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Time to major in Dragonology!

Who doesn’t like the Dragonology books? Fools, mostly, but also some idiots. The Dragonology books and similar styled sequels are visual treats, books styled like a journal of old with drawings and charts, set in a world where dragons are real and have their own ecologies. Though the books only had a loose narrative, it is enough that something cool could be done, and the universe has only grown in scope. The choice of Dragonology as a film sounds rad, even with the unfortunate fact it’s going through Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci’s production house via Universal. Hopefully they won’t do anything except put their name on it, because they’re going to be busy writing The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Web Harder. Dragonology has a lot of potential, but it is also loose enough that it could go in any direction. It will be easy to make a good film, a little work to make a great film, but it’s also easy to make an awful awful film. Will Dr. Ernest Drake kick some butt? Or be a rapping granny?

via THR

Dragonology

No one calls us "Puff"!

For real a Heaven is For Real flick is coming down the pipe!

If you’ve spent time in bookstores, you’ve probably seen the Heaven is For Real book on the shelves, a book that details the totally true story told by a four year old that details his trip to Heaven when he was under during emergency surgery, a trip that is oddly consistent with what he would have learned in the church of his pastor father. Not that’s I’m suspicious or anything that this is some sort of cash grab attention seeking stunt pulled by Pastor Todd Burpo to rake in the dough. I just like randomly screaming out “HUMBUG!” at obvious liars. Todd Burpo’s cowriter Lynn Vincent (the ghost writer on Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue!) comes from such honest stock there is no way this is some sort of scam. Not at all.

Well, now they’re going to be filthy rich(er), thanks to the movie rights of little Colton Burpo’s trip to For Real Heaven being snatched up and Randall Wallace is at the helm. Christopher Parker will write the script and Sony is who we can all thank for this wonderful film that Kirk Cameron will probably tell you about.

via Variety
Heaven

Pegasus vs Chimera and Aladdin and the Death Lamp – SyFy Creature Features!

Pegasus vs Chimera

When do I get to fight Sharktopus???


The Earth is still spinning on its axis, so SyFy is producing more monster flicks! And we got a double-feature on our hands for September 15th. The movie formerly known as The Blood of Pegasus has been renamed Pegasus vs Chimera in proper SyFy fashion, and will be starting off our monster event. John Bradshaw takes a break from directing endless Christmas movies, while Nazneen Contractor, Rae Dawn Chong, and Sebastian Roché star. The only plot synopsis I’ve found is

The magical steed Pegasus goes head to head with the hellish Chimera

So, yeah, CGI bloodbath!!!!! Pegasus vs Chimera starts at 7 (6 central), and is followed by…

Aladdin and the Death Lamp! A film I could find even less information about. Kandyse McClure and Noam Jenkins are listed as starring in it, but I don’t know if they are aware as it isn’t on their IMDB lists yet. What we do know is just:

To save the world, Aladdin must wager everything to get an evil Jinn back into his lamp.

That’s right, the genie in the lamp is a jerk! Can we get Genie vs Ifrit? Maybe someday… Aladdin and the Death Lamp slays its way to your small screen at 9 (8 central)

Be there. Because where else are you going to find killer genie flicks? Kazaam 2?

Aladdin and the Death Lamp

Mister Aladdin, sir, have a wish or two or three! I'm on the job, you big nabob, you ain't never had a friend...

From yearbook ban to SyFy to the slammer

It’s just one of those years for Sydney Spies. First she explodes across the internet when her racy yearbook photo is banned from her high school yearbook, a shot that featured her not wearing much clothing. This lead to lots of media attention. And as she’s an aspiring actress/model, it also lead to a role in the upcoming SyFy channel original feature American Horror House, airing on Halloween! It’s sure to be a smash hit with a title that doesn’t even have a monster name.

But don’t think this story is all happiness and roses and unicorn poo, because Sydney Spies and her mom Denise “Miki” Spies were arrested! There was a party at the Spies place filled with alleged underage drinkers, and when the cops came to break it up, Miki Spies tried to herd some of the underage kids inside the house (other kids ran and jumped over fences!) Then Miki Spies refused to give identification and tried to run from the cops. As providing a place for underage kids to drink is a crime, she got arrested after a brief scuffle. Sydney Spies allegedly tried to block the police from entering the home, and then resisted arrest when they handcuffed her! And she tried to escape from a police car! So she gets thrown in the slammer as well.

Now, we all do dumb things as a kid, but this is an increasingly media-centric world, hiding from dumb things you did as a kid is going to get harder. And the reality tv lifestyle also doesn’t encourage good behavior, because that doesn’t make headlines. Whether Sydney Spies succeeds or fails in her attempt to become a legitimate actress will probably not be affected by her having drinks at 18, but fighting with cops is the sort of thing that might hint you aren’t easy to work with. I hope Sydney Spies does do better, and this is just the last bump on the road of her life’s adventures. But she’ll probably just be on some terrible reality show next year.

Sooo…. be sure to watch American Horror House on SyFy! Where the horror is underage drinking.

via The Durango Herald
Facebook gallery of Sydney Spies photoshoot heresci

Sydney Spies
Sydney Spies Arrested

American Horror House plot:

Sigma Delta Phi is one of the most prestigious sororities located on the East Coast. Home to an international collective of artistic students from the Stendhal University of the Creative and Performing Arts, it’s a sorority steeped in a rich, untainted history. Nonetheless, dark secrets dwell beneath the cracks of Sigma Delta Phi. Some are spoken – rumors of ghosts and other supernatural occurrences. Others are ignored (the mysterious cries residents hear every third Sunday, the odd spectral indentations at the end of the bed and the seemingly ageless sorority house mother). When Joanna, a new student dies under mysterious circumstances, the police rule it as an accident (others blame the ghost). One year later though, the sorority is still reeling from this ghastly blemish on their impeccable record. When freshman Daria arrives at the school and joins the sorority, she’s heard all the rumors of ghosts and wants to prove that it’s all a hoax. What she discovers is that Joanna’s death was actually the result of a Hazing gone wrong (not ghosts – it was a cover-up). The problem is, Joanna is now haunting the sorority and she’s out for revenge on the sorority on the eve of her death on Halloween night one year ago. With the sorority’s annual Halloween bash in full swing, the sister begin to die horrible deaths one after another – it’s up to Daria and her fellow “sister” Sarah to figure out how to put Joanna’s spirit at rest before they end up her final victims. That is, if the grueling hazing ritual they’ve been sucked into doesn’t kill them first.

Darin Scott directs, and Morgan Fairchild also stars!

Edo period Unforgiven remake is coming!

Tired of all those US remakes of Asian film? Well, let’s flip the script and report on Asian films remaking US films! And this one might be good, as it’s a remake of Unforgiven set in Edo period samurai Japan (actually, it’s set slightly after the 1868 end of the Edo period, in the 1880s.) Westerns and Samurai flicks have a lot of similar story elements that make the transitioning of the story between the two settings far easier to pull off than a lot of other random new locations, and has a well-established history of successfully doing just that. Unforgiven (real title: Yurusarezaru Mono – 許されざる者) will be written and directed by Lee Sang-il, the writer/director of Hula Girls. It will star Ken Watanabe as the main character Jubei Kamata, a famous samurai killer who has hung up his sword and retired, but is forced back into work as a bounty hunter due to poverty. Akira Emoto and Koichi Sato also star.

via AsianWiki

Ken Watanabe

I was the Last Samurai, now I am the Samurai After Last!

Toys in the Attic

Toys in the Attic is a Czech stop-motion animated feature that looks freaking awesome and I want to see it sooooooo badly. I need to see it. I will kill every single one of you to see it! Okay, I’ll only kill most of you… The Czech-language version has won a whole bunch of awards, and now it’s getting an English dub and release in America. Jiri Barta is the director, and he made a lot of animated films a long time ago but seemed to take a long time off. Toys in the Attic originally premiered in 2010, and I’m surprised I didn’t hear much about it.

The plot:
In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out on a wondrous and daring adventure to rescue her from the all-powerful Head of State.

The English version will feature the voices of Forest Whitaker, Cary Elwes, Joan Cusack, Vivian Schilling, and Marcelo Tubert.

Toys in the Attic