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According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Tim Burton has chosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (pictured above with Xavier Samuel in “September”) to star in his big-screen adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” for Disney pictures.
Who watches the Watchmen? Plenty of people do and the buzz around the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ popular, award-winning graphic novel has just been turned up a notch with a slew of Watchmen goodies hitting the net.
The Mail Online has a feature on the true-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland at the hands of her son Antony Baekeland in 1972.
Great Britain’s Channel 4 has painstakingly recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece “The Shining”, complete with look-a-likes of the crew and cast members including Shelley Duvall, for a TV ad to promote a season of the director’s films.
The 65-second promotional spot has been filmed as a one-take tracking shot through the recreation of “The Shining” set. Click here to revisit the Overlook Hotel.
In related Kubrick news, Typographica has an article on Kubrick’s favorite font, Futura. The font, which Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of “Eyes Wide Shut” and “2001″, is said to have been one of the master filmmaker’s favorite typefaces. The article quotes from an original story published at The Guardian.
