Are they back on track with the next Bond film yet?

Reportedly, yes -- but it'd be coming out late next year so it's early days.

Cracked takes on one of my recent cinematic beefs: digital color correction.

In a different article we find a cogent rant against "Everything Is Blue and Orange":

Speaking of blue, this might be the bluest movie ever made. I guess now is as good a time as any to address the tendency of filmmakers to color all their movies using just two crayons: blue and orange. If you’ve ever taken any sort of graphic design course, you’re probably familiar with color wheels, tools that allow a designer to sit in their chair for hours on end, staring at a rainbow. Some color theorist noticed, eventually, that certain colors are particularly striking when paired with certain other colors, and specifically, you can match up the color on one side of the color wheel with a color on the opposite side, and the resulting contrast is striking indeed. And, not coincidentally, in exact opposite spaces on the color wheel is where you’ll find orange and blue. When computer assisted color correction meant that any jackass with a mouse could make his movie any color he wanted, instead of having to do it via lighting or expensive, complicated pre-computer era methods. This ushered in the era of extremely boring looking movies, where every single film we endure is either green/yellow, blue/orange, or that washed out sort of brownish-white. If you are charitable, this color correction is done, however lazily, to invoke a certain mood. If you are less charitable, those movie making assholes are doing it because every other movie making asshole is doing it.

Blue-orange has emerged as one of the most dramatic color contrasts, and as a result, you will find it absolutely fucking everywhere, both in the movies and on the posters. And once you notice it for the first time, you will never be able to stop noticing it. Eventually, you will go mad, and your relatives will have you committed to a Victorian-style madhouse, where you will crouch in the corner of your padded room, coloring every surface in the room blue and orange. The abuse of the blue-orange color palette is so rampant that, ultimately, I have to give up raging against it, because even filmmakers I like tend to fall back on exploiting it. I guess we’ll all just have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that our movies will only be blue/orange, yellow/green, or gray/brown from here on out, and using a full spectrum of color was nothing more than an ill-conceived dalliance among naive filmmakers who thought color films should be color.

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games.

Hmmm. I've been meaning to watch Winter's Bone. Guess I'll move it to the top of my Netflix queue.

It's good, Rayne. Ozark noir! And she's basically in every scene of the movie. I can't think of one she's not in.

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games.

I never saw Winters Bone either, but I heard she was excellent in it. Still, I wish they had picked an actress who is still a teenager. I think one of the most horrific things in the book is how young all the players in the Hunger Games are.

She was excellent in Winter's Bone but I'd had my heart set on the girl from True Grit getting the part! Especially after discussing it with my physical therapist last night.

She was excellent in Winter's Bone but I'd had my heart set on the girl from True Grit getting the part! Especially after discussing it with my physical therapist last night.

Me too. Friends and I were just discussing the books last night. I earned 3 new toasters passing my copies around.

I initially thought Steinfeld was too young, since she's just fourteen (although maybe fifteen by now?), but the good thing is, she would age into the role pretty well if they make all three.

From reading around, it looks like this guy [link] is in the lead to play Peeta and has said casting someone 14 would make it weird for him to do.