I Am Link

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--- Office Ranger - I guess it's time for casting rumors for the new, fourth Jurassic Park movie to begin - MovieWeb is throwing the name John Krasinski out, with as far as I can tell absolutely no source or even faked source, or anything, all they say is they're "hearing" he's up for a role... a role that the director explicitly stated yesterday is not part of the film. Annoying non news. But I actually could believe John Krasinski as a dino-scientist (and he has good legs for short shorts) so why not.

--- Teeth Marks - Want to know what the five best vampires of all time are? Then you should probably click on over to Final Girl, because Stacie applied some rigorous scientific technique towards figuring it out. It came up nearly half canine. Of course it did. Science works.

--- The Son Will Come Up - The swords n' sorcerer flick The Seventh Son with Julianne Moore vamping it up as a witch with a fondness for eye-liner opposite pretty young things Ben Barnes and Kit Harington (and somewhere Olivia Williams fits in there too) was supposed to be out in January (always a sign of quality, that) but now it has gotten caught up in the split between Legendary and Warner Brothers and we dunno when it'll be out. Universal, who will be partnering with Legendary now, will release the film... some time. (thx Mac)
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--- Take A Whack - A couple of new pictures from Spike Lee's Oldboy remake are promising the greatest hits (ha) from Park Chan-wook's movie have made the transfer - I see a hammer! I see a live octopus! If only they showed a pair of scissors and a severed tongue, we'd be set.

--- Miss Celie's Blues - Last evening Nat got his piece on The Color Purple up for this week's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" at The Film Experience - you can read mine here - and it's one of my favorites from him; I grew up with the film so I forgive it a lot, but I see now in adulthood pretty clearly that it is a flawed, flawed film, which he delves into beautifully. I second his mention of the make-up excellence though; that really stood out watching this time. And Whoopi is far better than I remembered her being (and I remember her being great). Anyway find links to all the entries on Spielberg's film right here.

--- Hit The Mat - The new movie from Capote and Moneyball director Bennett Miller is one we've been keeping track of - mainly because it promises Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo parading around in wrestling singlets (see here and see here) - so we're happy to see it's gotten a release date before the end of the year, even though it is getting dropped in among a billion other movies we want to see, too. (A point Nat addressed well upon hearing this news last night.)

--- Divorce Follies - The cast for this A.C.O.D. movie is so excellent - Adam Scott, Amy Poehler, Catherin O'Hara, Richard Jenkins, Jane Lynch, Mary Elizabeth Winstead - I can overlook that terrible title, I can overlook Jessica Alba, hell I can watch the trailer with the sound off and still get excited. I mean I originally was just watching it to see if Adam takes his clothes off, but then I saw them all and was like hey, look at all these people!

--- Creed's Apollo - The writer of Minority Report (good) and The Wolverine (uh, from what I heard not so good) has been hired to rewrite the script of Asassins's Creed, the video game adaptation that will star Michael Fassbender. Somebody break into this writer's house and whisper "full frontal nudity in the first reel" in his ear over and over!

--- Baby Makers - Kristen Wiig might be making an eensy little Brooklyn indie comedy called Nasty Baby from director Sebastien Silva (he made the recent Michael Cera double-whammy of Crystal Fairy and Magic Magic) about a gay couple (Silva and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe) who are trying to have a baby with their friend, played by Wiig.

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