If you frequent YouTube, you've at the very least seen a thumbnail for "1000 DEGREE KNIFE CUTS X." Thanks to meme culture and automated SEO on websites, crap like this is now becoming a phenomenon.
Not wishing to be pushed to the wayside, The Hydraulic Press channel uploaded their own video. If you added a bottle flip mannequin challenge to this it'd break the Internet!
I've seen it so much in gameplay, memes, and gifs...it's easy to forget that Oasis hasn't actually become available to all players of Overwatch yet! That is...read more on GameTyrant
One of the craziest things that came out of Rogue One: A Star Wars story was how Peter Cushing was brought back to life in CGI form as Grand Moff Tarkin. He played a much bigger part of the story than we expected him to, and I loved that.
Tonight on Nightline, visual the visual effects artists at Industrial Light and Magic will talk about creating the digital characters in the film, revealing the secrets and challenges of actually being able to properly pull it off.
As a way to promote that special, a video was posted on Twitter showing the transformation of actor Guy Henry into Peter Cushing. It's pretty cool to see, and you'll get even more details on how they pulled it off tonight during the ABC Nightline special.
Tonight on @Nightline: visual effects wizards at @ILMVFX reveal secrets & challenges behind the digital characters in @starwars #RogueOne. pic.twitter.com/0jhkcDhuND
— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) January 4, 2017
We've covered a ton of cosplay over the years, but this has to be the most ridiculous piece of Dragon Ball cosplay ever conceived. Even if you're not really familiar with the series, you've probably heard of a kamehameha, the energy blast attack delivered by Goku and some of the other characters. Someone — presumably at a convention somewhere — decided to dress up as the blast itself.
かめはめ波のコスプレは初めて見た。#C91コスプレ pic.twitter.com/C0rUydNGt2
— 翔水 (@A_Syosui) December 29, 2016
According to Google Translate, that tweet says: "I saw Kamehameha wave cosplay for the first time." Yeah, you and I both, buddy. Think about what that day must have been like for that person. Painting up, lugging the cardboard and the pads around, and then just lying down at random times to let people know what the heck you're supposed to be. That's dedication.
Via: Fashionably Geek
It's not too often you see incredible martial arts choreography in any commercial, let alone a tiny online piece for a tea restaurant that clearly doesn't have the massive budget of your typical nationwide TV commercial. But the team at Team Red Productions did a terrific job with this Kung Fu Tea ad, which is just one long fight scene of three guys caught in a hugely entertaining battle over who gets the restaurant's last taro tea. Great work, guys — maybe Hollywood will come calling.
Via: Pajiba
I think there are a good amount of Marvel fans out there that would like to see Black Widow and Hawkeye team up in a movie together. The two make a great team, and it's always fun watching them fight alongside each other. There are several stories they could tell involving these characters if Marvel Studios were to ever do it, but I doubt that it's in their plans. That doesn't mean that Jeremy Renner wouldn't want to see it happen!
During an interview with the British newspaper Metro (via Edmonton Sun), Renner says that it makes sense to see the two characters team up for a film.
"I always thought it would make sense early on to do a Hawkeye/Widow movie because they’re quite similar – they don’t have powers, have high skill sets, and have history together, but I don’t think there are any discussions about that happening. I’d love to do it though."
If this film were to happen it might be cool to see them explore the Budapest storyline that has been mentioned in the MCU. During the mission, they were involved in a situation that would later be remembered by Romanoff during the Battle of New York, as one of the fights she and Barton had against one of the Chitauri groups reminded her of Budapest. Alexander Pierce also mentioned that her time in Budapest would also be exposed if she leaked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s (Hydra's?) exploits.
Renner goes on to talk about the friendships he's made while making these films:
"We’ve become great friends. I see Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson quite a lot. Chris Hemsworth has been so busy I haven’t hung out with him for a while and Elizabeth Olsen is a neighbor, so I see her quite often."
This isn't the first time that Renner has talked about a Black Widow and Hawkeye team-up. He previously said it would make a great Netflix series. Would you rather have a Black Widow and Hawkeye movie or Netflix series?
Mass Effect: Andromeda will launch on American consoles March 21st, and March 23rd in Europe. In addition to locking down the release date, Bioware also dropped a new gameplay trailer for the game which looks pretty awesome...read more on GameTyrant
Here's a 2016 movie supercut that all you comic book and superhero fans can get behind! We Got This Covered released a video that highlights all of the best comic book movie moments from last year, and even the films that you might not have cared for still had some awesome moments that we all enjoyed. Check it out and let us know what your favorite comic book movie moments were.
Screen Gems' Slender Man horror film is moving forward with a director who was just hired to take on the challenge of bringing the modern-day urban legend to life. That director is Sylvain White, who previously directed the films Stomp the Yard and The Losers. Those films aren't really worth remembering, but White is taking on a whole new genre with Slender Man, and I hope he does something great with it and gives us something truly terrifying.
Slender Man is a scary dude, so if White can't give us a nightmarishly terrifying film then he's failed. The creature is a tall, thin frightening thing with unnaturally long arms and a featureless face. It's responsible for the haunting and disappearance of countless children and teens. This is a monster that Doug Jones should play!
While we wait for this movie to be released, HBO recently announced that their true crime documentarr Beware the Slenderman will premiere on Monday, January 23rd.
Source: Deadline
For those of you who have never taken the time to read the books about Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, there’s a lot of information that you’ve missed out on about many of the heroes that you love from The Lord of the Rings films. Thanks to Imgur user Sciencegeek100, you can now learn the fates of character such as Aragorn, Arwen, Samwise, Merry, Pippin, Gimli, and more without all the reading and research.
Aragorn II Elessar
When in the year 120 of the Fourth Age, King Elessar realised his days were at an end, he went to the House of the Kings in the Silent Street. He said farewell to his son Eldarion and his daughters and gave Eldarion his crown and sceptre. Arwen remained at Aragorn’s side until he died.
Arwen
Died of a broken heart at Cerin Amroth in Lórien, and was buried there one year after the death of Aragorn, to whom she had been wedded for 122 years. She was 2901 years old.
Samwise Gamgee
After his wife died in the year 61 of the Fourth Age (SR 1482), Sam entrusted the Red Book to his daughter, Elanor and left the Shire. Because he was also a Ring-bearer, he was allowed to pass over the Sea to be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.
Meriadoc Brandybuck
He married Estella Bolger some time after the end of the Third Age and later became the Master of Buckland. He wrote Old Words and Names in the Shire. At the age of 102, he returned to Rohan and Gondor with Pippin only to die there a few years later. He was laid to rest in Gondor, and when Elessar died, he and Pippin were entombed beside the great king.
Peregrin Took
He later became the 32nd Thain of the Shire, a position he held for 50 years before retiring, when he revisited Rohan and Gondor with Merry. Peregrin remained in Gondor for the rest of his life. Pippin died a few years later and was laid to rest with Merry in Gondor. After the great King Elessar (Aragorn) died, Merry and Pippin were entombed next to the great king.
Gimli
He led a large number of Durin’s Folk south to establish a new Dwarf kingdom in the Glittering Caves, which were located behind Helm’s Deep where Gimli was trapped during the battle, and he became the first Lord of the Glittering Caves. Later, he traveled with Legolas into the West and became the first dwarf to visit the Undying Lands.
Éowyn
After the War of the Ring had ended, she decided to give up dreams of glory in battle and devote her life to peace and a happy marriage. She married Faramir and settled in Ithilien for the rest of her life where they had at least one son.
Faramir
He was appointed by King Elessar as the Prince of Ithilien and Beregond to be the Captain of his guard, the White Company. Later on he settled in Emyn Arnen with his wife Éowyn, where they had at least one son (named Elboron), who succeeded him as Steward of Gondor, Prince of Ithilien, and Lord of Emyn Arnen, after Faramir’s death.
Éomer
He became known as Éomer Éadig, or “the Blessed”, because during his reign Rohan recovered from the hurts of the War and became a rich and fruitful land again. Éomer had met Lothíriel, daughter of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth during his stay in Gondor, and they were wed. She bore him a son Elfwine, who succeeded him after his death.
And if you’re wondering what happened to Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond, Celeborn, and Galadriel at the end of the movies/books, you see them leaving by ship for the Undying Lands.
From the LotR wiki:
In TA 3021 (Third Age), Círdan the Shipwright accompanied Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, the Keepers of the Rings, on a voyage to the Undying Lands, where they intended to remain. They were also joined by Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Hobbits who were among the very few mortal beings to be allowed passage to the Undying Lands. Eventually, Samwise Gamgee, another Hobbit of the Shire, and the Dwarf Gimli along with his good friend Legolas, are also said to have made the journey.
An awesome trailer has been released for a new film called The Girl With All The Gifts. This is a zombie thriller that looks unlike any other zombie movie that I've seen before. On top of it being a unique take on the zombie genre, it's also been getting positive reviews from people who got to see it at Fantastic Fest last year.
The Colm McCarthy-directed film is based on the novel of the same name written by M.R. Carey. The story is set in a zombie apocalypse in which society has collapsed, and the humans who survived are looking for a cure to the zombie plague. One of the main characters is a young girl who has the zombie virus, but has also managed to basically stay human, save for the craving of human flesh.
The movie has an impressive cast that includes Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Condidine, and Sennia Nanua as the zombie girl. Here's the full detailed synopsis:
The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries.” Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects.
At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children are being studied, subjected to cruel experiments by biologist Dr. Caldwell. Despite having been infected with the zombie pathogen that has decimated the world, these children retain normal thoughts and emotions. And while still being subject to the craving for human flesh that marks the disease these second- generation “hungries” are able to think and feel making them a vital resource in the search for a cure.
The children attend school lessons daily, guarded by the ever watchful Sergeant Parks. But one little girl, Melanie, stands out from the rest. Melanie is special. She excels in the classroom, is inquisitive, imaginative and loves her favorite teacher Miss Justineau.
When the base falls, Melanie escapes along with Miss Justineau, Sergeant Parks and Dr. Caldwell. Against the backdrop of a blighted Britain, Melanie must discover what she is and ultimately decide both her own future and that of the human race.
The Girl With the All the Gifts will be available to watch on DirecTV on January 26th. It will then be released in theaters and VOD platforms on February 24th.
There is still so much that we don’t know about Guillermo del Toro’s next film, The Shape of Water. What we do know is that it’s an “other-worldly love story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.” It’s also said to be a “mysterious and magical journey.”
It was later rumored that the story follows a “mute janitor named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who falls for an amphibious man who's being kept at the lab where she works. She tries to break him out with the help of her neighbor (probably played by Richard Jenkins), but ‘the world outside of the lab, however, may prove to be more dangerous for the amphibious man than Elisa could have anticipated.’”
We now have some additional information on the film thanks to Doug Jones, who will be playing the amphibious man in the story. While talking to Collider he thought it'd be cool to let some interesting new details slide out about the plot:
“It’s not a sci-fi [film], it’s not a genre film, but I am a creature in it. I’m a fish man that’s kind of a one-off. I’m an enigma, nobody knows where I came from; I’m the last of my species so I’m like a natural anomaly. And I’m being studied and tested in a U.S. government facility in 1963, so the Russian Cold War is on, the race for space is on, so there’s all that backdrop and that undercurrent. I’m being tested for how can they use me for advantages in military or space travel, or my technology—can we make this usable for humans? So they’re trying to keep me a secret from the Russians.”
This really sounds like an interesting love story between an amphibious creature and a cleaning lady, who will be played by Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine, Happy-Go-Lucky). The rest of the cast includes Michael Shannon (Midnight Special), Richard Jenkins (Bone Tomahawk), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Steve Jobs), and Octavia Spencer (The Help, Gifted).
I love it when Del Toro makes original film projects. The guy is a great storyteller, and I love when he just lets his imagination loose. I can’t wait to see how this film turns out.
It's gotta be aliens, right? The honest answer is, no one knows. Gizmodo reports that we finally do know the location of a galaxy that has been emitting repeated radio waves! While it's not uncommon for our satellites to pick up the occasional radio wave from space, this is the only instance of a rapid repeated signal coming from the same location. Astronomers have now dubbed this galaxy FRB 121102.
Don't worry about memorizing that name, because that galaxy is over 20 billion light years from Earth. Even if there is something there, we aren't reaching it any time in the next millennia. That might be for the best, as the thing that amazes astronomers the most is the strength of the radio signal despite its immense range from Earth. Is it possible we're receiving contact from a highly advanced race?
I really hope not. The last thing I want is for our first discovery of an alien species to be a species far more advanced than we are! Those scenarios don't often play out well. Let's hope it's just some weird stuff we don't understand yet.
Things aren't going well for Jimmy in the season three promo of Better Call Saul. It looks like Chuck did something with that tape recording at the end of season two! Isn't that guy just an asshole? If he were my brother, I would stay as far away from him as possible!
Check out the first promo for the series below, and get ready for more Better Call Saul in spring of 2017.
A "leaker" who has released information on Apple products in the past is now reporting that the company is looking to update its phones with a potentially controversial feature. Sony Dickson (via Collider) alleges that an update that will be available in iOS 10.3 will have a "theater mode."
While no concrete details on the rumor have been leaked, an Apple patent from 2012 had a very similar concept. Here's a description...
"This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter “sleep mode” when entering a sensitive area."
Provided this is the technology that's coming to the update, how do we feel about this? Personally, I don't think we need technology to further allow people to be disruptive during a movie. I also don't know how I feel about a mode for my phone that doesn't allow people to reach me for an event as trivial for a movie. What if there's an emergency I need to be contacted for?
I see good and bad in this product, but then, ultimately, can we really force anyone to use it? Do you think if a feature like this gets added people will adopt it and use it at a movie? I know we all have that one story of someone being a dick with their phone, but is it such a problem we need tech that allows us to use phones inside the theater? I'm really curious to hear your opinion.
You can see all your favorite Star Trek ships in one short but very cool VR video! If you don't have a VR headset, you can still navigate the video 360 degrees with your mouse. Check out the video (which is surprisingly an official CBS upload) below! It's not the best quality by any means, but it's at least worth a minute of your time.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was an incredible series that helped define a generation. I loved that show, there was a magic to it that could never be recaptured. During a recent interview with THR, series star Sarah Michelle Gellar reflected on the series, what it taught her, and where she thinks Buffy would be today.
"The most formidable years of my life — transition from teenager to adult — were spent filming Buffy. I learned every day from the experience and from her. She taught me it wasn't about being perfect; it was about trying the hardest to be the best you you can be. I also loved how hard Buffy worked, as she had no typical powers most superheroes have. She had to train and work hard at her craft. Buffy reminded us that being different was not only OK but really cool — and at a time when most kids are trying to desperately fit in."
With all of the series revivals we are seeing produced today, some fans are hoping to see one for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yeah, it would be really cool to see, but I think Buffy should just be left alone. The series had a great, satisfying ending. When asked about the possibility of a revival, Gellar said:
"I have always believed that what was so unique about the show was the use of horrors of those formative years. With high school and college as a backdrop, we were able to address racism, identity, bullying, guilt, death, first love and heartbreak using the demons as metaphors for the demons we all experience. I am not sure how that translates into adulthood, although I am sure it could. The burden of saving the world a lot always weighed heavily on her, so for her sake.”
She then said she hopes Buffy is today:
“I hope she is somewhere on a beautiful beach located far away from any Hellmouth."
That would certainly be an unexpected yet fitting place for Buffy. I hope that’s where she is, but I can’t help but think Buffy is still out there protecting the world from vampire and demon scum.
BABY GROOT FUNKO POPS ARE COMING IN FEBRUARY! The rest of the characters from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 are being released as well, but we all know who the star is going to be this time around! Funko Pop seems to be sure of that fact as well, as they've made four different mini Groots for you to collect ahead of the movie's release in the spring! Check out some pictures of the toys below and more of their gear here.
Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are set to reteam for a new action thriller called Black Water. The two action stars previously worked together on the Universal Soldier sci-fi action movies as well as The Expendables 2.
The two have fought against each other in both of those film franchises, but Black Water will show them team up as allies for the first time in a feature film, so that's kind of a big deal!
The film has an interesting story that centers on "a deep cover operative (Van Damme) who awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine." There's no information on the film other than that. We also don't know who Lundgren will play, but if they are teaming up, he could be another prisoner on the submarine.
It'll be awesome to see these two actors finally fighting alongside each other in a movie, and this actually is a great concept that could make a fun film. There's no director attached to it yet, but I can't wait to see it!
Source: THR
A trailer for an upcoming comedy called All Nighter just popped up online, and it looks like it could be a funny flick! The movie stars J.K. Simmons as a workaholic father who travels to Los Angeles to visit his daughter. When he gets there he discovers that she's disappeared. So what does he do? He is forced to awkwardly team up with her goofy banjo-playing ex-boyfriend to help him find her over the course of one transformative night. Her ex is played by Emile Hirsch.
Simmons and Hirsch are both talented actors, and it's fun to see them team up for a comedy like this. All Nighter was directed by Gavin Wiesen, and I hope that it actually turns out to be a decent comedy! The movie is set to be released in select theaters and on VOD on March 17th.
