Episode 113a - Almost a Topic

In the second part we get to feedback, TV Movies and Best in podcast. Whiile we had a topic idea we weren't prepared for it so we just did the show and will be back next time with a topic we can discuss.

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Money Making Basterds

It should come as no surprise that a bunch of basterds topped the box office last weekend, after all it had a lot going for it. Brad Pitt, who is always an attraction, fan fav Quentin Tarantino who runs a little hot and cold at times but delivers when it comes to originality and style, and some pretty kick-ass trailers. Inglorious Basterds not only killed Nazi's but murdered the competition getting movie goers to shell out $53 million hard earn dollars. While falling down from the top spot, District 9 still managed to pull in over $25 million bringing it's over all box office to a cool $80 million - not bad for a flick that only cost $30 million to make. G.I. Joe holds at 3rd place bringing in a slightly respectable 14 million pushing it's profits to 124 million over all. Goes to show all the doubters that if you give people something to see they will pay to see it.

Zombie on The Blob

He brought more gross to torture porn then Leatherface on CGI steroids, he put way too much story into Michael Myers then anyone needed or asked for, and now he's turned his attention to the film that made Steve McQueen's career. That's right kids, Rob Zombie is about to remake The Blob, and it won't be that sad version from 1988 - it's probably going to be worse. Why do I say this? Because according to Mr. Zombie he intends to make the it without "the big red blobby thing." So it's going be a remake of The Blob without the actual blob, yeah that makes about as much sense as someone like Rob Zombie can make. Instead of the Blob, a jelly like creature that absorbs it's food and grows as it does, we'll get another torture porn fest with a creature in no way resembling the actual creature we would actually like to see. Rob Zombie fans will begin making excuses for this crap one week into production.

Summer of Dollhouse

Looks like Dollhouse is adding to the mix of hot women. The news on the interweb is Firefly/Serenity hottie Summer Glau will be joining the cast. According to reports the fan favorite action beauty will play Bennett, a new Dollhouse employee who is somehow tied to Echo's past. I for one had more negative feelings then positive towards Dollhouse and it's lack of any real forward motion, but adding Summer Glau to the mix is a good way to get this Fanboy watching at least the episodes she's on. Dollhouse season 2 premieres on September 25th.

Episode 113 - Almost a Topic

On this episode we had a topic idea but never got to it. So this is an episode of news, reviews and ranting with a mention of a topic but time and other things didn't allow. It's the wonderful world of podcasting where anything can happen and this episode proves it. Enjoy.

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Morton, West & Walker of Mars

The upcoming feature filme John Carter of Mars has more cast announcemnts. According to the Hollywood Reporter Samantha Morton, Dominic West, and Polly Walker have been added to the film based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Morton will play Sola, the daughter of Tars Tarkas, who is being played by Willem Dafoe. Dominic West will play Sab Than, prince of the Zodangans. Polly Walker will play Sarkoja, a Thark. Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, who played Gambit and Kayla Silverfox in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, have been cast in the leads. Kitsch will play the title character and Collins will play Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars. There's absolutely no word on how this works with the fact that since the books were first published we now know that Mars is a barren wasteland of a planet and not the lush green place of action and adventure. Then again that fact didn't stop Tom Cruise from half-assed remake of the H.G. Well's story.

Casper Turns 60

Casper the Friendly Ghost is celebrating 60th years. Everyone's favority friendly ghost first appeared in comics way back in 1949 and has since appeared in cartoons, animated features and two live action movies (the first staring Christia Ricci and Bill Pullman.) Dark Horse comics is already set to reprint the vintage comics staring Casper and Arden Media will be publishing a new regular Casper series written by Todd Dezago and art by Pedro Delgado starting in October. According to reports the new comic series will be set in New York in an area populated by ghosts.

Classic Media plans to start an animated series titled "Casper's Scare School." This is reportedly based on the 2006 computer animated movie aired on Cartoon Network. The over all plot is about Casper being friendly with a boy named Jimmy causing Kibosh: The King of the Underworld to enroll the friendly ghost into a Scare School headed by the two-headed headmaster Alder and Dash. In the school Casper befriends Ra, a mummy with unraveling issues and Mantha, a zombie girl who keeps falling apart. When Casper discovers the two-headed headmaster's plot to use a petrification potion to turn Kibosh into stone and take over the Underworld and Deedstown, he and his new friends must stop him.

The actual rights to Casper are now once again controlled by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman, who bought the company back from the acquirers when it got into difficulties earlier this year.

New Comic - Faction

The year is 2025 and the worlds’ governments are focused on eradicating the escalating terrorist threat in the Middle East secretly supported by the demonic Den Malignity. This effort has left Master Sergeant Acker Kinney, a Special Ops Medic, scarred and short an arm, forever changed.

When Acker is attacked by a demonic minion while recovering from his wounds in a military hospital, he is saved by Knights from the Society of the Enlightened. Soon he will be one of them; men and women blessed by God with countless lifetimes of knowledge and rediscovered powers.

The Society and the Den Malignity, enemies in an eternal struggle, must react when other factions, long thought banished or destroyed, rise to reclaim what was theirs. The Society and its knights must determine in this changed landscape who their allies and enemies are as factions vie for a stake in the world’s destiny.

The schemes of gods, the desires of demons, the powers of nature, myth, and the supernatural – all set forth to control a world the Society has sworn to protect. This is Faction.

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Singer Pulls the Sword From The Stone

Warner Bros. and filmmaker Bryan Singer are unsheathing "Excalibur," aiming to remake the 1981 John Boorman movie about King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. The project is still in the early stages, with Warner tying up the remake rights, which it shares with Boorman. The matter of Singer's involvement is still in talks. Legendary Pictures may come aboard the project. The 1981 movie starred Nigel Terry as Arthur and Cherie Lunghi as Guenevere and featured early performances from Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart and Gabriel Byrne, as well as a co-starring performance by Helen Mirren. In gritty and dramatic fashion, the movie told the well-known myth of the young man who draws the sword Excalibur from a stone, is mentored by Merlin, establishes Camelot, loses his wife, Guenevere, to his best friend, Lancelot, and engages in the quest for the Holy Grail. Singer's "Excalibur" will be a more epic fantasy version compared with the earthy Clive Owen-starring "King Arthur" released by Disney/Touchstone in 2004.

I Want to Believe. . .Again?

Despite how badly the last X-Files movie did in the box office there's talk about another movie in the works. The news come via Croatian website DNEVNIK.hr while Gillian Anderson was attending the Sarajevo Film Festival. Anderson spoke on her role as Agent Scully, "Of course I would play in the new film sequel for THE X-FILES." I would most certainly hope so, it'd be beyond wrong for anyone else to play the part. The site indirectly quoted her saying it was go, 'The new extension is in preparation and should be filmed in 2012.' So far it remains an internet rumor bassed on an off handed remark, but stranger things have happenned.

Johns: From Comics to Movies

Geoff Johns and Bill Birch have been hired to write the new script for the Shazam! movie, according to the Hollywood trades. Johns is one of three comic writers tapped by Warner Bros. to work on DC movies. If fans remember the last script - one of many, by John August, was round files by the studio. According to reports, the new approach is expected to tie more closely to the comic source material.

More Kick-Ass

After the wonderful fan response to the preview at San Diego Comic-Con and after a few weeks of multiple-company biddings, Lionsgate has acquired domestic rights to the theatrical production Kick-Ass, according to Variety and Hollywood Reporter. Money to produce the film, based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., was raised by director Matthew Vaughn after studio financing was unavailable due to content issues. Lionsgate plans a “wide” release in 2010, according to the reports.

NBC Goes to Midnight Mass

NBC has acquired the rights to produce a live action drama based on Midnight, Mass., the Vertigo series by John Rozum, according to Hollywood Reporter. The series is being written by Gretchen Berg and Aaron Herberts, according to the report. There were two Vertigo miniseries based on the Midnight, Mass. property, both in the first half of this decade, which followed the story of a husband and wife team of paranormal investigators.

District 9 #1

District 9, a low-budget picture with no stars and a first-time director, practically lapped the weekend box office field earning an estimated $37 million, while Hayao Miyazaki scored his biggest U.S. opening ever as Ponyo opened in 927 theaters and earned a respectable $3.5 million.

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra dropped 59% in its second frame, which is not a bad showing for a heavily-promoted big budget action film these days. The Hasbro-based film earned an estimated $22.5 million and brought its domestic cumulative to nearly $100 million, while Warner Bros./New Line’s female-centric The Time-Traveler’s Wife proved to be an excellent bit of counter-programming as it earned a solid $19.2 million and finished in third place.