Good news if you were unable to get tickets for the screening of MOON at the BFI Southbank on Tuesday, August 31st. More tickets are now available as explained by the BFI:-
Moon: Tue 31 Aug 18:20 NFT1
We are delighted to announce that director Duncan Jones will take part in a Q&A following this screening. Gavin Rothery, Concept Artist, VFX Supervisor; Hideki Arichi, Art Director and Barrett Heathcote, VFX Editor will join Duncan Jones in the Q&A following this screening. The Q&A will be hosted by Damon Wise.
Due to overwhelming demand, this screening will now take place in NFT1 (from NFT2).
Better start brushing down the tux (or Selk suits) chaps
On the 28th & 29th of August, you get to see MOON on the big screen as part of the BFI Film Science: Future Human season, this is a mighty fine thing of course…BUT! On Tuesday 31st of August you can see MOON & Take part in a Q&A with Director Duncan Jones, Concept Artist and VFX Supervisor Gavin Rothery, VFX Editor Barrett Heathcote and Art Director Hideki Arichi.
MOON & 2001: a space odyssey - at the Prince Charles Cinema
Unable to attend the fantastic double bill of MOON and 2001: a space odyssey at the Prince Charles Cinema in London last night (4th August 2010). Had a table tennis tournament with GERTY. Luckily we had our old friend CaptainDisco in attendance to tell us a bit about the evening…
MOON and Source Code Director Duncan Jones took time out of his busy schedule to do a little e-mail interview for us last night. There is still a large amount of interest in MOON, and anticipation for Duncan’s next film Source Code, with Jake Gyllenhaal. Hopefully we asked the right questions, and got the answers some of you may have been looking for…
For all of you that could not find it, or all of you who did not even know it was there, we are pleased to present…The MOON DVD Easter Egg guide.
From Main Menu > Special Features > Trailers (or Previews) > Navigate down the list until you highlight ‘Special Features” then go RIGHT, hit enter / ok (or just click on GERTY’s face if you are that way inclined, be nice though)
Will pop up the Blu-Ray one next, which is slighty different (navigation wise, not the Egg of Easter itself)
Figures released this morning by the UK Film Council put the Best British Independent Film of 2009, MOON, in the top 20 box office for both UK Films, and UK Independent Film.
Fantastic for a little British Sci-Fi, with limited release, and limited promotion. Despite this, MOON has continued to perform well in theatres around the world, currently on general release in Germany (1 year after original UK release) and approaching $10 Million gross worldwide (src Box Office Mojo)
A lot of MOON’s success has been down to incredibly good word of mouth, and support from movie sites, and the movie blogging community. Thanks to everyone who went out and bought a ticket
The Space Frontier Foundation have awarded MOON their 2010 ‘Vision Of The Future’ Award.
From the SFF site:-
“The winners of the Space Frontier Foundation’s “Best Presentation of Space” and “Vision of the Future” awards have brought the possibilities and realities of space exploration to the public, sparking imaginations around the world. Fiction and non-fiction features play a role in informing and inspiring mankind to pursue its future in space and with these awards, contributions to both are recognized.
Great news for those hankering to see MOON again on the big screen, with not one, but TWO events for those in the Capital.
First up is a very tasty double bill of MOON & 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Prince Charles Cinema, August 4th 2010. With MOON on at 18:20 followed by 2001 at 20:30.
MOON & 2001 Double Bill At The Prince Charles Cinema
As if that wasn’t good enough, MOON will also be back on the big screen later in August at the BFI Southbank as part of their ‘Film Science: Future Human’ season. Screening on 28th/29th/30th August 2010, booking details here.
Indigo Magazine feature an interview with MOON Director Duncan Jones in the filmwelt section of this months issue, ahead of the July 15th cinema release of his first feature in Germany.
Click on the logo above, or image below to go to the full interview, or download the complete July issue in PDF format here
Covering the making of MOON, the influences of classic Sci-Fi, and the involvement of Sam Rockwell, Duncan also talks about his time living in Berlin in the 1970′s, and hints that he may return in the near future to make another film…
Indigo Filmwelt interview with Duncan Jones July 2010
And nice to see another photo of Mr Jones by the lovely Rodene Ronquillo
Art of the Title are “A compendium and leading web resource of film and television title design from around the world. We honor the artists who design excellent title sequences. We discuss and display their work with a desire to foster more of it, via stills and video links, interviews, creator notes, and user comments“
And today, they feature MOON, where they summarise the titles as:
The hypnotic, mounded magnificence of Duncan Jones’ “Moon” is the setting of a kind of space-drawn samhain built to support the machines, here harvesters of Helium-3, the latest source of our terrestrial dependency.
Affecting documentary -all of it stock footage- is unveiled as something corporate and cankerous and shortly gives way to the inviting lightness of Clint Mansell’s score. The title card features an impressive use of perspective. Placement and persistence of type domineers the narrative as something akin to Kevin Spacey’s lilt which plays like HAL 9000 but follows its own heart.
They even have the entire MOON title sequence for us to view online now, in a variety of formats (SD & HD Mov, nice html5, and handy iPod/iPhone mp4) so pop over and have a look HERE.
