/Film has posted some information about how the 20 minutes of The Dark Knight was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras. They have also posted the above image which shows how much more you get to see compared to the standard 35mm widescreen version.
The IMAX cinema that was fairly close to where I live has closed but luckily the IMAX in London, which has the largest screen in Britain, will still be showing TDK when I visit there in August.
Portfolio.com has a graphic showing how Batmans ROI has reduced from over 600% for the first movie down to a loss for the fourth movie and a small return on the fifth.
I did great on Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th but not so good on the others. [via Andy's Blog]
Even though the closing credits for Lord of The Rings is long, according to Wikipedia the 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days and Clerks 2 had even longer closing credits. In the case of Around the World in 80 Days, it's closing credits featured an animated recap of the movie's three-hour storyline, identifying the actors in the order in which they appeared. [via]
Image via Film School Rejects
With the next installment of Indiana Jones being released in a few days, Film School Rejects has compiled a list of 10 memorable scenes from the first three films.
/Film has posted a large review of what may be the world's best cinema - The Alamo Draft House in Texas. What makes it the best? 23 draught and 30 bottled beers that's what. They also have a ton of other great features and facilities too. Head over to /Film for the review and photos.
Some of these were new to me. Link
Photos of current Hollywood celebrities photographed in scenes from Hitchcock films. [via]
Movie posters from every Oscar Best Picture winner. [via]
The NYTimes has an extremely detailed interactive map showing how well movies have done at the box office between 1986 and the start of 2008.
Take a look at a few of cinema's most mind-boggling moments of scientific inaccuracy—plus a few rare films that manage to get things (mostly) right.
A pretty detailed analysis of deaths in all four Rambo movies. In the fourth installment, John Rambo has opted to keep his shirt on whilst killing people. Age? [via]
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Very impressive!
With Cloverfield just around the corner (at least in the US - here in the UK we have to wait until Feb 1st), here are some new links.
New Cloverfield TV Ad Shows New Clip of the Monster
Interview with director Matt Reeves
25 Production Photos
Production Notes
A source inside New Line has revealed that plans for Freddy vs. Jason 2 are off, as is the A Nightmare on Elm Street prequel. The source says that Freddy is gearing up to return in a new Nightmare on Elm Street installment but doesn't reveal any more than that. I loved the Nightmare on Elm Street series (well most of them) and would love to see another installment or a remake. [via]
Vanity Fair has a new feature article on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which includes a few new behind the scenes photos. Slashfilm has them along with the article.
A full-length trailer for the next Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and it looks good. head on over to First Showing to view it.
Slashfilm has posted images of some Christmas cards sent out by LucasFilm including this years card (above) which features three rows of pop-up Stormtroopers.
If you don't mind spoiling a new movie, click the image above to watch the first 5 minutes of the upcoming movie Alien vs Predator: Requiem. [via]
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
You can download the movie in a wide variety of formats here.
Fox have released some scenes from the upcoming Alien vs Predator: Requiem movie due for release at the end of the year. The shots feature a predator and a 'predalien'. Hopefully this movie will be better than the first which if I remember correctly wasn't too great.
It's had working titles of John Rambo, Rambo IV: End of Peace, Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye, Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra and Rambo: To Hell and Back but the final title of the fourth Rambo film will simply be called Rambo.
A collection of some strange movie posters.
For those living in the UK, tomorrow night at 10pm the Sci-Fi Channel is broadcasting the first 10 minutes of the new sci-fi thriller The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The movie has already been released in the US but is not due to be released over here until the 12th October.
I was invited to a press screening of the movie tonight but as it was in London I couldn't go. It's a pity as I bet it would be shown in that awesome digital cinema that I saw Ratatouille in.
I think showing the first 10 minutes of a movie is a great way of enticing people to take a trip to the cinema to watch the movie but I think I'll wait until this weekend and watch it in the cinema.
Note: Apparently the poster above is an unreleased version - the movie poster that is seen everywhere is red.
It seems like an age since I saw Ratatouille in London but it's finally due to be released in the UK (12th Oct). It seems that the version I saw was the US version as one of the character's voices has been replaced with TV chef Jamie Oliver. He will provide the voice for a morose restaurant inspector.
The Sun has an video interview with Jamie Oliver that shows him in the studio with writer and director Brad Bird.
66 stills from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the still from the movie scene to which they refer. Very cool! Link
