FreakyFilmFan4ever

Actually, I'm not and you don't.

But I am leaving for Syracuse New York tomorrow morning (Sept. 2, EST 9am). I'll be returning on the 5th. I can still do stuff on the site with my handy-dandy phone, but don't know if I can keep tabs on things as often as I usually can, especially since I'll be using that phone mainly to chase that project with Evangelion's/iCON Electrobox's Arianne if I'm not already conversing with family I hadn't seen in forever while I'm gone.

WAAAHHH! I haven't seen my niece since she was a baby, and I've been stuck in the state of NC for over 7 years without once leaving its boundaries!!!

So, I dunno. Behave, I guess. Keep pacmancdi's cousin away from the boards and whatnot, and we should be good.

The weirdest thing happened to me last night.

A couple of months ago I found and friended English-speaking singer/musician "Arianne" over facebook. For those of you who don't know, she has done songs for various video games and foreign films. Her most memorable moment was probably the song she sane entitled "Come, Sweet Death", which was written for one of the most disturbing scenes in the feature-length Japanese animated film The End of Evangelion. I thought that I could possibly use her as a contact in the entertainment industry in the future, but it was also fun to get to "meet" a singer from one of my all-time favorite movies ever.

Anyway, she's currently a part of an electronic band called "iCON Electrobox" and just last night posed on her facebook that she was interested in making some videos. So I messaged her and suggested that I pitch an idea of collaborating for a music video with the producers of a TV pilot I worked on a few years ago. I've kept in touch often with these guys anyway, and we've worked on other projects since. (Seriously! Unlike that other guy I was stuck with for the past couple of months, these guys love me!) It seemed like a natural fit to have some producers who've worked with music and dance artists before to work in this project as well.

I got the producer interested enough in the project to fund some of the video's production, but I'm gonna try to see if I can't get both the producer and the artist interested in using some product placement in order to expand the budget. This way I might be able to get dancers and what not for the video if the video were to so lead in that direction.

But anyway, I thought I'd just phone in and tell everyone what I've been doing the past couple of days. And also to just brag a little about the possibility of working with someone from the original Evangelion series.

Screen-shots from the new preview:


Video of the new preview:
http://www.dailymoti...2012_shortfilms

And finally, the Anime News Network announcement:

The title of the third film was first revealed with a teaser that ran at the end of the second film's theatrical release. The "Q" or "Kyū" in the third film's title is a wordplay in Japanese; the first three films' subtitles are the names for the three classical movements (Jo-Ha-Kyū or Introduction-Exposition-Climax) of traditional Japanese music such as gagaku and Noh.

I hardly recognize this franchise anymore, but in a very good way.

Spielberg announced Jurassic Park IV at Comic-Con over the weekend!

Why aren't we discussing this yet?!

This is the first bit of news of JP:IV we've had since that hoax we had some years ago

So, earlier this year we get a look at how "amazing" the script is. Granted, that's a review of the script, and not the full script itself. But what little in contains is horrendously bad.

And now we get news that Orphan director Jaume Collet-Serra is looking into "bringing the script to life", or whatever they call live-action animes these days in Hollywood.

Well, at least Michael Bay isn't directing. I guess there is some silver-lining to this project. And to be fair, it's not that I'm against a live-action remake. It's just that Hollywood doesn't have a good track record when it comes to the quality of these films. And I don't want that script to be filmed as it was in the review. If they at least keep everything in Japan where it belongs (because, you know, the main characters and even the title character have Japanese names), then that would be a step in the right direction. I just haven't heard of any rewrites since the script review posted in the link above, so I'm already worried about it.