I didn't make it to any of the movies I was thinking about seeing earlier in the week, but I did get to the Simpsons Movie this afternoon.

Awesome.

A couple of surprises, Danny Elfman did NOT do the music and Gary Burritt was the Negative Cutter. I was sure either there wouldn't be one or it would be Teresa Repola Mohammed.

Just to add to the not-movie Shakespeare talk, while I was working for the Shakespeare in the Park in Fort Worth, TX part of our costume crew were in a production of Midsummer's that was performed by a total of 5 actors. Everyone was doubled, tripled and quadrupled parts and it only got confusing in the last scene when one of the actors had to play two of his parts who were speaking directly to each other. Otherwise it was one of the best productions I'd ever seen!

and I liked Branagh's Hamlet.

In case anybody else is as gullible as I am: The movie trivia print Pringles are a total rip off! More than half of the alleged "trivia" looks like this:

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only easier!

IGN is reporting Joss Whedon is putting together a pure western and wants Nathan Fillion as the lead.

Interesting.

Was that Joss's "big news" at ComicCon?

New Joker image and link to a teaser trailer for The Dark Knight.

Was that Joss's "big news" at ComicCon?

God knows. I think that was supposed to be Goners getting green lit, probably, but Goners has ended up on ice again.

New Joker image and link to a teaser trailer for The Dark Knight.

OOOH, Creepy!

It looks like part of his smile is because the sides of his mouth got slashed.

Of course, Frank, the movie The Man Who Laughed (with that same plot element) was the inspiration for The Joker.