Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

• Supposedly the long-delayed sci-fi epic Southland Tales is finally nearing the end of post-production, a trailer is in the works, and a release date should be coming soon.
• Shiny Shiny has for us today 5 reasons why they love LOLcats - a list which includes many LOLcats images, of course.
• Sci Fi Wire has an interesting little article about how J.K. Rowling helped out behind the scenes on the latest film adaptation of her work, by explaining why a certain unnamed character couldn't be cut and had to be included in the movie for the upcoming seventh film to make sense (hmm...), and by providing the complete Black family tree.
• Sony was apparently lying when they said they weren't dropping the price of the PS3, because as of today the 60GB model is down to $500 (what a steal! Um, not). Meanwhile, they've also announced that in August they'll be putting out an 80GB model packaged with Motorstorm to sell at $600.
• The Talking Pictures blog at Chicago Tribune asked staffers to write about some of the movies they've walked out on, and posted the results for your amusement. We almost never walk out on movies, although we've done it once or twice during the Philadelphia Film Festival, and we wish we'd done it with Barry Lyndon (one of the films listed here). But Reservoir Dogs?! C'mon, that movie's awesome!! (Via)
• Gone Baby Gone seems like kind of a questionable title for a drama about a child being kidnapped, but the trailer makes it look pretty good. It's directed by Ben Affleck, of all people, and based on a novel by the guy who wrote Mystic River. It stars Casey Affleck (big surprise!), Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman. (Via)
• Indy 4 car chase footage from the set! (Via) Not as exciting as you might hope, but still kind of cool. In other Indy 4 news, it's come out that the filmmakers won't be "cheating with CG (computer graphics) at all" in order to keep "the B movie feel." Call us crazy, but that sounds pretty exciting and refreshing to us.
• Cinematical has seven reasons why summer movies are dumb and keep getting dumber. We're part of the problem!
• Zak Penn is writing a remake of The Dirty Dozen which will be produced by Joel Silver. We can't say we're thrilled.

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