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movie news yo

cinema roundup…yeeha! ill make this post brief…ill hold back the plethora of adjectives i otherwise wouldve used if given the opportunity. the aeon flux movie with charlize theron officially signed on frances mcdormand to play the handler…the leader of a rebel group. hmm, sounds swish. in a past report, it was mentioned that mcdormand would be playing aeons sis, so dunno which is correct. filming is supposed to commence in august.

BATMAN STUFF
ign had a post today that pointed to new images of the batmobile from the upcoming batman begins. the site the pictures are on requires some registration if youre a real media client…so i dont think its meant for the public. bugger. you can still see the thumbnails however…just not the enlargements.

HOUSE OF ALOT OF DAGGERS
and last but not least, aicn posted up a number of links for zhang yimous house of flying daggers. they have a link to the japanese trailer for the movie and two featurettes from the cannes film festival. the first featurette is actually of three movies…so you’ll have to sit thru the first two before getting to see some sword-fighting action. the movie looks coo, but seems more aligned with the methodologies of crouching tiger, hidden dragon than zhang yimous previous film hero. and while cthd was coo, i actually preferred the streamlined hero.

> frances mcdormand cast in aeon flux (via cinescape)
> new batmobile images (via ign)
> more batmobile images (update)
> house of flying daggers trailer and featurettes (via aicn)