CW have thrown a trailer for their new reality show Capture.
Look familiar? It’s as close to Hunger Games as they could make it - 12 pairs “enter a fenced-in enclosure in the middle of the wild, where they must live for one month and compete against each other for scarce resources. With $250,000 on the line, it’s a winner-take-all battle in which the teams must hunt each other down to survive.”
Kickstarter is a powerful place - while it’s not going to answer the hopes and dreams of every new creative in the world… for some it is mecca. Japanese animation studio Trigger, launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their Little Witch Academia - the first short (with English subtitles) surpassed 800,000 views on YouTube.
The second Little Witch Academia was floated on Kickstarter asking for $150,000. That goal was reached in under six hours. After three days the total is $348,789 from 4,487 backers. If they hit their new goal of $500,000, they will release an audio commentary, a ‘making of’ documentary, soundtrack and art book - there are still 27 days left in the campaign!
You may not get to see the movie until February 2014 but as Comic-Con ramps up, so too does the Seventh Son hype machine. And forget waiting for an exclusive at Con… here it is!
When asked this week about his plans to film an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five - with the incredible screenwriter Charlie Kaufman - Guillermo Del Toro didn’t shy away from the question:
We talked about it, but the deal hasn’t been sealed. The books that I read in my first 15 years of life are books like The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Slaughterhouse-Five was the one where I experienced my first stroke of humanistic science-fiction. It was about humanity and the science-fiction was the accoutrements of the tale. It was ultimately about Vonnegut and what it is to be human.”
There’s a busy year or two ahead - with Del Toro working on a TV pilot and a new feature … but after that. Well, after that who knows?
The new site will feature film criticism and industry news. In a Mashable interview this week Keith Phipps, editor of The Dissolve, said:
There’s a lot of great film writing on the Internet, but there really wasn’t anyone doing what Pitchfork has done for music, which is smart, opinion-driven, critic-driven, review-driven, and written for an audience that was passionate about film but not necessarily coming at it from an academic view.
Launching later today The Dissolve has a ton of new content to whet readers appetite - and, possibly, see a smarter side of cinema writing.
Keep an eye on The Dissolve later today to have a read.
After his girlfriend fell asleep on the couch James Williams‘ set-up a life-size puppet of The Ring protagonist, Samara - and left it there for her to wake up to.