Back in April, we mentioned that Bugs Bunny and pals were getting another reboot — this time as a half-hour show on the Cartoon Network. Justifiably, people have been a little skeptical hearing about Bugs and Daffy in a suburban setting and CGI Roadrunner Cartoons.
Regardless of that apprehension, the first scenes and clips are showing up…and they have promise. Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew has some exclusives:
I was invited to a screening this past week to preview the three new CGI Road Runner-Coyote shorts for theatrical release — and my verdict is in: They’re terrific!
Read his whole interview at his website, but here’s a short clip from the short. Read More…
What began as a gathering of comic book fans, retailers, publishers, and creators has now become one of the premiere places to make big announcements about all things geeky — comics, movies, video games, and whatever else fits into the mix.
The annual San Diego Comic-Con has been taking place for the last several days and there’s a lot of news coming out of the event — too much, really, for any one place. Rather than offer an ongoing barrage of announcements, we’re collecting all the biggest headlines right here (for a source of much more complete coverage, I’d recommend checking out IGN). If we’ve missed a particularly tasty tidbit of info, please let us know in the comments! Read More…
The short CGI film Sintel is almost complete, and should be making an official debut online soon. Here’s the trailer:
The difference between this short film and most others is that it was made entirely with open source and other free software. When finished, it will be released with a Creative Commons license, which means that people will be allowed to legally download, share, and screen the film. Read More…
This weekend NPR talked about one of the most bizarre and intriguing radio signals you’ll likely ever hear: numbers stations.
Numbers stations, as radio enthusiasts call them, usually consist of a person reciting a group of numbers, saying them over and over, possibly playing a short tune, and shutting down the transmitter.
When we read of God being “slow to anger,” I think we assume that this means that he’s slow to show his anger — like there’s a barely concealed rage hiding. At any second he is going to blow up, like Ned Flanders in this classic scene from The Simpsons, after much of the town rebuilt his devastated home.
As you might know, Ned proceeds to yell at all of his friends in an extremely hurtful manner — as if this has been building for years and the last straw has been drawn. It’s easy to see God’s grace in the same manner, as though he’s politely looking the other way as we fall while plastering on a forced smile when he really wants to throttle us for our stupidity. Read More…
I always like Ryan Reynolds, too, so this could be a good movie. Other than the Batman movies, DC hasn’t had that many film adaptations lately (especially compared to Marvel) so it should be interesting to see how this goes.
From the EW article:
Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan, a cocky test pilot who becomes a ring-wearing intergalactic superhero in this massive sci-fi epic from director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale). Though Reynolds has prior experience in the superhero realm from his role as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, playing Green Lantern involved some major challenges, like getting hurled through the air on a wire at up to 60 feet per second to create the illusion of flight.
…Still, he couldn’t resist the chance to play the beloved DC Comics hero, whose power ring can conjure virtually anything he can dream up.
“Will and imagination are his superpowers,” Reynolds says.
A few months ago, none of us thought of Old Spice as a fresh and marketable company, but that all changed with the “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercial that debuted February 2, 2010. It was a fantastically-made commercial that combined great ideas, viral sensibilities, quotable lines, some sweet behind-the-scenes work, and a little bit of the ridiculous.
Old Spice recently released a second 30-second commercial (once again featuring actor Isaiah Mustafa) called Questions. This video was released June 29, 2010. It already has over five million views on YouTube, proving that it was just as addicting as the first video.
Even with all of that, though, nobody expected the next step from Old Spice. Read More…
What a spectacular example of poor translation and mixing up a variety of Batman film properties from the past two decades.
Batman sure does show up on quite a few notable knock-off products. We mentioned the unauthorized Filipino movie last year, but there’s also a Turkish Batman movie in black and white. Even if it is black market Batman, it feels a lot like the 60s Batman series with more dramatic music (and a tougher Robin); all it’s missing is the visual depiction of sound effects like “POW!” and “WHAM!” Read More…
These and so many other wildly successful films now land squarely in the camp of “modern family classics” and have meant a lot to many people — and they all came from “the little studio that could.”
With Toy Story 3 making bank at the box office, many people are once again reflecting on Pixar’s success of the last decade or so. They seem to have come out of nowhere and had the recipe for success right from the beginning.
That almost wasn’t the case, though. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood blog says that studio pressure early in the development of the original Toy Story almost caused it to be a very different movie. Read More…
I hope you had a great weekend, and a long one at that if you are in the US. Here’s what you may have missed while checking to see if those fireworks you bought are legal in your state. (Short answers – Northeast US: doubtful; Midwest: maybe; prairie states: probably; Montana or the Dakotas: go nuts.) Read More…
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Toy Story. Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo. Up.
