Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, well, maybe not boys and girls…

Big Shiny Robot! has received a number of copies of the first three issues of the comics adaptation of the Academy Award winning screenplay for Django Unchained, as written by Quentin Tarantino.

These stunning comics represent the first half of a six-part adaptation and feel very much like a spaghetti western on the page.

If you’re not interested in waiting for the contest giveaway, head to your finest local comic book store and demand only the finest in comics adapted from films.

In order to win the first three issues from Big Shiny Robot!, however, all you need to do is:

Send us an email to editor (at) bigshinyrobot (dot) com with the subject line DJANGO UNCHAINED!

It’s that simple.

You can get extra entires by visiting and liking our Facebook page and following us on twitter and letting us (and your friends) know there why you want the Django comics.

I’ll send you an email early next week if you’ve won!

We will also be giving away a set of them to a lucky fan who visits our booth at SLC Nerd on Saturday. We hope to see you there.

Special Thanks to DC Comics and Vertigo for providing the giveaways. And don’t hesitate to pick up the film, available on Blu-ray now.

With the release of Star Trek Into Darkness just one month away, we get our final trailer. This trailer has a lot of action in it. And may be considered slightly spoilery as we get a better look at what the film will be about. From the looks of it, and to borrow a line from the other May blockbuster out this year, it looks as if this film is about “Good old fashioned revenge.” However, the crew of the Enterprise look like they have a really crappy day in their future as things seem to turn to shit real fast. Star Trek Into Darkness officially releases on May 17th, but they are doing special showings two days earlier on the 15th. Check your theaters to see if they are doing those special screenings if you want to see it early.

Wonder no more, nerds – the Daily Mail has revealed pics of Jamie Foxx in full Electro makeup, and it’s pretty dag-gon’ stunning.

The actor, who confesses he is a long time Spider-Man fan, will portray Maxwell Dillon in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man sequel (Andrew Garfield style, natch). Electro was created when Mr. Dillon was electrocuted on the job, but instead of being killed he developed the ability to produce and control electricity. Thankfully, the Powers That Be opted for a more modern, simplistic costume (hopefully, I guess these photos aren’t full blown villain yet) instead of the, erm, shocking mask that Electro of pages past sported. Foxx’s IMDB page just keeps getting more interesting; with iconic characters and critical acclaim occurring in all combinations.

I’m old a huge fan of practical makeup and effects, so it’s nice to see candid photos with such stunning work. If there are CG effects built in, hopefully they won’t destroy that beautiful makeup or cover up a great performance.

This movie looks incredible.

MTV, through their Movie Awards, premiered this bit of footage from Iron Man 3, which comes out in the United States May 3rd.

A clip like this is exactly what I needed to get over the news coming from the Boston Marathon.

It’s hard to review a movie that you’ve known by heart for 20 years.

Jurassic Park, like many of Spielberg’s films, is a hurricane of emotion. There are moments of the film so overwhelming, still, after all these years, that move me to tears.

So when I had the opportunity to see it in IMAX 3D, I leapt at the chance.

For many, post-conversion 3D isn’t anything you want to see, I get that, but the chance to see Jurassic Park in a way that’s literally larger than life and on the big screen once more is not an opportunity to pass up. They’ve clearly spared no expense and the experience doesn’t disappoint.

If you liked Jurassic Park to begin with, you’re going to love this experience, but you’ll be shocked by how much you notice, see, and hear that had just slipped you by. Lines of dialogue that I didn’t even know existed popped right out of the soundtrack. But I’d forgotten how brilliant the sound design of this film was in general. The dinosaurs, on a good sound system, are truly frightening.

The other major thing I noticed in a way that isn’t immediately apparent on home video was how dated some of the costumes and bits are in the film. In particular are the anonymous Jurassic Park employees in pastel polo shirts, or the kids. Lexi, Hammond’s granddaughter, seems to have the most outdated dialogue as well as clothes, “It’s an interactive CD-Rom!” or “This is a Unix system, I know this!”

There were very few moments of the post conversion that seemed to bother me. Chief among them was a few shots of Muldoon as he’s stalking the raptors toward the end of the movie. There are disparate bits of foliage so close to the screen that it’s distracting and it’s largely because the film just wasn’t intended to be 3D. There were a couple of other fixes I did notice, too. Mainly it was the reflected light of the flares Malcom and Grant use to distract the T-rex. In the original theatrical release they seem to be holding the flares three inches from a piece of glass, but that extra bit of reflection seems to have been removed in this release.

As for the suspense and excitement of the rest of the film, it holds up so well that I’m shocked. Had any other filmmaker made this film, it would have been easily hailed as their best work, but since this is Steven Spielberg, he has movies like Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark that manage to top it.

There is, however, nothing quite like seeing a dinosaur for the first time in this movie. It might be one of the greatest moments in cinema history.

If you love Jurassic Park, you’re a fool if you miss this. If you’ve never seen it, you’re doubly foolish if you miss it.

I am having a hard time believing I’m writing this.

Roger Ebert was an icon of film reviewing and the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper where he reviewed films for almost 50 years, is reporting that he has succumbed in his long battle with cancer and poor health.

For me, a filmmaker and film lover, Ebert was a teacher and a barometer for films and filmmaking. His commentaries on movies like Dark City, Casablanca, and Citizen Kane are essential viewing for anyone learning how to make movies.

More than anything, he was a fantastic writer who loved movies. Even when I disagreed with a review he’d written, vehemently even, I could not argue with the care and mastery of craft he infused with every piece.  And let’s be honest, his review of The Phantom Menace is a masterpiece of film criticism.

Perhaps my favorite personal moment that involved Roger Ebert was while my friend and filmmaking colleague, Ryan Williams, was in the midst of making his film Abby Singer. The entire conceit of the film was that it was ad-libbed and the actors would interact with celebrities to secure their cameo in the film, hopefully making it more salable. Being based in Utah made Sundance an easy target for these cameos and Ryan had been up there gathering cameos in his guerilla fashion.

I got a call one night from Ryan, who knew I was a fan of Ebert. Ryan and I had watched many of his commentaries repeatedly together, discussing technique and filmmaking. “I got Roger Ebert in the can,” he said.

“What? Roger Ebert? That’s amazing. What did he do?”

“The White Parasol monologue from Kane.”

Ryan had bumped into Ebert, explained what he was doing, asked the legendary critic to participate and participate he did. He didn’t just relay the White Parasol monologue once or twice, he allowed Ryan to film it many times, with his actor, in the middle of the Sundance bustle, to get it right.

I’m still looking for a version of Ebert doing it to show to you, but it was incredible. (Here’s the “>trailer for the film with a snippet from the Ebert scene in the meantime.)

We’ve lost truly one of the great writers and newspapermen of our time. Neither journalism nor the world of film will be the same after the passing of Roger Ebert. And we’re all poorer for it.

Hell, I’ve been holding back tears the entire time I wrote this. I’ve watched his show so much and listened to his commentaries and read his books so often that I can still hear his voice quite clearly whenever I read anything associated with him. I hope I never forget.

And so we can be sure to end on a happier note, here’s his cameo on The Critic:

I know I’ll be listening to one of his commentaries tonight. It’s the least I can do.

If Zoe Saldana isn’t careful, she is going to become my favorite Chick That Kicks Butt. Neytiri, Uhura, and now Gamora? This is pretty fantastic!

Gamora is the last of the Zen Whoberia, and also happens to be the adopted daughter of Thanos. She has also been known as “The Most Dangerous Woman in the Universe,” which automatically makes her awesome. Saldana is no stranger to stunts, CG, or practical effects, but let’s hope that Marvel and Disney make the right call in shaping up a live action version of the character (and her costume).

I’m just sayin’.

The Hollywood Reporter broke this story, and we’ll have more when decisions are final.

It’s no secret that Coulson lives in the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. television series, but what is a secret is exactly how that’s possible given the fact that he died at the hands of Loki in The Avengers.

Gregg spoke to Collider recently at WonderCon about Coulson’s return, the television series, and if he will appear in any of the Marvel Phase 2 big-screen productions coming up. He has this to say about the beloved S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent’s return:

“Even though my friends at Marvel said, ‘You know, we spent a lot of time talking about how Coulson lives, and we know that there’s a movement out there, and there are t-shirts and people paint on bridges ‘Coulson Lives,’ we’re going to bring you back,’ and it’s one of the many things people tell you that never ever happens. And then I get this call from Joss [Whedon] saying, ‘Well… there’s a script… and it’s after The Avengers.’ By the time Joss finished telling me, I was in.”

For me, though, the most interesting bit from this interview about Coulson’s “resurrection”:

“After people see the show, they’ll have some clue as to why I’m still there, still breathing, but I don’t think they’ll know everything…”

Most likely, I am reading too much into it, but Gregg notes that he’s “still there, still breathing”. Does this throw a wrench in the Vision and Deathlok theories/rumors? Has he actually somehow been resurrected? I really think while everyone is looking forward to a hopefully quality Marvel television series, a lot of the anticipation is stemming from the question of “How the hell is Agent Coulson still alive?!”

You can check out the full interview with Clark Gregg, including his thoughts on if Agent Coulson will make it back to the big screen, over at Collider.

Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D will (hopefully) be premiering on ABC this Fall.

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Phase 2 of Marvel’s cinematic universe is about to kick off with Iron Man 3 next month, followed by Thor: The Dark World later this year. Next year, we have Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Guardians of the Galaxy to look forward to, and GeekZenith has gotten their hands on some pretty awesome pre-production art work for the latter two – including one featuring a fight between Cap and Bucky/The Winter Soldier!

For those concerned about spoilers, there doesn’t seem to be anything terribly spoilery about the images in the gallery below – so check them out!

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Walt Disney Studios has announced that the popular Pixar film, Finding Nemo, will be getting a big-screen sequel centered around everyone’s blue tang fish, Dory. Finding Dory is slated to hit cinemas on November 25, 2015.

Ellen DeGeneres is already on board to reprise her role as the forgetful fish, and had this to say about the new film:

“I’m not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating ‘Toy Story 16.’ But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It’s got a lot of heart, it’s really funny, and the best part is—it’s got a lot more Dory.” [WSJ]

Andrew Stanton is set to direct, he noted that the sequel will take place about a year after the events of the first film, will take place along the California coastline, and Nemo, Marlin, and other characters from the first film will appear along with some new additions.

“There is no Dory without Ellen,” he said. “She won the hearts of moviegoers all over the world—not to mention our team here at Pixar. One thing we couldn’t stop thinking about was why she was all alone in the ocean on the day she met Marlin. In ‘Finding Dory,’ she will be reunited with her loved ones, learning a few things about the meaning of family along the way.” [IGN]

When I heard this announcement today, I was ecstatic, especially with the news that Stanton will be directing. Of course, there’s no “need” for this sequel, but unlike Cars 2, I think this will be a welcomed one. It’s not a stretch given Dory’s knack for forgetfulness that she would somehow become lost – and I’d imagine Nemo and Marlin will have to head out on an adventure to find her. I could be wrong there, but either way, I am very pleased to see this announcement and will be looking forward to November 2013.

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