Tribute to Spielberg

Steven Spielberg received an award this weekend for all of the films that he's produced throughout his career:

Accepting the Producers Guild’s David O. Selznick Career Achievement Award last night, Steven Spielberg said about the people who stitched this video together: “I think we should have them working for us.”



It is a pretty cool video.

He really has been involved in a lot of great films over the years.

Still Jonesing

Well, I guess it's time to thaw out Harrison Ford again for another Indiana Jones movie...

Director Steven Spielberg revealed at the Empire Awards last night that Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones 5 filming will begin in the UK in April 2019! 

“It’s always worth the trip when I get to work with this deep bench of talent coming out of the UK. The actors, and the crew, the chippies, the sparks, the drivers — everybody who has helped me make my movies here, and will continue helping me make my movies here when I come back in April 2019 to make the fifth Indiana Jones movie right here,” he said. 

Set for a July 20, 2020 release date, the film will again see Spielberg teaming up with Harrison Ford, who is reprising his iconic role, and franchise producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshal. The screenplay is written by David Koepp.

I don't know that the world needs another one of these movies. The last one wasn't very good at all and, honestly, Harrison Ford is seventy-five years old and probably shouldn't be running around any jungle or desert without a nurse's aide.

However, maybe they'll introduce Chris Pratt into the series to take over the role and let Harrison ride off into the sunset or straight into Shady Pines.

Whichever is more dramatic.

Dino Might

Here is the first peek at Steven Spielberg's upcoming TV series "Terra Nova", which looks very Jurassic Park-esque.



Please don't feed the Velociraptors.

BFFs

A new trailer for the Steven Spielberg-directed film BFG was just released....



This extended trailer gives you a lot more info about the story and the characters, especially the "BFG" (which stands for "Big FRIENDLY Giant"...not the other "F" word, which is what I originally thought, and hoped, it meant).

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this when it opens on July 1st!

Pop goes the culture

A new trailer for Ready Player One was released today...






I don't know much about the story, other than it's a dystopia where people escape into a virtual world and are surrounded by pretty much every Pop Culture character and icon that licensing (and Steven Spielberg) was able to buy and cram into the visuals somewhere along the way.

And, honestly, that may be enough for me.



Plus, I enjoy the variety of retro posters they created for the film.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie when it opens on March 29th.

Ray Harryhausen

Very sad news today...

Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," "Jason and the Argonauts" and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure who inspired later generations of filmmakers and special-effects artists, has died. He was 92.

In the pre-computer-generated-imagery era in which he worked, Harryhausen used the painstaking process of making slight adjustments to the position of his three-dimensional, ball-and-socket-jointed scale models and then shooting them frame-by-frame to create the illusion of movement. Footage of his exotic beasts and creatures was later often combined with live action.



The fantasy world of Ray Harryhausen inspired Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron and many other filmmakers, some of whom have paid cinematic homage to the special-effects maestro.

As a kid, I always loved his movies and never missed a new one when they came out in the small theater near my town. He definitely transformed the way special effects were developed over many decades.



His creatures, at the time, definitely were memorable...especially this one from the original Clash of the Titans (with a very young Harry Hamlin).



She definitely needs something for that dry fly-away hair.

He will be missed, but not forgotten.

The friendly skies

If anyone tries to tell you that global warming isn't having a negative effect on the environment, show them this (via Towleroad)...



I bet Steven Spielberg is already working on the movie.

Honestly

This is a new photo of Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln (not the vampire hunter one) in the upcoming Spielberg movie of the same name.

Here he is from Last of the Mohicans.



It's amazing what a little makeup and lighting can do to an actor.

At least that's what I tell myself each day before I leave the house.

The BFG

Disney released a new trailer for their upcoming The BFG movie, directed by Steven Spielberg...



This looks like it's going to a LOT of fun.

I'm in.

Vote today!

Well, today has finally arrived and, as much as I'm looking forward to NOT hearing about every silly detail of each candidate's life, policies and dressing habits every minute, it's time to get out there and make a difference.

If you don't want to listen to me...listen to Borat and several of his celebrity friends (directed by Steven Spielberg).



"What you do inside the voting booth is a sacred. I like to make a hand relief...NICE."

Try to just focus on the voting part when you're in there...

Falling Skies

I enjoy a good alien-invasion movie or series and this new one coming in June on TNT (produced by Steven Spielberg) looks like what the third season of V might have been if they ever left their ships and decided to take over the planet as they kept threatening to do for the past two seasons.

I wonder if anyone would watch a show where the aliens actually were here to help us, had no desire to take over or eliminate us, and didn't look like some nasty reptilian creature?

I supposed we'll have to wait a while before the Hallmark Channel makes "Touched by an Alien".

Wait...that doesn't sound very family-friendly.