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- Geek Gear: Doctor Who ‘Words with Enemies’ Shirt
- $5 MP3 Album Deal: Patton Oswalt’s Finest Hour
- Jack White To Score ‘The Lone Ranger’
- Bethesda Offers Update On ‘Prey 2′
- Mel Gibson In Talks For Role In Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Sequel
- Comic Review: The Goon #39
- Ashcan All-Stars Takes On ‘The Hunger Games’
- Watch Now: Making Of Universal Studios Hollywood’s ‘Transformers: The Ride 3D’
- ‘The Help’ Star Jessica Chastain In Talks For ‘Iron Man 3′
- Virgin Acquires Rolling Stones ‘Exile on Main Street’ Story For The Big Screen
- Gallery 1988 Hosting ‘The Avengers’ Themed Art Show
- Book Review: Under a Vampire Moon: An Argeneau Novel
- Johnny Depp Reveals The Inspiration Behind His Tonto Look In ‘The Lone Ranger’
- Doom Digest: Disney Orange Bird, Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, Marvel Anime
- Blu-ray Review: The Innkeepers
| Geek Gear: Doctor Who ‘Words with Enemies’ Shirt Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is the Doctor Who-themed shirt with a nod to the game Words with Friends called "Words with Enemies" by Lindsay Rabiega. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]            |
| $5 MP3 Album Deal: Patton Oswalt’s Finest Hour Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:15 PM PDT  As part of Amazon's monthly $5 MP3 album deals for April 2012, Patton Oswalt's Finest Hour is on sale for only $5. Finest Hour is the fourth and latest comedy album released in 2011 by stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and all-around funnyman, Patton Oswalt. Some may recognize his voice from his starring role as Remy, the lead character in the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille, and his face from the Showtime original hit TV series, The United States of Tara and also from Everybody Loves Raymond. Oswalt has also written comic book stories, as well as a novel entitled Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, which was released in 2011. If you'd like a physical copy of Finest Hour, the CD is available for only $9.27 [...]      |
| Jack White To Score ‘The Lone Ranger’ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:28 PM PDT  Trent Reznor and Jonny Greenwood have been known to dabble in conducting a few notable soundtracks. Renzor, whose most recent work can be heard on David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, earned himself an Academy Award for his work on Fincher's The Social Network. Though Greenwood's work for There Will be Blood was deemed ineligible for an Academy Award – due to use of pre-existing material - the soundtrack did earn itself a Grammy nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. Now its time for former White Stripes lead Jack White to step up and conduct the score for major a movie soundtrack. Disney Studios announced today that White will be making his first score conduction with the Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger [...]      |
| Bethesda Offers Update On ‘Prey 2′ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 06:40 PM PDT  Many fans of the video game Prey were pretty upset to find out that the game's sequel, Prey 2 (first announced back in March of 2011), might be getting killed off. Bethesda Softworks, the company publishing the game that was being developed by Human Head Studios for a 2012 release, has now offered up an update on the sequel, mainly reaching out to all of the angry/saddened fans and offering them reassurance that Prey 2 is still happening...they're just now sure when it will be coming out anymore. [...]      |
| Mel Gibson In Talks For Role In Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Sequel Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT  In a strange bit of casting news, it's being reported that none other than Mel Gibson has entered into "serious discussions" for a role in the upcoming sequel to 2010's Machete, which will be titled Machete Kills. Nothing is know about who Gibson might play, only that it would a supporting role. The original movie had a slew of stars led by Danny Trejo as an ex-Federale with an affinity for blades who's betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a senator, leading him on a bloody path to revenge. [...]      |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:30 PM PDT  The Goon #39 Created by Eric Powell Art by Eric Powell Colors by Dave Stewart Dark Horse Comics Release Date: April 25, 2011 Cover Price: $3.50 Eric Powell is unhappy with Marvel and DC. In fact, he is so annoyed by mainstream superhero comics that he wrote an entire issue about it. The Goon #39 seems to be the culmination of all of Powell's frustrations with hero comics and the comics industry in general. This issue is a deconstruction of everything that Powell feels is wrong with mainstream publisher's marketing techniques. Goon takes a break from cracking zombie skulls for an issue, and instead takes down the The Big Two. Powell attempts to bring every irritating thing about mainstream comics to light in this issue. The problem with this is, when you swing at every slow pitch, you are bound to miss a few [...]      |
| Ashcan All-Stars Takes On ‘The Hunger Games’ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT  Ashcan All-Stars, an art blog where weekly topics are sent out to a group of professional artists to provide their unique take on characters from pop culture, is celebrating The Hunger Games this week, and it's already off to an amazing start. So far, Ashcan All-Stars has two great additions to the collection with even more coming down the pipe. First is an Effie Trinket piece by Ultimate Spider-Man artist Sara Pichelli that's designed in the style of an Uncle Sam propaganda poster. Next, All-Star Western artist Moritat gives his interpretation of the star of the popular book, and now film, Katniss Everdeen. Moritat's take is more of a classic action pose of Katniss as she prepares her bow for the hunt. I really love both of these pieces, which are provided here below for your convenience, as I'm a huge fan of both artists and the content, and I'm even more excited to see other artists' interpretation of The Hunger Games [...]      |
| Watch Now: Making Of Universal Studios Hollywood’s ‘Transformers: The Ride 3D’ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT  For the most passionate of fans and thrill seekers, few things are more exciting than being thrown into your favorite movies via the rides of Universal Studios. For fans of the Transformers movies, that ride is quickly approaching with Transformers: The Ride 3D at Universal Studios Hollywood. The ride is set to open on May 25th, but until that time, a new video has been released showing the making of the ride and what fans can expect. [...]      |
| ‘The Help’ Star Jessica Chastain In Talks For ‘Iron Man 3′ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT  Actress Jessica Chastain fired to stardom over the course of the past year with roles in Oscar winner The Help, Oscar nominee The Tree of Life, The Debt, and Take Shelter. Now the actress is busier than ever having just completed work on Lawless with Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Tom Hardy, and Shia LaBeouf, Tar with James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, and Bruce Campbell, another Terrence Malick film with Rachel McAdams, Benn Affleck, Michael Sheen, Rachel Weisz, Javier Bardem, Amanda Peet, and Barry Pepper, and a voice acting role in Madagascar 3. [...]      |
| Virgin Acquires Rolling Stones ‘Exile on Main Street’ Story For The Big Screen Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:00 PM PDT  Coming hot on the heels of the 40th anniversary of one of rock and roll's all time greatest records, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, is the news that a dramatic movie highlighting the making of the record is at the inception of production for the silver screen. The Playlist reports this week that Virgin Produced Productions, headed by mogul Richard Branson, has acquired the rights to Robert Greenfield's concise tome Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones and plans to make a feature film about the making of this seminal record, with all of the drama and wild tales of rock and roll excess that went with that making of the 2-album set [...]      |
| Gallery 1988 Hosting ‘The Avengers’ Themed Art Show Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT  I'm new to the Geeks of Doom team, so I'd like to introduce you, the readers, to one of my favorite geek things: Geek art. Fortunately, I happen to live near the city of Los Angeles, so I'll get to attend gallery openings like the The Avengers-themed gallery that Gallery 1988 is having on May 3. Disney is officially commissioning the licensed artwork and best thing of all, it is original. There will be limited screenprints and some even more limited digital prints will all be available to those who attend the gallery opening [...]      |
| Book Review: Under a Vampire Moon: An Argeneau Novel Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT  Under a Vampire Moon An Argeneau Novel Paperback | Kindle By Lynsay Sands Avon Release date: April 24, 2012 Holy hotstuff! Under a Vampire Moon is the 16th book in the Argeneau and Rogue Hunter series by prolific novelist Lynsay Sands and is like a mini-vacation in book form. At the behest of her old college girlfriends, Carolyn Connor heads to St. Lucia for a much-needed getaway with the girls. After going through a complicated and contentious two-year divorce ordeal that isn't quite over yet, the last thing on Carolyn's mind is meeting anyone new. However, newlyweds Marguerite Arganeau-Notte and Julius Notte have much grander designs for her besides tourist activities and fruity umbrella drinks [...]      |
| Johnny Depp Reveals The Inspiration Behind His Tonto Look In ‘The Lone Ranger’ Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT  The release last month of the first image of Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in character from next summer's big-budget western adventure The Lone Ranger didn't particularly set the world on fire. One of the major question marks surrounding the troubled production was how Depp would look as the Ranger's faithful Indian companion Tonto. In the months before the release of the first Pirates of the Caribbean, images of Depp in character as Captain Jack Sparrow led skeptics to believe the eclectic actor had gone off the deep end and the movie would be an epic bomb for Disney. Instead Pirates was a blockbuster smash that finally made Depp a bona fide movie star and spawned a billion-dollar franchise for the Mouse House. It also established the quirky and roguish Captain Jack as the first iconic movie hero of the 21st century. Pretty soon the stylish swashbuckler would become a popular Halloween costume as well. Depp had taken an unusual approach in his ideas for the character's look, much to the consternation of studio executives already sweating over the movie's gargantuan (for 2002/3) budget and the nagging uncertainty of a pirate movie, much less one based on one of their famous theme park rides, but the gamble paid off handsomely [...]      |
| Doom Digest: Disney Orange Bird, Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, Marvel Anime Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT  Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don't always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we've resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies. Today: Disney's Orange Bird returns, gay Star Wars film, Marvel Iron Man & X-Men anime, Star Trek Sulu birthday cookies, Sara Pichelli's Game Of Thrones art, plus some Bits Of Doom [...]      |
| Blu-ray Review: The Innkeepers Posted: 24 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT  The Innkeepers Blu-ray | DVD Directed by Ti West Written by Ti West Starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Brenda Cooney, Alison Bartlett Dark Sky Films/MPI Media Group Release Date: April 24, 2012 The Innkeepers A Ghost Story for the Minimum Wage The Yankee Pedlar Inn of Torrington, Connecticut, offers 60 individual bathrooms with private baths, each adorned with stenciled walls and period furniture and restored with the most modern of conveniences. Since 1891, The Yankee Pedlar has been known for gracious hospitality and homegrown warmth. It also has a reputation for being haunted. From filmmaker Ti West (The House of the Devil) comes The Innkeepers. Believed by many to be one of New England's "most haunted hotels," The Yankee Pedlar is about to shut its doors for good. As the Inn's final days draw near, the remaining employees - Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - set out to uncover proof of its haunted past [...]      |
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