While most of you loyal readers are out having barbeques and eating typical Memorial Day fare, a new movie trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs The World was released. Gotta say, I’m looking forward to this movie! Enjoy!

Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

Media is great in the many different streams and tributaries its developed over the past decades. First came movies and television, then the music industry started taking hold. Computers came much later, and when those started becoming more common, video games started making the scene. So the entertainment industry saw all of this, and thought “Why haven’t we combined any of these media aspects together? The result has to be twice as good as either of the original parts!” Surely, musicals combined the ancient medium of theater, and later movies, and combined them with the constant melody of music. The music industry got a huge boost when it realized it could combine songs with mini-movies, and thus music videos were born and thrived. (at least until reality TV came about and usurped it) After the video game industry started making its big push into the mainstream in the early 90’s, the film industry took notice and asked itself the previous question: “A mix of the two can only lead to great things!”

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Gary Coleman, rest in peace.

Source: Washington Post Obituary

Michael Bay may be knee deep in directing the third act of the live action Transformers, but his production company Platinum Dunes is moving forward with the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Platinum Dunes thus far has stuck to horror remakes of Friday The 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the recent Nightmare On Elm Street.

Nickelodeon bought TMNT for $60 Million last year, and they’ve been eager to get a new series on the air and a new movie in theaters. A script for a new TMNT movie by John Fusco has been bouncing around Hollywood for a year or so, but it will be scrapped for a fresh look at the team.

Platnium Dunes has been pretty hit or miss (mostly miss) with the horror remakes, but delving into the all-ages world of TMNT could be very profitable. Its obvious Nickelodeon wants to capitalize on Bay’s huge Transformers franchise.

What do you think? Would you like to see a lower budget but action packed new live action TMNT?

Source: Deadline

Batman: Under The Red Hood is the latest DC comic adaptation going direct to DVD. This will be based directly on the Batman: Under the Hood story by Judd Winick.
As with previous DC animated movies, they’ve sidestepped the voice cast of the 90s animated series in favor of some outside talent. Bruce Greenwood is Batman with Neil Patrick Harris as Nightwing and Jensen Ackles as Robin. Villains include John DiMaggio as The Joker, Jason Isaacs as Ra’s al Ghul, and Wade Williams as Black Mask.
The trailer seems to play up this animated as being as close to the last live action Batman movie as possible. It comes out on July 27, so we’ve got about 2 months to go. Its available for pre-order now.

OK, so I hated Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. I promised myself I couldn’t get excited for a third in the series unless some major changes were made.

Director Michael Bay and his producers and writers seem to be on the right path. In recent weeks, respectable actors John Malkovich and Frances Mcdormand have been cast, and cult favorites Alan Tudyk and Ken Jeong will also appear. Bay said the the annoying Twins would not be back, though we have seen cars that might be them on set. Shia Labeouf then publicly apologized for Revenge of the Fallen being terrible. Things seem like they’re on the right track.

Now came word that Michael Bay has axed the shimmering orange piece of ass Megan Fox from Transformers 3. They’re looking for a replacement love interest now, and they’ll no doubt replace Fox with another shimmering orange piece of ass. I mean, look at Transformers 2 when they introduced a new love interest: Not exactly high class.

Still, I can hope and dream I that I can be a Transformers fan again without the most prominent feature being an embarrassment.