At the Risky Biz blog, Steven Zeitchik accuses the Wachowskis of “insidious” product placement in Speed Racer, altering the design of Speed’s helmet and the Mach 5 to subliminally invoke corporate partner McDonalds. “It may not be brand placement. It’s something much newer and trickier: brand suggestion.”
FILMMAKER Magazine’s website has published the essay by David [...]
The latest issue of Reverse Shot is online. “For this issue, we attempted a unique approach by asking our writers to select a filmmaker who’s traditionally worked in film and has moved to digital video, as a brief sidestep or a career-changing ideological statement,” explain editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichardt. “Then we asked them [...]
People are starting to say smart things about Speed Racer, sight unseen. The film has been screened for journalists who attended junkets, but those journalists have so far stuck to stuck to the studio’s review embargo––all of the really interesting stuff is being written by bloggers who are basing their critiques solely on promo materials [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:39 pm
BLAIR WITCH director Daniel Myrick resurfaces at Tribeca with a horror film set in Afghanistan right after 9/11.
Iron Man opens May 2 — but doesn’t it seem like it already came out?
Wow, that was sudden: last night’s Gen Art screening of Cook County will be the Clearview Chelsea West’s last show as a commercial movie theater. The School of Visual Arts has bought the site, and after several months of renovation, the theater will be reopened as “a new repertory/special event venue,” with tie-ins planned with [...]
An attempt to determine what movies will be have the biggest box office grosses of Summer 2008.
We take this brief break from our wall-to-wall SXSW coverage to link to the competition line-up for 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, currently posted at indieWIRE. As you know, Baby Mama will open the festival; according to The Reeler, Speed Racer will close it. Here’s a look at a few titles of interest in between:
Shane Meadows’ [...]
February 6, 2008 – 4:20 pm
In this edition: Berlinale, Berlin Alexanderplatz meets Barack, and Speed Racer’s castration anxiety.
December 7, 2007 – 5:07 pm
Blood! Yelling! Huey Lewis! All that and more, in our look back at the Week in SpoutBlog!!!
