Archive for December, 2009
Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s The Social Network
Dec 2nd
The Daily Mail (I hate that paper) have released the first picture of Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Napster and Facebook co founder in David Fincher’s upcoming film ‘The Social Network’. Buzz online about the screenplay has been great and I’m a big fan of David Fincher, he’s one of the only Directors around who’s films I will check out every time – Se7en, Fight Club and Fight club are three of my favourite films of the last 15 years. The Social Network is based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, telling the story of Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the founders of Facebook. ‘The Social Network’ is set for release late 2010 by Columbia pictures.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.
Where The Wild Things Are – Competition
Dec 2nd
Where The Wild Things Are, one of the most anticipated films of 2009 is finally being released in UK cinemas December 11th (it was released in the US back in October!!!). The good people behind the film are giving away prizes for the best yowler in the country . I was fortunate to attend the screening yesterday at the swanky Warner Brothers screening room, I’m gonna post my thoughts later today.
The US number one box office hit and coolest flick of the year – Where The Wild Things Are – is hitting UK cinemas on 11thDecember, and, to celebrate, the Wild Rumpus has officially begun! We are recruiting Yowlers in shopping malls around the country, or in the safety of their own homes, to create the longest Wild Thing Yowl.
A yowl can be a sound that expresses anything you want – from joy and excitement to letting off some Christmas shopping steam, or to just prove that you are louder than your mate. Think of a howl – but wilder!
Customised Wild Thing yowling booths are visiting shopping centres around the country collecting your yowls in the run up to the movie’s release. Just look out for the HUGE tree stump in the following locations and yowl as long as you can.
29th November METRO CENTRE, GATESHEAD
30th November TRAFFORD CENTRE, MANCHESTER
1st December CABOTS CIRCUS, BRISTOL
4th December WESTFIELD, LONDON
5th December WESTFIELD, LONDON
6th December WESTFIELD, LONDON
If you’re a shy Wild Thing…and you’d rather yowl in the privacy of your own home, office, school or wherever you please, just visit http://www.youtube.com/wildthingsyowl and upload your yowl direct. There you can check out the movie’s trailer and a heap of exclusive Where the Wild Things Are content.
The best Yowlers can bag some amazing prizes, including games consoles, games and personalised limited edition awards for the best of the bunch, in any of our five categories:
- Yowl in most ridiculous costume
- Yowl with most people on screen
- Longest Individual Yowl in one breath
- Funniest/Strangest/Cutest Yowl
- Favorite Yowl!
Where The Wild Things Are is award-winning director Spike Jonze’s eagerly-awaited interpretation of one of the most beloved books of all time. It tells the story of Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy who feels misunderstood at home and escapes to where the Wild Things are. There he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are as wild and unpredictable as their actions. It is released in cinemas nationwide on 11th December 2009
There is a Wild Thing in All of Us…we just don’t let it out often enough, but now you have your chance! Unleash your Wild Thing and get Yowling!
Iron Man 2 Poster
Dec 1st
Yahoo have debuted the first official movie poster for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. The poster gives us our first real view of War Machine (played by Don Cheadle). Look out for the trailer in the next few weeks. The film is released right in time for my birthday!