Ridley Scott to Direct Alien Prequel!
Alien 5 News | Posted by Darkness on 31 Jul 2009 13:33 GMT
Variety have confirmed that Ridley Scott is going to direct the upcoming Alien Prequel movie. Fox have also hired Jon Spaihts to write the prequel. The studio was impressed by his work on two space thrillers called Passengers and Shadow 19.

Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director. Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

This is excellent news about Ridley Scott returning. Thanks to dDave, Aiden, Alien Genesis, Kirkempk, Clayton, and Giger_Incubator for the news.
Posted by atomisedion @ HWZ

YouTube video leads to Hollywood contract

A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.
The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.
Fede Alvarez's short film "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
It is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of $300 (£186).
So far it has had more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.
"I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios," he told the BBC's Latin American service BBC Mundo.
"It was amazing, we were all shocked."
The movie Mr Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina. He says he intends to start from scratch and develop a new story for the project.
"If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it," he added.
YouTube recently revealed the most watched videos of 2009. Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle topped the chart with more than 120 million views worldwide of her debut on the show.

Source: BBC

here's the video

Sumomo Okonomiyaki Dinner @ Prinsep Street

The stove we gonna cook on.. kinda reminds me of Baidu -_-

Put some oil~~

The food we ordered.. everything is inside already, juz mixed it up and...

*Splat*

After below is cooked, flipped over to the other side n dump the next one in

(Actually can cook 2 at one go, but 1st time trying, so take it slowly.. lol )

Overall we ordered a Pork, Mixed (pork, squid etc all in one), a 6pc gyoza and 1 yakisoba (which unfortunately is cooked already.. we thought is we cook ourselves one...)

total damage = 72bucks including 2drinks (milk tea and coke)

personally it's not actually filling as a meal should... it's more like a snack ba... the food is pretty gd thou, esp the pork

nice place to chill out too