Five By Three, Remainder Two

According to the LA Times, Guillermo del Toro (hurrah!), Alfonso Cuaron (hurrah!) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu are trying to set up a five picture, 100 million dollar deal with a willing Hollywood studio.

The maths breaks down something like this: five films, two in Spanish, one directed by each of the three named above and the slack picked up by Carlos Cuaron and Rodrigo Garcia. That sounds like at least two majorly Oscar nominated films, two all-time cult classics and all the potential of the remaining two films to be either or both or something else entirely.

Universal seem to be set to close the deal after other studios balked at the price tag (foolishly, if you ask me).

Children Of Men Double Dip Already Lined Up

The 2-Disc special edition of Children of Men, as discussed here just a few days ago, is due to hit UK shelves on March 19th. That's not even three weeks away.

Is this the quickest double dip ever?

There's almost a half hour of exclusive features on the HD-DVD release, but the hi-def war is far from over, says I, so buy at your peril.

What's On The 2 Disc Children Of Men DVD?

The first PAL version of Children of Men to come as a 2-Disc special edition appears to be the Australian one, released just one day after the R1 NTSC release (28th and 27th March respectively). No sign of it on the horizon here in the UK, where we got an early, but skimpy, single disc release at Christmastime.

The special features as listed by retailers are:

• Children of Men comments by Slavoj Zizek
• Futuristic Design - from concept to creation, see how director Alfonso Cuarón’s dynamic vision of the future was brought to life
• Visual Effects - Creating the Baby
• Men Under Attack - Making of Featurette
• Theo & Julian - get the inside story from Clive Owen and Julianne Moore
• The Possibility of Hope - a documentary by Alfonso Cuarón that explores the themes in Children of Men
• Deleted Scenes

You may have seen Slavoj Zizek's A Perverts Guide to the Cinema, which started very well but ended up taking a few tumbles after the odd crazy leap of speculation and supposition. Dealing with just one film, and one so ripe for Zizek's flavour of psychoanalaytical-come-philosophical film essaying, could prove to be much more successful.

The prize item appears to be The Possibility of Hope, but I'm sad there's still no commentary track.