Breaking news - week 10

So I decided to post some bits of news from the world of movies right here in my blog. Just some things that caught my eye during the week from other blogs, sites and magazines. I won't go that much into the mainstream movies as that stuff you can read everywhere, so I'll focus on the weirder stuff you might not have noticed. Though of course if there's some interesting news in the mainstream films worth noting, then I'll of course post them here as well. So here's what happened this week.

Sitges festival got charged with exhibition of child pornography
I think this was the biggest news of this week. You can click on the topic for more info, but the charge is because the festival screened A Serbian Film. I mean come on, the movie is surely nasty and yes it involves themes of child pornography, but there is quite a big difference between the real thing and a fictional movie. You can think what you want about the movie and surely it's not for everyone, even I thought it was too much, but it's their right as film makers to make a film on the subject they want and no one can deny that. And if a festival shows the movie it's surely their right, no matter how hard the subject is. Some people should really learn the difference between movies and real life...

Geeks boycott Universal
Click on the topic to read that quite a long blog post, it has tons of great stuff in it. In short the fuzz is about Guillermo Del Toro's next project that was supposed to be a huge fantasy horror movie based on a Lovecraft story with a budget of 150 million dollars that Universal decided to dump as they were afraid it wouldn't bring any profits. The geeks went mad of course blaming Universal. Well I would have loved to see the movie as well, but I don't blame Universal, I blame the people who go out and actually watch movies in the theatres. Drew McWeeny sums up my thoughts quite nicely in his blog, I'll just suggest you read it.


Upcoming movies:

Conan the Barbarian
I know this is a mainstream movie and most likely will be a bad adaptation of the original, but for some reason I have my hopes up for this. If they just steer away from the new superhero for the kids mentality it could work. There are not many barbarian movies out there so I wish this would fix the shortage, but at the same time I really don't think it will.

Ronal the Barbarian
And of course there needs to be a spoof of the movie as well. I have a feeling this will be more entertaining than the remake...

Hobo with a Shotgun
I've been waiting for this ever since I heard they are making the movie from that fake trailer on Grindhouse. And it has Rutger Hauer starring so it can't go wrong!

Panzer Chocolate
Ok this is so freaking insane idea that it can't be a bad movie. Nazis turning Jewish women into chocolate to boost the fighting spirit of their troops. Talking about crazy ideas, this is somewhere at the top.

AARGH
This looked quite great, though I don't know if they can bring enough out of the character to carry the whole movie, but the trailer works for me.

The Return Of The Moonwalker
This went straight to my must see list.

Bunohan
A Malaysian martial arts movie with attitude. Looks like a fun homage to the classics of it's genre.

Karate-Robo Zaborgar
I really wonder if it's something in the food they eat or the water they drink that makes those Japanese people so insane...

A Chinese Fairy Tale
Just so we don't go with only violence and horror here. This surely looks great.


Other fun stuff:

Strangers in the Night
This is for all of you classic monster movie fans out there. Pure brilliance every second of it.

Cinema Cool Tribute to John Carpenter
Cinema Cool made a nice little tribute to Carpenter, well worth checking out.

Zombie Research Society
Ok, what the fuck? Seriously?

Reelizer
Wow, just wow. Sometimes fan art is way better than the original.

That's it, more next week.