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Wired has a great article about Asylum Films which brings us the great mockbusters 'Snakes on a Train', 'Transmorphers', 'The Terminators', and 'The Day the Earth Stopped'. Here are my favorite parts from the article:
I said, ‘What if we did 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?’ Latt recalls. ‘We’ll call it 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It’s 10,000 more leagues.’
Toward the end of shooting Snakes on a Train, line producer Anthony Fankhauser received an unusual request from the bosses: Could the movie’s ending be changed to look more like the video box? "The cover was just a giant snake eating a train," Fankhauser says. "So on day 10, we had to cobble together this scene where one of the characters turns into a snake, crashes out the side of the train, and then eats it up.
The Asylum keepers insist they’re not abandoning the mockbuster, but after Sherlock is released the company plans to follow it up with a meteor film, an airplane-disaster movie, a western, and something called MILF.
I'm hesitant about sharing this, but Virgin media have spoiled the first half of 'The End of Time."
I highly advise that you only click on the link if you have a strong constitution and are enough of a fan to watch on Christmas Day anyways, since some of the plot points mentioned sound... well... more than a little retarded.
Still, you can't tell a movie's plot from a viewmaster reel, and that's essentially what this is. Here's hoping the episode as a whole stands up much better under close scrutiny.
This is an odd bit of Doctor Who filming with Matt Smith from back in October that seems to have passed under the radar. Alas, it's pouring rain, so you can't make out any dialogue, but it does look like a pretty intense scene.
12/24/09
[news.bbc.co.uk]
Amazing slow-motion video showing how bees land
#tips #bees #science #nature
12/24/09
[www.sciencedaily.com]
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12/24/09
[www.sciencedaily.com]
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12/23/09
[www.boston.com]
Great shots.
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12/23/09
[content.usatoday.com]
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12/22/09
I said, ‘What if we did 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?’ Latt recalls. ‘We’ll call it 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It’s 10,000 more leagues.’
Toward the end of shooting Snakes on a Train, line producer Anthony Fankhauser received an unusual request from the bosses: Could the movie’s ending be changed to look more like the video box? "The cover was just a giant snake eating a train," Fankhauser says. "So on day 10, we had to cobble together this scene where one of the characters turns into a snake, crashes out the side of the train, and then eats it up.
The Asylum keepers insist they’re not abandoning the mockbuster, but after Sherlock is released the company plans to follow it up with a meteor film, an airplane-disaster movie, a western, and something called MILF.
[www.wired.com]
#tips #asylum
12/21/09
[blogs.discovermagazine.com]
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12/21/09
I highly advise that you only click on the link if you have a strong constitution and are enough of a fan to watch on Christmas Day anyways, since some of the plot points mentioned sound... well... more than a little retarded.
Still, you can't tell a movie's plot from a viewmaster reel, and that's essentially what this is. Here's hoping the episode as a whole stands up much better under close scrutiny.
[www.virginmedia.com]
#tips #doctorwho
12/21/09
#tips #doctorwho #mattsmith
12/21/09
If you've got the time, it's a 70 minute deconstruction of Phantom Menace... And it's all too right.
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12/20/09
Clip of the next Doctor Who special.
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12/19/09
[edition.cnn.com]
'Boat' could explore Saturn moon
[news.bbc.co.uk]
#tips #spaceporn #titan #saturn #science
12/19/09
Closest approach ever of any known object.
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
#tips #spaceporn #asteroids
12/18/09
[news.bbc.co.uk]
#tips #observationdeck #volcano #science #ocean
12/18/09
[www.cnn.com]
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12/18/09
There are links at Empire Online, Collider, AICN, etc.
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12/17/09
[news.bbc.co.uk]
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12/17/09
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
Where's Daniel Jackson when he's needed?
#tips #archeology #atlantis
12/16/09
#tips
12/16/09
[www.time.com]
12/17/09
[edition.cnn.com]
#tips