But first, some movie remake news.
Tim Burton will do a live-action Dumbo. Expect Johnny Depp as a quirky, strange clown who purses his lips and looks out of the corner of his eyes a lot.
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Big Hero 6 sequel: in the works, it seems. Good. The first was charming, even if it did lean on the Evil Mr. Business trope a bit.
The Alien 5 news is all over the road; first everyone was excited because Neil Blomkamp said he wanted to forget 3 and 4 ever happened, and then he said no, that's not it exactly. The Mary Sue:
Which would be great, because the start of "Alien 3" was stupid and cruel. Nothing like ruining everything you took away from the end of the previous movie.
STREET ART Via Coudal, a site devoted to old urban sign typography gleaned from Shorpy posts.
Did Minneapolis once look that rich? Sure. But an aerial view of the city hall district shows how much the city had been scrubbed by the 50s. The billboards provide the only color. Here's a detail:
