gameraboy2:

The Hobbit (1977)

ralfmaximus:

animentality:

1977 is now 2023

240 million is now 332 million

4 billion is now 7.8 billion

200 billion is now 300 billion

..but the message is still very much relevant and indeed, breathtaking.

(via dduane)

myjetpack:

for New Scientist

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog:

mcb3k:

Watch “The Format Returns” on YouTube

I have been doing this thing for sixteen years and it is more fun than it’s ever been.

flanaganfilm:

Major Announcement

You know, some people say that childhood dreams never come true. Well I’m here to say different. Late last night, we got confirmation that Intrepid Pictures has acquired the remake rights to a film that meant so much to me in my childhood…

GONCHAROV.

It’s a risk, because they always say it’s a bad idea to remake something that’s already perfect. So I’m thinking it’s more a legacy sequel/reboot kind of thing. Fortunately, we’ve got a lot of the original cast still around, so reprising their roles (even in cameos) could give us an edge. I mean who doesn’t want to see Pacino step back into Mario Ambrosini’s iconic voice? (A lot of people don’t know this, but he achieved that sound by inhaling as he spoke his lines instead of exhaling).

It’ll be our first foray outside of traditional horror, though we intend to revisit a lot of ‘The Banker’ Daddano’s famous dream sequences from the original, which, as we know, can get pretty horrific - I mean, remember that bit about the paperboy with the eyes of a cat and the voice of an owl, and the image of the Kremlin under attack by an 80 foot pile of rats dressed in a giant coat also made of rats? (And yes, we intend to honor the original aesthetic of only using the right side of the screen for those sequences, simulating Daddano’s point of view from behind the eyepatch.)

This is a great chance to utilize a lot of our regular Intrepid actors as well. Henry Thomas and @wilwheaton will play Lo Straniero’s lost heirs, twin brothers who come to claim their birthright and “take out the trash” - literally - by infiltrating the criminal underworld as part of a cleaning crew.

Also, for the first time in Intrepid’s history, we’re wide open to ideas… if something inspires you, please put it in the comments. Together we can make the Next Greatest Mafia Ever Made Again (trademark Intrepid Pictures 2022).