I Am Link

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--- Horror Show - Hey look over here's a chat with Bryan Fuller about Hannibal, which is so close I can practically taste it. (Mmmm fleshy.) April 4th, y'all! He tweeted that picture from the set last night of himself with stars Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen (oh and a corpse dangling from antlers, natch), saying they're just about done shooting the entirety of the first season. I only got to visit the set one time, boo. Well here's to hoping we get tons more seasons and I can go back.

--- End Sooner - Edgar Wright tells us via Twitter the good news - The World's End, his third film with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is going to hit the US a couple of months earlier than expected - it'll be out on August 23rd.

--- Winter Treatise - Our pal Sean chatted with a Game of Thrones writer about the upcoming season and its adherence, or lack thereof, to the corresponding book. If you read between the lines, let's just say... Reek, right? Reek.

--- Here Comes Trouble - I'm gonna sneak a little music news in here, just cuz - Pitchfork has some info on The National's new album, including its cover which you can see there to the right. It's called Trouble Will Find Me and it's set to come out in May. There's also a doc about them that will be opening up the Tribeca Film Fest. We love The National! We're seeing a collaboration between one of the band's members and Sufjan Stevens in Brooklyn this weekend, about which we are pants-wettingly enthusiastic.

--- Fired Up - Also in music news - Arcade Fire is working on a new album right this minute! Well maybe not right this actual minute, it's still sort of early in the day in NYC for that sort of thing. But probably later today, and tomorrow, and so on until they're done! (thx Mac)

--- We Fight Hard - When you label something as "ninja on ninja action" and one of said ninjas is possibly played by our big-time crush Lee Byung-hun, then you'd better deliver what I am thinking of. This clip does not deliver what I was thinking of.
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--- Mars Landing - If you want some details on the Veronica Mars movie that we paid for - you have paid some, right? RIGHT? - then head on over to The Playlist, where they've rounded up some of what Rob Thomas has had to say on the subject. I am still getting such a thrill writing "the Veronica Mars movie" and knowing it's a thing. A thing!!!

--- The Other Man - Bridesmaids adorable Chris O'Dowd apparently has a cameo in the second Thor movie, but it's him on a date with Natalie Portman and not him on a date with Chris Hemsworth, so nobody cares.

--- Sunny Side Benedict - I haven't watched the new Cumberbatch-centric Star Trek Into Darkness trailer but it's right here so's you and I can do that when we do that. I was just tempted to write "Yo Gabba Gabba Cumberbatch" and I have no idea where that came from but let's pretend it never happened.
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--- Start Good - Here's a list of what Film.com calls The 50 Greatest Opening Scenes Of All Time, although I'd say "All Time" is a misnomer because I don't see anything B.C. up on there.

--- Bigger Ben - We don't know much about it except it's called Silk Road and it's a thriller in the vein of The Prisoner, but British horror director Ben Wheatley - he made Kill List and Sightseers - is setting up a tv show at HBO. Don't trust the execs there, Ben! They're Enlightened-murdering monsters!

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