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Michael J. Fox Reenacts BTtF Trailer
For Back to the Future’s 25th anniversary (anybody else feel old?), Spike TV had Michael J. Fox re-create the film’s original trailer. Here’s the original, for comparison. (via Blame It on the Voices)
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Creator-Blessed ElfQuest Fan Film Crowdsources Funds
LIZ SHANNON MILLER of GIGAOM The graphic novel series ElfQuest, created by Richard and Wendy Pini, has been a cult favorite among fantasy fans since its debut in 1978, and for years, Hollywood has been developing a feature film around the property. But new media actors/producers Stephanie Thorpe (After Judgement) and Paula Rhodes (A Good…
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Speculations (Stan Lee)
on twitter.com/theRealStanLee: (in sequence…) disclaimer: maybe i’m just easily amused. it did strike me as very funny when he first tweeted these — Hey , remember when I said I’d always warn you if I was gonna toss an ad at you? Okay, get ready for a real good one—about 2 hours ago via web…
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15-Year-Old Wil Wheaton Might be a Deadbeat…
…but grown-up Wil Wheaton is awesome. Teresa Jusino of Pink Raygun recently wrote a humorous complaint about having sent off a subscription card for the Wil Wheaton fan club 21 years ago and never receiving a response. Wheaton heard of her plight and responded, and wound up sending her an official fan club package and…
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Nighthawks at Mos Eisley
From Worth 1000 via Super Punch, found whilst I was trying to find the name of that one hooded alien in Mos Eisley. In related news, it makes me happy to live in a world where you can type “mos eisley alien hood” into a search engine and get an immediate answer. (It’s Garindan.)
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Hollywood is Dead
I’m tending toward ambivalence where posts about zombies are concerned. On the one necrotic, rotting hand, they were never really my favorite monsters even before their recent explosion in popular media left me with a severe case of burnout. On the other hand, their overexposure has resulted in some pretty clever riffs on the subject…
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“Found Hardware” Props
YouTube user Propguy1701 has a series of videos discussing the “true origins” of a lot of Star Trek props. Here’s Part 1 of the Hardware video; the others are linked below. They’re great inspiration for making props of one’s own. Found Hardware Part 2 Found Glassware Part 1 Found Glassware Part 2 (via Lost in…
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The Weirdest Headline You’ll See All Day
Micky Dolenz joins Debbie Gibson-Tiffany pic This was sent to me by the intrepid DaleB, and involves SyFy’s casting choices for their upcoming movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, and you could not make this stuff up. DaleB continued: We have come far from that first night the Sci Fi Channel broadcast War of the Worlds.…
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Adidas Does Star Wars
Adidas’ new “World Cup Party” ad splices an odd assortment of individuals into the Cantina scene. It’s on the “meh” side, but the ending is amusing.
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The Empire Strikes Back (1950)
YouTube user whoiseyevan specializes in “premakes:” Trailers for modern movies the way they might have been made 50 years ago. There are lots more on his YouTube Channel. I like that the comments for each trailer include the “recipe” of clips used in its production. (via Wil Wheaton)