- Batman director, Christopher Nolan admitted that he’s been thinking of a third Batman film. He has been jotting down ideas that haven’t quite worked out yet and he’s wary of the curse of the third film. “I wouldn’t want to do one if it weren’t going to be as good as the first or second. That’s not respectful to the fans.”
- In Bill Willingham’s comic book epic Fables, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and scores of other characters from folklore are forced to live together in exile in Manhattan. Now ABC has ordered a pilot based on the trials and tribulations of these legendary characters living in our modern world.
- The “difficult and irrational” Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke has been let go after making Summit Pictures $160 million. This means she will not be working on the sequel, “Daywalker Vampires go to a Tanning Salon.”
- Forrest Ackerman, creator of Famous Monsters magazine and Ray Bradbury’s former literary agent, has died at age 91.
- Beverly Garland, whose long and varied acting career ranged from B-movie cult stardom in movies such as “Not of This Earth” and “It Conquered the World” to the sitcom “My Three Sons,” has died. She was 82.
- While we wait for the DVD release of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you can vist Joss Whedon’s world of super-villainy – and discover the secret origin of sidekick Moist – in a brand new webcomic written by Fringe’s Zack Whedon. Moist:Humidity Rising can be found on MySpace.
- Battlestar Galactica‘s auctioning frackloads of stuff- bloody outfits from late night Cylon torture sessions, President Roslin’s crazy pills, just about everything that ever sat on Adama’s desk, and just in time for the holiday’s Cylon resurrection tubs and life-size Cylon raiders, priced at a mere $30,000 to $40,000.
- NBC has shortened Knight Rider’s season from 21 episodes to 17. Ruh-ro…
- Tank Girl now has a coffee table sized book of artwork now available. Besides all of the Tank Girl covers for Deadline magazine, where she got her start, the book includes tons of design sketches, and one rejected script for a Tank Girl adventure. There’s also a previously unpublished comic book, the 16s, and a ton of other random Tank Girl art, mostly but not entirely by original artist Jamie Hewlett.
- CNN just laid off its entire Space/Tech/Environment reporting unit. That means that one of the United States’ biggest TV news sources thinks that space and the environment just aren’t worth reporting on in any depth or with any consistency.
- The Atari Ghostbusters game, which has seen it’s shares of troubles, now has a brand new trailer and an actual release date of June 2009. It looks awesome, and should be viewed for sheer nostalgia and quality of animation factors alone.
- The Music Branch Executive Committee of the Academy has reversed its decision declaring their score for “The Dark Knight” ineligible for the 2008 Academy Awards. The score was disqualified due to five names being listed as composers on the music cue sheet.
- Punisher: War Zone, had a pitiful start, grossing $4.3 million on around 2,700 screens at 2,508 theaters. It was the smallest opening ever for a Marvel Comics adaptation by far, even lower than Howard the Duck, and was a quarter of the previous Punisher movie’s opening in terms of attendance.
- Vin Diesel is hoping to replicate the success of Gibson’s Aramaic-language film The Passion of the Christ and to a lesser extent the Yucatec Maya-scripted Apocalypto by starting production of his own adaptation of the life of Hannibal Barca in the original Punic.
Attendance: 17
Meeting Start: 10:02 and 15 snowflakes
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: No newbies.
Movie: Sgt. Kabukiman is the bad movie.
Office Resource: Still there.
Trivia: What is the middle initial on James Kirk’s tombstone? Fluffy has trivia: R.
Party: Next week on Tuesday in the Harper/Wycoff room at 7pm. Psi Phi meeting after and nominations this meeting. Bring chips and goodies. No reimbursement this time around. Monica is the graduating senior–so she has movie picks.
Discussion Group: What are some life-altering, religion-making games?
No Report: Jon almost died on Black Friday. His window is stuck half open. Just For Fun moved.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: He was delayed three hours and missed the last flight. Spent the night in Chicago. The bus was an hour and a half late. He missed work. Luggage is gone. Car is dead: Frosts inside of windows. Stranded at the dealership. Joe complaining about jailtime.
Constable: Has been watching football with an old man waking up and making angry noise. It’s a bad idea to switch to FPS from Fallout 3; he thinks he’s going to VATS the enemy and instead blows himself up.
Com Officer: Bunny.
Grand Nagus: Found a life-style video game.
First Officer: Needs to stop reading books about death. She feels like she’s 40.
Captain: Had his 21st birthday. Purple liquid tasted like turpentine. Molten sugar. Brandy. Watched Accepted. Tequila. Then played DoTA. Friend ranted for three days about his being 10 seconds slower while drunk.
Old Business: Jon is not an officer.
New Business: Nominations!
Chief: Anti-Mike, Fluffy, Dave.
Captain: Adam, Forrest, Jack, Seth, Abby.
Nagus: Jack, Collier.
First Officer: Bob, Sarah, Abby.
Constable: Erik, Forrest, Jon, Fluffy.
Com Officer: Ashley, Erik.
Other Organizations
Anime: Meeting on Friday. Adam will be there.
MCS: Friday at 5pm. Jack received individualized spam.
Order of Xeen: Traveller will happen on Sunday at early time.
Theater: New Faces 2008: Fresh talent and freshmen who can’t act.
Other: No D&D because Adam will explode.
Meeting End: 11:01
Quotes
Adam: So, we’re going to remove all entertainment from Saturday mornings and replace them with commercials.
Jack: Hey! The CW still has quality entertainment.
Forrest: Shush. We’re doing this how I want to do it, not how you want to do it.
Erik: And when you are a terrible rip-off of a terrible game, what are you?
Fluffy: I’ll bring Starcraft.
Group: NO.
Forrest: I ban you from bringing Starcraft. If you bring it, I will set it on fire and ban you from Psi Phi.
Adam: He has the power.
Jon: Not the right.
Jack: See how mad I am? I’ll punch myself in the face. It would be a useful skill, especially in a hostage setting.
Jon: Or we can go to Bacci’s. It’s not like they have a no-talking rule.
Jack: They expect us now. I went in on Tuesday and they got confused: “Where’s the rest of you?”
Anti-Mike: Begin the tale of woe–
Forrest: –End the tale of woe.
Jack: I spent a wonderful Thanksgiving with my girlfriend.
Jon: Does Monica know about this?
Monica: I keep trying to convince him to get another one, but he won’t listen!
Anti-Mike: Now I’m sitting here, waiting for the next bit of bad news.
Jack: I bought you a dog and killed it.
Anti-Mike: That’s good news, except for killing it.
Erik: I bought you a dog and kept it alive.
Erik: I beat 4 Pokemon games in Chemistry and decided that 5 weeks ago that I should take notes. The only that’s made it in is a sexual innuendo the teacher made.
Adam: it’s interesting that an activity called drinking makes you thirstier… It’s like eating mac and cheese. You keep eating and eating and get hungrier and it just makes me angry.
Anti-Mike: Do you know how to build a website?
Fluffy: I know how to build a program…
Jack: The poorly-lit ages.
Erik: The 45-watt ages.
Adam: The murky light before the dawn ages.
Anti-Mike: Who else wants to be the bitch of the club?
Adam: Last time you left me alone, I destroyed anything.
- According to Electronic Arts, China will be getting an exclusive Dungeon Keeper MMO. Chinese studio NetDragon Websoft has made a deal for the license in China, and will develop the game. No other info was made available at the announcement.
- CBS has ordered the “back 5″ episodes for the new show the Eleventh Hour, giving it a full season of 18 shows, instead of the normal 22. The speculated reason for the odd number is the networks unhappiness at the show’s lack of retention of the CSI lead in audience, however Eleventh Hour still remains the 2nd most viewed new show. The Mentalist is number 1.
- Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the stop-motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastic novel The Witches, where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witches is taking place.
- The new movie Suck follows the misadventures of an optimistically named rock band, The Winners, seemingly doomed to obscurity. Their fortunes change thanks to a meeting with a vampire (played by Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides), and they find themselves enjoying their newfound fame, at least until the bloodlust kicks in. Called “Spinal Tap meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” it’s really the cast that makes this one to watch. The Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley plays The Winners’ manager, and Malcolm McDowell appears as a vampire hunter who’s afraid of the dark. Moby plays on his vegan reputation as the lead singer of a rival band called the Secretaries of Steak (the meat not the wood). Iggy Pop takes on the role of a music producer, and Alice Cooper is a sinister, bloodsucking bartender.
- STOP THE PRESSES STOP THE WORLD. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, the dvd itself is due out Dec 19, go now to our website and order it through our amazon link.
- Fox is ending its long tradition of saturday morning cartoons and is instead going to be running infomercials in the time slot. But not really infomercials Fox Networks Group chairman Tony Vinciquerra said “These will be longform programs that highlights their product. In that regard, it will have a little better quality.” So….infomercials.
- Alien Western, a sci-fi television film about giant, vicious, alien bugs that come to earth to gorge themselves on the uranium deposits found in the ground of an Old West town, began principal photography this week in Romania starring James Marsters as Sam Danville, an outlaw who is about to be hanged when the aliens land.
- Hey you guys! Corey Feldman has claimed that The Goonies 2 is “just not to be” but to cover his bases, immediately followed with “Course now that I’ve said that they’ll do it.” No word on Lost Boys 3.
- George Lucas’s senior thesis film from USC has been found. A Man and His Car, focused solely on Peter Brock and his Lotus 23 race car. Also knows as 1:42:08, the short is essentially a quickly edited representation of a racecar driver testing his vehicle. You can find it online.
- ABC has scheduled crime drama “Castle,” starring Nathan Fillion, to air Monday nights at 10 p.m. starting March 9.
- Director and former world karate and kickboxing champion, Lexi Alexander has just finished her new film Punisher: War Zone and now has her eyes set on Jonah Hex, a Western comic book anti-hero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga and published by DC Comics.
- Original series Sanctuary, starring Stargate‘s Amanda Tapping has been renewed for another season on the Sci Fi Channel.
- Josh Schwartz, creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck, and The O.C., has been signed by Fox to reboot their X-Men movie franchise in a new project called X-Men: First Class. Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat, who have appeared prominently or made cameos in prior pics are likely to star.
- Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson is reportedly vying for the directors chair for a new He-Man movie. Given that so many others have passed on the project Warner Bros killed it, it should be no great difficulty to prove that he’s the only man for the job.
- Hollywood rumors report that Universal Studios is considering making Tremors: The Thunder From Down Under. Either the movie will be set in Australia, or the Ass-Blasters from Tremors 2 are back.
- Real Life News Easily Adapted to Sci Fi Story #7564-b: One of the spiders sent up to the International Space Station is missing. Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says ‘We don’t believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days.”
- “India’s scariest movie ever” called Agyaat (The Unknown), features a group of people trapped in the jungle with an invisible alien killer who’s picking them off one by one. Ram Gopal Varma, director of breakout horror hit Phoonk, says the real star of Agyaat, filming next year, will be the first-of-their-kind special effects. No word yet on if the Governator has given his blessing to the project.
- Disney is rebooting the Witch Mountain franchise, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, explosions, shiny lights, and preteens than can stop an SUV with their body and levitate a macbook air with their mind. Oh and there’s a green armored thing chasing them that we shall call Master Fett or Bobba Chief.
- Simon Pegg’s new movie, Paul, will have him and Hot Fuzz co-star Nick Frost taking a space alien to San Diego Comic-Con, It has also been revealed that the alien in question is going to have a Cloverfield-esque pedigree. Says Pegg “I think it’s a bigger film than probably Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz put together… We’re figuring [the logistics of the alien] out at the moment and having real fun, working closely with Double Negative who did Shaun and Hot Fuzz and Cloverfield and Hellboy II.” Paul starts shooting next April with Superbad‘s Greg Mottola directing.
- Excelsior! ShowTime and Stan Lee are working on a project together – an adaptation of Perry Moore’s award-winning 2007 young adult novel Hero, which tells the story of the world’s first gay superhero dealing with his ex-superhero father, his sexuality, and a superhero serial killer. Moore,will work on the new series as a writer and executive producer, alongside Lee, whose production company Pow! Entertainment, is behind the show.
- Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and David Fincher have all signed on to work with Blur Studio on the new Heavy Metal movie. No movie studio backing yet but with powerhouses like that, its much closer to reality. Blur is known for their work on the Warhammer Online games, Harry Potter, and more.
- Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster has been tapped to helm the zombie epic, World War Z. The movie is based on Max Brooks’ novel which is a fictional collection of accounts from survivors after the zombies infested the world and mass panic took over. The action packed underwater walking zombie extravaganza is being produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company. J. Michael Straczynski is penning the screenplay, which is still not finished.
Attendance: 18 and lots of cookies
Meeting Start: 10:01:and 30 seconds after finishing a cookie
Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Anti-Mike, Alex, and Dan are here.
Movie: Quantum of Solace has an imaginary plot. The bad movie: House 2, the Second Story.
Office Resource: The office is still there. Please remember to turn off the lights and TV.
Trivia: By phone: What class of starship is the Enterprise? Xeen has it again with the Soverign.
Party: None.
Discussion Group: How did Han Solo turn into Indiana Jones?
Fundraising: Anti-Mike raised 6 cents.
No Report: Alex disappeared for a couple weeks, visited Indiana grad school, and helped move a 500lb stone around.
Officers Reports
Chief of Operations: Is actually here. The play has claimed his body and soul.
Constable: Second annual Jack Porkin’s day; you will be bapped if you do not comply. Guaranteed to succeed if he wears dark hats and drinks 10 shots.
Com Officer: ?
Grand Nagus: Has been playing Fallout 3 and Planescape: Torment. Gained a wisdom from someone disappearing. Went outside at 4am to smoke a cigar.
First Officer: Been hiding at home except for classes. She feels no need for grenades at home.
Captain: Slept through most of this week. Found his Lord of the Rings gamecube game.
Old Business: None.
New Business: None.
Other Organizations
Anime: Nothing.
MCS: Maybe playig Starcraft.
Order of Xeen: Traveller will be happening.
Theater: None.
Other: LAN will be there at 7pm.
Meeting End: 10:45 and seconds after Comma Chameleon
Quotes
Jack: Oh, it’s the plot of Indiana Jones.
Alex: I don’t remember dinosaurs.
Jack: Time constraints. You understand.
Forrest: There will be no eating. There is only Zuul!
Adam: Resurrection spell that gives full HP, mana, AND it’s your turn.
Erik: We call this the Mulligan.
Jack: Meeting on Friday. At 5.
Jon: Wow. New and different.
Anti-Mike: Remember: Next time I play SBAM, I will play the US and invade Canada. I will use the moose to invade Mexico.
Jack: I had an overwhelming urge to smoke. I’ve never smoked before.
Sarah: Are you pregnant?
Jack: Yes. That must be it.
Erik: I did read the constitution. Sober this time.
Jon: That’s cheating!
Anti-Mike: Careful. Reading the constitution might summon the demons within the bapper.
Dan: You forgot to mention that when you entered my house.
Anti-Mike: And you called me your friend.
Jack: I think that’s the only reason I would ever smoke a cigar: To be a bad ass.
Jon: I don’t need to go onto Wiki and look up “multidisc gamecube games.” I have that kind of time, but I don’t want to use it that way.