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Christina Hendricks to Get ‘Life’

Posted on August 28, 2009

christina-hendricks2 According to Variety, the super hot and talented Christina Hendricks, currently seen on AMC’s Mad Men and former guest star on Joss Whedon’s Firely, just added another role to her already impressive list of projects. According to the trade, Hendricks is set to star alongside Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in Warner Bros. romantic comedy Life as We Know It.

The film, written by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, “follows two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers of their orphaned daughter.” Hendricks will play the best friend to Heigl’s and Duhamel’s characters. Why don’t I have friends like that? Greg Berlanti, who is currently writing and producing Green Lantern, among other projects, will direct. Barry Josephson and Paul Brooks are producing.

Life as We Know it is slated to begin production in Atlanta this fall for an anticipated release sometime in 2010. To be honest, I’m not that interested in the movie or pretty much anything else the annoying Katherine Heigl is involved with, I just like talking about and posting pictures of the beautiful Christina Hendricks. You got a problem with that?

Mario Kart : The Movie?

Posted on August 27, 2009

Well…not really. It may not be Fan Film Friday yet, but this is a fan trailer that just needs to get seen. Those who have seen the Inglourious Plummers fan trailer are in store for something special, as the first trailer for Mario Kart: The Movie has popped up.

The obsession with the animated racing game began in 1992 with the release of Super Mario Kart on the Super NES system. Of the other sports Mario and his gang partook in, from golf to baseball, grand prix racing seemed to be the most popular. The game series ran through all of Nintendo’s systems including the Nintendo 64, Wii, and even the handheld systems.

The trailer shows the inner emotion of each of these races, and just what kind of a toll it took on our Italian-American hero. For fan films, the acting was pretty good, the story was quite well thought out, and there are even a few laugh-out-loud moments.

Check out the trailer after the jump.

‘Star Wars’ Comics Come to iPhone

Posted on August 27, 2009

Do you love Star Wars? Of course you do. Comics? Check. How about the iPhone? Copy that. Well, if you’re actually a fan, reader and avid user of these three things then today is truly your lucky day. Why?

Well, its simple really. Dark Horse Comics, in partnership with Lucasfilm and THQ Wireless, has just announced that they will release Star Wars comics to the iPhone for the first time ever. Excited? You should be. It’s pretty darn cool.

Here’s all the info from the official Dark Horse Comics press release:

In a partnership that will echo through the cosmos, Lucasfilm, THQ Wireless, and Dark Horse Comics will release Star Wars™ comics to the iPhone mobile platform for the first time ever!

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Two More Clips from NBC’s ‘Community’

Posted on August 27, 2009

community-nbc-cast As with some of NBC’s other upcoming Fall shows, we’ve been following Community pretty closely for a few reasons. One, I went to community college for a bit, so I know first hand what it feels like to go there while most of your friends go off to more prestigious four year institutions of higher learning.

Second, the show looks funny and features a great cast including Joel McHale, comedy legend Chevy Chase and the hilarious Ken Jeong — who if you haven’t seen his performance in The Hangover, you have not seen comedy gold.

Fortunately, one of these new clips here is an interview with the man himself, Ken Jeong. The other offers a further look at life at a community college and how best to maximize your potential while you’re there. Both clips are fun, funny and fantastic and you should watch them and Community, when it debuts on NBC on Thursday, September 17th at 9:30/8:30C.

Check out the clips after the jump.

‘F.E.A.R. 2’ gets DLC Demo on XBox Live and Playstation Network

Posted on August 27, 2009

fear-2-project-origin Who here hasn’t been freaked our during a video? Playing a game in a room that is pitch black except for the light of the TV screen and walking down a narrow corridor with your character only to have something jump out of a corner and scare the hell out of you causing you to scream in terror and wake up the rest of your house. What? Only me?

Well one of those games that has gotten a reputation for scaring its players on every playthrough has been F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and today, it’s getting a free demo for its latest expansion pack.

F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn, as the expansion is titled, will give the player a four level single player campaign from the perspective of Replica Soldier Foxtrot 813, a character in the F.E.A.R. lore that no player has had the opportunity to play from before. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Studios should be praised for the release of this free demo as most downloadable content is usually purchase only, leaving players uneasy about dropping money on something they cannot try before they buy.

The full release of this downloadable content will hit the XBox Live Marketplace and Playstation Store on September 3rd. Also coming the 3rd will be a free title update/patch featuring a new Slow-Mo Deathmatch mode.

New ‘Heathers’ Coming from Fox and Sony TV

Posted on August 27, 2009

winona-ryder-christian-slater-heathers Its probably only a matter of time before Hollywood studios remake or reboot each and every movie and tv show that’s been made in the last thirty years. Its inevitable as original ideas and creativity dry up and are replaced more and more with new projects obviously pitched during a heated ten minutes between rounds of golf at the Wilshire Country Club.

Case in point this time is the planned reboot of director Michael Lehman’s classic black comedy Heathers which, according to Variety, Fox, Sony TV and Lakeshore Entertainment are planning on doing. Why you may ask? Well, my personal favorite quote from the Variety piece illustrates my earlier point perfectly.

“We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake at times,” said Lakeshore prexy Gary Lucchesi. “But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea.”

So, taking what was once a movie and making it a TV show is what passes for “fresh and original” in Hollywood these days? Awesome.

Japanese Trailer for ‘2012’

Posted on August 27, 2009

While most disaster movies of late have gone the way of the Poseidon Adventure remake, there has been some positive buzz about the newest “the world is ending” film, 2012. Though the film is getting a November release (most disaster movies are known to do better during the summer) and has 10,000 BC’s Roland Emmerich at the helm, we do have some hope.

From what we know, the film focuses on the main character and his family on a microcosmic level as ancient prophecies come true. The world begins to literally fall apart around us, as the Earth has an expiration date of 2012. The tagline of the film is simply “We Were Warned,” which hopefully has nothing to do with the actual production of the movie and its resultant quality.

Writer Herald Kloser helped with the epic script and the film stars, in no particular order, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Oliver Platt, and Amanda Peet. Check out brand new footage and dialogue in the Japanese trailer after the jump.

Expect the world to end as we know it, at least according to 2012, on November 13.

Summer Glau ‘Officially’ On ‘Dollhouse’

Posted on August 27, 2009

summer-glau-1 Well friends, its that time you’ve been waiting for because its now official: Summer Glau and Joss Whedon are back together again. According to a statement released by Fox today, Glau will again team with her Firefly/Serenity creator Joss Whedon as a recurring cast member on Dollhouse. She will play a new character named “Bennett” on the show and that’s pretty much all we know at the moment except that she works at the Dollhouse and “shares a past” with Eliza Dushku’s character Echo.

Shares a past could be pretty interesting. Give me a minute here. . . okay, I’m back. Moving on.

In the statement, Fox also released details of other guest stars on the show’s second season, which starts on Friday, September 25 at 9/8C:

Summer Glau (“Firefly,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) reunites with Joss Whedon when the actress joins the cast of DOLLHOUSE this fall in a recurring role as BENNETT, a Dollhouse employee who shares a past with ECHO (Eliza Dushku). The second season of DOLLHOUSE premieres Friday, Sept. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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