James Furbush

Trailer: World War Z

by James Furbush on November 9, 2012 · 0 comments

The troubled production finally sees the light of day with the first trailer and due date of June 13, 2013. Directed by Marc Forster, starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Eric West, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale. It’s worth noting this is the most expensive zombie movie ever made, it bears little resemblance [...]

David Fincher, Eric Powell, and Blur Studios are trying to raise $400,000 to turn Powell’s comic ‘The Goon‘ into an animated movie, featuring voice talents like Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown. The duo previously filmed a proof of concept video to raise funds for the movie, but that wasn’t enough for studios. Now, they are [...]

1.Sam Mendes didn’t shoot ‘Skyfall’ in IMAX, like Christopher Nolan did with ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, but his cinematographer, Roger Deakens, shot the movie using the Arri Alexa M digital camera. This allowed them to film in both the 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio, but also a 1:90:1 aspect ratio for the IMAX version of the [...]

Paper Menagerie

by James Furbush on November 8, 2012 · 0 comments

Ken Liu’s incredible story “Paper Menagerie” just became the first work of fiction to win all three of science fiction’s major awards: the Hugo, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award. However, Liu’s story is more magical realism than it is science fiction. You can read the entire thing over at io9. And by “can”, [...]

The Sony Music Timeline celebrates “125 years of musical history covering almost 150 square meters of wall space in Sony’s Derry Street offices. Using just CNC cut vinyl as the sole medium, 54 columns measuring over 2 meters tall cover feature nearly 1000 of Sony Music’s signed artists from 1887 to the present day.” I’m [...]

Brother Electronics is coming out with the next generation of its printing line and to celebrate, the company put together this great advertisement of old printers playing a rendition of Bob Dylan’s classic Vietnam-era protest song. The behind-the-scenes video is a fantastic look at how the video was made. It’s worth noting this bears a [...]

The economist looks at how legalization of marijuana will impact the bottom line of the cartels: As a result, it estimates that Mexico’s traffickers would lose about $1.4 billion of their $2 billion revenues from marijuana. The effect on some groups would be severe: the Sinaloa “cartel” would lose up to half its total income, [...]

Just a few post-election things that we felt was worth rounding up and then that’s it. We promise. No more election shit until the 2014 midterms. Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s take on the election: It’s been a long long slog these past five years of backing the skinny guy with the funny name. But this election, to [...]

Please Advise

by James Furbush on November 6, 2012 · 2 comments

A memo from record producer Teo Macero to Columbia/CBS Records executives prior to the release of Miles Davis’ groundbreaking album, Bitches Brew. I don’t have faintest idea why there aren’t more Miles Davis sketch comedy routines in this world. [via thehighdef]

Do you have ten minutes to spare or need an election day distraction? Of course you do! What better way than to spend that time watching the hilarious cast be even more hilarious. (It’s also possible I’ve already posted this before, but don’t remember doing so. Either way) [via devour]