The Cheat Sheet

nwkarchivist:

Remembering “Alien” And Anticipating “Prometheus”

Sprung from the gelatinous innards of an obscene egg on some far-off planet, a hideous, squidlike thing leaps onto the startled face of a hapless astronaut. Yuck!  What could be more basic than “Alien”? A crew of space travelers on a commercial mission picks up a strange organism on a remote planet and brings it aboard ship, where it disappears, metamorphoses and proceeds to eat our heroes one by one. 

Newsweek June 18, 1979

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nedhepburn:

Wes Anderson bingo.

hitfix:

Bill Murray was in full effect at the Moonrise Kingdom premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Never has more plaid been worn at a movie premiere.

Check out more photos of Murray and his co-stars,Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and others.

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Director Gary Ross leaves The Hunger Games franchise! The Playlist reports that, rather than the issue being strictly a monetary one, Ross “evidently… liked the first book best.”

Head spinning! But let’s look on the bright side— a new director for the trilogy’s sequel, Catching Fire, could be interesting.

Vanity Fair reports that the series had some high-profile directorial suitors in the past, including Sam Mendes (Away We Go, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, Road to Perdition, American Beauty), Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman), and Francis Lawrence (Water for Elephants, I Am Legend, and… wati for it… Britney Spears’ “I’m a Slave 4 U” music video). Of course we can dream beyond this interesting trio as well.

Who would you pick to direct the rest of the series?

How did you end up writing a sequel to Drive?

One day my agent Vicky Bijur called. The producers were asking if there’d be a sequel to Drive. Of course not, I harrumphed—being an artiste and all. I hung up the phone and sat there with the image of a woman leaning against a wall, bleeding out. I wrote the first page and was hooked.

Apparently James Sallis, author of the book ‘Drive,’ has written a sequel.

Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling totes saved a woman from being hit by a taxi Tuesday evening. (Related: Ryan Gosling memes)

bunnyfood:

Happy Groundhog day!

(Source: nevver)