No, they bought the world-wide rights to Miyazaki's works so they could make substantial profits on selling it everywhere else in the world where Miyazaki was known and revered, including Japan. The USA, where people still think cartoons are for kids, wasn't the subject of some sort of great cover-up--it just wasn't a priority.
Supposedly, someone at Disney claimed that they had already set aside a much larger advertising budget similar to that Lilo and Stitch got for a S.A. rerelease if it won the Oscars. Traditionally, films that win the Oscar take on new legs and get wider release after that: for instance, Life is Beautiful. The details are somewhere in the Nausicaa.net archives; I lack the time to dig them up now.
OK, ignore my other message...I got mplayer to play quicktime. However...
I compiled and installed faac, but mplayer still won't play the sound for that new Matrix trailer. It says, "Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available (enable it at compilation)". But the DOCS/codec documentation doesn't say anything about faad. How do I enable it in the compilation? And do I need to install the faad package from that site as well as the faac?
I did what you said...but when I tried to watch the movie, it didn't work. I tried to post the output, but Slashdot's retarted message validation system wouldn't let me. Too few characters per line, too many junk characters...bleah.
Can you provide any further helpful hints? Something I forgot to do? An email address so I can email you the console output?
It's annoying...at least in my *old* compile I could watch some Quicktime movies, albeit without the sound...now it won't start at all.
According to the documentary features on the disc and Revisited, the Matrix was conceived as a trilogy from the very beginning, and was the movie the Wachowskis always wanted to make...but they had to make Bound before the studios would even trust them with enough money for one film, let alone three at once.
So, in answer to your question, there'll be three. Plus the comics and tie-in stories that the Wachowskis approved.
The thing I most fear, though, is that after the movie sequels hit it big, someone will make a dumbed-down and kiddified Matrix Saturday morning cartoon (he said, while watching Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai).
A Buddhist friend of mine, who sees the Buddhist subtexts as the dominant force in the films, suggests that, according to Buddhist principles, everybody--machine and human alike--should be freed by the time the trilogy is over.
One noteworthy thing about the CD-ROM that's not mentioned in that orientation is that it will include a (partly-)OGL D20 RPG based on the Aldenata books, which you can currently find hosted in rich text form at Alldenata.net under the link marked "rules." (I'm not entirely sure why the spelling of the aliens changed between the first few books ("Alldenata") and the most recent one ("Aldenata"); nobody on the John Ringo Baen Bar group seems to want to talk about it.)
They are talking about doing season 5 as an anime series.
Actually, no they aren't. From what I've heard, the anime series is going to be a tie-in, but apparently unrelated plot-wise to the TV series itself. (Even if that's not true, David Kemper has stated that he has no involvement with the anime, so whatever they come up with, it won't be what he intended.)
All you have to do is click on the little "view ad" link at the bottom of the page, watch a 15-second ad for Powell's (and heck, you can even just do something in some other window while it's showing; it doesn't care), and then you can read the whole thing.
I was just wondering if anyone's come up with a free/open equivalent of InFlow, which is apparently commercial software (and probably Windows-only)? It'd be interesting to run it on my vast volumes of mail, but I run Linux...
They went missing sooner than that. Try, the day (or maybe the day after) Microsoft bought Connectix. A Mac friend of mine wanted to get ahold of them when he heard that news...and found no sign on their website that they had ever supported Linux.
Is there anywhere a credits list for these movies? I want to know who did the voices. I was just positive that was Lawrence Fishburne, and I thought he might be doing some sort of weird Samurai take on Morpheus until it turned out he was a different character.
Just in case folks didn't know, a fifth Animatrix short, the one animated by Square (the only other animated feature they did besides the FF movie before shutting down), will be showing theatrically with the Steven King movie Dreamcatcher. This animatrix, The Last Flight of the Osiris, apparently ties together the stories of the Matrix console game and the Matrix Reloaded.
Pretty slick. I think I'm gonna be watching a Steven King movie pretty soon; I don't think I've done that since The Stand.
Yes, they were--and Gutenberg said so, too. These are the original printing hardbounds. My guess is that they're still undergoing distributed proofing or something.
At any rate, they're right there on BlackMask. Read 'em. Especially the one by Leblanc & Jepson, the novel of the play that was made into the Barrymore movie. It's one of the best.
The irony is, Monkey Punch was reportedly rather upset with the changes to his characters wrought by Miyazaki in the TV series and particularly Cagliostro. Miyazaki's Lupin is substantially more heroic, warm, and caring than Monkey Punch would have liked.
You can actually find quite a few of the Arsene Lupin novels and stories--including a couple that I donated to be scanned for Gutenberg (though they haven't made it to Gutenberg yet for some reason)--at BlackMask.com. Just search on Maurice Leblanc. They're very good.
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No, they bought the world-wide rights to Miyazaki's works so they could make substantial profits on selling it everywhere else in the world where Miyazaki was known and revered, including Japan. The USA, where people still think cartoons are for kids, wasn't the subject of some sort of great cover-up--it just wasn't a priority.
Maybe now that will change.
Supposedly, someone at Disney claimed that they had already set aside a much larger advertising budget similar to that Lilo and Stitch got for a S.A. rerelease if it won the Oscars. Traditionally, films that win the Oscar take on new legs and get wider release after that: for instance, Life is Beautiful. The details are somewhere in the Nausicaa.net archives; I lack the time to dig them up now.
Yeah, and subsequently on recompile it worked. Even though the compile errored out in the middle of building the frontend.
Not entirely sure how, but I managed to get FAAD to work after all. Neat trailer.
OK, ignore my other message...I got mplayer to play quicktime. However...
I compiled and installed faac, but mplayer still won't play the sound for that new Matrix trailer. It says, "Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available (enable it at compilation)". But the DOCS/codec documentation doesn't say anything about faad. How do I enable it in the compilation? And do I need to install the faad package from that site as well as the faac?
I did what you said...but when I tried to watch the movie, it didn't work. I tried to post the output, but Slashdot's retarted message validation system wouldn't let me. Too few characters per line, too many junk characters...bleah.
Can you provide any further helpful hints? Something I forgot to do? An email address so I can email you the console output?
It's annoying...at least in my *old* compile I could watch some Quicktime movies, albeit without the sound...now it won't start at all.
According to the documentary features on the disc and Revisited, the Matrix was conceived as a trilogy from the very beginning, and was the movie the Wachowskis always wanted to make...but they had to make Bound before the studios would even trust them with enough money for one film, let alone three at once.
So, in answer to your question, there'll be three. Plus the comics and tie-in stories that the Wachowskis approved.
The thing I most fear, though, is that after the movie sequels hit it big, someone will make a dumbed-down and kiddified Matrix Saturday morning cartoon (he said, while watching Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai).
A Buddhist friend of mine, who sees the Buddhist subtexts as the dominant force in the films, suggests that, according to Buddhist principles, everybody--machine and human alike--should be freed by the time the trilogy is over.
One noteworthy thing about the CD-ROM that's not mentioned in that orientation is that it will include a (partly-)OGL D20 RPG based on the Aldenata books, which you can currently find hosted in rich text form at Alldenata.net under the link marked "rules." (I'm not entirely sure why the spelling of the aliens changed between the first few books ("Alldenata") and the most recent one ("Aldenata"); nobody on the John Ringo Baen Bar group seems to want to talk about it.)
They are talking about doing season 5 as an anime series.
Actually, no they aren't. From what I've heard, the anime series is going to be a tie-in, but apparently unrelated plot-wise to the TV series itself. (Even if that's not true, David Kemper has stated that he has no involvement with the anime, so whatever they come up with, it won't be what he intended.)
Dude.
All you have to do is click on the little "view ad" link at the bottom of the page, watch a 15-second ad for Powell's (and heck, you can even just do something in some other window while it's showing; it doesn't care), and then you can read the whole thing.
It's hardly rocket science.
I was just wondering if anyone's come up with a free/open equivalent of InFlow, which is apparently commercial software (and probably Windows-only)? It'd be interesting to run it on my vast volumes of mail, but I run Linux...
They went missing sooner than that. Try, the day (or maybe the day after) Microsoft bought Connectix. A Mac friend of mine wanted to get ahold of them when he heard that news...and found no sign on their website that they had ever supported Linux.
Maybe because, being geeks, we'd like to sleep in without the sun shining down on us? :)
"Adding value" =/= "improving".
:)
Remember, "adding value" is marketdroid speak for "screwing with."
Plus, if it doesn't have a book or story, it has an easy way for members to add it, with as much information as they have at hand.
Is there anywhere a credits list for these movies? I want to know who did the voices. I was just positive that was Lawrence Fishburne, and I thought he might be doing some sort of weird Samurai take on Morpheus until it turned out he was a different character.
Just in case folks didn't know, a fifth Animatrix short, the one animated by Square (the only other animated feature they did besides the FF movie before shutting down), will be showing theatrically with the Steven King movie Dreamcatcher. This animatrix, The Last Flight of the Osiris, apparently ties together the stories of the Matrix console game and the Matrix Reloaded.
Pretty slick. I think I'm gonna be watching a Steven King movie pretty soon; I don't think I've done that since The Stand.
FYI, Donkax.com is offering a bittorrent download of the large version of the movie.
Yes, they were--and Gutenberg said so, too. These are the original printing hardbounds. My guess is that they're still undergoing distributed proofing or something.
At any rate, they're right there on BlackMask. Read 'em. Especially the one by Leblanc & Jepson, the novel of the play that was made into the Barrymore movie. It's one of the best.
Some people have suggested Jim Carrey for the role of Lupin III. I think he'd be a very good choice, if he didn't go too far over the top.
The irony is, Monkey Punch was reportedly rather upset with the changes to his characters wrought by Miyazaki in the TV series and particularly Cagliostro. Miyazaki's Lupin is substantially more heroic, warm, and caring than Monkey Punch would have liked.
And after you watch Cagliostro, I suggest you download and listen to the commentary. :)
You can actually find quite a few of the Arsene Lupin novels and stories--including a couple that I donated to be scanned for Gutenberg (though they haven't made it to Gutenberg yet for some reason)--at BlackMask.com. Just search on Maurice Leblanc. They're very good.
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