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In an interview with Playboy, James Cameron cuts the crap and reveals all that fancy-schmanzy Avatar-related CGI mumbo-jumbo is all about making the perfect tits for Zoe Saldana’s character Neytiri:
CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, “She’s got to have tits,” even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na’vi, aren’t placental mammals. [...]

The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is officially the world’s longest movie, according to Guinness World Records, as of its release in 1987. Running 5220 minutes (87 hours) in length, the movie has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his lengthy poem “A Cure for Insomnia” over [...]

This video has been circulating in the youtubes, and it apparently shows Anne Frank from a window, shot by a neighbor — the only existing video, so far, of the famous diarist and Holocaust victim.
The 21-second, black-and-white video, filmed on July 22, 1941 about a year before Anne and her family went into hiding, shows [...]

These New Yorkers flocked to Times Square in their most realistic zombie get-up, usually just lotsa lipstick, as part of promoting the new movie Zombieland.

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“Make the pavilions red. Color code every hallway, corridor, washway. Anything with concrete.” “What does that look like to you, Jarvis?”
“Sir, what are you doing?” Jarvis replies.
“I’m rediscovering a new element. Not unlike an atom. Highlight the unisphere.”

And while you’re at it, Jarvis, play that bukkakke video once again. It helps me focus.
link: “a visit [...]

Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, Food, Inc., an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding [...]

Here’s how water behaves in the absence of gravity. That part with the Alka-Seltzer is pretty amazing.

Bang-Yao Liu’s “Deadline” is a short stop-motion animation he created for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. It makes clever use of Post-in notes to convey his message.

Alright, for 10 seconds, we actually believed this.

The people and cast of the latest in the Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation, explain why they’ve decided to use actual working robots “that singed their eyebrows” instead of CGI.
Video here.

“People always used to say they were afraid of me and I wondered, ‘Why? What are you afraid of? Why would people be scared of me?’ Watching the film tonight I realized that I’m scared of that guy.”
– Mike Tyson, on James Toback’s new film about him, also called Tyson.

This.

Ricky Gervais “swooning” over the truthiness of the Bible, among other things, in this awesomely hilarious clip from his stand-up act, “Animals.”

For $200,000, I’d want a free hammer!
THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.
In a bid to escape India’s real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000.
As he offered the shocking [...]

…in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of gold, they carried a movie camera. Thus they captured on film their unexpected confrontation with thousands of Stone Age people who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys. This amazing footage forms the basis of First Contact.

You know it is bad when people begin doing this.
In the latest of what feels like a flurry of unfortunate movie theater incidents, a 24-year-old man in Eugene, Oregon shot himself in the head while taking in a late-night Watchmen screening at a Regal Cinemas. According to a story over KMTR.com — which was passed [...]

A documentary of Stanley Kubrick’s film, The Shining, as made by his then-17-year-old daughter Vivian. This offers a rare insight into how Kubrick shoots a film.

BTW, read a very interesting related interview here.