I Am Link

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--- Great Golden Gallimimus - When all is said and done the final numbers box-office-wise for Jurassic World were actually the biggest numbers of all time - it topped The Avengers opening, making just under 209 million dollars in the US alone. That number more than doubles world-wide. I don't usually bother with box-office talk, it's incredibly boring, but seeing as how the original Jurassic Park was my Star Wars I figure the franchise's success oughta be noted.

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--- Rex Noir - More interesting to me than box office figures, Jurassic-wise, are articles like this one which was birthed from the franchise's hot hot heat - a look at Chip Kidd's iconic logo for the series (you know the one, the T-Rex outline one) and where it came from. I'd actually never seen the original image he'd traced for it, which they share. 

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--- Bad Kill - Also of interest Jurassic-wise is this piece on the extended cruelty of one specific death scene in the film (if you saw the movie, you know that of which I speak) and how it doesn't work, for this author, tonally. I'm being vague about my own take for the moment because I intend to write up my review today as long as things go as planned and I'll probably talk about it then. But still, you should read this! (pic via)
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--- Final Forever -  This is a few days old but it's never too late to send love to Final Girl, aka the greatest horror blog of ever, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary last week. Head on over there and wish our bud Stacie Ponder the best, since she's given the world more entertainment than you can shake a stick at. A big stick!
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--- Big Load - It almost feels like Xavier Dolan's taking a page out of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's book, work-wise - I mean, almost, but not quite, nobody can do Fassbinder speed. But Dolan just finished Cannes like two weeks ago and he's already shooting his new movie (hell for all I know they're done already), It's Only the End of the World, aka the one with Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel and so on (amazing cast), which he's crammed in before heading off to shoot his first English-language movie with Jessica Chastain and Kit Harington. Anyway The Playlist already has the first image from IOtEotW (such a Fassbinder title too), which you can see at that link. The movie will probably be out before I finish this post. In Quebec at least; we won't see it in the US for three years.

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--- Michael's Back - A new Halloween movie, titled Halloween Returns, is going to start filming next month; a pair of writers from latter Saw movies are taking over the franchise. Ugh let's hope they don't bring their Saw nonsense with them. There's no cast yet but hopefully they just cast nobodies, I am fine with nobodies. Anyway they can't possibly do worse than Rob Zombie did right?
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--- Clown Around - Variety chatted with Finn Wittrock about having a Dandy time on American Horror Story last season (requisite link to sexy Dandy times) and they ask him if he's returning - actually they ask him if he's going to do anything with Ryan Murphy - and he plays it cagey:

"I can’t say for certain, because it’s still up in the air. But I will definitely be doing something on one of his shows very soon. That’s really all I know."'

Maybe he'll show up on that Scream Queens show? I want him on AHS though. Let me make that more specific -- I want him on Matthew Bomer, on AHS. Dammit. (thanks Mac)
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--- Shoot Him Up - Whenever I write up a news-story about director Mark Romanek attaching himself to a film I do so with a massive grain of salt and a side-eye that can be seen from space because dude has quit way more jobs than he's ever finished. But oh, the ones he's finished! They've been great. Anyway he's maybe going to make a heist movie called Norco, which is about a real-life cops-and-robbers chase and showdown in the 1980s in Southern California, which is still apparently considered the most violent such scene in American history.

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--- And Finally the first trailer for Michel Gondry's new movie called Microbe and Gasoline is online, you can watch it below. The Playlist has also got a few pictures and the general gist of it.Gondry's got a lifetime pass thanks to Eternal Sunshine but I really do hope I like this one a bit more than his previous efforts. Mood Indigo was okay but this one's reminding me of The We and the I, due to similar teenage concerns, and I couldn't stand that movie.

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