Stuff I learned this week – #7/11

• Tim Smith watches us watching There Will Be Blood.
• 2011’s release schedule sets the record for most sequels.
• Why Gnomeo and Juliet has hideous protagonists.
• There are six giant blind spots in every movie alien’s invasion strategy.
• There are four stages of „getting“ Twitter (and I’m not sure, which stage I’m on).
• John Swansburg hates his iPad and gets a lot of sympathy.
• Matt Zoller Seitz takes a look at revisionist fiction.
• „Walk like an Egyptian“ stands in a line of ad-hoc protest songs.
• Has Language Log already found the correction of the year?
• 3D-Videomapped living is kinda cool.

• Laut Michael Reufsteck ist es Top, dass der Thommy geht.
• Schnell reagierende Werbeagenturen sind Gold wert.

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Stuff I learned this week – #46/10

• The best season of the film year, Awards Season has officially begun.
• „Die Zeit“ thinks differently about the iPad.
• Carey Mulligan will star in Baz Luhrmann’s The great Gatsby and Jason Solomons takes credit.
• A Man in Britain made excellent use of a paper’s front page.
• Hollywood has a Superhero Marketing Headache.
• Amazon ventures into the production business.
• The makers of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 had good reasons for passing on 3-D (but are still going to convert part 2).
• I can’t believe it’s not live action. (via Geekologie)
• Cowboys and Aliens goes together like Chocolate and Bananas.

• Christian Jakubetz kann auch unter verschwörerisch klingenden Überschriften viele kluge Dinge aufschreiben