Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Director Chris Weitz has been shooting The Golden Compass (the adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy) since Monday last week (production started in Shepperton Studios), and is currently filming in and around Oxford. Fansite Bridge To The Stars reports that film crews have been sighted setting up at Exeter College, Pullman’s inspiration for Jordan Collage, the story’s opening location.
The first pictures from the set have now surfaced online. BBC has some photographs of the production setup, while Bridge To The Stars has Nicole Kidman (who plays Mrs. Coulter) in full costume and a photo of daemons. There’s also a press batch of Kidman at Keystone.
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It seems no two days go by without new images from Michael Bay’s Transformers. Today we get the first good glimpse at what the two Autobots Ratchet and Ironhide will look like in their vehicle modes, courtesy of 
Fernando Meirelles, one of his generation’s most promising filmmakers (even if you didn’t like his two feature films City of God and The Constant Gardener, you’ll find it hard to deny how incredibly well crafted movies they are) will next tackle Blindness, an English-language adaptation of Jose Saramago’s 1995 book that won the author the Nobel Prize, according to 
Luc Besson has announced that his upcoming tenth film, Arthur et les Minimoys (which opens in France December 13), will be his last, reports the 
Jumper may expand from one film into a trilogy, according to reports from the film set that suggest Fox is planning to turn the Steven Gould teen books series into a film trilogy. Producer Lucas Foster told 
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It seems that Joel Schumacher, director of Lost Boys is returning to the realm of the undead for his next project Town Creek. The Gold Circle and Lionsgate project is about a West Virginia man who comes to terms with his moral qualms and help his brother wipe out a family protecting a Nazi vampire.
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.