- Robert Downey has signed a contract confirming his reprisal role in two more Iron Man movies as well as the Avengers.
- Ripley Scott may direct a werewolf film starring Russel Crowe and written by the man who wrote “Death Sentence” and the Castlevania movie.
- The new Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD collection selects four episodes from the series and some sweet extras that track the show’s history. The limited-edition $70 set comes in a metal gift box with four custom lobby cards and a Crow T. Robot figurine.
- Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day has now officially begun filming in Toronto. Sean Patrick Flannery and Billy Connelly are both back. The cast and crew are video diarying the experience and you can check them out on YouTube.
- Fanboys, the movie about a group of friends in 1998 trying to break into the Skywalker Ranch to see Episode One before their terminally ill friend dies, is set to finally be released in January. The film drew fire when the Weinsteins published a version that eliminated the cancer storyline and the film’s actual fanboys protested. So just 3 months until you can see Kristen Bell as slave Leia.
- Saw V earned 30.5million this weekend, making the Saw franchise the top grossing horror franchise of all time. The Saw films have earned over 317million, surpassing both Friday the 13th and Halloween.
- EA has signed a deal with Universal Studios to bring Army of Two to the silver screen. This follows the Fox deal to make The Sims into a movie. Will Wright has said that Spore has also been considered.
- Tokyo’s Disneyland is getting some new additions, like an awesome Monsters, Inc. plant from the CG Disney movie. It’s set to open in April.
- Tim Burton has cast Crispin Glover to play the Knave of Hearts in the upcoming Alice movie.
- Piccolo will turn green in the new Dragonball movie, not start green.
- LittleBigPlanet and Fallout 3 came out this week. Why is anyone here? Go decapitate fire-spitting giant ants with lawn gnomes already.
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Attendance: 17
Meeting Start: 10:02: and Fallout 3
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: No newbies.
Movie: The bad movie is Radioactive Dreams.
Office Resource: The office is still there.
Trivia: In Starship Troopers, characters attend HS in what town? Xeen wins with Buenos Aires.
Party: Forrest asks for money in a Southern Belle voice.
Discussion Group: We were carded at Richards, so we went to Steak’n'Shake. The new topic: What we could do if we converted apathy to energy.
No Report: Jon and Willy Wonka discuss Fallout 3, including radiation from toliets and decapitating giant ants with gnomes.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Fails.
Constable: Got Guitar Hero on Friday and beat last song on Sunday. Died at Nerf Commandos from being headbutted in the temple at full speed. Hit same temple while tripping while putting on pants. He thinks he may have given himself a concussion. The offense this week: Laughing too hard about him hurting himself.
Com Officer: Zombies fix everything.
Grand Nagus: Has been playing City of Heroes and is going to a wedding on Friday.
First Officer: Elly has been stressed out.
Captain: Got to play with babies and none of them died. Danced in a class with children; they made fun of him, so they had to dance too.
Old Business: The movie-fest happened. It was fun.
New Business: Robot-rubber-monster-alien-zombie-movie-fest is on the way.
Other Organizations
Anime: Running without Forrest. No late night showing.
MCS: May actually play Starcraft.
Theater: Shadow Theatre on Friday 8-11pm.
Meeting End: 10:31 and the constable is going to sleep
Quotes
Xeen: I have trivia. I got hit by a rock.
Erik: One time my friend took his autism meds with whiskey. It was awesome.
Mike: You’ll just be paying it for the rest of your life. It’s okay.
Abby: We need to come up with a clever acronym.
Adam: That requires work. If you want to, you can come up with one. We won’t stop you. That requires work too.
Forrest: It’s fabulous. It’s killing me. Slowly.
Adam: Pretty quickly, actually.
Jack: We’re protesting the existence of chickens.
Mike: I’m still eating them.
Jack: That’s okay. It’s protesting their existence.
Attendance: 10:02:1/3
Meeting Start: 19 and pi squared
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Andrew Evans and Megan Doggett were married on Mole Day.
Movie: Bad movie is Eye for an Eye.
Office Resource: Still there.
Trivia: Ashley has trivia? What actual ghost town is Silent Hill based on? Centrailia, PA. Willy Wonka has trivia.
Party: Fofo asks for money in a Dracula voice. We now have $30.
Discussion Group: What ET problem would require all governments to work together?
Fundraising: None.
No Report: Fofo’s theater class; DADA SMASH!
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Brought us pie for his birthday and has mono.
Constable: This week’s bappable offense is anyone who’s said hickie. Tired and pathetic.
Com Officer: Has obviously been having fun. May get fudged into Psi Chi because I’m in the wrong percentile and valuable.
Grand Nagus: Does not do well with local anaesthesia. Skipped class for surgery.
First Officer: Not going to compete with pie and cheese. Did not fail accounting test.
Captain: Plays lots of video games. Router is trying to trick him. .8 is .9 for no reason.
Old Business: None.
New Business: Zombie-…-fest is on Sunday. Baker B54. Noon-11. Bring movies.
Other Organizations
Anime: Meeting on Friday. Fofo forgot to schedule it.
MCS: None.
Order of Xeen: Traveller will not be happening.
Theater: Shadow Theater on the 31st.
Other: LAN at 7:30pm.
Meeting End: 10:49:1/2
Quotes
Xeen: So beer is now as good for you as wine?
Forrest: No. The transitive property does not apply to all beer.
A-Mike: Religious warfare committee.
Erik: What if it was an insurance scam fraud?
Jon: That would be silly because I don’t have insurance.
Jack: You’re getting food and friends. Otherwise, we hate you.
Jack: Have you been shorting me on tips?
Forrest: No sir! Why would I do that?
A-Mike: On your knees!
Adam: She asked what I could do to improve. I said I could study and not sleep through class…
Forrest: Other organizations. I raise my hand. I select myself.
Jon: Bluetooth: Now everyone can have Tourettes.
A-Mike: We could impeach him.
Jon: No one knows the impeachment process because it’s on the bapper.
Forrest: Someone kill the Christians.
Monica: I’ve been trying.
Jon: They come back.
A-Mike: I’ll be at home, wishing my throat wasn’t full of razor blades.
Jack: That’s where my blades went!
Jon: The sheep have been putting stuff in the water so they won’t be made into sheepskin condoms!
A-Mike: Our security has been upgraded.
?: The wrong numbers are electrified.
Jack: The right numbers are electrified. You should wear rubber gloves.
- Lucasfilm and BioWare announced yesterday that the two companies are working on an MMORPG called Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- Students from Rice University have bioenginnered beer with anticancer properties. Its not a tumor!…its a beergut. The students made yeast that produces the same anti-cancer chemical that is found in wine.
- Two Yale students have written “Darq Knight: The Musical” [sic] which takes the plot of the Dark Knight, sets it to U2 and a few other silly tweaks. It so far has only run once, but perhaps someday the batlight will call the stars to the limelight once again, or a bootleg video will appear on youtube.
- NBC has requested 9 more episodes of Knight Rider, making it a go for a full season.
- Incredible Hulk came out on DVD yesterday and the president of Marvel was quoted as saying “To have all of the Avengers going up against a green goliath? I think that would be very cool to see that on the screen” Something to look forward to perhaps or fear.
- Universal Studios has announced a Transformers the Ride. It will be featuring 3D-HD, special effects and the best robotics you’ve ever seen. The audience is Earth’s humans, caught in the middle of an intergalactic war. The robowarriors will transform in front of your eyes. The rides will be arriving in 2011 in Singapore then Hollywood, no word yet on Florida.
- Borders has significantly cut their purchases of new science fiction, and Borders Central decides what to buy so even stores that sold lots of sci fi will not be getting in new stock. This has led several sci fi writers to debate boycotting Borders but nothing official declared yet.
- George Rogers Clark High School student William Poole of Lexington Kentucky has been charged with a 2nd degree felony charge terrorist threatening because of a short story he wrote for English class detailing a zombie attack against his school. Possible over-reaction or does Homeland Security know something we don’t?
- Last weekend NYC’s annual Zombie Con paid special tribute to Wall Street and dessicated retirement plans everywhere as the zombie horde crawled over the Wall Street bull.
- Speaking of the zed-word, Star Trek: The Experience will not die. After it closed down in the Las Vegas Hilton last month, Ted Newkirk (yes thats his real name), owner of the Neon-opolis a shopping and entertainment area is interested in saving The Experience. Negotiations are ongoing but with the opening of JJ Abrams new Star Trek movie, this could be a lucrative deal.
- Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies has approached JJ Abrams about a new Star Trek franchise. Fuller also wrote for Voyager, but says it missed the fun of the original 60′s.
- After realizing the reception to the latest Dragonball trailer was more like Dragon Eunuch, Fox has ordered several reshoots for the movie. Piccolo will probably still not be green. The reshoots for Dragonball start on October 30th and they’re seeking Tibetan- and Nepalese-speaking actors.
- As was reported last week, Terrence Howard will not be joining the cast of Iron Man 2, what was not reported was that he found out the same way we did, from a trade publication. That’s the equivalent of your girlfriend changing her facebook status to single.
- After a legal battle, Andre Nortons caretaker Sue Stewart will retain the rights to current published works royalties while Dr. Victor Horadam will gain rights over unpublished works.
- Spamalot is scheduled to play its last performance at the Shubert Theatre Jan. 18, 2009. It will have played 1,582 performances and 35 previews by the end of its Broadway run.
- Don Cheadle is stepping in to replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2, Marvel Studios’ sequel to its summer blockbuster, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Howard played Jim Rhodes, Tony Stark/Iron Man’s best friend and the future armor-clad hero War Machine. Sources close to the deal say that negotiations with Howard fell through over financial differences.
- In a promotion tied to the DVD/Blu-ray release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Papa John’s will offer a free extra-large “Explorer” pizza to anyone in the United States named “Dr. Jones” until Oct. 26; if Dr. Jones lives in Indiana, he or she will also get a free Indy DVD.
- NBC is developing a new take on Jason and the Argonauts, which would be produced as the first-ever green-screen drama developed for prime time. NBC also aired the unrelated Robert Halmi miniseries Jason and the Argonauts, in 2000.
- A cryptography technique that relies on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle was recently unveiled. It uses a stream of photons to create a quantum data stream that alerts anyone trying to read it and shuts down the transmission.
- As a tie-in with the new Quantum of Solace release Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball are all heading to blu ray in November Suggested retail price of $34.98 and packaged with a movie ticket for the new Bond adventure.
- The golden gun from the 1974 James Bond film starring Sir Roger Moore and Christopher Lee has been stolen from Elstree Studios. The gun is valued at about £80,000.
- According to IMDB there is an untitled Bill and Ted project scheduled for 2010.
- The first episode of a new Witchblade anime series is now available on iTunes for free until Oct. 26.
- Rob Tapert, who is producing director Sam Raimi’s upcoming Drag Me to Hell, says the film is a return to Raimi’s horror roots.
- AskMen.com has constructed a Jedi workout. Their slogan? “You too could harness the Force in your muscular fitness.” The routine includes Force jumps, hyperspace holds, and lightsaber pulls.
- The Toxic Avenger musical debuted this month in, where else, New Jersey. The Toxic Avenger Musical is playing through November 2nd at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Lost’s Rebecca Mader joins up with George Clooney as a lead in the movie adaptation of The Men Who Stare at Goats. The movie is based on Jon Ronson’s novel about US soldiers who were trained to use psychic powers in battle (i.e., killing a goat just by staring at it). Also in the Goat cast are Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and, Jeff Bridges.
- In Transformers 2, Soundwave will join the cast….as a pickup truck. No word on the sound system on the pickup but he has already been a nascar car and a Scion xB with a loudspeaker system.
- The next Doctor Who may just fill the Tardis. Every surviving actor who has played the Doctor will appear for this years Children In Need special, with rumors of Prince Charles also joining the cast.
- Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel “The Forever War” and has Ridley Scott attached to direct.