Thursday, December 28, 2017

Happy New Year!

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I'm heading South to thaw out for a few days, so I wanted to wish you all a very safe and happy New Year!!

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Best 2017 News Bloopers

Some of these are pretty funny...especially the One Chip Challenge, which I thankfully was never a part of...

Friday, December 22, 2017

Happy Holidays!!

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I hope you all have a great time with family or friends or just napping!!

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Fox Freakin' Mulder

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A new behind-the-scenes video for the upcoming 11th season of The X-Files was released today...



I'm looking forward to seeing how they pull this new season together.

The series begins airing on January 3rd.

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Ocean's 8

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The first trailer for Ocean's 8 was released today...



I love me some Sandra Bullock and the rest of the cast (and the other Ocean's movies), so I'm definitely in!!

The movie breaks into theaters on June 8th.

Monday, December 18, 2017

May the cash be with you

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As expected, Star Wars: The Last Jedi made just a "little" bit of money over the weekend....

Illuminating lightsabers in 54 material overseas markets, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi showed its force with a $230M opening at the international box office. Combined with domestic, that puts the global launch at $450M. 

The worldwide figure ranks The Last Jedi as the No. 5 debut ever.

I could live off just the interest of that money for the rest of my life.

If only.

Friday, December 15, 2017

TGISW

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I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi last night and enjoyed it very much.

Go to the movie theater this weekend, you must.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Star Wars: What's In The Box?

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In honor of Star Wars: The Last Jedi opening TODAY (which I'm seeing tonight in IMAX 3D), here are two of the stars, John Boyega and Gwendoline Christie, playing a round of "What's In The Box?" for Vanity Fair....



Hilarious!!

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Shimmer

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A new trailer for Annihilation was released today and it's looking pretty creepy/cool...



I'm not really sure what it's about, but I plan to see it anyway.

The movie opens on February 23rd.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Hot Pockets

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The Game of Thrones visual effects team put together this amazing behind-the-scenes demo of some of their work over the past season, especially focused on the intricate dragon effects...



They really do an awesome job on that show.

Now we just have to wait a year until the final season finally airs.

Humbug.

Monday, December 11, 2017

What could go wrong?

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The first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was recently released....



It's looking pretty awesome!

The movie opens on June 22nd.

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Have a ball



To promote the upcoming second season of One Day at a Time, Netflix recreated the original show opening theme (above). You can compare it to the original (below).



It's kinda fun to play both videos at the exact same time and watch how closely they matched everything, which is pretty impressive.

Makes me want to go blow-dry my hammer.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Uncomfortable in my lonely

Someone posted this gal's poetry performance about sadness on Facebook today and, after watching it, I found that it is still hanging in my brain and heart many hours later.



I'm not sad a lot, but I have felt that way more times than I'd like to admit.

The poet's name is Sabrina Behaim and she has several other videos and has also written a book about depression.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Kill Kirk

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News today that Quentin Tarantino is developing a Star Trek movie idea with JJ Abrams at Paramount...

Already busy prepping to direct the film he just set up at Sony Pictures, Quentin Tarantino is also planning to boldly go where he has not gone before. Sources said that Tarantino has come up with a great idea for a Star Trek movie at Paramount. After sharing his idea with JJ Abrams (who himself is busy prepping Star Wars Episode IX), I’ve heard the plan is to assemble a writers room of scribes who’ll hear Tarantino’s take and begin to put together a movie. If it all works out, Tarantino might direct it, with Abrams producing.

Well, this will be interesting. Let's hope he's a big fan and not just doing it to fit in with his other movies. Otherwise it could be one of the most violent Star Trek movies ever made.

I don't want my Star Trek being too stabby.

Monday, December 4, 2017

A long Trek

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The first trailer for Please Stand By was released today. It's about a girl with autism who runs away from her group home so she can turn in her Star Trek script for a national competition.



It looks like the kind of film that I'd enjoy. It has a Star Trek-related plot, Patton Oswalt, and a road trip adventure.

Sounds like a fine time to me!

The movie opens on January 26th.

Friday, December 1, 2017

Clouds on Jupiter

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Literally...NASA released these cool images of the clouds on Jupiter and they are pretty amazing.

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They look like flavors of milkshakes I'd like to drink.

Now I want a milkshake.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Jim Nabors

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Very sad news today...

Jim Nabors, who gave popular culture its most enduring image of a wide-eyed, good-natured if none too bright hayseed in a character whose very name – Gomer Pyle – would become synonymous with lovable rube, died Thursday in Hawaii. He was 87.

With catchphrases “Shazam!” and “Gollllly!” (the latter drawn out to four or five lilting syllables), Nabors debuted his downhome, gas station attendant character in 1962 on The Andy Griffith Show, where the slow-going, dim-witted Gomer was a constant irritation to Don Knotts’ officious, high-strung Deputy Barney Fife.

The Gomer character, and Nabors’ odd-couple chemistry with Knotts, proved so popular with audiences that he was given his own spin-off series in 1964. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C, co-starring Frank Sutton as his ever-yelling drill sergeant Vince Carter (“I can’t heeearrrr youuu!”) ran until 1969 on CBS.

His 1966 LP Jim Nabors Sings with All Your Heart, made the Billboard Top 25 and went gold. He charted a dozen albums through 1972 and though he never matched that initial chart success two more were half-million-sellers. One of those was Jim Nabors’ Christmas Album, which topped the holiday albums chart in 1967 and again two years later. 

His singing made him a frequent guest of variety shows in the 1960s and ’70s, including The Johnny Cash Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Dean Martin Show, The Flip Wilson and, most notably, The Carol Burnett Show, where his appearance on each season premiere became an annual tradition. He hosted his own variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour, from 1969-71.

He had a very long and successful career and will definitely be missed.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

To Infinity!

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The first trailer for Avengers: Infinity War was released today...



It looks pretty epic and, I'm guessing, we're likely going to see a couple of our beloved Avengers not survive this battle.

Time will tell.

The movie opens on May 4th.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Monday, November 27, 2017

David Cassidy

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Sad news over the Thanksgiving holiday...

Entertainer and 1970s teen idol David Cassidy has died. The musician and actor, 67, who starred in TV's The Partridge Family (1970 to 1974), died Tuesday night in Florida after being hospitalized with organ failure. 

A child of Hollywood, he was the iconic teen idol of the 1970s. Before Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Zac Efron and the members of the 1980s Brat Pack, there was pop star Cassidy in his colorful polyester ensembles featuring giant collars and flared slacks. And while he did perform as a solo artist, he and The Partridge Family had a No. 1 hit with the catchy tune I Think I Love You in fall 1970. His biggest solo single was a version of Cherish, which peaked at No. 9 after its release in 1971. 

Cassidy had largely kept a low profile, making headlines in recent years mostly with DUI cases. In March 2014, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Cassidy to three months in rehab and five years of probation in a drunken-driving case. Later that year, the performer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated in upstate New York. At the time, the sentence was expected to be a conditional discharge that would include community service in Florida, where he lived. 

He continued to add acting credits through the decades, appearing in television shows such as Fantasy Island, Malcolm in the Middle, Ruby & The Rockits and CSI, as well as the movie Poster.

It's sad that his later years were a mix of alcohol and health issues, but his early career in the Partridge Family has definitely secured his place in Pop Culture history. I really enjoyed the show and even had the lunchbox to prove it.

He will be missed.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving

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I'm off for a couple days, but hope you all enjoy a good Turkey dance with Friends and/or family.

Monday, November 20, 2017

Become the light

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A new trailer for A Wrinkle In Time was released last night...



This is looking REALLY cool....the visuals are amazing.

I can't wait to see it when it comes out on March 9th.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Red Lines

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A couple new Star Wars: The Last Jedi posters were released this week...

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Very cool.

The movie opens on December 15th.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Mennen Black

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A hilarious new teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 was released today...



"Just beat it like it owes you money."

I can't wait to see this when it opens June 1st.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

50, Fierce, and Fabulous

This week is Jimmy Kimmel's 50th birthday, so several of his celebrity friends put together some tributes. Ray Romano set up a Jimmy Kimmel-focused Celebrities Reading Mean Tweets...



George Clooney put together "The Jimmy Kimmel Story" ...



And Ben Affleck and J.J. Abrams filmed a movie trailer based on the comic book that Jimmy Kimmel wrote and illustrated as a child called "The Terrific Ten", with Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon, Wanda Sykes and many more...



Enjoyable.

Monday, November 13, 2017

Roads Go Ever On

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It looks like we'll be getting a Lord of the Rings TV series on Amazon sometime in the near future...

Amazon has closed a massive deal — said to be close to $250 million — to acquire global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. 

The streaming service has given a multi-season commitment to a LOTR series in the pact, which also includes a potential spinoff series. 

The LOTR original series, a prequel to Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust; HarperCollins; and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which produced the hugely successful LOTR movie franchise. 

 No details about the deal were disclosed, but it believed to be dwarfing any TV series pact to date with a whopping price tag attached. 

Amazon, Netflix and HBO had been approached by the Tolkien estate, who had been shopping the project. It came with an upfront rights payment said to be in the $200 million-$250 million range, and I hear Amazon landed the rights by paying close to $250 million. That is just for the rights, before any costs for development, talent and production, in proposition whose finances industry observers called “insane.” It is a payment that is made sight unseen as there is no concept, and there are no creative auspices attached to the possible series. On top of that, the budget for a fantasy series of that magnitude is likely to be $100 million-$150 million a season.

Wow...that is a LOT of money to pay for the rights to a brand that has already told the story beautifully over multiple films and made a buttload of cash worldwide.

It'll be very interesting to see how this all plays out.

Friday, November 10, 2017

Stay for the package

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Even though the Deadpool sequel doesn't come out in theaters until June 1st, it appears that the studio marketing department has already landed him an unusual magazine cover...Good Housekeeping.

That's a lot of Ho Ho Ho-ing.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

New Who

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The first look at the new Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, was released today.

It's a good casual look for the doctor along with a bit of a Tardis update to boot.

Nice.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Boldly keeps going

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Deadline featured a very nice interview with Patrick Stewart today, where he discusses his career, Star Trek, and his final appearance as Professor Xavier in Logan...



He's had an amazing career and looks really good for 77 years old.

I'll have what he's having.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Perfect Stranger Things

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Jimmy Kimmel presents a possible Stranger Things sequel for Netflix...



Larry and Balki really need to move to a bigger place if they are planning to host guests from the Upside Down.

Plus, their rent controlled apartment really needs some modern updates.

Friday, November 3, 2017

Thor 4D

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Thor: Ragnarok opens this weekend....can't wait to see it!

However, if you can't make it to the theater, you can watch all of the actors perform the "live version" of the movie here on James Corden's The Late, Late Show.



Now THAT would be a fun way to spend the evening.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Small parts

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A new trailer for Downsizing was released today...



I think a lot of us would volunteer to "get small" if $100K would translate to 12 million dollars, which would mean that $25K should translate to about 3 million dollars.

That's a financial goal I think I could actually make happen.

The movie opens December 22nd.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Who does that?

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The first full Redband trailer for the upcoming Tonya Harding film, I, Tonya was released today....



This looks like it might be a hot mess...and I mean that in a good way.

I'm looking forward to seeing this when it comes out on December 8th.

Monday, October 30, 2017

Feeling Blu

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Blu-ray magazine released a series of Justice League covers, including Aquaman.

Also, Warner Bros. released a new photo of Jason Momoa as well.

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Enjoyable.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Holy craps

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A new behind-the-scenes video was released today for Star Wars: The Last Jedi by the director, Rian Johnson...



I can't wait to see this when it opens on December 14th.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Party on, Lorca

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After only a few episodes in, Star Trek: Discovery has been renewed for a second season..

CBS All Access has announced today that Star Trek: Discovery has been renewed for a second season. The original series broke a new record for subscriber sign-ups in a single day, week and month for the digital service.

“In just six episodes, Star Trek: Discovery has driven subscriber growth, critical acclaim and huge global fan interest for the first premium version of this great franchise,” said Marc DeBevoise, President and Chief Operating Officer, CBS Interactive. “This series has a remarkable creative team and cast who have demonstrated their ability to carry on the Star Trek legacy. We are extremely proud of what they’ve accomplished and are thrilled to be bringing fans a second season of this tremendous series.”

Although I've only seen the first episode (I'm not paying for CBS All Access), I'm happy to hear it's been renewed for another season. I'm hoping to either catch it when it gets released on DVD or if/when they release the first season on Netflix (hopefully sometime later next year).

Regardless, it's good news and I hope the series lives long and CBS prospers.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Speedster

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A new Flash featurette was released for the Justice League this week...



I still think it's a bit weird to have one actor playing the Flash on TV and a different one playing him in the films. But, I'm sure I'll get over it.

Eventually.

The Justice League opens on November 17th.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Punisher

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A new trailer for the upcoming Netflix series, The Punisher, was released today...



This is looking like it's going to be the bloodiest of their Marvel series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage), so we'll see how all of that goes.

I like the actor who is playing him, but not sure how stabby this is going to end up being, which will determine whether I'll watch it or not.

We'll find out for sure when it's released on November 17th.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Strike a pose

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A new Justice League poster was released today and, I've got to say, it's a little cheesy-looking.

They just keep releasing new posters of the same characters in different poses and positions. You'd think there would be something a bit more visual (other characters, some action scene, the villain....anything other than just a Vogue pose).

Kind of weird.

But, I'm still going to see it when it opens on November 17th.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The New Mutants

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The first trailer for the upcoming movie, The New Mutants, was released...



Well, that doesn't look like a very fun movie.

It seems that this series will be going more in the horror movie direction with some X-Men mutants.

Not sure I'll enjoy that.

We'll see how things turn out when the movie opens on April 13th.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Your time

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A new trailer for Black Panther was released today....



Now THAT'S an action-packed trailer!

I don't know much about this character, but I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie when it comes out on February 16th!