jimblr.com

AFTER Ang Lee piled on the abstract art and cerebral complexity in his 2003 Hulk movie, it was pretty obvious this Marvel remake directed by Louis Leterrier was going to be a different beast altogether.
While Ang went for angst (and got a poor box office in return), Louis goes for loudness in a movie that really does show the savage monster within, including a spectacular, street-shaking, climactic showdown which must be a candidate for best comicbook movie superfight ever to hit the big screen.
HOLLYWOOD writer/director Zak Penn has revealed details of his involvement with proposed films on Young X-Men and Avengers, the upcoming Incredible Hulk film - and spoken of his feelings on the 2006 blockbuster X-Men: The Last Stand (known as X3 to fans).
Penn has given several interviews to promote The Grand, a movie he directed and co-wrote, which is set around an international poker tournament and was released in the UK last month. But the revelations on past, present and future superhero movie projects have been far more interesting.
THE Incredible Hulk is flexing his muscles for a street-shaking comeback in a new movie this summer - but will it be a monster success?
Marvel’s not-so-jolly green giant makes his return to the big screen on June 13 in what’s promised to be ‘an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic’ with a new cast including Edward Norton, a new director and a terrifying new enemy for the Hulk to take on.

blogs.coventrytelegraph.net

Friday Main Street movie/dance
Motown dance music to complement free movie presentation
By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor
A Motown-themed street dance will kick off Corbin Main Street’s Friday night movie series, opening tomorrow with a free outdoor showing of “Hairspray.”
The dance will be from 7-9 p.m. Friday at Nibroc Park, with DJ Doug Phelps providing music. Radio stations T107 and WKDP will be broadcasting live from the park, and First Street between Kentucky and Main streets will be closed for the dance.
“This is going to be music that’s going to reflect the theme of the movie, which is mostly Motown,” said Main Street Manager Sharae Myers. “The dance starts at 7 p.m., and it gives the community an opportunity to come downtown, grab a quick bite to eat, come to the street dance and bring a chair or blanket and hang out for a free movie.”
In addition to Main Street restaurants that will be open during the event, The Kiwanis Club will be selling concessions at the park as a club fundraiser.
At dark (about 9 p.m.) the screening of the 2007 remake of John Water’s “Hairspray” will begin at Nibroc Park. Starring John Travolta in drag, Christopher Walken as “his” husband, and Nikki Blonsky as daughter Tracy Turnblad, the movie is a fun, music-filled tale about a “pleasantly plump” teen who lands a spot on a local TV dance show in 1962. Tracy participates in the “Miss Teenage Hairspray” pageant and helps integrate the dance show, all to a backdrop of 60s Motown music.
Friday’s event is the first in a series of movie nights that will be held every Friday through Aug. 1 — except on the second Friday of the month. On those second Fridays, the movies will be moved to Saturday night to coincide with the monthly Cumberland Valley Cruise-In.

thetimestribune.com

By Mason W. Canales
Killeen Daily Herald
The Cinemark movie theater at Market Heights in Harker Heights will cut its ribbon and swing open its doors to customers today.
“With the opening of Cinemark at Market Heights, we can look ahead toward the addition of the other businesses at Market Heights to our chamber and our city,” Bill Kozlik, Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce president, said in a news release.
The festivities for Cinemark will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. today, with a ribbon cutting at 6 p.m.
Some of the films that will be shown during the theater’s first day are “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” a news release from Cinemark said.
The theater will feature 16 screens and about 2,600 stadium seats, James Meredith, Cinemark vice president of marketing and communication, said in April. It also will have a self-serve concession stand. The concession line will let patrons serve themselves soda, candy, bottled drinks and ice cream before paying a cashier, a release said.
Other concession menu items include the traditional movie theater treat – popcorn – and the non-traditional
like Starbucks coffee, Dreyer’s Ice Cream, Red Baron Pizza, Otis Spunkmeyer cookies and more.
Outside the theater, before and after the ribbon-cutting, visitors can enjoy face painting, a caricaturist, music and other activities until 7 p.m.
The first 100 people to buy tickets today and Friday get a Cinemark “swag bag” filled with gifts. The first 1,000 people to buy tickets to the Indiana Jones movie get a limited edition Indiana Jones Top Trump Booster Pack. Those who purchase large drinks will get grand opening T-shirts, while supplies last, the release said.
The opening will benefit recovering wounded soldiers.
From today through May 29, all small drinks and small popcorns will be $1. The proceeds of those sales on Friday and Saturday will go to the Warrior Transition Unit on Fort Hood.

kdhnews.com

Video Game Report: With all the attention being directed towards the release of Grand Theft Auto IV last week, the debut of Mario Kart Wii got lost in the mix. Rob takes a step back to the future to make sure the game gets the review it deserves.
Kaila Yu is a triple threat, actress/model/singer and one of the top girls on MySpace with over 9 million hits and 450K friends. In 2007 she was picked by Rolling Stone Magazine in their annual HOT LIST as an artist to watch out for, and by Stuff Magazine as one of the 100 sexiest women online. As an actress, Kaila has appeared in Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift and Penthouse, and is currently shooting a lead role for the movie, Mr. Jenkins. She has appeared as a guest host on numerous shows including MTV, CHI, Octane TV, Kush TV, Torque TV, and Ripe TV, and currently hosts her own show on Sickam.com and Music Plus TV. Kaila recently released her own jewelry line called Hello Drama, which has garnered buzz with celebrities and the public, and is being featured in MTV’s upcoming document, “True Life: I Want to be a Rockstar”.
Arcade gets viewers up-to-date on cutting edge video games, the machines that power them and the gamers that rule them. The show consists of four segments (Video Game Report, Top 5, War Room, and Grudge Match), all dedicated to improving the gaming prowess of avid video game players of all levels. New episodes are broadcast every Friday at 4 PM EST on maniaTV.com. To see highlights from the show go to http://www.maniatv.com/shows/arcade .
The maniaTV Network launched in 2004 as the world’s first Internet TV network. The company produces, sells and distributes made for internet programming targeting the 18 to 34 year old audience while delivering innovative branded entertainment opportunities to leading brands and advertisers. With a state-of-the-art production studio in Hollywood, maniaTV produces groundbreaking, award-winning programming for 8+ million viewers each month. maniaTV’s programming slate ranges from music and comedy, to drama, video gaming, and action sports. Leading shows include Dave Navarro’s Spread Entertainment , Tom Green Live, National Lampoon’s Lemmings, Arcade, and All Acess. maniaTV delivers unique brand experiences within each show and has served over 50 of Advertising Age’s Top 100. Through its visionary market leadership and focus on premium content and distribution partnerships, maniaTV is redefining television for the 21st Century. We like to call it “Television 2.0″.

transworldnews.com

BETWEEN hover cars, mind control and robotic servants, Hollywood hasn’t got a great track record when it comes to predictions about the future.
But while the outlandish depictions of years to come featured on the silver screen have, more often than not, been less fact and more fiction, they haven’t all been wide of the mark.
A team of more than 50 international academics have named Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as the science fiction film with the most realistic vision of the future of mankind.
The pioneering 1968 film, an adaptation of a screenplay by Arthur C Clarke, deals with questions about the evolution of mankind, and the nature of artificial intelligence – epitomised by the supercomputer HAL 9000.
The group of scientists, including representatives from Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan, alongside contemporaries from Oxford and King’s College London, judged that the cult sci-fi film featured the most plausible view of scientific progress.
Artificially intelligent super computers with the power to conspire against people, such as HAL, were considered the science fiction imagining most likely to become a reality.
Mark Brake, professor of Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan, said: “2001 raised science fiction cinema to a new level. The unfolding four-million-year filmic story brilliantly portrays Arthur C Clarke’s disturbing man-machine encounter with HAL a computer turned murderer.
“This unsettling scenario is not something we would ever want to imagine happening in reality, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility that artificial intelligence could turn on its creators.”
Also rated highly was Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, which features artificial humans – known as “replicants” – who escape a space colony and return to Earth to confront their maker.
The film was praised by the experts for exploring the idea that we may one day develop the technology to create imitation humans.

icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

The movie, “Sex And The City”, based on the wildly popular HBO cable TV series of the same name, has opened to generally favorable, but mixed, reviews.
The long awaited movie, is itself long, at about two and a half hours, and is said to be even more of a “chick flick”, than was the TV series.
But then, hey, isn’t that what it was supposed to be?
Here are tons of photos of the girls of “Sex And The City”, and, here’s more photos of and the story about the New York Radio City Music Hall premiere of “Sex And The City”.
See full article.
Contents of this feed are a property of Creative Weblogging Limited and are protected by copyright laws. Violations will be prosecuted. Please email us if you’d like to use this feed for non-commercial activities at feeds - at - creative-weblogging.com.
Enter your email address below to receive our Free eMag!
Whats in it?

fashion.ie

Storz, a 13-year-old, eighth-grade student at Lyndon Town School, is Vermont’s spelling bee champion. He has an affinity for “creative insults,” as he puts it. “Nidget” and “off your onion” are two of his favorites, he said last week as he prepared for his journey to Washington, D.C., to spell for a national audience. (In case you’re wondering, off your onion and nidget loosely mean an idiot.)
He also has a knack for spelling. The three-time school champion and last year’s state runner-up has “always had a natural ability” for spelling, he said. In March, he won the state bee on the word “epiphyte,” a type of plant that grows on another.
“It was kind of nice to win,” Storz said. “I got a cool laptop, and laptops are useful.
“It was nice that I won and nice that all the sponsors support it. So I felt grateful to them.”
Storz was confident going into the state competition. “I was expecting to win,” he said. “There are better spellers than me, but I felt like I was going to be lucky.”
The competition was long, he said. “I got a little bored.”
From the sounds of it, Storz will not be bored at the national competition. Aside from the nail-biting rounds the general public became familiar with through the movie “Spellbound,” Storz will visit many of the capital’s museums and attractions.
To prepare, Storz has been using a variety of methods to study. He’s been looking at word roots, spelling patterns in other languages, and studying the Scripp’s consolidated word list available on the organization’s Web site, his mother, Thea Storz said.
The Storzes also met with Lucy Weber and her family. Weber of Weybridge was Vermont’s previous delegate to the national bee. Weber reached the semifinals in 2007 before being knocked out for failing to correctly spell “araneiform,” which means, like a spider.

burlingtonfreepress.com

LOS ANGELES — Look at him standing there: a great big movie star in a great big movie, the ironman with nary a trace of human frailty.
A scant five years ago, the only time Robert Downey Jr. got big play in the media was during one of his perp walks.
Yet when casting the lead for
Iron Man, Marvel Studios bet on Downey. He is not only back in the game but at the top of it.
For years, Downey has been tagged with two shorthand references: “The greatest actor of his generation” (for his Oscar-nominated role in
Chaplin) was usually quickly followed by “drug-addled lowlife” (based on multiple arrests and relapses).
Now sober and productive, Downey seems less surprised than the rest of us.
“The people who made this movie said they were going to screen-test some people, and I thought: ‘Well, that’s how I got
Chaplin. Maybe this will work again,’ ” he said. “If you’re going to spend a hundred million bucks on a movie, why not see who works?”
There is a sincere logic behind his casting. The back story of genius-inventor-billionaire-arms dealer Tony Stark is plenty textured: He likes big weapons and fast women and seems to have misplaced his conscience, so it makes sense that the man who steps into both his suit of armor and his role as superhero has manifest feet of clay.
“There are things we know about just from reading the newspaper,” said Jeff Bridges, who plays an affable villain to Downey’s superhero.
“The audience brings that darker part of the story into the theater. And his wit and improvisation bring it home.”
Director Jon Favreau said that casting Downey was far from a source of stress.
“Nobody went to see a movie about the pirate ride at Disneyland,” Favreau said by phone. “They got interested in it because of Johnny Depp. When Robert was cast in

dispatch.com

Just for a minute, forget about superheroes and sequels. Because sometimes even movie geeks need to stop eating popcorn and get some nutrition. And that’s why we’re looking forward to rounding out 2008 with a nice, big, informative glass of “Milk.”
“I just did this film called ‘Milk’ with Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant about Harvey Milk,” explained Emile “Speed Racer” Hirsch recently, giving us some early details on what many are already calling this year’s Oscar flick to beat. “I think it’s going to be a really good film.”
When we caught up with Josh Brolin a few weeks back, he had a lot to say about the top-secret biopic, which will depict one of the most bizarre stories in American politics. And in this age of Eliot Spitzer, that’s saying quite a bit.
“Not many people know the story yet,” insisted Hirsch, who plays real-life gay activist (and eventual creator of the AIDS memorial quilt) Cleve Jones.
Although the 23-year-old actor was hesitant to pinpoint Van Sant’s timeline, he did confirm that the film will depict Milk’s rise to prominence and assassination, on through the infamous Twinkie trial and imprisonment of his killer, Dan White. “Yeah, [it will go until] around then,” he said. “I don’t want to give anything away by telling you a timeline, but it’s not really giving anything away, because it’s historical fact.”
With Penn and the red-hot Hirsch and Brolin in the leads, and a solid supporting cast that includes Diego Luna and James Franco, “Milk” is already positioning itself as a late-November awards contender. And according to the young star, the film will be an appropriate memorial to the executed activist who said: “”If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
“Milk represented change for a lot of people, and was a catalyst to that,” Hirsch said, explaining the film’s intended significance. “And his eventual assassination similarly mirrored Martin Luther King.”

moviesblog.mtv.com

helluva good week. a couple more:
4/29 - American Music Club at Iota. The new album ain’t great but some of their older material is killer.
4/30 - Fake Problems w/ Anti-Flag - i saw fake problems opening for another band a few months ago. seriously good.
5/1 - Redwalls at dc9. if you’re not familiar, they did a great daytrotter session last fall that i think is still available.
i’m bummed i’m not going to be in town for that black cat show saturday.
Yeah, just to follow up on Hoodrat’s post — that Julie Ocean/Redwalls show at DC9 is on Thursday, not Tuesday. Should be awesome.

dcist.com