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The Very First Look At DJANGO UNCHAINED

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We've been talking about Django Unchained for awhile now, but today we get the very first official images from Quentin Tarantino's latest film.

The western film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave who is freed by German bounty hunter played by Christoph Waltz. The two work together getting Django trained for the day when he can storm the plantation of Leonardo DiCaprio's character, the evil Calvin Candie, and free his wife Broomhilda, with Kerry Washington taking on that role.

In these first pictures from EW, you can see the Foxx and Waltz walking through a town. Also there's a pic of Leo looking plain evil.










THE AVENGERS WAIT FOR A BUS

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Is this corny and kinda stupid?

Absolutely.

But it kills a couple of minutes and really, isn't that worth something?

Source: Nerdbastards


The Pirates! Band of Misfits—Excessive Realism Scuttles Animated Film (review)

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Captain Jack Sparrow elevated pirates from sport mascots to the mainstream.

With his funny accent and ability to run like an elderly woman, Johnny Depp’s character sanded the edges off a profession specializing in brutality and popularized a kid-friendly blockbuster series called Pirates of the Caribbean.

Now Aardman Animations tries to keep piracy fun and bouncy, but runs aground on a reef of realism that would’ve been better off covered by the tide.

Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a blend of Aardman’s classic character stop-motion animation combined with CGI scenery.


And while this look certainly primes the palate for comedy, the filmmakers followed a more cryptic chart.

Our Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) desires to win a Pirate of the Year Award. That brings a smile. But his quest is undertaken before a grim backdrop of actual pirate life.

In one scene, the Captain makes a number of dry satirical observations that were funny enough, but in the background his crew is dropping a lit keg of gunpowder onto a school of dolphins. The aquatic mammal pieces blown up on deck are later consumed with plantains and hardtack infested with weevils.

In what could’ve been a clever moment, the Captain and crew board the H.M.S. Beagle and meet Charles Darwin. However a crewman in the background battling dysentery mars this comedic setup.

At least Gilbert and Sullivan had their pirates singing. Here we are exposed to stop-motion characters patching sails for numbing minutes on end. Other tedious set-pieces center around the crew scraping barnacles off the hull, or else holding mock trials for unpopular sailors.

Faces distorted by sherry and gin, the sneering pirates find the proceedings hilarious, but not so audiences sipping diet soda while children ask, “Dad, what are they doing now?”

Deciding to accompany Darwin to London, the Pirate Captain’s vessel arrives in port as the surgeon amputates the leg of a man who broke his tibia falling off a mast. His screams echo out over the Thames as Pirate Captain and scientist exchange droll asides.

And I’ll skip over a series of dissolves showing a marooned pirate slowly perishing on a sandbar over several days.

There you have it. How will you spend your entertainment dollars?

I’m actually giving this movie two and a half stars for historical accuracy as well as several groundbreaking close-ups on the mouth of a pirate with scurvy.

Props to Martin Haughey for having the courage to take a credit as previs animator despite no one knowing what that is.


REAL LIFE 'TOM & JERRY'...Only This Time Jerry is a Hamster. Deal With It

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It's the theme music that makes this super special.

And by special, I mean not at all.

It really takes a lot to make me happy these days, perhaps some lithium might help.

Source: Neatorama


CHRONICLE Flies Home This May!

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What Are You Capable of? 
CHRONICLE
Featuring an Extended Cut Loaded with Must-See Deleted Scenes,
The Intense Sci-Fi Thriller Flies On To Blu-ray and DVD May 15
Take an extraordinary journey with three teens who uncover a power greater than anything they’ve ever imagined.

Up-and-coming actors Dane DeHaan (“True Blood”), Alex Russell (Almost Kings) and Michael B. Jordan (“Friday Night Lights”) star alongside Michael Kelly (The Adjustment Bureau) in the innovative action film CHRONICLE, debuting on Blu-ray and DVD May 15 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. 

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny telekinetic powers beyond their understanding.  As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control as their darker sides begin to take over.  What starts out as fun and games quickly becomes dangerous and they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with their remarkable powers. 

Utilizing hand-held filmmaking techniques to create a realistic and exciting viewing experience, the CHRONICLE Blu-ray boast a director’s cut of the film and unseen footage that offer a deeper glimpse into the events that took place with the students.  Special features include deleted scene, camera test, pre-viz materials and more.  The film will be available as a Blu-ray combo pack with DVD and digital copy for an average retail price of $39.99 and the DVD is $29.98 respectively.  Prebook is April 4.

DIRECTOR’S CUT CHRONICLE Blu-ray Combo Pack
  • Deleted Scene – Matt and Casey in the Kitchen
  • Pre-Viz
  • Camera Test
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Chronicle Soundtrack Info



About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.


PROGRAMMING IS HARD: Watch Some Hilarious Game Glitches In the Making of the 'Octodad" Game

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This is nothing. My husband, who teaches Gaming and Game Development, once programmed a character who vomited his insides up accidentally.

Of course, while I was laughing he was screaming obscenities so perhaps he didn't find it so funny (probably because he had been up for 36 hours trying to make a deadline).

Source: Geekosystems


Harvard, Kuumba, And Gaining My Voice

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First I heard the voices – female, dozens of them – declaring their beauty in Ndebele and Zulu words. Shosholoza … shosholoza.

Repeated again and again, the word is imbued with tones and rhythm that create space.

One utterance drags out the first syllable, letting the O sound build in the air, and the next is curt and until is splits the last O into a pair of notes.

Drums join in, punching the air in response. Male voices join in, and split into soprano, alto, tenor, bass, all playing against each other in a cascade.

It is a sound of South Africa.

It is a sound born of hardship, the Shosholoza song having originated among men traveling to and from the gold and diamond mines. This is a song of pain that joined the struggle against apartheid and fell from Nelson Mandela's lips.

Never has struggle sounded so beautiful.





Shosholoza now finds a home tonight among dozens of (mostly) black young men and women dressed all in black save for stoles of kente cloth. Their voices fill the wooden expanse of Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, where I spent time collecting a degree from 1998 to 2002.

These are the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, who have spent the past 42 years celebrating black creativity and spirituality. A group that was formed to create a safe harbor for black students far from home, who now welcomes people of all colors and faiths to share in its mission.

I was once a member. I get back to concerts when I can. And when I do, I find a home. I lift my fist to the air. I yell and sing along to the classical and contemporary gospel, the old Negro spirituals and blues.

All this, at Harvard, one of the centers of my blerd being.

Kuumba was a doorway to understanding myself as a black nerd. I saw the group as the center of where blackness and Harvard intersected.

To be black at Harvard likely connects you to Kuumba in some way, shape or form.

For me, Kuumba was a way to “be” black.

The overarching dynamic of the black nerd is that we're people without a country. Because so much of nerd culture is very white, we often are made to feel not black enough both outside and within the race. And the whiteness of nerd stuff – of being the one or two black people at anything you go to – typically doesn't make you feel wholly part of nerd world either.

And while my sense of racial identity is not about trying to be something, and instead is just about being – I'm black because I am, not because of how I talk, what I do, etc. – Kuumba provided a chance to engage my cultural heritage at its root.

I joined in sophomore year, and heard new songs and songs I forgot I knew. But whether new or old, the songs all felt familiar. They are a part of my traditional Afro-American heritage. And singing was the best metaphor, because I felt these songs within me, within my body, ready to come out.

It was sobering. I never thought I came from a family with a ton of black traditions. We don't quilt. I've never seen anyone jump a broom at a wedding. No storytellers, or dancers, or artists, really. We have “soul food” – which, let's face it, is mostly Southern country food. We aren't even all that religious, though we know plenty of religion.

And now there I was, surrounded by all those things.

As much as it fulfilled me, it made me uneasy. Had all my time not among other black people taken away something that made me more black? Can I keep singing these religious songs despite not being religious myself? That I obey no creed? How can I sing “Ride On, King Jesus” when I don't believe as others believe?

Those questions – a decade old – all came flooding back while at the concert that night. That I wouldn't be the one holding up my hand in holy fellowship. And, as usual, those questions were swept away in the emotion and spirit and beauty of hearing my people sing.

Of knowing the importance of religion in black culture, not simply for what it is, but for what it delivered: joy, transcendence from deprivation and pain, the everlasting power of hope.

Hope is the lifeblood of black American culture; the hope that we can work for a better tomorrow, to reclaim the humanity stolen from our ancestors, to rise and keep rising – both in spite of all obstacles and because of faith in the future being better than today.

So how could I not cheer when Kuumba, during “We Proclaim Him,” rejoined questions of who could beat back their despair, with powerful, full-voice canonical beauty, “This is Jesus! This is Jesus! This is Jesus! This is Jesus! He's righteous! And holy! And worthy of honor!”

I screamed. I felt renewed. I felt the power of hope and love.


At Harvard I met the most amazing collection of school-minded black people I had ever seen. All of us, driven, purpose-filled intellectuals, ready to grab life by the reins. Who never let any obstacles stop them.

Kuumba helped this black nerd, awkward in the presence of his own people, switch to the code we all shared and to be at home in his own skin and mind.

If you want an easily seen example of that code-switching, look at king blerd President Obama among black folks and white folks. Obama, who, coincidentally enough, had his sense of blackness forged at Harvard, too.

I sang with Kuumba for only one semester.

There were other interests I wanted to pursue. But Kuumba remained a home. I joined the committee for the Harvard Black Arts Festival, which was an offshoot of Kuumba, and produced shows and programs throughout my years there.

And to this day, so many of my Harvard friends began through Kuumba.

And all the meetings, parties, potlucks, music and singing and fellowship and debates over Star Wars and '80s R&B late at night at 400 Broadway in Cambridge.

"All right, Fett – Where are the other black people?"

That love, that bond never fades. Time cannot kill it. Distance cannot stop it.

I've been gone from Harvard 10 years now. I doubt that I will attend my reunion. But a Kuumba concert, that's most of my reunion right there. I feel it in the hugs and smiles and laughter, even from people I don't know.

At the end of the concert, Kuumba director Sheldon Reid invites the alumni to join the active choir on stage to sing one last song.

Kuumba's former director of 25 years, Robert Winfrey, steps onto the stage as Sheldon moves to the back of the choir with the basses. I join the tenors, a classmate to my left and a current student to my right. Together we sing the benediction, wishing for God to bless you and keep you.

Amen to that, and to the Electric Slide we did afterward, a sea of black people dipping and spinning among the sober white marble statues of dead Harvardian scholars.

You, know, the Electric Slide

My first year with the Black Arts Festival, our theme was sankofa.

Translated from the Akan people of Ghana as “go back and get it,” sankofa is conceptualized as a bird that looks back while traveling forward, an egg in its beak. Use your past to propel you into the future. Use your heritage as a strength for a better tomorrow.

Harvard strengthened my nerdiness. Kuumba enriched my blackness. It's one of the few times I ever feel part of a community.

So now I try to do as Sheldon said at the concert: “Take what you got here with you. Take it with you.”


Watch The Opening Of THE DICTATOR

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The Dictator will be taking over theaters on May 16th, but today you can watch the opening scene from Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy.

Directed by Larry Charles, The Dictator shows the life of an African ruler who comes to America and blends in...sort of. Baron Cohen has the title role with Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly and J.B. Smoove also co-starring.

Check it out after the jump.








The Comic Feed 4/26/12

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Zak Penn jumps into a new medium, pissed off planets in a dystopia future, and Marvel takes on young readers.

It’s a mad, mad world in today’s Comic Feed.


Screenwriter Extraordinaire Jumps into Comics


Screenwriter Zak Penn, the name behind The Avengers, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra, and The Incredible Hulk and Syfy’s Alphas, is expanding his horizons and taking the leap into the comics genre. Iconic characters are no match for Penn, who sold his first screenplay, Last Action Hero, at the age of 23.

Published by Avatar Press, Penn will be joined by Scott Murphy (screenwriter of Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and artist Michael DiPascale (Lady Death) to bring the six-issue miniseries Hero Worship to stores in July 2012. The story is about the ultimate celebrity, an indestructible superhero called Zenith, and what happens when one fan’s unhealthy obsession leads to the development of powers all his own.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled about Zak Penn bringing his debut comic project to Avatar,” says publisher William Christensen. “Zak is an incredibly gifted and inventive writer, and Hero Worship is a fresh perspective on the entire genre. It’s slick and innovative, taking risks like every great Avatar title should. Let the other Brand-X companies tell the same-old, ‘Guy-in-Tights-Punches-Another-Guy-in-Tights’ stories; here at Avatar, Zak’s got the freedom to blow all the doors off their hinges.”


Carbon Grey Returns with Volume 2


The creative team behind Carbon Grey has come together to continue the story of the Sisters Grey with Carbon Grey Volume Two: Daughters of Stone. The three-issue monthly miniseries, co-written by Nguyen, Paul Gardner, and Khari Evans, with art by Nguyen, Evans, and Kinsun Loh, is available for pre-order in the April issue of Previews (cover A by Khari Evans and Kinsun Loh, cover B by Hoang Nguyen) and will be in stores on June 6.

Funding for this latest book was made through a Kickstarter campaign that met its goal on April 14th. The detail and craftsmanship that goes into each issue is what necessitated the campaign. "A lot of research goes into every page, whether it's a costume designs or different settings," said Nguyen. "I want to make sure that it's believable. My inspirations comes from looking at fashion, photography, architecture, industrial and set design. I like to go beyond the norm and bring something new and different to my drawings."

Completing the Carbon Grey series, volume 1 is available in trade paperback, and a two-issue mini-series Carbon Grey: Origins, as well as The Art of Carbon Grey, an oversized hardcover book featuring the artwork from the series, hit stores in February and March 2012.


Don’t Feed the Planet


I love me a dystopian universe. There’s just something about man vs. environment. Image Comics’ new Planetoid, out June 13th, pits man against planet in a desolate time. Writer/Artist Ken Garing says, "The world of Planetoid is that of a vast, abandoned industrial landscape. The story, however, will revolve around the efforts of the planetoid's inhabitants as they struggle together against extraordinary odds in the hope of building something new out of the devastation." Hard to do when the planet you land on is alive and pissed.

The color palette alone will make this book worth every moment and every penny, with a “splash of human blood amidst the monochromatic grays and rusts of the planetoid.”

Issue #1 was an exclusive digital comic on Graphicly, but now will appear in print by Image Comics, and is available for pre-order in the April issue of Previews. Each of the five full-color monthly issues will be 32 pages long, with no ads, for $2.99.


Avengers in Banking 


Back in the days when I was teaching a teen manga group at the local library, I found it difficult to get parents to understand why comics, graphic novels, and manga are not useless fluff. I offered up examples like a manga version of the Bible, a manga about understanding the basics of statistics, and explained that reading a comic is still reading. RIF!

Marvel and Visa have teamed up to take another step in using comics as a teaching tool. Avengers Saving the Day #1, available on Practical Money Skills Canada, is teaching kids to save money. Spider-Man and the Avengers teach financial skills in a comic that features budgeting worksheets and financial terms. Of course, the new comic is still action packed and is available in eight languages.


DC Nation App Targets Young Readers


It kind of irks me when I see a 10 year old with an iPad. Jealous much? Maybe. DC Comics is capitalizing on this new trend and has launched the DC Nation app. An all ages app offering content “based on the popular Saturday morning programming block from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the free app features thousands of pages of kid-safe content including free, first issues of three of the all-time greatest kids’ comics Batman Adventures #1, Superman Adventures #1, and the multiple Eisner Award-winning Tiny Titans #1,” according to a DC press release.

But wait…there’s more. DC is also launching the new DC Nation Super Spectacular magazine. The magazine will be offered throughout the summer and offer youngsters new comics based on DC Nation shows like Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. Exclusive content from the app program and sneak peeks will be available in the magazine, along with exclusive game codes from magazine sponsor LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes, a new game from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.


I Want to Go to There






A new documentary, Cartoon College, spotlights the The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and the few who are invited and make it through their painstaking studies and critiques. 20 of the world's most promising aspiring cartoonists and graphic novelists are invited each year.

Over three years, filmmakers Josh Melrod and Tara Wray interviewed famous names in independent comics, including Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Scott McCloud, Francoise Mouly, R. Sikoryak, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, met comic book store owners, museum curators, critics, librarians, and college professors, and found out what it takes to make it in the world of indie comics. The West Coast Premiere of Cartoon College will be at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday, April 29th.


SATISFY YOURSELF With This TARDIS Baby-Maker

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This hand-crafted TARDIS tickler isn't available for sale yet, but I'm sure if it passes through the testing sessions with flying colors, then come Christmas, we might be enjoying a bit of the Doctor inside all of us.

And if it doesn't, well I'm sure someone is going to make a vibrating dalek soon enough.

Source: io9


Strong Language and Adult Themes: The New Brian McKnight Song

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I categorize modern R&B singers into two types. 

There are the Dry-Humping Aspiring Rapper Types (DHARTs). This would be guys like Chris “Fists of Fury” Brown or Trey Songz  (the kind of guys who drag young girls on stage and basically dry hump them and basically try to “sing” rap lyrics.)   

Then, there are the more subtle crooner types who more rely on romance than raw overtly sexual lyrics. 

Brian McKnight falls in the latter. 

Rather, he fell in the latter category… until now.


That’s right. Brian McKnight is back and sexier than ever. 

Wait, maybe he’s not sexier than ever but he is more graphic than ever. 

Thanks to feedback from Twitter, he’s releasing an adult-themed mixtape. 

Here’s a sample.





For those who didn’t watch, here’s the chorus:
Let me show you how your p*ssy works, since you didn’t bring it to me first,
I have lots of things to show you if you’re ready to learn
Let me show you how your p*ssy works, since you didn’t bring it to me first
Bet you didn’t know that it could squirt
I have lots of things to show you if you’re ready to learn
Here are my questions:
1)      What degree/certification does Brian McKnight have in this area? (University of Phoenix degree in Gynecology? Bachelors in vaginal mechanical engineering?  PhD in P*ssyology?)

2)      Why is McKnight fooling around with chicks who don’t know how their bodies work?

3)      Are we going to have to change the name of Megan’s Law to Brian McKnight’s Law? (This has Law & Order: SVU written all over it.)

4)      Sure a lot of things rhyme with “work” but did you have to go with “squirt?”

5)      When did he start making “windowless van” music?

6)      Will there be a backlash from horrible rappers like Plies who have cornered the market on poorly written sex raps?

7)      Since you didn’t bring it to me first…” Why is he acting like a plumber who berates someone for trying to unclog their own sink?

8)      If you’re over 40 and have 16 Grammy nominations, do you really need to release a mixtape?

9)      Anybody else waiting for Will Ferrell to jump out from behind the camera?

10)   Was he serious?


HELL ON WHEELS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Comes to Your Corral On DVD & Blu-ray

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“Unforgiven meets Glory in this grimy post-Civil War Western series.”
-- In Touch Magazine
 
AMC rolls out another winner with ‘Hell on Wheels’.”
-- New York Daily News

“Railroads may not seem sexy, but this series brings a There Will Be Blood aesthetic to episodic TV.”
-- Wall Street Journal


BLOOD WILL BE SPILLED.  LIVES WILL BE LOST. 
FORTUNES WILL BE MADE.  MEN WILL BE RUINED.

THIS MAY, THE LATEST ACCLAIMED TV SERIES FROM AMC MAKES ITS EPIC DEBUT ON DVD & BLU-RAY™

HELL ON WHEELS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

Street Date: May 15, 2012
Blu-Ray/DVD srp: $44.98/$39.98

Credited for “helping to modernize the Western genre” when it premiered in 2011, Hell on Wheels centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad's westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad.  Currently reigning as the #2 rated show on AMC (with a series premiere that was the second highest rated AMC debut of all time), it is episodic TV at its very best.  And before Season Two rolls into town this fall, home viewers can catch up on all the frontier drama in this star-studded smash with HELL ON WHEELS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, arriving on DVD and blu-ray this May, only from Entertainment One.

“Hell on Wheels” tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife.  His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. The lavishly-produced series documents the railroad’s engineering and construction, as well as institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction.  Chronicling this potent turning point in our nation’s history, this fan favorite series shows just how uncivilized the business of civilization can be across 10 absorbing episodes.

Developed by Endemol USA and produced by Entertainment One and Nomadic Pictures, Hell on Wheels is created, written, and executive-produced by Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Uncommon Valor, The Salton Sea, Bulletproof).

BONUS PROGRAMMING

·         “Recreating the Past: The Making of Hell on Wheels”
·         “Crashing a Train: From Concept to Camera”
·         Seven “Making-of” Featurettes
·         Ten “Inside the Episode” Featurettes
·         Seven Character Featurettes
·         Behind-the-Scenes Footage



For the latest breaking news on HELL ON WHEELS and other releases, follow Entertainment One on Twitter: http://twitter.com/eOneHomeVideo


TOBACCO LIQUEUR: For Those Times When Drinking Then Smoking Would Be A Waste of Your Time

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This fancy pants alcoholic beverage is called Jade Perique Liqueur de Tabac and it's made from the rare Louisiana perique tobacco which gives it the flavor of a used ashtray or, as the distillery describes it "...The unique terroir of the Mississippi River gives Perique the intense spices and aromas that contribute to the delicate balance of this fine liqueur".

Which is really a nice way of saying that you are drinking liquid made from the run off from various pesticides that ended up in the Mississippi River.

Enjoy!

You can buy a bottle from HERE.

Source: Laughing Squid


Contest! Win BEN 10 Ultimate Alien Volume 5 DVD!

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In the explosive finale, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Volume 5: The Ultimate Ending, Ben must face his biggest enemy, Vilgax, who re-emerges in his most powerful form ever. It's a race against time as Ben must stop him before its too late, and avoid the ultimate end!

The two-disc DVD set is filled with 10 action-packed episodes from the television series' third season, as well as an Ultimate Alien Database.

And we're giving away three copies!


To enter, please send an email with the subject header "ULTIMATE ENDING" to geekcontest @ gmail dot com and answer the following question:


What is the name of the actor who voices Ben Tennyson?

Please include your name and address (U.S. Residents only. You must be 18 years old).

Only one entry per person and a winner will be chosen at random.

Contest ends at 11:59 PM EST on May 27th, 2012.


COLIN FARRELL Offered Lead Role in WINTER'S TALE

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Although negotiations haven't started yet, Colin Farrell has been offered the leading role in Winter's Tale across from Jessica Brown Findlay.

Variety reports that Akiva Gooldsman, the writer and director of the movie has given Farrell the chance to play the lead in the supernatural drama based on 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. The directing gig will be Goldsman's first.


There are back-ups if Farrell decides to pass on the offer. Luke Evans, Garrett Hedlund, Liam Hemsworth, Aaron Johnson and Benjamin Walker are all possibilities for the protagonist. The character is a "a young thief on the run who breaks into a wealthy man's home and end up falling for his terminally-ill daughter."


Goldsman has been working for many years on this project which is under a $75 million project. He'll be producing the film through his Weed Road Banner with Marc Platt. Filming is expected to start in New York on October 15th. 

Along with Farrell, Russell Crowe and Will Smith are believed to be playing supporting roles.



JOSH GAD Looking To Play Steve Wozniak in JOBS

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With Ashton Kutcher already signed up to play Steve Jobs, Josh Gad may be the man to play the co-founder of Apple better known as Woz.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gad is looking to play the big role of Steve Wozniak in the indie biopic Jobs. Best known for his work on Broadway in The Book of Mormon, He will be joining Ashton Kutcher who was attached to the project a few months ago in the lead role of Steve Jobs.

Joshua Michael Stern will be directing the project. The biopic will show Jobs rise through the world of technology from his start in a Northern California garage to his role as the co-founder of Apple and face of one of the biggest tech company ever.

Wozniak started Apple along with Jobs and is primarily responsible for designing the operating system and the earliest computers with the Apple name. Jobs and Woz grew apart as the company became successful, eventually Woz left apparently tired with Jobs' "single-minded behavior."

If Gad signs on for the project he will start shooting the $5 million project in Texas staring in May. Apart from The Book of Mormon, his last role was in Love and Other Drugs.


FRINGE Has Another Season, But That's All

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Fringe will have one more season, but after that you'll be stuck with watching repeats.

Fox made the announcement yesterday that Fringe has been given a fifth and final season. Thirteen more episodes means that the show will have a proper finale instead of being cut-off like some people expected. With low ratings, but a consistent group of fans, the renewal means that the series will hit 100 episodes.

Showrunners Jeff Pinker and J.H. Wyman were excited they get to continue working on the show, they said, "This pickup means the world (both of them) to us, because we love sharing these stories with our enthusiastic fans. On behalf of the cast and crew, we applaud our fans and Fox for allowing us to imagine the impossibilities together for so long. Season five is going to be a conclusive thrill ride for all of us."

Fringe was moved the the plagued time-slot of Fridays on Fox which has seen other cult sci-fi shows like Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. The show has had low ratings, a 0.9 in 18-49 demo, and the audience has averaged around 3 million. Despite that they show has earned two Emmy noms and still has a large and vocal fan base.

Before the decision was made, the cast and crew shot multiple endings for this season's finale which airs on May 11th. As Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said, the renewal of the show will give the creators a way to "provide the climactic conclusion that it's passionate and loyal fans deserve." A fan of the show himself, he then added, "Although the end is bittersweet, it’s going to be a very exciting final chapter.”



CHLOE SEVIGNY Joins The Cast Of AMERICAN HORROR STORY

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Chloe Sevigny will be joining the cast of the second season of American Horror Story.

THR reports that Sevigny has officially closed the deal and will play the role of Shelly the Nymphomaniac. The character is a rival of Jessica Lange's character in the show from the creator of Glee Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.


The second season of the show will be unlike the first and will have a new setting, characters, and storyline. Interestingly actors from the first season will be returning, but they will all be playing characters that are almost opposites of their old roles.

Other new cast members include Adam Levine from The Voice, and Lizzie Brochere, a French actress. They will also be joined by Season one cast members Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters,Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe

Sevigny was most recently seen on HBO in Big Love from 2006-2011, she also had a role on Law & Order: SVU.


ANDY GARCIA And VERA FARMIGA Join The Cast of ADMISSIONS

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For the indie romantic comedy Admissions, Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga will be joining the cast.

Deadline reports that the two actors will star in the Adam Rodgers directed project with Garcia also producing with his CineSon Productions. Glenn German co-wrote the script with Rodgers.

Admissions is the story of a "once-in-a-lifetime relationship that develops between two strangers of the course of a single day." Farmiga and Garcia will play parents taking their kinds on a college tour. Although the two, are unable to really connect with their kids, they find romance when they ditch their children and try to have "the greatest half-day of their lives."


Watch The Red-Band Trailer For HICK

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Chloë Moretz is the star of Hick. She was awesome in Kick-Ass, and in this new movie she's just as awesome.

In Hick, Moretz is traveling with Blake Lively in some sort of strange road trip, I think. I'm still not quite sure what the plot is. I think she's trying to find her father but she ends up just flirting with old guys, carrying a gun, and hanging out with some questionable influences.

Watch the trailer right here. Just click the triangle thingy.




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