Hello!

Thanksgiving approaches … but we think CineSavant will have a review or two up for Saturday . . .

Here’s something that was up less than a mile from CineSavant Central, that I didn’t know about until a friend from the Midwest sent me a photo, taken by Richard Cordero …

Last week the movie Gladiator II premiered at Grauman’s Chinese, and the theater’s famed forecourt was adorned with this temp construction as a promotion … kind of like the giant bust of King Kong that was placed there for the ticket buyers to gawk at, 91 years ago.

It’s the only photo provided — it’s clearly a mockup of the curved front wall of the Coliseum, possibly something used in the film shoot. The angle isn’t great, but from what I can see it’s at least 3 stories tall.

Oh, here we go with some  Fox video coverage and an  MSN piece. The things that happen in one’s neighborhood that pass us right by.

 

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And since I know that some of my readers are the type to respond to Kickstarter-like promotions, I direct interested parties to Milestone Films’ page looking for help to restore missing movies. Their pitch begins this way:

“Movie audiences are being told that streaming has made the entire history of cinema available for a simple subscription fee — or at least a couple of dozen subscription fees. This is not true.”The “Missing Movies” organization exists to find and recover movies that are unavailable for any number of reasons — researching rights, locating elements, finding ways to make restorations happen.

It’s explained better at the website, and some incentives are explained there as well!  Now go rescue  A Flash of Green and restore  Blood and Roses !

The link:

Missing Movies 

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson