movie news: Paranormal Activity 3 and Noah

Roll up, roll up! This is your weekly round up of film news which I may or may not have had time to talk about on Cinerama on Phantom 105.2

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This week I only talked about one of these but I talked a lot about it. So. That’s something. I might talk about one or two of the other two next week. That’s only if I can’t find any interesting news this week though… and there’s always something going on in the World o’ Movies!

release date: 21 Oct 2011

Last week they released the first full trailer and now they have released a couple more of their “viral” clips… but the big thing they are talking about is their Tweet to see it First social media campaign. It’s an interesting concept and is keeping in theme with their Demand it! campaigns for the first two films.

The idea is, you go to the website and use their functionality to tweet the message:

Tweet to see it First! Bring Paranormal Activity 3 to your city early. #ParanormalActivity #Dublin Vote: http://www.paranormalactivity3.co.uk

The top 20 cities at the end of the campaign will get special previews of the film. It’s actually finishing today and Dublin needs something like 1600 more tweets to get into the top 20 so I guess there’ll be no previews for us… but I thought it was an interesting way of a company trying to engage with fans through social media.

Personally… I don’t like the Paranormal Activity (review #1, review #2) films that much. It’s strange really. I really like the stories in the films and I love the idea that they’re going back to look at the sisters’ childhood in this one but… I just don’t like the execution at all. Oh well.

As always, I hold out hope for horror, so I’ll be along to this one for sure.

planned release date: TBC

Last week also saw the announcement that Darren Aronofsky and Paramount Pictures and New Regency will be teaming up to film a big screen version of the story of Noah’s Ark.

Aronofsky has said that this the story of Noah has been a interest of his for a long time. In school he even won a competition with a poem he wrote about the end of the world through Noah’s eyes. Back in 2007 he said of the project:

“So I think it’s got these big, big themes that connect with us. Noah was the first environmentalist. He’s a really interesting character. Hopefully they’ll let me make it. Noah was the first person to plant vineyards and drink wine and get drunk. It’s there in the Bible – it was one of the first things he did when he reached land. There was some real survivor’s guilt going on there. He’s a dark, complicated character.“

and when this latest announcment was made he said…

“Since I was a kid, I have been moved and inspired by the story of Noah and his family’s journey. The imaginations of countless generations have sparked to this epic story of faith. It’s my hope that I can present a window into Noah’s passion and perseverance for the silver screen“

Aronofsky currently has a few projects on his plate and this one is tentatively listed as a 2014 release so it’ll be a while before we see. Unsurprisingly so, there are scant details about it, however Christian Bale is one of the names being bandied about for the project. Exciting! More solidly it is also being reported that Aronosky and his writing partner, Ari Handel, from The Fountain have a finished draft and are handing it over to John Logan (Gladiator, Last Samurai) for re-working.

I shall keep an eye on the proceedings and be sure to update when there are more details


That’s all for this week, hopefully I’ll be a bit quicker with the news next week