We lost another genre great this week — filmmaker Dan O’Bannon died Thursday after a long battle with Crohn’s disease. He was 63. Mr. O’Bannon was a particular inspiration to the Appy crew. Probably our first encounter with his work was seeing Dark Star at Los Angeles’ Nuart Theater in our teenage years … years [...]

They’ve put new lights by our office. I think they’re supposed to be Christmas lights. But really. Orange Christmas lights? Blue? This place gives me the willies. I keep thinking I’ve wandered into an outtake from Suspiria. (image snatched from best-horror-movies.com … check out their excellent Top 100, too) I’ve written before about how we [...]

I was reading about the grim prospects of Fox’s Australia over at Advertising Age, and it started me thinking on movie marketing, and how it differs from videogames. (sourced from Welt Online, but you bet your boots it came from the Australia movie site) In movie marketing, they aim for the fabled four-quandrant movie … [...]