We had such fun last night, we’re back again tonight.

Get down to the Arclight Hollywood for the 6.10pm performance where I will introduce the film and you will get a chance to meet the fantastic and formidable talent that is ATB star John Boyega.

Get tix and see you there.

Tickets are on sale for an exclusive engagement of SXSW, LA Film Festival and Comic-Con 2011 favorite, Attack The Block, at ArcLight Hollywood this weekend!

Join us for a Q&A session after Saturday’s 6.10pm show
Just confirmed: ArcLight Hollywood will have an exclusive Q&A session after the Saturday 6:10pm showtime of Attack The Block. Come talk to the filmmakers behind the movie Rolling Stone Magazine calls “hot, fierce, funny, vicious and ready to bite!”.

Executive Producer Edgar Wright and Actor John Boyega will be in attendance to talk and answer questions about their exciting new film playing exclusively at ArcLight Hollywood opening this weekend.

Hey U.S. and Canadian blockheads! Attack The Block opens July 29th in the following cities and theaters:
 
AUSTIN
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Link
1120 S Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78704
 
CHICAGO
AMC River East 21 – Link
322 E Illinois St
Chicago, IL 60611
 
LOS ANGELES
Arclight Hollywood – Link
6360 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
 
NEW YORK
AMC Empire 25 – Link
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
 
Regal Union Square Stadium 14 – Link
850 Broadway
(between 13th St & 14th St)
New York, NY 10003
 
SAN FRANCISCO
AMC Loews Metreon 16 – Link
101 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
 
SEATTLE
Meridian 16 Cinemas – Link
1501 7th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
 
TORONTO – Link
AMC 24 Yonge & Dundas
10 Dundas St E
Toronto, ON M5B 2G4

Find Attack The Block for US and Canadian Audiences on Facebook (US Only), Twitter an at http://attacktheblock-movie.com/.

Get down to the Arclight Hollywood tonight, where I will introduce the film and you will get a chance to meet the fantastic and formidable talent that is John Boyega.

See you there.

Tickets are on sale for an exclusive engagement of Comic-Con 2011 favorite, Attack The Block, at ArcLight Hollywood this weekend!

Join us for a Q&A session after Friday’s 8:15pm show
Just confirmed: ArcLight Hollywood will have an exclusive Q&A session after the Friday 8:15pm showtime of Attack The Block. Come talk to the filmmakers behind the movie Rolling Stone Magazine calls “hot, fierce, funny, vicious and ready to bite!”.

Producer Edgar Wright and Actor John Boyega will be in attendance to talk and answer questions about their exciting new film playing exclusively at ArcLight Hollywood opening this Friday, July 29.

Hey U.S. and Canadian blockheads! Attack The Block opens July 29th in the following cities and theaters:
 
AUSTIN
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Link
1120 S Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78704
 
CHICAGO
AMC River East 21 – Link
322 E Illinois St
Chicago, IL 60611
 
LOS ANGELES
Arclight Hollywood – Link
6360 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
 
NEW YORK
AMC Empire 25 – Link
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
 
Regal Union Square Stadium 14 – Link
850 Broadway
(between 13th St & 14th St)
New York, NY 10003
 
SAN FRANCISCO
AMC Loews Metreon 16 – Link
101 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
 
SEATTLE
Meridian 16 Cinemas – Link
1501 7th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
 
TORONTO – Link
AMC 24 Yonge & Dundas
10 Dundas St E
Toronto, ON M5B 2G4

Find Attack The Block for US and Canadian Audiences on Facebook (US Only), Twitter an at http://attacktheblock-movie.com/.

This Friday any of you fine people in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Toronto can finally see ‘Attack The Block’.

It’s a film that I’m very proud to have worked on and am keen for you all to see.

So scroll below this spiffy new poster to find details of where Joe Cornish’s fantastic debut is playing.

So see ATB, ASAP. I compel you!

Hey U.S. and Canadian blockheads! Attack The Block opens July 29th in the following cities and theaters:
 
AUSTIN
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Link
1120 S Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78704
 
CHICAGO
AMC River East 21 – Link
322 E Illinois St
Chicago, IL 60611
 
LOS ANGELES
Arclight Hollywood – Link
6360 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
 
NEW YORK
AMC Empire 25 – Link
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
 
Regal Union Square Stadium 14 – Link
850 Broadway
(between 13th St & 14th St)
New York, NY 10003
 
SAN FRANCISCO
AMC Loews Metreon 16 – Link
101 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
 
SEATTLE
Meridian 16 Cinemas – Link
1501 7th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
 
TORONTO – Link
AMC 24 Yonge & Dundas
10 Dundas St E
Toronto, ON M5B 2G4

If your city is not one of the lucky seven. Fear not, it may well invade your zipcode soon.

Enjoy!

Find Attack The Block for US and Canadian Audiences on Facebook (US Only), Twitter an at http://attacktheblock-movie.com/.

Left to Right – Doctor Sexy, Doctor Who and Doctor Edgar Fish from ‘The League Of Gentlemen’.

Also worth noting: I am short.

Hey there, the lovely people at the Castro Theatre have been asking me to come up to San Francisco all year and it looks very likely that I will be there end of August. (And in the slim chance I don’t it will be for very good reason).

I have heard amazing things about this beautiful cinema, so I am looking forward to seeing it and presenting a triple bill of my movies. So I hope to see you in San Francisco, one of my very favourite cities.

P.S. I will be asking for food, drink, coffee and shopping recommendations when in town. Post below.

Writer/Director Edgar Wright, who will be here in San Francisco at the historic Castro Movie Palace iN PERSON (schedule permitting), will be showcasing his three feature films as well as numerous odds and ends from his oeuvre (the Grindhouse trailer DON’T!) as well as introducing each film and holding a Q&A on stage with host Jesse Hawthorne Ficks! This extraordinary event costs ONLY $15 so buy your tickets early! This is gonna be one helluva nite!

BUY YOUR ADVANCE TiX!

7:00pm – SCOTT PiLGRiM VS. THE WORLD (2010)
Based on the graphic novel by Brian Lee O’Malley
Containing: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Johnny Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Pill

People all around the country are madly obsessed with this brilliantly intelligent, coming-of age extravaganza! On par with films such as RUSHMORE and ELECTiON, it’s chock full of progressive poignancy, 8-bit nostalgia, really-relatable side characters (with Kieran Culkin giving one of the greatest performances ever!) and a unique, unstoppable creativity that proves that Mr. Edgar Wright is a modern force to be reckoned with. Not only is this the movie you would have snuck into ten times to see when you were a teenager, it reminds you that you can still do that sort of thing… RiGHT NOW! 35mm print courtesy of Universal. 112min.

NOTE: There will be a Q&A on stage with Edgar Wright and Jesse Hawthorne Ficks immediately following SCOTT PiLGRiM.

Watch the trailer:

plays with

9:45pm – HOT FUZZ (2007)
Written by Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
Containing: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman

Capturing the "buddy cop" genre has been attempted before and after this brilliant little ditty (see Kevin Smith’s COP OUT and Adam McKay’s THE OTHER GUYS), but what makes HOT FUZZ such a contemporary classic is that it actually achieves it’s own place alongside the films it’s in love with: POiNT BREAK and BAD BOYS 2. This genuine British Bro-mance between real-life BFFs, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost will completely sneak up on you, as they strive for purpose through their small town shenanigans. Widescreen 35mm print courtesy of Focus. 121min.

Watch the trailer:

plays with

11:59pm – SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004)
Written by Simon Pegg & Nick Frost
Containing: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield & Lucy Davis

Riding high off their decade defining TV series SPACED (1999), this gang of Brits translated their genius to the big screen and gave the world one of the all time great Zombie parodies while at the same time (like HOT FUZZ) carving out it’s own top-spot within the genre it loves! What would a couple of modern day stoners do if the world were overrun with flesh eating corpses? Edgar Wright and company deliver a bloody great romp that only gets better and better with multiple viewings! This must be seen at the greatest movie theatre in the United States with the director IN PERSON introducing it to a whole new generation preceded by a RARE 35mm print of Wright’s Grindhouse trailer DON’T! Widescreen 35mm print courtesy of Focus. 99min.

Watch the trailer:

Again, BUY YOUR ADVANCE TiX NOW!

People are flying from across the country for this special event!

ONLY $15 for one or all three films!
Notes written and event curated by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks
email him at midnites4maniacs@gmail.com

Over the last year I’ve been amazed at all the recuts, re-edits and mash-ups of my films. As someone who spent his teens re-editing movies on VHS, I am extremely heartened by your constant reinvention of scenes from the movies, be it a complex montage or a simple GIF.

So I hereby issue the would-be editors of the world a challenge.

To celebrate the one year anniversary of ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World’s release OsyMyso has offered up an exclusive musical remix of the fight scenes and themes from the film. As you will hear, it is a glorious collision of Black Sheep, the Beasties, Rocky and many more. I want you to cut the accompanying music video to the track below.

So listen, download and break out your favourite edit suite…

Further rules? Not really. You can use visuals from the movie, the relevant music videos, wherever you want. Be as obvious or random as you like.

Then upload your video to your favourite video hosting site and link to it in the comments below.

The deadline for submissions is August 6th. *Submissions Now Closed*

On August 13th I will post my favourite of the bunch and there will be a mysterious prize for the victor.

Mysterious in that, I don’t know what it is yet.

So knock yourselves out. And even if you’re not an editor, you are going to want to put this on your iPod ASAP. Enjoy.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Osymyso Fight Remix

Right click and ‘save as’ to grab the mp3 download below.

Download Link

Remixed by OsyMyso (http://www.osymyso.com | @osymyso)

‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials was released 30 years ago today.

An eternal classic and one of the best British No.1 singles of them all, it still resonates for me today.

The intro was seared into my brain at a very young age, so it’s perhaps not surprising that it opens ‘Shaun Of The Dead’.

Please be haunted by it all over again…

NB. Wikipedia helpfully informs me that it knocked Michael Jackson’s ‘One Day In Your Life’ off the top spot and was later dethroned by ‘Green Door’ by Shakin’ Stevens. So I guess the reign of biting political songs at the top of the hit parade was shortlived.

A montage designed to melt the heart of any man.

Check out this rather sweet bromantic history of film by Paul Martinovic.

Uploaded by martinovicable on Jul 11, 2011

A mash-up of great bro-ments in movie history, and a celebration of entirely platonic man love – absolutely no homoerotic element to any of this, as far as I can see. Nope. None whatsoever.

This is the second ever video I have edited on Final Cut Pro, and was inspired by Edgar Wright’s early video mash-ups, a Duncan Bowles article on Den of Geek, and the Ho Yay! page on www.tvtropes.org.

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/paulmartinovic

Like the headline says, I am not tired of the mash ups just yet. Not when they continue to be this good.

Here is an insane remix of the visuals from ‘Scott Pilgrim’ by Ross Cameron Castle aka ProjexHD.

If you enjoyed this check out a second remix by Projex HD.

And any keen editors out there, keep your eyes peeled next week. We may have a little project for you to commemorate the one year anniversary of the movie (and also 12 months of mash ups!).