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Vol. 9 No. 18
Pick Hits
Toy Box
Wolverine Claws Replica
No other X-Man is as popular as
the mutant scrapper known as Wolverine. Now, Diamond Select and Industrial Zoo
present the life-sized, 1:1 scale replica of Wolverine’s forearm, complete with
extended claws and simulated deployment mechanisms. The skeletal arm measures
over 2-feet in length and comes encased in a clear plexi-glass tube. This item
is limited to 2,500 pieces and comes with a hand-numbered Certificate of
Authenticity. Wait, that’s not the best part, if you really want it, the price
is only a mere $250.00 U.S.
At The Movies
X2: X-Men United
X2 reunites the principal cast
members of X-Men, which theatrically has grossed nearly $300 million worldwide,
was a video and DVD phenomenon, and pioneered the current wave of comics to film
adaptations. Also returning are the original's key creative team, including
director Bryan Singer. X-Men 2 focuses on doppelgangers, evil twins who share
similar qualities, such as Wolverine and Deathstrike, Xavier and Magneto, Iceman
and Pyro. Then there's blue-skinned Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos), who can
duplicate anyone she likes, and does so to terrific effect here. Rounding out
the X-Men this time out are Kitty Pryde, Colossus, and Nightcrawler amongst
other notables all captured in spectacular fashion. If its action, adventure and
great special effects you're after, you won't be disappointed. As Stan Lee would
say, Nuff Said.
On Video
Darkness Falls
In their never-ending-quest to
come up with horror film scenarios, filmmakers seem willing to tap any and all
characters to turn them into avenging bogeymen. For this outing, the filmmakers
have come up with a monstrous tooth fairy that wrecks havoc on the town of
Darkness
Falls. The film starts with a prologue of a woman, a lighthouse keeper with a
badly burned face, unjustly accused of a heinous crime. In the ensuing 150 years
since the miscarriage of justice, whenever local kids lose their last baby
tooth, the evil spirit of the woman appears, scarring the kids forever. The
movie quickly moves to the present, where Kyle, safely away from Darkness Falls,
must return home to confront his troubled past (he was accused of murdering his
mother when we all know it was the tooth fairy) to save his childhood sweetheart
and her younger brother (on his was to losing his last baby tooth) from the
monster.
The Buzz...
The first two times Playboy
magazine came calling, Sarah Kozer from Joe Millionaire said no. But the
third time, after receiving unanimous approval from her family and friends, she
changed her mind. Now, the reality show runner-up is on the cover of the
magazine's June issue.
The world's oldest tennis
championship will be the backdrop of a romantic comedy called Wimbledon, the
story of a lowly British tennis star attempting to win against the odds. The
movie will star Spider Man actress Kirsten Dunst and British actor
Paul Bettany from A Beautiful Mind.
Norah Jones
and The Roots are among the performers lined up for 100% NYC: A Concert
Celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival. The free show is planned for May 9 in
lower Manhattan's
Battery Park. MTV and VH1 are sponsoring the concert, and will broadcast it on
May 17.
Taking advantage of
Louisiana's
new film incentive program, Walt Disney Pictures will begin shooting a baseball
movie starring comedian Bernie Mac. Mr. 3000, to be produced by Disney's
Touchstone division, is set to begin shooting May 28.
Animator Joe Barbera,
co-creator of cartoon legends Tom and Jerry, The Jetsons and Yogi Bear, hopes to
save the studios and offices where the figures were first sketched. Barbera, 92,
wrote a letter to the City Council opposing a proposal to demolish two of three
buildings that once housed Hanna-Barbera Studios in Hollywood to make room for a
development of stores and apartments.
Blake Mycoskie,
a former contestant on CBS' The Amazing Race 2, and cable industry vet, Larry
Namer, the founder of Movietime are joining forces to launch Reality
Central, a new cable network devoted to reality programming 24/7.
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Star Wars creator George
Lucas is planning to bring back Chewbacca, everyone's favorite wookie played
by actor Peter Mayhew from the first trilogy, along with C-3PO and R2-D2
for Star Wars Episode III. Lucas is leaving fans in the dark as to whether Darth
Vader will be featured. The film hits theaters on May 25, 2005.
Jennifer Garner's
Daredevil spin-off movie is set to begin filming in 2004.
The film will follow her injured assassin character,
Elektra, as she recovers from a near-death experience and the battles the Hand,
the organization of killers which trained her and then turned against her.
Vancouver-based hard rockers Nickelback are back in the studio recording
their self-produced follow-up to the multi-platinum selling "Silver Side Up"
disc. The band have completed four or five songs. Recording sessions are
expected to wrap up in June.
Jack Osbourne has checked into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic.
The 17-year-old is the son of metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and an aspiring
music entrepreneur.
WWE’s Backlash
pay-per-view left a bad taste in the mouth of fans. With WWE's recent idealism
that slower paced in-ring matches would bring a smile to the faces of all fans
and lower injuries is beyond the realm of today's average fan and as a result
fans are starting to turn their cheeks toward the WWE. You know something's
wrong when a company puts on a PPV and leaves out some of its most promising
young superstars such as Chris Benoit, Christian, and Matt
Hardy.
ABC is planning to air 13
half-hour segments of a reality program starring Roseanne Barr as she
goes about Hollywood pitching The Domestic Goddess Hour, a weekly
variety/cooking show to air on cable's ABC Family this fall.
Jane’ s Addiction
will finally release their long-awaited studio album, Hypersonic, on July 15th,
just shortly after the kick off of Lollapalooza. The album is being produced by
Bob Ezrin (KISS, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd), who also
produced Jane’s Ritual De Lo Habitual in 1990.
Metallica
will be hosting the premiere edition of the resurrected Headbanger's Ball on
Saturday, May 10 on MTV2. Metallica will also play four free shows, on May 18,
19, 21 and 22, at the Fillmore Theater in their hometown of San Francisco to
gear up for the forthcoming Summer Sanitarium Tour.
Pop superstar Justin
Timberlake has agreed to co-host this year's MTV Movie Awards alongside
American Pie star Seann William Scott. The hunky pair will dish out the
gongs at the star-studded bash held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on May 31.
The as-yet-unnamed supergroup
featuring Guns N' Roses alumni reportedly will contribute a cover of
Pink Floyd's Money to the soundtrack for the upcoming film The Italian Job.
Pearl Jam
have purchased 5,700 tons of Conservation Carbon from Madagascar's Makira rain
forest conservation project to offset the ecological damage caused by their
current North American tour. The 1 million fans who will drive to and from the
group's shows will produce 5,700 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Clothing designer Jean Paul
Gaultier, who created the super-pointy bras Madonna wore onstage for
her 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour, will tailor the clothing for Marilyn Mansons's
trek to support his next album, The Golden Age of Grotesque.
The file-sharing community
scored a major victory in court when a judge ruled that the companies behind the
Morpheus and Grokster networks were not responsible for how people used their
software.
Luke Perry,
who starred in the '90s TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, and his wife, Minnie,
have decided to separate.
Eight letters and a Christmas
card from Princess Diana will go on the auction block this week along
with 300 other items from the estate of fashion editor Liz Tilberis.
The Harry Potter series is back
on library shelves in the Cedarville School District, following a federal
judge's order to give students access to the popular books about the boy wizard.
Friends’ stunner Courteney
Cox is pregnant with her first child - and she is delighted at the prospect
of being a mother.
Because of SARS fears, Miramax
has decided to relocate Shall We Dance?, starring Jennifer Lopez and
Richard Gere, to Winnipeg, Manitoba from Toronto.
Calista Flockhart
and Harrison Ford will soon announce their engagement - according to
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