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TarsTarkas.NET is Hiring Writers

TarsTarkas.NET is currently seeking additional writers to help keep this place active and diverse in film coverage. Articles can be film reviews and/or articles about cinema/cinematic concepts. There is no real set style/requirement, at this point I’m just looking for interesting things to post.

TarsTarkas.NET is an income-generating blog, meaning the blog earns a profit, even if it is not much. As such, I do not believe in having additional authors work for free while I reap the benefits. Let’s leave that crap to the HuffingtonPost.
So this is a paid position:
If you fulfill a minimum of three (3) articles of 750+ words in the three month period, your compensation is $8
If you fulfill a minimum of six (6) articles of 750+ words in the three month period, your compensation is $20

We currently do no generate enough income to justify higher payouts at this time. The minimum length rule is to prevent someone from slapping together a 20 word long post and calling it a day, and like all rules it can be bent. Fulfillment requirements are met when the articles are approved for publication, not when they’re published. I have final say as to what is acceptable and what is not. Payment will be made via PayPal. You are responsible for reporting on your taxes if so required.

Your writing should be done in your style, but should also be done as professional as possible (after all, you will be getting paid!) This means trying to follow basic grammar, keep typos to a minimum, and don’t just copy directly from Wikipedia/other sources. Articles that are more personal and rich with details generally more interesting, IMHO. Subjects can be about anything you want. A brief perusal of our recent reviews and articles will show TarsTarkas.NET has a broad movie subject matter but leans towards cult cinema. We may expand more into tv/comics/games/all that stuff at a later date.

Terms:
We only accept original work at TarsTarkas.NET. The articles must not have been published before in any format, nor be plagiarized from another source (if you plagiarize you will be immediately terminated!) TarsTarkas.NET retains unlimited rights publish the articles, and you may republish them wherever you like after 6 months from the original publishing date here.

Screenshots:
TarsTarkas.NET reviews generally contain a large amount of screen shots. You are not required to produce a large amount of pictures, but it is encouraged to have images of some sort. If you pull images from other sites, please source them. Please keep all images safe for work. I may be able to assist on getting images in certain cases.

If you are interested, please email some examples of your work to tarstarkas [at] tarstarkas.net preferably as word documents. If I’m interested, I will contact you with further details. If there are any further questions, feel free to ask me. I look forward to reading your applications.

Now here are unrelated Kaiju Sesame Street toys for no reason!:
Kaiju Sesame Street

Lady Gaga?? – I am shocked to find stunt casting happening in Machete Kills!

What in the name of Lindsay Lohan is going on? Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills is racking up a large number of stunt cast members! The latest announcement is Lady Gaga as La Chameleon, which is Spanish for The Chameleon. Yep, 6 years of Spanish totally paid off! Maybe she works for President Charlie Sheen, or Amber Heard, or Sofía Vergara, or Mel Gibson, or Vanessa Hudgens? All legitimately cast in a non-stunt manner!

Lady Gaga Machete Kills

Life of Pi trailer


The trailer for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi has hit the web. And it looks cool. I read this book years ago, and enjoyed it mostly (though I hated the ending)

Yann Martel’s book is about Pi Patel, the son of a zookeeper whose family is moving to Canada from India. The ship they’re on goes down, and Pi is soon adrift on a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, and orangutan, and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Then things get weird…

It looks like they’re keeping a lot of the fantastical elements, which is good, because otherwise the film would get really boring. Life of Pi features Suraj Sharma as Pi, Irrfan Khan as older Pi, and Tobey Maguire as Yann Martel. If this does well, there will be 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 sequels.

Image by Tomer Hanuka.

Life of Pi

8 Years of TarsTarkas.NET

Break out the cake, because TarsTarkas.NET is 8 years old! And we actually got a cake this year:

cake

8 Oreos for 8 years!


Yes, that’s right, we know how to party on TarsTarkas.NET! This cake tasted exceptionally awesome because I’m getting over a cold and my taste buds were returning. Nature may try to stop TarsTarkas.NET, but it cannot be stopped. Nature will just have to get out of the way!

Mr. Bean hits Indonesia for Mr. Bean Kesurupan Depe!

Shockingly enough, this looks like it is either true, or producer KK Dheeraj has been pulling off one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever since March. I first saw the poster pop up on Twitch with their obvious confusion as to what is going on. But Mr Bean Kesurupan Depe (Mr Bean Possessed by Depe) appears to be real. Rowan Atkinson plays a pocong (those ghosts that wear sheets), while Depe (the nickname for actress Dewi Perssik) will be a catwoman-type character. Though Mr. Bean is in the title and the poster shows the Mr. Bean teddy bear, there is no way of knowing if this is an official Mr. Bean film (though I doubt it) or if Atkinson is just playing a Mr. Bean type character who also happens to be a ghost.

Beritasatu.com has been reporting on this since at least March, and has a very tiny photo of the two in costume (both dressed as pocongs) Depe also took tot he streets dressed as Catwoman on a motorcycle with a fake Mr. Bean pocong being dragged behind her. Yes, this actually happened somewhere.

Very little else about this film is available at this time. But we’ll keep you posted, because this is awesome.
Mr Bean Kesurupan Depe
Mr Bean Kesurupan Depe
Depe Catwoman
Mr Bean Kesurupan Depe
Sources:
Beritasatu.com
TopNewsPost
JakartaPost
Twitch
K2KProduction
OkeZone

UPDATE: This turns out might not be Rowan Atkinson after all! Twitch user soimah has linked to posts on this Indonesian forum showing a picture of a guy dressed up as Mr. Bean that is decidedly NOT Rowan Atkinson. The posts on the forum have a weak argument back and forth as to if it is a hoax, though the general consensus seems to think it is. This means that KK Dheeraj managed to get actual hoax press articles published over months to build up interest in this film. It’s also bad for me, because I now have to apologize. I’m sorry I got anyone’s hopes up that this was real. Maybe there is a miracle and it is, but it’s probably not. It will still be crazy insane, though!

Fake Rowan Atkinson Indonesia

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

John Carter of $200 Million Lost

Whoops! Guess you should have advertised the film, Disney! Or at least kept it as John Carter OF MARS, dammit! Now we have a shameful $200 million lost and a big probability that there will be no sequel. Which is a shame, because John Carter (of Mars, dammit!) didn’t suck. It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t trainwreck bad. Don’t take my word for it, take my word for it!

Disney said “John Carter” has brought in about $184 million in ticket sales worldwide so far. But ticket sales are split roughly in half with theater owners. The movie’s production budget is estimated to be about $250 million with about $100 million more spent on marketing.

The only way to make the money back is to make a sequel and spend $400 million to make it! It’s just crazy enough to work…

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John Carter of Mars

We lost $200 million, but Transformers 3 made over a $ Billion??? That's it, we're invading Earth!