The trailer for Sukiyaki Western: Django is up. (click on the graphic in the top middle of the picture to launch the trailer)

If you don't remember, Sukiyaki Western: Django is the Japanese cowboy movie written by Takashi Miike and features an appearance by Quentin near the beginning of the film.

Tarantino says he's going to finish writing the script to Inglorious Bastards while he's doing publicity for GRINDHOUSE.

Related: Inglorious Bastards details.

Along with Robert Rodriguez, Quentin picked out his 10 favorite movie posters of all time for EW.

The premiere of GRINDHOUSE was last night (QT was on Leno as well), and Popholic has a bunch of photos from the permiere.

And JoBlo has an early review of GRINDHOUSE.

The new issue of Fangoria magazine has a GRINHOUSE feature in it. Thanks to Matt for the heads up in the comments.

Turns out that NY Post article about GRINDHOUSE maybe getting an NC-17 was wrong. No word on what, if anything got cut, but the final film is just over 3 hours in running time and has secured an R Rating.

Death Proof makes the cover of Creative Screenwriting magazine. [thanks David]

Here, Tarantino tells you why you should love B-movies, the joy of writing quickly, and why his stalker car-chase movie Death Proof is a chick flick.

GRINDHOUSE may need significant edits to avoid an NC-17 rating. Page Six has the dirt on some of the more problematic scenes (one example after the jump).

QT had similar problems with Kill Bill - thats why some of the Crazy 88 scene is in black and white (so that the blood is black instead of red). For whatever reason, its OK to hack someone to pieces on screen, just so long as they don't bleed red blood.

Maxim magazine is doing some special edition covers featuring the girls of GRINDHOUSE.

Inglorious Bastards got a sneak look at the European poster for GRINDHOUSE. It looks suspiciously like this poster, but with just a few 'screw you' edits.

It really sucks that QT isn't willing to stand up for movie to be shown in one piece. I've heard the argument that the double-feature is a uniquely American experience and so the rest of the world isn't expecting it - but, if the GRINDHOUSE format of a double-feature is so great, why not use his influence to introduce it to those that haven't experienced it before.

In this interview QT talks about doing what he wants with his films.

"Man, I'd love to do an opening to a movie like that." And someone said: "Yeah, they wouldn't let you."

People have said little things like that all my life. But who's "they"? I've given nobody the authority over me to say I can't do anything - I can do anything I want or can achieve. I don't ask permission. I might ask forgiveness, but I won't ask permission. There is no "they".

Here's the thing: they can write a mean letter, they can write a mean memo, but these guys don't have any real fight in them. If you're an artist, as opposed to a careerist, and your movie is more important to you than a career in this town, they can never beat you. You have a loaded gun, and you know you've got what it takes to put it in their faces and blow their heads off.

Quentin, get your gun out and take a stand. GRINDHOUSE is one movie. One experience. Introduce the rest of the world to the genre you feel so passionate about. In the format you feel so passionate about - the double feature.

I've been out of town all week, and thus out of touch, so thanks to everybody who sent in the news about the making of GRINDHOUSE videos that have hit the net. TheMovieBox.net has it in 4 pieces:

one | two | three | four

The stuff in these videos isn't entirely new though, some of it already appeared back in early February on Yahoo.

Robert Rodriguez announced at SWSX that he's going to be releasing a direct to DVD 'sequel' of GRINDHOUSE based on the Machete faux trailer.

Story about the GRINDHOUSE trailer competion at SWSX if you are interested. I haven't had much time to follow these trailers, I understand that alot of them have ended up on YouTube already though.

Feel free to post URLs in the comments if you have them.

Its been around a couple days, but I missed it. QT wrote article for the Sunday Times titled I Call The Shots Here talking about how and why he makes movies and various other stuff.

Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It's almost as if Edison and the Lumiere brothers invented the camera for filming violence. The most cinematic directors, they're taking cinema and exciting you. I really do think about it like that. I'm doing my own thing, but I'm thinking about the audience, too, though not in a manipulative way. I am the audience.

The Death Proof soundtrack is now available for pre-order from Amazon. Here's the cover:

Also, thanks to Ewan from Filter-Mag.com, here are some audio streams for a few of the songs:

"Baby It's You" - Smith
Windows Media | Quicktime

"It's So Easy" - Willy DeVille
Windows Media | Quicktime

"Chick Habit" - April March
Windows Media | Quicktime

Official Site: Grindhousemovie.net

Here's a couple more pix from the Werewolf Women of the SS faux trailer. Thanks to Ryan for the heads up.

Film Ick has posted some scans of a Fangoria Magazine article about GRINDHOUSE. Looks like all the info is actually of Robert Rodriguez's part of the film - Planet Terror, but thats OK, the whole thing it gonna kick ass.

Leading up to the release of GRINDHOUSE, Tarantino will be hosting the Los Angeles 2007 Grindhouse festival beginning March 4th and running thru the end of April. Coming Soon has the details.