You can’t make a pop-culture classic without Ray Winstone. At least, that’s what the BBC is reporting. Veteran character actor Ray Winstone is rumored to be the newest addition to next year’s Indiana Jones film.
Winstone has appeared in Batman Begins and The Chronicles of Nania, in addition to The Departed, Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain, Quadrophenia and many more films. He was Will Scarlett in the British television production of Robin Hood. This fall, movie audiences will be able to see him in Robert Zemekis’ Beowulf, with a screenplay by Roger Avery and somebody named Neil Gaiman.
The Spiridellis Brothers are at it again. Gregg and Evan Spiridillis,, the creaters of Jibjab.com had their latest satiricial cartoon "What We Call the News" shown on TheTonight Show last night (for all the insomniacs or recovering insomniacs such as myself that are just get ting started at 11:30 Eastern).
Done in the style made famous by South Park’s Terence-and Phillip show (you know what I mean, the heads split open from the mouth up), and sung to the Battle Hymn of the Republic paradies the evolution of the ole’ time 6:00 pm television news anchors to our current world of cable news and Fox-style "reporting." Fans of the ongoing sitcom Rosie and the Donald (and even pet lovers) will appreciate the clip of the poor innocent cat.
In you aren’t sure of the clever words sung by the singing heads, they are shown ticker-style at the bottom of the screen.
On the heels of Fantastic Four 1 getting its extended cut, DVD release, it now looks like Spidey 2 is getting the same special treatment.
The two-DVD Spider-Man Extended Cut includes eight minutes of never-before-seen footage – including extended fight sequences, a big ol’ sneak peak into Spider-Man 3 including an exclusive Spider-Man 3 video game trailer, commentary by Kirsten (Mary Jane) Dunst and producer Luara Ziskin (big whoop), a trivia track with all-new branched video pieces, and, of course, plenty more!
The Spider-Man Extended Cut comes out April 17, two and one-half weeks prior to the opening of Spider-Man 3.
Admit it, you’re jonesing for "Smith and Jones", the first episode of the next season. Or if you aren’t, Gold and Ostrander sure are. And we’re good little enablers over here. With that in mind, we point you to FreemaAgyeman.com, where the Doctor Who BBCi Red Button Preview Video is appearing.
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Kal Penn, star of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and the recent The Namesake, as well as appearing in Superman Returns and 24, will be a guest instructor at the University of Pennsylvania’s department of Asian Studies. His courses will include "Contemporary American Teen Films" and "Images of Asian Americans in the Media".
The actor (whose full name is Kalpen Modi) will be on campus during the spring of 2008. Harold and Kumar 2 is set to be released next year.
The untimely passing of Marshall Rogers has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream media, as there have been obituaries from both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Both laud his landmark work on Detective Comics as being a touchstone for many later artists’ interpretation of the Batman.
The 2007 Hugo Awards, most prized of the science-fiction awards, just might wind up in the hands of longest running s-f teevee series of all time
Three episodes of Doctor Who from the past season were nominated in the best dramatic presentation – short form category: "School Reunion," the episode that reintroduced Sarah Jane Smith and written by Toby Whithouse, Steven Moffatt’s "The Girl in the Fireplace," where the Doctor saves Madame de Pompadour from really neat looking robots, and the season’s two-part finale, "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday," written by executive producer Russell T. Davies and featuring the Cybermen and the Daleks in a battle scene that made 300 look like a Disney flick.
These three shows are up against an episode of Battlestar Galactica ("Downloaded) and an episode of Stargate SG-1 ("200."). As usual, the winner will be announced at the World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Yokohama, Japan from August 30th to September 3rd.
The new season of Doctor Who begins in England this Saturday.
Only at ComicMix can we draw a line from Cactus Jack to Billie Gray to Major Apollo to Walter Brennan – and not even break a sweat! We interview the WWE’s Mick Foley AND Battlestar‘s Apollo, share some big Sin City casting news, reveal the details behind the new Shazam! action figures, and take a hard look at the early 60s.
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Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, the man who battled with Opie and Anthony and the creators of South Park, is now picking on producers Randy Weiner and Jeff Beacher over their new Off-Broadway show, Stairway to Hell, which performs every Friday Night at Snitch in New York City.
Donohue stated in his press release: "Men and women are dying everyday in Iraq to keep America free. It is sickening to note that some young Americans think freedom means the right to insult, degrade and abuse the sensibilities of Christians. The man behind this barbaric assault is Randy Weiner. In a sane society, he would be run out of town. Unfortunately, there are elements in our society that see him as a champion of liberty."
Says Weiner, "It saddens me that Mr. Donohue is trying to exploit the suffering of our American soldiers to further his own crusade."
Mr. Beacher is scared that Mr. Donohue’s statements might incite violence among his more radical followers against the Stairway To Hell cast and crew. Mr. Beacher has gone so far as to hire bodyguards for Weiner and the actors until any threat of violence that might be stirred up by Donohue’s press release dies down. "Weiner’s a genius; I can’t let anything happen to him because Donohue has called out his Storm Troopers. As with any form of art, we have the right to say what we want. It is called the first Amendment." Beacher believes this is not an issue of the bible vs. the first Amendment, this is about one man’s distorted interpretation of the bible to serve his own personal agenda.
Beacher concludes, "Donohue hates Stairway To Hell, which makes it a perfect show for my audience. Donohue says the show deserves to be in Hell, so I’m taking it to Vegas where it belongs!"
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