Lovely gear from our friend @hip_priest_kobe promoting MOON in advance of it’s imminent Japanese release. Those booking tickets in advance will receive (as has Hip Priest) a lovely magnet,and a crystal charm thingy (very popular over there I understand?) Have a look.
If we can get hold of any, we’ll pop up a competition / give away kind of thing if you like? Thanks Hip Priest 
Source Code is now halfway through it’s shooting schedule. From a set shrouded in secrecy, we can only piece together fragments of fact from the tweets of Director Duncan Jones. So what do we know?
March 23rd – Russell Peters wraps. Canadian comedian & actor Russell had to re-schedule live dates on a sold out tour to be able to meet the shooting schedule for his extended role in SC, such was his enthusiasm for the project. Luckily for all those RP fans out there, he has been released back into the wild, to resume his tour. As the only free man from the SC set, we have been in touch to ask him a few questions. so look out for that in the near future (unless transmissions are intercepted)
From Russell’s Twitter account:
After March 24th we start to see more choo choo business going on, Duncan has mentioned previously that they had a full size train built to play with, I understand from sources that this was no Hornby boys dream situation, but like proper, for the film.
From Duncan’s Twitter account:
So there ya go, a fact no-one else was aware of, Jake Gyllenhaal can fit inside an Alienware desktop PC, some talent in addition to the acting and Kung-Fu! They do look pretty big though? Watch out David Blaine!
Friday 26th March 2010 seemed to get Mr.Jones excited, in a breaking stuff & blowing stuff up type way.
From Duncan’s Twitter account:
JAKE JUMPING OUT OF A MOVING TRAIN? What the hell would that look like? Well, luckily I have a 7 year old illustrator to hand for situations like this, after entering a trance and channelling residual vision of the events from Duncan’s eyes, via touching the tweet, we have this.
Pretty convincing I think you will agree, although I am a bit concerned about the exploding body bits. If you are reading this Duncan, maybe you would care to comment on what, at the moment, is kinda made up?
And what better way to end the week, than with a train related pun? So here it is.
From Duncan’s Twitter account:
End of day 20! half way through Source Code shoot & having a… Blast! (lame explosion pun intended.)
TTFN
You’ve seen the pictures, you’ve read the review, now, for your delight & delectation, we present the film (jigsaws, mugs & bathmats are currently at the prototype stage)
We were extremely fortunate at last Wednesdays Jameson Cult FIlm Club screening of MOON at the Royal Institution, to have some very wonderful friends, and fantastic guests. So, here we have a small film including interviews with some of the key production crew from MOON. Gavin Rothery (VFX Supervisor), Hideki Arichi (Art Director) & Barrett Heathcote (VFX Editor) and a taste of what the event was like. All filmed AND edited by the very funky Mr James Cuff, interviews (although you can’t hear his dulcet tones in this film) by Ben Mortimer (maybe we’ll put some more stuff up soon) Enjoy!
News from Screen Daily article by Jason Gray “Sony plans innovative Twitter campaign for Moon in Japan”
MOON fans in Japan are being given the opportunity to take part in an innovative Twitter campaign promoting the April release of Duncan Jones’ debut feature.
From midnight on 25th March, until midnight on 31st March, the first 1000 Twitter users who follow the account promoting MOON & tweet using a specific hash tag ( #moon_otoko ) will be given special access to view footage from the movie online.
Users will be selected, and then be able to view the 1st 18 minutes of the film online on 5th April, while tweeting along discussing film at the same time.
Great to see MOON continue it’s journey around the world, and certainly seems to be getting some cool attention over in Japan.
MOON opens in Japan on 10th of April, see HERE for our previous coverage on the Japanese launch.
And maybe if you click on the image below, you’ll get to speak to GERTY
This post has been a long time coming (well since last Wednesday 17th March) because it’s been quite hard to know where to start. Such was the fantasticyness of the Jameson Cult Film screening of MOON at the Royal Institution in London.
As you may recall, we first raised a call to arms back in January 2010 when we discovered via our old friend Ben Mortimer that Jamesons were running a vote off between MOON, Donny Darko & War Of The Worlds (1953). The prize being a screening of the winning film at a very prestigious venue, The Royal Institution, London. So, we spread the word via all means possible to encourage all MOON fans to vote, and blow me down, we scored a massive 59% of the vote and won!!. Our gobs was smackered, and we started to get in touch with the wonderful Jameson account Manager Mr. Mauricio Samayoa from We Are Social to find out the what was what’s.
Now, we knew MOON was popular, and as all true cult films do, it has quickly grown beyond it’s initial theatrical and home releases to build a fantastic following of lovely people (like you, you’re my favourite btw), but I don’t think even Jamesons were prepared for the demand on tickets, as word spread on our platforms of choice (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs) the initial demand for ticket registration caused the hosting server to take a breather & nip out for a cup of tea FANTASTIC
The fantastic team at Jameson Cult Film Club got going with making arrangements, and as much as we were aware of the venu and some details of the evenings events, there were some suprises (from both sides) that elevated the evening beyond what any of us could have hoped for.
Do you mind if I takes a breather? Thanks, I’ll just grab a mug of splosh, you have a look at these rather good pics from @unclewilco and I’ll get back to you just underneath in 5 mins? Ta 
Good aren’t they? Hopefully give you an idea of the effort that both Jamesons & The Royal Institute went to, to create a very special evening.
We all started arriving at around 18:30 for a 19:00 start with a great buzz building outside, and what an honour it was to enter the building that has born witness to some of the greatest scientific discoveries for more than 200 years! Members of the public entering these hallowed halls is no surprise however, as the RI supports public engagement with science through a programme of lectures, the most famous being those you may have seen (or been lucky to attend) on the telly box at Christmas, funnily enough called the ‘Royal Institution Christmas Lectures’ Check out their site for events and details on the most famous exhibit, a reconstruction of Michael Faraday’s laboratory.
Upon ascending a curving marble staircase to the 1st floor, it soon became clear why we were there though, corridors lit in a mysterious spacey green tint, beautiful space ladies with silver hair directing us towards the Space Bar where we were met by a superb array of Jameson Whiskey beverages, I plumped for the ginger, but I did hear mention of some kind of pickle licking thing en all? It was not all guests though. When Jamesons put on these events, they pull out all the stops, we had surly looking Sam Bell 2 walking about (chap refused to crack despite being provoked) and a sad Sam 1 reclined on a sofa looking worse for wear (he was also spotted later tending his plants) This all added to the atmosphere of the evening, along with the decking out of the place as MOON base Sarang, entrances to the main auditorium labelled BAY 1>3. Plenty of Lunar Industries signs up as well to make it clear where we were.
The building of atmosphere continued into the main auditorium. As we took our seats and looked up at th screen we were greeted by the site of an astronaut suspended from the ceiling, an animatronic one we all assumed, until he was lowered to the floor and made his exit, in slow motion, zero gravity style, big applause.
Lights down and we were eased into the screening itself with a support short ‘Blake’s Junction 7‘ very funny, disturbed by my feelings towards MacKenzie Crook as Servalan though!
Then we got the main feature, Duncan Jones’ MOON, and time to sit back and marvel at the achievement of team MOON, to make such a fantastic film, with such tight budget constraints, and create an instant cult classic. I also had to prevent myself from tapping MOON’s very own Benedict Wong on the shoulder each time he appeared on screen to say “that’s you that is” as he sat in front of me, cause, well, he knew that
Was great to discover afterwards that 2 of the peeps I went in with were seeing MOON for the first time (lucky buggers) and met many more afterwards the same, all mighty impressed with the film, and Sam Rockwell’s stunning performance
So with all the effort and surprises from Jamesons and the fantastically helpful Mauricio Samayoa how could it get any better after that? Meeting people, that’s what. Sharing a drink and a real life chat with some of the wonderful tweeters and bloggers we’ve all been talking to about MOON for the last year, up to this point.
But most of all, we were honoured to have MOON cast & crew with us for the screening as well.
So I’d like to thank them all especially for coming,to the screening, icing on the cake (to go with the moon dust the Jamesons ladies was dishing out)
I’m sure I’ve missed stuff out, it was an incredible evening and i can’t recommend attending a future Jamesons Cult Film Club enough, they really love film, and go above and beyond to provide a very memorable experience. Follow them on Twitter for future announcements, and check their site for details on previous / future screenings HERE
And what a wonderful experience it was to hook up with people through social networks and combine with minimal communication to end up with such a FANTASTIC evening.
We also managed to catch up with the MOON crew for a video interview conducted by Ben Mortimer and filmed by James Cuff which is being edited as I type, so we’ll wang that up later if that’s ok.
Thanks to EVERYONE involved in the evening, especially all of you who loved MOON, voted, and came to the event
‘Source Code‘ Mock Up by @malusman
Filming of Duncan Jones new feature ‘Source Code’ has completed it’s first week already! Week two will begin tomorrow, but how’s it going so far? Luckily Duncan has popped out a couple of fresh tweets this afternoon to let us know.
So! 1st week on Source Code: built a train, and it’s a beauty, but a bugger to shoot on. JG & MM are such a good laugh! Love em to bits.
JG & MM being Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan, ‘Source Code’ also stars Jeffrey Wright and Vera Farmiga, and will also feature the recently announced Russell Peters.
Jones continued:
SC has more humour in it than we saw on the page, & that’s been great fun! Shot some of our effects tests & they’re wonderfully horrible!
Additional humour may well come from Russell Peters extended scenes, as his official site press release states:
The reason for the re-scheduling is that Russell has landed a role in the Sci-fi action movie, Source Code. The film is set to be directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) and star Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) and Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye). Originally scheduled to start shooting after the Australian tour, Russell’s shoot dates were moved-up when the producers decided to expand his role in the film with additional scenes and dialogue. Russell must now report to set on February 23rd until the end of March. (Which also means that his Las Vegas show on March 27th will need to be re-scheduled).
So, there ya go, sounds like all on track, and building up a nice head of steam 
We’ll keep you updated as and when we hear owt else.
More on the Kermode Uncut Blog
Duncan Jones has received, perhaps the highest accolade in the British film industry. The coveted Kermode award for Best Director, for MOON.
Although extremely busy on the first week of filming his second feature ‘Source Code‘ in Montreal, Canada, Jones reacted almost immediately to the news of this fantastic achievement on his Twitter account:
Thats a very special one! And the awards a looker… A model of Ed Sullivan!
For those of you who are not aware of Mark Kermode, what better introduction than that what they put on his BBC Blog HERE:
Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark Kermode is the UK’s leading film critic.
He is resident film critic on Radio Five Live’s Mayo Show and on the News Channel, is a presenter on The Culture Show and often appears on BBC Newsnight Review.
Kermode has been a big supporter of MOON, interviewing Duncan on BBC Radio 5Live at the Edinburgh Film Festival back in June 2009 prior to the films UK July launch.
Wittertainment Live image by Martin Burns from Flickr
Kermode’s admiration for Jones’ work recently caused him to play a version of ‘Thus Spake Zarathusa‘ on a Rolf Harris Stylophone in homage to MOON.
So, once again, we say congratulations Duncan & all involved in making MOON