Trailer for the original Alien.  Gotta love the out of context cat and the subliminal shot of girl in panties.

Bloody-disgusting is claiming a reliable source who says that a remake of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien is on the way.  From 20th Century Fox.  Of course.

The plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship.  Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch [hee hee!] to get beyond the camera [sic] and bring a new Ripley to the big screen.  Who is Carl Rinsch? I’m being told he’s a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake. [B-D]

If the idea that Ridley Scott is producing makes you feel better, keep in mind, Ridley Scott is also making a movie about Monopoly.  And it’s Fox.  $20 bucks says Ripley is played by Jessica Alba and the alien raps.

G4 recently debuted this trailer for Pandorum, starring Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid…

…as two spacemen who awaken aboard their ship with no memory of their mission or identities. The film opens in theaters on September 4th, 2009.

So, aliens on a spaceship, huh?  How many times have we made this movie now?  I realize there aren’t any new concepts, but at least maybe we could combine old ones?  Like maybe they’re on a spaceship full of aliens… and one of the aliens has to tell his parents he’s gay.  Or maybe they’re on a spaceship full of aliens… and they entertain the nazis by playing the flute.

UPDATE: Ufford over at WarmingGlow just alerted me to the presence of Cam Gigandet. That confirms it, this will suck. Cam Gigandet = suck. It’s science.

Jesus, it’s about time.  A week after his shanty got demolished and three months after both the filmmakers and an Indian housing authority promised him a house, Slumdog actor Azharudin Ismail finally has a new home.

Director Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson flew into Mumbai.  Smiling and hugging the children, Boyle said a home had been bought for Ismail, 9, who played the character of Salim as a child. He added they would soon buy one for Ali as well, who plays the young Latika.

The “Jai Ho” trust, named after the film’s award-winning track, and set up by Boyle and Colson, is meant to pay for the education and basic living costs of Ismail and Ali until they turn 18. A director for the trust said the apartment for Ismail was “comfortable, in a good neighborhood (and) near his school” and cost “upwards of 2 million rupees” ($42,000).

Boyle, who came under fire for not doing enough for the children who lived in squalor despite the film’s success, blamed the media for raising the families’ expectations. “Inevitably, the tension and pressure is media generated,” he said, after greeting Ali and Ismail with a hug.  “They were given access to a world, an extraordinary and glamorous world, and they understandably want their lives to be completely transformed,” Boyle said. “The homes are a concern. That is one of the reasons why we built the trust.” [THR]

Boyle’s got a point.  These kids didn’t have huge parts in the movie.  You pay people for their work – just because your movie does well doesn’t mean you have to go back and pay your extras’ mortgages.  Really it’s India that’s the problem.  You can’t claim the kids as national heroes and then knock their house down and then demand that the west give you more money..  Even in North Korea they give you a shiny uniform.

If you told me you wanted to make another Bad Lieutenant – Abel Ferrara’s 1992 classic starring Harvey Keitel – I’d say there’s no reason to do that.  But if you told me Werner Herzog would direct and it would star Xzibit and Val Kilmer, I’d say, “…I’m listening.”   Anyway, they’re calling this one Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (watch the trailer below).  It ponders the question, “Can we recreate the magic of Wicker Man if we do it deliberately?”

Asked why Nic Cage was right for the part, Werner Herzog said (I imagine), “I choose za Cage, because ven I look eento za forehead, I don’t zee za facial expression or zee human feelinks – za happiness, za sadness, za empazee – I zee nuzzink.  I look eento za forehead oont zere ees nuzzink but blackness.  Za cold eendifference of muzzer nature.  Ees beautiful.”

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This is an Iron Gym parody from the same guy who did Keyboard Gato. It’s not quite as good as Keyboard Gato, but nothing is. Here are some links:

• Meet the Philosophical Bouncer.  Or don’t, what do I care? |CollegeHumor|
• Three clips from the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. |ScreenJunkies|
• Bioshock will soon be a book.  Because gamers love to read. |G4|
• Three hospitalized in cheese rolling accident. Meanwhile, I just had a cheese cutting accident.  Time to change pants.  |Asylum|
• Seven things you say while assembling something from IKEA.  |HolyTaco|
• I hate NASCAR but I like watching things crash. Thanks, YouTube. |AllleftTurns|
• Here’s that Green Lantern fan-made trailer everyone’s watching. Way to keep yourselves occupied, nerds. |FangirlMag|
• Something something Taylor Swift.  Who the hell is this chick again? |DailyFill|
• Another day, another Megan Fox photoshoot.  |Celebridiot|
• Mr. T likes to sing.  Points for spirit. |WithLeather|
• 20 bizarre Star Wars ads. |Gunaxin|