The other day I came across a really cool website with a weird twist. It features many vintage newspaper ads for bootleg films & exploitation movies that were made in the Philippines. One is titled BATMAN VERSES DRACULA & the other one is BATWOMAN AND ROBIN. It's a shame but these movies are lost in time with no known copies to exist. Oh man, these would be really great to watch. Too bad they're lost forever. The site is called Video48 & has a lot of wacky Pinoy film history. Here's a link to check it out.
Of course the real answer to the question, "How should The Desolation of Smaug have ended?" is "Withthe end of the goddamn story because there's no way The Hobbit needed to be three, three-hour movies."
Buuut what the hell, let's play along with the How It Should Have Ended folks, who imagine a Middle Earth where luck dragons exist and everyone tries to resolve their differences with Smaug in a friendly way. It doesn't go so well...
Okay, let me explain the eagles thing - they don't use them all the time because they have to climb a tree to call them, and sometimes the tree is toooo tall to scale. That's the explanation I came up with as a kid, and I think it still holds up pretty well.
OK, so we're only guessing at the whole "trying to kill Peter Pan" thing, but it would seem to be part of his job. Jackman's signed on to play Blackbeard in Pan Begins, oh, sorry, it's just called Pan.
Before you ask, yes, it is a Peter Pan origin story, where we find out where everybody's favorite child abductor came from. As for what Blackbeard has to do with it, and where Hook is, here's the plot summary according to Variety:
The origin story revolves around an orphan who is taken to the magical world of Neverland where he becomes a hero to the natives and leads a revolt against the evil pirates. The idea is that Blackbeard is the film's main antagonist while Hook would serve as Pan's close ally before turning bad.
So essentially it's The Last Samurai, except with children fighting pirates. Jackman is currently working on Neil Blomkamp's Chappie, which is basically "Hugh Jackman adopts a robot", and then he'll become Blackbeard.
Mostly we'll be curious to see how Warner Brothers expects to sell a Peter Pan movie. Despite the belief that every property people grew up with will be an instant hit, Peter Pan hasn't fared so well in the movies. Hook is a movie many look on with great affection, but let's face it, it's not Spielberg at his best. Similarly, the 2003 Peter Pan wasn't exactly a huge hit, although admittedly opening anywhere near The Lord Of The Rings will kind of limit your ability to make money. But, hey, in the long run, at least some of the money will go to sick children, so it's a win either way.
The comedians over at RIFFTRAX have just completed a funny parody of THE DARK KNIGHT Batman Movie. These are the guys who did Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( or MST3 for you fans out there, ha ha ) & RIFFTRAX is sort of the same thing. They watch movies & make funny commentaries while watching. Be sure to check out their website for more information. But, warning, ya gotta pay for their movies. They're not free.
FYI Universal - "WoW" doesn't stand for World of White Guys.
So, Warcraft lurched ever closer to becoming an actual, real movie yesterday when Universal revealed most of the movie's cast, and hoo boy, don't get your hopes up lots of sexy blood elves or sassy lady dwarves. Nope, Universal is planning to throw a good ol' fashioned Azeroth sausage party.
Warcraft will star Ben Foster (the odd redheaded guy you'd probably recognize from tons of stuff like Six Feet Under and 3:10 To Yuma), Travis Fimmel (a dude from Vikings), Toby Kebbell (the "weird" or "nerdy" guy from lots of hunk-fests like Wrath of the Titans), Rob Kazinsky (the guy who confusingly looked just like Charlie Hunnam in Pacific Rim), Dominic Cooper (Tony Stark's dad in Captain America) and yes, exactly one woman - Paula Patton (also the one lady in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol).
Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, Anton Yelchin and Anson Mount are also rumored to be in the movie, but none of them have confirmed, because honestly this party is starting to look pretty lame.
Then again, one Paula Patton makes up for a lot.
Just food for thought Universal - World of Warcraft is the most popular video game amongst women aged 25 - 54, and by various accounts around 30 - 40% of the player base is female. In other news, around a third of WoW players desperately want to hump each other. So yeah, if you really want this movie to be true to the Warcraft universe, I'd invite some more girls to the party and start writing some elvish orgy scenes.
via /Film
Ben, Travis, Toby, Rob, Dominic and Paula via Shutterstock
Here's a quick little tip for all you Serious BATMAN Collectors out there! More than half of all Blockbuster Video stores are shutting down in late April (Yes! ) and they're blowing out all their DVD's and video games. But, most of these retail locations are ALSO selling their DVD Movie Shelf Cards for all their titles for only a NICKEL a piece!! (20/$1.00) These awesome shelf cards are made of durable plastic ( or laminated cardboard ) and they look really cool for display! Thanks to Bat-Dave for the 'heads up'!
Corinne Alexandra of Stuck With Pins did a sexy, badass Femme Greedo cosplay at SDCC and she sent us some pics and info on the "making of". You know we had to post it.
Take some time to read the reasons behind the making of this costume and you'll see hints of the "fake geek girl" debate that's been an ongoing thing recently.
The last two years I rocked the sexy Chewbacca costume I made in 2010. But as absurd as it sounds, scantily-clad wookiees apparently became an overabundant trend at the Con and some Reddit-trolling nerds got their whitey tighties in a twist over seeing their favorite walking carpet sexualized by "fake nerd girls." In response, I've set out to upset a few more Star Wars fans by sexualizing one of the most unsexy characters in the galaxy far far away - Greedo. Yes, our beloved overzealous bounty hunter with the infamous sloppy marksmanship.
I admit, sometimes I love when geek girls take on the fight in ways like this. Sexy and geeky don't have to be mutually exclusive. Good for her.
Check out more pics after the break, including the designing of this cosplay.
Note per Corrine: ps. Before I get harassed for it, I apologize for using Han Solo's blaster and not a DT-12. It's the best I could do.
Send your cosplay pics to tips@fashionablygeek.com.
“The Oscar winner that’s going to be in my Spawn movie is thiiiiis big…”
Usually when you want some egomaniacal insanity from an Image Founder, Rob Liefeld is your go-to, but Todd McFarlane can also deliver some quality crazy during the relatively rare occasions when says something of substance.
For instance, did you know Todd McFarlane is working on a script for a new Spawn movie, and that he has an Oscar winner just waiting by the phone for news of new pages? I’ll let Todd tell it…
“I continue to write a page here and there. We've got a guy waiting in the sidelines who's an Academy Award winning actor who phones every three weeks going ‘Todd, where's the script? Where's the script?’”
An Oscar may buy you fame, fortune, starring roles and millions of dollars, but it can’t get Todd McFarlane off his ass. He’ll write a page here and there and you’ll like it.
So, which Oscar winner has Todd McFarlane on speed dial? Well, Oscar winners rarely settle for anything less than lead roles, and Spawn’s alter-ego Al Simmons is black, so black Oscar winners — Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx? I find it hard to believe they don’t have something better to do than call Todd McFarlane in the middle of the night.
Which leaves Cuba Gooding Jr. and, well, that sounds about right, doesn’t it? Sadly Cuba’s at a place where starring in a low-budget Spawn movie would count as a major career revitalization.
So there you have it, Cuba Gooding Jr. as Spawn. That or Todd McFarlane just straight made this s–t up. Honestly I kind of hope he did.
via Bleeding Cool
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Way too many thrillers set in space are just Aliens with the serial numbers filed off. For every Event Horizon, there’s a dozen movies that apparently just can’t shake Sir Ridley Scott. That said, it looks like Equinox might buck the trend for once, since there aren’t any aliens in the plot description.
Plenty of crazy people though!
Really, the good news here is that Paramount is putting together a B-movie unit willing to fund and release movies like this:
Paramount's low-budget genre Insurge label is going sci-fi with Equinox, which is being written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes. Project details are being kept secret but it is being described as "Dead Calm in space," according to sources.
Dead Calm, for those who don’t remember their late ’80s Australian thrillers, was a movie about Nicole Kidman being trapped on a boat with Sam Neill and Billy Zane. It’s actually a pretty good movie, marking one of the few movies where Zane just doesn’t fall on the scenery like a rapacious termite, so if you’re going to crib from a movie for a space thriller, that’s the movie to crib from.
We hope Paramount keeps it up. There’s been a distinct lack of lower-budget genre movies out of Hollywood lately, and it’s really there that you often find the most creativity and style. And, failing that, it’ll be nice to have another source of cheesy genre movies beyond Lionsgate.
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The Joker has been responsible for a lot of depraved things over his illustrious criminal career, but last Sunday he finally went too far, targeting America’s favorite source of stuff covered in melted cheese, Applebee’s.
The Joker, posing as a drunken 24-year-old named “Aaron Chase”, entered an Applebee’s in Chautauqua Country, NY, and began spreading his trademark brand of chaos, harassing both staff and patrons. Thankfully police soon arrived and managed to thwart The Joker’s latest Machiavellian plan. While it’s impossible to know exactly what The Clown Prince of Crime was scheming, experts agree this was likely an attempt to poison the jalapeno popper supply.
Batman has gone on record as saying he regrets not being able to defend Applebee’s in it’s time of need, but that he was busy fighting the Riddler in a Chili’s during The Joker’s attack.
via Blastr
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Zombies are everywhere in popular culture, and with them comes rot, terror… and usually some uncomfortable and painful moral choices. Here’s a look back on the most sadistic and gruesome decision-making forced on protagonists in modern zombie cinema.
Really the start of the zombie renaissance, this is a movie full of tough decisions, but probably the most brutal is the illustration of just how far Selena will go for survival. When Mark gets bitten, Selena has to choose, in a split-second, between running away and leaving him to become infected, or brutally murdering him right there. Ouch.
Shaun of the Dead is a lighthearted comedy about leaving all your loved ones to die horribly in a zombie apocalypse. First Shaun is forced to strand his stepfather — who he just emotionally reconciled with — inside his beloved car. Then he has to kill his mom. Then he has to leave his best friend to die while stepping out into a zombie apocalypse under the impression that he and the love of his life are going to be horribly eaten alive.
On the other hand — and not unreasonably – Shaun doesn’t feel so bad feeding her annoying friends to zombies. Warning: Graphic.
So, you’ve saved your pregnant girlfriend in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. You’ve done your best to make it through unscathed, but unfortunately, the pregnancy has some complications and your baby is a zombie. Do you save your zombie baby, or let an old lady kill it?
Andre chose to blow away the old lady, which, well… really isn’t the option we would have gone for.
Say what you will about the other tough choices Will Smith’s character has to make, putting down his dog Sam after she is bit and infected is the most gut-wrenching of all (for both Will and the audience). Especially since, to this point, his dog is literally the only friend he has. In the entire world.
Also, he has to strangle it to death, you know, because life wasn’t cruel enough.
Also file this under “Awesome.” When Cherry’s right leg is torn off by zombies early in Planet Terror she could have given up. Hey, we would have.
Instead she fights back, first by attaching a chair leg where her own leg used to reside, and then by making her missing limb the ultimate advantage: attaching a modified M4 Carbine with M203 grenade launcher to her stump.
When Burt and Spider find an abandoned police car, they desert the rest of their friends to make a run for it. Dick move, but then again…
Hopefully no one has seen Diary of the Dead, but it should be noted that it did include arguably the most epic sacrificial zombie kill of all time. Warning: hilariously graphic.
OK, so there aren’t many tough choices to be made in Zombieland, but the death of Bill Murray will always bring a tear to the eye…
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It’s unfortunate that the only Ghostbusters on TV are guys. That could change with the third movie (if it ever comes out) but, either way, that shouldn’t change the fact that you can potentially become the first female Ghostbuster in your neighborhood. You’d have to build your own gear and all, but the uniform department is well taken care of with this Ghostbusters Juniors Slimed Costume T-Shirt.
This 50% cotton, 50% polyester shirt has a printed-on collar in front and a proton pack at the back. It’s also got green, slimy goo splattered all over. Hit the break to check out what the back of the shirt looks like.
We saw previews of these Star Wars hoodies last spring, but now the actual hoodies have arrived! R2-D2 is screen printed with stitched accents and zips all the way up to turn your head into the droid’s dome. There are also mesh eyeholes so you’ll still be able to see when it’s zipped. Chewbacca is fully lined faux fur with an appliqu d bandolier that wraps all the way around his back. His hood is a drawstring, so you’ll just have to grow your beard extra bushy to look like Chewie.
See more images including Chewbacca after the break…
This completely wearable Predator helmet is an original sculpt made from fiberglass—and despite looking like it would weigh a ton, weighs only 2lbs. You can order it unfinished and dremel out the eye holes and do finishing yourself or pay a bit more for a ready-to-wear version. A combination of waxes, metal rubs and airbrushing create the realistic metal suface and weathered details.
See more pictures after the break…
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