Jun
30
2010

Twilight Eclipse 8-Bit Interactive YouTube Video Game

Here’s a fun, Nintendo-esque homage to the Twilight Saga movie, Eclipse, which opened yesterday. Just save yourself the 2 hours of agony and $10 by checking out the more satisfying 8-Bit Interactive YouTube game instead. I haven’t seen latest installment of The ...
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Jun
30
2010

Snub Fighter: What if Luke Skywalker Missed His Shot at Blowing Up The Death Star

Snub Fighter is a re-edit of the finale from Star Wars, A New Hope, made by Mark Dury from Thoughbubble Design Concern. In Snub Fighter Luke Skywalker is a dangerously incompetent rookie. He shows up late for the attack, disobeys orders, ...
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Jun
30
2010

Standing up for the First Amendment with 1 for All

In the United States, our lives would be unrecognizable without the First Amendment. Every time you search, tweet, blog, pray (or not), gripe about your government, gather with your friends online or off, upload a video, read a newspaper or ...
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Jun
30
2010

Nerdbastards Review of The Last Airbender: A Momentous Achievement in Monotony

“The Last Airbender“, directed by M. Night Shyamalan is tortuously lethargic, uninvited, abysmal, and uniformly atrocious (in every aspect). And that’s me being nice! Based on Nickelodeon’s beloved animated series (to which I am only vaguely familiar and thus can’t compare) ...
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Jun
30
2010

100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

I remember back in Grade 5 getting the Scholastic book order catalog, and there was only one book all of my friends and I wanted: “Garfield’s Insults, Put-downs, and Slams.” And when we all got our copies weeks later, the ...
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Jun
30
2010

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Trailer to Scary for Theaters and a Closer Look at things you May Have Missed

As you know the teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 was released last night with Twilight's Eclipse, and online. I didn't really find the trailer all that interesting or scary, and the movie looks like it will end up being ...
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Jun
30
2010

Take a Look at the First TRON Footage EVER!

In 2008 Disney showed us some pretty incredible concept footage at Comic-Con for a sequel to Tron. That footage blew the crowd away, and it was the reaction of the crowd that gave Disney the courage to move forward with ...
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Jun
30
2010

THE LAST AIRBENDER: Film Review

  Want more money to spend on fireworks this weekend? Can’t decide on which movie to watch come Friday night? Maybe this review will help! The M. Night Shyamalan-written-produced-and-directed imagining of the popular cartoon series The Last Airbender is a disconnected dud. ...
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Jun
30
2010

Watch the First 5 Minutes of THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

I don't know if I love or hate the fact that studio's are starting to show off the first five minutes of a film. I just got finished watching the first five minutes for the film The Disappearance of Alice Creed, ...
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Jun
30
2010

People are Saying Josh Hutcherson is the New SPIDER-MAN

According to blueskydisney Josh Hutcherson (Journey to the Center of the Earth) has officially been cast as Peter Parker in Marc Webb's upcoming 3D Spider-Man reboot. They report that their "Bothans from Sony decided that Hutcherson was the right fit ...
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Jun
30
2010

Twilight Ruins Lives

I always knew I’d be able to post something like this.  Twilight is ruining the lives of the poor people who fall into the clutching, sucking ways of the franchise.  Yahoo reports that addiction to the Twilight series may be ...
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Jun
30
2010

Nerd Question of the Week- Win a free t-shirt from Bustedtees.com

Wednesday is here and with the release of our 13th podcast episode comes the ever-popular question of the week! Question of the week is a question we ask you, our readers and listeners, and you answer it by either commenting ...
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Jun
30
2010

Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS – Homage or Stealing

I've been hearing about this this for years, and it's definitely an argument worth having. Is Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs a homage to Kubrick's The Killing or a rip off of Chung Yun-Fat's 1987 Hong Kong film City On Fire? Here's ...
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Jun
30
2010

Exclusive Interview: Actor Damien Colletti Vs. Brian S

Damien Colletti is a young talent that has already been involved in movies, television and even professional wrestling and he's really just beginning. Check out what we talked about below, everything from how he got into the business to the ...
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Jun
30
2010

Bob Dudley, Chief Executive for BP Response, answers your questions about the oil spill

It’s been 71 days since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Since then, we’ve used our platforms to make sure that people can watch and ...
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Jun
30
2010

Full Details Revealed for SUPERMAN/BATMAN: APOCALYPSE Animated Movie

Warner Premiere has released a full press release for their upcoming Animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, which is set to hit the street in Blu-ray and DVD on September 28 2011. Summer Glau will actually provide the voice of Supergirl in the film. Here ...
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Jun
30
2010

Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable

There’s an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping ...
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Jun
30
2010

Tour Roundup: San Diego

We arrived at the La Jolla Festival of the Arts not really knowing what to expect. Fortunately, people actually showed up - and some of them even knew who we were! (For the rest, the words "free cake" were more ...
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Jun
30
2010

HOSTEL 3 Starts Filming In August

Word today on the interweb is that Hostel 3 or Hostel: Part III will start filming this August but without Eli Roth behind the camera. Sony's Stage 6, who is releasing the 30 Days of Night sequel is taking over ...
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Jun
30
2010

THE THING Prequel Plot Synopsis Revealed!

Hey Gang! The official plot synopsis for the upcoming prequel to the classic sci-fi horror film The Thing has been released today! The original film was directed by John Carpenter in 1982, and I'm very interested to see what's been ...
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Jun
30
2010

Wanted Director and Universal to Remake Russian Film BLACK LIGHTNING in English

Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov is currently in discussions with Universal Pictures to remake his hit Russian sci-fi superhero film Black Lightning for American audiences.  Hell, I was excited for to see the original Russian version, but it looks like we are ...
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Jun
30
2010

Ryan Powers Boyle Announces Short Film Project

Ryan Powers Boyle will release a new, s/t album through Far and Away Records in July. In a somewhat unique move, the singer has enlisted the help of several live-action and animated short filmmakers to produce clips inspired by the ...
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Jun
30
2010

New 60 Second Trailer for THE EXPENDABLES

Explosions! Old Buff Sweaty Men! Fighting! Fire! Death! Shooting! Destruction! Yelling! Action! Betrayal! One Girl! Bad Guys! Good Guys! Hats! Sunglasses! South America! Weapons! Mission! Mercenaries! Stallone! Schwartzenegger! Statham! Willis! Li! Lundren! Couture! Crews! Austin! Rourke! The Expendables! Lionsgate has released ...
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Jun
30
2010

Check Out this Incredible Full Size HALO ELITE Costume!

We've seen some great fan made Halo costumes in out day, but nothing as awesome as this! These guys over a PeteMander GFX decided to go nuts and create a realistic full size 7 foot tall Halo Elite costume! I ...
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Jun
30
2010

A Search Story for the dog days of summer

This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed. When I first brought my dog Yoshka with me to work, I didn’t expect he would ...
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Jun
30
2010

What a Pest: Ant-Man Flick Still a Go

Worried about the relative silence on the proposed Ant-Man movie? Relax, the flick about pint-sized Pym still is on director Edgar Wright’s radar. Wright recently told Box Office Magazine that he’ll, indeed, complete Marvel’s requested second draft of the Ant-Man script ...
Jun
30
2010

Elijah Wood to Star in FX’s WILFRED

  Elijah Wood has signed on as the male lead in FX's new series, Wilfred. The series is a reworking of an Australian sitcom that chronicles the romantic woes of a girl named Sarah when her dog develops a grudge against ...
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Jun
30
2010

Warner Bros. to Develop TALES OF FROM THE GANGSTER SQUAD

It's great to see Hollywood's interest in the history of gangsters rising. Most recently we had the Michael Mann film Public Enemies. Then we've got a few other films that revolve around gangsters in the works... Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic ...
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Jun
30
2010

Professional caption services get “YouTube Ready”

Captioning is becoming increasingly important to YouTube and videos all across the web. Captions ensure that many more people can understand what's happening in your video, from deaf and hard of hearing viewers to people who speak a different language ...
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Jun
30
2010

See Joe Quesada’s AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #638 Variant Cover

As mentioned in a previous post, Amazing Spider-Man #638 would feature illustrations and words from Marvel Comics EiC, Joe Quesada. The book kicks of the “One Moment in Time” storyline, which will shed light on what actually happened at the ...
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Jun
30
2010

Damon Lindelof Ready to Start Writing The STAR TREK Sequel

Yesterday Damon Lindolof sent out the following tweet.... Vacation officially over. Ready to boldly go. Lindolof went on a much deserved vacation after Lost ended. He's back, and from the sound of his tweet above he's ready to jump on board the ...
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Jun
30
2010

Holy Crap! Street-Legal Tron Lightcycles!

Greetings, programs. As we all know (and by “we,” I mean “someone who chose a more lucrative career path than I did”), having a bunch of money just lying around can be a bitch. Well, you may as well put that ...
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Jun
30
2010

SCREAM 4: Two Different Ghostface Masks and Opening Scene Hint

It looks like Scream 4 is going to introduce a new Ghostface mask to the world. I kind of figured something like this would happen, which is fine especially when you kind of here what they have planned for the ...
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Jun
30
2010

Race to the finish line in a flash

We recently released a new version of our Google Chrome browser with Adobe Flash Player built in, automatically bringing you the latest and greatest updates. To celebrate, we teamed up with a few creative folks to make Chrome FastBall , ...
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Jun
30
2010

Origami Yoda

Here's a cool little origami Yoda. Created by someone that goes by the name Antzpants. Here is a note from the origami Jedi master. This was something I folded three-and-a-half years ago while bored one night and not studying. It took ...
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