Thursday, September 11, 2014

Daily Spider-Man! "His feelers?" Ox, you don't really get the whole animal thing, do you?"


Jon Heder is Napoleon Dynamite again in video for fan with cancer



From ew, It’s been 10 years since Napoleon Dynamite was released, but Jon Heder brought back the titular character for a very special occasion.

Heder reprised his role as the socially inept teenager in a video for 12-year-old Mary Elizabeth Paris, a leukemia patient who is a huge fan of the film. While today’s Dynamite seems to have sprouted a beard, Heder was still able to channel the breathy intonations of the classic movie dork to wish Paris luck, complete with his signature “butterfly lotus” hand wave made popular in the film.

Jaws died today


Richard Kiel, whose towering height and distinctive baritone voice defined his nearly 50-year career in television and films, most notably as the steely toothed James Bond villain Jaws, died Wednesday afternoon in Fresno, Calif. at the age of 74, TMZ reports. The actor had been hospitalized after breaking his leg earlier in the week, but it is still unclear if that was related to his death.

Kiel’s rep did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

The Detroit-born Kiel, who grew to be 7 feet 1.5 inches, worked various odd jobs, including cemetery plot salesman and nightclub bouncer, before making his television debut at age 21 in the NBC Western Laramie. His roles were always at least partially defined by his extraordinary physicality, including in the schlocky 1962 B-movie Eegah, which got a bit of a cult boost after being featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000,where Kiel played a giant caveman who falls for a California party girl he accidentally encounters in the desert. Kiel was also one of the top choices to play The Incredible Hulk—a role that would end up going to Lou Ferrigno after the producers decided they needed someone more muscular (and after Kiel had already filmed some of the pilot).


Kiel continued to score a number of memorable, if sometimes bit, roles including stints as villains in shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Wild Wild West and in films like The Longest Yard and Silver Streak. But Kiel would ultimately be defined by his role as Jaws, the metal-mouthed James Bond villain of the Roger Moore-era who first appeared in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me and was apparently so popular that they had him reprise his role in 1979’s Moonraker. Those famous teeth caused Kiel immense discomfort, though. “They were nauseating,” he told The Guardian in 2009. “They were up in the roof of your mouth and gave you a gagging effect – you felt like you were going to be sick. It did add to the stoic part of my character – to keep from throwing up.

The 1980s did not prove to be particularly kind to Kiel’s career, but he burst back into the public’s favorable consciousness in 1996 (following a severe car crash and head injury that forced him to walk with a cane) as an eager, intimidating fan in Happy Gilmore. He also appeared in the live-action Inspector Gadget as “Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth,” and lent his voice to the video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing and for the animated pic Tangled as Vlad.

Keil, also a screenwriter, penned a 2002 autobiography called Making It Big in the Movies, where he humorously detailed his unconventional career, revealing that he would often tell people he was 7’2″ just because it was easier to remember.

“My life has been very good just the way it is,” Kiel told Den of Geek in a 2009 interview. As for what he considered to be his greatest achievement? It’s probably not what you’d think. He said: “My best part would probably be Captain Drazak in Force 10 from Navarone. A lot of people don’t even know it’s me because I had a big beard and a great costume. As Jaws, I start off as a bad guy and turn into a good guy whereas in this I appear to be a good guy and turn into a really nasty guy.”

Millennium Falcon Sighting Shocks Photographer



From news.sky, Matthew Myatt was taking stock photos for the flying school Airborne Aviationover Greenham Common near Newbury, Berkshire, on Tuesday.The cast past and present discuss the new film

But when he got home to load the images onto his computer he was amazed to see he had captured shots of a totally different type of aircraft - the Millennium Falcon.

Mr Myatt told Sky News he had noticed something "unusual" on the ground while working but had to get his "son to pinch him" and confirm what he thought it was.

His photo shows the partially constructed aircraft alongside an X-wing fighter, crane and other parts of a set. Mr Myatt said he could also see that trees and bushes had been planted on the common.

The former airfield was famous in the 1980s for the women's peace camp that sprang up around it in protest at the stationing of nuclear weapons on the site.

Director JJ Abrams has been filming Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, Ireland and Abu Dhabi.

Mr Myatt said: "I grew up with Star Wars but this is something I never thought I'd see in real life. It was a real shocker."Ford is back on set after breaking his leg

He added that he is planning to go back to have a closer look.

The new film will see Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill return as Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker.

Ford had to have surgery on his left leg in June after breaking it on set.

The plot of Episode VII has been kept a secret but it takes place 30 years after the end of Return Of The Jedi.

The film is due for release in the UK in December 2015.

Zack Snyder’s ‘Batman v Superman’ Batmobile Fully Revealed




From slashfilm, Zack Snyder has revealed the first official uncovered fully revealed photo of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice batmobile. Hit the jump to see the new Batman vs. Superman batmobile professionally photographed and ready to go.

Snyder’s tweet reads “Here’s a real picture of the #Batmobile.” while his official photographer Clay Enos tweeted out the following technical info about the photo:

iPhone photography is great but some things deserve more. #batmobile (Nikon D800 ISO 500 24mm f/11 1/25th sec)

The official photo comes just hours after unofficial fan set photos revealed the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice batmobile. The official image looks a bit nicer than those iphone photos from the set, but I’m not really digging the new look — and this is coming from someone who was never in love with Christopher Nolan’s The Tumbler.

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Daily Spider-Man! "His name was Cyrus Cephalopod. Doctor Cyrus Cephalopod. Don't know if that helps."


'Spider-Woman #1' has a special variant cover that is causing some controversy for some reason


From ew, Good news: Marvel has a new comic book starring a female character! Better news: That female character is Spider-Woman, a.k.a. Jessica Drew, a severely underrated B-lister who hasn’t had a solo non-limited series since the late ’70s. Best news: Spider-Woman will team up Jessica with Silk, another female superhero, therefore all-but-assuring that Spider-Woman will be passing the Bechdel Test all over the place.

Woohoo, Marvel! Woohoo, strong female character! Woohoo, illustrations of those strong female characters posing with strength and femininity!

Yep, there’s ol’ Spider-Woman, just hangin’ out on the side of a building, as one does.

Thrusting her posterior high in the air, as one does.

And her legs spread all akimbo, as legs so often are.

And also her costume appears to be painted or possibly even just tattooed on.

And I guess she’s in a crawling position, even though she’s clearly perched on a ledge, so she doesn’t really need to do the whole “wall-crawling” thing.

And I guess that, like, theoretically, if you were in one of those buildings behind her, and you happened to cast a glance across the street, you might let out a gasp and exclaim, “Great Scott! For a second there, I thought I saw an adolescent fantasy of subservient womanhood crawling across that building over there! I sure am glad that was just a trick of the light, because it would be really crazy if I had seen a nude red giant super-butt in a nominally family-friendly situation! Why, if I had seen something like that, I might start thinking to myself that this is exactly the kind of thing that happens in a male-dominated industry–the sort of thing that probably wouldn’t happen if there were, like, a couple women in the room to point out when something looks desperately wrong. Glad I didn’t see anything like that!”

Monday, September 08, 2014

Daily Spider-Man! "It's Spider vs. Ox!" -- as heard in not one nature special ever


Box Office



From ew, Guardians of the Galaxy claimed the No. 1 spot once more this weekend with an estimated $10.16 million as it makes its way towards the coveted $300 million mark, while the faith-based musical drama The Identical (Cinema Score: B)—the only new wide release—failed to catch on in any significant way, opening in 11th place with a shoddy $1.91 million. The rest of the top five were all holdovers, earning in or around $5 million.

If things seem somewhat unexciting at the box office this weekend, your eyes and untouched movie dollars aren’t deceiving you: It was basically planned to be that way. “This is the no man’s land between the end of the summer season and the start of Oscar season and the big holiday movie season,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian told EW earlier this week. “This is just one of those weekends that are always expected to be slow. It’s nothing to be alarmed about, the sky is not falling, it’s just post-Labor Day weekend and we have to live through it.”

In the top spot, Guardians of the Galaxy‘s $10.16 million take brings the domestic total to a staggering $294.57 million and its global total to $586 million, and it still has yet to open in Japan (next weekend), China (Oct. 10), and Italy (Oct. 22). Guardians has now exceeded the global grosses of its fellow “first-timers” in the Marvel universe includingIron Man ($585 million), Thor ($449 million), and Captain America: The First Avenger($371 million).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles picked up over the weekend to take second place with an estimated $6.5 million from 3,273 locations and are looking at a cool $174.65 million domestic total, while the YA tearjerker If I Stay, which only cost $11 million to produce, earned another $5.75 million in its third weekend in theaters. Fox’s Let’s Be Cops and Relativity’s The November Man rounded out the top five with $5.4 million and $4.2 million weekends, respectively.

Here are the top five:

1. Guardians of the Galaxy — $10.16 million ($294.57 million domestic total)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — $6.5 million (174.65 million domestic total)
3. If I Stay — $5.75 million ($39.66 million domestic total)
4. Let’s Be Cops — $5.4 million ($66.59 million domestic total)
5. The November Man — $4.2 million ($17.87 million domestic total)

The Identical, meanwhile took the 11th place spot (sandwiched between Lucy and The Expendables 3) with an estimated $1.91 million from 1,966 locations. Freestyle Releasing, who ushered God’s Not Dead to a $9.2 million opening in just 780 theaters in March, hoped to capitalize on the same faith-based fervor that helped that film reach $60.8 million domestically. With a B Cinema Score and dismal reviews (4 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), it seems unlikely that the Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta drama will pick up speed in the coming weeks.

Carnival Of Souls

(1962) **** Carnival Of Souls  is in the absolute tip-toppest tier of late-night horror flicks. If all you want to do is watch something til...