As a lover of images, I’m posting this for no reason other than the fact we think it’s great inspiration for an ad campaign. Here’s a moment of silence for Mister Busby Berkeley… a man with an exquisite eye.

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Here’s some sex in the name of science. Check out his knobby knees!

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On our last “remakes” post, (Clash of the Remakes), we covered ground on the new Clash of the Titans and Prisoner TV series and the new blood filling in old boots. Anyway, the remakes keep coming and coming… Here’s the new batch of castings for the regurgitated flicks.

Both films were 80’s classics — Red Dawn (1984) and Tron (1982).

If you’ve never seen Red Dawn, it was the classic “boy crush” film… one of my childhood favorites for sentimental reasons. John Milius wrote the Cold-War drama, and had intended it to be a deeper statement on the futility of war, illustrating the build up of revolutionary fever turning into a killing insurgency group. A militaristic “David vs Goliath”, if you will. Of course, his script got hijacked and converted into a shallow action film with lots of explosions blowing up the Russians. Hey, it was the Cold War Reagan era!

In the original storyline, the Russians joined forces with the Cubans to attack the United States — prompting World War III. In this 2010 remake, it’s the Chinese that invade the United States. Creepy twist, huh? I wonder how this film will play out in China.

Here’s the cast breakdown:

Chris Hemsworth as lead Jed Eckert (Patrick Swayze’s old role), Josh Peck (in Charlie Sheen’s old role), Adrianne Palicki (in Jennifer Grey’s old role)

Josh Hutcherson (C. Thomas Howell’s old role). Connor Cruise, son of Tom Cruise (Darrne Dalton’s old role). Isabel Lucas  of Transformers (Lea Thompson’s old role). Edwin Hodge (Brad Savage’s old role).

Red Dawn is set for release for Sept 2010.

Then there’s Tron Legacy. The technology is going to be strong on this remake. The original film pushed all sorts of boundaries for effects and imagination. It was also probably the first co-branded “marriage” of movie and video game. Admittedly, I was the Tron junkie at the arcade. Ahhh, I miss arcades! Joust, Frogger, Tron. I miss them all.

Anyway, Jeff Bridges starred as the young protagonist in the original 1982 film. In Tron Legacy, actor Garret Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges).

The son looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Together, they embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning and exceedingly dangerous cyber universe.

Other actors appearing in the new Tron Legacy are: Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, and John Hurt.

(A young Jeff Bridges in the 1982 classic)

(Jeff Bridges plays the father role in the 2010 version)

(Garrett Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, son of Jeff Bridge’s character, Kevin Flynn)

(Olivia Wilde set to star in the new Tron Legacy)

Tron Legacy will hit U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010. Another footnote, Daft Punk is said to be scoring all the music for the new Tron. Let’s pray to the Lord that the studio doesn’t mess this one up.

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(1963 Twilight Zone adaptation of the original sci-fi short story)

Imagine a movie where Rocky-meets-Terminator… except the job of the robot is to win boxing rounds, and not kill Sarah Conner. This is how one website describes the short story written by sci-fi author Richard Matheson. The original story was adapted for an episode of the Twilight Zone in 1963.

Anyway, DreamWorks is making the robot boxing movie now. Steven Spielberg is producing it. It’s about a retired boxer who reconnects with his estranged son after he becomes a promoter for a robot boxing league. Hugh Jackman has been cast. All they need is the right 10-14 year old boy for the kid role… Here is what they are looking for:

Role to be cast is ‘Max’:
• Male, 10-14 years old.
• He’s a street-smart, tough, charming kid with a hard, untrusting outer shell which hides a warm enthusiastic spirit beneath.
• He is a complicated, strong-willed and resourceful boy

Actors interested in the role have two ways to audition.

(1) Beginning immediately, individuals can submit a videotaped audition through REALSTEELCASTING.com

(2) Open Call Auditions:

NEW YORK
Saturday, February 20, 2010
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street
12th Floor
New York, NY 10019-5515

CHICAGO
Sunday, February 14, 2010
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Chicago Academy of the Arts
1010 W Chicago Street
Chicago, IL 60642-5490
(Parking behind building)

Director: Shawn Levy (NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM)
Producers: Don Murphy, Susan Montford and Shawn Levy.
Exec Producers: Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Josh McLaglen, and Mary McLaglen
Screenplay by: John Gatins

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It’s another morning of movie marathons out at the Sundance Film Festival. Below is a report from one of our editorial bookers, Greg Krelenstein, who was sent to report for V Magazine…

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(Teenage Paparazzo, by Adrian Grenier)

Today, kicked off my Sundance 2010, and already I’ve been immersed in what the festival really does best—the introduction of fresh cinematic voices both in features and documentaries.

(Douche, playing at Sundance this week)

Sundance, Day 1
By Greg Krelenstein

I was introduced to 13 year old papararazzo Austin Visschedyk in Adrien Grenier’s (of Entourage fame) Teenage Paparazzo. The documentary is just as much about the relationship between the juvenile paparazzo and Grenier, formed after he snapped a photo of him, as it is about society’s relationship and obsession with tabloid culture and the desire for fame. Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Langoria Parker, Rosie O’Donnell, all make cameos as well, weighing in with their perspective on the subject of the modern star system and the machine that feeds it …

(Read the rest of this post at Vmagazine.com)

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