I Am Link

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--- Scoot Catches Fire - Scoot McNairy, who's coming off quite a year movie-wise having rocked Argo and Killing Me Softly, has just joined the cast of Lee Pace's TV show Halt & Catch Fire that I told you about the other day. Sounds like he's the co-lead. Yes please, this is very fine news.

--- Laugh Once For Yes - Over at The Film Experience Beau took on the trailer for Frances Ha "Yes No Maybe So" style; y'all know I am nothing but Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, so head over there for someone who won't make you crazy.

--- Ghost House - I loved Monster House and think it might be an inspired choice, picking its director to remake Poltergiest. Or it could be awful, who knows. Since it can't have Zelda Rubinstein in it, her being dead and all, it's already got a huge uphill battle.

--- Green Thumbs - I guess it wasn't official when we blogged about it back in January, and now it is - Kate Winslet will indeed be starring opposite our beefy Belgian boyfriend Matthias Schoenaerts in A Little Chaos, about rival horticulturalists in 17th Century France. Alan Rickman is directing it.

--- Dead Dad Drama - Shawn Levy is lining up quite the cast for his funeral comedy This Is Where I Leave You about a family reuniting for the death of their patriarch - Jane Fonda plays the widow, while Tina Fey and Jason Bateman and Corey Stoll (mmm Corey Stoll) play three of her four kids (the fourth isn't cast yet I don't think).

--- Tweet Whedon - Hopefully Joss Whedon's giant yet cuddly ego won't let him quit once he's done promoting the movie - he's finally begun tweeting under the guise of the Twitter account for his Much Ado About Nothing movie, which you can hit up right here.

--- South Korean Superstar - Hey here's an interview with Park Chan-wook, that dude who directed Stoker, that movie I was really excited about and saw a whole week ago and totally enjoyed it and then never wrote anything else about, huh, how about that. I totally intend to write something today, I pinky swear.

--- Snow Bug - Ron Moore, the co-creator of the fantastic Battlestar Galactica remake, is making a new series for SyFy - it's called Helix and it's about a group of scientists in Antarctica dealing with some sort of out of control virus. You'd be forgiven for immediately thinking of The Thing, since it kinda owns snow-bound petri dish storytelling. And there's a picture of Tahmoh just because he should obviously be in it, wearing only that, frostbite be damned.

--- Screen Savers - Gothamist lists the twelve best movie theaters in New York. I know they show great shit and all but the Film Forum is just an awful way to see a movie. So cramped and such tiny screens. My favorite places to see movies are the Ziegfeld (seeing Oz the Great and Powerful there tomorrow!) and the Walter Reade theater in Lincoln Center. The screens at MoMA aren't bad either.

--- And finally, here's the first trailer for Eli Roth's werewolf series for Netflix, Hemlock Grove. I haven't watched this yet myself. All of the episodes drop on April 19th.

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