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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Please don’t think this cheap of me, but you know what I love today?
This press release, sent out by the lovely Tamar at Paramount:
ITUNES TO RELEASE MUSIC WRITTEN BY MICHAEL GIACCHINO FROM PARAMOUNT PICTURES’ “CLOVERFIELD”
HOLLYWOOD , CA – April 23, 2008 – On April 29th, iTunes will release the end credits overture from "Cloverfield" by Michael Giacchino. For the first time, the full length orchestral piece, entitled "ROAR!", will be available exclusively from iTunes paralleling the release of the film for download.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I have no excuse for days missed. I am currently finishing the final draft of BAT OUT OF HELL on a fairly demanding deadline, and it’s going well, but it’s also taking up 100% of my headspace. I’ve been at screenings and doing interviews and things like that every single day. Hell, this morning, I interviewed Hammer and Tongs at Paramount while yesterday, I stood next to Whitley Streiber and The Rock while shooting a cameo in a Disney film, so it’s not for lack of material that I have been absent from the site this week.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I’m going to hold off on a formal review of Tarsem’s THE FALL until a little closer to release, but I’ll say right now that I haven’t seen a jump in quality from first film to second film like this since Fincher went from ALIEN 3 to SE7EN.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I love the crap out of this film, and I plan to be obnoxious about it because I suspect many of you will feel the same way if you give it a chance in the theater.
To that end, today I want to share an exclusive clip with you, which I think does a nice job of setting the tone of the film. This is about real childhood, not movie childhood, and it’s a sweet, funny, ballsy little film that I hope to discuss much more in the weeks ahead.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I remember when MATRIX REVOLUTIONS came out, I was busy working on a script, and I didn’t have time to see the movie. It wasn’t until about a week and a half into the run that I finally snuck away to see an afternoon screening at the Universal Citywalk IMAX. And my overwhelming impression of the film, removed from anything involving the narrative, was “Goddamn, Lawrence Fishburne should never be in an IMAX movie again.”
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I owe you guys two of these today, thanks to some unexpected travel yesterday. Since that was the cause of the delay, let me explain why I missed posting anything yesterday, and why I was so damn happy to do so.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Y’know, I’m not even sure this film ever screened here in LA. It must have played here at some point... I mean, if it played theatrically anywhere, I assume it would have been here. But I missed it completely. It’s one of those films that was easy to dismiss, too, when I was occasionally reminded of it. “What is it? A Jimmy Carter documentary?” It seemed like a film I would maybe watch but never spend any actual energy tracking down.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I feel bad. I tried watching LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA last night. Love the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I really wanted to like the film. But as soon as it started, I found myself disconnecting from it, and it took me a while to figure out why I reacted so quickly and so extremely. Part of it is because of the use of fairly awful old-age make-up on all the actors in the sequence, masking them so completely and inhibiting their ability to perform to such a degree that the entire exposition-heavy first ten minutes is rendered inert.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
It is not a new thing for me to get e-mail about Rambo.
Longtime AICN reader and talkback regular AB King has had my e-mail address for over a decade. I would estimate that he alone is responsible for over 45 billion e-mails that mentioned the character Rambo during that time. And that’s just him.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I am weary of all things zombie.
One of the reasons I am drawn to horror as a genre is because of the versatility of it. You can comment on almost any social situation or offer observations on any facet of daily life using horror, if you just figure out how to bend the various tropes of the genre to your purpose. Or, if you want, you can just scare the shit out of someone. Either or, really.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
David Milch should get back in the game.
I loved DEADWOOD. Absolutely adored every cocksucking second of it. I loved the characters, the tone, the look, the direction, the sense of time and place. And when HBO and/or David Milch pulled the plug (I’ve read differing accounts of what went down) a year before the story should have ended, it felt like a betrayal, and as a result, I refused to tune in to Milch’s follow-up series, JOHN OF CINCINNATI. I didn’t read about it. I didn’t watch it. I ignored it completely out of spite.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I know right now it’s cool to be giddy over the various HD releases showing up in our homes via On Demand premieres or on Blu-Ray disc, and believe me... as soon as I get my PS3 back (long story and longer process) from Sony, I plan to spend about 72 hours watching all the Blu-Ray discs I have stacked on my desk and unopened right now...
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
It’s no secret at this point that I am a fan of the work that Doug TenNapel does. When I learned last week that Sam Raimi was going to produce MONSTER ZOO for Paramount, I realized that I needed to finally read the galleys for the graphic novel that I’ve had on my desk for a few weeks now. You know how it is when you’ve got something to read or watch that you’re really looking forward to, but you want to savor it so you put it off looking for the right moment?
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
I had something else planned originally, but when I got out of DRILLBIT TAYLOR today, the first thing I wanted to do was get home and throw on my DVD of some of Anthony Minghella’s work on THE STORYTELLER, a Jim Henson series that I dearly love.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Wait... technically speaking, that’s two things.
Damn it, it’s only day two and I’m already messing it up. Still, these two things are related, so please don’t anyone call the internet cops on me. One is a movie, and the other is... well, not exactly a distributor... it’s more like a concept. And it’s a concept I like a lot.
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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Yep, that’s right. It’s another attempt at a daily column by your favorite procrastinator.
Or at least, I’m my own favorite procrastinator. That’s gotta count for something.
I recently realized that I need to get myself into the habit of being able to produce at least one piece per day, and not writing a novel every single time.
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