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Blade Runner in the News |
| BR:FC SE 2007 |
Blade Runner Final Cut DVDs
Blade Runner Final Cut Cinematic Showings
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| 04 Nov 2007 |
"Murder Party"
is a low-budget black comedy film that is mainly set at a Halloween
Party with a difference. Costumes range from the usual to
those inspired by films like Blade Runner - just check out
the picture of the Pris-a-like accompanying the PopJournalism review. |
| 04 Nov 2007 |
"Murder Party"
is a low-budget black comedy film that is mainly set at a Halloween
Party with a difference. Costumes range from the usual to
those inspired by films like Blade Runner - just check out
the picture of the Pris-a-like accompanying the PopJournalism review. |
| 04 Nov 2007 |
Chip Foose has
come a long way since he worked with his Dad and Syd Mead on
the cars for Blade Runner. He has pretty much now become legend
in the world of car design, "Overhaulin'" and customization. The
place to find the industry's future is the "Specialty Equipment
Market Association trade show" and there is no question of
who is the superstar there. What cements his fame though
is that people outside of that world know his name. Check the
NY
Times for a report on SEMA and Chip. |
| 02 Nov 2007 |
A cult film with
visual depth of detail, a city where there is beauty in the
decay, a story of duplication and identity - all descriptive
of Blade Runner, but actually referring to a film made the
year before - "Diva", directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Nicolas Rapold for the NY
Sun does a retrospective on the film as it starts a two-week
revival today at Film Forum. One wonders what a BR directed
by Beineix might have been. |
| 01 Oct 2007 |
Nicolas Rapold
for the NY
Sun comments on the BR 25 discussion at the NY Film Festival. |
| 30 Sep 2007 |
The 25th Anniversary
Blade Runner Final Cut showed
in NY at the Film Festival last night. Reviews: Cinema
Blend's
reviewer never saw BR before, so offers that perspective. |
| 29 Sep 2007 |
The 25th Anniversary
Blade Runner Final Cut is showing
in NY at the Film Festival tonight. Let me know
if you were there and what it was like. |
| 28 Sep 2007 |
Kurt Loder writes
(for MTV)
a brief history of, and looks forward to the Blade Runner Final
Cut. If you want a quick catchup of it all, I can say this
guy knows what he's talking about. (Perhaps he reads BRmovie.com?)
But I have to say, I do love my Vangelis BR soundtrack album. |
| 28 Sep 2007 |
D-Cinema has
a press release from Technicolor Digital Cinema which is about
their sponsorship of the New York Film Festival and their significant
role in the restoration of the Blade Runner film. Also at Business
Wire. |
| 27 Sep 2007 |
Variety looks
at Alan Ladd Jr. and production company - the Ladd Co. who
"paved the way for indies" and mentions about their promotion
of BR,
"The film was also one of the first
to be marketed according to the "Star Wars" model,
now standard in the industry, targeting specific audiences
- such as sci-fi, fantasy geeks - from early on."
Update 28th: Alan Ladd Jr. gets a star on the Hollywood Walk
of fame. See AP
Report. |
| 27 Sep 2007 |
The
LA Times looks at "Blade
Runner: Take 3" with comments from RS, etc.
By now, if you've been paying attention, you won't find anything
new here, but you might still like to read it. And if you haven't
been paying attention, this will help you catch up. |
| 27 Sep 2007 |
John Alvin is
the famous artist who has designed some of the most awesome
of movie posters. TheForce.net tells us that ArtInsights Animation
and Film Art Gallery in Reston Virginia is one of three in
the world to get to show art used in the making of the official
poster for the 30th Anniversary Star
Wars Celebration. What you want to know though is, "In
addition, a new limited edition has just been released in conjunction
with the special edition dvd of Blade Runner that will also
be in the show." |
| 27 Sep 2007 |
I mentioned that
I was looking forward to seeing the new "Bionic Woman" (in
similar fashion to Battlestar Galactica, it is 21st Century,
darker TV with at least some BR fans behind the production).
Well, I watched it last night and was not disappointed. Not
perfect of course, but they got right on with it, introducing
the bionification, main characters, even within the first
episode getting to her first fight with her nemesis - two hot,
bionic women slugging it out on rooftops in the pouring rain...
Ah yes. Based on just the one episode, I would recommend most
BR fans give it a try! Other views: LA
Times, Globe
and Mail, Washington
Post, meevee. |
| 27 Sep 2007 |
Wired interviews
Sir Ridley Scott extensively about Blade Runner. On an extended
version, Wired kindly
provides the FULL interview transcript AND audio. And because
Wired really likes to get beyond the obvious, they ALSO have
a wonderfully extensive Before
and After BR influences section. art, architecture, films,
TV, games, robotics, fashion, culture, etc. DO look at this! |
| 26 Sep 2007 |
Big advertising
screens in cities and alongside motorways are no longer
just fiction, but you ain't seen nothin' yet ... Reuters reports
on adverts the size of three football pitches that people can
see from the air when coming in to land at airports. It is
just a matter of time for them to become moving images. This
isn't a maybe - the first big picture will be on the ground
at Dubai next month. |
| 25 Sep 2007 |
So what were
you doing 20 years ago? Well, maybe you were looking forward
to seeing the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation?
I am shocked it is two decades ago! Entertainment
Weekly has
an article with memories of a number of the people involved.
I found it interesting that Robert H. Justman (first series
producer) said to Gene Roddenberry in October 1986 after
they saw Aliens, "Jesus Christ, Gene,
that was a great picture! But have you ever seen Blade
Runner?'" And [Gene said]
"What's that?" He didn't know what Blade Runner was!
I said, "You'd better take a look at that." Only
mere weeks later, Gene said he wanted to do the new Star Trek.
Now, of course, I'm not saying Blade Runner was responsible
in any way for ST:TNG getting made, but... |
| 24 Sep 2007 |
"If
Harrison Ford were to star in a sequel to 1982's 'Blade Runner',
the film's producers wouldn't need to use computer-generated
images to create a futuristic backdrop. They could film in
any number of Chinese cities." Bloomberg looks
at Stephen Green's concept of "China Years" - i.e. the comparative
rate of economic development in China - the cities developing
approximately four times faster than in the US or the UK.
(I say 'the cities' because, as the article points out,
this measure is necessarily regional.) |
| 23 Sep 2007 |
The
New York Times has an article on the reimagined "Bionic
Woman" television series, with comments by David Eick on
the philosophy of the show. He was responsible for the new
Battlestar Galactica so I hope this 21st Century version
of the Cyborg TV show will deliver what BR fans might hope! |
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