I Am Link

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--- Vamp Man - NBC is diving right on into horror it seems (as a way to save their flailing ratings?) - they've got both of Bryan Fuller's horror-tinged shows, the Munsters reboot and Hannibal, and now they've announced a Dracula series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the Count. I am not the biggest fan of Meyers, and describing it as "Dangerous Liasons meets The Tudors" just sounds silly to me, especially knowing they can never make it as sexy as either of those things. (Hello Henry Cavill's bum!)

--- Lily's Brood - A couple clearer (although still not hi-res) snaps of the monsters excuse me Munsters of Mockingbird Lane can be witnessed at this link. Closer up it really doesn't look like Jerry O'Connell's wearing any make-up at all...? I guess it's still too hard to tell. The look of Herman is very different from the old TV show but he should be noticeably... different than normal, too.

--- City Sidewalks - Over at Stale Popcorn Glenn's taking a look back at the 80s TV series The Equalizer (Denzel Washington's making a big-screen version set in Boston, apparently) and like Glenn I have foggy recollections of this show forming my earliest impressions of New York City (although I was surely being impressed several years before he was, given our ages). There are a bunch of terrific screencaps showing off the city to be seen - the shot of teensy houses under the Brooklyn Bridge wowed me the most, since all you see at that location now are very big buildings.

--- The Pi Maker - The Playlist has the first trailer for Ang Lee's adaptation of the book The Life of Pi, which I have not watched yet, but y'all have at it. Here it as at Apple, too. He had me at Ang Lee.

--- Re Chapped - Vulture talked to Matthew McConaughey at the premiere of his new movie Killer Joe (which I saw last night, including a Q&A with the bongo player himself, more to come later) about the possibility of a Magic Mike sequel and he says he has talked to Channing Tatum about it and would love to revisit that character.

--- Third Breakfast - Peter Jackson wasn't just blowing smoke up our hobbit skirts when he talked about making a third Hobbit movie - apparently he really wants to, and the talks he's having with the studio are serious. He just doesn't ever want to leave the shire again, does he? I guess he found his time away with Kong and Susie too terrifying to bear.

--- Cinema By Canuck - I mentioned last night that Greta Gerwig's new movie with Greenburg director Noah Baumbach would be playing at Toronto this September; read through the whole really impressive line up over here.

--- Meow Mixed - If a Catwoman spin-off happens with Anne Hathaway when it didn't happen with Michelle Pfieffer I will find myself very annoyed.

--- Ghost Hunters - We've talked about this before but a recap: James Wan's follow-up to the terrifically successful horror flick Insidious is called The Conjuring, it's about a real life story of "supernatural" (emphasis on those skeptical quote marks) events in Rhode Island in the Seventies and it stars Patrick Wilson and Lily Taylor and Vera Farmiga and Ron Livingston. Now there's word that it will be out in January! Pre-Insidious I had no time for the Saw director, but it's a new world. I hope this stays to the right side of good.

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