Cybersurfing: Day Still Standing, Benjamin Button, Hatchet 2

The New York Times has an article on last week’s promotional event for DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which took place at the California Institute of Technology, where students and experts debated the film’s sceintific accuracy. Fashion Wire offers a short article on the movie’s premier. Reuters has an interview with Keanu Reeves in which he discusses THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and his other sci-fi roles. The Badger Herald also talks with Reeves about the film and the sci-fi genre:

“I love the genre,” Reeves said. “I grew up reading science fiction and watching science fiction films. I think it is a wonderful genre in the sense that it is a great way to look at ourselves. It is a genre that beautifully talks about our hopes, our fears and our anxieties and utilizes allegory and metaphor in such a fantastic way.”
Although in the past, Reeves has vocally expressed his dislike for remakes, he agreed to star in the film because he was a fan of the original movie as a kid and deemed the script to be more of a re-imagining than a remake.
“In general, with any film, you have to ask why. And with a remake, especially a remake of a classic, that question might be in bolder letters. I think the film itself does lend to the opportunity to answer why because of its timeliness and because of how it could be translated to present day, which maybe might not work so well for say, ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” Reeves said.

MyParkMag.Com has a brief bit with Brad Pitt, explaining how his upcoming film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, saved his relationship:

The 44-year-old actor – who raises six children with partner Angelina Jolie – admits starring as an elderly man who ages backwards in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ inspired him to re-evaluate his priorities in life.
He said: “Angelina and I do not fight anymore. What occurred to me on this film, and also with the passing of Angelina’s mother Marcheline Bertrand last year, is that there’s going to come a time when I’m not going to get to be with this person anymore.
“I’m not going to get to be with my children anymore. And so, if we have a flare-up, it evaporates now. I don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.”

Fear.net has an interview with writer-director Adam Green (HATCHET) in which he discusses everything from BOLT to his anticipation for the FRIDAY THE 13TH remake to a possible HATCHET 2:

As of this second H2 is happening sometime next year. (The first one made AB too much money to NOT do it.) But I still can’t say for sure if I will be back at the helm due to my schedule and the time frame that they are currently considering. I am contractually committed to 2 other films and a TV show right now, so it’s tough.

Schaumburg Review interviews actor Bill Mosely (DEVIL’S REJECTS) and producer Curtis Leopardo about their upcoming film THE TORTURED, a revenge melodrama from Twisted Pictures, set for a spring 2009 release.
LAsthePlace.com interviews writer-director Liz Adams about her short film SIDE EFFECTS, which is earning some buzz on the festival circuit:

Liz Adams:  The script for the short film SIDE EFFECT is the first ten pages of a feature length script called BLOOD LEVEL, which I have written. The project was further developed and then shot during the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women.  SIDE EFFECT was inspired by some research I did on the side effects of SSRI anti-depressants and other medications that are being given to kids. I came across a side effect called “homicidal ideation” – where certain drugs have been linked to both homicidal and suicidal impulses in a small amount of people who had taken the medications. As a storyteller that’s a tidbit that I really wanted to explore. To me a side effect called homicidal ideation is “true horror” – the idea that a pill could cause the kind of chemical imbalance that would make a sane person murder. That lead me to the question, what if evil didn’t come from some unseen world of devils, ghosts or demons, but instead there was a scientific formula for it. What if evil came in a pill?

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