(FROM
ABC NEWS) C A N N E S, France, May 15 —
"'Homage?!' What's that word supposed to
mean — stealing or something? That I'm a
rip-off artist?"
An irritated Brian De Palma
shot those words at one of the dozens of journalists
gathered at a press conference Friday in the Palais
des Festivals to discuss his new film screening
here out of competition, Mission to Mars.
"Early in my career,"
De Palma continued, "I made the terrible
'error' of trying to learn something about filmmaking
by studying the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Since
then I've been labeled the 'homage' filmmaker
by the press. Well, they haven't knocked me off.
I'm alive and well."
(AND
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE) As for doing interviews,
De Palma said he hates it -- and nothing that
just happened at Cannes will improve his mood.
"I don't want to do any press. I don't think
it's of much value for me."
That's
the day that MISSION TO MARS will be available to
purchase on DVD, and probably to rent on VHS. It
looks like the street price of the DVD will be somewhere
in the neighborhood of $29.00, a bit steep. This
price is pretty much made up for by the whole slew
of extras included on the DVD:
ILM
gave everyone who worked on the production of the
movie M2M this poster. It looks like it displays
every major shot that ILM worked on. Including;
This
patch, supposedly worn by the astronauts of MISSION
TO MARS, recently appeared online over at eBay.
The only problem is that I can't remember seeing
the patch on ANYONE. Anyone remember 
I
recently found this poster for the overseas release
of M2M while hunting around on eBay for M2M merchandise.
It's not that I don't like the image, but
