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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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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The church used in Kill Bill 2 (scene where Bill shot The Bride in the head) was attacked by vandals on Halloween. [thanks to MJ for the tip]

UPDATE: MJ was also able to go out to the scene and photograph the interior and exterior of the church (his story is here), and he sent me the photos.

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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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Quentin Tarantino was given a Best Action Movie Director award at the TAURUS World Stund Awards on Sunday night.

TWSA executive producer Mitch Geller said, "Quentin Tarantino's work with the Kill Bill films, solidified him as one of today's best action directors making him the perfect choice for the Taurus Action Movie Director of the Year award. He has consistently shown an ability to learn from the stunt teams on his many films and has expressed a genuine interest in the field of stunt work."

Kill Bill V2 also won awards for Best Fight and Best Overall Stunt By a Stuntwoman.

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Kill Bill career revival be damned? After resurrecting the career of both David Carradine and Daryl Hannah with the film, they haven't exactly set the world on fire with new roles. And now, Hannah is quit acting to save the planet.

"I won't be doing anything for a while because I'm focused on environmental issues. I live in a solar-powered house built with eco-friendly materials and things salvaged from a 19th century barn.

"I also drive a 100% bio-diesel car. I try to follow this ideal through all aspects of my life."

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Kill Bill V2 was nominated in three categories at the MTV Movie Awards [thanks to Clarence for the heads up]:

Best Fight: Uma Thurman & Daryl Hannah
Best Picture: Kill Bill 2
Best Female Lead: Uma Thurman

The winners are apparently determined by votes from fans, so head over and vote for Kill Bill.

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Thanks to Naly for alerting me to the fact that Tarantino and Kill Bill V2 managed to win a few awards at the IOMA (Italian Online Movie Awards).

QT walked away with Best Director, and Kill Bill V2 won the award for Best Cast, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effects.

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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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Congrats to Uma Thurman for winning Best Actress and Hottest Movie Babe in IGN FilmForce's Best of 2004 Awards. Its no Oscar, but its at least something. [Thanks to Elton for the tip]

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Roger Ebert names Kill Bill V2 the 2nd best movie of 2004. It also makes Roeper's year-end list. Hopefully, the film will win something at the Academy Awards.

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Forgot to mention when I put up the info about Kill Bill's Golden Globes nominations, that the soundtrack for Volume 2 was nominated for a Grammy.

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Congratulations to Uma Thurman on her Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.

And contractulations to David Carradine for his Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama.

Both nominations were for Kill Bill Volume 2. Uma Thurman was also nominated last year for her performance in Volume 1.

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Couple of brand spanking new Kill Bill posters are now available. Click on the images below to purchase them. I've also got some new coupon codes from All Posters for you:

4FL5K - $5 off $25
4TS15K - $15 off $65
4XP25K - $25 off $100

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Here's an alternate location for some Kill Bill merchandise. I assume this is all unofficial stuff.

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Amazon has a new Kill Bill product with no description and I can't find anything about it, but its a Kill Bill: An Unofficial Casebook. I assume its either an analysis of the movie, how it was made, and all its connections to the martial arts films that Tarantino mentioned as inspiration, but thats just a guess. They also have a Kill Bill 2005 calander.

Also, I thought I'd just put up some of the Kill Bill DVD product images from Japan. We really seem to get screwed when it comes to the cool cover art. I didn't include any links since these DVDs aren't playable on Region 1 DVD players, but you can grab any of these from amazon.co.jp if you really want them.

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An email from Mark:

I came across a mistake on the Kill Bill Box set Best Buy gave out with the purchase of Kill Bill 2. I am not sure you know of this yet but there is a mistake on the back cover. Elle Driver's name is Mispelled. It is spelled on the cover "Cailfornia Mountain Snake".

So, I went and checked the forum and sure as heck, there's a picture of the mis-spelling right here.

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Some random Kill Bill stuff for you:

Found via the Dutch site Inglorious Bastards comes Hanzo Steel - Kill Bill Remixes and a couple of Kill Bill V2 DVD screens. One is below and the other one can be seen here.


Also, there is a Kill Bill(y) skateboard deck.

The Annotaged Kill Bill.

And finally, somebody did the ultimate - they morphed the old Star Wars Kid video in with some scenes from Kill Bill. Awesome.

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Today is the day that the Kill Bill V2 DVD gets released into the wild. Run out and buy 5 copies. Apparently, Best Buy has a deal where you can get a DVD sleeve thingy to hold both V1 and V2 in the same little package if you buy it there.

Also, make sure to check out our newest advertiser in the box to the right. Raymond Embrack has some very cool online fiction for you to check out.

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It sure seems to have taken a long time, but the release of the Kill Bill Volume 2 DVD is only 12 days away.

I've also notice some neat-looking boxed sets - one in France, and another in Japan. And then there's this Popcorn/Zipper dust cover, which to get you actually buy the popcorn, and the cover thing is free.

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I'll let them describe to you what this award is all about:

They might as well be called the Short Attention Span Oscars, so dominated are the Academy Awards by films that open in the second half of the year. So, in recognition of all those award-worthy performances from January to June, we bestow our own mid-year movie honors: The Oscar Minors.

So without further explanation, Kill Bill V2 wins for Best Picture, Tarantino wins for Best Director, and Uma gets edged out for Best Actress.

Unofficial or not, its nice to see Tarantino's work get recognized for its quality.

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DVD Empire has an entirely different Kill Bill V2 DVD cover than Amazon does. I'm not sure which one is the official final version.

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Uma Thurman won both the Best Female Performance and Best Fight awards at the MTV Movie Awards for her role(s) in the Kill Bill movies. Lucy Liu won the award for Best Villain as well.

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All Posters is having a sale thru Sunday, June 7th with most of the Kill Bill posters priced at $5.98. Plus, the coupon code GET15JUNE2004 will save you an additional 15%.

Also, Empire Online has a review and some details about the complete version of Kill Bill (1 & 2 combined).

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Amazon has opened up the pre-orders for the Kill Bill Volume 2 DVD. The official release date is slated for August 10th.

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The DVD for Kill Bill 2 DVD is going to be released in August. With that early of a release, I'd guess we'll see a super-combined-with-extras edition before Christmas.

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A bloody fight broke out at the Kill Bill 2 party at Cannes. The story is tiny and there is no info on who was involved or what the injuries were. Hopefully I can find out more.

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All Posters has a whole new group of 4"x6" postercards for Kill Bill up. They are really neat, I just wish they were full fledged poster sized. Click each image below or click here to see all the available Kill Bill posters.



UPDATE:. Coupon code for $5 off a $20 order: [CXP-ZQU-639-832-78U] - only good thru May 4th.

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Another interesting interview with David Carradine [thanks to Evan for the link]

Onion AV: Do you see Kill Bill as one film?

David Carradine: Yeah, it's one long film. Back before they split it into two parts, it was one film, and that's how you should think about it. And I don't think it will take very long—you'll be seeing it that way, because there are enough Tarantino fans who want to see it that way, and all you need to do is remove the credits in the middle. It holds together. Wham, it's a three-and-a-half-hour epic fucking masterpiece of exploitation moviemaking. That's what he calls it. He'll never tell you that what he's actually doing is giving himself the ability to be a great director like David Lean or somebody like that. He hides. He's very subversive, right? All the techniques available, moments of great beauty and great terror in this picture, particularly if you see it as one picture, you see that it flows. Everyone says that Part Two is a much different picture. Well, if you look at it together, you'll see that it flows together. It doesn't just jump. That's the way he designed it. He wanted everybody to think that it was just a simple action movie, and be plunged into this tragic love story that has a lot of the feeling of Sergio Leone, but also has the feeling of Shakespeare.

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The original release date for Kill Bill Volume 2 was pushed back because Tarantino said he needed a break, and now he's decided he needs another break - cancelling his promo tours for V2 in Europe, Asia, and Australia due to exhaustion.

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AllPosters has a new Kill Bill 2 poster available.

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Yahoo! has a whole group of photos from the Kill Bill Volume 2 London premiere. Click on the picture below to see them all.

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Overseas for the London premiere of Kill Bill Volume 2, the cast gets raked over the coals for the violence in the movie. I'd have thought that the media would have gotten all these questions out of the way when Volume 1 was released. At least the media here in the US didn't have a fit about it this time.

Also, the Daily Telegraph has an interview/article with David Carradine up today. They call him a 'C-grade Legend'. Ouch.

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With an estimated Friday take of $10.7 million, Kill Bill Volume 2 appears to be on its way to easily being this weekends box office winner.

UPDATE: Kill Bill Volume 2 ended up with $25.1 million for the weekend, giving it nearly twice the revenue of the 2nd place movie - The Punisher.

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From reader Natalie:

I'm amazed at your website, and always talk about it to my friends who are also die-hard Tarantino's fans as well. Great work. Looking forward for this Friday's opening :D

Anyway, David Carradine was on CityTV last night here in Toronto. Yeah. Here he talks about his role, his respect towards Quentin.

The story about the interview is here. Also, you can actually watch the video of the interview - its just over 4 minutes long. Pretty interesting stuff.

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The positive reviews of Kill Bill V2 continue to roll in. I'm going to see it at a matinee on Saturday.

CNN's Paul Clinton calls it, "sharp, spendid".

Ultimately, "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is an astounding conclusion to Tarantino's epic tale, and Uma Thurman is nothing short of magnificent.

Filmrot's review:

Excellent dialogue, retro yet inventive visuals, superb dramatic performances and an amazing soundtrack make Kill Bill Volume 2 a must see.

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Daryl Hannah was acting so strange at the Kill Bill Volume 2 premiere thatpolice gave her a sobriety test before letting her drive home. Hannah claims she gets very nervous at these type of events as decided to go to the event 'in character' as Elle Driver.

She says, "I usually just race into theatres at premieres, but this time I thought I would walk in like Elle and would walk in, with her cocky attitude and stuff.

"So I went through the press line and I was like standing on my car and doing kung fu and giving them the finger or whatever.

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Well, its the 1st negative review that I've seen anyhow. The New Yorker has a long, negative review of Kill Bill 2 (spoiler warning). Here's an excerpt:

Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill Vol. 2” is a shapeless mess, but at least it’s not as monotonous as “Kill Bill Vol. 1.” It has some landscape and some odd characters, whereas the earlier movie consisted mostly of sliced-cranium combat scenes and lacquered-glitz interiors and mock emotions like “anger” and “grief” that linked the fight episodes the way a thin string might hold a set of glittering flea-market jewels. “Kill Bill Vol. 1” was sequenced, but it wasn’t really plotted; it had faces, bodies, and limbs (often severed), but it didn’t have characters; it had spasmodic action but nothing approaching dramatic life.

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There is a pretty big article about QT and Uma and Kill Bill 2 in this month's Rolling Stone. Plus, they made the cover.

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The Windows Media site (last place I would have ever looked) actually appears to have the largest repository of Kill Bill 2 media clips available - 8 clips and a behind the scenes segment.

The NY Times also has an article charting the Tarantino 'universe' that explains alot of the obscure and obvious references in the Kill Bill films. [thanks to Crystal for the heads up on both links]

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To go along with Tarantino's talk of a sequel to Kill Bill in 15 years, he's also floating the idea of an animated prequel to Kill Bill:

... focus on the three men - pimp Estebian Vihaio and martial arts masters Hattori Hanzo and Pei Mai

This same little IMDB article mentions that Quentin will be directing a portion of Robert Rodriguez's next film, Sin City. In order for that to happen, Rodriguez actually had to resign from the Director's Guild because of an arcane rule about one director, one film. [Hat tip to Eric for the Rodriguez story]

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Yahoo! has two new clips up from Kill Bill 2:

"Sweet" -- The Bride confronts Bill on her wedding day.
"New Student" -- Bill leaves The Bride to train with martial arts master Pai Mei..

Also, Rebecca emailed me to show off that she already has her copy of the Kill Bill DVD while we all have to wait! She got hers from DVD World USA, but I've got mine pre-ordered from Amazon already. DVD Empire also has a decent price if you don't like Amazon.

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This is how crazy rumors get started. Tarantino tells Entertainment Weekly he'll make a sequel to Kill Bill - in 15 years.

The star will be Vernita Green's (Vivica A. Fox's) daughter, Nikki (Ambrosia Kelley). I've already got the whole mythology: Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on The Bride," he says. "Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age."

15 years? Why not just shoot it after Inglorious Bastards using a different, older, girl to play Nikki's part when she's all grown up? Could it be because he really doesn't intend to make a Volume 3? That'd be my guess.

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The LA premiere of Kill Bill 2 was last night. Below are some photos; click on each for a larger version. Ethan Hawke's an idiot.

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The official Kill Bill website has been updated with a load of new stuff for Volume 2, including some kick ass wallpapers

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Here's the new Kill Bill V2 trailer in Quicktime format. And here's the Real Player version from Yahoo!

I'm suprised at the spoiler level contained in this trailer. We see The Bride's daughter (she's even identified as such) and we see The Bride being buried alive.

UPDATE: The trailer is also available at the Quicktime site, though its still labeled as a 'Teaser' currently.

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Michael Madsen recounts an interesting story about how and why Tarantino fired Warren Beatty and hired David Carradine to play Bill in Kill Bill.

In fact, he (Madsen) remembers going to a dinner party that producer Lawrence Bender held for Beatty so that he could meet the actor and "hang out and feel if we were comfortable with each other, seeing that we had to be brothers and all." The meeting went well and about three days later Madsen got a phone call from the director.

"He goes, 'Well, I just fired Warren.' And I said, 'Oh my God. You did?' And he said, 'Yeah, yeah.' He said, 'He doesn't understand what the movie's about and I'm not going to go through this. He doesn't understand what the movie's about, he doesn't want to do it and I don't want him to do it,'" Madsen recalls.

"I said, 'Well who in the name of god is going to play Bill?' And he goes, 'Are you ready?' And I said, 'Yeah, I'm ready g**d**n it. Who is it?' And he said, 'David Carradine.' And I remember that I was completely and totally stunned. I mean it so took me off guard. I wouldn't of thought of David in a million years. At the same time I realized that it made more sense than anything," says Madsen. "And the first time I saw David I knew that he could handle it and obviously he did, because he's wonderful in the picture."

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The official Kill Bill V2 trailer will be released tonight simultaneously in multiple locations on TV and the internet tonight:

Viewers who tune into Entertainment Tonight or visit Yahoo.com, AOL.com, MSN.com or Quicktime.com on Tuesday will be the first to see the "KILL BILL VOL. 2" trailer.

Also, there are now two additional Kill Bill Volume 2 posters for sale at All Posters: Official Poster | Teaser Poster.

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The Hollywood Reporter has yet another glowing review of Kill Bill Volume 2.

"Kill Bill-Vol. 2" puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1."

Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. ... Here is a movie that not only pays homage to a host of action-movie styles but rigorously explores its pulp fiction for visceral truths that link culture and cinema. Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.

Box office-wise, the sky's the limit. Not only will "Vol. 2" enjoy a hugely successful theatrical run, but many of us will eventually demand the bifurcated sections of "Kill Bill" be conjoined into a single showing both in theaters and later in home entertainment. For what once felt out of balance now plays in perfect harmony. What once seemed to lack humor or subtext now has plenty.

UPDATE: Yet another good review from Roger Friedman. [thanks to Gregory for the link]

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Here are some Kill Bill Volume 2 promo schedules [via Keenertrain]:

Vivica A. Fox will be on Craig Kilborn on April 7th.
Quentin will be on Jay Leno on April 9th.
Michael Madsen will be on Jimmy Kimmel on April 13th.

Set your TiVo for the Leno show on Friday. You'll remember that last time Tarantino was on with Jay, he got drunk and stumbled thru the interview. Word was Leno wasn't very amused.

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Its all in Japanese, so who knows what it really says, but it appears that the photos here are of some available Kill Bill V2 products in Japan.

Also, below is an image of what the theatre tickets will apparently look like for Volume 2 in Japan.

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Via reader Elton:

I stayed up late last night to watch their advance review on CBS. They both were in total agreement that it deserves two thumbs way up and Egbert said that though Volume 1 was not on his top 10 list last year, Volume 2 will definitely be on this year's. He cited things like clever dialogue from Michael Madsen, and I'm trying to remember what else but again, it was late =P Oh I remember he referenced a technique in Pulp Fiction where there was stuff you didn't see but from how they described it you can imagine it in your head. He also said something about a choice that Madsen gave The Bride between hairspray and a flashlight, but I didnt read the second half of the script so I don't know what that's about. He said a lot of good things about it and how it makes you appreciate the first one more and that you don't need to have seen volume 1 to fully enjoy it.

The bottom line is 2 thumbs way up. Roeper says that this film is so good it increases his appreciation for Volume I. Roeper also says that if the film were to be released together, it would be worthy of consideration for Best Picture. Obviously, this is very good news.

Runtime for Volume 2 is being reported as 137 minutes, which puts the total film at roughly 4 hours and 11 minutes long.

I'm actually more pumped up to see this half of the film than I was the 1st time around.

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The official Kill Bill website has been updated with a Volume 1 DVD trailer. I haven't had any luck getting it to play as of yet, but maybe somethings screwed up on my end.

Also, although I see nothing mentioned on the web anywhere, I just saw a new TV spot for Kill Bill Volume 2. Hopefully, something will appear online shortly.

UPDATE: The TV spot for Kill Bill Volume 2 can be seen here.

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Just got an email from Dan letting me know that the official Warner Brothers press release for the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack has been posted:

Kill Bill Vol. 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to Quentin Tarantino's box office hit Kill Bill Vol. 1, is set to hit U.K. cinemas nationwide on April 23rd. The soundtrack for Kill Bill Vol.2 will be released in the U.K. on April 19th on Maverick Records/WEA and will feature new cutting edge tracks from Johnny Cash, Malcolm McLaren, and Wu-Tang Clan.

After a hugely successful movie debut last October, Kill Bill Vol.1, which featured a range of classic tracks from Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" to RZA's "Ode to Oren Ishii", the soundtrack was a sell out success in the U.K, debuting at Number 1 on the UK soundtrack chart and selling over 120,000 copies.

The soundtrack for Kill Bill Vol. 2 is set to carry on this success, with classic tracks from the multi-platinum selling Wu Tang Clan, the 'God of Modern Movie' music Ennio Morricone ("Il Tramonto", "A Silhouette Of Doom") and the rockability kitsch of Charlie Feathers ("Can't Hardly Stand It").

They also have a 1417 x 1417 version of the cover that would make a good desktop background with some cropping. You'll also notice that the CD cover for the UK soundtrack in this press release has a slightly different cover than the US version posted her previously.

You can buy the Volume 2 soundtrack here.

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Not suprisingly, he likes it.

"The content, even the style, are very different. It's not the juggernaut of fighting that the first one was, although there's a lot of hot action in it. Everyone talks a lot -- what people are used to with Quentin.'

"The heart of the movie is the stuff between me and Uma -- wonderful stuff. I just saw the finished picture, and it's beyond my expectations,' adds Carradine of the feature opening April 16. "The second one is, I think, a better picture than the first.'

MSNBC also has a longer article about Carradine.

"Bill is more fun than anything," Carradine said. "Bill has virtually no human problems. He’s just kind of put himself above it all. He's actually a very charming guy. Yeah, he kills people for a living, but ... As far as him being a villain, there are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. Everybody has an agenda, everybody is a criminal, and everybody has a certain nobility."

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AllPosters.com now has the official Kill Bill Volume 2 teaser poster up for sale.

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From reader Joey:

Just thought you'd like to know that as I was checking out www.ComingSoon.net tonight, I noticed they added a link to a "new japanese trailer" for "...Volume 2". Although I wouldn't get too excited since there really isn't anything "new". It actually looks somewhat like a fan-created-trailer. Most of the footage is from Volume 1, and from the Volume 2 trailer...and additional V2 footage found in early Volume 1 trailers. There's one new scene with a panoramic shot of The Bride driving on the road, but who's to say it's from the movie.

I actually like this trailer just fine. It keeps with the 'Kill Is Love' theme from the Japanese poster.

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We've finally got a tracklist and cover art for the Kill Bill Volume 2 Soundtrack:

1 A FEW WORDS FROM THE BRIDE Uma Thurman
2 GOODNIGHT MOON Shivaree
3 IL TRAMONTO Ennio Morricone
4 CAN'T HARDLY STAND IT Charlie Feathers
5 TU MIRÁ (edit) Lole Y Manuel
6 SUMMERTIME KILLER Luis Bacalov
7 THE CHASE Alan Reeves, Phil Steele and Philip Brigham
8 THE LEGEND OF PAI MEI David Carradine and Uma Thurman
9 L'ARENA Ennio Morricone
10 A SATISFIED MIND Johnny Cash
11 A SILHOUETTE OF DOOM Ennio Morricone
12 ABOUT HER Malcolm McLaren
13 TRULY AND UTTERLY BILL David Carradine and Uma Thurman
14 MALAGUENA SALEROSA Chingon
15 URAMI BUSHI Meiko Kaji

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ExtraTV.com has a behind the scenes clip up on their site today. The clip is only about 2 minutes long, but has some excerpts of interviews with Uma, Quentin, and Daryl Hannah.

Uma gets off the most interesting snippit, dropping a hint that it was Tarantino's intention to split Kill Bill into 2 movies all along. Inside info? Or just teasing a close friend?

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Some of them are major spoilers, so you may or may not want to go take a look.

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The Harry Knowles review of Kill Bill Volume 2 has been posted, along with 2 others. To be honest, I can't read Knowles site. Between the unending hype for every single movie and the huge purple fonts, its just too much for me. Seriously, that may be the worst design website (of any popularity) in the world.

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Uma Thurman is on the cover of the newest Empire Magazine and inside is an article (not online yet) that was summarized to me by Michael:

... thought I'd tell you bout two QT news items: Latest issue of UK Empire Mag has Uma interview in which she denies quentin's 'like a couple in every way' speech--she says he's not stupid and probably didn't say it at all. She also talks bit about vol 2 in general.

For all our sakes, I hope Tarantino either never said that or never reads this article. The last thing we need is for Quentin to realize that his muse doesn't have the hots for him the way he does for her. It might be 12 years till his next film is done if thats the case!

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Three new kick-ass posters for Kill Bill Volume 2 were revealed today. These blow the two previous posters out of the water as far as I'm concerned. I particularly like the one with the sword thru the 'to kill' list.

Also notice how the 1st and 3rd posters here both say 'The New film by Quentin Tarantino'. I was wondering how they'd label this thing - whether it would still say the 4th film like Volume I did, or whether they'd call it the 5th film. This seems to be a good alternative.


UPDATE: The 1st and 3rd posters presented here can now be purchased from All Posters: Poster 1 | Poster 3.

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This may be the most understated poster possible for a movie like Kill Bill. Click the image for a bigger version.

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The international teaser poster for Kill Bill 2 has apparently been revealed. I don't particularly care for it.

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The teaser trailer for Kill Bill Volume 2 is now online in Quicktime format. I like the black & white 1950's era style for it.

UPDATE: Apple now has the teaser at their site as well.

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This is probably just Tarantino thinking outloud rather than a serious film idea, but you never know:

"I've thought of prequels and sequels," he said. "I had this great idea where we wait five years and come back not with the Bride as the main character, but Vernita's (Vivica A. Fox) daughter as the main character. It would be fifteen years in the future, and the Bride (Uma Thurman) would be in a wheelchair."

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A mildly humorous (so far) photoshopping of a photo from Kill Bill Volume II is currently happening over at Fark.

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The theatrical release date for Kill Bill Volume 2 has officially been pushed back to April 16th, 2004 in the US. It was originally scneduled for a February release. Rumor is, its worldwide opening may be at the Cannes Film Festival.

UPDATE: FoxNews has Quentin's explanation of the delay:

Tarantino told me that we will not be seeing "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" until April instead of the planned February release. "To make that date I would have had to come back from promoting ['Vol. 1'] and go right back into editing," he said. "I had to take a break."

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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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The Japanese teaser trailer for Volume 2 is up at the official Japanese website (where else). There isn't much too this teaser - just The Bride walking thru the desert, reflected in a samauri sword with the phrase "Kill Is Love" hovering in the corner.

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Maxim Movies has a good sized article about the 2nd installment of Kill Bill, but only a little bit of it is online. I'll try and pick up the magazine this weekend and get some of the info in it posted here.

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Tarantino's pal Robert Rodriguez is going to compose the score for Kill Bill Volume 2. The announcement was made by Rodriguez himself at the second annual Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film and TV Music Conference at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.

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Here are the first three shots to be released from Kill Bill Volume 2. Click on each image for a bigger version.

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The IMDB link to this little tidbit will expire shortly, so I've just copied the info here for you:

Hollywood hero Quentin Tarantino is back - and he's as bloody as ever. The True Romance scribe has finally completed his long-awaited fourth feature film as a director, Kill Bill, which stars Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, and in the tradition of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, it will be a bloody affair - except this time Quentin's demanding extra-special fluids.

He says, "I'm really particular about the blood, so we're using a mixture depending on the scenes. I say, 'I don't want horror movie blood, alright? I want Samurai blood.' You can't pour this raspberry pancake syrup on a sword and have it look good. You have to have this special kind of blood that you only see in samurai movies."

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