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Horoscope of DOOM: Your finances are stretched thinner than you think. Check your balance again.

I wouldn't be so weirded out by this if I hadn't actually been wondering whether I should splurge on some DVDs or not (see icon), and had aaaaaalmost convinced myself to do it. Yikes. (Ah, well. It's not like I have time to watch them right now anyway.)


Massive linkspam:

A haiku for W.E.B. du Bois, a rare gem floating around at [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes.

The new Harry Potter book covers (as if y'all haven't seen them five times today already).

Anne Rice writing book about Christ. Jesus.

One of the many places to keep an eye on the expatriate Fametracker community.

New Sin City trailer!

New image from The Fountain! I weep for the day this, like so many other stinkin' movies (Closer!, The Merchant of Venice!) was supposed to have starred Cate Blanchett. Not that I don't like Rachel Weisz. I'm just saying.

Los fotos muy gigantes: The New World (Colin Farrell, Jailbait Pocahontas) and A History of Violence (Viggo Mortensen, David Cronenberg, FEAR).

Oh, hey, look! It's a new Beowulf poster with a decent picture of Sarah Polley and... ohhhhhh no. That tag line, y'all. Please tell me it's preliminary? Or fan art? Because I think Vladimir is gonna throw some bullets otherwise.

Casting news on Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Having read Antonia Fraser's bio of Marie Antoinette, I actually like the casting of Kirsten Dunst. But Asia Argento as Madame Du Barry is... interesting.

Spoiler set pics from Pirates of the Caribbean 2!

Oh dear:
IGN Filmforce is reporting that "Kill Bill" helmer Quentin Tarantino is in talks to write and direct The Ultimate Jason Voorhees Movie, a new "Friday the 13th" movie at New Line Cinema.

While Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash never came together, this new project will be a co-venture between New Line and Paramount Pictures. The site adds that the movie is on the fast-track and could get underway as early as this year.

A rep at William Morris Agency told the site that Tarantino has "not yet" been offered the job, however.
Bad news: A Michael Bay movie called The Island. Good news: video with Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean, two great tastes who ought to have tasted great together long before now.

News on Jonathan Strange, His Dark Materials, and Inkheart:
New Line Cinema has set Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) to adapt Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, reports Variety.

The story concerns a magician and his apprentice who use their powers in the war against Napoleon but are eventually pitted against each other. The project is one of several epic-sized fantasy book adaptations being mobilized by a studio looking to reload after "The Lord of the Rings."

New Line is further ahead on "The Golden Compass," the first installment of the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy "His Dark Materials." A director will be named soon to replace Chris Weitz, who wrote the last draft of the script. New Line will get a first draft adaptation of the Cornelia Funke novel "Inkheart" from screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire in May. (Coming Soon.net)
Remember when the FBI were following Russell Crowe around at the Oscars a few years back, because of some unnamed "kidnapping threat"? Well, now they've revealed who was after him: AL QAEDA, Y'ALL.
After a shy terrorist cell member at the back of the cave gingerly raised his hand and suggested that kidnapping an Australian actor with a crappy band might not have quite the destabilizing effect Al Qaeda was seeking, they went with, you know, that other thing with the planes. (Defamer.com)
God, this is going to break my mother's heart. I know this for a fact, because she's already bitching about how she knows Dirk Pitt, and sir, Matthew McConaughey is no Dirk Pitt.


Basically ended up taking a week off to be sick, last week sort of off-on to work on LOTR in a way that more closely approximated "noodling" or "dithering," and so this week I've decided to try to knock one out in a couple of sittings, Troy-style. (Hey, at least I feel recharged now.) I'm trying to decide between Spider-Man and Braveheart, for reasons that are whimsically my own and involve "signs from the universe," but I realized I never did see Spider-Man 2, so I'm thinking of buying that this weekend and therefore putting Spidey off until after I've seen the sequel, which would move Braveheart up to this week. And hey, Lost is a rerun tomorrow night, so I have uninterrupted time to do it. (Today was spent reading over my handwritten notes/drafts for both movies. And reading Frederick Douglass for class. Whee.) So if I end up with desperately random nitpick questions regarding the history of Marvel comics or medieval Scottish culture, I expect y'all to be on your toes. ; )
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Date: 2005-03-09 02:27 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com
New icon? Cool.

*points to icon*

Date: 2005-03-09 11:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] divabat.livejournal.com
BATTY SQUEE!!!!!

Date: 2005-03-09 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anne-jumps.livejournal.com
OMG Spider-Man!

Date: 2005-03-09 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nekoama.livejournal.com
Nausicca icon = pwns.

icon pwnage

Date: 2005-03-10 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greyduck.livejournal.com
Nausicaa icon AND Winry icon = l33t pwnage, or something like that. =)

Date: 2005-03-09 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calchandler.livejournal.com
Nice icon. I used to have one that was a close up of Teto from the same shot...

Date: 2005-03-09 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com
Wasn't that the tagline for Sleepy Hollow?

Also, Sarah Polley with red hair? *dies*

In addition, definitely watch Spidey before Spidey 2. It makes Spidey 2 all the more kickasstacular. Wait, hold on, you say "until after I've seen the sequel." Have you seen either one before? Don't watch them backwards! That's...backwards! I'm so confused.

Date: 2005-03-09 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
No, no, I did watch the first one when I was doing my Ten Movies for the Book Marathon laaaaate last summer. I just find that it helps to have seen all the available movies if you're doing a parody, because you can joke about things that the readers know will happen.

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Date: 2005-03-09 02:37 am (UTC)
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For some reason I'm very scared of the Beowulf movie.

Date: 2005-03-09 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crumpeteer.livejournal.com
From what I understand the Beowulf poster is a prelim or a manip. I don't think anyone has to worry that the final poster is going to look like that.

As for Ewan in The Island...nnnnnnnngggggggghhhhhh...Lor, that man is hot. Shaggably hot, but I digress.

Date: 2005-03-09 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com
That is the creepiest Elmo icon I've ever seen.

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Date: 2005-03-09 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thejobsagame.livejournal.com
Yay for Pirates! <3

Date: 2005-03-09 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alliemolloy.livejournal.com
Love, love, love, LOVE your icon. LOVE it.

But, Adam, sweetie, won't you please cut your hair? ;)

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Date: 2005-03-09 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allthelivesofme.livejournal.com
Wheee, Pirates sequel! And Harry Potter books! And I couldn't even click on the Anne Rice link because the description alone made me shudder in fear!

Date: 2005-03-09 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] particle-person.livejournal.com
Wheee, Pirates sequel!

I am going to remix this into, "Wheee Pirates, Squee(l)!" because this is 2005, and all the things to say have already been said before. We just remix now.

Date: 2005-03-09 02:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigereyed24.livejournal.com
Why must they make all fantasy movies into films these days? *sighs* I'm still only half way through Jonothan Strange and Mr. Norrell, damn you University and making me read other things instead!

I'm very sad that there are no Johnny pics in these spoiler set pics for PotC2 *pout*

Oooh, I actually had only seen the American cover for HBP, so that's happy! I don't know which I like better.. but I guess it doesn't really matter because we'll be getting the UK/Canada one anyways. *twirls* CAN'T WAIT!!

Date: 2005-03-09 02:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hadgm.livejournal.com
Your mom is right - as cute as Matthew McConaughey is, he ain't no Dirk Pitt! I'm reluctantly going to see this. Reluctant because I don't think it'll be good. But I love the books and Matthew is certainly easy on the eyes! :)

Date: 2005-03-09 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allthelivesofme.livejournal.com
I have no real idea about the character... I think the books sound interesting but I'm hip-deep in novels right now and so don't have the time to get started on another series. I'm sure I'll be seeing the movie, though, and then I probably *will* get inspired to read the books. Sigh. lol

Date: 2005-03-09 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwoman84.livejournal.com
Um...Molly Shannon is in Marie-Antoinette?!?

Is this really a drama (as it is advertised), or is it a comedy for the braindead and/or teenage?

Please. I must know.

Molly Shannon....

Date: 2005-03-09 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
I know, dude. But it's Sofia Coppola. Maybe Shannon is supposed to play one of those ditzy society types. Like--oh, what's her name--Swoosie Kurtz in Dangerous Liaisons. Cecile's mother. Madame de Volanges?

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Date: 2005-03-09 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arayuldaiel.livejournal.com
Oh, yes, definitely see Spidey 2. If nothing else, Tobey is sooo much hotter the action is kickass.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spaz-sees-all.livejournal.com
Like icon. Its a good mivie. try buying it when you can.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laizeohbeets.livejournal.com
1. Two words for Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI: JUST WRONG. I love him to bits, really, but ... ew. Miscasting right there.

2. OMGWTFLOVE! Orlando Bloom in some fancypants colonial dress. It just doesn't get any better. Well, maybe it would be better if Jack Sparrow was in fancypants colonial dress, but Will Turner will just have to do.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:20 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] telesilla.livejournal.com
I was boggling over the casting of Jason as well. I just seems all wrong for the part.

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Date: 2005-03-09 03:06 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] natacup82.livejournal.com
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the new Sin City trailer link. I've finished three of the books and now these images and trailers actually have some meaning for me, yay!


A New World...I really hope he didn't hook up with this co-star behind the scenes.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
I hear she was 14, and there's a story about him turning Lindsay Lohan down because she wasn't 18 yet, so... may we hope for the best.

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Date: 2005-03-09 03:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etigerhawk17.livejournal.com
I love your icon! I just bought that movie on DVD in English after only having seen it its original form, and I was pleasently surprised by the fact that Patrick Steward did one of the voices. You should totally add one of her to your heroine addict series, they're all so wonderfull!

<--takes a deep breath ^__^

Date: 2005-03-09 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alpheratz.livejournal.com
Damn, I really need to get reading Jonathan Strange... *places hold at library*

The Beowulf poster made me spit my juice out. Oh, man...

Date: 2005-03-09 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Vladimir sent it to me umpteen thousand months ago and I *still* haven't had time to read it yet. Woe.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caffienerain.livejournal.com
You know, I always thought that the name "His Dark Materials" sounded familiar. Only that I was totally obsessed read the entire set when I was back in high school. I want to see this movie, I do, I do.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkviola.livejournal.com
Oh, sweet Jesus. Considering how much I hated Menmoch *spits on the ground* this new book should be interesting. In the trainwreck sense.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
"And honey, where I spit no grass grows EVER!"

Sorry, I just had a moment from The Women there. Carry on.

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Date: 2005-03-09 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meyrin-hawke.livejournal.com
The only thing better than the Nausicaa icon is the movie's ultimately synth-y musical numbers (sorry, I just saw it last weekend, finally). You totally need to see it.

Aww man, Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean? Yes. Yes. Yes. Er, don't mind me ::cough:: And after your link to the stage production, I think I really need to read the His Dark Materiels trilogy again.

And to repeat aforementioned sentiments: Molly Shannon???

Date: 2005-03-09 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agentsculder.livejournal.com
I'm all about The Island because I am totally Sean Bean's bitch. And damn that Beowulf poster looks lame! Between this and POTO, I'm beginnning to think poor Gerry is destined to be a great actor in really porrly marketed films. And that just ain't right.

Date: 2005-03-09 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Well, someone else in the comments indicates that I may be right about the preliminary crap art/fan art idea--in truth, Sarah Polley has been photoshopped in pretty clumsily. All I know is, if that tag line stays, there will be hell to pay from [livejournal.com profile] vladimirsever, better known round these parts as The Squishy.

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Date: 2005-03-09 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malenky-devil.livejournal.com
Good news: video with Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean, two great tastes who ought to have tasted great together long before now.

Swoon! SWOON! And it's Bean in a suit...I'm sure you know how happy you've made me just now.

I'm slightly disappointed that the HBP scheme is green, as I was really looking forward to a neat monochrome red/burgundy scheme. This works, though, I suppose. I have high suspicion that something is going down with Dumbledore this book, the covers always give hints.

(I remember the throwing bullets story!)

Date: 2005-03-09 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
You know, I was thisclose to actually commenting in your journal to the effect of OMGGOLOOKATMINEBEAN! But then I figured I'd give you five minutes before I ran over there like a loon. : )

Date: 2005-03-09 03:33 am (UTC)
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"But Asia Argento as Madame Du Barry is... interesting "

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. I hate her. I am still trying to apply brain bleach after watching her and Julian Sands in a completely putrid version of Phantom of the Opera. Blech. No. She should not be allowed in movies except as a quick victim of violence.

"Good news: video with Ewan McGregor and Sean Bean, two great tastes who ought to have tasted great together long before now."

Someone needs to make a movie with Clive Owen, Sean Bean, Ewan McGregor, Gerard Butler and Eric Bana. Like Ocean's Eleven but ya know, good. Hell, have them all read the phone book or something ....

"Hey, look! It's a new Beowulf poster with a decent picture of Sarah Polley and... ohhhhhh no. That tag line, y'all. Please tell me it's preliminary? Or fan art? "

Why do they always eff up posters with Gerard Butler? The POTO posters were major suckage (Hello, put in the Pants, ya marketing morons), the Beowulf is bad and I don't even want to start on the Burns poster (shudder). PROTECT the pretteh, people!


Date: 2005-03-09 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Hee, the Burns poster. You sound like a FTer for sure, so I'll assume you saw the speculation that it's just some crap thrown together to get funding ("There will be sexing! For an extra million, we can add more!").

Re: Ocean's Eleven: if you throw in Alan Rickman, I'm pretty sure we can find funding on LJ alone.

Heh.

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Date: 2005-03-09 03:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meredith-mae.livejournal.com
Everything involving Michael Bay should be prefaced with "Bad News."

Yeah,

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