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Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups is the gift that keeps on giving…

July 17, 2012By

If there is one film franchise that deserves to continue forever, it’s definitely not the Air Buddies. But that’s what we’re working with here, so once again let’s jump into the fire of the Air Buddies, for we’re getting a sequel to their prequel spinoff that features a whole new crew of puppies! Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups features a foursome of puppies, and three of them are girls in a good counter to the male-centric Air Buddies (sort of, the boy puppy is still the leader for some reason.) Let’s take a look at the PR buzz:

In the film, the North Pole has a new litter of playful pups! However, when the frisky foursome — Hope, Jingle, Charity and Noble — practically destroy Santa’s Workshop with their mischievous gamboling, they realize the best way to prove that they’re responsible enough to become Santa’s Helpers is to show how well they can spread the Christmas spirit all by themselves. With help from a magic crystal, they start granting everyone’s wishes. But their good intentions backfire when one unhappy boy asks that Christmas go away forever! With his wish impetuously fulfilled, and the joyous spirit quickly disappearing from the planet, Mrs. Claus and the pups have to find a way to reverse the spell — or risk losing Christmas forever!

This cute litter consists of three female pups and one male pup: Hope is the daring tomboy who wears a backwards red cap and rarely looks before she leaps; Jingle is the diva with a bell on her collar who loves to sing, but can’t carry a tune; Charity is the girliest and most self-centered of the pups, with a mistletoe barrette, who has yet to learn the meaning of her name; and Noble is the mischievous only brother and self-appointed leader who is distinguished by a cheeky black spot around his eye.

Will these pups save Christmas and make everyone jingle their bells and shoot their eyes out? Of course! Uh..spoilers.

Starring Cheryl Ladd, Danny Woodburn, Pat Finn, Kaitlyn Maher, Josh Feldman, George Newbern, and Obba Babatunde, with voices by Marlowe Peyton as Jingle, Tatiana Gudegast as Hope, Aidan Gemme as Noble, and G. Hannelius as Charity. Directed by Robert Vince and written by Robert Vince and Anna McRoberts.

This is the 13th film in the Air Bud franchise, the prior films are: Air Bud (1997), Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998), Air Bud: World Pup (2000), Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002), Air Bud: Spikes Back (2003), Air Buddies (2006), Snow Buddies (2008), Space Buddies (2009), Santa Buddies (2009), The Search for Santa Paws (2010), Spooky Buddies (2011), and Treasure Buddies (2012)

Just wait until we get Marvel Buddies, where all the puppies team up in super hero costumes to fight alien puppies with the power of love. You know it will happen. You know it.

Santa Paws 2 Santa Pups

Next year will be The Krampus Pups!

Source – StitchKingdom via @rwmead

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Legendary General Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith)…

July 16, 2012By

Yes, it’s an After Earth post! M. Night Shyamalan is directing this post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. Earth is in trouble, because global warming altered the core of the Earth, which altered Earth’s magnetic fields and now Earth has no protection from solar radiation. 1000 years in the future, Earth is abandoned and mankind lives on Nova Prime, because people in the future love dumb names. Speaking of dumb names, Will Smith is legendary General Cypher Raige, who is finally returning home to his family that he was too busy being a famous general to pay attention to. Jaden Smith is Kitai Raige, his 13-year-old estranged son. But an asteroid causes their ship to crash on the now abandoned Earth, Cypher is injured and Kitai must get their rescue beacon, proving he is part of the heroic family legacy.

I don’t know what he’ll find on the abandoned Earth, probably some mutant dudes and then a bunch of animal life monsters that will be impossible and just make me angry. Judging from the reasoning behind why Earth was abandoned, I’m not holding out hope for things to make a lot of sense. But I hope you like the AfterEarthSmithverse, because the studio is banking on you wanting to buy comic books, video games, and all sorts of other random crap!

A comic series called After Earth: Innocence will have some of the back story starting when Nova Prime was colonized, but even then there is backstory history all the way to 1908 and the Tunguska event. Later, the Raige family invents some stuff and becomes prominent, and then because someone writing this has a divine rights of kings fetish, thus the modern day (future) Raiges who are super generals.

Better After Earth than After Birth, I guess…

Post After Earth (after After Earth?), Will Smith is rumored to be developing a film around Cain and Abel, the biblical bros that ends in murder. Maybe this’ll answer the long-asked question as to where their wives came from! This will be Smith’s directorial debut if it goes forward.

After Earth news via Deadline and io9

After Earth jaden Smith

Sure are a lot of trees for a lifeless irradiated planet...

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Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse get filmified!

July 13, 2012By

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was a cartoon series in 1960 created by Bob Kane as a parody of his earlier work on Batman and Robin. It’s often brought up because is predicts the campy aspects of the Batman franchise. And now it will be a hybrid CGI/live-action film from Evergreen Media Group! The only thing that makes me nervous is the news that there will be a “new mythology”, and that’s only because I worry they’ll try to make this all dark and gritty like it’s a cartoon Dark Knight. Which would just be freaking stupid. But hopefully it will still be wacky with evil frogs with giant cigars and other fun things. There is a DVD release of the Courageous Cat cartoons if you want to check them out.

Courageous Cat

What other great super hero animal need their franchises restarted?

Super Mouse?
Super Mouse
Super Mouse

Cosmo Cat?
Cosmo Cat

Atomic Mouse?
Atomic Mouse

Restart all these franchises now, Hollywood!!!!

Via Deadline
Cartoons via BigBlogComics

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Robocop remake visuals

July 12, 2012By

Robocop is awesome, so it is with great wariness that we approach the remake. Though we’ve already had a fair share of awful Robocop sequels and tie-ins, so something awful with Robocop in it isn’t that much of a shock any more. But regardless, the eye is still wary. The studio has responded with viral marketing to ease the pain away and to reassure the wary public that there will be familiar elements. Thus, the OmniCorp Website is up with a slick new video featuring an all new ED-209 blowing up a tank. OmniCorp being the new version of Omni Consumer Products from the original film. ED-209 is slicker and more modern, but still features the same basic design. The faux commercial on the site touts urban pacification tools such as the police drone that looks like a stealth flyer, hinting there may be larger issues broached with the new Robocop. Hopefully so, as the classic Robocop has a lot going on under the hood.

The cast is already geeked out, with Samuel L. Jackson playing a media mogul, Gary Oldman as one of the techs behind Robocop, and Hugh Laurie as the head of OmniCorp. Alex Murphy actor Joel Kinnaman is a practical unknown compared to them. José Padilha is directing, and we will be watching. Carefully.

The site also hints to the Robocop design under the TC-2000 heading. But no big reveal…yet! It does fit in with the rumor that the suit will be more CGI than a giant metal suit, so Robocop can be more mobile.
TC-2000

The new ED-209:
New ED-209

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Awesome restoration of Robot Jox Achilles model

July 11, 2012By

Rocketbobs on the Replica Props Forum has put up one of the most awesome projects in the history of awesome projects showing up on message boards on the internet. Restored one of the robots from the film Robot Jox, Achilles. He reassembled from two of the models used on screen, the Tank Tred Bot and the Flying Stunt Bot. Both of the models were missing parts or damaged, but when combined they make a fully restored Achilles! Besides the great photos of the restored model, there are plenty of pictures of the restoration in progress. It took four years(!) of loving care to bring the world something so cool. One thing I did learn was that the Robot Jox models were five feet tall, that’s pretty crazy!

Rocketbobs explains how the prop worked:

For the big bots the went old school Thunderbirds style. Picture frame cable was screwed directly to the internal 2×4 wood internal structure. The pivot points are all cast iron plumbing fittings, on the inside. The knees and elbows are simple slip joints…loosen the screw if ya want it to move:) a long steel pole stuck out his back that was puppeteered for gross body movements. Above the whole thing was scaffolding with cables to hold him up. He was also pushed and pulled off screen to make him move. There are very few shots of the full five footer in the film. Mostly close-ups…I’m sure six guys are holding him up right off camera.
If mine didn’t have the back pole and base pole, he would sit down by him self…just like a marionette.

Rocketbobs might put up archival prints of the original art by Steve Burg, based on Ron Cobb initial drawings. If so, I’ll link it here.
Robot Jox Achilles
Robot Jox Achilles
Robot Jox Achilles plans
Many more pictures on the Replica Props Forum

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