Late last year, Stephen Dorff commented that he would love to return to the Blade universe in the form of a prequel trilogy focusing on Deacon Frost, the villain from the first Blade movie. Apparently, he really liked the character and wanted to do more with the him.

Now, flash forward several months and the other Stephen involved with Blade, Director Stephen Norrington (who has been pretty damn quiet since his flop, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), is saying that the gears are turning for a Blade prequel trilogy.

The director credits Dorff with coming up with the idea for the new project, which “has evolved into a very interesting story.”

While that evolution may have carried it away from the source material, Norrington tells us the film is definitely envisioned as part of the existing mythology. “The linkage to ‘Blade’ is still big in the equation.”

Presently Dorff is occupied filming Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’. Earlier this year, the actor starred in the comic-based TV mini-series ‘XIII’. He can be seen on screen now in ‘Public Enemies’.

Norrington’s attention is focused on ‘The Crow’, so the purported ‘Blade’ spinoff would be several years away.

Source – Comics2Film

I was never a huge fan of the Blade series, but I actually found the third one to be the most enjoyable, which most disagree with. Regardless of which of the original Blade trilogy is your favorite, does anyone think that this is actually a good idea that could be successful?…

Warner Bros. has released the artwork to their next animated feature film, Batman/Superman: Public Enemies, for both the single-disc edition and the two-disc special edition, which will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray.  This latest addition to the DC Animated Universe library won’t arrive until September 29th but you can pre-order your copy now over at Amazon!

Check out the artwork for Batman/Superman: Public Enemies here!

Summer is here, and if you’re like me you like looking at women’s boobs… even if you’re married or whipped like you should be. Well now, you have to look no further than you local dvd store to see a great variety as the first Friday the 13th hexology is now released on deluxe edition DVD’s by Paramount.

Actually, I’m not so sure if the first one is out, here’s what they sent me; Friday 13th Part 2 and Part “3-D” on Blu-Ray, and then Parts 4-6 on deluxe DVD editions (The Final Chapter, A New Beginning and Jason Lives). There was no X-Man-like part 7, Jason takes Manhattan, the hell one (a.k.a. the “final friday”) or that god awful space one; but receivers can’t be choosers. I was shocked, SHOCKED that no one wanted to play a five day in a row drinking game with me and these babies, but whatevs, their loss.

I gotta say, I haven’t see a 3-D movie in a while and that was probably my favorite one as it comes with stylish custom-made Jason hockey mask glasses. Not only that, but the biggest douche-bag in this movie, Shelly, was on a NBC contest show in 2007 making the actor über douche man. Hahaha, I keed, I keed. The 4th, or the “Final Chapter” probably has the best cast with the likes of silver-screen legends as Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover.

The picture on all of these, as you can probably guess, is great. They even left some scratches and b-movie trademark goodness even though they are all remastered in HD now, but that doesn’t really mean much because of the horrendous way it was shot, but that’s what is good about these flicks and why you watch ’em, am I right? Right?

Tell you the truth… I don’t even like these movies. In fact… I don’t even know why people like them besides the gore and breasts and…. eh, never mind, I remembered why I like these. Now, if you’re like me again, the only way to watch these and enjoy them is with buds (unless they’re being punk-bitches like mine) of all sexes (pending the women you’re hanging with are the ones you want to get sauced up for a make-out session during or afterwards, if not, what are good heterosexual-male friends for, if not that?). Coming out of my long weird parenthesis thing I did, you know the second thing you need is, of course, a plethora of alcoholic beverages.

Here’s some stand-by rules for any Friday the 13th drinking game that many go by (and some that only I, Pencilbot dare go by. Take the Pencilbot challenge): [DISCLAIMER: BIG SHINY ROBOT! AND Pencilbot CAN’T BE BLAMED FOR THINGS YOU DO.]

1 half-can chug per horny guy or chick that can’t get laid (to be fair, this moment usually only happens once per movie, but by all means, be creative!)

1 drink per “Crystal Lake” being shown or said. (sometimes you’ll just have to opt for “Lake” instead to get things going)

1 drink per beer drink or pot smoked (for an added bonus, do a sip for every cough or person who waves pot smoke away)

1 drink per scream heard (“Oh my God!” counts as 3 to 5 drinks depending on the loudness, discuss with friends before doing this one)

1 drink per pair of boobs seen (or each boob seen to get faced faster)

1 long drink per “chi chi chi chi, haw haw haw” heard (Jason’s war cry)

1 chug can or bottle per first death (this to me, gets everything off on the right foot, many people just do ‘a drink’… pfft! wussies!)

1 drink per death of non-main characters

1 long drink per death of main characters (they’ll usually be 20-somethings, just fyi)

1 chug every time Jason “dies”

1 drink per every time Jason isn’t really dead.

Now at this point, you should be able to be declared “legally dead”, but if you really want to go the extra mile, I throw in this one.

1 drink per person calling another person BY THEIR NAME. (this also works with ‘Jason’, this one will sometimes make you cry as you lift your drink impending, but it’s well worth the laughs. Especially when you assign names, but when you assign names, you have to chug a can when your person assigned gets macheted, it’s only fair.)

Enjoy and have a good time!

(Click the link to check out the Friday the 13th movies on Amazon.)

Seriously?

“Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game “Asteroids.” Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

As opposed to today’s games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. Universal, however, is used to that development process, as it’s in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as [“Monopoly”], “Battleship” and “Candyland.” –Source THH

So, not only did we have FOUR studios bidding over the rights to make an Atari game into a movie, but they are also developing movies for boardgames, too?! Wow, we are really reaching for movie ideas now…

Well, while your here, might as well throw down in a game of good ol’ Asteroids. Play the game up top.

Touchstone has provided the one-sheet to their new sci-fi thriller, Surrogates. The film is directed by Jonathan Mostow (U-571, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Ginty, Boris Kodjoe, and Ving Rhames.

In the film, FBI agents (Willis and Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves-fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles-enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust? -SHH!

In the movie, 12 Rounds, John Cena plays Detective Danny Fisher, a man who is being targeted for revenge by International Terrorist Miles Jackson. When apprehending Jackson, Fisher inadvertently causes the death of the love of his life and as soon as Miles is out of jail his first order of business is to kidnap Fisher’s girlfriend, Molly, and put him through 12 rounds of missions and tasks in order to get her back. If Fisher can complete and survive each round, Jackson will give back Molly unharmed. But what is Miles Jackson really up to?

And frankly, who cares?

This movie is about what you would expect from a WWE movie starring wrestler-trying-to-turn-action-star John Cena: bad acting, bad action, bad movie. Lucky for you, someone actually sat down and watched this, from beginning to end, and you can check out that review here.

It’s hard to believe that a man who was in prison for the last year was not only able to escape in such a short amount of time, but also plot out these elaborate, booby-trapped “rounds” for Detective Fisher to participate in all over New Orleans. But, he was able to, so we find Fisher recklessly driving all over the city in various vehicles -including a fire truck- disarming bombs, stopping trolley cars, having cheesy flashbacks about his girlfriend (flash backs all the way back to the beginning of the movie) and spouting bad one-liners. It’s one thing for an action movie to have admittedly bad one-liners in it, it’s another to have a movie full of bad one-liners about boxing (in reference to the “12 Rounds” theme) and culminate the final blow in the movie with this gem: “You lose!”

I thought I couldn’t be any more excited to see this movie, and yet…

Source: SHH!

Some scooper from Super Hero Hype! stalked Michael Papajohn (Uncle Ben’s original killer) at some comic show and this is what went down:

I was over at the weekly comic book show Frank & Son over in Industry, CA, and while I was walking around with my uncle we suddenly ran into Michael Papajohn. I wouldn’t have noticed him except for the pictures he had all over his signing desk. He’s a real funny guy – trying to sell us autographs and telling us about how the Lakers beat him out of the main table. Anyways, I asked him about Spider Man 4 because of the rumor I read that he was going to be in it. He said “I can’t talk about it, but who says I died in the first one?” My uncle asked him again and he quipped “if I tell you I’ll have to shoot you.” Jokingly, of course. That’s all I got.

All I have to say on the matter is this:

They better not… they better not.

Source: SHH!
Michael Papajohn, the man who played Uncle Ben’s original killer in Spider-Man was at a Q&A session at Wizard World, PA with Ted Raimi. He stated that he would be reprising his role in the upcoming Spider-Man 4; he proceeded to say that if he told the audience what his role entailed, he’d have to kill them.

One of my biggest complaints of Spider-Man 3 was their messing around with the Peter Parker/Uncle Ben origin story by making the Sandman his actual, accidental murderer, and the other carjacker just an accomplice. Meaning that when Peter “let” that man fall to his death out of blind remorse over his uncle, it was actually the wrong guy; and when faced by Uncle Ben’s actual killer, all is forgiven because he was just the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time… who happened to rob a wrestling match, carjack an old man, and kill him.

For me, it just took something away from the original back story of that ever-famous “With great power comes great responsibility” origin story of Uncle Ben meeting his untimely demise at the hands of the man Peter let get by him out of spite… So I am a little wary that possibly in Spidey 4, they will be revisiting it… again.

Bruce Timm’s work in the Animated DC Universe is extensive at the very least. Many of the iconic heroes from our childhood were animated and/or produced by Mr. Timm; so much so that his name has become synonymous with the DC Animated Universe. As well as working on so many popular DC titles such as Batman, Superman, and Justice League, Timm has animated several other classic cartoons from the 80’s such as The Real Ghostbusters, Tiny Toons, and the Animaniacs.

To coincide with the upcoming release of Green Lantern: First Flight, Warner Brothers has been providing Q&A sessions with the cast and crew, and the latest is with Bruce Timm who is serving as Executive Producer on the latest direct-to-DVD Animated feature length film from DC:

QUESTION:

You and Alan Burnett have been working together for a very long time. What’s that relationship like, and what does he bring that makes these projects so special?

BRUCE TIMM

Alan is the quiet man of Warner Brothers Animation and, to a degree, I feel bad because he doesn’t really get enough credit for all that he has done over the years – going all the way to Batman: The Animated Series and all these shows he’s worked on since. He actually kind of prefers to stay in the background and just do his job and not get in front of the cameras and go to conventions and speak in front of crowds. He doesn’t enjoy that aspect of it. He’s never been about tooting his own horn, but he’s always been the rock on our projects. Alan is the stabilizer. I think it was Glen Murakami who referred to Alan as the glue that binds everything together. And it’s true. He’s a really solid professional. He knows all the ins and outs of story construction and character dynamics and then all of the extras that a good writer knows to plus out a story. At the same time, he likes to push himself to do things that he hasn’t done before and explore different avenues of story lines. He’s got a sense of humor that sometimes comes out in really odd, unique ways. On BTAS, he would go down story lines and even I would be saying, “Wow, you really want to do THAT in a children’s cartoon?” He’s funny that way – he likes to upset the apple cart and take chances. So Alan is really solid and dependable and at the same time he’s also very experimental. It’s like the best of both worlds. That makes him the perfect collaborator on these films.

You can check out the full interview here!