Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Dragon*Con 2010: Watch Now: Venture Bros. Creators Turn Panel Into ’70s Talkshow

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 09:38 PM PDT

Geeks of Doom Invades Dragon*Con 2010 banner The minds behind Adult Swim hit show The Venture Bros. -- Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer -- decided to meet their adoring fans differently for their Dragon*Con 2010 panel by setting up some comfy chairs, a coffee table and cheesy '70's music that played whenever the pair wasn't speaking.

Call it convention fatigue or boredom, but Publick and Hammer thought it would be better to treat the scheduled time as an old school talkshow -- Maury Povich style. They took turns running through the crowded ballroom allowing fans to ask questions and receive a rose if it was deemed worthy of answering.

We captured the whole thing on a shaky, amateurishly handled FlipCam and have subsequently uploaded the videos to YouTube, which you can watch below.

Some of the high points include Bill Hader replacing the voice of Stephen Cobert as Professor Richard Impossible, why a Venture Bros. feature-length film is probably a bad idea and lots of news regarding who will be back for the last part of the season.

Check out the embedded video after the jump. [...]

Contest: ‘Lord of the Rings’ Blu-ray Prize Pack

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 08:37 PM PDT

The Lord of the Rings Blu-ray

Peter Jackson's award-winning The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy is now available for first time as single-edition Blu-rays. In conjunction with this release, we here at Geeks of Doom have an awesome Lord Of The Rings prize pack with some real cool goodies to give away to one (1) lucky reader!

One (1) winner will receive:

- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Blu-ray Edition
- One (1) LOTR Playing Cards
- Two (2) LOTR Bookmarks
- One (1) LOTR Jade necklace from New Zealand
- One (1) LOTR Navy Blue Ornament
- One (1) LOTR Travel Candle
- One (1) LOTR Poster

The Blu-ray Editions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King were released on September 14, 2010 and are available now through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy tells the story of Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a hobbit who battles against the Dark Lord Sauron to save his world, Middle-earth, from the grip of evil. In the films, Frodo and his fellowship of friends and allies embark on a desperate journey to rid Middle-earth of the source of Sauron's greatest strength, the One Ring — a ring that has the power to enslave the inhabitants of Middle-earth. The trilogy tells tales of extraordinary adventures across the treacherous landscape of Middle-earth and reveals how the power of friendship, love and courage can hold the forces of darkness at bay. Beside Wood, the films star Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, featuring Sean Bean, and Ian Holm, with Andy Serkis as Gollum. The films also star Marton Csokas, Craig Parker and Lawrence Makaoare. [...]

‘Saw’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Crews Team Up For ‘Insidious’; New Clip Released

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 06:56 PM PDT



A brand new clip has been released for the new thriller, Insidious.

The movie is directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, who co-created Saw together, and produced by Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, and Oren Peli, the team behind the indie horror hit Paranormal Activity.

The movie follows a family whose son slips into a coma before strange, inexplicable things start to happen, forcing them into a fight to keep evil spirits from trapping the boy in their realm.

Click on over to the other side now to get a peek at the movie in this new clip, which shows a sketch artist drawing out what a psychic is seeing near the young comatose boy.

Insidious stars Patrick Wilson (Little Children, Watchmen) and Rose Byrne (Sunshine, Knowing), and Barbara Hershey (Beaches, Black Swan). Director Wan has also helmed Dead Silence, Death Sentence, and is attached to the Castlevania movie in development. Whannell's previous scripts also include Saw II and Saw III. [...]

‘Caprica’ Returning To SyFy Early, Oct. 5 Premiere

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 05:18 PM PDT



Fans of the Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica no longer have to wait until January 2011 for new episodes, according to the SyFy Channel.

The network announced that the show's 1.5 season premiere will now air October 5 at 10 PM EST following the premiere of Stargate Universe. Sanctuary, which was originally intended for this time slot, has been bumped back to October 15 -- a Friday.

For the majority of Caprica fans (e.g., people who are reading this article) the new time slot gives them back their Friday nights, but who knows how it'll affect DVR and TiVo numbers. One thing that may hurt the show on a Tuesday may be the non-geek crowd that perhaps watched the show because nothing else compared to it on a Friday night.

Time will tell, but I've heard there are multiple Zoe Greystones for the last half of the season, so I can't imagine ratings would dip.

Check out a clip of the upcoming episodes [...]

Flix Of Doom: Episode 11: ‘Resident Evil’ Films

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Check out Episode 11 of the Flix of Doom podcast, the official movie podcast of Geeks of Doom, September 13, 2010, with hosts Empress Eve and Justin Vactor. For this Resident Evil-themed episode, we take a look at the latest film, Resident Evil: Afterlife (in Eve-loving 3D!) as well as all the previous films in the series. And if anyone's interested there's also some movie news and box office results thrown in for good measure.

Click HERE to open the podcast player in a new window.

Full Episode Guide is here below, along with player.

Listen now!

E-mail us at flixofdoom [at] gmail.com
Follow us on Twitter - @FlixOfDoom
Subscribe to the Podcast: RSS | iTunes | Zune [...]

Al Pacino & Joe Pesci To Join Robert De Niro For Martin Scorsese Mafia Movie

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT



Before we get to the news...best headline ever, right? These are the things movie fans dream about hearing about.

In February of this year, word came out of the Berlin Film Festival that legendary director Martin Scorsese was working on a new mob movie called The Irishman with Robert De Niro, re-teaming the duo responsible for creating one of the great mob movies of all time in Goodfellas. The only thing about this movie, was that it would be more of a reflection film, with an old mobster looking back on his life of crime. The movie will be based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, which details the life of Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran -- one of the prime suspects in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa -- as told by the Irishman himself.

To add to that, now we have word of two more potential castings that would make this so much more exciting than it already was. [...]

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