ita, that's it. I'd not put those two things together, but of course that would have been the case.

I think The Fountain was going to be Blanchett and Pitt, but Aranofsky (sp?) argued with Pitt and he left, and Blanchett got pregnant and left. Aranofsky got the movie going again by cutting out the big expensive sets (and Pitt leaving was probably quite a savings). So it is now being made for half the original budget, and with Jackman and Rachel Weisz starring.

According to reports in the Aussie press, ShPitt left to make Troy for more money. As a result of ShPitt's sudden departure, the film was cancelled. At around the same time, Farscape was cancelled, which left a lot of Aussie film technicians in dire straits. A few months later there was a public auction of some of the sets and props from the film-that-never-was-but-looks-to-be-again.

Since MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE came up again, I'll just chime in that ita's thought was exactly mine. When Shaw says "I'm one of the bad guys", it's because he already knows he's going to use Ben as an assassain (and for his own suicide).

I was curious if someone had made that suposition too.

That was pretty much how I saw it, Frankenbuddha.

Did Godsend play in the theatres? I must have missed it. Because there's no way a movie with De Niro can go straight to video, right? But a De Niro movie coming out and me not noticing -- also unlikely. I'd have thought.

Did Godsend play in the theatres?

Yeah, for a few days. It was even a wide release.

It was even a wide release.

Wow. That's rough.

At least he has Meet The Fockers coming up.

I saw the Meet the Fockers promo at The Bourne Supremacy last night.

It was definitely one of the better trailers. I also saw a slightly changed trailer for Collateral that includes Jamie Foxx-Jada Pinkett Smith footage and overall seemed to emphasize the Foxx over the Cruise. Interesting. Also, there is this clip in a disco where for no reason you can tell in the context of the trailer Tom Cruise makes this face? I and my friend both laughed outloud.

And Cellular looks much more like one of those very complicated ads for a phone service than an actual movie.

And what did I learn from The Bourne Supremacy?

Karl Urban moves very beautifully.

Also - car chases = boring.

And Cellular looks much more like one of those very complicated ads for a phone service than an actual movie.

The poster I saw made me do a double-take. It's like Clive Owen's BMW movies in reverse.

I liked the chase in Bourne. It's no Ronin, or anything -- but I liked it.

The largest impact that Cellular has on me is to remind me to turn my phone off.

I just read that 6'2 Christian Bale dropped down to 120 pounds for The Machinist. That's going to make it extra hard to watch.

Yikes. That's gonna be painful to see and I don't want to think about what it's done to his metabolism.