Random news

Rut roh is right. Some scenes in the trailer had me thinking, “He is so screwed…”

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/china-bans-time-travel-for-television/?hpt=C2

someone should go back in time to stop this!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/dreamworks-revs-up-real-steel-sequel/

…movies not even out yet…and a sequel already…

Dark Knight Returns to be made into an animated movie

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/14/movie-version-of-frank-millers-the-dark-knight-returns-in-the-works/

it would be perfection if they had Michael ironside do the voice of Batman for that one

Star Trek XXX…actually has a PLOT??? (dont worry - totally SFW)

//youtu.be/4VkZwV1v5ZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkZwV1v5ZE

Concept art from Rise of the Planet of the Apes-

http://www.slashfilm.com/rise-planet-apes-high-resolution-concept-art/#more-102242

Cowboys and Aliens…

//youtu.be/eJixNxFxhT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJixNxFxhT4

…sweet

Neil Gaimans American Gods could be coming ro HBO as a series

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/playtone-options-neil-gaimans-american-gods-in-series-talks-with-hbo/

If done well…this could be damn OSSIM

More rumors are leaking about Superman. Not sure how many grains of salt this will need.

Had no idea who the Faora chick is…but bitch be crazy

Faora Hu-Ul claimed over twenty-three lives before she was arrested. Faora was sentenced to over three-hundred years of incarceration inside the Phantom Zone - the longest sentence ever handed to a female prisoner, and the second-longest sentence over all

We’ll evidently also see some Jor-El and Lara

More stuff below.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-man-of-steel-will-reveal-a-new-krypton-more-13234

Dang, a series pre-made with characters we can’t use in Fantasy Sci-fi League. d:

Might be cool tho. I like the premise.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2011/04/star-of-hbos-true-blood-flips.php

And walked away cuz he’s a vamp

I’m filing this under Games and Toys news.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42595605/ns/today-today_people/

Life-size Barbie gets real women talking

Student presents the iconic doll’s proportions in a provocative new context

The goal in creating Barbie’s likeness was to start conversation. “Talking about eating disorders is taboo to many people, and this made people talk about it,” Slayen said. “It’s a shocking image. A lot of people have seen it, and it’s started debates,” she said, particularly after she wrote about it for the Huffington Post. “Her proportions are not 100 percent correct, but her look is not invalid.”

“As a pop-cultural icon, Barbie is often used as art to express one’s own personal opinions and views,” a Mattel spokesperson said in an email. “Girls see female body images everywhere today and it’s critical that parents and caregivers provide perspective on what they are seeing. It’s important to remember that Barbie is a doll who stands 11.5 inches tall and weighs 7.25 ounces — she was never modeled on the proportions of a real person.”

//youtu.be/Aai_fdY1pgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aai_fdY1pgs

peep it before WB yanks from the Youtubes

EDIT - just found out this could be a fan made (which is wierd since WB yanked it from YT very quickly)

The head looks off. I think they got one of those hair-dressing Barbie heads, but it’s not the same scale.

“Her proportions are not 100 percent correct, but her look is not invalid.”

Kinda invalidates the purpose don’t it?

Here’s a different take on the ‘life sized Barbie’ thing.

Amazon. Hot.

Courtesy bkittysd from Twitter.

If you’re in or near Cleveland, OH…

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/04/15/joss-whedon-wants-you-for-the-avengers/

"Joss Whedon Wants You For The Avengers

MovieWeb has it that the film is going to be hiring 2,000 (no typo, two thousand!) extras whilst filming over the summer."

Five minutes of footage from Falling Skies.

http://io9.com/#!5793288/5-minutes-of-falling-skies-footage-shows-how-the-alien-invaders-will-kill-us-all

been hired to do a rewrite on one of J.J.'s top-secret projects at Paramount. With a working title of Zanbato, the script involves Japanese history and robotics: “swashbuckling robots with swords”

http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/fringe-duo-rewriting-top-secret-script-zanbato-for-j-j-abrams-bad-robot-paramount/

swashbuckling robots with swords? I am intrigued