It's been more than twenty years since Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park hit theaters, but its impact is still being felt across Hollywood in a huge way. Putting aside the influence the original film had on today's up-and-coming filmmakers, Jurassic World was a dino-sized hit a couple of years ago and a sequel is headed to the big screen next year. Now Mondo is paying homage to the franchise with two brand new posters and a set of enamel pins that fans should get a kick out of.

Jurassic Park by Kako. 24"x36" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 275. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $45

Jurassic Park (In-Gen Nightvision Variant) by Kako. Features Glow-in-the-Dark inks. 24"x36" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 150. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $65

First up: "Jurassic Park" from artist Kako.

We have a T-Rex! Kako's take on the iconic T-Rex breakout scene puts us in the perspective of Tim and Lex as the queen of the park stare down on them. With a "nightvision" glow-in-the-dark variant it's important to remember, if you don't move she can't see you.

Jurassic World by Dan McCarthy. 36"x24" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 275. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $45

Jurassic World (Variant) by Dan McCarthy. 36"x24" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 125. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $65

Then there's "Jurassic World" from artist Dan McCarthy:

Dan McCarthy's poster tackles the latest addition to Jurassic World, the Indominus Rex. Dan's poster breaks down the genome of the hybrid that was engineered for mass entertainment and later mass destruction.

Jurassic Park Paddock Sign Pin Series. Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dilophosaurus & Triceratops. 1.4" in height. Packaging design by Alan Hynes. $10 each / $40 set

And finally, you can check out the pins featuring paddock signs for dinosaurs like the Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Dilophosaurus, and Triceratops.

These went on sale earlier today (find more info on Mondo's Twitter), so there's a slim chance any will still be available, but good luck if you're trying to snag one!

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I was really hoping they'd remake this film with the American versions, but I'll settle for a U.S. release of the Japanese film! Surely you've seen our coverage of the weird Japanese film which pits the evil girl from The Ring against the evil family from The Grudge? If you haven't, prepare for the treat that is Sadako vs. Kayako!

The film is essentially the Freddy vs. Jason of Japanese horror! So it turns out there is a way to counter that evil videotape from The Ring, and all you have to do is watch it in the same house that The Grudge takes place in! That way both monsters meet and want to kill each other!

It seems like a pretty large logic stretch, and part of me wonders if it'll backfire and end in both monsters attacking the innocent bystanders. Get your first chance to see it via Shudder which is currently offering free trials! If you've never seen the site before, check it out. 

Stranger Things season two is currently in production, and fans are eagerly anticipating the return of their favorite characters. There's been a good amount of talk about the series and what we can expect, but nothing that really offers any details on the plot. 

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, actor Noah Schnapp, who played Will Byers, Winona Ryder’s missing son, continued to tease what we can expect from season two. Will will play a much bigger role in season two, and he confirms that it will start off right where season one ended... with Will vomiting out a slug. 

“You’ll be seeing more of me. I’ll be there. In the last episode, I threw up a slug, so season 2 begins with what happens from there. There may have been some effect on him. I may or may not have turned into a monster. You’ll have to watch to find out.”

Director and producer Shawn Levy went on to add that it will have bigger and darker stakes:

“Season 2 is bigger and potentially darker in its stakes. The threat, which in Season 1 was to Will Byers, has grown. That’s all I’m going to say! But, I will say Season 2 has a bigger cast and is definitely loyal to the kind of magical storytelling that we established in the first season. It’s character-based and still about our core group of characters.”

Finn Wolfhard, who plays Will’s friend Mike Wheeler, chimed in with his thoughts saying that the new season will show more personal growth within their group of friends:

“Now that we’ve done a season, we know exactly about our characters. We are very conscious of them and can take them to the next level. I think we’ve grown up a little bit, and our characters have too. They have been through a lot and have used those experiences to help them grow and to be stronger in Season 2.”

I have so many questions that I want answers to, but I'll wait until season two premieres to find out what those answers are. The whole cast that survived the first season is set to return including Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven. They will be joined by Goonies star Sean Astin and Aliens' Paul Reiser.

Stranger Things season two is set to be released in July 2017.

Earlier today we got our first look at Marvel's The Defenders as a team on the cover of EW. The magazine has since released a bunch of new photos showing off the characters that you've got to check out! One of those photos gives us our first look at Sigourney Weaver’s mysterious villain. There's not much known about her character, but EW reports that her first name is Alexandra.

The Defenders stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage and Finn Jones as Danny Rand/Iron Fist. The series also includes Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Eka Darville as Malcolm, Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth, Scott Glenn as Stick, Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Elodie Yung as Elektra, Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker, Simone Missick as Misty Knight, and Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple. I'm also sure that Jon Bernthal’s The Punisher will show up as well.

With all these images being released, I imagine we'll be treated with some new information on the series soon, maybe even a trailer! 

The Defenders is set to premiere on Netflix in July 2017.

A live-action film adaptation of the classic '80s animated series Thundercats has been in and out of development for years. I'm sure one day the film will happen, but it doesn't look like it will be made anytime soon. 

If it does happen sometime in the near future, though, they have an actress who would perfectly fit as Cheetara: Milla Jovovich. It's not hard to imagine her in the role at all, and she would kick ass as the character. 

During an interview with We Got This Covered, Jovovich expressed interest in taking on the role saying:

“I’ve always loved Thundercats. I heard they were making a movie, and then they weren’t making a movie. And I’m probably getting way to old to play Katra… no, Cheetara, that’s the one!”

Too old? I don't think so, but of course, Hollywood might think she is. They'd probably want to cast some young teen girl from one of those Disney channel series to play the character. When Hollywood does get around to making the film. I hope they make the right casting decisions.

What do you all think of Jovovich in the role of Cheetara?

In honor of the return of the BBC series Sherlock (which aired the second episode of its fourth season last night), YouTuber Anastasia Soina has put together a nice violin cover of the show's catchy theme song. I see a lot of these kinds of videos, but not too many involve violins; it's nice to mix it up once in a while.

Sherlock wraps up its fourth season (and maybe the entire series?) with one more episode, "The Final Problem," which airs this coming Sunday night on PBS.

A funny red-band trailer has been released for Baywatch, and it got the red-band because it dropped a few F-bombs. The trailer offers us more insight into the story and lets us know that the movie is completely aware of what it is because everything "sounds like a really entertaining, but far-fetched TV show." 

The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron, and the story centers around "devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Johnson) as he butts heads with a brash new recruit (Efron). Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay."

The movie was directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses), and it also stars Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Jon Bass, and Ilfenesh Hadera. Baywatch hits theaters on May 19th, 2017. It looks like it will be a fun flick!

The Walking Dead

DirectDeals has created a fun series of comics that imagine what hit TV shows would look like if they were transported into the world of classic comic strips like the ones we used to read in the Sunday paper (aka the "funny papers"). They've taken shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Silicon Valley and turned them into Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, and Dilbert (respectively). But that's not all — see all of the amusing parodies below:

Game of Thrones

Mr. Robot

Empire

Silicon Valley

Veep

In Kashiwa, Japan, just outside of Tokyo, there's a ramen restaurant called Chinrai. If GeekTyrant had a restaurant, I'm pretty sure we'd make access to its bathrooms work exactly the same way as this Chinrai location does.

トイレないと思って、店員に聞いたら、目の前ありますよて言われて、は？てなったけど、よく見たらやばかった pic.twitter.com/Ozw1IiSc7n

— たーむら (@jsbskydream) January 3, 2017

I'm a sucker for hidden passageways. Have you ever seen a hidden passageway and reacted with "meh?" If so, you probably don't have any joy left inside of you.

Quick side note: I ran the text of that tweet through Google Translate, and this is what came out:

When I thought that there was no toilet, when asked to the clerk, is it said that there is a presence in front of you, what is it? Although it became it, it was awful when I looked closely

Pretty sure that's not actually what it says, but you get the point. The point is, Batman-themed hidden passageway FTW.

Via: That's Nerdalicious

Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson recently talked with USA Today about his highly anticipated upcoming film. In the process, he confirmed that the film will pick up immediately after where The Force Awakens left off and revealed that the film will mostly focus on Luke Skywalker, which is what fans are really excited about seeing!  

Johnson explained, “I don’t want to skip ahead two years, I want to see the very next moment of what happens.” He then goes on to say that Luke Skywalker will play “a large part of the movie.” It will be spent addressing "why Luke’s there and what he’ll do next."

Rey's journey in the story will be spent dealing with "the realization that she has this power and this gift” of The Force. He continued, “She’s taking her first step to coming to terms with this thing inside her that she never knew was there and is just starting to reveal its potential.”

We've been hearing a lot of rumors regarding the film that you can catch up on here, but a lot of that still has not been confirmed. I'm just excited that we'll finally learn Luke Skywalker's story and what he's been up to the past 30 years. 

I'm so excited about Legion, but I really have a love-hate relationship with these promos! On one hand, they've done a phenomenal job in keeping the show in mystery. On the flip side, I know NOTHING about the show, and I want to so desperately! Of course, I could jump into the history of Legion, but where's the fun in that? Maybe I've been too spoiled by the current state of Hollywood needing to fill you in on any and all details of films.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is all these promos are exciting, but you aren't going to learn shit about the show from watching them. Legion premieres February 8th. 

Gorilla Grodd will be returning to the world of The Flash, but this time Barry will have an additional ally! Deadline says actor Keith David (Platoon, Crash, The Thing) will be voicing Flash ally Solovar in an upcoming two episode arc of the CW series. 

Showrunner Andrew Kreisberg says to watch out for the appearance around episodes 13 and 14 of the series. That's about four episodes away from the return of the series, so I'm wondering what is going to happen in that short time that's going to flip the Flash universe (once again) on its head! 

It'll be cool to see Grodd return, although I hope they do a better job masking the CG effects this time around. I know there were people on the site who disagreed with me calling them cheap back then, but your comments didn't sway me! Feel free to share your thoughts below in the comments. 

Two men that you would expect to see in a film centered around Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have been cast in a film that has already cast two odd actors for the lead roles. Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie will appear alongside Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in Holmes And Watson (via THR).

Considering its two lead actors, I highly doubt this film will be steeped in the drama that the detective novels and series have typically been associated with. That said, adding two U.K. names like Laurie and Fiennes has to strike a nerve for fans who have always wanted to see the noted actors in the famous roles. Considering we know very little about the project, including the roles of the two recently cast actors, I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions. 

Weird casting aside the film does have me interested in a character that has been done to death, particularly in the last decade, so I gotta give them that. I can't wait to see a trailer! 

It always amazes me what is and isn't faked in movies. This would be a great example of "why didn't you fake this"?! For those that haven't seen the movie Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Michael Cera's character receives a package and instantly throws it over his back and into the trash. What I'm just now learning watching this video is that he actually had to do that! It can't be that hard to make a CGI box right? 

I think the most surprising part of this video is that it only takes a little over 30 tries, and he gets really close each time! Check out all the attempts below. 

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Today marks 10 years since the announcement of the first iPhone. We take it for granted now, but it's astonishing how far mobile devices have come in just 10 years. If I think back to my cellphone situation in 2007, I was using a Virgin Mobile phone to send texts for 10 cents a page to my girlfriend who went to another school. Fast forward to now where I can facetime my wife for free over wifi from Atlanta and not miss a beat?! That's pretty damn astounding. 

I posted the original keynote because it reminded me of a time before the iPhone and really brought to light just how much this technology has impacted our lives. It's also hilarious to hear something like touchscreen phones to be referred to as "magic." Check it out below. 

Do you remember your life before smartphones?

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Showtime has announced that David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival will premiere with a two-hour event on Sunday, May 21st at 9pm ET/PT. It was also announced that immediately following the Twin Peaks premiere, Showtime subscribers will have access to the third and fourth episodes exclusively on Showtime's streaming services, Showtime Anytime and Showtime On Demand.

The following week, Showtime will also air the third and fourth episodes of Twin Peaks back-to-back. That will be followed by one-hour episodes every week after until the series concludes after a total of 18 episodes. 

I'm extremely excited about this! Twin Peaks was such a crazy-ass show, and I never thought I'd see it return. I can't help but think that Lynch is going to give fans something even wackier and more insane.

The series takes place 25 years after the strange events in the original series when the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned when their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. Many of the original cast members have returned to reprise their roles. 

The cast of the series includes Mädchen Amick  Ray Wise, Alicia Witt, Warren Frost, Dana Ashbrook, Sherilyn Fenn, David Duchovny, James Belushi, Chrysta Bell, Robert Knepper, Michael Cera, Eddie Vedder, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Sizemore, Balthazar Getty, Naomi Watts, and Laura Dern, among others.

Here’s the official synopsis for the Twin Peaks revival:

Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed. The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues…
 

It looks like a few actors from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim will be returning for the sequel. Thanks to a recent photo posted by cinematographer Dan Mindel via Instagram, we learn that Rinko Kikuchi will reprise her role as Mako Mori, and it confirms that Charlie Day and Burn Gorman will be back as well. The big piece of news it reveals is that Karl Urban seems to have joined the cast as well, which is freakin' awesome! All that information is on a little sticker placed on the side of the camera.

The all join the previously cast John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), who was cast as the son of Idris Elba's Stacker Pentecost, as well as Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny. I just love that Urban will most likely be in the film. This is the kind of film franchise that he's perfect for. It'll be interesting to see what role he plays in the film.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is being produced by Del Toro, and it's being directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Marvel’s Daredevil). It will be released on February 23, 2018.

A photo posted by Dan Mindel ASC, BSC,SASC (@dan_mindel) on Jan 8, 2017 at 3:29am PST