As recorded by Canadian belter Celine Dion, “My Heart Will Go On,” the Oscar-winning love theme from James Cameron’s Titanic, became so ubiquitous in the late 1990s that it drove many to the point of madness. The song’s lugubrious arrangement and sluggish tempo made it difficult to endure on a continual basis when the single was in heavy rotation. In 2012, Titanic star Kate Winslet revealed her true opinion of the song: “I feel like throwing up when I hear it.” Maybe what Winslet needs, and maybe what the whole world needs, is a more upbeat approach to “My Heart Will Go On.” Luckily, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, a musical ensemble specializing in retro remakes of contemporary songs (“Today’s hits. Yesterday.”), have released their own version of the James Horner-composed ballad, and it’s a real keeper. With chanteuse Aubrey Logan singing lead vocals, this becomes ...
We’ve seen how movies can be completely changed by just one letter of the title. Now a new game on Twitter has people changing a book title by removing one letter. Of course, that completely changes the plot, too. Check them all out with the hashtag #RemoveALetterSpoilABook. Maybe you can think of a great one!
by Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Cheryl Eddy to io9
Here’s a fun art piece made by artist Matthieu Robert-Ortis: in one perspective, it looks like two giraffes standing opposite each other while in another, it looks like a single elephant staring straight at you. The piece plays on your perspective and hides two wire sculptures in one, what you see depends on which angle you’re looking at it.
Despite the bloodbath of television cancellations last week, NBC is on a roll picking up new shows to fill the fall schedule. Today, it officially ordered a season for its time travel drama, Timeless.
An adaptation of Garth Ennis’ comic book series Preacher has been in some form of development for about 20 years, which is almost as long as it’s been since the first issue was published. The appeal of the premise is obvious, even to those who haven’t read the comics: Foul-mouthed ruffians clash with tight-lipped guardians in a battle of good, evil, and all the depraved beings in between. Frame it as a Western, and prepare to ride off into the syndication sunset. And yet each proposed project—a movie, an HBO series, another movie—has merely languished in purgatory, awaiting some brave soul to undertake it once again.
The adaptation’s unlikely saviors eventually came in the form of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, purveyors of such fine stoner comedies as Pineapple Expressand This Is The End. Their involvement raised questions about how well the duo would ...
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“Oh Hai Darkside” by boltfromtheblue Star Wars and The Room come together with the mysterious dark figure not in control of his emotions, Kylo Ren. You’re tearing my apart!
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by Jennifer Ouellette on Gizmodo, shared by Mario Aguilar to io9
There was lots of exciting news
this week about the much-anticipated Hyperloop, a high-speed train that would be able to make the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 35 minutes.
Lately, we’ve seen some trailers that begin with advertisements for the trailer. I don’t understand this trend, but it seems to keep happening. Hell or High Water is the latest trailer to begin with an ad, including shots we see later on in the footage. Why you’d have to sell a trailer to someone who’s already decided to watch it is beyond me, but enough about that. Let’s instead focus on Hell or High Water, the upcoming film from Starred Up and Perfect Sensedirector David Mackenzie. Mackenzie’s thriller stars Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, and more.
Watch the Hell or High Water trailer below.
Foster and Pine both have two major releases coming up — Warcraft and Star Trek: Beyond — but Hell or High Water is another studio film of theirs that’ll open in theaters this summer. These two working with Mackenzie should lead to good results. The director got a stirring performance out of Jack O’Connell with Starred Up, and his film Perfect Sense (watch it on Netflix Instant) features two excellent, vulnerable performances from Ewan McGregor and Eve Green. Mackenzie is an actor’s director, and it’ll be interesting to see what he accomplished with a cast of this caliber.
Here’s the Hell or High Water trailer:
In case that trailer didn’t do it for you, then know this: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis scored the film. Their scores, including The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Proposition, are generally nothing short of remarkable. Their music is atmospheric and often emotional, which should serve this story about brothers well. Mackenzie’s film is also written by Taylor Sheridan (Sicario) and produced by director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights).
Here’s the official synopsis for Hell or High Water:
A story about the collision of the Old and New West, two brothers—Toby (Chris Pine), a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner (Ben Foster), a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger—come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that powerful forces beyond their control have stolen from under their feet. Vengeance seems to be theirs until they find themselves in the crosshairs of a relentless, foul-mouthed Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last triumph on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their plan, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the last honest law man and a pair of brothers with nothing to live for except family collide.
Director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior)last boarded a moving train with Jane Got a Gun, a project that was plagued with problems before he arrived on set. The Western quickly disappeared from theaters this year, but it’s hard to blame O’Connor, who typically delivers quality dramas. The director’s new film, The Accountant, opens in theaters later this year. The thriller stars Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow.
Watch The Accountant trailer below.
O’Connor’s film was originally scheduled to open in theaters this past January, but Warner Bros. decidedThe Accountant may perform better in the fall. Affleck’s films have played well during awards season before, so the postponement made sense. In The Accountant, Affleck plays Christian Wolff, a freelance accountant for criminal organizations. Wolff, who’s on the spectrum, is also a highly trained assassin.
Here’s The Accountant trailer:
Again, another trailer that begins with a preview of the trailer, but thankfully the footage that follows is enough to make up for it. While this isn’t the first trailer to use Radiohead’s “Everything in its Right Place,” the song is put to good use in this instance. The repetition, Ben Affleck’s cold and calculating silence, and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke‘s voice all add up to a trailer with a real sense of dread and excitement.
Nothing we see of Affleck in the footage is reminiscent of any of his past work. Christian Wolff looks like an entirely different (and very internalized) performance from the actor. Affleck is in the capable hands of Gavin O’Connor, who hasn’t made a movie in this vein before. This is slightly new territory for the director, but he seems to have fared well with the set pieces. Hopefully, O’Connor’s film is just as suspenseful as its trailer.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.
The Accountant opens in select theaters September 23rd, before going wide on October 14th.
Organizing expert Marie Kondo came up with a system for tidying up your life called the KonMari method that says you should periodically gather together all of your stuff and then throw away everything that doesn’t bring you joy. Perhaps that’s what ABC is doing today. It has already made multiple trips down to the dumpster, tossing in garbage bags full of Nashville, Castle, and Agent Carter, and now there’s a new one on the pile that’s full of googly eyes and tiny hands made of felt. In other words, ABC has also canceled The Muppetsafter one season.
This comes from Deadline, which says that The Muppets was never really able to hook viewers with its workplace comedy-inspired setup—at least as far as ratings go. Apparently, the show almost got renewed for a second season based solely on “the strength of the Muppets brand ...
If you’ve gone on Twitter today and follow the right sort of people, you were greeted with a deluge of GIFs from iconic Simpsons scenes. That’s because the wonderful website Frinkiac can now make a GIF of any Simpsons moment, ever.
You've got a drone! It's an incredibly advanced piece of technology. But that doesn't make you invincible. It might even make you more vulnerable.
This drone flew over a medieval historical reenactment in Russia. A warrior on the ground who is clearly a master of his weapon knocked it out of the sky with a well-placed spear. He wasn't the least bit afraid of this witchcraft in his midst.
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clark once said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." To that, this gentleman adds, "But magic can't defeat steel."
Folks, you've gotta learn from the mistakes of others in this internet heavy age, and one of the lessons we've learned is don't fall asleep at work or your fellow employees will Photoshop you.
Now it seems like this rule shouldn't apply to the company CEO, because employees who mess with the boss will soon find themselves without a job or a reference.
But it appears some CEOs are actually cool enough to handle some digital degredation, as long as the employees use the company's own app to mess with their image.
Zeev Farbman, CEO of software company Lightricks, was in his office catching a few z's between meetings when someone snapped a pic of him snoozing.
Seeing the opportunity to "test" their image manipulation app Enlight and poke fun at the boss at the same time, the employees set about "Enlightening" the pic in glorious ways.
Next thing you know Zeev was posing for portrait artists, dancing with the Bolshoi and starting a new life as an overpriced Shake Weight. How cool is that?!
Those production company logos that appear at the end of a television episode are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, they’re an opportunity to pause and reflect on the efforts of the men and women who toil to bring such fine entertainment to homes everywhere, week after exhausting week. On the other hand, the appearance of a cutely named production company’s logo generally means that the show is over, and it’s time to return to the dull drudgery of life. And just what do those enigmatic names mean, anyhow? Fremulon? Fake Empire? Blackie And Blondie? They’re not just gibberish, as revealed in a Hollywood Reporter article by Lesley Goldberg. Here, 41 producers, including Tina Fey, Michael Schur, and Bryan Cranston, explain exactly what those cryptic monikers actually mean.
Many of these names, unsurprisingly, are references to family members, such as parents or children. Here is ...
After months of deliberation, secret ballots, voodoo rituals, and solicitation from you, our readers, we have finally pared the list for A.V. Undercover’s seventh season down to just 25 songs. You have no idea how tough it is to get to 25—we had thousands of suggestions, both internal and external. The initial short list was a not-very-short 450 songs. Some suggestions were easy to expunge, since we try not to feature multiple songs by the same band: Pixies, Talking Heads, Prince, Van Halen*... we’ve done all those. We made an exception for David Bowie, considering this list was put together pretty soon after his death (and he’s got a few pretty good songs in his catalog). Things that almost made the list but that we realized were terrible ideas in practice: Anything by Weird Al, Tracy Jordan’s werewolf song, Faith No More’s “Epic ...
Kurt Sutter’s been tinkering with the idea of aSons Of Anarchy prequel or sequel since before his FX show even went off the air, but he’s finally nailed down a title and showrunner to go with his “Mayan empire, but of Northern California” concept. Deadline reports that Sutter has just tapped Elgin James, the director of Little Birds, to write and produce the pilot for Mayans MC, his rather prosaically named spin-off. As expected, Mayans MC will be a “dark, visceral family drama” about the 1% outlaw, i.e., the Mayans. There’s still no word on who will star in Mayans MC, but FX has begun the “formal script development.”
Sutter told Deadline that he didn’t feel he was the right person to write a Latino-led series, so he brought James on to do the honors: “I wanted to find a strong, unique Latino voice ...
Legendary comedian George Carlin died in 2008, and apparently he left behind a big enough collection of general stuff for it to be considered “archives.” Now, his daughter Kelly Carlin has donated this collection of stuff to the National Comedy Center in New York so future generations will be able to learn about the things Carlin owned before he died. The press release says the collection includes “extensive creative files, annotated set lists, handwritten journals, scrapbooks, awards, letters, clothing, arrest records, and countless hours of video and audio recordings containing both released and unreleased material.” These items—which really do seem to merit use of the word “archives”—will be put on display in the Comedy Center’s “museum experience,” which is set to open in 2017.
Discussing why she decided to donate her father’s things, Kelly Carlin said that “there comes a time in one’s life when ...
This friendly humpback hung around the Knudson Cove Marina in Ketchikan, Alaska for a few days. He got very close while Cy Williams, a sport fishing guide, was recording. The whale breached within a few feet of him. It's an amazing sight!
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“Oh Hai Darkside” by boltfromtheblue Star Wars and The Room come together with the mysterious dark figure not in control of his emotions, Kylo Ren. You’re tearing my apart!
