{"id":1385,"date":"2007-08-28T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/newsbites-bean-horseman-wilson-piracy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T23:38:00","slug":"newsbites-bean-horseman-wilson-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/08\/newsbites-bean-horseman-wilson-piracy.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: Bean! Horseman! Wilson! Piracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And now it\u2019s time for yet another batch of news quickies.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> The New York Times<\/a><\/i> looks at why Mr. Bean\u2019s Holiday<\/a><\/i> failed to get a bigger audience in the United States, while the Globe and Mail<\/a><\/i> looks at why Mr. Bean\u2019s Holiday<\/i> was the #1 movie in Canada this past weekend. Incidentally, Mr. Bean\u2019s Holiday<\/i> has already earned over $189 million overseas, which currently makes it #9 on the overseas chart for the year and, once the North American figures are taken into account, #15 on the worldwide chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> has a few more details on The Fourth Horseman<\/a><\/i>, and boy does this movie sound bizarre:<\/p>\n

The film centers on a young priest sent by his church\u2019s secret order to kill a teenage girl. She is believed to be the future mother of the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, destined to join siblings War, Pestilence and Famine in destroying the world. But when the priest becomes romantically involved with his target and she becomes pregnant, he\u2019s forced to face the possibility that he may have spawned the child from hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me get this straight: The mother is a teenager and she\u2019s already got three children named War, Pestilence and Famine!?<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Matt Zoller Seitz<\/a> at The House Next Door has a great post up in which he reminisces about fellow Dallas native Owen Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Studio Briefing<\/a> summarizes a news story to the effect that new Canadian anti-piracy laws<\/a> are having little effect:<\/p>\n

New Canadian laws imposing greater restrictions and penalties on theater patrons camcording movies from their seats have apparently had little effect in Montreal, where much of the illegal camcording<\/a> takes place, according to Bloomberg News. Theater chain owner Vince Guzzo told the wire service, \u201cI caught four people trying to camcord Pirates of the Caribbean. \u2026 There are two types of people doing this: One type does it for kicks, then you have the professional criminal.\u201d But Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa professor and specialist in Internet law, noted that Hollywood continues to pile up enormous profits despite the piracy. \u201cIf camcording is a problem, it\u2019s a very small problem.\u201d And even those who acknowledge downloading movies illegally insist that they avoid the camcorded versions. An employee of a Montreal DVD shop told Bloomberg News: \u201cAnytime I\u2019ve seen a downloaded movie that\u2019s a pirated copy, it\u2019s really good quality, and those can only come from within the industry. \u2026 Most people aren\u2019t going to watch camera jobs because they\u2019re really bad quality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Zack Snyder and Alex Tse, the director and writer of the upcoming film adaptation of Watchmen<\/a><\/i>, are also working on a new adaptation of Ray Bradbury\u2019s The Illustrated Man<\/i>, a 1951 book that was previously adapted<\/a> in 1969.<\/p>\n

6.<\/a> The New York Times<\/a><\/i> reports that Shyam Benegal is going to direct a movie about the life of Buddha, based in part on the work of a scholar named Nimal D\u2019Silva. I have no idea what connection, if any, this film has to other recently announced Buddha biopics being developed by B.K. Modi<\/a> \/ David S. Ward<\/a> and Pan Nalin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7.<\/a> That Bill Maher \u2013 Larry Charles documentary on religion<\/a> has a working title \u2014 Religulous<\/i>, a fusion of \u201creligion\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d \u2014 and a trailer for it will play at the Toronto International Film Festival<\/a>, which will also host a panel discussion with Maher and Charles. Meanwhile, IGN.com<\/a> has posted the film\u2019s first still:<\/p>\n

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