28 March

Re-cut Trailers

It turns out that I'm not the only one who re-cuts trailers (see my Requiem for a Dream Trailer). I recently saw 2 other great works (also called "mashup trailers"). The first one is Shining, made by Robert Ryang in October 2005. He made The Shining appear to be a light-hearted movie about father-son bonding. The second one is Toy Story 2: Requiem, made by Mike Hindes. He took dialog from Requiem for a Dream (or maybe a trailer I haven't seen) and cut video bits from Toy Story 2 to match every movement and dialog. The result is amazing. By the way, the nice song that you hear in the background is Dirtbag (remix) by Psycraft (which is actually a cover to the original song by Brad Sucks).

15 March

Double Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to David Cronenberg for his 63rd birthday and to The Plasma Pool for its 4th birthday. Some statistics about the site and its visitors: • The site contains over 1700 files, weighing almost 30MB. • It currently has about 40 unique visitors daily. • Most of the visitors are from (in order, from left to right):

14 March

Cronenberg's Next Projects

ashbrg reported this to us way back in September, on The Plasma Pool Board. But it seems that now the rumors are confirmed. According to sources such as Joblo, ComingSoon.net and The Hollywood Reporter, David Cronenberg's next movie is going to be Maps to the Stars - an "inside Hollywood" dark drama. After that, he is going to direct Eastern Promises for Focus Features and BBC Films - The story follows a midwife who, while investigating the identify of a Russian girl who died during childbirth, discovers that the girl was a prostitute sold into the sex-trafficking ring. The film was scripted by Steven Knight. According to wetdog, the movie Maps to the Stars will be shot later this year, followed by Eastern Promises next year.

Cronenberg Interview

There is an interesting interview with David Cronenberg on LA Weekly, from January 14, in which Cronenberg is asked - among other things - about web sites like IMDB and Metacritic.