Star Trek: Zachary Quinto as Spock

The information keeps trickling out. First Winona Ryder is cast as Spock’s human mother, now Zachary Quinto (who he?) as a young Spock. I lost track of the Star Trek movie universe, after they fell behind on a few films. But I’m still looking forwards to this. Long live and profit, Star Trek.

Oscar’s Foreign Films Category Rules Questioned

A number of foreign filmmakers are wondering why their films are not eligible for the Oscars this year. This includes films by such well-known industry players such as Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) and Julian Schnabel (Basquiat). As a result, they’re questioning some of the Oscar rules of eligibility.

Winona Ryder: Long Live and Prosper?

Word is that in the upcoming prequel film in the Star Trek universe, Winona Ryder will be playing the role of Spock’s human mother (via People). This of course means paid work at sci-fi conventions long into her prosperous future.

DVD vs Blu-ray: Who Won?

Blu-ray was supposed to be the media format that would trounce all other formats, such as DVD. Or so Sony said. But now, Sony CEO Howard Stringer is calling the next-gen DVD race a tie. The reason for this is partly due to industry politics, Sony claims, as well as large price cuts for HD [...]

Make Your Own Experimental Film

Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald has a film called The Tracey Fragments, that showed at the recent TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). And if you decide you don’t like it, you can show McDonald how to make a better one. He’s put all the raw footage of the film up on The Tracey Fragments website [via [...]

Writer’s Guild Writers Picketing

Talkshows are the first victims of Writer’s Guild strike. In fact, they’ll go into reruns as of today. The last strike, which happened over 20 years ago, cost the industry a half billion dollars. This one might cost a billion.
It’s nice to see so many stars supporting the writers. Let’s hope this strike is resolved [...]

DVD Releases

As per Ebert + Roper, Sun Nov 4th, 2007, the following DVDs are either now out or about to be released.
Roper panned the first two in the past, but I’ve only seen Seinfeld and Help!, so I can’t comment. Links are to their corresponding IMDB pages.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Adam Sandler (Chuck), [...]