Three More Be Kind, Rewind Stills

Every day I wait for this film feels like five days too many. I want my Be Kind, Rewind and I want it now.

Use the tags below to find much, much more Be Kind goodness.

Be Kind Alive

The Be Kind, Rewind site is live now. Up in the left corner is a 'you name it, we shoot it' button. Clicking on this changes the page design with three currently available, and pictured below.

You'll recognise riffs on Boyz N the Hood and Rush Hour, I believe... but is the other design just familiar and derivative, or is it pastiching something in particular?

Direct Download Links For Be Kind, Rewind Trailer

As I posted the pics last night, the trailer wasn't yet live. But now it is.

Enjoy the official Be Kind, Rewind trailer in 480p, 720p or 1080p. It's a cruel world in which we have to wait months for delights like this. Delayed pleasure? No thanks.

Remember to right click and save the trailer as saveyourlocalpark.mov or similar to ensure it works.

Be Kind, Rewind Stills

Seven gorgeous images from Be Kind, Rewind have been released. Click on any of them to get the high-res version.

And naysayers said Robocop shouldn't be remade. They're eating humble pie now, I can tell you.

[EDIT: Now film ick also have a number of Michel Gondry sketches from the Be Kind, Rewind script, showing scenes and FX ideas]

[EDIT: And even more images direct from the film]

Gondry's Film Commitments

Following Jonathan Glazer's excellent Bravia ad from last summer, the third installment in the campaign was lined up for Michel Gondry. He's now passed, citing 'film commitments' as his reason for not being able to shoot the spot.

It seems that Be Kind, Rewind is all but mass duplicated and on the back of the van, so which commitments exactly? Is the Blondie movie about to shoot? Possibly.

Let's discount the Ripley film - is there anything else? Only Tokyo, the anthology film to shoot in the city. This is what I expect we'll find out: Gondry is about to shoot his slice of Tokyo before doing the Rewind press tour; then the Blondie movie will roll; then, possibly, a collaboration with Dan Clowes and Jack Black on The Death Ray. Maybe. Perhaps. If it all pans out.

At least we know he's going to be on set rolling film for one project or another any week now.

And the new Bravia spot, if you had been wondering, is now going to be directed by Frank Budgen. Not a bad choice, but I would have plumped for Antoine Bardou-Jacquet.

Jack Black, Mos Def And Michel Gondry Drive Miss Daisy

Another Be Kind, Rewind still has been leaked. This one is from the Driving Miss Daisy recreation.

Direct Download Links For Margot At The Wedding Trailer

Choose from baby bear, mummy bear and daddy bear versions of the first Margot at the Wedding trailer.

Trailer Details For Golden Compass, Be Kind Rewind And Rendition

MyNewPlaidPants is the blog of Jason Adams who seems like a pretty cool chap. Today, he sent me the following e-mail:

Hello, I'm stealing links from you all the time, but for a change. I've got something semi-worthwhile to share with you - I got to watch trailers for Be Kind, Rewind, Rendition, and a 10-minute extended trailer for The Golden Compass via that NYC Toyfare thing yesterday - I posted on them at my blog.

I just sorta rambled about what I saw but maybe you'll find a smidge of the info interesting.

And I certainly did. While I'll post his Be Kind, Rewind trailer description below you'll have to click over for the other two. And so you should.

So I got to see what looked like an early cut - the footage was pretty raw looking - of the trailer for Michel Gondry's next film, starring Jack Black and Mos Def as video store employees with a problem: namely, Jack Black's brain is magnetized and he's erased all the videos in their store.

The opening scene of the trailer sets this up - when Jack Black is in close-up the film actually goes all wavy like on an old, screwed-up videotape, which was a nice touch - and then we get on to the real business of the movie: namely, getting to watch Jack Black and Mos Def reenacting scenes from old movies.

A good chunk of time is spent watching them reenact scenes from Ghostbusters, including Jack Black's awful (in a funny way) take on that movie's familiar theme song - we get to hear Mos Def say "I got slimed" which was the highlight for me.

We see that their homemade versions become big hits in the neighborhood and suddenly the two of them become quasi-celebrities; there's a fun montage of scenes from their different movies - 2001 and Boyz In The Hood stand out in my memory, the latter involving Jack Black in an afro.

But then The Man, in the form of Sigourney Weaver - YAY! - shows up and threatens their new business with talk of copyright infringement and what not.

And then Mia Farrow shows up and says that these boy's movies got heart!

It was only a couple minutes long but it looks a thousand times mainstreamier than The Science of Sleep was (a movie I liked but didn't love). A fun trailer that has me hyped for the movie even more.

Movie Minesweeper - The Chubby Teletubby Edition

- Principal photography is underway on the next Indiana Jones film, the one about the City of Gods. To celebrate, the official site has posted a video clip of Shia LaBeouf talking about his love for the series, which you can download directly. On a similar note, I thought I had a good source to check out the 'Jim Broadbent in Indiana Jones' story AintItCool ran, but so far, no reply...

- ComingSoon believe that Tim Burton is off of Ripley's Believe It or Not! and a new director is being sought for the project. This is the damage wrought by a Steve Oedekerk script, I believe. Expect the Tom Shadyac announcement soon. And I'm only half kidding.

- Freaks and Geeks writer John Francis Daley has co-written The $40,000 Man with Jonathan Goldstein, and now New Line have purchased it. The weak-sounding spoof reimagines the Six Million Dollar Man on a much lower budget. After inflation is taken into account, this is one heck of a scale-down. In fact, I'd have thought any surgery performed at that sort of cost would be life threatening.

- Michael Buckley's The Sisters Grimm books are to be films. Film one will combine books one, two and three which is likely to make for bumpy structure (and disappointing box office, if Lemony Snicket is a credible witness). The plot involves female descendants of the famous Brothers on a quest to find their missing parents.

- Brad Bird seems keen on an Incredibles sequel. That makes eight hundred and twenty nine million and one of us.

- Matt O'Neil's spec script Bull Rush has been picked up by Newmarket Films. The title is an awful pun, seeing as the film is about a hedge-fund dabbler getting involved in exciting, adrenalising games of street football.

- Eddie Izzard, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy have all joined the cast of Valkyrie. Superb.

- Todd Phillips and Jack Black are developing Man-Witch at Warners. The comedy (yeah, really - it's a comedy) revolves around a school teacher who joins a coven and finds he's the only guy. That's the Todd Phi... er, sorry Jack Black role. Silly me. Phillips, of course, is set to direct. The script should virtually write itself, but Jay Reiss is picking up the pen to help it along.

- Variety's Liz Smith is hyping Aline and Wolfe, the script about...er... Aline and Wolfe. Aline Bernstein and Tom Wolfe. She offers an 'Iris meets A Beautiful Mind' comparision. One out of two ain't great.

- In the same paragraph, she mentions Madonna directing the short Filth and Wisdom, but comments that Madge isn't acting in it. All of my info states that, actually, she is.

- Beyond Wild Hogs 2 and Old Dogs 1, what beckons Walt Becker? Mild Frogs 3? Nope - something called My Samurai about an American businessman who helps out a homeless Japanese gentlemen only for this vagrant to reveal he is the last in a long line of Samurai and pledge his eternal loyalty to the businessman. Tim Allen as the businessman?

- Tyrese Gibson seems to believe his Luke Cage engagement is coming, and fast.

- Italian State Attorneys are investigating The Da Vinci Code on the grounds that it might be proven 'religiously obscene'. Church and state, eh? What a wonderful combination.

- Silvio Berlusconi is planning to write a screenplay.

- Elijah Kelley has had talks about playing Sammy Davis Jr., and now he's talking about those talks. Just about.

- J T Petty has given a good Burrowers interview. Sounds like Faces of Death may have stalled, however.

- Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective is to get a sequel.

- John Waters has spoken out in defence of John Travolta's casting in Hairspray (as well as generally praising the film overall). Previously, Travolta had been knocked in the press, essentially for being a scientologist taking on a 'gay' role. The argument revolves around three contentions: that scientology is a homophobic religion; that prejudice on value of religion is suitable whereas on value of sexuality is not; that a drag role is a 'gay role'.

- The Gold-label full-series Twin Peaks box set seems to be on the cards for late October.

- British animators came out on top at Annecy.

- Salim and Mara Brock Akil like to keep it in the family. After collaborating on CW's Girlfriends, they've now set up a feature with the Weinsteins' condescendingly named 'urban' project sidebar, 'Our Stories Films'. The film is about a woman jilted at the altar who becomes a kind of detective to help other women ensure their partners won't be doing the dirty on them.

- As well as pimping Halo branded tat, Fox's merchandising army are also out to exploit Walden Media properties... but the Narnia films, for example, don't come under this agreement, being based at Disney.

- A sequel to The Host is on the fast track. Expect a completely different roll of credits.

Jack Black Playing Paul McCartney

Collider have a video interview with Justin Long that's ostensibly about Die Hard 4 but actually touches on many other things. The best bit, as far as I was concerned, detailed a scene shot for Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard.

In said scene, Long plays George Harrison of The Beatles; Jack Black, as mentioned in the headline is Paul McCartney; Paul Rudd is John Lennon; and Jason Schwartzman is Ringo Starr.

Can't fail... can it?

Kidman At The Wedding

Ted at BigScreenLittleScreen dug up what appears to be the first production still from Margot at the Wedding. Noah Baumbach's next features Jack Black, Nicole Kidman, John Turturro and Mrs. Baumbach, Jennifer Jason Leigh. Despite some anticipation and hype for this one on the wire, I'm expecting the same sincerity, good intentions but level of okay-but-not-special-ness as seen in The Squid and the Whale and Kicking and Screaming.

What's Black And White And Edgar All Over

If - and it's a pretty big If - Edgar Wright's film of Jon Ronson's Them ever gets made, it looks like Jack Black is going to be the star.

Mike White is writing the script for this fiction film adaptation of a non-fiction book, so it should come as no surprise Black is involved.

From Edgar's comments on the matter, inclduing his latest to SlashFilm, however, it doesn't seem like Them will be going before the cameras anytime soon.

That moves the Scott Pilgrim, Ant Man and Untitled Simon Pegg Time Travel Project pieces each a square forward on the Edgar Wright gameboard. By my reckoning, Ant Man's in the lead but quite near a snake's head.

Be Kind, Read

Aint it Cool have a very positive and virtually spoiler-free test screening review of Be Kind, Rewind. Mos Def and Jack Black garner kudos for their comedy rapport and Gondry comes out smelling of roses.

No Whedon Wonder Woman

Everybody has reported this by now, but incase you are a loyal film ick reader that doesn't much bother with other movie sites and blogs (hi, Mom!) here's a bitter mouthful of bad news.

Warner Bros. Wonder Woman film is no longer to be written, nor directed, by Joss Whedon. Not so bad for Joss, but very bad for Wonder Woman.

He broke the news on his blog in typical Whedonesque manner.

In the Bizarro-version of this same news story, David Goyer has announced that he will no longer be involved with a movie of The Flash. Not so bad for anyone, surely? Casting Jack Black as the Green Lantern (remember that project?) makes more sense than paying Goyer to write and direct anything, if you ask me.

Almost Almost Famous

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mr. Jason Lee has set up a new comedy at Warner Bros. and several of the details sound very familiar.

The story revolves around a 70s band. Lee is their leader - though not their vocalist. A new vocalist is hired, and it turns out the new guy has broadway aspirations. Hilarity ensues.

I'm sure you can pick out the bits and pieces of Almost Famous by yourself. Lee came up with the concept (I wonder what gave him the idea?), will star and produce, and has one J D Ryznar writing the script. Both the band and the film will be called Krater, which even ends with the same letters as Stillwater, the Almost Famous band. Weird? Okay, maybe not. But it will be when Billy Crudup joins the cast, Kate Hudson appears as a groupie and Rolling Stone have Patrick Fugit conduct an interview with Lee.

Writer Ryznar is also working on Jack Black's The Department of Acceptable Media - a clip show somewhere between America's Stonediest Home Videos, Strutter and Takeover TV.