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Watch for the Black Hole "Remake"

Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski takes on 1979 sci-fi film
"Disney are going back to the eighties with a reinvention of the sci-fi classic The Black Hole. The remake has a top team behind it with direction from Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski and screenplay courtesy of Travis Beacham who penned Clash of the Titans. They have also have producer Sean Bailey involved on the potentially 3D project.

The original, directed by Gary Nelson, at the time was the most costly Disney film ever made, and saw the longest computer graphics shot at that point in history leaving it with nominations for cinematography and visual effects at the Academy Awards that year.

The remake will recount in much more detail, the story of spaceship Palamino discovering the presumed dead Dr. Hans Reinhardt in a lost, robot controlled ship hovering over a black hole. Reinhardt, even after twenty years, remains to determind to find what lies beyond the hole - be that immortality or oblivion...
- http://www.screenrush.co.uk/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18491246.html

True,
"Gary Nelson", the director was not a true visionary but he has brought us things like "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold"

At the time was the most costly Disney film ever made, and saw the longest computer graphics shot at that point in history leaving it with nominations for cinematography and visual effects at the Academy Awards that year.

Can't find a replacement. Here's the transcript in case some lonely wanderer wonders what this video was about:

Oct 14, 2008
"MADDOW: Coming up, Academy Award-winning director, Oliver Stone, joins us here in the studio to talk about his new film “W” or “double-u” if you‘re one of those east coast media elitists. Hopefully, I can persuade Mr. Stone to share his opinions about the life and career of President George W. Bush, but you know how shy Mr. Stone is. I will do what I can.

First though, it‘s time for a few underreported holy mackerel stories in today‘s news. Ready for the first one? Quote, “In the beginning of the timing of the laws, I said there is no difficulty‘s base.” What? Huh? What I said was, “In the beginning of the timing of the laws, I said there is no difficulty‘s base.”

Does that make any sense to you? Yes, me neither. And neither did it make sense to the judge, the military officers, or lawyers working one of the tribunals at Guantanamo recently, when an American paid Arabic translator dictated to them that nonsense sentence, as if it made sense in English.

Does the phrase “lost in translation” spring to mind? Five key defendants charged in conjunction with 9/11 are moving towards jury trials. The U.S. military lawyers assigned to defend them say that translation services have been done so on the cheap that they estimate about half of what a defendant stated in the hearing room was mistranslated and a ¼ of what was said in English in the courtroom never made it back to the defendant. There are standards for these sorts of things, you know, at, say, federal courts or the international criminal courts but at Guantanamo, apparently? Not so much.

Remember the case there about Osama bin Laden‘s alleged driver? That actual phrase, “bin Laden‘s driver” was repeatedly translated as “bin Laden‘s lawyer.” What‘s the difference?

And time is running out for American troops to be in Iraq legally. The United Nation‘s mandate that allows our troops to be there expires at the end of this year. What happens when that mandate expires? Well, the Bush administration has long expressed confidence that the Iraqi government and the White House could sign a status-of-forces agreement—a country-to-country, one-on-one plan for keeping our troops there.

But after months of a stalemate and trying to reach such an agreement, one of the Iraqi vice presidents this week finally said that he doesn‘t think it‘s going to happen in time. So, that means after December 31st, it will be illegal for American troops to be on Iraqi streets.

Karen DeYoung from “The Washington Post” reports today that American officials are looking for a plan B if the status-of-forces negotiations really don‘t work out. What is plan B? Apparently, the Bush administration might try to get that U.N. mandate extended. That would require a vote in the U.N. Security Council where Russia holds a veto and Russia, you may recall, would just love an opportunity like that to shove us our locker and steal our lunch money.

So that makes me think “B” in that plan stands for “bad,” as in if that‘s your only plan, that‘s a bad plan. Karen DeYoung suggests that a few other plan Bs might be in the works as well, though Plan B-1 - I guess we‘d call it. A plan B-1 would be, quote, “a simple handshake agreement between Bush and the Iraqi prime minister to keep troops around until the next president takes over and starts negotiating again.”

A handshake deal? You would ride 150,000 American lives on a handshake deal? Maybe I could suggest a plan C, “C” as in “see you.” If the Iraqi government doesn‘t want us to stay enough to sign a deal for to us stay, how about we leave?"

The original Soviet version of this film was split into 4 parts and totaled 484 minutes (8 hours!) though later versions were shortened. It won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Globe in the same category
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Wow, I haven't had the pleasure of seeing this movie. Def on the rent list now! There is something very tragically satisfying about the organic feel of the death displayed in this. The spiraling smoke and general mayhem make it truly seem like a hell of hells.

She deserves an Academy Award for that convincing performance... I really bought it!

This is the scene that got her the academy award nomination

How many Academy Awards did this win?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(short)
It was nominated for an Academy award.

>> ^conan:
funny? i don't see the fun in that.


Really? Well I totally respect your opinion but in my opinion it WAS funny in a totally absurd kind of way. Hmmm... oh well, maybe I am crazy.

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>> ^demon_ix:
The original was a short film that was nominated for an academy award. Was kinda good, actually.
http://www.videosift.com/video/9-An-Animated-Short-By-Shane-Acker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(film)
Let's see if Burton keeps it's spirit intact, or Planet-of-the-Apes-ifies it.


Thankyou!! I knew I'd seen it before...

The original was a short film that was nominated for an academy award. Was kinda good, actually.

http://www.videosift.com/video/9-An-Animated-Short-By-Shane-Acker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(film)

Let's see if Burton keeps it's spirit intact, or Planet-of-the-Apes-ifies it.

I wouldn't mind a game room, but there are so many flash game sites out there I don't see how VideoSift would be special in any way. In addition, hosting flash based games would only increase the traffic and I don't think that's a good idea considering the current situation.

However, in terms of games, there's something that would interest me:

While watching the Academy Awards I thought "Wouldn't it be neat to be able to bet on the oscar winners using power points as currency?" That's just one example, but involving the use of power points might be a bigger incentive to sign up for a basic or even charter account.

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