Netflix seems to be pushing their cyberpunk sci-fi series Altered Carbon hard. Usually they release one or two trailers right before one of their original projects premieres. Today we are getting our third trailer for Altered Carbon and the series isn't being released until February. I guess they want to make sure people know about the show! After all, this is the most expensive series that they've produced. They just want to make sure that it pays off for them.
The show looks freakin' awesome and I'm completely sold. I love what I've seen in the trailers and the concept is intriguing. This trailer offers us more information on the story that the series will tell. Altered Carbon is based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel, which is set 500 years in the future, and here's a description of the story that was released:
When human consciousness can be stored...
The show looks freakin' awesome and I'm completely sold. I love what I've seen in the trailers and the concept is intriguing. This trailer offers us more information on the story that the series will tell. Altered Carbon is based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel, which is set 500 years in the future, and here's a description of the story that was released:
When human consciousness can be stored...
- 12/11/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Netflix has released the first trailer for their upcoming cyberpunk sci-fi series Altered Carbon and it looks awesome! We got a couple teases last week, but this trailer gives us our best look yet at the show, and I think a lot of you are going to love what you see! Thanks to EW, we also have some images from the series for you to check out.
Altered Carbon is based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel, which is set 500 years in the future, and here's a description of the story that was released:
When human consciousness can be stored on digital implants (called “stacks”) which allow the mega-rich to continually upgrade their bodies (dubbed “sleeves”) and essentially live forever. The story follows an elite soldier named Takeshi Kovacs. This is him below during a flashback scene (where he’s initially played by Will Yun Lee) along with his...
Altered Carbon is based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel, which is set 500 years in the future, and here's a description of the story that was released:
When human consciousness can be stored on digital implants (called “stacks”) which allow the mega-rich to continually upgrade their bodies (dubbed “sleeves”) and essentially live forever. The story follows an elite soldier named Takeshi Kovacs. This is him below during a flashback scene (where he’s initially played by Will Yun Lee) along with his...
- 12/4/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Anybody that appreciates good theater and good moviemaking will be in awe of Arthur Penn’s marvelous visualization of this tale of a determined woman achieving the impossible — teaching a child that can neither see nor hear. The knock down, drag ’em out scenes between Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke are unique, to say the least.
The Miracle Worker
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1962 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Judith Lowry.
Cinematography: Ernesto Caparrós
Film Editor: Aram Avakian
Art Direction: George Jenkins
Original Music: Laurence Rosenthal
Written by William Gibson, from his stage play
Produced by Fred Coe
Directed by Arthur Penn
I can barely believe that Arthur Penn’s obviously superior picture The Miracle Worker wasn’t picked off by Criterion years ago. It’s that good — it ought to...
The Miracle Worker
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Olive Films
1962 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Judith Lowry.
Cinematography: Ernesto Caparrós
Film Editor: Aram Avakian
Art Direction: George Jenkins
Original Music: Laurence Rosenthal
Written by William Gibson, from his stage play
Produced by Fred Coe
Directed by Arthur Penn
I can barely believe that Arthur Penn’s obviously superior picture The Miracle Worker wasn’t picked off by Criterion years ago. It’s that good — it ought to...
- 11/14/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Alien franchise has an interesting history not just because of the films that hit the big screen, but also because of the ones that did not. This is a look at some of the Alien films that came close to getting a greenlight, but were never made.
During the movie production process, it is not uncommon for a film to undergo several major changes in concept before becoming fully realized. The Alien franchise is one franchise that has seen its fair share of changes along the way. However, it is also unique due to the shear volume of potential films that have hit the drawing board but never progressed. Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that the Alien franchise has run into many different problems along the way. For one, it is a rare franchise with a multitude of different filmmakers and producers involved...
During the movie production process, it is not uncommon for a film to undergo several major changes in concept before becoming fully realized. The Alien franchise is one franchise that has seen its fair share of changes along the way. However, it is also unique due to the shear volume of potential films that have hit the drawing board but never progressed. Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that the Alien franchise has run into many different problems along the way. For one, it is a rare franchise with a multitude of different filmmakers and producers involved...
- 5/3/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
This week sees the release of “Ghost In The Shell,” but you could be forgiven for mistaking it for something that came out twenty years ago. It comes from a British commercials director, has a William Gibson cyberpunk aesthetic, features among its cast Takeshi Kitano and the break-out star of “Three Colors Blue,” Juliette Binoche, and has little-to-no sensitivity towards the debate over cultural appropriation.
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- 3/27/2017
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
No doubt eager to capitalize on the upcoming live-action adaptation, Anchor Bay Entertainment and its subsidiary Manga Entertainment are gearing up for a deluxe rerelease of the original animated Ghost in the Shell. First released in Japan and the Us in 1995, the landmark science fiction film by legendary director Mamoru Oshii is one of the most visionary and influential films in the “cyberpunk” subgenre that exploded onto the silver screen with Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and enjoys a longstanding literary tradition thanks to authors like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Taking an unmistakably Japanese (and indubitably Oshii) approach to the genre, Ghost famously features both mesmerizing action sequences that inspired the Wachowskis in the direction of The Matrix, and lengthy meditations on transhumanism, existentialism, and spirituality in a hypercapitalist dystopia where human bodies and memories are subject to the same means of production and reproduction as any material resource.
- 12/15/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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Maverick director Abel Ferrara talks to us about his career in movies, from Driller Killer to Bad Lieutenant and Body Snatchers...
When British distributor Vipco put out full-age ads depicting a particularly bloody scene from Driller Killer, the movie became an unwitting part of the 'video nasty' moral flap of the early 80s. Suddenly, director Abel Ferrara's low-budget, quick-and-dirty horror-arthouse-drama about a young artist going crazy in Manhattan was lumped in with such films as Cannibal Holocaust, Last House On The Left and the tawdry SS Experiment Camp.
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Banned from 1984 until 1999 (when it was released with nearly a minute of cuts), Driller Killer is about to get a restored, 4K edition courtesy of Arrow Films, which presents the original theatrical version...
Maverick director Abel Ferrara talks to us about his career in movies, from Driller Killer to Bad Lieutenant and Body Snatchers...
When British distributor Vipco put out full-age ads depicting a particularly bloody scene from Driller Killer, the movie became an unwitting part of the 'video nasty' moral flap of the early 80s. Suddenly, director Abel Ferrara's low-budget, quick-and-dirty horror-arthouse-drama about a young artist going crazy in Manhattan was lumped in with such films as Cannibal Holocaust, Last House On The Left and the tawdry SS Experiment Camp.
See related Yonderland: saluting a brilliant fantasy comedy Yonderland series 3 episode 6 review: Swapsies Yonderland series 3 episode 5 review: The Negatus Redemption Yonderland series 3 episode 4 review: Boo
Banned from 1984 until 1999 (when it was released with nearly a minute of cuts), Driller Killer is about to get a restored, 4K edition courtesy of Arrow Films, which presents the original theatrical version...
- 11/21/2016
- Den of Geek
Some new information about the aliens in Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant have been revealed, and if you're a fan of the franchise, you'll probably want to read this. However, there is some possible spoiler-filled information here. During an interview with BBC Radio 2, Michael Fassbender let it slip that the Xenomorphs will have a new name in the film, Avp Galaxy has also offered some possible information about this new form of alien and how they are born. This is just rumored information for now, but if you want to know what it is, then by all means, read ahead.
It's been confirmed that the new alien species in the film's story will be called Neomorphs, and here's the breakdown of how they are born according to the report:
"These Aliens are the result of the local ecosystem being mutated by the accelerant/black goo. Over time, pods started to...
It's been confirmed that the new alien species in the film's story will be called Neomorphs, and here's the breakdown of how they are born according to the report:
"These Aliens are the result of the local ecosystem being mutated by the accelerant/black goo. Over time, pods started to...
- 10/25/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Ryan Lambie Oct 21, 2016
The 30-minute longer Assembly Cut brings Alien 3 closer to David Fincher’s original vision. Ryan takes a look...
David Fincher’s first film was nearly his last. In the early part of 1991, Fincher was better known as a director of commercials and movie videos, a 29-year-old filmmaker who’d cut his teeth working as a special effects cameraman on Return Of The Jedi before making promos for Nike and Madonna. By the time Fincher signed up for Alien 3, the production was already in disarray. The script had gone through draft after draft as screenwriters and directors came and went; before filming had begun, Alien 3 had already hired and lost directors Renny Harlin and Vincent Ward, and writers Eric Red and William Gibson.
See related Westworld episode 3 review: The Stray Westworld episode 2 review: Chestnut Westworld episode 1 review: The Original Westworld: trailer and synopsis for episode 5 HBO’s Westworld: ambitious,...
The 30-minute longer Assembly Cut brings Alien 3 closer to David Fincher’s original vision. Ryan takes a look...
David Fincher’s first film was nearly his last. In the early part of 1991, Fincher was better known as a director of commercials and movie videos, a 29-year-old filmmaker who’d cut his teeth working as a special effects cameraman on Return Of The Jedi before making promos for Nike and Madonna. By the time Fincher signed up for Alien 3, the production was already in disarray. The script had gone through draft after draft as screenwriters and directors came and went; before filming had begun, Alien 3 had already hired and lost directors Renny Harlin and Vincent Ward, and writers Eric Red and William Gibson.
See related Westworld episode 3 review: The Stray Westworld episode 2 review: Chestnut Westworld episode 1 review: The Original Westworld: trailer and synopsis for episode 5 HBO’s Westworld: ambitious,...
- 10/18/2016
- Den of Geek
Deadline is reporting that the Sandman Slim series of novels written by Richard Kadrey have been optioned by Studio 8. The series is already eight books strong; the most recent was released this Summer. There is a ninth on the way. Key Symons has been hired to start the adaptation process; we are a ways away from starting production. The series revolves around James “Sandman Slim” Stark, a fast talking, hard-boiled, supernatural vigilante who escapes from Hell to avenge his girlfriend’s murder and hunt down the magicians responsible for getting him sent “downtown.” I don't remember how I came across Kadrey's work. It might have been his cyber punk novel Metrophage, which read like a love letter to William Gibson. But I did...
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- 9/23/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Last Week’S Review: ‘Mr. Robot’ Throws All Decorum Out The Window
Swedish Psycho
We start right before last week’s episode ended, with Joanna Wellick waiting to confront Elliot. To him, everything about Joanna is off. He thinks she can hear his conversations with us, and Mr. Robot feels like she can see him. This week poured fuel on a smoldering fan theory that Tyrell is yet another one of Elliot’s personas — Joanna continues to address Elliot as “Ollie,” using the wrong name but with an air that she’s in on the joke. Does that mean she’s also playing along with Tyrell-as-Elliot, too? Even the name of this episode, “Hidden Process,” points towards the idea of another persona hiding in Elliot’s head. This show has made some outlandish plot turns work in that past, but this one strains credulity. If they really are going this route,...
Swedish Psycho
We start right before last week’s episode ended, with Joanna Wellick waiting to confront Elliot. To him, everything about Joanna is off. He thinks she can hear his conversations with us, and Mr. Robot feels like she can see him. This week poured fuel on a smoldering fan theory that Tyrell is yet another one of Elliot’s personas — Joanna continues to address Elliot as “Ollie,” using the wrong name but with an air that she’s in on the joke. Does that mean she’s also playing along with Tyrell-as-Elliot, too? Even the name of this episode, “Hidden Process,” points towards the idea of another persona hiding in Elliot’s head. This show has made some outlandish plot turns work in that past, but this one strains credulity. If they really are going this route,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Jay Bushman
- Indiewire
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It's a top-down shooter with a cool cyberpunk aesthetic. Check out the first trailer for Ruiner here...
Imagine the quick-and-dirty, top-down shooting of Hotline Miami fused with the cyberpunk lore of William Gibson and Katsuhiro Otomo. That's the best way to describe Ruiner, a PC game coming soon from Poland's Reikon and indie publisher Devolver Digital.
The first trailer below offers a first glimpse of the game in action, and it reminds us an awful lot of Bullfrog's spectacular 90s action strategy title, Syndicate - there's the same shadowy city which mechanically goes about its business until all the shooting starts. If you like what you see, Ruiner's website's also worth a visit - it takes you through the game's backstory and mechanics. The dash ability looks particularly impressive.
Ruiner's out this year for PC. When we have a more precise release date, we'll be sure to pass it along.
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It's a top-down shooter with a cool cyberpunk aesthetic. Check out the first trailer for Ruiner here...
Imagine the quick-and-dirty, top-down shooting of Hotline Miami fused with the cyberpunk lore of William Gibson and Katsuhiro Otomo. That's the best way to describe Ruiner, a PC game coming soon from Poland's Reikon and indie publisher Devolver Digital.
The first trailer below offers a first glimpse of the game in action, and it reminds us an awful lot of Bullfrog's spectacular 90s action strategy title, Syndicate - there's the same shadowy city which mechanically goes about its business until all the shooting starts. If you like what you see, Ruiner's website's also worth a visit - it takes you through the game's backstory and mechanics. The dash ability looks particularly impressive.
Ruiner's out this year for PC. When we have a more precise release date, we'll be sure to pass it along.
- 4/22/2016
- Den of Geek
Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
- 4/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
In today's roundup: An interview with Jay Dockendorf (Naz & Maalik), previewing Sundance and Slamdance, the ways Todd Haynes frames Carol, Quentin Tarantino as a movie blogger, "10 essential films" by Federico Fellini, 12 Japan Academy Award nominations for Hirokazu Koreeda's Our Little Sister, Pat O’Neill in New York, reviving an unrealized film by Christoph Schlingensief, news of forthcoming projects from Andrew Haigh, Andrea Arnold and Oren Moverman, Jennifer Lawrence's next movie, William Gibson on Chris Marker—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/21/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup: An interview with Jay Dockendorf (Naz & Maalik), previewing Sundance and Slamdance, the ways Todd Haynes frames Carol, Quentin Tarantino as a movie blogger, "10 essential films" by Federico Fellini, 12 Japan Academy Award nominations for Hirokazu Koreeda's Our Little Sister, Pat O’Neill in New York, reviving an unrealized film by Christoph Schlingensief, news of forthcoming projects from Andrew Haigh, Andrea Arnold and Oren Moverman, Jennifer Lawrence's next movie, William Gibson on Chris Marker—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/21/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
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Home video clip show You’ve Been Framed is currently airing its 29th series. We celebrate its many joys…
In the desert days before Charlie bit anyone’s finger and that baby panda sneezed its way into our hearts, there was scant opportunity to see funny home videos. Video recording equipment was strictly a luxury item. Even if your town had a Rumbelows, it would set you back roughly the price of an Austin Allegro Estate to buy a camcorder only slightly larger than an Austin Allegro Estate.
Which meant that back then, the only way you could see a toddler accidentally tip their nan into a pond, or a drunken man fall foul of a hubristic attempt to ride his son’s BMX up an improvised garden ramp was to be there in person.
You’d hear tales of course. Oh the stories. Playground talk about...
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Home video clip show You’ve Been Framed is currently airing its 29th series. We celebrate its many joys…
In the desert days before Charlie bit anyone’s finger and that baby panda sneezed its way into our hearts, there was scant opportunity to see funny home videos. Video recording equipment was strictly a luxury item. Even if your town had a Rumbelows, it would set you back roughly the price of an Austin Allegro Estate to buy a camcorder only slightly larger than an Austin Allegro Estate.
Which meant that back then, the only way you could see a toddler accidentally tip their nan into a pond, or a drunken man fall foul of a hubristic attempt to ride his son’s BMX up an improvised garden ramp was to be there in person.
You’d hear tales of course. Oh the stories. Playground talk about...
- 1/14/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Another year, another move further away from caring about pop. Whether that's pop's fault or mine, I'm not sure. But there was still plenty of great new music released in 2015, and here, according to my idiosyncratic tastes, are the best albums, or at least my favorites.
1. Wire: Wire (Pink Flag)
This is said to be the first time that Bruce Gilbert's replacement, guitarist Matthew Simms, was heavily involved in the creation of a Wire album, and the result is...the closest Wire has ever come to sounding like a Colin Newman album. I exaggerate for effect, but only slightly: most everything thrums along smoothly and motorik-ly, he takes all the lead vocals (though Graham Lewis supposedly wrote many of the lyrics), and there are none of the post-punkier outbursts of the group's previous two reunion albums, though near the end of Wire, the one-two punch of "Split Your Ends" and "Octopus" come close.
1. Wire: Wire (Pink Flag)
This is said to be the first time that Bruce Gilbert's replacement, guitarist Matthew Simms, was heavily involved in the creation of a Wire album, and the result is...the closest Wire has ever come to sounding like a Colin Newman album. I exaggerate for effect, but only slightly: most everything thrums along smoothly and motorik-ly, he takes all the lead vocals (though Graham Lewis supposedly wrote many of the lyrics), and there are none of the post-punkier outbursts of the group's previous two reunion albums, though near the end of Wire, the one-two punch of "Split Your Ends" and "Octopus" come close.
- 12/27/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
It remains unclear at what point this century cyberpunk — a science-fiction subgenre that emerged largely from the pens of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick — leapt from the realm of speculative to historical fiction; everywhere one looks, it seems that moment has arrived. Many (if not most) westerners live connected to a cyberpunk meta-narrative of their own making these days. We can all be certain, in the era of Edward Snowden, that our digital lives are being recorded. A dystopian view of computing and information technology’s potential, along with a skeptical eye toward vision of “technological as social progress” that corporate propagandists hurl […]...
- 11/24/2015
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It remains unclear at what point this century cyberpunk — a science-fiction subgenre that emerged largely from the pens of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick — leapt from the realm of speculative to historical fiction; everywhere one looks, it seems that moment has arrived. Many (if not most) westerners live connected to a cyberpunk meta-narrative of their own making these days. We can all be certain, in the era of Edward Snowden, that our digital lives are being recorded. A dystopian view of computing and information technology’s potential, along with a skeptical eye toward vision of “technological as social progress” that corporate propagandists hurl […]...
- 11/24/2015
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
I recently attended the first-ever Kaleidoscope Virtual Reality Film Festival, and something happened to me that I have previously relegated to the world of William Gibson novels. I was in line for short films of the "Experimental" category – as opposed to Documentary, Animation, Live Action and, most mysterious of all, "Experience" – when a man with whom I had struck up a waiting-in-line conversation asked me if I wanted to see something cool. Of course, I said "yes," and the stranger unzipped his backpack and pulled out a virtual reality headset not unlike the many being used about 10 feet in front of me. Instead of fancy noise-cancelling headphones, he lent me a pair of what seemed to be low-end ear buds out of his pocket. Within moments, I was in orbit around an alien planet, approaching a space station. Read More: 6 Ways Virtual Reality Will Change Filmmaking The man with the...
- 10/8/2015
- by Roy Graham
- Indiewire
This story first appeared in the Oct. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. As novelist William Gibson once said, the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. Consider that in the U.S., revenue from the top 10 video streaming apps more than tripled during the year ending in July, driven by HBO Now, Netflix and Hulu. And in early September, Apple CEO Tim Cook made it official, proclaiming in support of the new (more app-friendly) Apple TV device that, "The future of TV is apps." If
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- 9/23/2015
- by Joel Espelien
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The man, the myth, the legend, Slash is launching a crowdfunding campaign for his second feature film, The Hell Within. Also: details on both The Dark Below Fantasia world premiere and Vintage Tomorrows Comic-Con 2015 screening.
The Hell Within: Press Release: "Iconic guitarist Slash announced today that he will produce his second feature film “The Hell Within” and is looking to engage fans in the making of the film from start to finish. Fans will have a variety of unique on-going incentives and exclusive rewards that will be offered starting today and expanding through every stage of the film’s completion at TheHellWithin.com.
The campaign commences today with a selection of opportunities with more to be unveiled over the coming weeks. Many of the rewards will provide unprecedented access behind the scenes of both “The Hell Within” film and Slash’s concerts. On-going reward opportunities include: private screenings, premiere tickets,...
The Hell Within: Press Release: "Iconic guitarist Slash announced today that he will produce his second feature film “The Hell Within” and is looking to engage fans in the making of the film from start to finish. Fans will have a variety of unique on-going incentives and exclusive rewards that will be offered starting today and expanding through every stage of the film’s completion at TheHellWithin.com.
The campaign commences today with a selection of opportunities with more to be unveiled over the coming weeks. Many of the rewards will provide unprecedented access behind the scenes of both “The Hell Within” film and Slash’s concerts. On-going reward opportunities include: private screenings, premiere tickets,...
- 7/11/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above, the trailer for Denis Villeneuve's thriller Sicario, which premiered in competition in Cannes.Cinema Scope #63 is about to hit newstands, but a lot of it can be read online: Mark Peranson on Cannes and Miguel Gomes, Adam Cook talks with Corneliu Porumboiu, Jordan Cronk on The Assassin, Chuck Stephens on Gregory Markopoulous, Christoph Huber on Mad Max: Fury Road, and more.Author William Gibson recounts his encounters with Chris Marker's La Jetée.James Horner, the composer of scores for such Hollywood films as 48 Hrs, Aliens, and Titanic, has died at the age of 61.Federic Babina has made a series of "Archidirector" illustrations, imagining houses designed in the style of filmmakers like David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick.Sight & Sound has exclusive images from the production of Ben Rivers' new movie,...
- 6/24/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Feature is based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum Of Innocence.
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.
The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.
Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.
Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.
Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.
Brand New-u
Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.
“This...
- 6/18/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Tomorrowland didn’t do as well as expected this weekend in theaters. Some people celebrated this fact, apparently believing that the movie was the brainchild of George Clooney and that it was a propaganda film about climate change.
They must have seen a different movie than I did.
I’ll admit that, like the Big Hollywood website, I went to the theater with my own set of assumptions and biases. Tomorrowland is my favorite area in the Disney parks, the first place I wanted to go the first time I went (in 1979). I love the work of director Brad Bird, and have since The Family Dog.
And, yeah, I have the hots for George Clooney and I think climate change is an issue deserving action. Only the first of those affects my ticket-buying decisions.
So, the Disney nerd in me loved the movie. But, more important to this column, so did the comics fan.
They must have seen a different movie than I did.
I’ll admit that, like the Big Hollywood website, I went to the theater with my own set of assumptions and biases. Tomorrowland is my favorite area in the Disney parks, the first place I wanted to go the first time I went (in 1979). I love the work of director Brad Bird, and have since The Family Dog.
And, yeah, I have the hots for George Clooney and I think climate change is an issue deserving action. Only the first of those affects my ticket-buying decisions.
So, the Disney nerd in me loved the movie. But, more important to this column, so did the comics fan.
- 5/29/2015
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
The Flatiron Hex Created by James Godwin Directed and co-written by Tom Burnett Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002 May 15-30, 2015
The best way to describe James Godwin's wildly inventive The Flatiron Hex is that it is like watching a big-budget summer sci-fi action-comedy performed by one man, with puppets and a couple of projectors. Making its world premier at Dixon Place, a space that grew out of salons held in Artistic Director Ellie Covan's living room and is primarily dedicated to helping artists create and develop new work, The Flatiron Hex brings to mind Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the works of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow, as well as films such as Night Watch and Hellboy, through a lens of 1940s and 50s hardboiled noir. Godwin, who made his own debut at Dixon Place in 1988, creates a future New York City, now known as Nyorg,...
The best way to describe James Godwin's wildly inventive The Flatiron Hex is that it is like watching a big-budget summer sci-fi action-comedy performed by one man, with puppets and a couple of projectors. Making its world premier at Dixon Place, a space that grew out of salons held in Artistic Director Ellie Covan's living room and is primarily dedicated to helping artists create and develop new work, The Flatiron Hex brings to mind Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the works of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow, as well as films such as Night Watch and Hellboy, through a lens of 1940s and 50s hardboiled noir. Godwin, who made his own debut at Dixon Place in 1988, creates a future New York City, now known as Nyorg,...
- 5/18/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Callan McAuliffe, Andy McPhee, Arthur Angel and John Orcsik have joined the cast of writer-director Matthew Holmes. The Legend of Ben Hall, which started shooting on Sunday in regional Victoria. The plot follow the last six turbulent months of the life of the notorious bushranger (newcomer Jack Martin), whose gang pulled off the largest gold heist in the British Empire, and the circumstances surrounding his controversial execution by police in 1865.
Martin played the character in Holmes. Kickstarter-funded short film, footage from which is being incorporated in the feature. The cast includes Joanne Dobbin as his ex-wife Biddy, Adam Willson as Mick Coneley, who harboured Hall, Jamie Coffa and William Lee as fellow gang members, Angus Pilakui as an Aboriginal tracker, Jordan Fraser-Trumble as Inspector Davidson and Gregory Quinn as Sergeant Condell.
The La-based McAuliffe (The Great Gatsby, Robot Overlords) and McPhee (Animal Kingdom, Sons of Anarchy) are playing members of the gang.
Martin played the character in Holmes. Kickstarter-funded short film, footage from which is being incorporated in the feature. The cast includes Joanne Dobbin as his ex-wife Biddy, Adam Willson as Mick Coneley, who harboured Hall, Jamie Coffa and William Lee as fellow gang members, Angus Pilakui as an Aboriginal tracker, Jordan Fraser-Trumble as Inspector Davidson and Gregory Quinn as Sergeant Condell.
The La-based McAuliffe (The Great Gatsby, Robot Overlords) and McPhee (Animal Kingdom, Sons of Anarchy) are playing members of the gang.
- 3/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World Museum of Modern Art, NYC December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015
Between 1942 and 1963 Dorothy Canning Miller was the curator of the influential Americans shows at the Museum of Modern Art. Beginning with Americans 1942: 18 Artists From 9 States and ending with Americans 1963, Miller presented the work of artists such as Hyman Bloom, Robert Motherwell, Jay DeFeo, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Lee Bontecou, and Frank Stella -- artists who would ultimately be the defining contributors to the mid-century American art historical canon. After a gap of nearly a half-century, MoMA once again is reviving this tradition with Laura Hoptman’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemoporal World, an exhibition of seventeen painters representing current trends in painting.
In contrast to the U.S-centric exhibitions of the past, Forever Now emphasizes the concept of "a-temporality," a phenomenon of culture defined by the science fiction/cultural theorist William Gibson,...
Between 1942 and 1963 Dorothy Canning Miller was the curator of the influential Americans shows at the Museum of Modern Art. Beginning with Americans 1942: 18 Artists From 9 States and ending with Americans 1963, Miller presented the work of artists such as Hyman Bloom, Robert Motherwell, Jay DeFeo, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Lee Bontecou, and Frank Stella -- artists who would ultimately be the defining contributors to the mid-century American art historical canon. After a gap of nearly a half-century, MoMA once again is reviving this tradition with Laura Hoptman’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemoporal World, an exhibition of seventeen painters representing current trends in painting.
In contrast to the U.S-centric exhibitions of the past, Forever Now emphasizes the concept of "a-temporality," a phenomenon of culture defined by the science fiction/cultural theorist William Gibson,...
- 2/25/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
BAFTA-winner to adapt short story Dogfight, from cult sci-fi writer; currently in Rotterdam with Brand New-u.
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
During its fraught production, Alien 3 went through dozens of drafts. We look at some of the story ideas that never made it to the screen...
When the credits rolled on 1986's Aliens, the inevitable question from many cinemagoers was, "What happens next?"
For 20th Century Fox, and writer-producers David Giler and Walter Hill, it took nearly six years to figure out an answer to that question. Certainly, when Aliens was in production, director James Cameron had some ideas about a sequel; he once spoke about the prospect of Ripley, Hicks and young Newt - a makeshift family thrown together by that film's events - meeting up again for a second sequel to Alien.
“I know that James Cameron had planned to have Hicks, Ripley and me in Alien 3, to have a family-type thing", Newt actress Carrie Henn said in 1995.
A year after Aliens came out, Cameron was unequivocal...
When the credits rolled on 1986's Aliens, the inevitable question from many cinemagoers was, "What happens next?"
For 20th Century Fox, and writer-producers David Giler and Walter Hill, it took nearly six years to figure out an answer to that question. Certainly, when Aliens was in production, director James Cameron had some ideas about a sequel; he once spoke about the prospect of Ripley, Hicks and young Newt - a makeshift family thrown together by that film's events - meeting up again for a second sequel to Alien.
“I know that James Cameron had planned to have Hicks, Ripley and me in Alien 3, to have a family-type thing", Newt actress Carrie Henn said in 1995.
A year after Aliens came out, Cameron was unequivocal...
- 1/12/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
[Editor's note: We are going to be supplementing our usual critical fare with more new, previously unpublished creative pieces. We've done a bit of this in the past, most notably with Ken Krimstein's cartoons and Dusty Wright's music; now we plan to increase our publication of this type of content. Please contact us if you would like to contribute original work.
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Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress by Roman AkLeff
"We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward." - William Gibson, Zero History
August 1979
Walter Faber packed his sales case for his last weekly exercise in futility. He was looking forward to college, but for this summer, at least, it had been a giant liability. Nobody would hire him knowing that by the end of August, he'd be gone.
Then again, he hadn't been in demand even before that. He'd quit his job at the Friendly's in the mall after his hours per week had dropped into the single digits, opting for Arthur Treacher's instead. That had been an improvement for a while, hours-wise and in terms of camaraderie – the holiday party, and the night when he'd won a bet by eating a whole cup of...
Warning: the chapter below contains "adult situations."]
Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress by Roman AkLeff
"We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward." - William Gibson, Zero History
August 1979
Walter Faber packed his sales case for his last weekly exercise in futility. He was looking forward to college, but for this summer, at least, it had been a giant liability. Nobody would hire him knowing that by the end of August, he'd be gone.
Then again, he hadn't been in demand even before that. He'd quit his job at the Friendly's in the mall after his hours per week had dropped into the single digits, opting for Arthur Treacher's instead. That had been an improvement for a while, hours-wise and in terms of camaraderie – the holiday party, and the night when he'd won a bet by eating a whole cup of...
- 12/14/2014
- by RomanAkLeff
- www.culturecatch.com
Over the weekend, film critic A. O. Scott wrote a long essay in The New York Times Magazine that irked me, and I wanted to use my column to unpack some of my feelings about it. If you have opinions about the state of modern pop culture, you might want to join me.
(I’m now going to paraphrase and reduce his arguments to the bones. By all means, read the entire piece for more nuance.)
Scott seems to think that the modern American adult, by his and her refusal to grow up, has had a deleterious effect on the popular arts. He specifically mentions “bromance” movies, like those produced by Judd Apatow, superhero movies, and adults who read young adult (Ya) books like the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games. In his opinion, the success of these genres means that we, as grown-ups, are rejecting our responsibilities.
As...
(I’m now going to paraphrase and reduce his arguments to the bones. By all means, read the entire piece for more nuance.)
Scott seems to think that the modern American adult, by his and her refusal to grow up, has had a deleterious effect on the popular arts. He specifically mentions “bromance” movies, like those produced by Judd Apatow, superhero movies, and adults who read young adult (Ya) books like the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games. In his opinion, the success of these genres means that we, as grown-ups, are rejecting our responsibilities.
As...
- 9/19/2014
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
Rrmbllll Kkkkrrakkk goes the lightning as Frank Miller’s Batman hits the streets for the first time in 1986’s seminal The Dark Knight Returns. A faceless, lowlife pimp throws one of his girls into a cab, threatening to cut her. The bearded, downtrodden cabbie accepts a stack of bills from the pimp; he mutters to himself, “dog eat dog world…” Unseen, Batman descends onto the yellow, checkered cab’s roof. The pimp finds himself on the receiving end of some brutality off-panel. The money is shredded. And with another Krakk – end scene.
This hardly feels like pages ripped from a William Gibson novel, more like frames from a grainy, 35-mm Taxi Driver print. The synopsis for Tdkr returns dubs itself “near-future”, and the genre “cyber-punk” has been tossed around by readers and critics alike. But really (mutant punks aside) the book falls into the Death Wish genre. Aging man, urban and moral decay,...
This hardly feels like pages ripped from a William Gibson novel, more like frames from a grainy, 35-mm Taxi Driver print. The synopsis for Tdkr returns dubs itself “near-future”, and the genre “cyber-punk” has been tossed around by readers and critics alike. But really (mutant punks aside) the book falls into the Death Wish genre. Aging man, urban and moral decay,...
- 9/7/2014
- by Dan Black
- SoundOnSight
Tim Sommer, rock raconteur extraordinaire, recently wrote a playlist for Tim Broun's blog Stupefaction. (#1 choice shown above.) Mr. Sommer has lately been writing a daily column in The Brooklyn Bugle (motto: "On the Web because paper is expensive") that immediately became the one thing that I read every day, just so I can enjoy his combination of cultural erudition and lunatic whimsy. In one of his Bugle columns he wrote about making the list. And in that article he posited other approaches/lists that I found myself wishing he had made as well. But he's undoubtedly got better things to do with his time. I apparently do not, however (okay, I do, I just have poor impulse control), and made my own lists based on his criteria.
And here they are. I could have gone thirty deep on each of these lists just as he did on Stupefaction (well, maybe...
And here they are. I could have gone thirty deep on each of these lists just as he did on Stupefaction (well, maybe...
- 8/1/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
While Middle East peace negotiations are stalled, audiences in the nation's capital are being treated to a rich array of theatrical presentations about the unresolved issues of this volatile region for the past month. Tovah Feldshuh brought her tour de force performance as Golda Meir in William Gibson's “Golda's Balcony” to Theater J. Originally the longest running one woman show on Broadway (at 15 months) Feldshuh is captivating as the Israeli ruler, who reminisces about her Zionist past while the country faces attacks from neighboring Arab countries in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Golda also struggles with personal issues while.
- 5/1/2014
- by Aviva Kempner
- The Wrap
Science fiction, man. I love it. But comic books make me want to hate it. I mean, I get that comic books aren’t really a literary medium. They can be, but they’re read mostly by people avoiding the commitment and sometimes challenge of a more rigorous, if still speculative, format, namely prose. Now I’m not going to pretend that prose Sf&F is always a step up from comics and, in fact, there’s pretty much an equal ratio of turds to gold (there’s some kind of law for this, I think). But so much more effort is put into the “science” part of science fiction in literature than it is in comics, and that seems to be an unfortunate result of the assumption (perhaps correctly) most comic book writers make that their audience isn’t interested in “harder” sci-fi or fantasy. But they try at it anyway sometimes,...
- 2/14/2014
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
Alien 3
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Larry Ferguson, David Giler & Walter Hill
USA, 1992
It’s a classic chapter of Hollywood lore, one of those great cautionary tales of executive mismanagement and shattered dreams. With behind-the-scenes chaos in both the boardroom and editing suites following up on indecisive strategizing and constant creative overhauls, 20th Century Fox’s hotly anticipated third installment in the Alien franchise was always set up to fail. You could argue that the writing was on the wall when the marketing department jumped the gun by releasing an infamous teaser trailer with the quickly irrelevant tagline “On Earth, everybody can hear you scream”. Half of the industry’s writing population seemed to have a go on spec, from William Gibson (with what was ostensibly an Aliens screenplay) to David Twohy (featuring a Ripley-less premise), $7 million was wasted on rejected sets and the film spent a year in editing,...
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Larry Ferguson, David Giler & Walter Hill
USA, 1992
It’s a classic chapter of Hollywood lore, one of those great cautionary tales of executive mismanagement and shattered dreams. With behind-the-scenes chaos in both the boardroom and editing suites following up on indecisive strategizing and constant creative overhauls, 20th Century Fox’s hotly anticipated third installment in the Alien franchise was always set up to fail. You could argue that the writing was on the wall when the marketing department jumped the gun by releasing an infamous teaser trailer with the quickly irrelevant tagline “On Earth, everybody can hear you scream”. Half of the industry’s writing population seemed to have a go on spec, from William Gibson (with what was ostensibly an Aliens screenplay) to David Twohy (featuring a Ripley-less premise), $7 million was wasted on rejected sets and the film spent a year in editing,...
- 12/15/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
HBO's award-winning adaptations are novelistic in ambition, but TV executives hoping to follow Game of Thrones should look to the stars
It's almost commonplace to suggest that the HBO box set is now television's answer to the novel – witness the wily self-publishers who have started publishing ebooks as a "box set". The television series matches the blockbuster novel point for point – an ensemble cast of larger than life characters, a high stakes plot, an original and detailed location – all wrapped around an instantly recognisable high concept, whether it's a mobster in counselling, a portrait of drug dealers on the street or the fight for the Iron Throne.
Which makes it all the more surprising that HBO is no longer developing Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Of course, it's hard to translate the warmth of Gaiman's storytelling voice to the small screen, but the novel is so clearly stuffed with televisual...
It's almost commonplace to suggest that the HBO box set is now television's answer to the novel – witness the wily self-publishers who have started publishing ebooks as a "box set". The television series matches the blockbuster novel point for point – an ensemble cast of larger than life characters, a high stakes plot, an original and detailed location – all wrapped around an instantly recognisable high concept, whether it's a mobster in counselling, a portrait of drug dealers on the street or the fight for the Iron Throne.
Which makes it all the more surprising that HBO is no longer developing Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Of course, it's hard to translate the warmth of Gaiman's storytelling voice to the small screen, but the novel is so clearly stuffed with televisual...
- 12/13/2013
- by Damien Walter
- The Guardian - Film News
1. HerA lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who writes personal letters for other people (they can’t say what they want to say themselves) forms a wondrous bond with his Operating System (voiced by Scarlett Johansson)—which (who?) becomes more and more sentient. Spike Jonze’s futuristic comedy is an exquisite meditation on love, friendship, human connection, and the singularity that might enlarge (or possibly contract) our definition of what that connection means. In the first hour, there’s a vein of satire—of the supreme silliness and pathos of a world in which people turn increasingly to disembodied voices for solace, friendship, sex. (Can you really “date” an Os?) But the satire yields to a sort of transcendental romanticism that leaves you both heartbroken and full of wonder. This is like no other movie—although it’s clearly a descendant of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (Is Charlie Kaufman the...
- 12/9/2013
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Broward Center for the Performing Arts and Matthew Lombardo will present four-time Tony Award-nominee Tovah Feldshuh who will recreate her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in the 10th Anniversary Production of Golda's Balcony. Tickets go on sale November 22 for the acclaimed William Gibson play, which will be part of the WinterStage Season at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from January 22 through January 26, 2014.
- 11/11/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cyborgs, whose literary origins date back to Edgar Alan Poe in the 1840′s, have provided some of the greatest heroes and villains (and that glorious gray area in between the two) in the science fiction genre. Nowadays, however, it’s becoming more and more likely that your friend or your neighbor is a walking cyborg, with real life cybernetic enhancements made to their body. Within the burgeoning medical technology field, opportunities abound for prosthetic limbs, eyes (eyeborgs or retinal implants), and other mechanized improvements. Plus, you know, life is going to become a William Gibson book, where the Internet will literally be jacked into our heads.
There’s intense debate on whether many of our favorite characters are androids or cyborgs, and I’m not going to waste my time jumping into that claptrap. I’ll just be going by their basic definitions (an android is a robot or synthetic organism made to look human.
There’s intense debate on whether many of our favorite characters are androids or cyborgs, and I’m not going to waste my time jumping into that claptrap. I’ll just be going by their basic definitions (an android is a robot or synthetic organism made to look human.
- 9/11/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
As the world waits for Edward Snowden to emerge from his hideout at a Russian airport like some international fugitive version of Punxsutawney Phil, some celebrities are taking to Twitter and elsewhere to voice their support for the secrets leaker.
For those who aren’t following this thriller, it rivals anything at the box office this summer: The former Nsa contractor is holed up in the international transit zone in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport waiting for a country such as Ecuador to grant him asylum. Russian President Vladimir Putin is defying the White House’s demand to return Snowden to the United States,...
For those who aren’t following this thriller, it rivals anything at the box office this summer: The former Nsa contractor is holed up in the international transit zone in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport waiting for a country such as Ecuador to grant him asylum. Russian President Vladimir Putin is defying the White House’s demand to return Snowden to the United States,...
- 6/25/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW.com - PopWatch
Titan Books has re-released Homunculus and Lord Kelvin’s Machine alongside a limited edition of The Aylesford Skull by James Blaylock. We recently chatted with the author about what fans can expect from these new re-releases as well as why horror fans should pick them up!
Amanda Dyar: Before we begin, you are often credited with being one of the founders of modern Steampunk. Tell us how this all started for you and what were your initial goals when it happened?
James Blaylock: Steampunk didn’t become Steampunk until ten years after Tim Powers, K.W. Jeter, and I began writing our first stories and novels set in historic periods. K.W. was writing Morlock Night, which was published by Daw books, and I was writing “The Ape-box Affair,” which was published by Unearth magazine, and also a story titled “The Hole in Space,” which I sold to Starwind magazine,...
Amanda Dyar: Before we begin, you are often credited with being one of the founders of modern Steampunk. Tell us how this all started for you and what were your initial goals when it happened?
James Blaylock: Steampunk didn’t become Steampunk until ten years after Tim Powers, K.W. Jeter, and I began writing our first stories and novels set in historic periods. K.W. was writing Morlock Night, which was published by Daw books, and I was writing “The Ape-box Affair,” which was published by Unearth magazine, and also a story titled “The Hole in Space,” which I sold to Starwind magazine,...
- 5/17/2013
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
Let’s face it, Alien 3 was a mess. After the success of Aliens, 20th Century Fox planned to move ahead with a third installment, but the project was plagued with problems from day one. From Sigourney Weaver’s reluctance to return to the role to all manner of screenwriters and directors coming onboard, doing some work, and then leaving, even down to a teaser trailer that indicated the movie would be set on Earth.
The Internet is filled with legends and stories about the Alien 3 that never was, whether science fiction author William Gibson’s two-part movie that involved Weyland-Yutani creating genetically-altered Alien warriors or Vincent Ward’s infamous “wooden planet.”
What we ended up with, however, was David Fincher’s first feature film, a movie that was under such intense scrutiny from the studio that it made pretty much everyone on the set miserable. The final film...
The Internet is filled with legends and stories about the Alien 3 that never was, whether science fiction author William Gibson’s two-part movie that involved Weyland-Yutani creating genetically-altered Alien warriors or Vincent Ward’s infamous “wooden planet.”
What we ended up with, however, was David Fincher’s first feature film, a movie that was under such intense scrutiny from the studio that it made pretty much everyone on the set miserable. The final film...
- 4/9/2013
- by Percival Constantine
- Obsessed with Film
If your heart beats fast for Ra Ra Riot, the string-heavy indie band whose album "Beta Love" was released last month, get ready to break out those dance moves. Huffington Post Arts&Culture is pleased to premiere André Allen Anjos' remix of the band's title track, which may be even more catchier than the original.
"Beta Love" is inspired by cyperpunk novelist William Gibson and futurist Ray Kurzweil; the album propels the band's bittersweet indie tone into the future with unsettling sci-fi lyrics and technologically savvy tunes. André Allen Anjos of Rac, the remix artist collective, does what we never thought possible: made Ra Ra Riot's title song even more danceable. Check it out and let us know if you think Anjos enhanced Ra Ra's riotous hit.
Click here to download "Beta Love (Rac Mix)."...
"Beta Love" is inspired by cyperpunk novelist William Gibson and futurist Ray Kurzweil; the album propels the band's bittersweet indie tone into the future with unsettling sci-fi lyrics and technologically savvy tunes. André Allen Anjos of Rac, the remix artist collective, does what we never thought possible: made Ra Ra Riot's title song even more danceable. Check it out and let us know if you think Anjos enhanced Ra Ra's riotous hit.
Click here to download "Beta Love (Rac Mix)."...
- 2/11/2013
- by Priscilla Frank
- Huffington Post
One of several writers (Frank Darabont, David Goyer, David Callahan and Drew Pearce are the others) to take a crack at Gareth Edwards' developing Godzilla, Max Borenstein is now turning his attention to Mona. The project, a sort of sci-fi cyber political thriller (and not to be confused with William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive), is an adaptation of a novel by Dan Sehlberg, and it's coming together at studio New Regency.It isn't published yet, so details of the book are only so much hearsay and press release so far, but the thrust seems to be the pursuit of a Lebanese cyber-terrorist. University professor Samir Mustaf's daughter Mona is killed by an Israeli cluster bomb, and he develops a sophisticated computer virus - named after the deceased - to cripple Israel's financial system.Unfortunately for Mustaf, however, the virus gets into a Swedish academic's prototype system designed to...
- 1/31/2013
- EmpireOnline
Author Gene O'Neill is a man with a plan. That plan is to write and get paid. He hopes that readers begin to recognize his work and seek him out. He certainly has the skill set having graduated from Clarion in a class filled with, what are now, successful writers. But he was sidetracked along the way because the one thing more important to him than writing is family. But now he is back on track and I was able to sit down with him in late 2012 at Dark Delicacies and have an extensive conversation.
One of the first things you wrote that sticks in my head was the Burden of Indigo short story in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. What had you done prior to that that made you think "Hey, I can write short stories"?
About a year before that I won a Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association writing...
One of the first things you wrote that sticks in my head was the Burden of Indigo short story in Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. What had you done prior to that that made you think "Hey, I can write short stories"?
About a year before that I won a Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association writing...
- 1/9/2013
- by Del Howison
- FEARnet
James Cameron wants to prove that Avatar is his idea. The director and his company, Lightstorm Entertainment, are currently fighting a handful of lawsuits -- including one from Gerald Morawski, who, two decades ago, sold Cameron some art in connection with Cameron's then-project to adapt the William Gibson short story, Burning Chrome, about a wounded war veteran who comes back into society as a partial cyborg. Photos: 10 Billion Dollar Babies: Movies That Have Crossed the 10 Figure Mark Morawski contends that after he sold Cameron four art pieces, he pitched the director on a movie about a struggle between
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- 12/10/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
True Skin, a sci-fi short about robotic augmentation designed to launch a feature version, was officially unveiled this morning but it has been generating plenty of buzz beforehand. In fact, when a trailer for the short hit in April, cyberpunk author William Gibson praised it while agencies and producers all inquired to see the short. It wasn't ready then but it is now. Story: Chronicle Director Josh Trenk on His Surprising Success and Possible Sequel Directed by Stephan Zlotescu, the action is set in the not-too distant future where everyone is augmenting their bodies. The story’s hero can't
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- 10/10/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A web-only film based on the Halo series (previewed below) is the start of something special
Given that both are such strong visual mediums, video games and films have endured a surprisingly fractious relationship. Yet it is one that neither seems willing to walk away from – the symbiotic allure at its heart is just too strong. The games industry brings ready-made scenarios, characters and a fanbase to movie producers, while exposure on the big screen feeds back into game sales.
Tempting, yes, but the relationship has been repeatedly tarnished, House of the Dead and Wing Commander being prime examples. Now, however, the very model of how film is made and distributed is being examined anew. In Microsoft's first foray into the market, it has chosen to debut its films based on the Halo games not at the cinema but in the form of a free-to-view online series that begins on Friday.
Given that both are such strong visual mediums, video games and films have endured a surprisingly fractious relationship. Yet it is one that neither seems willing to walk away from – the symbiotic allure at its heart is just too strong. The games industry brings ready-made scenarios, characters and a fanbase to movie producers, while exposure on the big screen feeds back into game sales.
Tempting, yes, but the relationship has been repeatedly tarnished, House of the Dead and Wing Commander being prime examples. Now, however, the very model of how film is made and distributed is being examined anew. In Microsoft's first foray into the market, it has chosen to debut its films based on the Halo games not at the cinema but in the form of a free-to-view online series that begins on Friday.
- 9/29/2012
- by Giles Richards
- The Guardian - Film News
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