I Am Link

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--- Wooden Delivery - Vin Diesel will be voicing the plant man called Groot in Marvel's upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy; Groot's one of the main characters, a Guardian, but breathe a sigh of relief that we won't have to look at the lumpen potato headed Diesel since the character will be CG, and apparently all Groot ever says, the few times he speaks, is "I am Groot" like he's Timmy on South Park.

--- Scary Carrie - Chloe Whastherface says that the Carrie remake got delayed from this Spring to this Fall in order to make the movie "darker and scarier." Well I guess that means they put more of her in it then. Nothing scares me more than that!

--- Vid Genius - EW chatted with director Mark Romanek about some of his old music videos, brilliant stuff like "Closer" and Fiona Apple's "Criminal," and got him to talk about making them. 

 

--- Sad Clown - Considered one of the holy grails of lost films, Jerry Lewis' Holocaust comedy The Day the Clown Cried was only ever saw by a few people - a few totally horrified people - before being erased from existence. Oh I'm sure there's a copy sitting in Jerry Lewis' vault, just waiting for an Oceans 11 like heist... anyway a little leak of footage showed up on YouTube recently, and The Playlist has the details. Ho ho ho Holocaust!

--- Eyes On Autumn - The Playlist dumped a slew of images from upcoming movies right here - there are several from Gravity (I saw the new trailer on IMAX this weekend and oh my god why can't I be watching this movie right now???), and Prisoners with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Snowpiercer, and so on.

--- Hugh Jeans - And speaking of Hugh, this collection of shots from behind the scenes of the new X-Men movie set features several shots of Hugh Jackman in era-appropriate jeans, and since the era we're talking is the 1970s, you'll want to click on over right quick.

--- Ad Man - Over at The Film Experience Nat's been taking a look at some of the high-profile Fall movie trailers that've shown up lately with his "Yes No Maybe So" way of doing such things - click here to read his take on Spike Jonze's Her, click here to read his thoughts on the Judi Dench vehicle Philomena, and click here to see what he thought of the Monuments Men trailer, which is Geroge Clooney's latest star-studded directorial effort.
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--- Government Takeover - I might not watch this since I don't need to convince myself to keep watching Homeland and I'd rather keep a mind fresh from spoilers about where things are headed, but here's the trailer for the upcoming third go-around with Carrie and Co. The show's back at the end of September.

--- Oh Bay - Forgot to mention this last week - Final Girl has picked a new Final Girl Film Club choice for the month of August - it's Mario Bava's highly influential 1971 proto-slasher Bay of Blood, which the Firday the 13th films ripped off pretty shamelessly, amongst others. The date to participate is August 27th, put it in your calendars! I've previously done a Thursday's Ways Not To Die for that movie, in case you're curious.

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