Today YouTube launched a new section called the YouTube Screening Room. It is described as a "platform for films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve".
Films will be showcased in blocks of four for two weeks at a time, with an occasional feature-length film. Some have seen film festival showings, others have been nominated for (and won) Academy Awards. I'm hoping to see Six Shooter get featured.
The filmmakers get paid a portion on YouTube's ad revenue based on total views of their films and there is a "buy" option for the films.
If you want to get your short film considered for being featured, you can email them at ytscreeningroom@youtube.com
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Film Review
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7/10
Directed by Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a crime drama involving two sons (played by Phillip Seymour-Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) who, through money problems, decide to rob their parents' jewelery store. They pick the perfect time to go (certain their parents won't be the ones working) and have everything in place to turn around their disasterous financial (and living) situations. That's when everything goes bad. No spoilers here. I'll say this though: You won't find any likable characters in this one. Not saying I hated it. The lead characters were fleshed out perfectly. Great story and acting. I liked how the film was told.
Oh and I realized I also want to see WALL-E and Quantum of Solace.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Film Stuff
This week, Incredible Hulk and The Happening opened.
According to BoxOfficeMojo, here's how they did:
Quick review: The Happening.
Man, was I PSYCHED to see this. I'm a sucker for apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films. Give me a zombie movie and I'll watch it. I'm a fan of Cell (the Stephen King novel) and am looking forward to its film adaptation. The Signal is one of my favorite post-apocalyptic movies. Now, how about The Happening? You can't go wrong with a guy who's known in my circle of friends as The Next Chuck Norris, right?
Let's talk about the story. Shymalan has just this amazing concept and instead of letting it grow and flesh it out, he just... jumps all over the place and doesn't really let it become something huge and crazy. I am totally disappointed with the way this went. WONDERFUL concept, but poor execution. I'm sorry, but I'm granting this a 4/10. It is watchable, but it doesn't satisfy. However, if Shymalan ever happens to do a follow-up to this film I will watch it just because it is apocalyptic horror.
Anyways.
The poster for Burn After Reading has premiered. Basically, John Malkovich plays Osbourne Cox, an ex-CIA agent whose memoir falls into the hands on two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) bent on blackmailing him for the return of the memoirs. Tilda Swinton stars as Malkovich's wife and George Clooney as the man having an affair with Tilda Swinton's character.
You can find the poster below
What do you think? Doesn't it remind you of a few other posters, perhaps?
Exciting, yes?
Red band trailer through this Youtube link, Apple took theirs down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEDPZNWG4o
Burn After Reading is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival this August, with a September 12th theatrical release. I'm juiced for this. In fact, currently I'm looking forward to just Burn After Reading and The Dark Knight when it comes to big films. I'm also looking forward to seeing American Teen.
Anyways, I'll end with a couple of awesome images.
Credit goes to BoxOfficeMojo for the chart, Cinematical for the Burn After Reading poster, Slashfilm for Man with the Golden Arm and Vertigo posters, JoyOfTech for the Joy of Tech comic, the-minusworld for Lego No Country For Old Men, and xkcd for the Merlin comic.
According to BoxOfficeMojo, here's how they did:
| 1. | The Incredible Hulk | $55,414,050 |
| 2. | Kung Fu Panda | $33,612,594 |
| 3. | The Happening | $30,517,109 |
Quick review: The Happening.
Man, was I PSYCHED to see this. I'm a sucker for apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films. Give me a zombie movie and I'll watch it. I'm a fan of Cell (the Stephen King novel) and am looking forward to its film adaptation. The Signal is one of my favorite post-apocalyptic movies. Now, how about The Happening? You can't go wrong with a guy who's known in my circle of friends as The Next Chuck Norris, right?
Let's talk about the story. Shymalan has just this amazing concept and instead of letting it grow and flesh it out, he just... jumps all over the place and doesn't really let it become something huge and crazy. I am totally disappointed with the way this went. WONDERFUL concept, but poor execution. I'm sorry, but I'm granting this a 4/10. It is watchable, but it doesn't satisfy. However, if Shymalan ever happens to do a follow-up to this film I will watch it just because it is apocalyptic horror.
Anyways.
The poster for Burn After Reading has premiered. Basically, John Malkovich plays Osbourne Cox, an ex-CIA agent whose memoir falls into the hands on two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) bent on blackmailing him for the return of the memoirs. Tilda Swinton stars as Malkovich's wife and George Clooney as the man having an affair with Tilda Swinton's character.
You can find the poster below
What do you think? Doesn't it remind you of a few other posters, perhaps?
Exciting, yes?
Red band trailer through this Youtube link, Apple took theirs down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEDPZNWG4o
Burn After Reading is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival this August, with a September 12th theatrical release. I'm juiced for this. In fact, currently I'm looking forward to just Burn After Reading and The Dark Knight when it comes to big films. I'm also looking forward to seeing American Teen.
Anyways, I'll end with a couple of awesome images.
Credit goes to BoxOfficeMojo for the chart, Cinematical for the Burn After Reading poster, Slashfilm for Man with the Golden Arm and Vertigo posters, JoyOfTech for the Joy of Tech comic, the-minusworld for Lego No Country For Old Men, and xkcd for the Merlin comic.
Introductory Post
My name's Richard. Nice to meet you. This is Tuesday, June 17th 2008. I've decided that i need a blog. Why? I don't think spending hours a day on World of Warcraft during the summer is that productive, so I think I'm going to be blogging quite a bit.
The phrase "Enjoy your onion rings" comes from an inside joke among a couple of friends. Simple as that.
For the summer, I plan on doing several things. First of all, I'm working at Blockbuster (expect movie reviews here) in an attempt to save up money to fund a new Macbook Pro and professional level camcorder (expect progress reports here). You see, it's my goal to become a filmmaker. A pretty damn good one. Will I get there? Yes. Yes, I will. I think it's good to go in with optimism like this.
I'm also taking summer classes (Speech, no you won't see me post them up here).
What I'm going to do is *randomblog*. I will post whatever I feel is worth posting and sharing. This means:
Movie reviews
Story ideas for movies
Box office numbers from movies that come out
xkcd comics
Of course, it won't be limited to just that. We'll see how it goes. That's all for this introductory post. I don't know how many times I'll post per day, but whatever happens happens.
The phrase "Enjoy your onion rings" comes from an inside joke among a couple of friends. Simple as that.
For the summer, I plan on doing several things. First of all, I'm working at Blockbuster (expect movie reviews here) in an attempt to save up money to fund a new Macbook Pro and professional level camcorder (expect progress reports here). You see, it's my goal to become a filmmaker. A pretty damn good one. Will I get there? Yes. Yes, I will. I think it's good to go in with optimism like this.
I'm also taking summer classes (Speech, no you won't see me post them up here).
What I'm going to do is *randomblog*. I will post whatever I feel is worth posting and sharing. This means:
Movie reviews
Story ideas for movies
Box office numbers from movies that come out
xkcd comics
Of course, it won't be limited to just that. We'll see how it goes. That's all for this introductory post. I don't know how many times I'll post per day, but whatever happens happens.
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