Mad Max Fury Road might make you rethink your whole I’m-sick-of-redos stance on filmmaking, because this trailer looks really, really fucking cool. What it lacks in a young, pre-weirdo Mel Gibson it more than makes up for in using original director/visionary George Miller who boasted during San Diego Comic Con this past weekend that Mad Max wasn’t really […]
28
Jul
"This is not a green-screen movie," says director George Miller
22
Jul
The first gore-filled scene from the Conan re-boot
Wow, if the quality of any Conan movie is based on how much blood is shed, then the new re-boot of Conan the Barbarian certainly looks like it has a chance. Everyone was a bit iffy on the decision to cast Jason Momoa as Conan — Arnie’s are big shoes to fill — but after […]
21
Mar
Deconstructing Hollywood's insatiable need to make what has already been made
You can’t help but notice: of the top 10 highest grossing movies in each of the last 10 years, an alarming 74 out 100 are adaptations of existing material: comic books, books, video games, sequels, reboots, et al. Everything Is a Remix is a 4-part series exploring the remix techniques involved in producing such films. […]
