The Link Squad
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 7:01AM The Film Stage Gangster Squad, with its machine gun in the movie theater moment -- already revealed in the trailer -- may be delayed or reedited now in the wake of Aurora Colorado tragedy. (I figured this was coming)
i09 Lt Ellen Ripley and Child, painted. Other sci-fi women also iconized.
Telegraph RIP Actor Simon Ward of The Tudors, Three Musketeers, Supergirl, and Young Winston fame. He was 70 years old.
Rope of Silicon is wondering about the Oscar chances of Beasts of the Southern Wild now that it's expanded well.
My New Plaid Pants Quote of the Day via The House of Kermit
Pajiba Dustin recounts his single most humiliating experience as a critic. Curse you, Taylor Lautner!
The Broadway Blog celebrates musical theater's belters: Sutton, Babs, Lupone and more
Hollywood Elsewhere has lunch with the Criterion Blurays of Rosemary's Baby and Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanity Fair says goodbye to The Dark Knight Trilogy with a behind the scenes slideshow
Vulture looks at the dissolution of the TomKat marriage
NPR this is sweet, actor Donald Faison (Clueless, Scrubs) on the movie he has seen a million times: The Empire Strikes Back
The Film Doctor discusses The Dark Knight Rises with a film major at Waffle House. Cheese, eggs, raisin toast, and spoilers.
P.S. Yes, yes. I did start a review myself and I hope to have it up today but I'm moving in slo-mo this week.
Reader Comments (5)
On that Gangster Squad thing: You've revealed the moment already, so reediting is ill advised. I know it'd be losing face even more, but considering the moment's already revealed I'd complete it as is and push it back three years instead. Is it holding onto a possibly very good film for a long time? Yes. But MY choice respects both the vision of the director and writer and the victims of the recent tragedy, while the option they're choosing only respects the latter.
Nathaniel:
Did you see Jennifer Jason Leigh got the part of Emily's mom for Season 2 of REVENGE???
Thoughts? :)
David: Most places posting that news are being a bit more spoiler sensitive. I've already watched, but some people play catch up on series during the summer and you just put out quite a spoiler.
Three years? I'd imagine pushing Gangster Squad back to January or February would probably be sufficient. This reminds me, weirdly enough, of the old Nic Cage/Brian DePalma thriller Snake Eyes, where the studio made DePalma cut a climactic flood sequence from the movie. There were no reshoots, which made for an awkward final scene in which Cage talks about how scared he was when he was down in the water... an event that never happens in the movie as released. Haven't seen it in a while, but as I recall the final scene was shot as a single take master, so there was no way of cutting around it. At least WB is letting Fleischer do some reshoots.
Thanks for the link, Nathaniel. I look forward to your review.