New Restaurant Comedy Not Exactly A Recruitment Drive…

Sigh. When are we going to get our own Top Gun?

Scout Presents Advance Reveal Of “Where The Wild Things Are”

At 7pm on October 14th, two days before the world premiere, Scout, Jack FM, and The Georgia Straight will present an advance screening of the highly anticipated Spike Jonze film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s timeless children’s book, Where The Wild Things Are.

For our dear readers, we have a whole bunch of double passes to give away, starting tonight. Check after the leap for details and the trailer… Read more

Score A Double Pass To Watch Matt Damon In “The Informant!”

We are giving away double passes to The Informant! to ten subscribers of “The Dope”, our super extra double cool weekly newsletter. Our readers are a cultured lot, so just tell us (in the comments) the name of the composer whose music plays at the start of the trailer. If your email address matches the one that you subscribed with and you’re one of the first ten to do so – bingo – you win. If you haven’t yet signed up, then this would be the very definition of an opportune time.

Watch/listen to the trailer and comment after the leap… Read more

Facebook Film Gets Green Light, Will Star Justin Timberlake…

I’m having a very hard time believing this, but it’s no joke. From the seldom referred-to Scout Department of Oh Hell No comes terrifying news that a dramatic, feature length film about the formation of Facebook has been greenlit by Columbia Pictures. For real. David Fincher will direct “The Social Network”, written by Aaron Sorkin, the wordsmith behind the multi-Emmy winning series,”The West Wing”. Variety has details on the cast:

Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg as the social network became a financial juggernaut.

Sounds like a romantic comedy.

10 Reasons To Look Forward To “Where The Wild Things Are”…

page details from Maurice Sendak's children's classic, "Where The Wild Things Are"

Saki Knafo wrote a fantastic feature for the New York Times last week on director Spike Jonze’s trials and tribulations making a full length adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s timeless children’s masterpiece, Where The Wild Things. The book has sold more than 10 million copies, which makes it just about as daunting to turn into a film as Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. It’s also a book that conveys pound after pound of pure 9 year old feeling in a mere 10 sentences, which – you’d have to think – would make the task doubly tricky. Read more

Will Applauded Documentary on Advertising Ever Arrive In Van?

Creative types rejoice! Art & Copy, a widely hailed, no-holds-barred documentary on marketing and advertising, gets released tomorrow. Read more

“Tron” Sequel Set To Spawn New Generation of Virgin Nerds…

Feast your eyes (and pre-pubescent memories) on the trailer for the long awaited Tron: Legacy. The movie – due in 2010 – is a sequel to the 1982 sci-fi cult classic film Tron. Bonus: not only do light cycles make a reappearance, it also stars Jeff Bridges. Yup, The Dude is reprising his role (28 years later!) as Kevin Flynn (makes me really wanna nerd it up, maybe break out my Monster Manual and my 24-sided dice).

Watch the trailer to the original after the jump. Read more

“Coffee & Cigarettes” With Bill Murray And The Wutang Clan

Vignette starring Bill Murray, GZA and RZA from Jim Jarmusch’s 2002 cult classic, Coffee & Cigarettes.

Trailer For Upcoming Green Film “No Impact Man” Released…

…and it looks like a total keeper. It’s a doc that follows New York City writer/historian Colin Beavan and his family as they try to change their lifestyles so as to have no net impact on the planet. Read more

Hey Canadians: “Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?”

Essential viewing from Toronto-based Eat Real, Eat Local. Read more

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