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Updates - April 9th, 2008
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Reelz Channel.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA: "Become the
next 'Indy' girl, meet Shia LaBeouf"
Think you've got the stuff to be an Indy girl? No, we're
not talking about "Indie," as in mesh hats, ironic
t-shirts and dirty librarian glasses; we're talking
about Indy, as in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull. In anticipation of the May 22nd debut of
the long-awaited fourth chapter of the iconic franchise,
Paramount is looking for females with a "bold, athletic,
adventurous spirit that so many of the ladies of Indiana
Jones have" to vie for the coveted title of the next
great Indy Girl.
If you think you've got what it takes to crack Indiana
Jones's whip, head over to Yahoo! and submit your entry.
The grand prize winner will get chance to appear on
MTV's TRL and meet Tiger Beat dreamboat Shia LaBeouf.
Sweet!"
I expect to see many of our fellow Retrocentrics and Lady Vintage
Aficionados participating in this with their authentic wears.
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Rebelscum.com: Sideshow Collectibles: 1/4 Scale
Indiana Jones Revealed!
 "Our sister site, Cool Toy Review has uncovered an image
of Sideshow Collectibles' upcoming Indiana Jones Premium
Format figure. click the link above to check it out!"
The Direct Link to this picture is on this page:
"Cool Toy Review"
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USA Today: "Movie fans are whipped into a frenzy over
Indiana Jones," By Marco R. della Cava.
Best quote."We're not like Trekkies, because for one,
our movies are rooted in history, not a made-up
universe," says illustrator Renee Rose-Perry, 27, whose
eerie resemblance to actress Karen Allen — Indy's first
love interest — is hammered home by her costume, a
Middle Eastern number straight from the series debut,
1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Indy lives in a real
world. My interest in biblical studies was sparked by
those movies."
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Film.com Movie Blog "Good News! The New Indiana
Jones Will NOT Be Nonstop CGI," by
Eric D. Snider.
As the release of the new Indiana Jones film draws
closer, fans are becoming increasingly tense. We want it
to be good ... and yet we know it was produced by George
Lucas, whose track record is spotty at best when it
comes to highly anticipated films featuring beloved
characters.
That's why we were glad to learn last week that Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will NOT be
rife with CGI special effects. Plenty of fine movies
have made abundant use of CGI, but Lucas tends to lean
on it like a crutch. He'll shove an actor in front of a
green screen, give him some ludicrous dialogue to
mumble, offer no direction whatsoever, and then have his
artists draw a bunch of space lizards in the background
in post-production. Slap together enough scenes like
that and you've got yourself a prequel!
The new Indy film will reportedly not be like that. The
vast majority of the locations are actual sets that were
actually built, and they are populated by actual people
who actually put on costumes and stood in front of the
cameras. This isn't too great a surprise, given that
Steven Spielberg (not Lucas) actually directed the film.
Spielberg tends to be old-school. He even prefers
old-fashioned film over digital video. How he remains
friends with George "embrace the latest technology even
at the expense of telling a good story" Lucas, I don't
know. One of those opposites-attract things, I guess.
What's so great about not using a ton of CGI? For one
thing, even in 2008, even the best computer wizardry
often looks slightly fake. A good rule of thumb is that
if it's easy to spot which elements are CGI and which
are real, you've used too much CGI -- and the CGI you
used wasn't good enough. An adventure movie like Indiana
Jones relies on drawing the audience into the excitement
of the situation. If the situation is too obviously
contrived or manipulated, it pulls us out of the action.
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