David Lynch, director of films like Mulholland Drive,will reintroduce davidlynch.com as a digital music store and sensory experience. There will be sound experiments from the past (some unreleased from his film and television projects) and new music. This thing of the Web is so magicalthe way it workswe just hit a few buttons and we feel were with the world, Lynch said in an e-mail. The new Web site is designed to be a secret room filled with music, he added. Lynch delighted his fans a decade ago by creating a labyrinthine Web site that served as a type of window into his wacky,surrealist mind. But found it hard to make regular updates,and the site went dormant. George Lucas may have given us the Star Wars movies,and the Galactic Empire of the movies may have given us the planet-annihilating Death Star but there is still a force in the universe that may prove more powerful than either of them: a British court that will soon rule on whether a designer can continue to sell replicas of the storm trooper costumes from the Star Wars movies without permission from Lucas or his studio. Andrew Ainsworth,a British artist based in Twickenham,near London,who helped create the imposing black-and-white uniforms worn by the nefarious if maladroit storm troopers for the original 1977 Star Wars film,has been selling copies of the costumes online for about $2,400. A British court ruled in 2008 that while Ainsworths replicas may have violated American copyright laws they did not infringe on British copyrights. Lawyers for the two sides faced off again,this time in hearings at Britains Supreme Court that are expected to last three days. Mars needs Moms is the latest film from ImageMovers Digital,a production company co-founded by Robert Zemecksis,Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey that specialises in 3D films using performance capture. The technique,which took a significant technical leap forward with Avatar required the cast to perform on a spacious set called a volume and wear uniforms outfitted with sensors to record their movements. Zemeckis has directed three films using the technology,including The Polar Express from 2004. He produced and advised on Mars Needs Moms,while the British filmmaker Simon Wells (The Prince of Egypt) directed. Zemeckis called Mars Needs Moms the most advanced digital performance-capture 3D movie to this day.
