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From The Office to Nativity!
25 November 2009 1:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Martin Freeman made his name in the The Office as the lovely Tim. Now he's playing another nice bloke in Nativity! So why is he so defensive about being typecast?
Martin Freeman is sitting opposite me in a London hotel, and he's being charming. He's already offered to fetch me some refreshments ("Well, if you were in my kitchen I'd get you a drink") and is responding to my questions with vigour, practically bouncing out of his chair as he talks.
We meet during his promotional tour for the film Nativity! It's billed as a "heartwarming and hilarious tale of the true meaning of Christmas" but don't worry – it's better than it sounds. Freeman plays Mr Maddens, a frustrated and frayed teacher at a bog-standard primary school who finds love, joy and personal redemption through directing the school nativity play. As you may expect, there are sing-along songs and cute »
- Alice Wignall
From The Office to Nativity!
25 November 2009 1:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Martin Freeman made his name in the The Office as the lovely Tim. Now he's playing another nice bloke in Nativity! So why is he so defensive about being typecast?
Martin Freeman is sitting opposite me in a London hotel, and he's being charming. He's already offered to fetch me some refreshments ("Well, if you were in my kitchen I'd get you a drink") and is responding to my questions with vigour, practically bouncing out of his chair as he talks.
We meet during his promotional tour for the film Nativity! It's billed as a "heartwarming and hilarious tale of the true meaning of Christmas" but don't worry – it's better than it sounds. Freeman plays Mr Maddens, a frustrated and frayed teacher at a bog-standard primary school who finds love, joy and personal redemption through directing the school nativity play. As you may expect, there are sing-along songs and cute »
- Alice Wignall
A virtual tour of the universe of sci-fi
30 October 2009 7:41 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Would you like to hitchhike to Betelgeuse, stargaze from Vulcan (before it was destroyed in the new Star Trek film, as in the image on the right!) or explore the galaxies far, far away where the Star Wars saga began?
Among the highlights of last week's Sci-Fi-London film festival was a virtual tour of the night sky from a sci-fi perspective, showing some of the most famous locations from the genre's most famous movies, books and TV shows, including Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Battlestar Galactica.
Sci-Fi-London teamed up with The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, for Sci-Fi Universe, in which the planetarium's laser-powered show created a 360-degree IMAX-like experience flying past the planets of the Solar System and boldly going where no observatory has gone before.
For those of you who, like me, missed this special event, all is not lost. The Royal »
- David Bentley
HorrorFest 2009: 'John Dies At The End'
22 October 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Welcome to HorrorFest 2009. It's been a long strange journey so far for John Dies At The End and its author, "David Wong," and there's still plenty of journey ahead. I'm late to the party, but now that I've read the book, I'm onboard, and I am ready to recruit others this horror world equivalent to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Jason Pargin is editor-in-chief of the very funny Cracked.com, and it should come as no surprise that he was able to write a very funny supernatural novel, using the internet to self-publish starting back in 2001. It's impressive, though, that... »
Balloon Boy Has Nothing To Do With Robert Zemeckis' Next Performance-Capture Project
20 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
This may not be the best time to be developing a movie about a young boy and a flying contraption, but I guess the adaptation of Eoin Colfer's "Airman" won't be arriving in theaters for awhile. The movie, which Variety reveals Robert Zemeckis is producing as his latest entry into the performance capture animation trend, will be directed by Gil Kenan ("City of Ember") and scripted by Ann Peacock, who previously adapted "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
Set in the 19th century off the coast of Ireland, "Airman" tells of a flight-obsessed boy wrongly sent to prison for allegedly killing his king. Not only does he escape from his jail by building a flying machine, he also constructs gliders that help him rescue a princess, save his family and otherwise act the hero as a swashbuckling pilot of homemade air transports. He even »
- Christopher Campbell
Last Chance to See: When a man loves a parrot on TV
13 October 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
That's a Kakapo over there. It's an endangered species of flightless parrot. We'll get to him in a second. But I wanted to point out that this is, in fact, the first time a Kakapo has appeared at TV Squad.
This year is the 30th anniversary of Douglas Adams' classic TV, radio and book series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As part of the celebration, BBC2 TV sent Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine off to visit the endangered species Adams searched for in another of his books, Last Chance to See.
Adams documented his growing passion for preserving fading species in the book. And BBC2 sent Fry and Carwardine out into the world to document how those species (like the Kakapo) were fairing.
You'll be able to discover the results when the show crosses the Atlantic in the coming weeks after its U.K. run. But, for now, »
- John Scott Lewinski
Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader
13 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Think of Wikipedia, and your mental image probably has you sitting at a PC tapping your queries in. But that's about to change because Wikipedia's Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide kind of way.
Meet the WikiReader, developed by Openmoko in official collaboration with Wikipedia and available at retail starting today for $99. As the press release says, it's a "palm-sized electronic encyclopedia containing the more than three million English language articles of Wikipedia" that works entirely off-line. In a time when people are raving about e-readers, the Wikireader is a neat little piece of lateral-thinking, being part electronic-book, part e-reader...and having the advantage of instant power-on, and cheap price due to its simple components.
Drawing comparisons with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is kind of inevitable--remember Douglas Adam's description: "It's a sort of electronic book, it tells you everything you need to know about anything. »
- Kit Eaton
Fantastic Fest Review: Stingray Sam
1 October 2009 12:33 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every once in awhile Fantastic Fest delivers something way out of left field. The programmers from time to time will discover something truly special that, while it may or may not fit one of the three signature genres on which the fest was founded (horror,sci-fi, and fantasy), still manages to delight the audience. Stingray Sam technically does fit the sci-fi theme, but had I seen it before it was announced as part of this year's slate, I never would have guessed that it would play Fantastic Fest. Stingray Sam is about a cowboy lounge singer working in a nightclub on Mars. Oh yeah, that's right. It takes place in a future where Mars, once the entertainment capital of the universe, is a forgotten wasteland of middling performers and corporate sponsorship. Stingray Sam meets up with his former cohort, the Quasar Kid, and embarks on a mission to rescue a kidnapped child. Apparently »
- Brian Salisbury
Microsoft's Courier And Norhtec's Tablet: The Impossible And The Possible?
25 September 2009 3:15 PM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
"Forget Apple's Tablet!" That's what gearheads are shouting from the rooftops after Gizmodo's leak of a new Microsoft product--"The Courier"--appeared last night during the opening of the Gizmodo Gallery.
Check out the video of Courier in action--Gizmodo's apparently obtained the information from directly within Microsoft's secret development team. (The video file shown last night was titled "projectwood" but don't be fooled into thinking that's a Microsoft code name.) It's a dual 7-inch screen unit with Wi-fi, Gps and camera built-in.
It's amazing, isn't it? The kind of amazingly futuristic Ui that we've seen a thousand times in sci-fi movies, infused with Surface-like powers, promising a crossover between a Star Trek digital pad, and The HitchHiker's Guide to The Galaxy as depicted in the movie, and the voice of that spooky lady in the Palm Pre ads. It's also, according to Gizmodo, absolutely real, in development and currently at a "late prototype" stage. »
- Kit Eaton
Fish in the East River Say: "Hey Wht R U Up 2?"
18 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
This weekend at the Conflux festival, artist and technologist Natalie Jeremijenko will hold a workshop showing off a fish monitoring system that issues text-message status reports.
Natalie Jeremijenko's art strives to highlight environmental and scientific issues. Past works include robotic dogs that were hacked to sniff out ground pollutants, for example. In another project, Jeremijenko planted 100 pairs of trees, all cloned from a single plant, throughout San Francisco. It showed that while the trees were genetically identical they grew in unique patterns--thus highlighting the complex dance between nature and nurture.
This Saturday, during the Conflux Festival, she's offering a personal tour of her new work, Fish n' Microchips. At noon, anyone who wants can meet up with Jeremijenko at the Barney Building, on Nyu's campus, and from there, she'll guide the group to a spot in the east river, where the work's installed.
It comprises a grid of Led stalks, »
- Cliff Kuang
Look! Up in the Sky! It's Superman! It's E.T.! No, It's a... Flying Mouse?
15 September 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | amctv - SciFi Scanner: Fact vs. Fiction | See recent amctv - SciFi Scanner: Fact vs. Fiction news »
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there is an art, or rather a knack, to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. If that seems too difficult -- or potentially painful -- a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has devised an alternate method. Working on behalf of Nasa, they successfully levitated a mouse using only »
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12:
2 September 2009 2:29 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 72. Country singer David Allan Coe is 70. Country singer Mel McDaniel is 67. Singer-bassist Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 66. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 65. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 62. Country singer Buddy Miller is 57. Country drummer Joe Smyth of Sawyer Brown is 52. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 51. Actor-comedian Michael Winslow ("Police Academy") is 51. Guitarist Pal Waaktaar of A-ha is 48. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 46. Actress Rosie Perez is 45. Singer Macy Gray is 42. Singer CeCe Peniston is 40. Singer Darryl Anthony (Az Yet) is 40. Singer Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) is 38. Actor Dylan Bruno ("Numb3ers") is 37. Actress Anika Noni Rose ("Dreamgirls") is 37. Actor Justin Whalin ("Lois and Clark") is 35. Singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans) is 35. Actress Naomie Harris ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest") is 33. Rapper Noreaga is 32. Rapper Foxy Brown is 31.Sept. 7: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer »
Report Card: Movies of 2009 Get a 2.15 G.P.A. So Far
11 August 2009 4:14 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I was recently prompted to take a look back at my reviews of 2009, average out the grades and see how things shaped up. However, once I got done with that I began wondering how this year stacked up to earlier years and my first days reviewing films back in 2003. Of course, I dreaded the prospect. For those of you that are either new to the site or don't read all of my posts, you may not know how I feel about my early movie reviews back when I started RopeofSilicon.com. Perhaps you think I am awful right now, and if that's the case, I cringe at the thought of what you would think of my writing back then. As for this little experiment, I have listed the overall grade point average for my reviews on a per-year basis, the total number of reviews, the best and worst reviewed movies »
- Brad Brevet
'Enchanted' Director Takes on Femme Dr. Frankenstein
23 June 2009 6:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Enchanted director Kevin Lima is on board to direct a new version of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel Frankenstein. Frank has a helluva twist, though; the scientist cooking up cadavers is an "antisocial" young woman in med school who decides to "create" her own friends. And... it's a romantic comedy. Can you say undead boyfriend?!
According to Variety, the writer and one of the executive producers of this potentially awesome project is Karey Kirkpatrick, the writer of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Charlotte's Web, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and James and the Giant Peach, among others. She also directed the Eddie Murphy vehicle Imagine That,
Both Lima and Kirkpatrick have a bunch of projects that are in development, although Lima's have more of a family-friendly vibe (The Spook's Apprentice, Candy Land, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, and Thumb). Kirkpatrick's optioned projects include writing, directing, and producing Captain Abdul's Pirate School, »
- Jenni Miller
Fox's Frank finds enchantment with director
23 June 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
Enchanted director Kevin Lima has agreed to receive a paycheck from Fox 2000 for services provided on Frank, the studio's new romantic comedy that takes liberties with Mary Shelley's creation. The project was developed by Karey Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) but it won't be written by him.
The idea centers on a whizkid young medical student who's a loser in their social life. Taking some advice from her guidance counselor the prodigy creates her own Bff by assembling different pieces of the corpses stored in her school. Suddenly I understand why Kirkpatrick didn't want to write the screenplay for this one. He's still going to be cashing a check as an executive producer on it though so responsibility, thou art Karey Kirkpatrick's!
Radar Pictures is developing the project for the studio with Chris Chase and Ted Field producing. More responsible ones! Get them! »
- Patrick Sauriol
'Zombieland' Trailer Arrives Online
18 June 2009 6:35 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Just when it seemed that October might be super-serious with its horror and dramatic offerings -- Shutter Island to Sorority Row, The Stepfather to Saw VI -- we get our first look at the fun-looking Zombieland, an action-horror-comedy in which Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone (!) and Abigail Breslin all team up in the post-apocalyptic wasteland and whoop some undead ass.
The tone of at least the trailer (I could see the narration carrying over to the film) strikes me as something like Shaun of the Dead crossed with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I for one don't think that intersection's a bad place to be.
Read the rest over at Horror Squad ...Filed under: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sony, Trailers and Clips
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- William Goss
Hitchhiker's Deep Thought Is Online, Answering Your Questions About the Meaning of Life
27 May 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | amctv - SciFi Scanner: Fact vs. Fiction | See recent amctv - SciFi Scanner: Fact vs. Fiction news »
A mega computer with the repository of all the world's knowledge, accessible from anywhere with just one touch of your finger. Sounds familiar to anyone who's seen The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (or read any of Douglas Adams's books), but now with the invention of the new web application Wolfram|Alpha, the possibility posited by Adams is very close to reality. Using algorithms created by Wolfram's own Mathematica program (a »
Trailer Park: Extracting Public Enemies to the Moon
11 April 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The last time we saw Sam Rockwell in outer space he was playing the two headed President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He plays it a little closer to home this time as the lone employee of a mining company working an outpost on the moon. He works his three-year tour of duty with hope of returning to his wife and daughter when it's all done, but things go wrong when he discovers a downed space craft (at least I think that's what's going on) containing an injured man who is his exact duplicate. This looks like a science fiction thriller with a lot of potential and things get luney (for a limited release anyway) on June 12.
Historical drama with a lot of flare starring Johnny Depp as notorious bank robber John Dillinger. Throw in Christian Bale as FBI agent »
- Matt Bradshaw
Microsoft Shutters Encarta as Douglas Adam's Encyclopedia Model Wins
31 March 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Microsoft has announced that it's terminating its encyclopedia effort Encarta after 16 years in the business of collecting and publishing knowledge and historic information. The reasons for Encarta's doom are obvious: it's become increasingly technologically irrelevant--in a wonderful parallel to a theory on encyclopedias crafted by sci-fi master Douglas Adams.
On its Encarta website yesterday Microsoft made the announcement that "The category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed [...] People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past." As a result the subscription-based Encarta Web site (which replaced the original CD/DVD interactive editions) will be closed starting October 31 everywhere except Japan, and that site will close December 31. Clearly Microsoft's done the math and realized that income from its Encarta subscribers isn't worth the cost of maintaining and developing the site--and Microsoft, prince of all cut-throat businesses, clearly isn't going to make the service free. »
- Kit Eaton
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (DVD) Movie Review
15 March 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Having grown up with this hilarious best selling novel, I couldn’t wait for a better version to appear on film. The BBC had initially tried to dramatize this series (a “trilogy of four”) both on the radio and on television. Only the radio version saw success - the televised version was so low budget, it was painful to watch. Now that they’ve cast the cardboard sets aside and turned to CGI, the original novel can appropriately be adapted to the large screen. I was so impressed by this new version I had to watch it twice. Arthur Dent, average British citizen wakes up one ... »
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