New Machete trailer boasts remarkable cast

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it's haiku time, guys!

How Captain Kirk Changed the World

From Nasa:

May 4, 2010: "Standard orbit, Mr. Sulu." Captain Kirk barks out the order with such confidence. He knows the USS Enterprise can slip in and out of planetary orbits with ease. But it's only easy in the realm of science fiction. In the real world, such maneuvers have been impossible --until now.

Enter Dawn, NASA's cutting edge mission to the asteroid belt.

Powered with a futuristic sounding new technology called "ion propulsion," this spacecraft will perform space moves rivaling those of the Enterprise.

At this very moment, Dawn is slowly climbing away from the sun, beyond Mars, on its way to its first destination, asteroid Vesta. Dawn will enter "standard orbit" around this rocky world for a year, exploring its mysteries.
Then Dawn will do something unprecedented in real-world spaceflight: exit the orbit of one distant body, and fly to and orbit another. The second destination is asteroid Ceres.

"Dawn will be the first spacecraft ever built to orbit two target bodies after leaving Earth," says Marc Rayman, Dawn chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "There's not even a concept for doing such a mission with conventional propulsion systems. The spacecraft would have to carry so much fuel, it would be too heavy to launch."
Instead, Dawn relies on ion propulsion, which doesn't require a huge spacecraft. Rayman first heard the term years ago while watching – you guessed it -- Star Trek.

Read more here.

Cloverfield 2 Trailer Attached to Iron Man 2?

From moviesonline, t has been a very long time since I have heard anything about the Cloverfield sequel and now from HitFix comes word that Iron Man 2 will have the trailer for Super 8 which is reportedly the sequel playing.

Frankly this surprises the hell out of me. Did the studio really manage to film the trailer and start production in secrecy?

This is just another good reason to go and see Iron Man 2 so you can see the trailer for 'Super 8' which is what the sequel is titled. Assuming this rumor is true.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 4" to Cut $100 Million Out of Budget

From worstpreviews, The original "Pirates of the Caribbean" cost $140 million to make. The sequel cost $225 million. And the third installment had a whopping $300 million budget. All three films made money, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer is not planning to continue escalating the budget to bring the fourth installment to the big screen.

LA Times has learned that Disney has imposed a more constrained budget and Bruckheimer is scrambling to meet it before production begins on June 14th. For those worried that the new film may end up being cheap-looking, it is expected for the budget to still be around $200 million.

The goal is to include far fewer shooting days (down to 90 from 142) and visual effects shots (down to 1,300 from 2,000). Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow character would also spend more time on land than water, because of the high cost of shooting on the high seas.

"[Disney's CEO Bob Iger] wants to be mean and lean and make these movies very entertaining but also very cost effective," said Bruckheimer. "The hard thing is you have to make painful decisions that cut into some very entertaining sequences."

Hugo Weaving is the Red Skull in Captain America.

From ew, Watch out, Captain America. You officially have an arch-nemesis. Marvel has announced that they have cast Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt, a.k.a. the Red Skull, in their 2011 Captain America flick. The actor already has experience playing the big-screen baddie in action flicks — he voiced Megatron in Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and, of course, starred as Agent Smith in the Matrix films. Captain America: The First Avenger‘s story will focus on Steve Rogers’ transformation into the titular superhero after participating in an experimental program.

Weaving’s Skull will be an update on the Schmidt character that appeared in the comics. He was drafted into the service of the Third Reich and renamed the Red Skull. Production will begin this summer in London with Captain America set to bow on July 22, 2011.

Every time I see this poster, I think Freddy's wearing a dress

Granted, I'm usually driving past a bus stop with an Elm Street poster, and hopefully paying more attention to the road. But if you squint, doesn't it look like he's wearing a long skirt like Pinhead wears?

Fem.

Man Dies After Swamp Eel Eats His Bowels

From geekology, No, not bowls like cereal bowls, I'm talking bowels -- his butt-parts, yo!

Shocked doctors in Sichuan, China, found the sea creature in the 59-year-old man's rectum after his death, it has been reported.

The 50cm long Asian swamp eel was allegedly inserted into the unnamed man's bottom, after he passed out drunk, by pals playing a prank on him.

Medics said the eel had devoured his bowels.

What. the. f***? Listen: if the people you're hanging out with have a penchant for stuffing things up your ass when you pass out drunk you need to run DO NOT WALK to a new group of friends. I mean, WHO SQUEEZES AN EEL UP A DRUNK MAN'S ASS?! That's not a prank. Drawing a penis on someone's face is a prank. Jamming a fish in their rectum is a PRACTICAL JOKE.

Box Office

From ew, It was a good weekend for Freddy Krueger. The 1980s horror villain is back with a vengeance, with The Nightmare on Elm Street remake earning a solid $32 million, landing it in first place at the box office this weekend. Still, even with the success of Nightmare — which stars Jackie Earle Haley as the disfigured madman who kills teenagers in their dreams — this weekend’s box office still couldn’t trump last year’s total in early May, when X-Men Origins: Wolverine grossed a boffo $85 million. (Of course, Hollywood will likely make up for it next weekend, when Robert Downey Jr. dons the Iron Man suit once again; the film is already hitting across the season, where its opened in 53 territories this past weekend, taking in $100.2 million) And though Nightmare earned $32 million, the film fell steeply between Friday and Saturday night, and earned a C+ Cinemascore, which suggests that the film hasn’t been very well received by audiences.

Second place for the weekend belonged to How to Train Your Dragon, which, once again, held in remarkably well. The PG-rated 3-D flick grossed an estimated $10.8 million, down only 29 percent since last weekend. Its total gross now stands at $192.3 million. The Steve Carell, Tina Fey-starrer Date Night fell only 27 percent, collecting an additional $7.6 million. The PG-13 comedy has now grossed $73.6 million. Not bad for two television stars, huh?

Despite a weak opening, The Back-Up Plan held on fairly well its second weekend in theaters. Falling 41 percent, Jennifer Lopez’s romantic comedy grossed an additional $7.2 million to put the film’s two-week total at $22.9 million. Fifth place for the three-day period went to the other newcomer of the weekend, Furry Vengeance. The PG-rated family film earned only $6.5 million but scored a B+ with audiences. The Brendan Fraser-starrer is unlikely to do much business going forward, but considering its a co-production between Summit Entertainment and Participant Pictures, its unlikely the film’s disappointment will hurt either company much.

Sixth place went to The Losers. The film — which disappointed in its opening weekend — fell 36 percent its second weekend in theaters, grossing an additional $6 million. The Jeffrey Dean Morgan-Zoe Saldana action flick has collected just $18 million after ten days in release. Clash of the Titans took the seventh spot, earning an estimated $5.9 million, putting its total gross at $154 million. Kick-Ass earned another $4.4 million in its third weekend of release, landing an eighth place finish. The R-rated film continues to fall steeply — it dropped 52 percent, but has grossed a total of $42 million. Death at a Funeral — which took in $4 million — and Disney’s Oceans documentary, which raked in $2.6 million, rounded out the top ten. The R-rated Chris Rock comedy lost 50 percent of its value since last weekend, and, in three weeks of release, has grossed $34.7 million. Disney’s doc dropped 57 percent, earning a cume of $13.5 million.

In limited release, the latest Nicole Holofcener drama Please Give grossed an impressive $128,696 in five theaters for a strong per-screen average of $25,000. IFC’s disturbing horror flick Human Centipede only opened on one screen and earned $12,400 for the frame. Check back next weekend when we discover whether Iron Man 2 will break box office records.

Tron car

From cinemablend, Disney has released a brand new vehicle banner for Tron: Legacy on Yahoo. No lightcycles this time, instead it’s our first detailed look at a brand new addition to the Tron universe. You may have seen it flash past in the trailer, Update! Thanks to our loyal readers, we know Disney is calling this a "Light Runner". It's a two-passenger vehicle with the ability to go off the grid under its own power.

Due respect to Hank Azaria, but...

I got tired of looking at that picture too. Here's a hot cannibal nurse.

Just be glad it isn't a foot-pussy. Happy Sunday!