Stuff and Things: October 14th, 2008

Here's a round-up of some stuff (and things) currently causing waves online:

-- Word has it the first full length trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek will debut in front of [insert popular film here] this November. TrekMovie claims it will be a "real trailer" with actual "footage from the film." Imagine that! If it does indeed premiere in November, the most likely place for it will be before Quantum of Solace on November 14th. In a related piece, Abrams has confirmed the running time to be about two hours.

-- Principal photography on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (new spelling) has begun in Germany (see initial poster to the right), and what appears to be the full, final cast has been announced (and it includes some familiar Tarantino regulars). Joining Brad Pitt will be Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman. Yeah, you like that last one, right?

-- With the Sex and the City movie slowly becoming the new Citizen Kane for women, a whole slew of ladies are looking to "get in" on the sequel in some capacity. The latest appears to be Jennifer Lopez (or J-Lo) who, sources say, is itching to sign up. They note, "Jennifer has got her heart set on joining Carrie and the girls. The bosses are trying to think of a way of fitting her in without it being cheesy." [via Hollyscoop]

-- What's your porn name? As part of the marketing machine behind Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, folks can head on over to that film's official site, answer a few questions and receive their very own porn ID card (see mine to the right).

FEARnet has launched their 66.6 Second Film Festival, which will "showcase 10 modern day, iconic horror flicks, shockingly spliced and presented in a hilarious 66.6 seconds each." Among the films featured this year, there's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Friday the 13th: Jason Lives, Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Howling, Evil Dead 2, Hostel, Candyman, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Boogeyman (2005), and Leprechaun. You can scope out the 66.6 second version of Candyman over here.

James Cameron talks Avatar on CBC: "We're in CG hell. We're trying to create a world from scratch. It's like trench warfare. We're working with computer-generated characters that are photo-realistic. That's tough. We set the bar high. We're just now getting confidence that it's going to work." Video below. [via Thompson on Hollywood]



-- A $30 million live-action production of Mulan is being planned by Xinhua Media Entertainment, and will be a Hollywood-China co-production. Film will follow the Chinese girl-warrior featured in the 1998 animated Disney movie. [via Hollywood Reporter]

-- Moviefone put up a list featuring the worst horror movie cliches -- which ones do you hate to love? "I'll be right back ..."