High above a California beach, a helicopter crew told numerous people in the water over a loud speaker to calmly exit the water after more than a dozen great white sharks were spotted in their vicinity.
“You are paddle-boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced over the helicopter loudspeaker to people in the water. “They are advising you exit the water in a calm manner. The sharks are as close as the surfline.”
Captured on video and posted online by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, sharks are seen swimming right next to the beachgoers.
When...
“You are paddle-boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced over the helicopter loudspeaker to people in the water. “They are advising you exit the water in a calm manner. The sharks are as close as the surfline.”
Captured on video and posted online by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, sharks are seen swimming right next to the beachgoers.
When...
- 5/12/2017
- by Caitlin Keating
- PEOPLE.com
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” earned the top two sound editing awards Sunday night at the 64th Mpse Golden Reel Awards, while Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” and Disney’s “Moana” took musical and animation honors.
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” and “Warcraft: The Beginning” won for documentary and score.
“Hacksaw Ridge” now becomes the favorite to beat “La La Land” in the Oscar battle.
TV winners included “Westworld” (for both long form and short form FX/Foley), “The Night of” “Part 1 The Beach,” “Penny Dreadful III” “Ebb Tide,” “Stranger Things,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”
The Filmmaker and Career Achievement Awards were presented to Guillermo del Toro and Harry Cohen.
64th Mpse Golden Reel Award Highlights:
Best Sound Editing In Feature Film – Dialogue / Adr
Hacksaw Ridge
Crosscreek...
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” and “Warcraft: The Beginning” won for documentary and score.
“Hacksaw Ridge” now becomes the favorite to beat “La La Land” in the Oscar battle.
TV winners included “Westworld” (for both long form and short form FX/Foley), “The Night of” “Part 1 The Beach,” “Penny Dreadful III” “Ebb Tide,” “Stranger Things,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”
The Filmmaker and Career Achievement Awards were presented to Guillermo del Toro and Harry Cohen.
64th Mpse Golden Reel Award Highlights:
Best Sound Editing In Feature Film – Dialogue / Adr
Hacksaw Ridge
Crosscreek...
- 2/20/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Good news, my creeps: Michale Graves‘ new horror rock opus When Worlds Collide is almost here, and I’ve had a chance to let it fill up my eerie earholes! Read on for a full review, an interview with the man himself, and more!
Michale Graves – When Worlds Collide (Music Review)
• Release Date: Available Now
I can’t even describe how excited I was to get my greedy lil’ claws on the latest release from Michale Graves. Not only is this the newest entry in his legacy of horror-punk-terror tunes, this album promised a first: a sequel to a song he penned back in his tenure in the group that started the whole shebang, the Misfits… and not just any song, my fiends—this would be a follow up to what is undoubtedly his signature song, Crying on a Saturday Night! Admittedly, that is a s–t-ton to live up to,...
Michale Graves – When Worlds Collide (Music Review)
• Release Date: Available Now
I can’t even describe how excited I was to get my greedy lil’ claws on the latest release from Michale Graves. Not only is this the newest entry in his legacy of horror-punk-terror tunes, this album promised a first: a sequel to a song he penned back in his tenure in the group that started the whole shebang, the Misfits… and not just any song, my fiends—this would be a follow up to what is undoubtedly his signature song, Crying on a Saturday Night! Admittedly, that is a s–t-ton to live up to,...
- 1/25/2016
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Stars: Adam Sandler, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Jane Krakowski, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Ashley Benson | Written by Tim Herlihy, Timothy Dowling | Directed by Chris Columbus
Ok, let’s get this out of the way first. Pixels is an Adam Sandler movie and despite what anyone may say, your enjoyment of it will undoubtedly balance on whether you like his particular brand of humour. As someone who does And as someone who grew up on the games featured within the film, it’s safe to say I am, without a doubt, the target audience for this movie. Which is probably why I found myself not only laughing out loud to some of the jokes but actually invested in the story.
Pixels tells the story of three friends who met as kids in the 1980s: Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), Will Cooper (Kevin James), Ludlow Lamonsoff (Josh Gad), and...
Ok, let’s get this out of the way first. Pixels is an Adam Sandler movie and despite what anyone may say, your enjoyment of it will undoubtedly balance on whether you like his particular brand of humour. As someone who does And as someone who grew up on the games featured within the film, it’s safe to say I am, without a doubt, the target audience for this movie. Which is probably why I found myself not only laughing out loud to some of the jokes but actually invested in the story.
Pixels tells the story of three friends who met as kids in the 1980s: Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), Will Cooper (Kevin James), Ludlow Lamonsoff (Josh Gad), and...
- 12/8/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
By John M. Whalen
In 2009 a gelding trained and owned by a couple of cowboys from New Mexico won the Kentucky Derby running at 50-1 odds. Mine That Bird hadn’t won a single race in the United States before that and only qualified to run the Derby because of the stakes he’d won in Canada. Not only that, Mine That Bird was small and slightly “crooked up front,” as his trainer, Chip Wooley (Skeet Ulrich) says when he first sees him. He’s skeptical at first when he flies up to Canada to see him and advises his boss/friend Mark Allen (Christian Kane) to pass on him. But when he sees Mine That Bird whizz around the track he decides they need to buy him. Asking price, half a million. The Canadians who owned him had paid only $9,500 for him.
Sony Pictures’ “50-1,” (2014) directed and co-written by Jim Wilson,...
In 2009 a gelding trained and owned by a couple of cowboys from New Mexico won the Kentucky Derby running at 50-1 odds. Mine That Bird hadn’t won a single race in the United States before that and only qualified to run the Derby because of the stakes he’d won in Canada. Not only that, Mine That Bird was small and slightly “crooked up front,” as his trainer, Chip Wooley (Skeet Ulrich) says when he first sees him. He’s skeptical at first when he flies up to Canada to see him and advises his boss/friend Mark Allen (Christian Kane) to pass on him. But when he sees Mine That Bird whizz around the track he decides they need to buy him. Asking price, half a million. The Canadians who owned him had paid only $9,500 for him.
Sony Pictures’ “50-1,” (2014) directed and co-written by Jim Wilson,...
- 6/11/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Jon Hamm, who stars as Don Draper on Mad Men, reportedly found himself in serious trouble in 1991 for actively participating in a hazing incident at his alma mater. Jon Hamm Frat Hazing Scandal Hamm, 44, was named in the lawsuit filed by Mark Allen Sanders, a Sigma Nu pledge at the University of Texas. According […]
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- 4/11/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm was charged with hazing in a violent incident that led to the permanent dissolution of a fraternity at the University of Texas while he was in school there more than two decades ago. According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Hamm was accused in 1991 of punching and paddling pledge Mark Allen Sanders and setting the young man’s pants on fire as part of an initiation ritual at Sigma Nu fraternity. The then 20-year-old Sanders filed a lawsuit against members of the fraternity that led to criminal charges against Hamm and four other Sigma.
- 4/10/2015
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
Jon Hamm has been accused of violent fraternity hazing, including allegedly setting a pledge on fire.
According to a 1991 lawsuit that surfaced this week and was obtained by the Associated Press, the Mad Men star was one of a number of Sigma Nu frat members who participated in a violent college hazing incident that took place in November 1990 at the University of Texas-Austin.
The suit claimed that Hamm became "mad, I mean really mad," when the new pledge, identified in the papers as Mark Allen Sanders, could not recite things he was supposed to memorize. Sanders alleged that Hamm hit...
According to a 1991 lawsuit that surfaced this week and was obtained by the Associated Press, the Mad Men star was one of a number of Sigma Nu frat members who participated in a violent college hazing incident that took place in November 1990 at the University of Texas-Austin.
The suit claimed that Hamm became "mad, I mean really mad," when the new pledge, identified in the papers as Mark Allen Sanders, could not recite things he was supposed to memorize. Sanders alleged that Hamm hit...
- 4/10/2015
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- People.com - TV Watch
And the hits keep on coming. Jon Hamm's alleged involvement in a 1990 fraternity hazing case resurfaced on Thursday, April 9. In a 1991 lawsuit obtained by the Associated Press, the Mad Men star and some of his University of Texas fraternity brothers were accused of hazing Sigma Nu pledge Mark Allen Sanders. Three accused were sentenced to jail for 30 days, and a warrant was later issued for "Jonathan Hamm of St. Louis" in 1993. Two years later, the actor received probation in a deal made [...]...
- 4/10/2015
- Us Weekly
Hi all!
Last weekend, my buddy Mat and I went to Leeds Thought Bubble Festival to sell copies of our all-ages, sci-fi/sports adventure comic book, Alien in the Outfield. Nerdly head honcho Phil asked me to document our experiences, so here is an exciting video that does just that.
With thanks to…
Mark Allen
Ryan Jenkyns
Matt Forsythe
Hot Wheels Roller Derby
Rosie Sherwood of Ayu Publishing
Hellbound Media
Timothy Winchester
Thought Bubble Festival...
Last weekend, my buddy Mat and I went to Leeds Thought Bubble Festival to sell copies of our all-ages, sci-fi/sports adventure comic book, Alien in the Outfield. Nerdly head honcho Phil asked me to document our experiences, so here is an exciting video that does just that.
With thanks to…
Mark Allen
Ryan Jenkyns
Matt Forsythe
Hot Wheels Roller Derby
Rosie Sherwood of Ayu Publishing
Hellbound Media
Timothy Winchester
Thought Bubble Festival...
- 11/24/2014
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Thanks to the quick thinking and brave actions of a group of firefighters, a dog named Keiser has a second chance at life. A fire crew was fighting a large house fire in Petersburg, Virginia, on Thursday - and had already pulled a woman out of the flames - when they realized a dog was still stuck in the burning residence, reports CBS6. Without a second thought, firefighters Kevin Roberts and Mark Allen rushed into the home and retrieved the 90-lb. German shepherd-mix. "When I first saw the dog, I really thought the dog was deceased," said paramedic Bubby Bish,...
- 10/16/2014
- by Kelli Bender, @kbendernyc
- PEOPLE.com
50 to 1
Written by Faith Conroy and Jim Wilson
Directed by Jim Wilson
USA, 2014
Imagine, if you will, a horse race that starts and finishes in a blink of an eye. We see your choice winner bucking behind the starting gate. His chances of winning are slim to none, fifty to one in fact. You may not know anything about the horse, but you like the sound of his name on the program, and figure you can make some nice cash from a long shot. The gate opens and your horse bellows out the door. Immediately cut to the first bend and he is trailing behind the team. Now, immediately cut to the last and he strides to the finish line by a large margin. Victory is yours, but to what fulfillment? Sure you’re happy that your horse won, and heck, you might have made a serious winning. You probably...
Written by Faith Conroy and Jim Wilson
Directed by Jim Wilson
USA, 2014
Imagine, if you will, a horse race that starts and finishes in a blink of an eye. We see your choice winner bucking behind the starting gate. His chances of winning are slim to none, fifty to one in fact. You may not know anything about the horse, but you like the sound of his name on the program, and figure you can make some nice cash from a long shot. The gate opens and your horse bellows out the door. Immediately cut to the first bend and he is trailing behind the team. Now, immediately cut to the last and he strides to the finish line by a large margin. Victory is yours, but to what fulfillment? Sure you’re happy that your horse won, and heck, you might have made a serious winning. You probably...
- 8/21/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Jim Parsons seemed game for anything during his first stint hosting "Saturday Night Live" -- too bad he didn't get the material he needed to make his turn memorable, or at least more memorable than being the worst "SNL" episode of the season.
Watch the skits below and judge for yourself.
Cold Open: "Ellen"
It's always nice when the show starts with a topical pop culture-related skit rather than a stale political one, so Kate McKinnon's reliable Ellen DeGeneres impression was a great one to trot out on the eve of her Oscar hosting duties. Host Jim Parsons played everyone's favorite Olympic commentator Johnny Weir, and while the physical resemblance was amazing, it was hard to believe it was anyone other than Parsons sitting there. The problem is that Parsons' speaking cadence is so distinctive that it's hard to imagine him as anyone else. "My mother is a schoolteacher...
Watch the skits below and judge for yourself.
Cold Open: "Ellen"
It's always nice when the show starts with a topical pop culture-related skit rather than a stale political one, so Kate McKinnon's reliable Ellen DeGeneres impression was a great one to trot out on the eve of her Oscar hosting duties. Host Jim Parsons played everyone's favorite Olympic commentator Johnny Weir, and while the physical resemblance was amazing, it was hard to believe it was anyone other than Parsons sitting there. The problem is that Parsons' speaking cadence is so distinctive that it's hard to imagine him as anyone else. "My mother is a schoolteacher...
- 3/2/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
In this new featurette, actor Christian Kane talks about his character (Mark Allen) in the upcoming 50 To 1. Based on Mine That Bird, the underdog racehorse that won the 2009 Kentucky Derby, the film opens in theaters March 21, 2014.
Two songs from Kane’s The House Rules (2010) album – “Something’s Gotta’ Give” and “Whiskey in Mind” – are featured in the 50 To 1 soundtrack.
The cast and filmmakers of 50 To 1 will hit the road rock-star style on a cross-country tour beginning March 17 to promote the major motion picture’s release.
Cast members set for the tour are Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, Todd Lowe and Hugo Perez.Also on tour will be filmmakers Jim Wilson and Faith Conroy. As a very special treat – the real Mine That Bird will make special appearances along the way.
Email your request to:
50to1themovietour@gmail.com
Include in the subject line:
50 to 1 Movie Tour – First and Last Name, Town,...
Two songs from Kane’s The House Rules (2010) album – “Something’s Gotta’ Give” and “Whiskey in Mind” – are featured in the 50 To 1 soundtrack.
The cast and filmmakers of 50 To 1 will hit the road rock-star style on a cross-country tour beginning March 17 to promote the major motion picture’s release.
Cast members set for the tour are Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, Todd Lowe and Hugo Perez.Also on tour will be filmmakers Jim Wilson and Faith Conroy. As a very special treat – the real Mine That Bird will make special appearances along the way.
Email your request to:
50to1themovietour@gmail.com
Include in the subject line:
50 to 1 Movie Tour – First and Last Name, Town,...
- 2/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hello. How are you? I’m fine, cheers. First off this week, I’d like to thank the brilliant and talented Mark Allen for stepping in and manfully writing this column for the last couple of instalments whilst I’ve been swanning around northern Europe (if you’re ever looking for comics in Berlin, by the way, check out Grober Unfug Comics). Mark and I are planning to collaborate more on this column and hopefully he’ll be adding his contributions once I’ve sent this Word doc over to him via the power of electronic mail. This flagrant use of cutting edge technology leads me nicely onto my first title…
24th April 2013 – Spoilers!
The Manhattan Projects #11, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra, Image Comics
If you have a level of dedication worthy only of the most discerning of psychopathic stalkers to my writing on the internet, you may be aware that...
24th April 2013 – Spoilers!
The Manhattan Projects #11, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra, Image Comics
If you have a level of dedication worthy only of the most discerning of psychopathic stalkers to my writing on the internet, you may be aware that...
- 4/29/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Dark Horse
Stars: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Donna Murphy | Written and Directed by Todd Solondz
Dark Horse is a short, strange little film that’s likely to get swallowed up by the blockbusters of the summer. This is a shame as whilst far from a perfect picture, it’s well worth taking the time to bask in its peculiar glory. Brought to the screen by cult writer-director Todd Solondz, Dark Horse begins with a brilliant opening scene in which a party of wedding guests dance joyously to some upbeat popular music. The camera pans around to a table where two invitees remain seated, at odds with the rest of the room. They are Abe and Miranda, a couple of strange, damaged people with whom we are about to spend eighty-five minutes.
Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a thirty-something who still lives with his parents, spends...
Stars: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Donna Murphy | Written and Directed by Todd Solondz
Dark Horse is a short, strange little film that’s likely to get swallowed up by the blockbusters of the summer. This is a shame as whilst far from a perfect picture, it’s well worth taking the time to bask in its peculiar glory. Brought to the screen by cult writer-director Todd Solondz, Dark Horse begins with a brilliant opening scene in which a party of wedding guests dance joyously to some upbeat popular music. The camera pans around to a table where two invitees remain seated, at odds with the rest of the room. They are Abe and Miranda, a couple of strange, damaged people with whom we are about to spend eighty-five minutes.
Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a thirty-something who still lives with his parents, spends...
- 9/18/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Dark Horse
Stars: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Donna Murphy | Written and Directed by Todd Solondz
Dark Horse is a short, strange little film that’s likely to get swallowed up by the blockbusters of the summer. This is a shame as whilst far from a perfect picture, it’s well worth taking the time to bask in its peculiar glory. Brought to the screen by cult writer-director Todd Solondz, Dark Horse begins with a brilliant opening scene in which a party of wedding guests dance joyously to some upbeat popular music. The camera pans around to a table where two invitees remain seated, at odds with the rest of the room. They are Abe and Miranda, a couple of strange, damaged people with whom we are about to spend eighty-five minutes.
Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a thirty-something who still lives with his parents, spends...
Stars: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Donna Murphy | Written and Directed by Todd Solondz
Dark Horse is a short, strange little film that’s likely to get swallowed up by the blockbusters of the summer. This is a shame as whilst far from a perfect picture, it’s well worth taking the time to bask in its peculiar glory. Brought to the screen by cult writer-director Todd Solondz, Dark Horse begins with a brilliant opening scene in which a party of wedding guests dance joyously to some upbeat popular music. The camera pans around to a table where two invitees remain seated, at odds with the rest of the room. They are Abe and Miranda, a couple of strange, damaged people with whom we are about to spend eighty-five minutes.
Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a thirty-something who still lives with his parents, spends...
- 6/1/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Toronto - Few Canadians have cut the (cable) cord as they embrace the U.S. video streaming giant’s Netflix Canada service. That's the conclusion of a report this week from Media Technology Monitor that found one in ten Canadians surveyed said they subscribe to Netflix Canada, and most of those subscribers have opted not to cut their ties to a local cable or satellite TV service as they do so. “More than 4 out of 5 Netflix subscribers also subscribe to TV from a regular provider, like cable or satellite,” Mark Allen, director, research and strategic analysis at CBC/Radio-Canada,
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- 3/21/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Before Libyans rose up against him, Muammar Gaddafi used money, and well-timed diplomatic overtures, to worm his way into the West's good graces. In this week's Newsweek, Christopher Dickey looks at how Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi gave the brutal dictator a makeover.
The tale is a sordid one, but let's at least begin in relatively pleasant surroundings, among the leather armchairs of the Travellers Club in London. Its rooms have been a favorite rendezvous since the 19th century for gentlemen of international intrigue-and it's where Libya's urbane, white-haired spymaster, Musa Kusa, met with representatives of the British and American intelligence services in December 2003. Their purpose was to hammer out a deal to bring Kusa's boss, Muammar Gaddafi, in from the cold.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Galliano Erased at Christian Dior
Kusa, now Libya's foreign minister, affects none of the silly props and pretenses-the tents and turbans and...
The tale is a sordid one, but let's at least begin in relatively pleasant surroundings, among the leather armchairs of the Travellers Club in London. Its rooms have been a favorite rendezvous since the 19th century for gentlemen of international intrigue-and it's where Libya's urbane, white-haired spymaster, Musa Kusa, met with representatives of the British and American intelligence services in December 2003. Their purpose was to hammer out a deal to bring Kusa's boss, Muammar Gaddafi, in from the cold.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Galliano Erased at Christian Dior
Kusa, now Libya's foreign minister, affects none of the silly props and pretenses-the tents and turbans and...
- 3/7/2011
- by Christopher Dickey
- The Daily Beast
It was announced today a theatrical motion picture will be made about Mine That Bird, and his extraordinary journey and triumph at the 2009 Kentucky Derby. The director will be Jim Wilson, Academy Award Winning Producer of Dances With Wolves and many other films including, The Bodyguard, Wyatt Earp and Message in Bottle. Lead producer is Pieter Kroonenburg, who is also president of Kingsborough Pictures.
The film will be a success story for New Mexico’s film industry, with a commitment by the producers to utilize New Mexico crews and talent whenever possible and to shoot the majority of the picture within the state. Mine that Bird is owned by New Mexicans Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach, and was trained on their ranches in Roswell, New Mexico. The owners are Members in the New Mexico LLC, formed to produce the film. Among those being considered for roles in the movie are Mine That Bird,...
The film will be a success story for New Mexico’s film industry, with a commitment by the producers to utilize New Mexico crews and talent whenever possible and to shoot the majority of the picture within the state. Mine that Bird is owned by New Mexicans Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach, and was trained on their ranches in Roswell, New Mexico. The owners are Members in the New Mexico LLC, formed to produce the film. Among those being considered for roles in the movie are Mine That Bird,...
- 11/8/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Guest post by Mark Allen
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but the Secret Cinema project is getting to be less and less of a secret these days. But I guess that’s only natural, as it’s grown phenomenally since its beginning in December 2007, screening Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park under the arches of London Bridge.
Showing new and classic cinema in unique locations e-mailed to members of Sc days before the event, and accompanied by performers among the audience – last year’s screening of cult favourite The Warriors was packed to the brim with authentically-dressed gang members – the initiative has been steadily more successful, attracting more numbers (and more gross) at each film, according to this month’s issue of the BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine. If this means they can up their game, then all the better, as last month’s Blade Runner event...
Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but the Secret Cinema project is getting to be less and less of a secret these days. But I guess that’s only natural, as it’s grown phenomenally since its beginning in December 2007, screening Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park under the arches of London Bridge.
Showing new and classic cinema in unique locations e-mailed to members of Sc days before the event, and accompanied by performers among the audience – last year’s screening of cult favourite The Warriors was packed to the brim with authentically-dressed gang members – the initiative has been steadily more successful, attracting more numbers (and more gross) at each film, according to this month’s issue of the BFI’s Sight & Sound magazine. If this means they can up their game, then all the better, as last month’s Blade Runner event...
- 8/13/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Guest post by Mark Allen.
Superhero Hype reports that Joss Whedon’s already highly anticipated (thanks to a certain comic-con appearance by a few of its cast) The Avengers is to begin shooting in February 2011.
The Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios film is the most ambitious superhero flick to date, so the long gap between that date and the movie’s May 4, 2012 premiere could be seen as a cautious choice in the event that anything goes awry, such as one of its many high-profile cast members being embroiled in a scheduling conflict. Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Hemsworth are obviously the most crucial to the film as the Big Three, playing Captain America, Iron Man and Thor respectively, but all eyes should be kept on Downey, Jr. as the man is attached to not only the Sherlock Holmes sequel, but also Disney’s Oz, The Great And Powerful and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity,...
Superhero Hype reports that Joss Whedon’s already highly anticipated (thanks to a certain comic-con appearance by a few of its cast) The Avengers is to begin shooting in February 2011.
The Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios film is the most ambitious superhero flick to date, so the long gap between that date and the movie’s May 4, 2012 premiere could be seen as a cautious choice in the event that anything goes awry, such as one of its many high-profile cast members being embroiled in a scheduling conflict. Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Hemsworth are obviously the most crucial to the film as the Big Three, playing Captain America, Iron Man and Thor respectively, but all eyes should be kept on Downey, Jr. as the man is attached to not only the Sherlock Holmes sequel, but also Disney’s Oz, The Great And Powerful and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity,...
- 8/11/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Guest review by Mark Allen.
Last night saw the UK TV premiere of Simon Amstell and writing partner Dan Swimer’s new sitcom, Grandma’s House. The show follows Amstell’s character, er, himself, as searches for meaning in his life after quitting his job as host of a certain popular music-comedy-quiz-panel show.
He does this mostly by sitting in the living room of the titular house and being embarrassed by his family, who include the granddad who thinks he’s got prostate cancer (after looking up the symptoms on the net), the cousin who shaves his head when he thinks him and Simon are going to Thailand to become Buddhists, the doting mum (The Thick Of It’s Rebecca Front) who records every episode of Simon’s show and her new, tramp-killing boyfriend. Typically dysfunctional as they are, Amstell is routinely subjected to awkward situations and does his best...
Last night saw the UK TV premiere of Simon Amstell and writing partner Dan Swimer’s new sitcom, Grandma’s House. The show follows Amstell’s character, er, himself, as searches for meaning in his life after quitting his job as host of a certain popular music-comedy-quiz-panel show.
He does this mostly by sitting in the living room of the titular house and being embarrassed by his family, who include the granddad who thinks he’s got prostate cancer (after looking up the symptoms on the net), the cousin who shaves his head when he thinks him and Simon are going to Thailand to become Buddhists, the doting mum (The Thick Of It’s Rebecca Front) who records every episode of Simon’s show and her new, tramp-killing boyfriend. Typically dysfunctional as they are, Amstell is routinely subjected to awkward situations and does his best...
- 8/10/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Guest post by Mark Allen
The first (and possibly only) new Lost material since the show’s end earlier this year has surfaced, and details the exploits of Ben Linus doing Hurley’s work after the events of the series finale. Although ‘detail’ may come as a sore expression to those fans disappointed by a lack of definite answers to the many questions posed during the series’ lifetime.
Here we have it, thanks to VodPod:
Whether or not it “ties up any loose ends” for you, as Ben hopes it will for the Dharma workers, it’s nice to have some amount of closure for a certain character in the short who was missing for much of the show’s run. Then again, ‘closure’ for burning questions in Lost seems to follow the religious wisdom regarding God, doors and windows…...
The first (and possibly only) new Lost material since the show’s end earlier this year has surfaced, and details the exploits of Ben Linus doing Hurley’s work after the events of the series finale. Although ‘detail’ may come as a sore expression to those fans disappointed by a lack of definite answers to the many questions posed during the series’ lifetime.
Here we have it, thanks to VodPod:
Whether or not it “ties up any loose ends” for you, as Ben hopes it will for the Dharma workers, it’s nice to have some amount of closure for a certain character in the short who was missing for much of the show’s run. Then again, ‘closure’ for burning questions in Lost seems to follow the religious wisdom regarding God, doors and windows…...
- 8/9/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Return Of The Living Dead
Guest review by Mark Allen
Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Linnea Quigley | Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon
George A. Romero’s output has, for some, been a little lacklustre of late. His last three films, all zombie features – Land Of The Dead (2005), Diary Of The Dead (2008) and Survival Of The Dead – have been fairly pedestrian undead fare, none of them attaining nearly as much critical kudos as his earlier, genre-defining (even, in the case of Night Of The Living Dead, genre-creating) horror pictures. For those disappointed by this and looking for something more substantial from their z-movies, perhaps cult classic Return Of The Living Dead is what you’re looking for…
Taking initial inspiration (and the title) from Romero, the flick is gruesome and hysterically funny in equal measure.
Guest review by Mark Allen
Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Linnea Quigley | Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon
George A. Romero’s output has, for some, been a little lacklustre of late. His last three films, all zombie features – Land Of The Dead (2005), Diary Of The Dead (2008) and Survival Of The Dead – have been fairly pedestrian undead fare, none of them attaining nearly as much critical kudos as his earlier, genre-defining (even, in the case of Night Of The Living Dead, genre-creating) horror pictures. For those disappointed by this and looking for something more substantial from their z-movies, perhaps cult classic Return Of The Living Dead is what you’re looking for…
Taking initial inspiration (and the title) from Romero, the flick is gruesome and hysterically funny in equal measure.
- 8/9/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Guest post by Mark Allen.
Ex-Spiderman director Sam Raimi has signed on to direct an adaptation of graphic novel Earp: Saints For Sinners for Dreamworks, according to THR’s Heat Vision.
The Radical-published comic, created by David Manpearl and Matt Cirulnick – who is also penning the script – is an update of the Western hero Wyatt Earp, famous for taking part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corrall, a near-future Las Vegas taking the place of a boomtown in an America where the economy has plummeted to below Depression-era levels and roaming gangs rule the street. A world where might is most definitely right seems very much appropriate for a character straight from the Old West.
With this coming straight after his next directing gig Oz, The Great And Powerful, Disney’s Wizard Of Oz prequel with Robert Downey Jr., Raimi looks to be shaking off the cobwebs from...
Ex-Spiderman director Sam Raimi has signed on to direct an adaptation of graphic novel Earp: Saints For Sinners for Dreamworks, according to THR’s Heat Vision.
The Radical-published comic, created by David Manpearl and Matt Cirulnick – who is also penning the script – is an update of the Western hero Wyatt Earp, famous for taking part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corrall, a near-future Las Vegas taking the place of a boomtown in an America where the economy has plummeted to below Depression-era levels and roaming gangs rule the street. A world where might is most definitely right seems very much appropriate for a character straight from the Old West.
With this coming straight after his next directing gig Oz, The Great And Powerful, Disney’s Wizard Of Oz prequel with Robert Downey Jr., Raimi looks to be shaking off the cobwebs from...
- 8/7/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Kona, Hawaii can return to its normal Island ways, as the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships has closed the books for another year. Craig Alexander takes his second successive win and joins an elite group of three -- Dave Scott, Mark Allen and Tim DeBoom -- in an 8:20 finish. Chrissie Wellington continues her incredible dominance with a record breaking time of 8:54 breaking Paula Newby-Fraser's 17-year-old record of 8:55. Wellington becomes only the third woman to claim three individual crowns in successive years. The event saw an estimated 1,770 athletes officially start the race in an attempt to conquer the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run on the Big Island of Hawaii. Weather conditions for the 31st Anniversary of Ironman were hot, with temperatures reaching well above 90 degrees Fahrenheit during the bike and run portions....
- 10/12/2009
- by Jim Garfield
- Huffington Post
TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, celebrates its 40th Anniversary season and commitment to the creation and development of new works with its New Works Festival ?09, sponsored by Microsoft. The eighth annual Festival commences July 15 with the world premiere production of Tinyard Hill, a rousing new musical by Tommy Newman and 2009 Jonathan Larsen Award-winning composer Mark Allen. This season?s festival, held in Palo Alto at the Lucie Stern Theatre, will feature workshops of new works by artists including Chris Smith, Raquel Bitton, Darrah Cloud , Kim D. Sherman, Joe Dipietro, Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda, Laura Schellhardt, Rajiv Joseph, Kait Kerrigan, and Brian Lowdermilk, in addition to stunning concerts by Grammy-winning vocalist Maureen McGovern, and the nationally acclaimed singer and composer, Vienna Teng. Tickets go on sale May 29 at 650-463-1960 or theatreworks.org.
- 5/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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