Month: September 2018

NEWS ROUNDUP: WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2018

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER on why Halloween would NOT do well with today’s critics.. MORE.. In 2018, revisiting Halloween means revisiting the Kael quote, especially the keyword of “sophistication.” We’re living through a so-called golden age of horror cinema, a genre renaissance, if you like; put in franker language, horror today gets taken more seriously by studios, by the press, by institutions like AMPAS and by audiences, than it did as far back as decades and as recently as years…
NASA tracking asteroid set to almost GRAZE Earth at 12,000mph! MORE: The US space agency has classed Asteroid 2018 SM1 as a near-Earth object (NEO), saying it will reach its closest point to the planet tomorrow at 12.42pm GMT (11.42am UT)…

Jane Fonda regrets her famed ‘Hanoi Jane’ photo

USA Today reports that in a new HBO documentary titled, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Fonda reflected on the “infamous photo that showed her sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.”

Fonda tells HBO that the photo “was a betrayal.”

“I will go to my grave regretting that.” 

“We were bombing, and it wasn’t being talked about. And I thought, ‘I’m a celebrity. Maybe if I go, and I bring back evidence’ And it did stop two months after I got back, so I’m proud that I went. It changed my life all for the good,”

 “The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun. It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding with the enemy,’ which is the last thing in the world that was true.”


BATMAN ARTIST BREYFOGLE DEAD AT 58

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58-year-old Batman artist Norm Breyfogle passed from this earthly existence Monday …

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Breyfogle ​was an industry legend through and through, making up– along with Alan Grant– one half of one of the best Batman creative teams of all time. His work was moody and mysterious while still having an undeniable energy. Truly a perfect fit for the Dark Knight.

Funeral arrangements for Breyfogle will be announced by the Erickson Crowley Peterson Funeral Home. The cause of his death has not yet been shared publicly.

Breyfogle is best known for his epic run on the Batman comic books from 1987 to 1995. Breyfogle worked with Alan Grant on Detective Comics and introduced villains the Ventriloquist in their first Batman story and the Ratcacther in their third.

Breyfogle drew Batman for six years (1987-1993), penciling Detective Comics from 1987-1990, then moving to the standalone Batman comic to introduce Tim Drake, the third Robin post Jason Todd, from 1990-1992, and finally starting a new Batman series for DC titled “Batman: Shadow of the Bat” from 1992-1993 which saw the Grant/Breyfogle team create three new characters, Jeremiah Arkham, Mr. Zsasz, and Amygdala.

VENOM 2 will shoot for an R

The trailers for VENOM look creepy. Frightening… over the top in violence and minimal in colorful laugh..

But it only got a PG-13 despite promises from industry insiders that it would get an R rating..
While the movie tried it didn’t make it .
Maybe the sequel or series will I movie makers lists every to the advice of Star Tom Hardy.. 
In a chat with MTV International this week, Venom star Tom Hardy said this: 
“It’s a PG-13 in the States. But to be fair, the thing can fulcrum into R-Rated,” Hardy told the outlet. “My littlest ones, they watch Spider-Man and Venom quite comfortably and Venom toys appear and LEGO appear in my nostril in the morning, you know what I mean? So it’s not like they’re scared by him. And at the same time there’s a lot within the real estate that you can actually imbue with a complete sense of gratuitous ultra-violence if you really wanted to, and I think you’ve got the right people for that job if you want to push it. That’s where I’d love to go with it.”


Next time.

Odd DirecTV warning broadcast in multiple states

There was a strange occurrence broadcast through DirecTV in multiple states on Tuesday..

YouTube and Twitter persaonility REIGNBOT also Tweeted about the event, causing a number of respondents to state they also witnessed the strange transmission..
You can view and listen to a snippet of the video captured on this Twitter handle:
According to the reports, it was a warning screen with odd staticky voices being heard mumbling in the background..
From the information being posted online, the event seems to have been captured on television sets in Florida, Texas, Los Angeles California, and Cincinnati Ohio..

MAKING A MURDERER 2 gets October 19 premiere date

Making a Murderer’s “Part 2,” another ten episodes, has been assigned a premier date on Netflix. The show is about a convicted murderer named Steven Avery, along with his co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey…


 According to Deadline, this second installation “provides an in-depth look at the high-stakes post-conviction process, exploring the emotional toll the process takes on all involved.”

Shock death of Paul Vasquez at 48!

“Sons of Anarchy” actor Paul John Vasquez has died. He was 48. 


In a statement to Fox News, Vasquez’s rep said: “This news has come as a surprise to us. Our hearts are heavy. He was a kind, creative and loving man. He will be missed.”

TMZ, citing sources, said Vasquez died Monday evening from what appeared to have been a heart attack while at his father’s house in San Jose, California.

Box office opiners ponder on how much Halloween will make

This is the latest thought from insiders: The new John Carpenter revamp remake reimagining will make  somewhere between $50-$85 million opening weekend.


That will be considered strong if it occurs …
The movie cost about $10 mil to make..

But what may also matter is staying power. The movie premieres only days before the actual Halloween on calendars so the film may not be relative beyond its initial week..

And while some positive word of mouth and excitement have been generated by creative trailers, if the movie is just plain bad it could drop handily in dollars by Sunday opening weekend..

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Six more GOOSEBUMPS books are on the way!

Darryn King on Medium got the scoop:

“I don’t think authors retire,” Stine told King, when he was asked about his prolific career potentially coming to an end at some point. “I think of Robert B. Parker, who just dropped dead on the keyboard. I think that’s the way to go. Anyway, I just signed on to do six more Goosebumps books.”

Stine joked, “Maybe some of them will be posthumous, I don’t know.”

In the meantime, big screen sequel Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween arrives in theaters on October 12. As we learned this week, Jack Black will be reprising the role of R.L. Stine..

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Do you love that Joker? Todd Phillips reveals Phoenix as the sad clown..

Instead of letting the paparazzi ruin the prize, Todd Phillips is going to fight back with his own images…

This is the new JOKER…

Director of the upcoming Joker film Todd Phillips has posted another shot of Joaquin Phoenix in makeup on Instagram, though this time he is decidedly in a full clown costume.

The Instagram post is simply paired with the caption “Work” suggesting that this is Phoenix playing Arthur Fleck, the Joker prior to making his full transition into the Clown Prince of Crime. It appears that this version of the Joker worked as a literal clown, perhaps providing entertainment to audiences before being completely “disregarded by society.”

What maybe is the most interesting is that Phillips chose to show this image instead of the now famous image of Phoenix behind the scenes on the subway.