Movie Minesweeper - The From The Room Across The Hall Edition

- Nicolas Cage won't be in Capone Rising after all. Perhaps there won't even be a Capone Rising. If there is, then Gerard Butler is still going to be the young Sean Connery.

- The Australian Daily Telegraph seem to think there's the possibilty of one more Star Wars film for cinemas. Nonsense. I think it will be at least ten years until Lucas announces more Star Wars feature films.

- Ubisoft have developed the videogame tie-in for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf.

- CelebritySmack have a shot of Madonna, movie director. Apparently, Filth and Wisdom is only a short. That's merciful.

- Surprise surprise: Hope Davis will be in Charlie Kaufmann's Synecdoche, New York and once that's wrapped, she'll shoot Genova with Michael Winterbottom.

- Trent Reznor is trying to turn his album Year Zero into something more audiovisual, perhaps a film. Apparently, he's talking to 'A-list people' in order to do so. Sadly, this likely means David Fincher and not, say, Mark Romanek.

- Fox are planning a movie based on The Sims. Sim City I can see - the hurricanes and Godzilla-alikes might make for fun - but The Sims? Isn't this just every sitcom ever? Maybe they can do a cross-license and bring back Friends at the same time, as the same project.

- Tell me why. I don't like Monday Monday.

- Lodge Kerrigan is to write and direct a remake of Les Voleurs. This is a very good thing. We'll never get to see In God's Hands - stupid god and his clumsy hands - but at least we have something to look forward to again on the Kerrigan front.

- Rintaro, director of the animated Metropolis, is the latest to get going on a CG Penguin film. Apparently, the film is going to be kind of Franco-Japanese, somehow. Great name, though: Yona Yona Penguin.

- The BBC have comissioned Outcasts, a rather serious sounding new sci-fi series. Expect the American remake to follow.

- HorrorMovies have a rather exciting new clip from Hostel 2.

- And... Eli Roth is making strides with his Trailer Trash project, smaller steps with his Grind House 'sequel'. He's also pretty clear that he's done with Hostel, and won't cook up a third installment.

- There's going to be an Ocean's 14 but not a fourth Jason Bourne film? Suits me just fine. I won't lose any sleep over that outcome.

- A Lone Ranger film from the Pirates of the Caribbean team. Not for me, thankyou.

- US readers can see two clips from Sicko. [EDIT: Or download directly instead]

Direct Download Link For Best Edit Of The Ocean's 13 Trailer Yet

Did I mention that I'll be posying my up-close-and-personal look at the Ocean's 13 script any hour now?

In the meantime, download and enjoy the best trailer the film has yet received.

Direct Download Link For New Ocean's 13 Featurette

Apple are hosting a new Ocean's 13 featurette. Download it, burn it to DVD and... er... show it to your students. That's my plan, anyway.

[EDIT: That link works for me, but not for ArchCarrier, it seems. So try another too]

Brougher Back

When Stephen Soderbergh's Schizopolis was released in the UK it was as a touring 'festival' of supposedly offbeat and eccentric indie films. Clockwatchers was also on the slate, I believe, as was Hilary Brougher's The Sticky Fingers of Time. Schizopolis was easily the best, though I thought Sticky Fingers showed some promise.

Brougher's second feature is now gearing up for (hopefully a much bigger) release. Stephanie Daley is the story of a young girl, played by Amber Tamblyn, accused of covering up her pregnancy, murdering the newborn and disposing of the body. Tilda Swinton investigates.

I'm very intrigued. Here are a couple of posters for the film, couresty of the International Movie Poster Awards.


That second one is really quite hopeless, I think.