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Monday, June 27, 2011

A new film of Romeo & Juliet

I'm researching Romeo & Juliet trailers and video bits for a lesson (will share 'em later - found some Amazing Stuff!) and tripped over mention of a new film. I still think Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet is fabulous, but this one looks interesting too. Cast includes True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet

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and Douglas Booth (who was in Pillars of the Earth) as Romeo - both young, but probably close to the given ages in Shakespeare's play.

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Benvolio is played by young Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee, from Romulus my Father, Let Me In, The Road.

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Release date is given as 2012, so don't hold your breath, and the script is by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, Downton Abbey). Director is Carlo Carlei.

More at IMDB here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645131/

Cheers

Ruth

PS. Luhrmann's film is 16 years old now? Yikes!

Photos from their respective IMDB profile pages

Monday, May 30, 2011

Trailer: Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn

What it says. Out Christmas 2011.

URL for the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X0tfWj24eVY

Found via Twitter

Cheers

Ruth

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

100 years' footage in 100 seconds

From Getty Images:

Here's the YouTube link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxqG2etM63Y

Short, sharp, and one to share - English teachers, History teachers....

Cheers

Ruth

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Hunger Games film news

The Hunger Games and its two sequels, Catching Fire and Mockingjay (how often was I asked for this before it came out???? - a gazillion times!), are rarely on our shelves, and when they are, their thumped and thumbed appearance (we have multiple copies) shows the popularity of this trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

Don't hold your breath just yet, but a film of the first book is in production. Release date for the movie is 2013. The director is Gary Ross, who directed Pleasantville, one of my favourite films. There's a bit more news about the film here from the Wall St Journal, and this is the IMDB page for The Hunger Games.

Think I might put the WSJ article in my wall cupboard, to alert the kids.

Cheers

Ruth

Monday, August 23, 2010

John Marsden writes about the film of Tomorrow When the War Began

I cut out the copy of this article from the Saturday SMH Spectrum section and pinned it up in the library for the students to peruse. It's online here, with video too (and the picture above). John Marsden on the film of Tomorrow When the War Began. Much anticipated film.

It opens 2 September, next week. I've blogged in other entries about the trailers etc.

Last week, one of the kids was THRILLED to find that there were books for this film. Can't remember if I could find the first one for him; we have multiple copies, but there has been increasingly brisk John Marsden business in the last couple of months as the film gets closer.

The Blue Mountains west of Sydney NSW were used for some of the location filming - it will be fun to see if the kids pinpoint any particular places they know.

Cheers

Ruth

Monday, April 26, 2010

Twilight Eclipse film/movie trailer #2

Find the Twilight Eclipse teaser trailer via this link.

As of the weekend, you can see the Twilight Eclipse trailer no. 2 (longer, at 1.39 minutes!).

Link to the above (on TrailerSpy):
http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/9315/The-Twilight-Saga-Eclipse-Trailer-HD

Newborn vampires emerging from lakes! More Romantic Tension! Extensive Sighing from young gels!!

Australian release date: 1 July 2010.

Cheers

Ruth

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

First teaser trailer: Tomorrow When the War Began

(this is just an image. Link to trailer in next paragraph)

Yes, as of 9am this morning there is a teaser trailer for Tomorrow When the War Began (film based on John Marsden's very popular novels). I couldn't embed it, so don't click on the image above as it's just an image. If you want to see the trailer you will find it if you click here.

The trailer includes a website at the end, http://www.twtwb.com/ but when I just checked it I got an error message - maybe it will go live Any Day Now - worth bookmarking, anyhoo. According to imdb, the film's release date in Australia is 2 September 2010.

Just in time for Trailer Time at lunch today - woohoo!

Cheers

Ruth

Trailer Time Easter 2010

Today at lunchtime (in the second half, about 20 min) I plan to run Trailer Time, a bunch of book-related film trailers (candy-coated get-'em-reading propaganda).

Read all about the mechanics, hints'n'tips here at my original entry about Trailer Time (GIFSL* 42, and thus potentially the answer to life, the universe and everything).

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

To Avatar...

New verb. To Avatar. As in, for example, Mr Bean was Avatarred. Thus.

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Isn't that fabulous? Doesn't it have potential? Hasn't it added a chuckle to your day???

Now to show the photography teachers....

Cheers

Ruth

PS. the Robert Pattinson one wasn't quite as clever, imho; but you can toddle over on the link and judge for yourself; or horrify the Twilightery, should you wish...

PS. I'm easily amused. I know. I liked the one of Hugh Laurie as House, too.

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