The British Government has finalised a deal between the British film and music industries and the Internet Service Providers (ISP's) to start hitting back at those who the industries believe are downloading and sharing illegal files.
The deal ensures that both the copyright holders and the ISP's will work together to identify those file-sharers that they believe are sharing files illegally and send them warning emails, with possible repercussions for repeat offenders.
You know the more and more I hear about this talk of Heath Ledger being in the running for an Oscar for his role as Joker in The Dark Knight, before anyone has really seen the film, the more I'm getting uncomfortable about the whole situation.
What's making it worse is seeing a second batch of different interviews with the cast where they are all talking about how amazing and impressive Ledger was on set, and saying nothing else about the film or their own roles.
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I'm doing something a little different with this feature, and that's to create one to help out an important charity, Macmillan Cancer Support to be exact. Let me tell you about the feature first and then we'll talk about why.
This feature is going to talk about films you remember or love that either take place in a hospital or feature a memorable hospital scene. Are there many you can think of? When I started to the floodgates opened and I was reeling off films, but I'm going to pick a few of my favourites, let's see what you come up with.
I've been growing more and more tired of trailers, and indeed all marketing materials of late, particularly trailers though as they seem to be giving away more and more of the main feature.
There seems to have been a real drop in the intelligence of the creation of trailers, and now the companies who make them and the studios who commission them are plundering the films for all the shocking, surprising and best moments they can find, leaving little for the final film.
I was just watching the BBC news - a station that I once believed fought for non-sensationalised news but of late has been heading further and further towards the tabloid news style - and I heard the upcoming news bullet point where they ask if Juno is to blame for the seventeen teenage girls in a single Massachusetts school who became pregnant at the same time.
The statement was made in about the same number of words and a rather accusing style while running footage of Juno in the background. No mention was made of parents, living conditions, or anything about these girls lives, just the film Juno. Is a film really to blame for the actions of these teenagers?
Restarted, rebooted, remade, reimagined. Whatever you like to say the question is can franchises that have already had their shot really be restarted?
We've seen number of franchises revisited this year with Die Hard, Rocky and Rambo, but these have really been a continuation albeit with a fair passage of time.
It's pretty much par of the course that unless the baddie in a film is a well off, middle class, white American, the group of people that they're representing will no doubt want to complain about the way they are portrayed, after all the film can only show them in a few hours at most, and it needs the characters to behave in a very specific manner for the story, and that usually means twisted and evil.
Of course that won't give a real world view of that group, and that can lead ot peiple being upset and complaining of stereotyping and misrepresentation. Except it's a film, and these films need a baddie character and need them to behave in a certain way, so is it right to take these views to heart and speak out?
On behalf of my wife and I, I'd like to write up another Honeymoon feature, and this one is about films that are located in our honeymoon destinations.
You see we were going through a shop in San Francisco and it was filled with posters of films that were based in the city, all with “Made in San Francisco” on them, and that made us think what other films were made in the city, and indeed on all our honeymoon destinations.
Well we're on honeymoon in California, San Francisco at the moment, but we still have time to think about a feature.
While we were planning our wedding we were thinking what to name the tables, and we decided on films related to marriage, and in particular our marriage. One we chose was Honeymoon in Vegas, because that is where our honeymoon is ending, but what other honeymoon films are there?
Uwe Boll is in effect killing any chance he has of a career, and he's doing it without the aide of an online petition. You see to be someone successful you need to be liked to some degree and your work enjoyed, you even need to win over critics and become friends with key people in the industry. It's just like any job in any business.
However Uwe Boll is not doing that. He's verbally attacking people who are critical about his films, he's physically fighting actual critics in the ring, and above all he's attacking other people in the film business, people who are hugely above his station and can be rather effective in killing his career.
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