Today in various bits of internet ephemera that sort of sound like Onion headlines:
- Rick Rey, producer of the popular vlog EPIC-FU, is going to watch Rambo 3 and live-Twitter the experience. “This is a landmark Twitter experiment and I may lose many followers - a risk I’m willing to take,” he bravely notes at the Facebook page for the “event,” which goes down on Tuesday night. You can follow the action here, or play along aIong at home! “If following the action isn’t enough, you can simultaneously Twitter your own Rambo 3 experience at exactly 9:00PM PST. I’m pretty sure it’s in stock at every Blockbuster worldwide.”
- Nikki Finke takes a look at “how the pushback of Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince to 2009 has had such a profound effect on this coming holiday’s North American release schedule.” Conclusion? “When moviegoers think Christmas, they think Nazis…”
- Related (we think): Vulture’s extremely scientific research proves that 2008’s fall movie season is marginally more likelt to induce clinical depression than 2007’s.
It’s the news Richard Kelly geeks have been waiting 15 months for: Southland Tales, the long-awaited film from the Donnie Darko auteur, has been given a release date. According to indieWIRE, Sony, Destination Films and Samuel Goldwyn are partnering to put the film in U.S. theaters on November 9th. November and December are usually reserved for “prestige” releases. Could this mean that a year and quarter worth of editing has somehow managed to transform Southland from Cannes pariah to possible awards contender? We can’t wait to find out.
More on Southland Tales:
Southland Tales still in limbo
Southland Tales: What’s The Deal?
Judging by the opening shots of the newly-released trailer for The Darjeeling Limited (via Anne Thompson), Wes Anderson’s latest is about noses. There are three of them, each lovingly framed in Anderson’s signature wide-angle close-ups: Jason Schwartzman’s fake nose, Owen Wilson’s bandaged nose, Adrien Brody’s…pure, unadulterated Brod-nose. On closer examination, it seems to be a remake of Bottle Rocket, transplanted to India. Instead of two guys, there are three. Instead of a road trip, it’s a train journey. One of them falls in love with an exotic Indian woman instead of an exotic maid. You’ve seen it before, but this time, it’s painted sandy gold, the music is borrowed from Satyajit Ray, and there are camels.
Watch it here, and if you see it pop up on YouTube, let me know and I’ll embed it above.
