Pride and Predator

This looks freaking fan-tabulously ridiculous! Elton John is co-producing a film called Pride and Predator, which drops a murderous alien into the middle of a normal costumed Jane Austen period piece!

Variety has the details

Elton John’s Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends.

Will Clark is set to direct “Pride and Predator,” which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.

Shooting will begin in London later this year. John exec produces, and his Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing.

“It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,” Furnish said.

John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film.

The trailer for director Will Clark’s previous film The Amazing Trousers:

Panda Men – new Jay Chou Chinese tv superhero series

Jay Chou thinks China needs some modern heroes, so he has developed a new TV series with panda guys! That’s…interesting. If this takes off expect it to show up as a movie one day.

Jay Chou held the press conference for a drama series tentatively named “Panda Men” on the 16th. Jay says that he “loves watching Super Hero movies, but Chinese people don’t have a modern day hero. All Chinese heroes are from the ancient times, so [he] want to do something that no one else has yet done.” Jay says he came up with the idea long before Kungfu Panda, but never had the time to do it.

“Panda Men” will be set in 2030 and stars two righteous males, dubbed “Panda Hero” and “Panda Superman,” who will protect “???/Bright City.”

Asian Fanatics is the source
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Blood: The Last Vampire trailer

Another trailer, this time the live action version of the anime Blood: The Last Vampire. (known as Last Blood in the UK )

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31-second teaser for Chris Nahon and Pathé’s live-action film adaptation of Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s Blood: The Last Vampire anime. The screenplay is credited to the Production I.G anime’s Kenji Kamiyama and Hong Kong’s Ronny Yu. South Korea’s Jeon Ji-hyun (under the credited name of Gianna Jun) plays the main character Saya, a 16-year-old sword-wielding girl hunting down supernatural creatures. Japanese actress Koyuki plays her opponent Onigen.

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Cheeta the Chimp is a pack of lies!

Check out this shocking story about how the supposedly living Cheeta the Chimp (star of several Tarzan movies and President Reagan’s Bedtime for Bonzo film) isn’t really alive like everyone claims and is replaced by an impostor in a bit of Hollywood mythology!

In November 2007, Rosen tracked down veteran animal trainers who said they knew Cheeta well. The chimp, they told him, had been a performer at Pacific Ocean Park, the old Santa Monica attraction — and had never been in films, Rosen said.

It was Gentry, Rosen said, who’d passed Cheeta off as a star — not even as a Cheeta, since there were many over the Tarzan years, but as the Cheeta. Rosen’s best guess is that Cheeta was born around 1960, not 1932, performed as a pier attraction for a few years and was then given to Gentry by another trainer when Pacific Ocean Park closed in 1967. A nice ape, Rosen said, but not a star.