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Ellen Degeneres confirmed on her Instagram that Finding Dory, the sequel to Finding Nemo, is officially happening. 

Projected opening: 2015.  While The Dark Knight Rises was technically Hugo’s first movie (at all of five weeks old), this might be the first one he sees in the theater and comprehends some of.

A cool way to look at films, art direction, and cinematography.

nprfreshair:

Here is the color palette of The Graduate. In other words, “every frame in a movie compressed into a line, giving an idea of the colour palette used by the filmmakers.”

We’ve got an interview coming up this week with Dustin Hoffman. He’ll talk a bit about The Graduate, but not about its color palette. Which is why we thought it urgent and important to share with you here.

via Design Observer

Sciencing your Home Alone viewing:

theweekmagazine:

“Assuming the paint can is full (roughly 10 pounds) and the rope is 10 feet long, Marv and Harry each take a roughly 2 kilo-newton hit to the face. That is easily enough to fracture multiple facial bones, and is probably going to knock you out cold. Also, I wouldn’t expect either of the Wet Bandits to walk away from this with all of their teeth.”

Can a man really be hit square in the face with a steam iron and walk away unfazed? What kind of permanent physical damage would a blow torch to the head really do? To answer these questions and officially dissolve Home Alone’s Hollywood magic, Lauren Hansen spoke with her friend Dr. Ryan St. Clair of the Weill Cornell Medical College. 

Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars’ injuries

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Vulture’s ‘Les Mis’ advent calendar is all you’ll need this year.

Not sure if I’m looking forward to the movie coming out or not, but I would probably watch at least 15 minutes of Jason Segel as Jean Valjean… missed casting opportunity.

I think the part of Andy Murray in an Andy Murray biopic would be played by Michael Cera (with a bad Scottish accent).  

In sudden if unsurprising Peter Jackson news:

totalfilm:

Peter Jackson confirms that The Hobbit will become three films

The Hobbit, Peter Jackson’s hotly anticipated adaptation of the prequel to The Lord Of The Rings, will now officially be three films, rather than the previously announced two…

(via hotpotofcoffee)

theatlantic:A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies)

If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it’s Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 sees Will Smith’s Agent J going back to the 1960s to save partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones in the present, Josh Brolin in the past), and mines its late-’60s setting for jokes both obvious (hippies, Andy Warhol) and subtle (Rick Baker’s new alien designs, which are derived from the style of ’60s science fiction).

But if time travel, as the Men in Black would have it, is “illegal throughout the universe,” cinema is full of lawbreakers. It’s been 10 years since the last Men in Black movie, but nearly 100 years since the first time-travel film hit movie theaters. There are so many variations on turning the clock forwards and backwards in cinema that it’s difficult to say these films even belong to a unified “genre.” But every time-traveling movie has, in its own way, had to overcome the mind-bending logic problems inherent in its premise. And each, too, has played on a universal, if vain, human desire to experience a world that’s entirely unavailable to us—and perhaps to change things in our own.

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Great to see Georgetown Hoyas making an impact!

bbook:

In the last year, Brit Marling has emerged on our screens with films that are not only brilliant in their own right, but they are ushering in a new wave of American independent cinema. The actress and writer first blew us away with the hauntingly beautiful science-fiction drama Another Earth, which she starred in and co-wrote with Mike Cahill, winning the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In her latest feature, Sound of My Voice (co-written with director Zal Batmanglij), she plays Maggie, a frighteningly seductive cult leader who claims to be from the future. The film follows a young couple who attempt to infiltrate the cult in order to expose Maggie, but they soon find themselves caught in the depths of her manipulation.

“Everything’s starting to come together in this way and the distinctions are starting to blur—you don’t have to box yourself in as just an actor or a writer,” Marling says, as she has taken on the multi-hyphenate title with grace. In a screening of the film held last week, Marling and Batmanglij spoke about the transformative nature of the film and the way in which its entire genre can alter depending on your faith in Maggie. Stripped down to its most basic emotional elements, Sound of My Voice can be seen as your everyday love triangle—except in this case one of the people involved may or may not be a time traveler. It’s not only Marling’s riveting onscreen performances that have been engaging audiences, but the sincere intelligence of her films and the way she puts forth dynamic characters for women that feel refreshing in today’s Hollywood landscape. We sat down with Marling to dive deeper into the inception of the film, the magic in the mundane, and dealing with the apocalyptic future.

Brit Marling on Co-Writing and Starring in Sound of My Voice

An Infographic Guide to This Summer’s Movies

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The Titanic tragedy will turn 100 years old this week, and all of the media coverage surrounding the sad anniversary seems to have shocked some people who never knew the Titanic was anything more than a movie. (via PSA: The Titanic Was Real, Not Just A Movie: Gothamist)