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Birdman, the new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, opens limited on October 17. Then we’ll see Michael Keaton as an actor who fears that his image may be permanently tied to one character, the hero Birdman. As he struggles to mount a new play, all his anxieties play upon his character in dramatic fashion. Now a series of great Birdman posters places the hero himself in watchful positions on landmarks from cities across the United States (and, briefly, Canada). See them all below.

Badass Digest has these posters. Next week there will be a chance to win a physical run of the entire set.

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BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) — famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

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Once upon a time, this public service poster about not letting flies land on your food was everywhere in the U.K.. It's mostly huge blocks of text, with just a tiny black-and-white image at the bottom... and it's completely revolting.

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The ghosts in Pac-Man each have different behaviors: Red is the only one that will constantly chase you, Pink stays 32 pixels in front of Pac-Man’s mouth, Blue tries to stay in a fixed location, and Orange is completely random. Source

Scientists have created “Aquaman Crystals” that can absorb a roomful of oxygen and store it for later use. This discovery might be the key to underwater breathing. A handful of crystals could pull oxygen from the water and provide divers with air. Source

Back in the day, Detroit factory workers spray painted cars by hand. The excess paint drippings mixed into different colors and hardened into “Fordite,” which is often used to make jewelry. Source

Bill Murray has basically made a second career out of being an eccentric whimsical celebrity in addition to being a revered comedic and dramatic actor. And at the heart of his reputation as a quirky dude lies the rumor that he doesn’t have a casting agent, and if you want to offer him a part, you call his 1-800 number. (No, we don’t have the number. And if we did, we wouldn’t share it with you.)

The story is true, and the number exists.

It has been verified twice publicly by Ted Melfi, the casting director who got Murray to sign on for the upcoming St. Vincent, which hits theaters October 24th. According to Melfi, who spoke about this to the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, separately, the number leads to a recorded “leave a message”-message, to which he left several…messages. Unreturned.

Until one day, he got a call from Murray’s attorney, then from Murray himself.

After a road trip to Murray’s home to San Diego, Murray said to Melfi, “We should do this. Let’s make a movie.”

And that was that. If only life was that simple all the time. At the very least, you could save 10% of your gross by not having to hire an agent. If anyone DOES have Murray’s 800-number, shoot it our way. He would really fit in Screen Junkies well as a guest columnist.

(via Vulture)

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The seemingly boundless marketing campaign for CWs The Flash has paid off in a way that the show hasn’t seen in half a decade. The superhero high school origin story, so similar to countless other superhero origin stories, came in second only to The Voice in adults under 35.

It’s sort of funny to imagine adults over 35 making CW‘s The Flash appointment television, but if The Voice is the most popular show in that timeslot, than it’s pretty clear I don’t understand how television ratings work.

So if you had initially just tossed this show in the big pile labeled, “comic book spinoffs,” you can leave it there, but know that a lot of other people are tuning in, so you might be forced to stay current on the office water cooler Flash gossip.

Cause The Flash is the new Breaking Bad.

(Vulture)

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What started as just a cute and pronounceable acronym that existed only in the Archer universe has become a pretty polarizing and upsetting name in the real world. For that reason, the producers of Archer have decided not to go on some crusade about how they were there first, and will drop the show’s ISIS entity immediately.

Smart move. The word ISIS isn’t crucial to the story, and it just seems like this fix will allow the producers to just put this behind them and get on with being funny.

The show’s producers said they’ll deal with the name change in a “very smart and subtle way” in the first episode. So it will be acknowledged within the show, rather than just have all the characters showing up at a different department name for no reason in the season premiere.

The voice actors have re-recorded some of their lines to avoid any mention of ISIS in this season, as well, so it’s clear that the show is nipping this thing in the bud.

(NY Daily News)

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It's not Goat Simulator, but an even more realistic game set in the Street Fighter universe. Insert two quarters to play. I recommend Angry Goat vs. Chun-Li for the most vigorous gameplay experience. 

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It's inspired by footage of an aggressive goat in Londrina, Brazil. Who should play the goat in the movie version of this game?

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Den of Geek assembled a list of 25 must-see movies to be released in 2015. While "must see" is subjective for everyone, there are a number of enticing looking films on their list. One example that is eagerly anticipated by many is Mad Max: Fury Road. George Miller is once again directing. Since the last we saw of the franchise was in 1985, a new film is long overdue, as well as exciting, considering the advances in special effects since the eighties. The trailer (below), shown at San Diego Comic Con 2014, made a splash and raised the hype bar. I hope this one meets fans' expectations. Tom Hardy is starring; Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron are supporting. The movie hits theaters May 15, 2015.

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Which movie poster do you see above? All of the text and graphic details have been stripped out, leaving a minimal design. It's part of a project from John Taylor called Film the Blanks. So much of original is gone, but the core design elements make many of these posters instantly recognizable.

-via Fast Co Design

Elementary school art teacher Amanda Brewer shot this amazing photo with a GoPro off the coast of Seal Island in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Brewer caught this once-in-a-lifetime closeup while she was an intern at White Shark Africa, a conservation organization. Her photo was featured as GoPro’s Photo of the Day. 

Via Twisted Sifter | Image: Amanda Brewer 

We've highlighted a number of secret menu items over the years, from the Poor Man's Big Mac at McDonald's to the Chipotle Quesarito . If you can't get enough of these "insider" menus, #HackTheMenu is a great one stop shop for them.

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If you've got your eye on any of those new GoPros, they're now available for purchase. Prices start at just $130 for the GoPro Hero, and go all the way up to $500 for the Hero4 Black. In typical GoPro fashion, there are also a bunch of new accessories to sort through as well. [Amazon]

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The urine of a diabetic contains so much sugar that it can be purified and made into a high-end, single malt whiskey.
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David Cross’ underrated 12-episode series The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret ends with nuclear holocaust. The title character—played by Cross—defects to North Korea, where he’s put in charge of their nuclear program and blows up the world. Cross told The A.V. Club back in 2012 that the show wouldn’t continue beyond its initially conceived arc, both because of that inconvenient plot point and because he didn’t want to spend nine months alone in London filming again. (“But it’s a moot point because there’s not going to be a third season because the story is done,” he also said.) But apparently we’re never saying never, because IFC just announced that the show would return with six new episodes in 2015, and not with any kind of prequel fake-out, either: It will be “picking up where the second season left off when ...

Inspired by the fact that a milk carton takes several years to decompose while the milk itself goes sour in a week, Tomorrow Machine designers are creating food packaging made of waxes, sugar, and seaweed gel that only lasts as long as the food inside. Source

If I told you that there was a comedy coming to IFC called Uncle Chubby’s, do you think that might be something you’d be interested in? I bet it is. If I told you that Uncle Chubby’s was the brainchild of Denis Leary and was about ice hockey, would you still be interested then?

Yeah, I thought I might lose you on that.

Nonetheless, IFC thinks that a few people will be interested in the series, which is actually just being produced under Leary’s banner, but won’t star him, since he’ll be on Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll playing a washed-up rocker on FX.

Uncle Chubby’s will follow some folks as they try to form a hockey team. This report doesn’t say it will take place in New England, but come on. We’re not stupid. It’s a Denis Leary project about hockey.

(Variety)

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Filmmakers captured a video of young dolphins deliberately getting high on pufferfish by passing it around and chewing on it. So essentially, dolphins know how to puff, puff, give. Source

The Wu Tang Clan have announced that they’ve signed a deal with Warner Bros to release their new album, A Better Tomorrow. Revolt reports that the hip-hop group revealed the information earlier today in a press conference at the Warner Bros headquarters in Los Angeles. Earlier this week, RZA told Billboard that a limited edition version of the new album will be packaged with a Bluetooth speaker with the Wu-Tang logo on it. A Better Tomorrow will be released on 12/2, though the Bluetooth speaker version will be out on Black Friday.

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The five-century-old De Halve Maan Brewery in Belgium plans to build a 2-mile underground beer pipeline to its bottling facility to keep delivery trucks from crowding the city streets. Source