REEKS OF WIN

Finally this month sees the release of Moon, the hot new Science Fiction movie by director Duncan Jones (also known as Zowie Bowie) and starring Sam Rockwell. The timing of the release couldn’t be better, this month is the 40th anniversary of Apollos flight.

Imdb gives the synopsis:

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He has been a faithful employee for three long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium-3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earth’s energy crisis.

Isolated, determined, and steadfast, Sam has followed the rulebook obediently, and his time on the moon has been enlightening, but uneventful. The solitude has given him time to reflect on the mistakes of his past and to work on his raging temper. He does his job mechanically and spends most of his available time dreaming of his imminent return to Earth, to his wife, young daughter and an early retirement.

But two weeks shy of his departure from Selene, Sam starts seeing things, hearing things, and feeling strange. And, when a routine extraction goes horribly wrong, he discovers that Lunar have their own plans for replacing him and that the new recruit is eerily familiar.

Before he can return to Earth, Sam has to confront himself and the discovery that the life he has created may not be his own. It’s more than his contract that is set to expire.

Jones used a lot of old school effects to get the look he wanted for the movie. He examined the way Science Fiction effects were done in the 70s and 80s and worked with those kinds of effects, tweaking them with modern day digital embellishments to form a hybrid look.

All things considered, this movie has a director that is Science Fiction down to his genetics, a brilliant actor with a great back catalogue of respected movies, a unique look. This is a movie that isn’t scared of taking itself seriously, there is no tongue-in-cheek that we’ve come to expect from recent Science Fiction, this is a movie to get excited about.

The clip was debuted on itunes today. The film opens in regular and IMAX theaters on July 15th. The clip features and intro by Daniel Radcliffe , Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. You would usually have to go open itunes then download the video. But I uploaded it here so you won’t have to go through that shit. Aren’t I nice? No? Well up yours then.


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Revellers have enjoyed “the best ever Glastonbury” - heading home with the music of a reformed Blur and tributes to Michael Jackson still ringing in their ears.

A two-week operation to cleanse the 900-acre Somerset site of 1,650 tonnes of rubbish is now due to begin.

Almost unbroken sunshine and classic sets from Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young prompted organiser Michael Eavis to say this year’s event could never be bettered.

Springsteen had performed “probably the best show of his life”, Eavis claimed, despite The Boss going nine minutes over time and landing him with a £3,000 council curfew fine.

On Sunday night Blur stopped short of Springsteen’s two-hour-and-40 minute marathon. But with guitarist Graham Coxon back in the fold, punky versions of their greatest hits transported fans back to pre-recession days.

Songs like There’s No Other Way, Song 2 and This Is A Low drew a massive crowd, many of whom had watched when Blur played Glastonbury 11 years ago.

Fan Laura Warby, 21, a bar manager from London, was not even a teenager when Blur first started. She said: “It was the best thing I’ve ever seen. They’re my favourite band. It was amazing - I cried. During Song 2 it went crazy.”

Had Damon Albarn aged well? “Yes, I love him,” she answered.

The death of Michael Jackson failed to dampen spirits at the event, although several performers honoured the King of Pop in their sets.

Lily Allen and Lady Gaga both wore solitary white gloves in apparent tributes, while Dizzee Rascal lead thousands in a giant chorus of Thriller.

Just for anyone who hasn’t seen it.

So Lindsay Lohan celebrated her 23rd birthday at the Wet Republic pool in Vegas. Where else, right? That’s all I got. Enjoy the pics.

So we knew Transformers was gonna do great at the box office. But $201.2 million in it’s first 5 days? I didn’t think it would do that good. I still have not seen it yet so I don’t know if it is good. I hope it is. I enjoyed the first one. Here’s the report from Comingsoon.net:

The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.

Going into the weekend, there was no doubt Michael Bay’s anticipated sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, would be huge, though few thought it could open as big as last summer’s biggest blockbuster, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, at least not based on the awful reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. After grossing just over $60 million on Wednesday (a record for the weekday opening) and another $29 million on Thursday, the sequel brought in an estimated $112 million over the weekend for a total of $201.2 million in its first five days. Besides setting a record for a June opening, surpassing 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bay’s latest grossed the second-largest amount over a five-day period after The Dark Knight’s $203.8 million. The IMAX Corporation reports that the movie had the best five-day gross, grossing $14.4 million in its first five days on 169 IMAX screens, nearly double what the 5th “Harry Potter” movie did two years ago. “Revenge of the Fallen” became the third-largest worldwide opening weekend grosser, earning $274 million and beating out last summer’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The film has become Paramount’s biggest international opener of all time, again besting “Indy 4″ for the top honor, and ranking as the industry’s fourth-biggest opening of all time abroad. The sequel has taken in $387 million worldwide to date.

From Comingsoon.net:

Walt Disney Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with new images from Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland featuring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Also included are three more pieces of concept art.

The March 5, 2010 release, also starring Michael Sheen, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman, is almost like a sequel to the original story. The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn’t remember.

I am very interested in seeing some footage from this. I’m surer we won’t even get a teaser til December. Looks like he is going in a good direction. Here are the new images.

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Everyone is in shock right now as the news comes in that the king of pop has passed away. Here’s a report from Fox News:

Music icon Michael Jackson died Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital, a source close to the family told FOX News.

Debra Opri, a former Jackson family attorney, confirmed that the legendary singer, 50, was rushed to the hospital Thursday afternoon, where he later died at 3:15 p.m. EDT after falling into a deep coma.

Multiple reports claimed that shortly after noon Thursday, Jackson went into cardiac arrest and had to receive CPR in the ambulance. As the news broke, Joe Jackson, his father, told multiple news sources that his son was “not doing well.”

Paramedics responded to a 911 call at around 12:26 p.m. PDT, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was reportedly not breathing at the time of their arrival.

A Jackson spokesman was unavailable for comment.

His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

I am speechless right now. I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. A sad day in the music world indeed. Michael Jackson was a legend and an astounding performer, he will be missed. Again, Michael Jackson dead at age 50.

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Rob Zombie unveiled the final one sheet for the sequel to his dreadful Halloween remake recently. And by looking at the new trailer, it looks like total shit. Seriously. Good luck Zombie.

Here’s the new Trailer: