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Monster Movie News Roundup
Everyday there is news of new monster movies. Some of them are indy films, some of them are bigger budget, and some of them look very awesome. So here are a few of the stories in the internet ether:
David “The Rock” Nelson, producer of over 30 genre films, is getting a TV special October 31st on channel WGN 7am to 9am (I am guessing central time zone) to premier several of his latest films:
The Giant Horny Toad Monster
the double bill Killer Cicadas and Attack of the Giant Cicadas
and the shorts The Giant Grasshopper Monster and The Giant Cricket Monster.
More news at Undead Backbrain
Waiting for Gorgo
a short film creator MJ Simpson has been mentioning off and on at the Retromedia Forums has become a reality:
The basic gist of the film is that these two ancient civil servants have been stuck in this office for 40 years, since Gorgo attacked London, and nobody knew they were there. The young auditor who finds them has to persuade them that Gorgo was just a movie – their whole department was the result of a bureaucratic cock-up – and they try to persuade her that it was real.
MJ Simpson’s website – filled with reviews and interviews related to cult films.
MJ Simpson’s Waiting for Gorgo page
Fangoria Exclusive
RoboJapan is reporting that ghost images are appearing on the set of Jennifer Tilly’s new movie.
Some sort of lame viral marketing, I bet. Jennifer Tilly movies aren’t exactly bringing in the fat moneys. Notice how I don’t mention the name of the new movie. Take that, viral marketing!
Speaking of ghost images appearing in movies, the awesome Captain Disillusion destroys the urban legend of a ghost kid in Three Men and a Baby:
His whole channel is pretty good, so get to watching as it is better than lame videos of fat people complaining that they feel sad.
Well, four news items is enough for today. Join us next time as we will have more random news for random people.
Thanks to Avery for some of the news here.
The Jonas Brothers and the Farting Dog
Sometimes things just sound so crazy they can’t possibly be true, but they are. Variety is reporting the Jonas Brothers will be starring in a movie called Walter the Farting Dog. As their feature debut. Directed by the Farrelly Brothers.
Sigh.
Fox has locked the Jonas Brothers to make their feature starring debut in “Walter the Farting Dog.” Based on a bestselling series of books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, the film is being adapted by Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen into a family film that will revolve around Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas, as well as their younger brother Frankie.
Pic shoots next spring and is a potential directing project for Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who’ll produce with Bradley Thomas through the trio’s Conundrum banner.
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The title character in the “Walter” books is a fat dog with severe flatulence. The brothers play musicians whose parents are asked to care for the dog by an aunt just before she passes away.
“By the time they’ve driven the dog home, everybody’s head is out the window of the family station wagon but Frankie, and only because he has a serious sinus problem and doesn’t notice the stench coming from Walter,” said Peter Farrelly.
Ha ha ha, that sounds HILARIOUS! Hilariously awful.
While his brothers play music, Frankie and the gaseous hound get involved in a plot that involves liberating a koi fish and thwarting jewel thieves.
When I think of jewel thieves and farting dogs, I think of koi.
The studio sees a potential franchise in “Walter,”
Franchise???????????
Hanson should de-retire and beat these idiots to death.
Conjoined Nile Tilapia fish
I will be making some of these, because I am obsessed with crazy freaky animals. Only they will be bigger! MuHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yahoo Link
Two conjoined Nile Tilapia fish, dubbed “Siamese Twin”, swim in a small aquarium in Bangkok October 3, 2008. They are both eight months old and share part of the skin together. The bigger fish tends to protect the smaller one from harm while the smaller one looks for food at the bottom of the aquarium.
X-Rays blasting from the tape dispenser!
Who here hasn’t used Scotch Tape to do impromptu X-Rays when creating unholy monsters in the laboratory? This is a simple trick employed by mad scientists across the globe, until one of them blabbed. Now I bet they will change the formula. Good going, blabber! I have to stock up on lots of Scotch Tape, too bad that when it yellows it gets 10% less effective. Don;t they know a recession is on? That even effects my wallet, as my trade in bizarre animal hybrids is down 50%. Thus I create less hyena men, as the current number of hyena men is more than enough than needed at evil lair employment hotspots. Luckily, I am starting a Goon Temp Agency to rent out employees of the crazed hybrid variety for temporary assignment to crazed madmen around the globe. I expect it will be quite popular with evil masterminds looking to cut costs and headcount reports. Then I can buy more Scotch Tape.
Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer – Wed Oct 22, 7:33 pm ET
NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Who knew? Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says.
….He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.
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In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.
That’s where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.
Upcoming movie news – 9th Circle of Hell edition
Don’t you ever think movies are just too high quality, and maybe we need more horrible stuff at the box office? Because Hollywood is there to rescue you!
Kung Fu Magoo:
When supervillain Tan-Gu invites the world’s most notorious bad guys to his island fortress to compete in an Olympic-style tournament of evil, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. For the Anti-Evil Task Force there’s only one man who can stop Tan-Gu and save mankind: Kung Fu Magoo!
This feature length film stars the beloved Mr. Magoo and his 12 year-old nephew Justin as they dodge giant robotic spiders, ninjas on jet skis, and Tan-Gu’s mutant “Beasteens” (half animal, half teenage girl!) — and that’s before the Evil-lympics even begin! With competitions like the 100-meter Destructive Rampage, Laser Cage Wrestling, and the Evil Egg and Spoon Race, Justin must work double-time to help his uncle stay in the competition and avoid danger at every turn.
Featuring the voices of: Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Alyson Stoner, Chris Parnell and a special guest appearance by Kenny Mayne.
Great, the no-talent Sprouse twins from the Disney Channel aren’t doing the only thing they are good at, double suicide.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 is also likely. Mother Frak!
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel comes out Dec. 25 of 2009
July 2, 2010 will see the release of Ramona, based on those books you read as a kid.
And do you like the old Greek story The Odyssey? Well, like it in space starring Brad Pitt!
Brad Pitt is going for a Homer run, signing on to star in a big-screen adaptation of The Odyssey, following up his star turn in 2004’s Troy, an adaptation of the Greek poet’s other major work, The Iliad. This time around, the take won’t be quite as faithful to the text—according to Variety, the new version will take place in a futuristic setting in outer space.
It is true, God hates you.