Biggz's Dumpster

The stuff in here refuses to be boxed into a category so it's going to hide out with Biggz. I'm afraid it's becoming a frightful mess of a page. The bin men will arrive soon, surely.......or some gorilla wolf mofos.

 


An interview with Michael Elizalde from The Atlantic including some creature pictures.

Talib Kweli & Z-Trip gained inspiration from Attack the Block to make this mixtape which is free to download!
Fun Times:

The Noise of Art had an Attack the Block Party event at Latitude this year. It was loosely, some might say spuriously themed around the film!

I haven't bothered to Babelfish this but a Malaysian blogger has some sort of competition to celebrate the release of the film and made this banner including their version of the poster......which amuses me on several levels.

You can make your OWN Attack the Block characters in paper with thanks to the awesome talent of Sally Grosart.

Why not play "The Ends" from Basement Jaxx while you make them? Basement Jaxx - "The Ends" from "Attack The Block" by Basement Jaxx

The Incredible Suit ran a competition and blasted an asteroid into the milky way of inventiveness by asking Joe to perform some block related business to chose a random winner.

The WYIFN also ran an Attack the Block based competition, asking for soft toy film sequences. I've only managed to find the four entries that went up on Vimeo but when winners are announced, we may find some more.

Dread Central are building their gallery with considerably more haste than the official site. The look like press kit stills but they might be screen grabs from the trailer.

The Shiznit have helpfully made some cut-out-and-keep cards for anyone struggling with the argot.

A Nissan owner went to the special screening at The Ritzy and messaged this. The charm of it caught my eye and there's another lovely account at this link.

Joe Griffin from The Guardian has put together a handy list of alien invasion dos and don'ts.

3D World have a really interesting piece with Fido who created the digital effect, which you shouldn't click on until you're ready to have the mystery of the creatures revealed.

Seriously, why does this even exist?

Joe looked at this Little Dragon video by Fredrik Egerstrand for the lights in their eyes with reference to his creatures.

A special screening was held for the residents of Carpenters Estate since their block was one of the central characters of the film.

Gabriel started a Wordpress blog for the film back in January.

HolyMoly have several pictures from the UK Premiere.

This clever lady did exactly what Joe had hoped she would. Cherry went home and drew a picture of the male alien.

Trina Marie made this rendition of Moses!

Dana Jones made this

and thank goodness the amazing Alex Pardee enjoyed the film enough to do this

This is from Russell Ford Movies

...and here's another piece of inspired artwork.

HeyUGuys tags page.

The Building used for the awesome shots of The Block. It's like an actual character in the actual film, you know.

This is a piece from Ellen E Jones for The Guardian, discussing comedy in youth crime film.

The Sun selected some brief Twitter reactions for their ad on the day of the UK theatrical release.




Here are a couple of bits of early artwork for the film.
UK Press Tour:
The Nintendo Fun Room. Look at these smart boys!


Joe Wilson's awesome artwork for the Little White Lies cover and this is a video that sort of goes with.....

From South By Southwest:
Larry411's snaps from SXSW, for instance and Rocky too plus a press photo.
Scroll down here for this.

3DWorld Magazine talks to Fido about handling the effects in Sweden.

There was a time, back in 2008, when the title was "Attack the Estate".

The following reviews have moments in them that are sweeter than a kitten in a tea-cup.

and here is his review after seeing it!

Mathew Buck is an enthusiastic young man and has spent 3 motor-mouthed minutes telling us what he thinks of the film.


Nick Frost, Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright pit their alien wits against Simon Pegg .

There's a lovely bit of blog enthusing here.

The wonderful Film4 Summer Screen season included Attack the Block in a double bill with Die Hard and it was preceded by an intimate chat between Joe Cornish and David Cox. A couple of people wrote their notes about it. What I don't understand is why I didn't commit anything to paper. Oh yes....I can't actually write.

The silly fellas at Totally Rad get their biographical facts a bit wonky but when they enthuse like this, you can't really suppress a webhug, can you?
If you're into this kind of thing, here's a comparative review ratings score.

Roc4Life canvassed opinion after their screening.

UK Box Office Tally (with thanks to Charles Gant at the Guardian Blog)

1st Weekend: 3. Attack the Block, £1,133,859 from 352 sites. Total: £1,133,859

2nd Weekend: 5. Attack the Block, £ 355,232 from 327 sites. Total: £1,925,419

3rd Weekend: 9. Attack the Block, £ 142,919 from 196 sites. Total: £2,269,528

Attack the Block Index