With its animated classic deeply engrained in the social conciousness of movie history, Disney is pushing a live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book through the production line. The Hollywood Reporter got the exclusive on the story, also paying mention to Warner Bros. adaptation of the novel, which is now public domain.
James Cameron: “Man of Steel, Iron Man 3 should not necessarily be in 3D”
Over at Vulture, Avatar director and modern 3D pioneer James Cameron pays mention to the state of Hollywood’s “automatic” implementation of 3D conversion – namely how it sucks.
“I do not think Hollywood is using the 3D properly,” said Cameron, speaking to Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón at Mexico City’s technology forum TagDF last week. “The reason I say that Hollywood is not doing well is because it is automatic.”
He explained, “[it’s] one thing [to shoot] in 3-D and another to convert to 3-D,” adding that it’s a matter of studios “[trying] to make money,” “pushing 3-D to directors who are not comfortable or do not like 3-D.”
His examples for such films include two of the biggest releases of the summer: “Man of Steel, Iron Man 3 and all those movies should not necessarily be in 3-D. If you spend $150 million on visual effects, the film is already going to be spectacular, perfect.”
tweetin’ ’bout: ‘Pacific Rim’
Guillermo del Toro’s epic-scale robots vs. monsters bash-em-up Pacific Rim is setting the Twittersphere ablaze with praise, and we’ve picked three of our favourite Tweets.
This is not another “Robot” movie. Guillermo del Toro is a master.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 4, 2013
Holy Toho. Guillermo just kaiju’d my eyeballs. — edgarwright (@edgarwright) July 4, 2013
A friend just sent me this image, it’s his review of ‘Pacific Rim’ pic.twitter.com/S9EoPQg568
— Cam Williams (@PopcornJunkies) July 9, 2013
The film is due in cinemas this Thursday (or tonight, for you lucky Flicksters going to our preview screening).
Djanuary Unchained
The first trailer for Femme Fatale Western Sweetwater has been making the rounds. Mad Men’s January Jones plays a widow out for revenge in the name of her husband. It looks like a decent slice of campy violent fun, though to be honest, I just wanted an excuse to use that headline ‘Djanuary Unchained’.
More movie news
Wolf Creek 2: Speaking of Django Unchained, Aussie actor John Jarratt, who featured in Tarantino’s Western, will return to Wolf Creek as creepy Outback psycho hick Mick Taylor. (via 3 News)
Veronica Mars: The upcoming crowd-funded movie based on the Kristen Bell-led TV series has added another member to the cast, James Franco, who has recently played the great and powerful Oz, the grill-bearing gangsta Alien and even Hugh Hefner in Lovelace. (via SlashFilm)
And here’s the very weird first poster for Spike Lee’s Oldboy. It’s very weird.
