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“Game of Thrones” returns for Season 3 on Sunday, March 31 (9 p.m. ET on HBO), and the war-torn land of Westeros will only become more brutal as we delve deeper into George R. R. Martin’s meaty tale, confidently adapted by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss on an increasingly epic scale.
Read on for a spoiler-lite preview from Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), John Bradley (Samwell Tarley), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister).
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/game-of-thrones-season-3-premiere_n_2977323.html?utm_hp_ref=tv
Chantal Banks is a grown woman with a family, and like many families, hers keeps pets. Except, in her case, the pets are rats, there are 19 of them and she appears to like them an awful lot. She likes them even more than her husband, apparently.
The April 3 episode of The Learning Channel’s “My Crazy Obsession” will explore Banks’ eccentric life, from the two-bedroom apartment she now shares with her rats, to her son’s bizarre assertion that the rats are his brothers and sisters, to the furtive grumbling of her estranged husband.
“My rats don’t judge me. They love me for who I am. When I cry, they lick my tears,” Banks told TLC. Here’s a clip:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/chantal-woman-who-loves-rats-nachos-video_n_2839409.html
Few bands have made quite the impact that Nirvana did when they exploded onto the scene in the early ’90s. Led by frontman Kurt Cobain and featuring the talents of drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic, Nirvana revolutionized rock music with their 1991 sophomore album, ‘Nevermind.
But who should play the iconic rockers in a movie? Besides the obvious choice of Macaulay Culkin as Kurt Cobain, Loudwire magazine has come up with picks of their own. Incidentally, Culkin is not their number one choice. Actor Joe Anderson is the spitting image of the late, great Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. He remains relatively unknown, making him a perfect candidate to play the enigmatic Cobain.
In addition to having similar facial features as Grohl, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ actor Efren Ramirez can definitely display the musician’s comedic side. So, we say ‘Vote for Pedro’ to play Dave Grohl in the Nirvana movie.
The first qualification to play the 6-foot, 6-inch Krist Novoselic is that you gotta be tall. And at 6 foot, 4 inches, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ actor Jason Segel definitely fits the bill, as he also resembles Novoselic.
Do you agree? Do you have someone else in mind?
http://loudwire.com/casting-call-nirvana/
Walking Dead aside, one of the reasons that the news that NBC has ordered a TV pilot based on Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’sThe Sixth Gun is so exciting is that it feels at times that it’s only Marvel and DC books that get chances at television, what with Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Arrow, Smallville and Young Justice, to name just a few shows.
That’s not the case, however — there have been many television projects based on comic books that have nothing to do with the Big Two. Sure, you know about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tales From the Crypt, but here are 10 more examples to prove it.
You could argue that Ben Edlund’s superhero comedy was more successful on television than it was in comics, spawning not one but two shows throughout the years, both animated (from 1994 through 1996) and live-action (2001′s sole season).
The animated incarnation was far more popular than the live-action (Three seasons versus nine episodes), but both introduced audiences to Edlund’s hilariously skewed version of the superhero genre and sent people in search of the original comics.
Yes, Sabrina: That unusual thing, a successful comics-to-television translation that lasted seven years despite a network shift in between (the first four years of the show aired on ABC, the final three on the WB), at one point bringing in 17 million viewers per episode and spawning all manner of merchandise along the way.
Wanna see the others? READ MORE HERE
http://www.newsarama.com/tv/10-tv-shows-based-on-indie-comics.html
Courtney Love and the Kurt Cobain estate tapped Director Brett Morgen to make a film examining the life of the late Nirvana frontman, and the project has started to come together after five years of planning. Morgen most recently helmed the Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane.
Though Cobain’s legacy centers around his music, Morgen hopes to shed some light on the rocker’s other artistic pursuits. “The thing about him people might not know too is that he was an incredible visual artist and left behind a treasure chest of comic books, paintings, Super 8 films, all sorts,” said Morgen, calling the film “a mix of animation and live action that’ll allow the audience to experience Kurt in a way they never have before.” Morgen hopes to release the film in 2014.
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-film-will-be-this-generations-the-wall-director-hopes-20130104
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Earlier this year it was revealed that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in talks to star in a new, big screen Hercules movie. What joy it was, picturing a movie about the mythical muscleman played by one of the coolest musclemen on the planet.
However, there hasn’t been any visible movement on the film, and it seemed to have taken a backburner to even bigger news for The Rock, like his rumored interest in headlining a Lobo movie, and the whole G.I. Joe: Retaliation reshoot debacle. But now a fire has been lit under the project, and Variety has just broken news on Twitter that Paramount and MGM will jointly produce the film.
The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian War, and was scripted by Ryan Condol. It sounds like an ensemble action story about Hercules’ not-so-merry band of murderous men, which further sounds like a movie to be happily watched. The question is, will the studio let the film go the R-rated route? Will it stick with PG-13?
Either way, I’d watch The Rock in anything, and it certainly seems like Paramount and MGM are betting a whole lot of other people feel the same way.
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/the-rock-hercules-movie/10221
When John Carpenter’s Halloween debuted back in 1978, it wasn’t readily apparent just how influential his indie horror film would eventually become.
The tale of a group of babysitters menaced by an escaped mental patient named Michael Myers wasn’t the first slasher film, but it is arguably the most important one. Inspired by classics like Hitchcock’s Psycho and Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, Carpenter took elements of those two features and twisted them into something uniquely his own.
What really makes Halloween stand out is Myers. With this character, Carpenter essentially paved the way for Jason, Freddy and countless other supernatural slasher villains. Even more impressive is that he did it in such a fashion that audiences never felt cheated.
Carpenter’s remake of The Thing is a masterful exercise in claustrophobic horror with a level of paranoia that equals Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Kurt Russell and an all-male ensemble cast are trapped in an Antarctic research station with a malevolent alien presence that can become anyone or anything it comes into contact with. Tensions rise as each man begins to suspect the others of being the monster – all leading to one of the greatest horror film endings in the history of the genre.
If you’re a newcomer to Carpenter’s work – or just want to check out some of his greatest hits, start with the films above and then check out the following:
Prince of Darkness : Donald Pleasance plays a priest that must help a team of scientists prevent the coming of the Antichrist.
The Fog: Two generations of Scream Queens — Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother, Janet Leigh — star in this ghost story about a cursed seaside town.
Christine: A Stephen King story about a killer, jealous car? Only Carpenter could have pulled this one off.
Vampires: A rare Western horror film with James Woods starring as a vampire hunter.
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/john-carpenter-horror-influence/9964
WARNING: Don’t read this late at night. Or alone. Or if you are sensitive to spirits who might be lurking over your shoulder. The Paranormal Activity franchise wants to feel real: the cameras are fuzzy, the houses are messy, and the actors look like people you’ve seen at the mall. But how realistic are the actual hauntings? Movies.com consulted Stephen Robinson, a cameraman who searched for spirits in 26 countries for the reality show Ghost Hunters International. He’s an expert in how to shoot the supernatural—so does he think Paranormal Activity 4 gets it right?
Movies.com: Can cameras really record ghosts?
Stephen Robinson: Yes, cameras can record paranormal activity—it’s hard to say “ghosts”—but paranormal activity for sure. You’ll see faces, outlines of figures. Sometimes they’ll seem well-defined, other times you’ll see reflections and shadows, which is what they call “matrixing.” Then there’s orbs, but a lot of times those turn out to be dust. Full manifestations—moving and clearly defined—are very rare. I don’t know anyone who’s been able to catch a real and true ghost like the kind you’d think of, but they can catch unexplained things for sure.
Movies.com: There’s a cat and a dog in the Paranormal 4 house, and at times they both seem freaked out. Are they susceptible to seeing spirits?
Robinson: Animals are just like children: they’re more sensitive to paranormal activity. We’ve actually used dogs a few times. There’s been situations where animals won’t go into certain rooms—they’ll sit there and bark. Dogs seem to be more sensitive than cats in my experience. Cats just aren’t even tripping. Some lady said her bird just kept saying the name of someone who didn’t live there, but I was like, “Is that really evidence?”
READ MORE of the conversation with cameraman Stephen Robinson here. Real or not, here’s the trailer for Paranormal Activity 4. SEE IT
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/paranormal-activity-truth/9997
NBC has revealed the first promo for the one-hour Mockingbird Lane pilot, which will air on Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m. ET.
In Mockingbird Lane, Eddie Munster (Mason Cook) is a normal kid about to enter the horrors of puberty. Truth is, he’s about to discover that for him becoming a teenager means growing hair in truly unexpected places — as in all over his body — every time the moon is full! Eddie’s got it pretty good though. His loving, supportive, run-of-the-mill family includes his mom Lily (Portia de Rossi), the daughter of Dracula; his dad Herman (Jerry O’Connell), who brings new meaning to “Frankenstein”; and Grandpa (Eddie Izzard), who would give Dracula a run for his money if he weren’t actually Dracula! Of course then there’s creepy cousin Marilyn (Charity Wakefield), who’s really the odd one because she’s so completely normal.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=95861
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gDmHcG8vq6Q
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