Something I noticed when compiling 5 links for this week: 3D is all over the place as the next big thing.
We’ve got two movies to talk about here. Avatar just got passed up by James Cameron’s ex at the Oscars, and films like Star Wars are allegedly getting the 3D treatment. Will it work better than colorizing did? We’ll have to see, but if I were to work 3D into two movies, it would be an adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, and a biopic of The 5th Dimension, just to get as many dimensions as possibile for my money.
Here’s what you may have missed while you were watching people bicker on stage at the Oscars. Read More…
As the snow starts to disappear from the ground and people are more frequently leaving their coats at home, the Hollywood marketing machine is ramping up promotions for the summer’s big releases.
For the last few years, the summer movie season has been commencing earlier and earlier, and one could make a convincing argument that it has already started for this year. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is out and making beau coup bucks at the box office. With its April 2 release date, Clash of the Titans won’t be far behind, and then it all begins to snowball, with everything from Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, and Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever Ever (really?) all releasing in May.
With that in mind, there are two new trailers online that have been almost as eagerly anticipated as the films they’re here to advertise. Read More…
The filming of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is not only finished, but apparently it’s had its first viewing.
A number of pastors, leaders, and Narnia fans have seen a rough cut, and it’s getting good reviews so far. There seems to have been a concerted effort to work on a faithful adaptation, and Christianity Today reports that the filmmakers claim to have learned from previous mistakes, such as those made in Prince Caspian.
“We made some mistakes with Prince Caspian, and I don’t want to make them again,” said Mark Johnson, a producer on all of the Narnia films. He said Caspian lacked some of the “wonder and magic of Narnia,” was “a little bit too rough” for families, and too much of a “boys’ action movie.” He said it’s “very important” that filmmakers regain that magic for Dawn Treader, now in the editing stages—and he’s convinced they’ve found it: “I want to climb on the rooftops and say we have a wonderful Narnia movie.”
Not bad for a book that just came out in the US the other day.
Variety has announced, “Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for the film rights to Brit author Catherine Fisher’s young-adult tome Incarceron, with an eye to spinning the dystopian fantasy into a franchise.”
I hadn’t heard of the book before yesterday, but found out that it’s been getting fairly good reviews across the pond in Britain. Here’s more from Variety:
Incarceron tells the story of a young boy who lives in a prison that is a complete society; outside the prison, the world is stuck in the 17th century and run by computers. The boy comes into contact with the warden’s daughter, who lives in her own sort of jail, and they find a key that can change everything.
Congratulations to Nate from Rio Dell, CA, Matthew from Salem, OR, and Benjamin from Lafayette, IN!
These folks will receive a complete set of the Auralia Thread series — Auralia’s Colors, Cyndere’s Midnight, and Raven’s Ladder — signed by author Jeffrey Overstreet.
Thanks to everyone who entered — we hope each of you will check out this series of books! Also, thanks again to Jeffrey Overstreet and WaterBrook Press for kindly supplying the prizes for this contest.
Johnny Cash has a new CD in stores. (Yes, he died over six years ago. No, that has not stopped other musicians in the past.) The Onion’s AV Club has a review, and if you want to sample the album before picking it up, you can hear the whole thing thanks to lala.com.
I took a listen, and here’s my take.
In this set of songs we hear a man in his 70s, and with pain of losing his wife very fresh in his life, he sounds quite frail. There’s a lot of talk about death on this album; it’s a topic that had obviously been creeping into his thoughts for the years leading up to his own passing. Somehow, though, this is a peaceful, hopeful album that looks to the past and its memories, but also to the unknown future without fear. Read More…
Last April, Faith & Geekery introduced two new filmmakers by the names of Josh and Jeremiah Daws.
They had caught wind of our angst about the so-called “Christian film industry” and commented to let us know of their attempts to help change things. That attempt was their film Dangerous Calling (which we reviewed). Since the film’s completion, it (and it’s creators) have endured a slow burn of increasing awareness and positive reviews that have finally culminated in a distribution deal with Cloud Ten Pictures. Read More…
We’ve had a few fun things over the past few weeks here at FG, and we want to thank everyone for checking us out! We’ve got a lot more coming up soon, including a review of a contemporary-yet-obscure vampire movie that’s a perfect alternative to the recent crop of undead lore.
But for now, here’s a few things you may have missed while signing up to win a signed set of the Auralia Thread Series books. (Yes, there’s still time!) Read More…
With the release of Jeffrey Overstreet’s new book Raven’s Ladder (the third in his Auralia Thread series), Faith & Geekery wanted to talk with the author to find out more about him and his books, explore some of the deeper aspects of his writing and the motivations behind them, his unique spin on the genre of fantasy, and discuss everything from fairy tales to Indiana Jones!
If you’re unfamiliar with Jeffrey Overstreet, he has written extensively on film and continues to do so at his website, Looking Closer, as well as on the blog Filmwell. His book Through a Screen Darkly (“a travelogue of dangerous moviegoing”) examined the world of film from a different perspective than do most Christian authors, and his writings have appeared in magazines such as Christianity Today, Image, and Paste. The first book in the Auralia Thread, Auralia’s Colors, was published in 2007, and the sequel, Cyndere’s Midnight, arrived in 2008. This year’s release of Raven’s Ladder is the third of four books in the series.
You can find out more about Jeffrey Overstreet at his site. You can also check out Faith & Geekery’s reviews of Auralia’s Colors and Raven’s Ladder, and we invite you to enter our contest to win one of three signed sets of the Auralia Thread — all three books — by visiting our contest page! Read More…
Following the long-standing tradition of a different song each day, NASA astronauts got a great wakeup call last Friday (February 12). If you want to just check out the song, it begins at 2:57.
If you watch it more than once, use the timeline slider to watch the earth turn and the sun come up over the the STS-130 in time lapse.
From the chatter at the end of the video, it sounds like they’re Firefly fans up there. Or maybe it’s just a coded message: plans to scrap the moon project and future manned flights are under way.
(HT: TR)
The filming of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is not only finished, but apparently it’s had its first viewing.
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Johnny Cash has a new CD in stores. (Yes, he died over six years ago. No, that has not stopped other musicians in the past.) 
Last April, Faith & Geekery introduced two new filmmakers by the names of Josh and Jeremiah Daws.
With the release of Jeffrey Overstreet’s new book Raven’s Ladder (the third in his Auralia Thread series), Faith & Geekery wanted to talk with the author to find out more about him and his books, explore some of the deeper aspects of his writing and the motivations behind them, his unique spin on the genre of fantasy, and discuss everything from fairy tales to Indiana Jones!
