This IGN story lists two casting rumors for Matthew Vaughn’s Thor movie, one horrible and one actually pretty great. Horrible: a pro wrestler named Triple H. Pretty great: Kevin McKidd, who played Lucius Vorenus in Rome.
Sure, Vorenus was kinda whiny at times, but McKidd clearly has chops and would lend some thespian credibility to the …
You’ve gotta earn your BioShock: the download’s free on Xbox Live, but it’ll take about 12 hours of your life – or your XBox’s life — to actually secure the data, give or take a month. To my surprise, the results turned out to be unbelievably worth it.
The premise is nonsensical — I’ve read that this game was a tough sell to …
Slashfilm has a very nice little scoop. Apparently there’s some kind of filmy rule whereby you have to register the title of a movie with the MPAA before you release it, and somebody got ahold of the titles Lucasfilm has registered for Indy IV. To wit:
Indiana Jones and the City of Gods
Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of
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Ain’t It Cool has a rough account of the screenplay for Speed Racer, which is the next project for the fabulous dancing Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame. This seems to me sort of like having the catering menu of the next Spider-man flick: the Speed Racer script may be a work of the highest literary sophistication, but if this movie …
Dance, attractive cosplayers! Dance for your lives!
p.s. Belgium, don’t be a stranger
The redoubtable Harry Knowles drops the leak-hammer on the upcoming Thor movie. To wit:
This isn’t a Donald Blake, doctor on vacation story. Instead, this is a genuine TALES OF ASGARD story. In the first few pages the creation of everything takes place… the origin of the gods, their universe and how midgard (that’s are [homonyms,
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That about says it all. It’s 70 percent bigger than Jupiter, which makes it the largest planet ever found, but it’s only 3/4 as massive. “That means the alien planet is about as dense as balsa wood or cork, said [Georgi] Mandushev, who is part of a planet-hunting team known as the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey.” It also whips around …
Sorry about the long absence. I was off in a leafy suburb of Seattle. I leave it to your imaginations what I was doing there. Cough, Bungie, cough.
Apparently while I was out there human genetic diversity declined — nice job, guys, thanks for that — Erfworld continued to rock, and a bunch of Star Trek casting got done. Ain’t It Cool …
I hope this doesn’t turn into a monstrous iPhonelike media bubble. Everybody writing about it, myself included, should be forced to take several deep calming breaths before setting fingertip to keyboard. But yeah, Google might possibly be making a phone.
It’s not a wildly radical idea: you picture some kind of low-end version of an …
Well, I missed Comic-Con. And E3. At this exact moment I’m missing QuakeCon in Texas, BlizzCon in Anaheim (featuring actor/comedian Jay Mohr!), and that BlackHat thing in Vegas. I will shortly miss Gen Con and PAX. Seems like you could spend the whole summer jumping seamlessly from Con to Con and never once breathe the air outside a …
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (which by the way, where is he now? still jazzy, somewhere?) said it best: movie theater owners just don’t understand. This story (from the Washington Post, spotted via Slashdot) isn’t surprising, just appalling: a 19-year-old woman in a movie theater takes a 20-second clip of Transformers to show her brother …
It sounds like J.J. Abrams may have been out filming his shaky-cam monster movie on the Lower East Side. In case you’ve been enveloped by a moving cloud of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, here’s the poster (swiped from Ain’t It Cool).
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve been completely seduced by the trailer for this movie, and its …
