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Apartment Zero (1988) dir. Martin Donovan Colin Firth, Hart Bochner

[brokehorrorfan]

Death Becomes Her will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 22 via Scream Factory. The 1992 black comedy won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump) directs from a script by Martin Donovan (Apartment Zero) and David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man). Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, and Isabella Rossellini.

Death Becomes Her has been newly transferred in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative with Dolby Vision. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Making of Death Becomes Her - Interviews with director Robert Zemeckis, writer David Koepp, director of photography Dean Cundey, production designer Rick Carter, and special effects artists Lance Anderson and David Anderson

Vintage making-of featurette

Theatrical trailer

Photo gallery

Two narcissistic archrivals (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) discover the ultimate accessory – a potion that will keep them forever young – when they meet a mysterious enchantress (Isabella Rossellini) with deep ties to the Hollywood elite. But they get more than they bargain for when their newfound beauty only intensifies their vanity – and rivalry.

Pre-order Death Becomes Her.

[geekcavepodcast]

Black Bag Trailer

George Woodhouse and his wife Kathryn are spies. "When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country." (Focus Features)

Black Bag stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Regé-Jean Page, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, and Pierce Brosnan. The film is directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp.

Black Bag hits theaters on March 14, 2025.

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𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗼'𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘆 1996

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Stir of Echoes (1999)

Directed by David Koepp

Cinematography by Fred Murphy

[raimispiderman]

The original David Koepp script for Spider-Man (2002) is on the internet! (Thanks to @devoutlywished for linking me to it!) You can check out where the seeds for the story we know and love came from. Without spoiling anything, there's bits in there that would be cut and used for Spider-Man 2 as well.

Well worth a read, and also worth noting,

that some parts did not age well.

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Brian De Palma during production of Carlito’s Way, spring 1993

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Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

11/03/2024

Jurassic Park is a 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton.

Spielberg purchased the rights to the book before it was published in 1990, and Crichton was hired to create a film adaptation. David Koepp wrote the final screenplay, in which many of the violent features of the book and much of the narrative part were lost, also making numerous changes to the characters. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios to create the animatronic subjects that would bring the dinosaurs to the screen to interact with Industrial Light & Magic's nascent computer-generated imagery technique. If Tron was the first Disney film to use the then newborn computer graphics, Jurassic Park is considered the first big budget film to make use of CGI.

Paleontologist Jack Horner helped the authors and the team responsible for the special effects to make what they were working with as truthful as possible (although the whole appearance of the dinosaurs turns out to be partly wrong due to subsequent changes in evolutionary theories, in particular way in Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus). Filming lasted from August 24 to November 30, 1992 on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu, California, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

Jurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993 in Washington, and was released on June 11 in the United States. The film was a huge success with audiences: against a budget of $63 million, it grossed over $914 million worldwide in its first theatrical release, surpassing E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Titanic in 1997.

[brokehorrorfan]

Snake Eyes will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 17 via Kino Lorber. The 1998 thriller is directed by Brian De Palma (Carrie, Mission: Impossible, Scarface).

Nicolas Cage stars with Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, John Heard, Stan Shaw, and Kevin Dunn. David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible) wrote the script from a story he conceived with De Palma.

The film has been newly restored in 4K from the origian camera negative with Dolby Vision/HDR. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (new)

Theatrical Trailer

Flamboyant Atlantic City police detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) has come to watch the fight and cash in on the hectic betting action. Suddenly, gunfire cuts down a ringside government official, and 14,000 fans become 14,000 suspects. What eyewitnesses saw, what a casino-wide spycam network reveals and what a mysterious woman in white (Carla Gugino, Sin City) knows—all lead to a shattering truth Santoro does not want to believe.

Pre-order Snake Eyes.

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Me: Just trying to get some fucking editing done The Other Parts of my brain: 🎶doo-doo-doo-DOO DOO DOO🎶 HEY! HEY YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVENT SEEN IN A WHILE??? secret window. you should def put that on. its about a writer who loses their mind! perfect for you today eh? huh, huh?? *elbows me* Me: uuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Will it get you to shut up? The Other Parts: already quoting Secret Window "You Stole MAI StoRAHY!"

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Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too. 

Find the episode webpage at: Episode 67 - The Encased Mosquito.

In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest Dr. Mark A. Loewen joins the show to chat with me about:

the formation of the Rocky Mountains, Laramidia and its connection to Pangea, how Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops benefited from the climatic and geographic changes of the Late Cretaceous, and the new paper on Lokiceratops rangiformis; its discovery, its purchase and new home in Denmark at the Museum of Evolution in Denmark, hyperdiversity of macroherbivorous dinosaurs endemic to particular areas in Larimidia, finding artists to portray the animal, naming new dinosaurs, declaring a new clade albertaceratopsini, naming conventions, centrosaurs in Jurassic Park like styracosaurus, nasutoceratops and sinoceratops, the differences between chasmosaurs and centrosaurs, thinking of dinosaurs like centorsaurines as if they were birds, and how the large cavities in ceratopsian skulls may have impacted their lives, centrosaurine chewing, reverse engineering a chicken, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

Diuqin lechiguanae gen. et sp. nov., a new unenlagiine (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina. (Diuqin lechiguanae)

Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centrosaurine dinosaurs. (Lokiceratops rangiformis)

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Sally Ride, and the Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

This week’s subject is a little review of Loy's Procedure, used as a back-up plan for extracting dinosaur DNA at Jurassic Park. 

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 2 "The Encased Mosquito."

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to try and teach a ceratopsian to chew gum.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

Thank you!

The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.ca or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on twitter at @RogersRyan22 

Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!