten so old.


--- The Nightmare Before Christmas re-release trailer!!! Sally and Jack in 3-D! Halloween-Town 4-eva!!!

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