Von Bondies and London

Hallo all in blogger land, I hope you are all well and enjoying whatever you happen to be doing.

Right I'm now this very minuet sat on a train going to London and the reason I have my laptop is to keep from going insane for the 3 hours I have to sit here. Now I'm off to the big city just for a meeting about audits or something of that nature (thinking I could have done with a little more research on this meeting). It’s nothing to big and I'm glad to get out of work for the day even if it is going to turn in to a long day. So you would think as I needed to get up at 6am this morning I would have been tucked up in bed at 10pm the previous night, well Ha you would be wrong. The von bondies were playing at the Night and Day and I had managed to get on the guest list even though the night had sold out and I'm glad I did as not seeing them live before I was very happy with the night, they are a great band and if they come around again and you spot they are playing it would be well worth £10 or so. So instead of being in bed nice and early I was in bed at a stupid hour and drunk but I still managed to get up on time and get to the train station with time to spare and then off we went. I'm going down with Echo11 and it is only for a few hours.

Back soon ......

Ok back o the train to Manchester and got another 3 hours to burn, got to the meeting just in time and it was ok, it is looking at a self audit for the department I work in but not just for us but for everyone throughout the country so you have to look at it from a company perspective and not just from the view of where you work. I had no problem with this but there were some who could not seem to see past this so we spent most of the day just trying to convince the small group in the meeting of this. So however much I think we had some sort of impact in this new aspect of the company it was a bit of a waste of time when we could have got so much more done in the time we had.

For some reason it has taken me 2 days to get this blog finished, I have just got up from a night of drinking playing board games, I was happy with my drinking ability after a long day but I did well and lost the game with style. Any way got to go to work, something about hours and projectors I think.

New films for 08

Once a year we hold a big conference for the company and during this time we get to see some very new film clips and very new trailers, I say we but my self and the other super tech's run the event from the back so have to see the clips.

This year was a good one, well the good outweighed the bad.

First of the bat was a 5 min clip of Wanted, this is from the director or Night Watch and Day Watch and the upcoming Dusk watch. It has James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie and in a nut shell its about a group of assassins.

Imdb say's :

A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.

You can see the trailer online now and bit of the trailer were in the clip, the clip we watched was not finished and needed some CGI but god it looks good. If you have seen and of the Day/Night watch's (is that a word?) you should expect more of the same, its just action with a side of action and action for dessert.

Next Hell Boy 2,

We got to see a slightly longer trailer but not much different from what is online now, This film is going to ROCK as did the first one. I'm a big fan of this movie and it would appear that Guillermo del Toro has gone to a new level and still riding the success of Pan's Labyrinth he is doing well, if you see the trailer I feel like he has taken something from Pan's Lab when you see the monsters.

Wall-e

There are a few trailer for this film now out and the new Super Bowl add is wonderful with Woody and Buzz (from toy story). When the trailer first came out it look 'ok' and just 'ok', as the new trailer have some out I have started to warm to it and seeing the new trailer (which is not out yet as I spent an hour looking to show my girl friend) it looks fantastic and I bit of a change from Pixar. From what I hear there is no speech (well there may be R2D2 beeps ect) for the first 40 mins. Keep your eye out from the new trailer as it is well worth a watch.

Sex in the City

After all the bitching about who is going to get the most money between the cast HBO have finally got this film in the mix, got to see the trailer and my flat mate's girl friend wanted to know if it was any good, its just like an advert for Sex in the City, nothing more.

10,000 BC

Looks to be the new big epic film, with some amazing shots. Think of a world (about 10,000 BC) where there are sabre Tooth tigers and Mammoths run around like there are cars on the road! We got to see 2 x 5 min clips and it does look good, it just looks soo smooth and its nice to see what computers can do, looking at the clips you would think there is a company out there who rent out animal like this out there.

Kung Fu Panda

Ok to be honest I had been at work for some time and this was going to be the only time I got a small break as we had 45mins of footage to see so I did only get the last half of the clip, this clip was unfinished and only about 30% was good enough for the cinema, the rest was poor CG and even some was just still animation but I have to say the parts that I did see were very funny and full of action, ass kicking action. It did look like a Kung Foo film just animated. I think it will be a good film and they are thinking it will be a very big hit this year.

Mama Mia

A full 4 min clip, I think most people will know of the success of the theatre production so it was only time before this was made for the big screen, with Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth it is well on its way to the big screen. We got 4 mins and I will be honest its not the type of film that would really interest me but the clip was good and looks like it could turn in to a big film for 08.

As for the other films that will be popping up in 2008 in a big way, here is a list of films that you will be seeing a lot of.

Quantum of Solace

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Indiana Jones & The Crystal Skull

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Escape from Madagascar

The Dark Knight

Tim Burton to shoot 3-D Alice in Wonderland

Director Tim Burton has signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios to produce two 3-D films, kicking off with a version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

The film will, Variety explains, combine "performance-capture imagery" - currently wowing the crowd in Beowulf - and live-action footage. Linda Wolverton of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast fame is penning the screenplay.

The second production will be Frankenweenie, based on Burton's 1984 short film about "a pet dog brought back to life by his loyal owner". It'll be a stop-motion animation production, shown in digital 3-D.

Alice in Wonderland is slated to go into production early next year, wrapping in May. Burton is currently putting the finishing touches to Sweeney Todd at Paramount and Dreamworks. ®