The short film Aningaaq from Jonas Cuaron, son of filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, has found its way online via The Hollywood Reporter, and is a companion piece to his father’s space thriller Gravity. If you’ve seen the feature, you’ll want to see this. If you still haven’t seen Gravity but are planning to, you may get a completely different experience watching the short that might make it worth checking out even more.
Filmed in Iceland, Aningaaq has been submitted for Oscar contention.
Things that will happen
Via Variety, it has been confirmed that R2D2 will appear in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars sequel. No word on C-3PO’s return. Poor guy… he was never anyone’s favourite…
Another hero of sci-fi geekdom, Simon Pegg, recently told MTV that he will be returning to the Mission: Impossible franchise for the fifth instalment.
Winona Ryder will return for Beetlejuice 2. And in case you didn’t know, there WILL be a Beetlejuice 2. (Via Badass Digest)
Another sequel announcement that may or may not thrill you is It’s A Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story, which is set to continue the 1946 Christmas tale that starred Jimmy Stewart. (Via Time Entertainment)
Tatum attempts epic split
While on set for the upcoming comedy sequel 22 Jump Street, Channing Tatum decided to demonstrate the astounding limits of his perfectly engineered body by imitating Jean Claude Van Damme’s impressive viral Volvo video where he performed the splits between two moving trucks.
And in case you weren’t one of the 36 million people who watched it, here’s the JCVD Volvo stunt:
