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- Box Office Liquidity.Today
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"Summer blockbusters and holiday hits make up the bulk of box office revenue each year, while contenders for the Oscars tend to attract smaller audiences that build over time. Here's a look at how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation." From last February and by way of Lotta, the NYT graphically represents the past 22 years of box office receipts as a series of waves, so you can easily determine both the intensity and duration of each flick's performance. And it's searchable by individual film too -- Note the Titanic tsunami.
- Gizmos and Dynamos.Today
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In fanboy casting news, Tr2n (now just Tron) gets a lead in Garrett Hedlund, formerly of Troy and Friday Night Lights. "Hedlund will play the lead, a man who finds himself pulled into the world of a computer and retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn." (That would be Jeff Bridges.) And also coming along for the ride, Tron himself, Bruce Boxleitner.
Meanwhile, Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2, which is currently still being written by actor Justin Theroux, may have locked down its villains in Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke. Rockwell seems to be up for Stark's industrialist rival Justin Hammer, while Rourke will reportedly suit up as the Crymson Dynamo.
- The Great Churning.Today
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"'There is 'something new and interesting going on in the universe,' said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md." Aspiring Jor-Els: Best get to work on those interstellar child-bearing rockets. Scientists detect a distant -- and very loud -- roar on the other side of the universe. "'The universe really threw us a curve,' Kogut said. 'Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted.'" (Sssh, listen...there went Earth-2.)
- Rorschach/Nixon.Today
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Strangelove much? The Japanese trailer for Zack Snyder's Watchmen is now on the tubes, which contains some spoilery-type new footage if you haven't read the graphic novel. (Note also the new Minutemen featurette on the official site.) Interesting that this trailer foregoes all the Dr. Manhattan-exemplifying-American-might stuff in favor of more emphasis on the alternate history and Cold War doomsday clock.
- Wonder Twins Activate.January 5
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Doctor, doctor, can't you see they're burning, burning? I missed this rumor when it first got some run last September, but apparently AICN has confirmed it: Fanboy brothers-in-arms Simon Pegg and Nick Frost of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz have been cast as the Thompson twins in the forthcoming PJ/Spielberg Tintin films. Now that's great casting, particularly as they're pretty much impossible to tell apart.
In other Tintin news I missed, Thomas Sangster (a.k.a. Tintin) is now off the project due to scheduling conflicts (and writer Stephen Moffatt also left to pursue Who.