Big Screen Little Screen

– The Weinsteins picked up the rights to Todd Haynes I’m Not There, a Bob Dylan biopic (who coincidentally, was just busy trying to shut down another Weinstein biopic). The Dylan authorized picture is to be produced by Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, who wrote about how Haynes had originally conceived the project in her latest book, A Killer Life.

– Ang Lee apologizes to Shanghai citizens for Lust, Caution induced traffic jams.

– Elsewhere in China, genre mashup Big Movie (ala Scary Movie) takes on The Matrix, In the Mood for Love, and House of Flying Daggers, among a host of sacred cows.

– Aqua Teen takes big screen leap.

– CHUD asks “What if they released a movie and nobody came?” - unraveling the mystery (myth?) behind the 30 dollar, total box office run for Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl’s Zyzzyx Road. Once again, that’s Zyzzyx Road.

– Speaking of small receipts, Risky Biz wonders aloud - Jude Law, cursed?

In kicking off the Northwest premiere for his first feature in 5 years - Inland Empire, David Lynch will be making four appearances in Seattle. First, a reading and lecture from his book, Catching the Big Fish at Town Hall, on Tuesday, January 16th. On Wednesday the 17th, he drops by the mighty Scarecrow Video (between noon and 2pm) for a DVD signing of newly-released short films compilation DYNAMIC 01: THE BEST OF DAVIDLYNCH.COM, then off to The Cinerama theater at 7:30pm for a screening and Q & A session for Inland Empire. He will also be on hand to introduce a midnight screening.

Reviews for Lynch’s latest have ranged between “Dark as pitch, as noir, as hate, by turns beautiful and ugly, funny and horrifying” (New York Times), and “a three-hour, shot-on-video head-trip experiment in how to leave an audience baffled to the point of numbness” (Entertainment Weekly). Tickets for the director hosted screening of Inland Empire are available for purchase at Scarecrow, and as they say, are going fast. Update: 7:30 w/Q&A is sold out. Check with Scarecrow on availability for the midnight screening (intro by Lynch, no Q&A).

More info available at the Scarecrow Blog.