Your mind is the scene of the meme

Social media and the creativity of user generated content has forever changed the way we watch movies – take Inception, for example. Christopher Nolan’s latest is a hit with the internet, which has latched on to stills, quotes and even the theme music to make some truly hilarious content.

You had better stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet as there are some spoilers in the pick of the best memes, image mashups and fan videos that we’ve collected below: Oh, and if you haven’t seen Inception, go and see it now – it’s OK, we’ll wait.

The trailer
The trailer was always going to be ripe for remixing – with the pumping score and rememberable quotes. Here’s our pick of the litter:

DORA THE EXPLORER in INCEPTION: Incepción Trailer

Inception Trailer A Capella Re-Dub

Trailer for ‘Toy Story 3: Inception’

Cobb and Fischer
Much like the interrogation scene from The Dark Knight, these stills from the bar conversation have been used far and wide as an image macro or ‘exploitable’ (an image that can be endlessly altered by adding text):

Strutting Leo

Taken on the set of the movie, this infectiously happy Leo DiCaprio has been photoshopped into countless scenes for humerous effect. No matter what happens, he just keeps on strutting:

Infographics Galore

All the dream layers in Inception mean infographics – where information meets design – are not only apt but many are incredibly beautiful. Here’s our favourites, click them to see them full size:

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From the Producers of Superbad and Knocked-Up...

Are you ready for movies about Hula Hoops, Slip-n-slide and Frisbees?

This whole business of making toys into movies is really starting to get out of hand. The Wham-O toy company has just signed a deal with ICM for representation to help in the process of bringing their toy products to the big screen. This is the same toy compnay that brought the world classic toys such as  Frisbee, Hula Hoops, Super Ball, Slip 'N Slide, Hacky Sack, Boogie boards and several others.

THR brings up the fact that Wham-O also developed a ton of interesting toys that never really went anywhere, "such as a do-it-yourself bomb shelter (created during the time when backyard bomb shelters where de rigeur) and the “instant fish” idea that consisted of selling mud with eggs from a unique species of African fish (they wouldn’t mate in America)." I would have loved to play in a do-it-yourself bomb shelter!

It's not surprising that Wham-O would want to try and capitalize on the toys they have developed, after all every other major toy company is doing it right now. I guess they'd be stupid not to try. And I'm sure a good movie or TV series could come from it.

ICM also represents Atari and has made deals at studios to develop films for Asteroids at Universal, Rollercoaster Tycoon with Sony Pictures Animation and Missile Command at 20th Century Fox. It wont be long before we see a Slip 'N Slide movie go into production.

Your thoughts?

Close-Ups of Spider-Man On-Set!

On Location News has brought online some great close-up photos of Spider-Man on the set of director Marc Webb's Untitled Spider-Man Reboot, and we've posted a selection of them below. Coming to 3D and 2D theaters on July 3, 2012, the film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Julianne Nicholson, Irrfan Khan, Annie Parisse, Chris Zylka and C. Thomas Howell.

Meet the new Superman

British actor Henry Cavill is going up, up and away.

Cavill will star as Superman (and, obviously, Clark Kent) in the next installment of the movie franchise. Warner Bros Pictures announced the casting overnight.

The film is to be directed by 300 director Zack Snyder, who said Cavill was "the perfect choice to don the cape and 'S' shield," in a statement released by the movie house.



No title has been announced for the film, which is intended to reboot the franchise. The 2006 movie Superman Returns was directed by Bryan Singer and starred Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel. It grossed $200 million but was considered a disappointment.

Cavill had been considered for the blockbuster roles of Batman, James Bond and even the previous version of Superman. He co-starred on Showtime's television period drama The Tudors.
The 27-year-old other film credits include 2002's The Count of Monte Cristo, opposite Guy Pearce, and a minor role in Woody Allen's 2009 comedy Wahtever Works.

Director Synder faced stiff competition for the film, with peers Darren Aronofsky, Ben Affleck, Matt Reeves and Tony Scott also said to have been approached by Warner Bros.

The job was so coveted that even Robert Zemeckis, retired to the world of performance-capture animation, considered returning to live-action filmmaking in order to nab the gig.

Inception director Christopher Nolan, who revived the Batman franchise in 2005, is on board as executive producer.

Warner Bros is targeting December 2012 for release.

 

'It could have been me'

British actor Paul Bettany regrets not taking Colin Firth's Oscar-nominated role in The King's Speech.

Screenwriter David Seidler has said he wrote the screenplay - also nominated - with Bettany in mind for the role of King George VI, with Oscar-nominated Geoffrey Rush as his speech therapist.

In an interview at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, shortly after it was announced that the film had received 12 Oscar nominations, Bettany, 39, explained what he regrets most about not accepting the role:

"Number one, of course, it is a regret not to be working with such great, and really great people, Geoffrey Rush and (director) Tom Hooper.

"I think it is a little inelegant for me to discuss it," continued Bettany. "I had been working for five months steadily and my son missed me and I missed my son. Both of my sons and my wife," explained the actor, referring to his work on The Tourist as Inspector John Acheson. Bettany is married to actress Jennifer Connelly and they have two sons together.



"Do I regret it?" said Bettany. "I regret not working with such amazing, amazing actors and directors and writers. But no, I have to do the right thing by my family every time."

Firth is up for the Best Actor Academy Award next month and is favoured to win after recently bagging a Golden Globe in the same category.

Rush and co-star Helena Bonham in line for best supporting roles, while The King's Speech's Sydney producer is also a chance for Best Picture.

Bettany, who is married to actress Jennifer Connoly, is no stranger to period drama, having scored a BAFTA nomination in 2003 for his role in Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World.

He also played Lord Melbourne in 2009's The Young Victoria, and Charles Darwin in Creation the same year.

His latest role is a voice part in The Avengers, due in 2012.

Director Simon West plans to approach Nicolas Cage about making a sequel to 1997 action adventure ‘Con Air’.

Simon West is desperate to make a ‘Con Air’ sequel.

The filmmaker is set to team up with the 1997 action movie’s star Nicolas Cage on new project ‘Medallion’ and has vowed to use their time together to convince the actor to sign up for the second film.

He said: “I have a couple of dream projects I want. ‘Con Air 2’, I'd like to do. It'd be great. It's a matter of getting everybody together. There's so many people involved and it's about getting everybody to agree. But I'm going to bring it up to Nic. I'm going to put a bug in his ear about it. If the two of us want to do it, we'll go after the others.”

As well as working on ‘Con Air’, Simon – whose latest venture ‘The Mechanic’ stars Jason Statham and Donald Sutherland and is released this week – has a “stack” of other ventures he wants to work on, including a fantasy movie based on the life and work of surrealist artist Salvador Dali.

He added: “There's also ‘Dali’, which is a big CG/fantasy thing about Salvador Dali that I want to do. I've just got a little stack of them on my shelf that I'm trying to work my way through. A huge children's fantasy film. Hopefully I'll soon be working my way through that stack.”