by John Carle, Dec 5 2012 // 12:00 PM

Way back in June of 2011, a high quality fan film called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth made its way to the internet. Many speculated at first that it was a viral campaign to help with the relaunched Mortal Kombat game franchise but everyone found out it was just a group of people with tons of love for Mortal Kombat. The film would end up getting picked up by Machinima.com and get turned into its own webseries called Mortal Kombat: Legacy and feature characters like Sonya, Jax, Kitana, Mileen and the robots, Cyrax and Sektor.
Yesterday, Warner Bros. Digital announced that Mortal Kombat Legacy would be getting a second season set to premiere its first clip on February 17th, 2013 at the Streamy Awards. On top of that, they have announced that the role of Johnny Cage will be taken on by Casper Van Dien. Casper is most famous for the role of Johnny Rico in the Starship Trooper’s franchise and looks very similar to Johnny Cage already.
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Tagged: Casper Van Dien, Ermac, Johnny Cage, Lui Kang, Machinima, Matt Mullins, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Streamy Awards, Web
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by Douglas Barnett, Oct 24 2011 // 1:00 PM
This week’s pick is Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999), a newer take on Washington Irving’s legendary 1820 novel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a New York City police constable who is sent to the quaint upstate village that is the sight of several grizzly decapitations.
Crane believes in science and deductive reasoning, where as the local inhabitants of the sleepy little hamlet attribute the murders to the slain ghost of a Hessian mercenary killed during the American Revolution.
Crane believes that the killer is flesh and blood, and not a demonic spirit as told to him by the town’s elders. Using his powers of deduction and a bag of scientific/forensic tools to discover traces which will lead him to the killer, Crane is about to discover that in the age of reason, there are still many things that are beyond comprehension in the world of Tim Burton.
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Tagged: Casper Van Dien, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken, Ian McDiarmid, Jefferey Jones, Johnny Depp, Marc Pickering, Michael Gough, Miranda Richardson, Sir Christopher Lee, Sir Michael Gambon, Tim Burton
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