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• Geek Gear: Supernatural ‘Hell & Back World Tour’ Shirt
• Eli Roth Says He Has Figured Out ‘Thanksgiving’
• Disney In Depth: Movie Review: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• Jack Ryan Reboot Scheduled For Tentative Late 2013 Release
• Geek Peek: First Look At Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore In ‘Carrie’ Remake
• No Additional Charge To See Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ At 48 FPS
• Watch This Clip From The New ‘Toy Story’ Short ‘Partysaurus Rex’
• ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ To Cover Republican National Convention 2012
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Cast As Supporting Villain In ‘Thor: The Dark World’
• Out With The New Flesh, In With The Lame: Why A ‘Videodrome’ Remake Is A Lousy Idea
• Comic Review: Jericho, Season 4 #1
• ‘Justice League #12′: Superman + Wonder Woman = 2Gether 4Ever!
• The 5 Tony Scott Movies You Really Must See (If You Haven’t Already)
• Rep. Paul Ryan Is A ‘Rage Against The Machine’ Fan, Tom Morello Is Not Amused
• $5 MP3 Album Deal: Dire Straits ‘The Best Of – Private Investigations’

Geek Gear: Supernatural ‘Hell & Back World Tour’ Shirt Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:50 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a Supernatural-themed shirt called "Hell & Back World Tour" by mannypdesign. The sale began at Teefury today, Friday, August 24, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site for $10 anymore, though it might continue into the next day for $13 (look for the After Hours bar at the top) [...]

Eli Roth Says He Has Figured Out ‘Thanksgiving’ Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:00 PM PDT Turns out a lot of good things came out of those faux trailers seen in Grindhouse. Robert Rodriguez has taken his Machete trailer and turned it into a full-fledged feature and is working on its sequel. Now Eli Roth's faux trailer for Thanksgiving is being turned into a film as well. And the best news is that Thanksgiving could be hitting theaters as early as Fall 2013, the perfect time to release a film like this one. Here's what Roth had to say an interview with Behind the Thrills: [Thanksgiving] is gonna happen. I'm working with the Clown writers on it. We have a call scheduled tomorrow afternoon. Jeff Rendell, my co-writer on it, we have a very extensive treatment. We finally cracked the story and figured out how to really make it scary, and the reason to do it. I'm really excited about it.

Disney In Depth: Movie Review: The Odd Life of Timothy Green Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT A most peculiar drama, indeed. As I watched The Odd Life of Timothy Green I kept thinking of how rare it is to find a touching, genuine piece of film that literally grows on you. Nothing especially grand in scale, just a simple fantasy set in reality. Director Peter Hedges has fashioned a sweet tale with sensibility, one that despite inspiring some eye-rolling and struggling to maintain a cohesive structure, manages to breathe kindness and spirit. Disney has surely expanded its range in films in recent years, in terms of tone, and I suppose soon enough one would arrive in the form of a married couple who cannot have a child. Jim and Cindy Green, played with warmth by the duo of Joel Edgerton (Warrior) and Alias star Jennifer Garner, have almost given up hope on having a child of their very own. In a flash-forward scene toward the opening, the pair shares with an adoption agency of why they are suitable parents. They tell their miraculous story, of their short and certainly odd experience with a 10-year-old boy who enters their lives [...]

Jack Ryan Reboot Scheduled For Tentative Late 2013 Release Posted: 23 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT The Jack Ryan reboot is all ready to go. Kenneth Branagh will direct the film and be the villain as well; it's got Chris Pine as the lead actor; Keira Knightley as the lead actress; and now the film has a tentative release date. Paramount even has plans to make Jack Ryan (which is also the title of the film) into a trilogy. Oh yeah, there's also a spin off titled Without Remorse, and the studio is trying to court Tom Hardy for the lead role. So to say that Paramount has some big plans for Jack Ryan would be an understatement [...]

Geek Peek: First Look At Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore In ‘Carrie’ Remake Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT Chloe Moretz may have had a lot of criminals' blood on her hands in Kick-Ass, but she will have a different blood all over herself in the new adaptation of Stephen King's horror story Carrie. The first of many marketing photos are actually starting off in a pretty big way, with Moretz wearing a prom dress covered in blood, which was the pinnacle scene in the original movie. Click below to see a larger version of the photo above and a photo of Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother. [...]

No Additional Charge To See Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ At 48 FPS Posted: 23 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Most theaters aren't equipped to handle Peter Jackson's 48 frames-per-second (fps) presentation of The Hobbit, since most of their projectors are 24fps. So to bring in new equipment to handle the new frame rate means new more expensive projects, which means you would have to pay a higher premium to watch The Hobbit in its intended format. But before you decide not to watch the movie, just know that Warner Brothers has worked out a deal where you won't have to pay a penny more to watch The Hobbit in 48fps. [...]

Watch This Clip From The New ‘Toy Story’ Short ‘Partysaurus Rex’ Posted: 23 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT Disney continues its re-releasing of films with the 3D treatment in theaters with Finding Nemo 3D hitting the big screen on September 14th. The good news is that we're going to be treated to a new Toy Story short film titled Partysaurus Rex playing in front of Nemo. Partysaurus Rex features Rex (voiced by Wallace Shawn), the insecure toy T-Rex in the Toy Story gang. In the short, our favorite toy dinosaur is the star when Bonnie takes him for a dip in the tub. See some images from Partysaurus Rex and check out this clip from the short here below. And remember to see the whole thing in theaters September 14! [...]

‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ To Cover Republican National Convention 2012 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will be schlepping the entire badass show all the way to Tampa, Florida to broadcast a week of shows during the Republican National Convention next week. Titled RNC 2012: The Road to Jeb Bush 2016, the shows will air each night at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT from Tuesday, August 28 through Friday, August 31 on Comedy Central. [...]

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Cast As Supporting Villain In ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Posted: 23 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT Thor: The Dark World has been seeing the names on that casting sheet grow larger. Kat Dennings was recently brought back to reprise her role as Darcy, and now Lost actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is the latest name to be added to the cast of the sequel. Be warned a few spoilers will follow, so if you want to go into the movie fresh, I suggest you ignore the following details. [...]

Out With The New Flesh, In With The Lame: Why A ‘Videodrome’ Remake Is A Lousy Idea Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT James Woods isn't taking the Videodrome remake news very well. David Cronenberg's Videodrome, a mind-melting fresco of trenchant social commentary and nightmarish body horror, is a unique beast among the science-fiction and horror features of the 1980's. It was the lauded Canadian filmmaker's first studio film and also his first bonafide masterpiece. It featured amazingly gooey and horrific visual effects created by a talented team spearheaded by the one and only Rick Baker, daring performances from James Woods and Blondie lead singer Deborah Harry, and astute and chilling direction from Cronenberg - who also authored the provocative screenplay. In fact, Videodrome is the singular creation of an visionary storyteller finally hiding his stride as a director after spending years making multi-layered genre films like Rabid, Shivers (a.k.a. They Came from Within), and The Brood for indie producers and studios in his homeland. Given almost total creative control from Universal Pictures, Cronenberg made a film that took the fascinating ideas he had been developing in his previous features and fused it with a challenging critique of modern technology and new media. The result was a motion picture experience the likes of which had never been seen before and would never be seen again, not even in the director's later works. No less an authority than the late celebrated artistic genius Andy Warhol hailed Videodrome as "A Clockwork Orange of the 1980s". But Videodrome opened in theaters to repulsed audience reaction and the sharpened knives of the nation's top film critics. The version that played in the United States wasn't even Cronenberg's preferred cut; Universal compelled the director to pare down his movie's sexual and violent content in order for it to secure an R rating from the MPAA. His full director's cut would not been seen until it was finally released on home video more than a decade later [...]

Comic Review: Jericho, Season 4 #1 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT Jericho, Season 4 #1 Written by Kalinda Vazquez Art by Andrew Currie Colors by Hi-Fi Letters by Neil Uyetake Cover by Tim Bradstreet Story by Dan Shotz, Robert Levine, and Kalinda Vazquez IDW Publishing Release Date: August 16, 2012 Cover Price: $3.99 Jericho earned a rabid cult following during its two-season run on CBS. After the first season, CBS tried to cancel the show. This spawned the infamous Nuts campaign where disgruntled fans mailed over 20 tons of peanuts to CBS's offices. In response, CBS agreed to allow Jericho seven more episodes to wrap things up. Only Jericho's story posed so many questions that it was nearly impossible to tell the whole story in just seven episodes. The second season seemed to bank on CBS gracing them with a third season — it ended right before the meat of the story with a possible Civil War II looming. CBS, of course, cancelled the show regardless. Not cool, CBS. Not cool [...]

‘Justice League #12′: Superman + Wonder Woman = 2Gether 4Ever! Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT DC Comics announced Wednesday that longtime subjects of super power fan fiction Superman and Wonder Woman would be getting together and totally hooking up for the foreseeable future. The cover for Justice League #12, from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, is an image of a flying Superman embraced in an aerial make out session with Wonder Woman. The relationship, seemingly born out of a tragedy that shocks the superhero team to its core, is said by series writer and DC Entertainment executive Geoff Johns to be "the new status quo." Check out the full cover of Justice League #12, debuted at EW yesterday, here below [...]

The 5 Tony Scott Movies You Really Must See (If You Haven’t Already) Posted: 23 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT Last Sunday millions of people around the world where stunned when the news broke that Tony Scott, big time Hollywood director and younger brother of Ridley Scott, had committed suicide for reasons yet to be explained. You can read Empress Eve's wonderful obituary of the late filmmaker here. Although Scott's movies were never granted the often unfettered adulation critics and cinéastes willingly gave his brother, he was responsible for some of the coolest and most popular modern Hollywood action films. After scoring two back-to-back blockbusters with Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop II, Scott started to make the more interesting movies that would come to define his later years as a director. Some of them were smash hits, but rarely scaled the heights as his earlier career-making successes, and several of them were box office flops that later found new life on home video and cable. Submitted for your approval are the five films I believe in my heart of hearts to be the essentials of Tony Scott's unusual but beloved and rewarding filmography. If your knowledge of the man's work doesn't extend beyond his ability to make Tom Cruise look good in the cockpit of a fighter jet and the front seat of a battered stock car then you might find this list worth a read [...]

Rep. Paul Ryan Is A ‘Rage Against The Machine’ Fan, Tom Morello Is Not Amused Posted: 23 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT Okay, so there's this NY Times article about the life of U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (R. – Wisconsin) in which it was noted with some irony that the hard-right conservative counts Rage Against the Machine as one of his favorite bands. The irony is not lost on former Rage guitarist, Tom Morello. In a Rolling Stones piece, Morello sounds off about Ryan and the many reasons why Rage Against the Machine is "antithetical to the message of Rage." [...]

$5 MP3 Album Deal: Dire Straits ‘The Best Of – Private Investigations’ Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:20 AM PDT This month, the Dire Straits album Best Of - Private Investigations is on sale for only $5 in MP3 format. This 2005 greatest hits package assembles the best of the Newcastle, UK group's work, including selections from their blockbuster album Brothers in Arms, as well as lead singer (and one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) Mark Knopfler's terrific solo work, like his evocative "Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)", and an original track, "All The Roadrunning," a duet with Emmylou Harris. If you like your British rock a little countrified, this deal is just for you. Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each [...]

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