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Duncan Jones is to direct Jake Gyllenhall in forthcoming Sci-Fi thriller ‘Source Code’

Screen Daily reports from the American Film Market festival:

‘Moon’ has had the honour of being awarded two prizes from the Utopiales International Science Fiction Festival in Nantes, France

Both the Jury Award & the Public Award. More details as we get them.

‘Moon’ Director Duncan Jones is said to be on the lookout for a manufacturer of long sturdy mantlepieces.

Moon is now on UK iTunes to pre-order for release on 16th November 2009 linkage >> HERE <<

I do not have any other accounts apart from UK, so if you are elsewhere in this world we call Earth and can check, then please let us know if it is showing up in iTunes for you also.

Oooh and while your there, why not pick up Clint Mansell’s beautiful Moon soundtrack just to keep you going until film release.

Hoi Holland!

Donderdag in premiere!

‘Moon’ opens in Netherlands Thursday 15th October.

Have had a quick mooch about and found it is scheduled to show at the following venue:

Kriterion – Amsterdam: http://www.kriterion.nl/news/741/15/Moon/

And in case you don’t know already, here is what it’s all about:

Astronaut Sam Bell woont al bijna drie jaar op de maan in opdracht van Lunar Industries. Hij leeft daar een eenzaam bestaan en door een defecte satelliet heeft hij amper contact met zijn vrouw Tess en driejarige dochter Eve. Zijn enige maatje aan boord is Gerty: een robot. Onverwacht krijgt Sam gezondheidsproblemen en gaat hallucineren waardoor hij een bijna-fataal ongeluk krijgt.

Als hij terug is op zijn basisstation, ontmoet hij zijn jongere en gewelddadigere “ik”. Deze tweede Sam beweert dat hij daar is om hetzelfde driejarige contract uit te dienen. Dan begint de strijd van de ‘echte’ Sam om zo snel mogelijk uit te vinden wat er verkeerd is gegaan en hoe hij op een veilige manier terugkomt naar huis.

Please help all of Holland get a slice of ‘Moon’ by adding any additional cinemas in the comments below. Dank U Wel!

A nice addition to our irregular ‘Moon Posters from around the World’ series, here we have your Korean ‘Moon’ poster what they use in Korea to promote the Fantastically Award laden movie what is ‘Moon’.

Nice init?

Moon opens nationwide in Australia next week from the 8th October 2009. To celebrate the release, movie review blog Cinetology are offering you the chance to win one of 25 in-season double passes valid nationwide from October 8th 2009, all details >>HERE<<

In other Australian Moon news, Director Duncan Jones went on an interview-a-thon last night with the Australian press / radio, so look out for plenty of coverage over the next week from:

• News: Street Press Australia
• News: Rotten Tomatoes Oz
• News: Herald Sun
• News: The Age ‘EG’
• News: The West Australian
• Radio: Robbie, Marieke & the Doctor on Triple J

Enjoy ‘Moon’ at last Australia, we know you have been waiting a long time!

Info & Movie times available at the Sony Australia Moon site >>HERE<<

Quick one to note for all you lovely US fans. ‘Moon’ is achingly close to the $5,000,000.00 mark in America (currently standing at US domestic gross $4,843,670)

So if ain’t been out to see it yet, check the >>Sony ‘Moon’ site<< for showtimes in your area and help push it over the magic mark!

Moon Director Duncan Jones has been bowled over by the content of a letter written by Sci-Fi author Philip K Dick to the ‘Blade Runner‘ film production company in 1981.

It’s always interesting to discover what an author thinks of a movie adaptation of his work (in this case ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’), but PKD goes further than providing a simple critique of the Ridley Scott directed movie, he actually takes the opportunity to make a statement on the current (then) state of the Sci-Fi genre as a whole, and what Blade Runner has done to point the way out of a seemingly stale situation, at the same time remaining humble with regards his own role in one of the greatest movies of all time. Read the letter >>HERE<<

Distributing the link to the letter from his Twitter account Jones says:

“Anyone read that beautiful letter Philip K Dick wrote the production team of Blade Runner after he saw the first few shots? Amazing stuff!”

“in the long run, i think he has been right about even the business success of the film”

“He said BR wasnt sci-fi.. it was “Futurism!” Love it…”

“so much of that letter is even more relevant today”

“his comments on the staleness and inbreadness of sci-fi seem as relevant today as then though, dont you think?”

When asked by @davymac “Beautiful letter from PKD. Also, would you consider another ‘Futurism’ movie yourself?”
Jones responded “part of the reason i love that letter so much is that Mute kind of is.”

Enjoy the letter, and hopefully we will be hearing much more on ‘Mute’ in the near future.

Want to see some very early ‘Moon’ concept artwork AND some behind the scenes shots from the shoot itself? Course you do, for example, here is a fantastic early concept of the lovely GERTY:

Full size images available on the ‘Moon: The Movie’ Flickr group along with more early concept artwork, behind the scenes pics from the original shoot, and many great pics added by other group members from ‘Moon’ premiers, red carpets and much more.

Couriered to us in the early hours of the morning by a wheezing bearded fellah with a missing tooth (I almost mistook him for Herman Toothrot!) Many thanks bearded courier guy

Will post these up on the manmademovies Facebook group also, enjoy!

Moon opens in Russia today with a fantastic new poster, would love to get hold of one of these! Anyone out there care to translate?

And carrying on with the Russian theme, here is a great fan created Moon trailer. Contains a few scenes I can’t recall seeing in the UK release.

Many thanks to @tallguy1977 on twitter for finding these, be great to hear from any Russian peeps going to see Moon.

UPDATE:23/09/09 00:01

We have a translation, many thanks the twitters @anna_bo

Top Line: ‘For all fans of ‘Solaris’ and ‘Space Odyssey’

SAM ROCKWELL
Kevin Spacey
/voice/

A film by Duncan Jones,
son of David Bowie

LUNA /moon/
2112

the flip side of the future

Bottom line: Opens in theatres on 17.September