Movie Minesweeper - The I Have To Rush Off To Work Edition

- The Red Ballon is headed back to Cannes. Lovely.

- 5 full minutes of Hostel 2 are to play before Bug in American cinemas.

- Jon 'Duckie' Cryer is to star in Tortured, a thriller to be directed by Nolan Lebovitz.

- Scott McCloud is to speak at Siggraph this year. Understanding Comics is the one book I recommend without fail to each and every one of my film students.

- There's a nice Magicians featurette online now.

- Stuntman Mike's Death Proof car is for sale on e-bay.

- Time Out have some 28 Weeks Later clips. In case you were thinking of going to see it, these should put you off.

They're Not Like Big And Tallies

Here's the poster for William Friedkin's Bug.


[EDIT: This was apprently one of two supplied to JoBlo - see the other there]

Is Bug Here Yet?

William Friedkin's Bug has been a long time coming. Chances are, you saw it already at a festival. That's how informed, dedicated and previously-Bugged the typical film ick reader is.

Sadly, not the typical film ick writer. A tricky financial situation (that is, I was broke) prevented me from catching this one at London Film Festival last year, and I've been regretting it ever since. Audiences have been really freaked out by this film and there's nothing as fun as sitting in a room with eight hundred people clawing at their skin to get the imaginary bugs out.

Yahoo have now unveiled their rather awful encoding of the trailer - at least, I assume the film doesn't look like that - and Richard Brunton popped the link up on Filmstalker, from where I nabbed it.