In an attempt to bring the Bollywood movie business to the American mainstream, the makers of the Bollywood film KITES have created an innovative campaign: release two versions of the same movie -- one that is over 2 hours long, and one that is short, concise, and more "Westernized". Reliance Big Cinema, a studio in India, will be responsible for the release plan. They have already started to collaborate with Brett Ratner, the director of RUSH HOUR, to create the short version, which will be a "more Westernized rendering" of the film's central romance. "What we are trying to say," Ratner explains, "is that this isn't your father's Bollywood movie" (more).

Rumor has it that Naomi Watts give an amazing performance as Valerie Plame, the woman whose secret CIA identity was leaked by the Bush administration, in the politically-charged film FAIR GAME, which is now competing against 18 other movies for the Cannes Film Festival's main prize, the Palme D'or. To prepare for her role, Watts explained to the press yesterday that she spent two days at Camp Prearu, a US military training facility nicknamed "The Farm". Apparently, it was pretty brutal: "On the first day as he kicked me in the shins and threw me down," she told reporters, referring to an unnamed instructor. Guess it worked? (more).

Don't pretend you understand just how much this triceratops has changed your life.

Tonight, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will begin its nerdiest event to date: a miniature film festival to celebrate Charles R. Knight, a New York artist best known for his paintings and murals of dinosaurs and prehistoric scenes. Knight, who died in 1953, created murals that are still on display at numerous Natural History museums across the country, including New York's. And what does this have to do with the movie industry? Andy Newman of the NEW YORK TIMES writes that Knight "changed the way that homo sapiens viewed the dinosaur...From the early days of stop-motion animation to the original KING KONG (where stegosaurus and brontosaurus roam the jungle) to FANTASIA and JURASSIC PARK generations of animators and directors are indebted to him" (more).