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Kickarse new Bourne Ultimatum trailer. (A cookie to anyone who can help me with identifying the song playing in the second half of the trailer. Edited: Got it. "Weapons of Mad Distortion" from The Crystal Method.)
All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.
Now, in the new chapter of this espionage series, Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. He must travel to Moscow, Paris, Madrid and London to Tangiers and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and interpol agents with him in their crosshairs.
Matt Damon reprises the role of the amnesiac ex-government assassin. Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Paddy Considine and Edgar Ramirez also star. The Bourne Supremacy director Paul Greengrass is back, and so is composer John Powell. [official site] [imdb]
I cannot wait to hear Powell's score for this third (and final) film in the franchise. In anticipation, here are three tracks from the soundtrack to The Bourne Supremacy, featuring Powell's trademark electronic sound with memorable dramatic themes.
Bonus MP3: "First Love Touch" from Angelo Badalamenti's score for Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement). The entire soundtrack is beautiful, subtle and sad.
Just Jared has photos of Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones 4. Directed by Steven Spielberg, it also stars Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent. [imdb]
Irish actor Jason O'Mara (Men in Trees) has been cast as Sam Tyler in the American remake of the British series Life on Mars, about a police detective who is in a car accident and wakes up 30 years in the past. The role was played by John Simm in the original. The show is being produced by David E. Kelley. (Televisionary) [imdb]
Michiko Kakutani (NY Times) looks at Andrew Keen's book, "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture":
In his view Web 2.0 is changing the cultural landscape and not for the better. By undermining mainstream media and intellectual property rights, he says, it is creating a world in which we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.” This is what happens, he suggests, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”
It's hard for me to share Keen's views on the sacrosanct status and supposed aggregate benefits of copyright laws; but all the same, sounds like an interesting book.