Direct Download Link For Jo Blo's Shoot 'Em Up Clip

JoBlo have an exclusive clip from Shoot 'Em Up. Lucky they. Be sure to read what they have to say about it.

You can also download the clip directly, for playback full-screen or through your player of choice.

Direct Download Link For Red Band Shoot 'Em Up Trailer

Clive Owen gives it a bit of Bugs Bunny in the new, red band edit of the Shoot 'Em Up trailer. Download it.

Movie Minesweeper - The What Would You All Say If I Just Disappeared In A Puff Of Smoke Edition

Here we go again.

- Bond is headed back to Blighty.

- Anne Hathaway is to star in Jonathan Demme's Dancing With Sheba as a coke-loving young model, in and out of rehab like a sherbert-dipping yo-yo. In a perfect world this would be scripted by Daniel Waters.

- Some kind of cinematic necromancy has brought Justin Kerrigan's film career back from the infinite void of ill wind. Next up for the Human Traffic perpetrator will be I Know You Know with Robert Carlysle.

- The Japanese release of Evan Almighty has been pulled without explanation. Do we need an explanation? Can't we just make reckless assumptions and tut accordingly?

- Roy Rowan's memoir Chasing the Dragon told of the rise of Mao Zedong. Now, Robert De Niro is one of the producers aiming to transform it into a feature film. Expect 'an epic-sized drama with a love story'. Not an epic drama, note, just an 'epic-sized' one. I wonder what that will mean.

- Warner Bros. have revealed their official synopsis of Watchmen. Doesn't really do the book justice, of course.

- A big orange guy made of rocks and a silver nudist on a surf board do look pretty ridiculous, and maybe I'd have changed at least one of those into a cloud too. Or a talking cup of tea.

- Season Six of Curb your Enthusiasm will start airing in the US on September 9th.

- Danny Wallace seems very happy with the Yes Man script, director and star.

- It sounds like John Carpenter has a new movie on the boil. That's all I need to know to be happy. This one is called LA Gothic and revolves around a priest and his daughter in a Californoa crawling with zombies, vampires and other such fun things.

- Is the next Indiana Jones film just the fourth in a series of (at least) six? I do hope not.

- Yet another fine art forger film is being talked up, likely to never see the light of day. Not for the first time, this one is allegedly to be derived from the misadventures of John Myatt and John Drewe. George Clooney and Clive Owen to star? Don't bank on it.

- Aaron Eckhart has admitted that he'll go into Two Face mode in The Dark Knight. I told you that already - and I didn't just leave it at that either.

Can't...continue...any...longer.... energy draining...

More tomorrow. And normal service should be resumed very soon.

Shoot 'Em Up Posters

Click on Clive, Monica or Paul to big them up and make the odd little slogans legible.

Trouble Is Their Business

"If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I should not have come" - Raymond Chandler.

Clive Owen is to play Philip Marlowe in Frank Miller's film of Trouble Is My Business and the plan is, this will be the start of a series of Chandler adaptations. So, should this be a hit, Owen will be set for a nice string of gigs, though it's by no means guaranteed Miller would be sticking around.

Reporting on the deal, Variety lists various other Miller projects, past and future. Besides 300, Ronin and The Spirit, they remind us that Miller is working on a Sin City sequel. Don't take that as confirmation of anything.

What isn't clear is if the film adapts only the short story Trouble Is My Business or the entire collection of four stories now published under that umbrella title. I'd expect it will only be the one - it's quite involved and could easily fill out a feature film if adapted correctly. There's plenty of Hollywood stuff in this one, and if he fancies getting stuck into such in-jokes, Miller could probably make hay.

You can read an extended excerpt from the beginning of the story at Random House's site.

Direct Download Link For That Shoot 'Em Up Trailer

Download and enjoy. Shoot 'Em Up could be just the ticket to a couple of hours of morally dubious gun play of the highest order - fingers in Xes.

Second Second Sight

Do you remember Second Sight, the BBC drama with Clive Owen as a detective going blind? It had one hell of a hook, didn't it? Struck me as a little bit of a missed opportunity at the time. Now the film is set up for a remake at Universal, with Don Murphy and Susan Montford producing - second time's the charm?

Variety's announcement notes that Owen is not attached to the remake 'at this point'. He's soon to be seen in another Murphy/Montford production, however - Shoot 'Em Up - and it's tempting to speculate the genesis of this project lies in that previous collaboration somehow.

Claire Skinner played Owen's sidekick in the original; seems hugely unlikely she'll get within sniffing distance of the do-over. Same goes for the original director, Charles Beeson. But I wouldn't be surprised to see original scriptwriter Paula Milne, now the executive producer of the new film, at least muck-in on the script without credit.