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(via MacMerc) Mac fanboys were secretly quaking in their boots a few weeks ago when it was announced that TV funnyman Jerry Seinfeld was tapped to take part in a $300 million ad campaign on behalf of Micro$oft as a response to Apple's "Get a Mac" ads that have been chipping away at the software manufacturer and its Vista woes for well over a year now. If this (see…

 

(via AICN) Don LaFontaine, a.k.a., "The Voice", passed away yesterday in Los Angeles, and with him, ends an era of movie trailers. Most will know him from the recent Geico commercial, even though they have heard his voice for years. LaFontaine's career began as a recording engineer at National Recording Studios where he linked up with Floyd Paterson to produce promo spots for Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"…

 

(via AICN) MTV Multiplayer reports in an interview with prosaic director Brett Ratner that he'd love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let him. Guitar Hero, for those who don't know, is a game where a song plays and icons light up on the screen. The challenge is to hit the same color keys on your controller so the song doesn't sound…

 

The trailer for the new Ron Howard film, "Frost/Nixon" is now online (Yahoo! trailers link - HD available). I've been looking forward to this. Nixon/Watergate is a topic, which, for some undefinable reason, has always fascinated me, and Opie does good historical movies ("Apollo 13"). HOWEVER, boy, has the studio (Universal in this case) ruined things for me. WHY does EVERY trailer need to be…

 

(via Boing-Boing) There seems to be something in the air. I mean, how long has it been since the last big absurd claim that fooled some of the top web news sites? At any rate, a lot of sites are reporting that the body of a "bigfoot" has been found by these guys in Georgia (the Georgia Bigfoot Trackers!) who are planning a press…

 

(via AICN) This is an interesting story and one that I hope is true. It broke, more or less, on the Horror Drunx website today, in a post by "Sid Terror" and tells the hugely-detailed and highly entertaining tale of his stumbling upon a print of this long-lost Tod Browning-Lon Chaney classic in a Hollywood vault back in the late 80's, fully intact and in good condition. What…

 

(via AICN) The "Watchmen" trailer that accompanies this weekend's premiere of "Dark Knight" is now online ... sort of. There doesn't seem to be any kind of official page, but here's a link to the 720p HD version. And it's a pretty cool trailer, seemingly in keeping with the spirit and feel of the original paper version, but it did lose me at "From the visionary director of…

 

Already predisposed to despise this remake — the most pointless remake in the pointless history of remakes — I imagine (judging from the trailer) this is how the high-level conversation went, browsing through a glossy, hardcover picture-book of classic films: "Here's one. Ooooh look." "That guy has black hair, I'm seeing Keanu Reeves." "What's it called?" ... "'The Day the Earth Stood Still'." "Wha? 'The Day After Tomorrow'?" "No, 'The Day the Earth…

 

It seems like all I do on this blog these days is report the increasingly sad news of those filmmaking greats who are no longer with us. Yesterday, at the age of 73, director-producer-actor, Sydney Pollack joined their ranks. I have found myself, over the years, explaining to people new to the film industry who Sydney Pollack was, and with great confusion, they try to understand how this…

 

(via AICN) Here is definitely a petition worth signing. I honestly cannot believe that Jack Pierce does not already have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but there you go. Pierce, in case you don't know, is the genius behind the most iconic horror images in popular culture, namely, "The Mummy", "The Wolfman", "The Invisible Man", and, of course, "Frankenstein" ... to name only a…