Uma Thurman talks about the apparently immenent release of the companion anime Kill Bill stories. Here's what she had to say.

"His anime stuff is strong," she smiled.

"It has nothing to do with me," she said. "It has to do with another character. You'll have to see."

Supposedly, this is going to be part of an expanded Kill Bill DVD release.

Note: Thanks to everybody who sent in links to this story. My wife gave birth to our 2nd child a week ago today and I haven't been on the net much to find news or respond to emails.

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As much as most of you hated the idea of the Kill Buljo parody, I'm sure you'll be equally thrilled to hear that Weinstein Co has bought the US rights to the film. Probably not coming to theaters - it'll be a straight to DVD release.

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Kill Buljo is a Norwegian parody of Kill Bill that it seems like I should have heard of prior to today. There's a foreign language trailer at the official site, and Twitch is hosting an English dubbed trailer.

UPDATE:
Weinstein Co Buys Rights To Kill Buljo

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If The Bride was a Mr. Potato Head. Very cool stuff.

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The Death Proof DVD is listed with a Sept 18th, 2007 release date on Amazon right now. No pre-order option yet though. This is going to be a 2-disc set containing both the 90 minute Grindhouse cut and the 127 minute Cannes cut.

This is apparently when the Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 4-disc set is also going to be released.

Thanks to Mike for the heads up on the info.

UPDATE: Amazon now has Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair listed, but with no release date.

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Everyone's favorite Tarantino-themed band, the Tarantinotes are going to be playing at the Bad Taste Bears Tarantino Event on March 31st.

The event is to celebrate the launch of Killed Bill. There are only 4,000 of the yellow being created, and only 700 of the pictured limited edition black version. There is also going to be a great looking Tarantino sketch book available that I'd love to get my hands on.

Check out the event website for all the details.

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Its getting a bit close to Halloween, but this Kill Bill jacket would be worth wearing pretty much anytime. Thanks to Mark for sending it in.

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Chinese commercial with Kill Bill as the backdrop, though its not about Kill Bill per se. [thanks Henry]

Jules Winfield as a junior hockey coach [thanks Publis]

Just because you look like The Gimp doesn't mean you play like The Gimp.

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Never one at a lack for movie ideas, QT threw out the idea of doing an animated prequel and sequel of Kill Bill once Grind House gets finished up. I rather doubt this will ever actually happen, but if it does, lets all hope that Inglorious Bastards gets done first.

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Here is a great real world ad for Kill Bill. How would you like to walk into a bathroom and see a pool of blood creeping out from under a stall?

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Somebody has remixed the Bride v Go-Go fight from Kill Bill with the sound effects from Super Mario Brothers. Pretty good.

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Looks like it might be a while for those of us waiting for the big Kill Bill special edition DVD because QT is going to re-release the film in 1 piece in late 2006 first. Once thats done, then he'll get to the process of putting the special edition DVD together.

He says, "I want to cut the whole movie together like one big epic with an intermission in the middle like a 60s film. It'll be coming out in theatres.

"I've been holding off because I've been working on it for so long that I just wanted a year off from Kill Bill and then I'll do the big supplementary DVD package."

So for about another year, you'll just have to put up with the separate Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVDs.

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Eric David has written a long essay on the role of vice in Quentin Tarantino's films. I think alot of the connections he tries to make - particularly the paragraph on the name Bill from Kill Bill - are a real stretch. Still an interesting article though.

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A documentary entitled Double Dare follows the story of Zoe Bell, the girl that ended up being Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill.

In the film, Tarantino admits he came close to calling off his martial arts-fuelled Kill Bill movies, which were saved by Bell after he grew disappointed by the karate experts who auditioned for him in Los Angeles before he started filming in Beijing, China.

Tarantino says, "Zoe had to work out. We didn't have anybody. We were shitting bricks."

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Its located in Europe, but you can buy one guy's Pussy Wagon on eBay for 7500 Euros. Found via Inglorious Bastards.

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Both Kill Bill and Hero will be among the 1st films released for the new Sony PSP. The format for these films is called UMD, and they are supposed to retail for between $19.99 and $28.95 - which I find ridiculous considering they will only plan on the tiny screen of the PSP.

I really wish somebody would make a portable game player that accepted regular DVDs, and would use standard digital camera memory modules instead of relying on proprietary technologies. Heck, if photo printers can have 3 or 4 different types of memory card slots on them, why can't the PSP.

Amazon is currently offering pre-orders for the PSP bundle that comes w/ 5 games. The PSP gets released on March 24th.

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The QT Archives has some long awaited info on when a combined Kill Bill movie & DVD will be released from Tarantino himself:

"It will be Kill Bill the Japanese version - the four hour movie all together with an intermission in the middle. It will probably be the first release from Miramax's new company, first at cinemas and then on DVD. It will also probably get a higher age rating. We had to cut it when Miramax was part of Disney but now we can do whatever the fuck we want."

No dates on those releases yet, but I'd expect something before the end of the year.

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Amazon now has the iPod Shuffle available for pre-order. Since it doesn't have a display, we suggest that you just load it up with the soundtracks from Tarantino's films. That way, you are guaranteed some good tunes.

Kill Bill 1 Soundtrack
Kill Bill 2 Soundtrack
Jackie Brown Soundtrack
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack

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According to Twitchfilm.com, Tarantino has authorized Takashi Miike to create a stage play based on the twin sister of Go-Go Yubari from Kill Bill v1. Takashi Miike is the guy responsible for Ichi The Killer which is perhaps the most violent film ever made.

...when writing the screenplay for Kill Bill Tarantino originally gave Go Go Yubari a twin sister, a character cut out of the final script for pacing reasons. Tarantino and Miike talked about the character some and the end result was Tarantino giving Miike permission to direct a stage play based on the Yubari twin and the removed section of screenplay.

[Thanks to Todd for sending in the story.]

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Don't need to say much about this one, its just very cool. There's a whole slew of pics.

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One of the foreign Kill Bill sites has a neat little Kill Bill flash game where you are Uma trying to kill the Crazy 88. I don't know what it means, but click on the 'hrat' button to begin.

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Two of the movies that were heavy influences for Kill Bill have been released on DVD: Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood - Love Song of Vengeance.

In the first film, a woman in 1873 Japan must watch as four thugs kill her schoolteacher husband and son; they then rape her, and one of them keeps her as his captive. She swears revenge on all of them, but, after killing her new master, she is caught and sentenced to life in prison. Undeterred, she fucks all the guards in hopes of getting pregnant, for the sole purpose of bearing a child who will finish her mission. Mom, of course, dies in childbirth, and adorable little Yuki is handed over to a stern monk for swordplay training. That she exists and is raised only as an engine of violent revenge gives the film an undercurrent of poignancy, even as huge geysers of blood are squirting from torn arm sockets and necks. Director Toshiya Fujita employs a whole variety of effective storytelling devices, some of which Tarantino also uses.

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If you aren't happy with the way your Kill Bill DVD cover looks, you could always go download and print an alternate version. Some are cool, some are crap. I always just find it interesting to see how people tweak the official stuff that studios release. You can also grab alternate covers for previous Tarantino DVDs here.

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Getty Images has a pretty good sized group of photos from the Kill Bill DVD launch party which was held at the Playboy Mansion. The girl in the yellow body suit in the photo below ... thats all body, and no suit. Go check it out. [thanks to lix321 for the link]

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The DVD for Volume 1 is officially for sale today! Order it, go buy it, hack your neighbors head off and steal his copy. Whatever you have to do, just go get it. (except that part about your neighbor - don't try that).


Davis DVD also has some insight into the eventual reunited movie on DVD.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has some major plans for his latest opus, Kill Bill. While promoting the second volume of the series, opening theatrically on April 16th, Tarantino revealed that he plans to recut both films together for a special theatrical release later in the year. "We did a special version [of Volume 1] for Japan that's only been shown in Japan and Hong Kong, and I kept the rights to that," Tarantino said. "I'll put the Japanese version together [with Volume 2] like I would if it was one complete movie, and then I'll release that throughout America and Europe in arthouse engagements."

Tarantino also promises more extensive DVD plans for the revenge films. "I'm going to do a special collector's edition of both of them once I'm finished with both of them," he said. Also in the talking phase, Tarantino is considering the possibility of releasing stand-alone supplemental discs. "One of the things that I saw that I liked... was what the American Pie guys did with their 'Beneath the Crust' documentaries. I want to do the same thing [for Kill Bill]."

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This is just one of those weird Tarantino movie connections: Pam Grier's (Jackie Brown) brother had his artwork featured in Vernita Green's living room in Kill Bill V1.

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Thanks to Kel for pointing out to me that IGN has an advance review of the Kill Bill V1 DVD up. They only give it a 6 out of 10 overall, mostly because the extras are so limited on this 1st release.

Just in case you haven't noticed the other 50 times I've mentioned it. You can pre-order the Volume 1 DVD from Amazon.

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There's a brand new Thai Kill Bill poster available at AllPosters. I'll assume that the actual poster isn't as out of focus as the image they have up of it.

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Kill Bill Volume I was nominated for a Saturn Award in the Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film. Also nominated is Uma Thurman for Best Actress, Sonny Chiba for Best Supporting Actor and Lucy Liu for Best Supporting Actress. Quentin was also nominated for Best Director, and Best Writing.

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AllPosters.com is having a sale on Kill Bill V1 posters. All the regular sized posters are under $7.

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Here's a little something that I found on FilePile. I don't remember this camera angle from the movie, but this is apparently a screencap from Kill Bill V1. Check out the message on Uma's shoe. Click on the image for a bigger version of the whole screencap.

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Misery loves company. Patrick Stewart - of Star Trek & X-Men fame reveals that he was traumatized as a boy by watching his father beat up his mother. But instead of laying the blame for that on his dad where it belongs - Stewart heaps some of the blame on Hollywood by claiming

" ...the film industry is partly to blame for the global culture of violence against women"

Sounds a bit like he's blaming himself to me. Then he goes all Stephen King on us and throws a bag of shit at QT:

“The entertainment industry has been extremely irresponsible in perpetuating and stereotyping the violent attitudes of men to women,” said Stewart at the launch of an Amnesty International campaign against attacks on women. Stewart, who revealed that as a child he had witnessed his father beating up his mother, picked out Quentin Tarantino’s revenge tale Kill Bill for particular criticism.

“I condemn utterly films like Kill Bill. We are told it is about empowering women. All it does is empower a woman to kill other women,” he said.

Related: Stephen King Hated Kill Bill

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A little inside baseball here, but it interested me nonetheless.

The objective of Deep Focus' "Kill Bill Vol. 1" campaign was to generate trailer views for the movie's Web site before and during its release. Deep Focus' efforts resulted in three million unique audience interactions and two million trailer views during the six-week campaign, as well as the award for Best Rich Media Campaign at the DoubleClick conference.

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A big thank you to John for alerting me to the appearance of the pre-order for the Japanese version of the Kill Bill DVD. There's also a Premium Edition box set being released in Japan.

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This seems pretty out of character for King - I don't remember him ever being openly critical of somebody elses work like this. But, he clearly didn't care for Kill Bill. King actually sent a letter to Entertainment Weekly magazine ripping Tarantino's latest.

You probably saw some good reviews of ('Kill Bill'), possibly even in (Entertainment Weekly). Don't you believe it.

You should remember that movie critics see movies free. Also, they don't have to pay the baby sitter or spring 10 bucks for the parking.

They're thus apt to rhapsodize over narcissistic stuff like 'Kill Bill,' which announces itself as Quentin Tarantino's Fourth Film, ain't we la-di-da.

Ain't we la-di-da? This coming from a man who's name is featured more prominately on the cover of his books, than the actual title of the book. And he's got the nerve to try and portray Tarantino as self-absorbed. Please.


Not to mention this book cover, for which he wrote the introduction for his own book titled: "The Importance Of Being Bachman". Bachman was King's pseudonym early in his career.

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I'm not positive, because I can't read the language, but it appears that this image is a European VHS cover (probably Dutch) for Kill Bill V1.

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DVDAnswers has managed to get a hold of a couple menu screens from the Kill Bill DVD release. Here they are:

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A couple of film critics for the Star Tribune discuss Kill Bill's Oscar snub:

C.C.: The shutout of "Kill Bill Vol. 1" is a sad sign of the motion picture academy's stodgy approach to the nomination process. The film was the coolest of the cool last year, made with a craftsmanship and excitement for the possibilities of filmed entertainment that was matched by only a handful of features. For anyone interested in seeing movies that push the limits, it was the film to beat last year. Ignoring it because its creative roots reach down to disreputable low-budget revenge flicks is unforgivable snobbery.

J.S.: To have nominated "Kill Bill" would have reduced the prestige of winning an Oscar to one step above getting the Key to the City of Omaha. The movie was an exercise in excess and self-indulgence. Yes, some of the imagery was impressive -- the first time. But writer/director Quentin Tarantino was operating under the premise that anything worth doing once was worth doing four more times. His biggest accomplishment was convincing the studio that the movie was so brilliant that it couldn't be cut and, thus, had to be released in two installments. I could have cut it down to about half an hour -- including the trailers.

C.C.: Baloney. If "City of God," a Brazilian ghetto crime drama that's at least as bloody and wrenching as "Kill Bill," deserves a best-director nomination, Q.T. was robbed.

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DVDEmpire has posted the alleged artwork for the Kill Bill V1 DVD. Its basically just art from a European poster.

I suppose this means that the European DVD will just feature art from the USA posters?

The Volume I DVD is also available for pre-order @ Amazon or Amazon UK if you need a Region 2 disk.

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Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD with a final release date of April 13th, 2004. The original release date for this disk was in February, but has been pushed back to have better timing for the release of Volume II of the film. Thanks to John for the heads-up on this.

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Not sure quite what to make of this, but there's a Kill Bill DVD on Amazon Marketplace for sale for about $26. The seller has a very high rating and a ton of transactions, so it may be legit.

UPDATE: Amazon has opened pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD.

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Despite being nominated in 10 categories for the Online Film Critics Society year-end awards, Kill Bill failed to take home even a single award. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King dominated the awards with 9 wins on 11 nominations.

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Since there is an internet quiz for just about everything else, why not a quiz to see Which Kill Bill Character You Are. Its not a particularly clever quiz, but oh well.

Also, I noticed there is an official Russian Kill Bill site.

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Slate has named Kill Bill the 9th best film of 2003.
Up & Coming Magazine names Kill Bill one of 7 best of 2003.
Washington Post puts Kill Bill as 5th best of 2003. Or 2nd, depending on the critic.
Metro Weekly places Kill Bill 9th on its list.
The Toronto Star places Kill Bill as 7th best during 2003.
The Boston Globe puts Kill Bill in 4th.
Ebert ranks Kill Bill in 17th place for 2003, but Roeper puts Kill Bill in 15th place

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For those of you in the UK or Europe, the Region 2 Kill Bill DVD is available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk. Us folks in the US will have to wait a bit before pre-orders open up for us.

UPDATE: Amazon has opened up pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD here in the US also.

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The Online Film Critics Society has announced its 2003 award nominees, and Kill Bill is extremely well represented. The entire list of categories that Kill Bill has been nominated in are:

Best Picture
Best Director (Q. Tarantino)
Best Actress (U. Thurman)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score (RZA)
Best Visual Effects
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Sound

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Uma Thurman has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award (Best Actress-Drama) for her work in Kill Bill.

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Digital Producer has a pretty long interview up with Tarantino that focuses much more on the technical aspects of Kill Bill - camera work, editing, directoral decisions.

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Both of these have been available from the official Miramax store for about 2 weeks, but they are about half the price if you buy them at All Posters. Click on either of the posters below to go to All Posters and see a larger version.

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Not really a suprise considering how popular it is, but the Kill Bill Soundtrack got nominated for a Grammy in the 'Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Video Media' category. I'd say the Chicago Soundtrack is probably the favorite. Here's the other nominees:

Chicago
Gangs of New York
Kill Bill -- Vol. 1
A Mighty Wind
School of Rock

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Last night, at LA celebrity hang-out Bar Marmont, Belvedere Vodka honored Quentin Tarantino with its first ever 'Na Zdrowie' for his work on Kill Bill. In attendance to help toast Quentin were his close friends Eddie Griffin, Robert Forster, Larry Bender and others.

There is a whole host of pictures from the event, but the actual little picture/plaque that they gave Quentin is very cool.

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Here's a shot of the Playboy Magazine with Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill) on the cover.

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The official Kill Bill Shop was opened over the last week while I was away on vacation. They don't have the Pussy Wagon keychain up yet, but they do have some alternative posters that I haven't seen anywhere else along with various other gear from the movie.

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We have our winners. I got an awful lot of entries telling me how Kill Bill was Tarantino's best film to date. If you are going to suck up like that, you've got to at least make it interesting. For the poster, I used a little child labor and got my daughter to randomly pick one entry - for the keychains, I picked the two entries I enjoyed reading the most. For the keychain winners, I've posted their entries below. Later tonight, I'll have a page up with all the entries.

Winner #1 - J Weis (Kill Bill Poster)

Winner #2 - Sherman Somerville (Pussy Wagon Keychain)

I think the closest I've ever come to shitting my pants in a theater was while watching this movie. The shot to the head right at the beginning and the gun in the Kaboom cereal are what did it. I'm hopeful that Kill Bill will sweep the Oscars this year.

Winner #3 - Pieter Dom (Pussy Wagon Keychain)

Vincent:
"Kill Bill breaks down like this: it's Yul Brenner meets Bruce Lee only to find out they both turned female."

Jules:
"Shemales?"

Vincent:
"No, man. Not the type you dig giving foot massages, but badass bitches."

Jules:
"Sounds like bang for my buck. That Tarantino guy is some helluva mushroom-cloudlayin' filmfreak."

Thanks to everyone who entered. If you didn't win this time, I'm sure we'll be doing it again when Volume 2 comes out.

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The Japan Times has a big article on The 5.6.7.8's - one of the bands on the Kill Bill Soundtrack. They also appear onstage in Volume 1 right before the big fight scene.

"When we met Tarantino on the set, he told us it was destiny that we'd end up in the movie," says Ronnie, plucking out a bunch of ketchup-splattered french fries. Tarantino asked the band to perform the covers "Woo Hoo" and "I'm Blue," and the original 5.6.7.8's song "I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield" on the stage at the House of Blue Leaves, the rock 'n' roll izakaya in the movie, while people get chopped to pieces all around them.

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DVD File is reporting that the release data of the Kill Bill DVD for Volume 1 will be February 3rd, 2004. It will apparently be a 2-disc set that'll sell for approximately $29.99. Once its available, you'll be able to pre-order from Amazon thru this link.

Also, here's an email I received [thanks Peter] regarding the bootleg DVDs of Kill Bill appearing in the far east.

Just a quick note that KB1 pirate DVDs in various packages have appeared in China. The one I saw was apparently shot from the projection booth using a digital video cam. Cost RMB 10 (about US$1.25). Quality acceptable, espec. since there was no audible audience reaction except some nervous giggling during Uma's under-the-credits panting at the beginning and a chuckle during the Sonny Chiba get the tea scene.

UPDATE: Those of you in the UK and Europe can pre-order the Kill Bill DVD right now from Amazon.co.uk.

UPDATE #2: Amazon has opened up pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD here in the US also.

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I'm not sure I expected any less, but the World Socialist Website actually reviewed Kill Bill and managed to use the film to get a dig in on the Bush Administration. Here it is:

But Kill Bill originates from a director who sees a high body count as entertainment and violence as valid as any other human activity. Intentionally or not, such a film serves the purposes of this government’s war as the body count grows higher by the day, militarism tries to make youth see violence as just another form of human endeavor and the secretary of defense shrugs off a record number of deaths as a "bad day".

Thats clever and all, but what are these 'record number of deaths' that they refer to? While the loss of between 1-2 soldiers per day in Iraq is regrettable, its by no definition a 'record number of deaths'. But, then we can't exactly expect accuracy from a group that uses a film review for political purposes.

Here's a thought. Movies are art, entertainment - lets leave politics out of it.

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The Korea Media Ratings Board gave the film a "restricted screening" rating on Wednesday, effectively banning the movie until the objectionable scenes are taken out, Yonhap News Agency reported.

As a result of the restricted rating, the film will need to be edited before it is allowed to play for Korean audiences.

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JoBlo has a couple of new Kill Bill wallpapers posted. Direct links to the new stuff are here and here.

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For the 2nd straight week, the soundtrack for Kill Bill has hit #1 in Billboard's Soundtrack charts with total sales of abour 400,000. You can buy it at Amazon.com.

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Most of the critical analysis I've seen of Kill Bill has been mindless stuff that anyone could have written - its too violent, its only half a story, its not as good as Pulp Fiction, did I mention its too violent? But finally, we get a smart critique that raises some good issues:

Sure, "Kill Bill Vol. 1" betrays all the hyperactive cinephilia that we've come to expect from a Tarantino film -- boasting "quotes" from Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, Shaw Brothers chop-socky flicks, and ultraviolent yakuza fare -- but it's too much, and too obvious. "Kill Bill" doesn't nod toward the films it likes; it is the films it likes, often two or three of them at the same time -- Battle Royale meets Sukeban Deka meets Master of the Flying Guillotine.

True, Tarantino's always been lifting bits -- witness the controversy over "Reservoir Dogs" and similar scenes in the Hong Kong action flick City Of Fire -- but the old Tarantino was a true remixer, who could take certain known elements, add something new, and make them his own. For Tarantino, that often meant jazzing up genre tropes with motor-mouthed monologues, off-kilter characters, and loopy story structures.

But the main problem with the violence in "Kill Bill" is that that's all there is. It's like ordering a "Mac Royale" and getting a kilo of raw meat -- no bun, no ketchup, certainly not any pickle. Elevating B-movie schlock into mega-budgeted, over-hyped blockbusters is exactly what Hollywood has been doing since the mid-'80s, and Tarantino joins the club here.

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I'm gonna make this nice and easy for you. To enter the drawing, simply email me with your thoughts on Kill Bill Volume 1 in 50 words or less. Contest closes on November 14th. I'll pick 3 winners - one of you will get a double-sided Kill Bill Poster, and the other two will each get your very own Pussy Wagon keychain.



UPDATE: I thought this was obvious, but you cannot enter this contest by posting a comment to this article - you must email me w/ your entry.

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If you are trying to download clips of Kill Bill - beware, you may have launched a trojan program on yourself.

A new backdoor (spying program) which poses as a DivX file containing subtitles from the latest Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill has been spotted on the Net. The low-spreading Manda-A (AKA PWSteal.Salira) Trojan arrives as a .RAR archive with a malformed header. This archive, 35347 bytes in size, has a movie subtitle name Kill Bill.

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From Australia, from Texas, from Baltimore, and from Europe

Also, the Sluggy Freelance cartoon strip has a parody of Kill Bill.

UPDATE: Stuff Magazine has an interview with David Carradine (Bill) this month and Jay Tierney has a short review of Kill Bill v1.

UPDATE #2: Nocturnal Admissions has two Kill Bill reviews up - 1 | 2

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The Screenwriters Voice has an interesting breakdown of the differences between the Kill Bill script, and what ended up on the screen.

The volume of Kill Bill on the screen is close to the first half of the 200+ page script that has been floating around some circles for quite some time. But it has been tweaked, and for the better. Expanded, in fact, and a more elaborate and energetic film than most reading it could have imagined. The differences may not be huge, they don't affect the plot, but they are equally significant and interesting. The script was good, but not great. One realizes quickly, however, that the document is but a glimpse into the world in Tarantino's mind a peak at a project still under construction.

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The author of the article mentioned here - Gregg Easterbrook - has been fired from ESPN over this incident. FYI, Miramax - the distributor of Kill Bill - is owned by Disney. Disney also owns ESPN.

In an article that started out simply as a complaint about the level of violence in Kill Bill and Tarantino's lack of talent, Gregg Easterbrook of TNR manages to blame it all on the Jews.

Set aside what it says about Hollywood that today even Disney thinks what the public needs is ever-more-graphic depictions of killing the innocent as cool amusement. Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner, is Jewish; the chief of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, is Jewish. Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence. Does that make it right for Jewish executives to worship money above all else, by promoting for profit the adulation of violence?

[sarcasm] Yes, its all the fault of those money worshipping Jews. [/sarcasm] Nice stereotype there Easterbrook.

Well, it got bad enough that he had to issue an apology. Unfortunately for him, not everyone is buying it.

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Kill Bill, like all Tarantino movies, is full of references to other films and pop culture, both obscure and obvious. Listed below are a couple of the more obscure references sent in by readers. Send in others if you know any.

1. In Reservoir Dogs, the radio DJ is from a show called "K Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's. - from Jeff K (this may just be coincidence - ed.)

2. The opening scene in Kill Bill with Uma approaching Vivica's bungalo is accompanied by a tune called, "Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills. Here's the cool part. The sign (or mailbox - I can't recall which) on the lawn clearly indicates that this home belongs to "The Bells". The Bells was Frank's band before he went solo. They had a minor hit in the 70s called, "Fly Little White Dove Fly" and another hit called "Stay Ahwile". I am not sure how many people would make this connection. I did because I am his son-in-law and married the daughter whose Music Box Dancer broke when she was a little girl providing the inspiration for this tune. - from John B

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The Kill Bill study guide has everything you need/ought to know but probably don't about Kill Bill. Jap Attack also has a Tarantino interview thats worth reading.

And finally, a bunch of photos of Chiaki Kuriyama (Go-Go) and her official site.

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Reader Mike B writes in with his observations about the cap codes (unique digital identifiers - usually red dots - that are supposed to fight piracy) in Kill Bill. His complaint is that they were way too visible:

I've never noticed these before in movies - but they were obvious enough in Kill Bill that they distracted me. (One instance that comes to mind was when they showed up on the cupboards in the background during the fight scene in the kitchen.) It really frustrates me that the movie industry feels the only way it can protect its intellectual property is by degrading it with this heavy-handed technique.

I'd be curious to know how many other people noticed these dots. More importantly, I'd love to know if anyone has found a reliable method of registering a complaint with Miramax.

I didn't notice the cap codes when I saw Kill Bill, but since I saw it at a drive-in theater, the quality wasn't nearly as high as it would normally be. And actually, I can't remember ever seeing a cap code in a film.

So, did anyone else notice the cap codes when they saw the movie? Were they distracting? Is it worth complaining about to Miramax?

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I'd expect nothing less from a site called Conspiracy Planet, but this is just too funny not to mention.

Lucifer's sermons are found in many American music videos, video games, television and films. For example, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill was the highest grossing film in America this weekend. This film is Satanic fetishism dressed up as courageous, inventive entertainment. Can they be any more in-your-face? This is the Devil telling us we can have whatever we want, and nothing can get in our way, especially not God. Just so long as our stupidity is accompanied by pretension and style.

This sick, shocking movie causes psychological damage. It portrays the disgusting and repulsive as normal and natural. It is a vicious parody of our vision of happiness and the good life. It makes a mockery of healthy and genuine values.

Kill Bill brutalizes and degrades. How much longer will Americans tolerate this Satanic indoctrination?

UPDATE: FilmStew.com has a long article about Kill Bill and Tarantino in general by Todd Gilchrist

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You heard it here first. Way back in April I mentioned that the Kill Bill video game was in trouble, and today there's a Reuters story that confirms no such game is in development.

After licensing Quentin Tarantino's fourth film for the video game realm last year, a spokeswoman said there is no "Kill Bill" game in development at this time. With the traditional 18 months required to make a game and the second movie bowing in February, it looks as if gamers won't be able to kung fu fight with the film's colourful characters.

Also, some of the Kill Bill stars talked to Tech TV about their use of technology.

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Revenge: to avenge (as oneself), by retaliating in kind or degree.

Quentin Tarantino’s latest flick, Kill Bill, takes that definition to a whole new level. Revenge isn’t simply dished out, it is served up in a fury of Super Sized Big Gulps of Whoop Ass!

As with Tarantino’s 3 previous films, we have a cast of eccentric odd balls, which are so bizarre, that they have to be seen, to be believed. Uma Thurman plays our heroine, The Bride. The Bride was formerly a member of the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad (aka The DiVAS), a deadly hit squad of beautiful women. It’s not really the type of group that you just retire from. Once a member, always a member. The DiVAS work for a man simply known as Bill.

The Bride, believing she can simply quit and thinking she is free from the DiVAS, is pregnant and about to marry, when the remaining DiVAS crash the wedding and massacre everyone in the chapel. Bill makes an appearance to finish the job, and makes it perfectly clear to The Bride, that if she is leaving, it will be on his terms. Specifically, a bullet to the brain… But wait, the bride isn’t dead after all!

Turns out our blushing (and bloody) bride has been in a coma for four years and has suddenly awakened, with only one thing on her mind… to Kill Bill. (OK, she also wants to catch up on old times with the rest of the DiVAS.). I am hesitant to get deeper into the plot, because I would hate to give away any more than just the basic set up.

Tarantino plays his favorite card on the viewers: Can something so repulsive, be funny? The classic example was Pulp Fiction when Vincent shoots the kid in the head, in the back of the car. It’s totally gross, but very funny in the context of the film. In Kill Bill, there is enough swordplay to give a wicked hard-on to even the most jaded Kung-Fu movie fan. If it can be hacked off with a sword, it’s hacked off in Kill Bill. There is more blood in this movie, than the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It is obvious that Tarantino loves these movies very much. You can feel the passion he put into the making of this movie.

As we have come to expect with Quentin, the story is told non-linear. So, there are lots of flashbacks and out of order chapters. This technique still holds up well. Careful editing also helps to keep the viewer guessing and wanting more. In lesser hands, this movie would have been an utter mess from the opening credits.

There are a few “How did they do that?” moments in Kill Bill, so some might enjoy a second viewing. Plus, it’s worth $8 to see again, just for the soundtrack. Taratino even rips off himself, with an homage to a famous scene from Reservoir Dogs (probably not the one you are thinking of…).

This movie definitely rocks. Much like Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, Uma Thurman plays a very smart and sexy character. She knows exactly what she wants, and neither the character, nor the movie’s director make any apologies for it. It doesn’t have that saccharine feel like the Charlie’s Angel’s movies.

The last 5 minutes are a fantastic set up for the second movie. Too bad we have to wait until February to see it.

An aside: Tarantino has caught a lot of flack, for releasing this as 2 movies, instead of one. His (and Miramax’s) argument is that it would be too long as one movie. Many people cried foul (but are willing to see LOTR, Matrix or Star Wars as multiple movies……), and that it was a ruse to simply make people pay twice to see the movie. Others (ahem, Bret) suggested cutting 30-45 minutes from Volume 1, to accommodate Volume 2 in the same film. I think that would be a huge mistake. Volume 1 is long (1 hour and 50 minutes) and might be a little deliberate at times, but cutting it down would be a huge mistake. I never really got the feeling that there was any filler in it. It is well put together and beautifully photographed. Why sacrifice that, to placate impatient viewers? I personally thought the movie flew by.

Review by Minied

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With $22.7 million - easily the biggest opening weekend ever for a Tarantino film - Kill Bill easily took 1st place in this weeks box office receipts race.

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Some new posters for you. All are available from eBay:
Subway Poster
Japanese Poster
2nd Japanese Poster
3rd Japanese Poster

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From the recent press junket, Lights Out Entertainment has audio versions of interviews with Tarantino, Uma, Lucy, Daryl, Vivica and Julie Dryfus.

Also, here are a couple of Kill Bill reviews: Digital Theatre, Moovees.com, Rolling Stone.

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Thats what this story says. The reason behind it is that Miramax will spend about $20 million more on marketing than originally planned because of the 2 volume approach to the film.

Also, I'm heading out tonight to see Kill Bill at the local drive-in theatre.

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Couple of more foreign posters for you today:


There is also a 2nd US poster now:


You can buy the stock US poster here, and the alternate version here. Both are only $8.99.

Also MTV has a couple of new articles up about Kill Bill

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Elizabeth Spiers (formerly of Gawker fame) has an article about the NY premiere of Kill Bill and the afterparty.

Watching the film in a room full of people who cheer when Uma Thurman's character kicks someone's ass is, incidentally, far more entertaining than watching with a silent audience. Should you decide to see Kill Bill yourself, I highly recommend that you clap, whistle and yell every time someone's head goes flying across the screen. It really enhances the experience. Trust me.

Quentin was a no-show for the NY premiere - reportedly sick in bed back in LA. However, couple with his sudden cancellations for a whole host of TV promo appearances, the rumor is that he was 'uninvited' from the TV shows after his drunken performance on Jay Leno's show.

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JoBlo.com has the first of a series of five Kill Bill related interviews up today - this one is with Uma Thurman.

UPDATE: The JoBlo interview w/ Lucy Liu is up. As is their review of Kill Bill.

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There's some Kill Bill Volume 1 spoilers in the interview, so be wary. Unlike most interviews I've seen, the questioner here - David Ansen - actually knows what he's talking about, and it makes for a great article.

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According to Matt Drudge, the Disney executives are getting skittish about how violent Kill Bill is.

A top DISNEY source reveals chairman Michael Eisner has become concerned MIRAMAX is pushing the envelope too far with KILL BILL.

"Look, the movie is ultimately a WALT DISNEY concern, we've moved so far away from PINOCCHIO and BAMBI," a top DISNEY source said from Burbank. "[KILL BILL] has led to a deep reassesment of the situation and relationship [with MIRAMAX]."

UPDATE: The Miramax-Disney relationship is apparently just fine.

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I'm guessing he won't be doing this again since Leno didn't seem very amused - but Quentin apparently got loaded while waiting to go on the show, and was a bit incoherant during his interview.

Tarantino is also quoted in this article about Jack Valenti halting the practice of sending review copies of films to Oscar voters:

Academy member Quentin Tarantino, a 1994 Oscar screenplay winner and best-director nominee for "Pulp Fiction," said that if not for screener copies, a movie such as "Pollock" probably never would have been seen widely enough to gain Oscar buzz for Harden and the film's star and director, Ed Harris, who was nominated for best actor.

Yet Tarantino said it pained him when he learned that videotapes of "Pulp Fiction" were being sent to Oscar voters.

"I'm here to tell you, I thought they were carving my heart out by sending videos," said Tarantino, whose "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" hits theaters next week. "I worked my (butt) off on that movie, and the fact that they were sending it out to people to watch in their homes, reduced to a tiny screen, I just hated that idea."

Thanks to Marty for the heads up.

UPDATE: USA Today is afraid to publish the word 'pussy'. They chickened out when referring to Tarantino's Pussy Wagon.

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A 4-part Quicktime version of the Bravo special (airing starting Monday) is up for download @ The Movie Box.

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Film Jerk has an interview with Tarantino that touches on Kill Bill Volume 2 and his future project(s). And another UK story/interview about Quentin that touches on alot of Kill Bill related subjects, especially Uma:

"There’s no one else I would even have considered for the part," says Tarantino. "Uma Thurman is so damned statuesquely beautiful, she's scary - she’s all elbows and kneecaps."

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Empire Online has a bunch of pictures of the London premiere. Uma looks great yet again.

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With Kill Bill being one movie presented in two different volumes in the theatre, the DVD release(s) has the potential to be a huge mess. Unfortunately, Tarantino himself appears to confirm that it will indeed be messy.

"I'm thinking about it big time already," he said. "I can't imagine a better movie when it comes to great DVD stuff. I'm gonna really play fair as far as the DVD's concerned, you know? We'll come up with separate DVDs for Volume 1 and Volume 2 and I'll do special stuff for each of those. Then we'll come up with a real big version with them both together but I won't repeat the special stuff I put on Volume 1 and Volume 2. I'll do something whole other from that. I might even do some other little movie thing just to go on that special double feature version."

Call me silly, but releasing what was intended to be one film in three separate DVDs is not fair. Fair would be reuniting the film back into one piece so that fans could spend their $20-25 one time and get the DVD. Forcing fans to pay for 2 movie tickets and then expecting them to shell out for 3 different DVDs to get all the extras is not fair, it hyper-commercialism.

I hope they re-think this strategy and just release Vol 1 and Vol 2 as bare-bones disks for those that just want one or both of the movies. The special edition should have all the extras from both Vol 1 & 2. That would be fair.

UPDATE: Amazon has opened up pre-orders for the Kill Bill DVD. The final release date of the DVD is April 13th.

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JoBlo has 6 new promo pix from Kill Bill. They are all solo Uma shots, some with her in a wedding dress, and all include her with a sword.

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Latino Review got their hands on the international poster for Kill Bill. Click on the image for a larger version:

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Nice little parody of the Kill Bill trailer.

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The article is just another general Kill Bill piece, this one focused on the four main female characters in the film - Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Vivica Fox and Lucy Liu. But the video of the LA premiere is worth watching.

The Village Voice also has a long article/interview with Tarantino.

"It's a sad cliche that most every director ends their career with a whimper," says Tarantino, who was friends with Fukasaku over the last 10 years of his life. "You know, it's like, 'The sex drive goes, great! Now I can devote myself to my art.' They didn't realize the dick drive is connected to the art drive." He's either about to break into "Dem Bones" or embarrass himself, so he stops. For the moment.

They also get into Quentin's foot fetish:

The small thing—things—are Thurman's feet. When Tarantino was meeting with her about Pulp Fiction, he reportedly proffered a friendly foot rub. In that movie, mobster Tony Rocky Horror got tossed out of the window by Ving Rhames for giving Thurman's character a foot massage. When Thurman's The Bride wakes from a coma and escapes from the hospital in Kill Bill, she struggles to get her paralyzed feet to regain sensation. For what seems like minutes these totemic toes fill the screen. The guy digs her dogs, and he turns them into something huge and pure pop on the screen—you want to shout at them toes to start a-wiggling. It's not just that he's a foot fetishist, but that he takes what he cares about—personal, quirky stuff—and transforms it into art. He hooks you in, too.

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Got a new packet of publicity information today for Kill Bill - the best of which is some new production stills: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

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Here they are. I'll have some better quality shots of this later.

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Uma Thurman is on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, and since their website is restricted to AOL members and subscribers, you'll just have to make do with scans of the article. Thanks to Erik for the heads up and the scans.

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I'll try to post as many reviews of Kill Bill v1 here as possible. So far, nearly everything I've seen has been overwhelmingly positive. Here we go:

Harry Knowles (cream-your-pants positive)
AICN Readers (very positive, 1 exception)
TNMC (negative)
Jeffrey Wells rips Kill Bill - then actually sees the movie.

I'm under a review-embargo agreement, but have you ever read and heard so much negative stuff about a movie you've started to believe it's your own negative stuff, and on top of this you've allowed your cynicism about the editing and selling of a film to affect your view of what this film may actually turn out to be? But then you finally see the film and you come out staggering and amazed and resolved never to let advance hype affect your expectations again? I'm not referring to anything specific, of course, but you know what I mean.

Thats quite a turn around.

Dark Horizons review (positive)

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Daryl Hannah is cashing in on her Kill Bill rejuvinated career by posing nude in the November 2003 issue of Playboy magazine (more here). Apparently, she only got the gig after Playboy ditched Heidi Klum because she demanded all her photos be published in black and white.

For the curious, some previous nude shots of Daryl can be found here.

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