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--- Make It A Full Moon For Luna - Diego Luna, who I love and probably even prefer to his Y Tu Mama co-star Gael Garcia Bernal if we're being honest, is in talks to join Neil Blomkamp's sci-fi follow-up to District 9, called Elysium and starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster and District star Sharlto Copley, and which... well hasn't that thing been filming for ages already? They're so damn secretive about it. Anyway yay Diego! Love him.

--- World's End - AICN got a little bit from Simon Pegg on where his and Nick Frost's third film with Edgar Wright stands right now. They are working on the story, and they want it to be interesting, basically!

--- Breathless Mahoney - Has anybody seen Dick Tracy lately? I was the perfect age of 12 when it came out in 1990 and I remember obsessing over it for that Summer but I don't think I've seen it since. I've been meaning to rewatch it for ages now but have no idea what that'll feel like. Anyway Warren Beatty's mentioned making a sequel. Timely, Warren!

--- Always Ari - PopWrap's got the trailer for a new movie with Ari "Balls Deep" Graynor called Lucky, in which she stars opposite Colin "Why does he keep getting jobs oh right, his father" Hanks. Let's make it the year of Ari! This movie's out next month.

--- The Thin Blue Broad - A friend of mine saw a screening of Errol Morris' new film Tabloid last year and apparently the woman who's the film's subject was there - she's that crazy woman who abducted a Mormon guy and cloned her dog, all sorts of bonkers shit - and she had a freak out, and it was awesome. The trailer for it's out now; the film's out in July.

--- Fairey Glare - Y'all have surely already seen this but there's artist Shepard Fairey's poster for John Carpenter's film They Live that he created for a special screening of the film down in Austin, where they vanquish movie-texters with glee. (via)

--- Space Stage - A couple of pictures of the sets and sound-stages for Ridley Scott's Prometheus have made their way online which you can look at over at io9. Green screen and a cave. Thrilling. Just get me pictures of Michael Fassbender's underwear drawer already!

--- And finally, here's video of Dario Argento talking about his intentions for his now-filming Dracula 3D with Thomas Kretschmann and his daughter Asia. After just suffering through the ineptitude of his most recent film Giallo I'm even more skeptical than ever. (via)

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Giallo in 180 Words or Less

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Terrible movies don't live up to their hype as often as you'd hope. And even when they are quite terrible enough thank you, for every delightfully horrible Troll 2 there's a bash-your-skull-against-the-wall boring Birdemic. Dario Argento's Giallo is every ounce as awful as I'd heard, but it willfully denies you the camp factor too. Actually that's narrow-minded of me - it denies you everything. Like attractive people (it makes Adrien Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner look monstrous) in shots you like looking at, or a story that's even trying to make sense, or the feeling as if someone was paying attention to what was going on at some point, whether while putting the movie together or while filming it or afterward when all that footage is sitting there asking to be put together into a thing called a movie. None of these things are anywhere to be found. Indeed it seems so purposefully void of anything worth looking at it seems diabolical, as if it were a dare. Let's all hope that nobody ever double dares Dario Argento then.

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Pic of the Day

Guldernit, I says! It really is going to be impossible for me to do anything but hype myself up impossibly over Dario Argento's Dracula 3D now that it stars his daughter Asia as Lucy and THOMAS KRETSCHMANN AS THE BIG DRAC. Sigh. Asia tweeted this pic of her and her swanky Aryan co-star from the set today, and it's an insta-erection for the eyes. Do by them right, Dario!

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Sink Your Teeth Into Thomas Kretschmann

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It was only a couple of weeks ago that we saw the first early "art-work" for Dario Argento's yet-to-be-filmed Dracula 3D movie, and it was cheap and abysmal looking and I admitted that I've gotten so weary of Argento's cheap and abysmal output as of late that I didn't think I could stomach another dreary go of it.

Silly me! I spoke too soon! Because today's news casts no doubt upon there being any in Hell that I'll be missing this movie. I feel a little bit less than good about it still, but it can't be helped. No fighting against this tide. Via Screen Daily:

"Thomas Kretschmann has signed on to play the lead in Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, Italy’s first live action stereoscopic 3D, which gets underway May 30 in northern Italy.

The Valkyrie and The Pianist actor will star alongside Asia Argento, Marta Gastini and Rutger Hauer, who plays doctor Van Helsing."

As the pictures attached to this post attest, Kretschmann acted in a movie for Dario Argento once before (and opposite his daughter Asia as well), called The Stendhal Syndrome. I posted more pictures from it way back when I watched it, but that's not gonna stop me from posting some more today. Not when that's what we're talking about.


I mean, my god, have you ever seen anything prettier? Point being, point Argento. I'll see your damned Dracula movie now. You'd better make good use of your 3D. I want the full Kretschmann poking my eyes out, dammit.

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