Posted on 11.05.09 by Widge @ 3:05 pm Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.
We're back with all the pop culture news you need in bite-sized chunks so you can, you know, get on with having a life or something.
So Ian McKellen, who will soon be gracing the small screen in the remake of The Prisoner, is headed for television again. He is on board a mockumentary series called The Academy. Now here's the bit that shows it's too brilliant and cannot possibly ever hit the airwaves. Or, erm, cablewaves. Whatever the hell they're called these days. The bit: "McKellen would play his fictional brother, Murray McKellen, who heads a run-down drama school, the Clapham Academy of Creative Arts, that is hoping to secure new funding through a docu on the school." See what I mean? It's just too good. Oh, and the other reason it might not happen is that Hobbit starts in March and if they don't shoot it quick, they'll miss Sir Ian's window of opportunity. Oh, and "Murray" is indeed Sir Ian's middle name. Nice. Source.
Uncle Warren's Black Summer has been optioned for a feature film, so the man himself has told us. Should be interesting in that the comic book's plot was about a hero deciding that the President of the United States was a criminal and, because he was created to deal with criminals, um, dealt with the guy. Decisively, shall we say. This is Vigilante Entertainment's first joint and they've brought on Knowing co-scribe Ryne Pearson to adapt it. The collected series is available from Amazon here.
Posted on 08.28.09 by Widge @ 5:59 pm Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.
Sim-Rox in deep thought about purely innocent things. Honest.
It's a pop culture jungle out there. Rather than select as your guide a website that doesn't give a damn about you, take us along. We promise not to walk out of the underbrush wearing your bandoleer, if you know what I'm saying.
Amazon's deal of the day is obviously in honor of our very own Kim, Minister of Simulated Mayhem: it's The Sims 3 at 40% off. So if you'd like to make your own creepy simulated Weekend Justice house--you know, please don't--but I mean, if you do, then the price is $29.98 today onlyImage from Rox's site.
In other Amazon news, Mac OSX Snow Leopard is now available from Amazon. And if you were going to buy it anyway, if you do it through us--if you buy any of this stuff you were going to buy anyway from us--then we get kickbacks that support the site. So thanks in advance.
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton's final book (which is due out on November 24th), has been picked up by DreamWorks. Spielberg might direct. David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) is scribing. The book is set in 1665 and "revolves around a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, Jamaica, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure." This will come after Harvey--which the article mentions as being based on the original play and not saying a word about the Jimmy Stewart movie. Weird. The Crichton book, incidentally, can be pre-ordered here.
Posted on 08.25.09 by Widge @ 6:42 am Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.
Because there's a lot of pop culture stuff going on. We sift out the best bits so you don't have to, saving you time and energy. Somebody has to go have a life, right?
Amazon has fifty albums on sale in MP3 form for $5 each. YMMV for stuff you can find there, but at first glance, the one that sticks out as a must-own above all others is Rodrigo y Gabriela's self-titled one. To hear them playing a track live on David Letterman, go here. See the available albums here.
So the aforementioned Chris Nolan flick Inception has a teaser trailer. Check it out:
Posted on 08.10.09 by Widge @ 6:19 am Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.
Faith No More is rampaging across Europe now. Tuffley sent me this poster for an upcoming date in Greece. Nice, yes? He also is fairly certain we will see some North American dates later on. We sure as hell better.
Dark Crystal 2, which I could have sworn we had mentioned before--but I must have dreamed it during one of my blackouts--is going into pre-production. It has a title, too: The Power of the Dark Crystal. It sounds like they're just getting funding and distribution nailed down. I can't seem to drum up a reaction to this--it just seems too remote, like Tron Legacy before the teaser trailer. After all, the originals for both came out the same year...
The Peter Berg-helmed Dune is not dead--in fact, Berg apparently revealed he wants a more action-oriented take on the film than the original adaptation or the miniseries: "[The book] was much more muscular and adventurous, more violent and possibly even a little bit more fun... There's a more dynamic film to be made." No completed script yet, though per this article, and we are fifteen months later. See why I find it hard to get worked up about films in development? Best to save one's energy.
