- Turbine’s new free-to-play, microtransaction-based structure, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is now live for anyone who wishes to partake. To play, go to www.ddo.com and download the game.
- After the 4th installment in the Resident Evil series the studio plans to quasi-reboot the series to focus more on an elite military unit designed to fight the zed word.
- Lucasfilm’s Steve Sansweet discussed the live-action Star Wars series at DragonCon. Preproduction is set to start soon, but likely the show won’t air till 2012. Its considered likely that Daniel Logan will return as Bobba Fett to the series. Logan played the young incarnation of Fett in Attack of the Clones.
- The new Judge Dredd movie may have a new script. Comic artist Jock recently twittered that he was working on script visuals for an Alex Garland written script.
- Darkstone Entertainment and indie director John Johnson are remaking Plan 9 from Outer Space. Johnson says he’s remaking the film as a non-campy, “character-driven” move that will be “very scary.” He’s calling it Plan 9, or just P9. This is in direct opposition to the campy so bad its good of the original.
- Children of Men and Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are working to complete the live action Akira script, and that the project is still considered a “high priority” with a potential 2011 release date if the script is approved.
- In Rambo 5 the sly hero will be taking on an Arctic military base where scientists are working to create elite super soldiers with no qualms about killing.
- William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared together at a Dragon Con panel. The two continued their long lived needling with Nimoy opening up with “Seen any good movies recently?” Trekkies lined up as early as 5 am to see the two titans together.
- Richard Curtis, the creator of Blackadder and driving force behind Comic Relief, is to write an episode of Doctor Who. Curtis, whose career includes Notting Hill, Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral, will write an episode starring the new doctor, Matt Smith. Of the plot, he would only reveal: “There will be a monster. And a famous historical figure will battle the monster.”
- Rose McGowan was seriously injured filming for fiancé Robert Rodriguez’s movie remake of the comic book franchise Red Sonja, the actress has revealed. McGowan suffered severe injuries to her elbow and wrist while filming stunts for Red Sonja. As a result of her injuries, the film has been placed on indefinite hiatus. The injury was serious enough to require surgery to remove part of her elbow. The actress reportedly endured nerve damage severe enough that her arm was virtually useless. Only now, she says, is she regaining the ability to eat and drive with the injured limb and faces another six months of physical rehab. She posted a twitter update that she plans to return to filming the movie when she can.
- New Line Cinema and trustees for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate said on Tuesday they had settled a lawsuit that clears the way for “The Hobbit” which is is being made into two films by Guillermo Del Toro. Tolkien’s estate sued New Line claming it was owed more than 150$ million for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Nicholas Cage has turned down the role of the villain in the Green Hornet movie.
Ben Ketai has been named the director of 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, the sequel to the 2007 vampire thriller 30 Days of Night. - Comic book artist Chris Weston is used to drawing crime fighters but became one himself when he witnessed a robbery at his local bank. Unfortunately for the robber, Weston applied his artistic talents to briefly become a sketch artist. The police had picked up the suspect and will use his drawings in the prosecution.
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Attendance: 23
Meeting Start: 10:01 and 3 teemos
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Matt, Sarah, Sam, Phil, Seth are new. Welcome!
Movie: The bad movie is The Angry Red Planet. Check new Away Mission section on website. [Sockpuppet, sci-fi movie] 9 comes out in a week.
Office Resource: Office is still there. Our table has a dry erase board thing.
Trivia: Forrest still has trivia. Delegated to Jack, what is the problem that causes the answer 42? 6×9. Jon wins.
Party: Tentative date for reunion, Oct 21. FORREST RENT PROJECTOR.
Discussion Group: Last week’s discussion was about best inanimate objects to make into a villain: Stretch of road, map, garage.
Fundraising: Buy stuff from Amazon referral link, please!
No Report: Jack’s sleep schedule is so screwed up that he just woke up in time for this meeting. Will birth a universe where vampires have ruled since the beginning of time. Playing Cave Story and Fable.
Elly has a no report. Has to read a book of short stories for class. One 3-4 page story has 72 exclamation points. 16-year-old gives secret birth to child–”I guess I was lucky.”
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: [Captain's summary] Mike occasionally doesn’t fail. He runs Amazon account and supposedly runs website.
Constable: Alex supposedly keeps the order of the meeting, enforce the constitution. Alex is showing off a book we can’t look inside of. Week has been fairly dull. Having a sugar problem?
Com Officer: Ashley sends out emails and takes minutes. Updates the Minutes and News poritions of site. Has a wandering mind and utuerus. Yay for the crazy Greeks. Freaking out about applying to grad schools, definitely applying to Rosalind-Franklin and Widener. Maybe applying to Boston University.
Grand Nagus: Sarah’s the treasurer. Had an uneventful week, but keeps running into Forrest. Made the mistake of watching Watchmen, because her brother is silly. Starting to get sick?
First Officer: Will be nominated. Reads off list of topics and is in charge of committees that don’t have a leader. Nothing gets done then, but it’s okay.
Captain: Adam has been captain for 6 semesters. Does the bureaucracy mess. Occasionally gets angry emails from SAO office. Playing Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires, does drive-by killings.
Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way. Having a costume contest. Winners get gourmet candy apples. RHPC at Lakeview Museum around Halloween.
New Business: Nominees for First Officer:
Phil: Practiced his non-regional diction by standing on the shore of polypensian bay with marbles in his mouth and spoke over the waves. My words are kind of like verbal rape. Promises not to speak in Spanish.
Elly: Doesn’t have non-regional diction either. Will be here every week, since she’s on campus anyway.
Sarah: Has blue fingernails.
Rachel: I’m awesome. Cannot promise she won’t speak in Spanish.
PHIL 7
ELLY 4
SARAH 5
RACHEL 3
Phil is the new first officer. Promises to keep his muttonchops.
Other Organizations
Anime: 6:30pm on Fridays. Electing new officers and deciding on what to watch.
MCS: 5pm on Friday. It’s board gaming/cards club.
Theater: Acting workshop on Saturday. New Face tryouts on Sept 21.
LAN: Saturday evening in Harper/Wycoff.
Other: Video Game Creation, Association of Computer Machines? meeting. 6pm Thursday.
Nerf Commandos tomorrow night in Markin at 10pm.
Bradley Printmaking Association making shirts, selling in a month?
Wednesday in Washington, more board games.
Meeting End: 10:55 and 5000 mushrooms
Quotes
Phil: Do you count with any integers?
Phil: I thought it died in the 50′s…
Jon: It’s coming back. That’s why they’re starting with zombie movies.
Phil: Or nipple twisting. That threw me off for the first three pages.
Abby: Who, who’s that one sitting in front?
Elly: It’s not funny anymore.
Adam: [Mars has palm trees?] Really? Is this before or after Watchmen got there?
Forrest: I think Jack said he wanted to see it, but he’s under the tv cart, so I couldn’t really hear.
Ashley: I told you that I don’t have access to the email lists, right?
Forrest: Is there a way to remedy this situation?
Ashley: I emailed them last week and haven’t gotten a response.
Forrest: Is there anyone we can beat up?
Phil: Normal bunny person?
Adam: So, No Report is usually a concise funny story… that ends with “No Report.” Sometimes it fails. We only hate you a little bit.
Alex: If [the constitution]‘s not on it, then it’s a personal bap. I just don’t like you.
Xeen: He’s part ninja. He might flip out and kill you.
Forrest: Stop interrupting the flow of conversation.
Sarah: I’m cross-examining her.
Sarah: You’re supposed to donate money so we can either buy a house or the country of Djibouti… whichever’s cheaper. Which might be Djibouti at the moment.
Xeen: You’re the roadrunner of ancient China.
Adam: Someone decided that a freshman would be a good idea…. Almost not been a club a couple times and almost lost our office last semester.
Alex: What if I get little foam balls and wrap them in the constitution and throw them at people?
Adam: Constable grenades. Great.
Sarah: I don’t know, I’m kind of quiet.
Adam: It’s okay. Sarah started out quiet too.
Jon: It’s Computing Machines. It implies that the computers are getting together.
Adam: If you’re a DM, you’re our new best friend.
Xeen: If you need a DM, we accept bribes.
Adam: Sometimes.
Forrest: …or watching some crappy anime if democracy has its way.
- Captain is looking for red/blue 3d glasses.
- Japanese all-female acting troupe just put on Phoenix Wright: The Musical.
- A first edition of Truman Capote’s 1968 children’s book The Thanksgiving Visitor signed by the author to Harry Potter is listed on the site of used-book seller AbeBooks for $1,000, according to the Los Angeles Times. The inscription reads, “For Harry Potter with gratitude, Truman Capote January 1978.”
- Paul W.S. Anderson, best known for the Resident Evil series and Alien vs. Predator is bringing The Three Musketeers to the big screen, this time in 3D.
- Lena Headey, star of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series, has nabbed the last major part in HBO’s Game of Thrones pilot, according to Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune. Headey will portray Cersei Lannister, a devious noble woman.
- Yes, Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion dollars, no this doesn’t mean Marvel will being Iron Mickey as a serious piece. Calm down. It does mean Marvel now has access to Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck and lots of Disney resources. Disney has promised Marvel the autonomy of Pixar.
- The books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series were the most-downloaded novels on BitTorrent this year and the only fiction to make the top 10 list, The complete list is: 1. Kama Sutra 2. Adobe Photoshop Secrets 3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex 4. The Lost Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci 5. Solar House—A Guide for the Solar Designer 6. Before Pornography—Erotic Writing In Early Modern England 7. Twilight—Complete Series 8. How To Get Anyone To Say YES—The Science of Influence 9. Nude Photography—The Art and the Craft 10. Fix It—How to Do All Those Little Repair Jobs Around the Home. Everything you need for a green Victorian Bordello.
- Warehouse 13 continues to set rating records for Syfy. The show’s sixth episode, “Burnout,” which aired on Aug. 11, was the most watched series telecast in the network’s 17-year history, with a total viewership of 4.4 million. The previous record for the most-watched series telecast on Syfy had been the fifth episode of Warehouse 13, aired the previous week. More than 1 million of the 4.4 million total viewership came via DVR playback. The six episodes of Warehouse 13 broadcast to that date, including full Live + 7 DVR data, all rank in the top 10 most watched series telecasts ever on Syfy. Hoooray something other than night vision reality shows leading Syfy!
- J.J. Abrams’ big-screen reboot of the Star Trek franchise grabbed the most nominations of any sci-fi, fantasy or horror project this year as the Spike Scream Awards finalists were announced, with nods in 17 categories.The blockbuster film was recognized not only for Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director (J.J. Abrams) and both Best Breakout Performance: Female and Best Science Fiction Actress (Zoe Saldana), but also in such categories as the Fight to the Death Scene of the Year (for Kirk vs. Spock), and the Holy S–t! Scene of the Year (for the space dive onto orbital drill).
- 20th Century Fox scouts have been combing the jungles of the Big Island of Hawaii for possible locations for their new movie in the Predator franchise Predators.
- Guillermo del Toro has posted on TheOneRing.Net that contrary to certain rumors that have been circulating, his two-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit will not be filmed in 3D.
- Terry Gilliam’s fantasy The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the final film of Heath Ledger, will be released on Christmas Day after a premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and a UK release in mid-October.
- Weinstein Co. co-chairman Bob Weinstein has announced that the next movie in the rebooted Halloween franchise will be Halloween 3D, according to the Los Angeles Times.Rob Zombie, the director of the recent Halloween and this past weekend’s strong opener Halloween II, is currently developing a second remake of The Blob and will not be attached. No director for the upcoming sequel has been selected yet.
- Box Office Mojo is reporting that the superhero movie The Green Hornet starring Seth Rogen has been moved back five months, from an original release date of July 7, 2010, to Dec. 17, 2010.
- Kate Beckinsale on Friday denied widespread reports that she has signed on to a fourth Underworld film, which would begin a new trilogy in 3-D.
- Joel Silver is hoping he can utilize 3D technology for his upcoming Swamp Thing remake.
Attendance: 19
Meeting Start: 10:01 and blank seconds
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Abby brought Elly and Lauren. Rachel is new. Andrew is new.
Movie: The bad movie is Orca. It’s about an Orca. Away mission is either to Halloween II or Final Destination. Interest in Halloween II; 8:25 at Rave, 7:40 at Nova. The first and second place costumes for Halloween party get amazing candied apple from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
Office Resource: Office is still there. Not filled with people’s crap from last year.
Trivia: Forrest has trivia still. In Farscape, swearwords are replaced in Sebasian? Three most common: Frell, dren, trunk. Forrest continues to have trivia.
Party: Forrest is planning a reunion, maybe? Move reunion further back to January to allow more time to contact people.
Discussion Group: New topic necessary: What animated animated object would make the best villain?
Fundraising: We have a shit ton to buy. Kelty’s friend wins. We made a lot of money.
No Report: Jon has a no report. Found out that Metalocalypse is going to a half hour episode. Arkham Asylum is awesome. Through some no communication in the school of communication, ended up volunteering on an independent feature film for free. Having fun and getting lots of good experience.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Had a good time at Gencon. Had not had a good time after. Cable was cancelled. Never paid? Power turns off. Calls power company after going to GCC to look for number. Never paid too? Classes at Bradley dropped and water goes out. On the same day. Bill pay was using account numbers from his old apartment. And he has roaches in his apartment.
Constable: Had a crappy first of summer. Today was the worst day ever. Got another ticket. Printer wasn’t working. Got kicked out of bookmaking class because he’s in advanced class? Not allowed to do printmaking? Overdrew for $100+ fees. Being paid $100+ to draw. Not furry porn. Yet.
Com Officer: Took a class. Took GREs. Drank. Made a dice bag and is potentially offering commissions.
Grand Nagus: Her summer was great! Did internship in DC and had fun. [Jack is giving speech for Sarah] Went to safe dorm living meeting thing. Watched To Hell and Back–hosted by Aaron Carter? How you were going to die in a fire.
First Officer: To be elected next meeting.
Captain: Too many dead people to work in a nursing home at first.
Old Business: Zombie-fest is on the way.
New Business: Jon is not an officer.
Other Organizations
Anime: Not meeting this week.
MCS: This Friday. 5pm.
Theater: New Faces audition next week? Contact Forrest.
Other: LAN this weekend.
Nerf Commandos in the Soccer court.
BPA is screenprinting? Maybe?
Meeting End: 10:57 and blankity blank
Quotes
Erik: They made the light and they made the world. But we don’t talk about that anymore. We just talk about their names.
Anti-Mike: [About GI Joe] Look how dumb the Americans are! Let’s go see it!
Erik: “…guaranteeing a sequel…” Can you come bap this?
Adam: There was not enough people watching it to keep it on the air, but enough nut jobs to annoy the producers….
Erik: Which I take to mean that Diablo 3 will never happen and x 2 will never happen.
Alex: Duke Nukem Forever!
Erik: They made demo boxes! They were so close!
Adam: I don’t listen when you speak. So I should know this, but I don’t.
Alex: You trimmed your hair and you’re still 10% more creepy.
Forrest: …links have faded out.
Adam: Like dead, or…
Jon: They’ve successfully concealed their identities.
Adam: Does the link still work?
A-Mike: Yes. Obviously it still works.
Ashley: I just bookmarked it.
A-Mike: It’s still the same link.
Ashley: But everything else on the site is breaking.
Adam: That’s why I asked.
A-Mike: OW! Right in the budget!
Forrest: The budget is soft and squishy.
A-Mike: I don’t even pay for my water and my water was out!
Forrest: You were so boring I ate paper.
A-Mike: I was so much fail you chipped a tooth.
Jon: Jack, I want you to know: I put the matches in the oven so they’re safe.
Erik: People came back from the dead?
Erik: Zombie-fest 2.0 is on the way. Slower! More putrescent!
- The Last Wheel of Time book is going to be continued, in three parts, and the first part will be released a week earlier.
- Kentucky Fried Dinosaur anyone? Hans Larsson, a Canadian researcher, hopes to bring back dinosaur traits by flipping genetic switches in chickens. While this could lead to hatching live prehistoric creatures, there are no plans for it now, due to practical and ethical reasons.
- Governator Schwarzenegger has announced via Twitter that he does still have the Conan sword, and that its on display in his office. Then he muttered something about crushing the budget and driving it before him.
- There is a twilight sex toy called the Vamp, it does sparkle, it does retain cold for that authentic experienced. This has led some to declare that “sparkle cocked” is the new “nuked the fridge”.
- The first Farscape comic is available in todays issue of Previews, Diamond Distributors catalog. Fan support of the miniseries is credited with the ongoing success.
- There is a black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy, and new analysis puts its mass at the equivalent of 6.4 billion suns, twice as large as originally predicted. If this is true, its massive enough for our radio astronomy techiniques.
- GI Joe may have quickly tumbled from the charts in America, but its the number one movie internationally, and has made over over $91 million internationally nearly matching the 98 million domestic. This has led to Paramount virtually guaranteeing a sequel.
- In Minneapolis, a legendary bar died, and in its place rose an undead creation, “Donny Dirks Zombie Den”. The zombie themed bar has been described as classy kitsch and the bartenders dress like Shaun of the Dead.
- David Tennant is leaving Dr Who, but very few people know how. The BBC kept the non-essential cast from seeing the full script. The actors left out said they understood and it makes it more exciting for them.
- Amino acids, some of the building blocks of life, have been found on a comet called Wild 2.
- A paper published in the Forensic Science International claims that DNA evidence could easily by fabricated by a biology undergraduate. There are some ways to determine whether its been faked, but most labs don’t take such steps.
- A third X-Files film is tenatively being prepared for shooting to take place by 2012. It has not yet been decided whether its a reboot or not.
- Robert Downey Jr is in talks to play Lestat in the next adaptation of Anne Rices vampire Chronicles.
- Sony Pictures is debating rebooting the Spiderman franchise if the original cast doesn’t sign on for 5 and 6 as the scripts have already been laid out.
- She’s only a halfblood! Actress Emma Watson’s distant relative was Joan Playle of Essex County, England, an English woman convicted of witchcraft in 1592.
- Jericho…won’t…die! It’s been cancelled twice, but now has a comic book season coming out, and talks of a two hour movie are still on the table.
- After thirty years of talking about it, it’s been announced that original Alien director Ridley Scott will be back for the new entry in the franchise.
- Blizz Con happened, Monk was announced for Diablo 3, New Expansion for WoW called Cataclysm, Starcraft 2 still will not have LAN support.