Naomi Watts will star in a big-screen reimagining of the Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Martin Campbell is in talks to direct, and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle will produce.... Also per Variety, Ricky Bobby hottie Leslie Bibb is Miss Nobody in an indie comedy about a mild-mannered secretary who learns she has a knack for knocking people off. Adam Goldberg, Missy Pyle and Kathy Baker will also star.... Simon Baker has the lead role as a bank manager haunted by the death of his daughter in the psychological thriller Not Forgotten.
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Ask FlickChick When movie animals attack gill men and more movie questionsQuestion I just saw that theres a movie about killer sheep being released on DVD Is it some kind of joke or is it serious I started wondering about other horror movies with animal killers but after the one about the killer rabbits I couldnt come up with any others Can you Carlos FlickChick First the movie youre talking about is the New Zealand-made Black Sheep 2006 and its neither entirely serious nor seriously joking Hard though it may be to believe its really clever occasionally very funny and gets in a couple of genuine scare sequences And really are killer sheep so much sillier than killer birds Not eagles and hawks and other major winged predators but finches and seagulls and other run-of-the-mill birds theyre the villains in The Birds 1963 and while its not one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock films its generally well regardedThe ridiculous rabbit film y
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Question: I was just wondering if you knew why the birds attacked Bodega Bay in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. And also, were those real birds, or what?
Answer: The Daphne du Maurier story on which The Birds (1963) is very loosely based is a Cold War allegory in which the attacking birds are a metaphor for life out of balance, knocked off kilter by human hubris, self-centeredness and belligerence. Alfred Hitchcock's screenwriter Evan Hunter, who relocated the story from England to California and made the protagonist a shallow socialite (Tippi Hedren) rathe
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