Film

An archive of blog entries about films and film production.

Film

Weird FilmFour ad

6 July 2006 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

FilmFour’s going to be free from July 23rd, as mentioned previously. To let everyone know, FilmFour got Kevin Spacey to direct an ad promoting this fact. He managed to get loads of his pals, including Lucy Liu, Christian Slater, Willem Dafoe, Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifans and Dame Judi Dench, to appear, doing very odd things. More info over at Brand Republic, but here’s a shot from it, since no one’s uploaded a video yet. They’re in Trafalgar Square, incidentally.

Dame Judi and Ewan McGregor

Another movie channel

3 July 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Hot on the heels of Film24 – okay before Film24, in fact – comes another movie channel: Movies 24. Just in case you hadn’t realised it was from the House of Hallmark, it’s showing only made-for-TV movies.

Meanwhile, Channel 4 has unveiled details of the new-look FilmFour which will re-launch as a free channel at 9pm on Sunday 23 July, starting with the free-to-air premiere of Lost in Translation.

It’s all go in TV movies land.

Bond, Bond, Bond, Bond, Bond, Bond, Bond, Bond…

28 June 2006 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Ah Thunderball. Now there was a classic Bond movie. You could say it’s where the Bond movie started to go wrong. Gadgets and stunts being used in favour of good plots? No, no, no.

But Thunderball was a good movie all the same. So good, in fact, that it got remade as Never Say Never Again. Famously, that starred Sean Connery at a time when Roger Moore was Bond-proper. You see, thanks to a fateful court decision a long time ago, someone other than the Broccolis and Eon own the rights to Thunderball.

And you know what? Said owner still doesn’t think it’s been done right. After failing to remake it again in the late 90s as Warhead, if the rumours are true, Kevin McClory is going to send another version of Thunderball into a cinema near you soon.

Guess who’s going to be Bond. It’s not Daniel Craig.

No, it’s Pierce Brosnan!

It’s all just so weird and wacky.