In an interview with the Coronado Eagle & Journal, Funko founder Michael Becker reported that this Summer will see the launch of a brand new line of Funko Cereal that includes licenses that are part of the company’s POP! line.
First up: Freddy Krueger, Elvira and Beetlejuice..
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“One of the fun things is we are about to release our own line of cereal, with a mini-Pop inside,” Becker explained. “We got all the cool licenses like He-Man, Wonder Woman, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Freddy Krueger and our own Freddy Funko. We start shipping to stores in June and we have the distribution set up and the product is pre-sold. It’s just one more of those feel-good Funko items.”
Looking forward to Freddy. The little HorrorReporter Ayden sans Cuphead. And the He-Man statement has me a little curious as to the future of my breakfast table..
Miley just released a sultry set of pastel-colored Easter pics to celebrate the religious holiday in her own way in a shoot with Vogue … featuring the singer wearing bunny ears, standing in an Easter basket, petting a fluffy cat, flaunting a see-through top and cleavage, and… getting spanked.
Last night on MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT, host Heather Wade announced that she plans on breaking into Area 51 this June and is asking for volunteers to go with her.. MORE: It is a criminal act and poses danger to life and limb to cross the barrier at the gate..
ART BELL posted on Facebook last night, “All I know for sure is she is a truly determined Woman and no amount of talking is going to change her mind. I truthfully say the same thought has crossed my mind over the Years but the thought of Arrest or worst case getting shot always stopped me. She has Cajones”
Bell went on to reply to a comment asking if he would also go, “No, I will stay here to fill in if she needs it and my guess is she will, Area 51 Invasions are for the young.”
Sources say the streaming giant is ponying up as much as $350,000 an episode for each of the show’s adult actors…
Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin, the show’s young male stars, are set to make more than $150,000 per episode, according to the report. Millie Bobby Brown, considered the breakout from the first two seasons, is reportedly earning more than three boys.. All four reportedly earned $30,000 per episode for the first two seasons. The two main adult stars, Winona Ryder and David Harbour, are now set to make more than $200,00 per episode, according to the report..
DANNY MCBRIDE promises his alternate HALLOWEEN movie will reference other films.. MORE: That means that even Halloween II, which takes place on the same night and picks up immediately after the end of the first film, is not part of what McBride is calling an “alternate reality” for the franchise. It’s a somewhat risky move considering the franchise’s long history, but like Disney’s decision to wipe the slate clean with the Star Wars Expanded Universe, it offers up a new world of possibilities for the creative team…
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McBride and Green’s film will be set 40 years after the original and return to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) — who’s now a mother and grandmother — as Michael Myers reappears in her life. How the film will address Michael’s disappearance and the 40-year gap between stories (something the other films have never had the chance to try) is still a mystery, but that means Laurie’s days as a teacher living under an assumed name with her son (as in Halloween H20) no longer count, and neither do the stories about Laurie’s daughter Jamie (as in Halloween 4 and 5), which were already rendered non-canon by later sequels..
This is going to be G R E A T ! ! ! A horror movie from Shawn Levy and James Wan! .. MORE: The minds behind The Conjuring and Stranger Things are coming together for a new YA-based horror film. According to Deadline, James Wan and producer Shawn Levy will be developing an adaptation of Stephanie Perkins’s novel There’s Someone Inside Your House for a coming-of-age slasher-style film. The book centers on a young girl named Makani Young, who, a year after moving from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, gets caught in the middle of something sinister when her friends start getting murdered in hideous fashion. While the killer is being pursued, Makani has to reckon with her own secrets, and according to the Deadline report, audiences can expect “1980s and ’90s slasher movie meets a John Hughes coming-of-age tale like The Breakfast Club.” So if you’re into Stranger Things and teen screams, this movie is for you…
STRANGER THINGS gets hit with #MeToo! In a statement, the Duffer brothers said, “We are deeply upset to learn that someone felt uncomfortable on our set. Due to the high-stress nature of production, tempers occasionally get frayed, and for that, we apologize. However, we think it is important not to mischaracterize our set, where we believe strongly in treating everyone fairly regardless of gender, orientation, race, religion, or anything else. We remain totally committed to providing a safe and collaborative working environment for everyone on our productions”..
This is from a UK GUARDIAN article in 2014.. the nostalgia has changed a bit. The danger of nostalgia remains the same.
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. It’s a signifier that you hate how your life has turned out. It’s a sign that you’ve mentally locked off, and you’re doomed to spend the rest of life drifting in a false reverie of a past that didn’t exist. Nostalgia is why Tim Lovejoy still dresses like it’s 1996 and is primed to weep the moment anyone mentions Ocean Colour Scene to him. It’s why all your Facebook friends spend their days in a whirlwind of incredulous bafflement at the passing of time, forever asking people to like JPEGs about conkers, all because they’re trapped in a loveless marriage to a woman they accidentally knocked up after ironically slow-dancing to I Want To Know What Love Is during a hideous School Disco party. This isn’t a generational thing, incidentally. Everyone’s guilty of it. When I was growing up, I distinctly remember having teachers who would reminisce about their wartime evenings in Anderson shelters. Give them a time machine and the first thing they would do is dart back and relive their glory days shivering in a hole next to a bucket of wee, constantly awaiting terrifying death from above. At least you’re only nostalgic about Blind Date.
Stranger Things, Everything Sucks, and other similar shows have captivated and capitalized on an audience that wants the sugar coated past to come back again. We decorate the fragments of our history with beautiful imagery.. often ignoring the darker forces that are always at play regardless of the time frame.
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.. it is a time
Nostalgia gives you the rush of memory.. the intense beauty of your childhood and your parents, your family.. the local mall that is now shuddered.. the laughter that has gone away with time.. Yes, nostalgia seems almost fixated in destroying your present time and future alike..
But with nostalgia, as the happiness becomes subdued and subsides, your moral compass turns towards the sadness and grief over the passage of time that comes with it.
We are all aging faster than we want to. Some us just don’t realize it until we have aged far too much.
And as you embrace nostalgia, as you welcome it when it comes knocking.. the inevitable dangers come with it. You will smile at its melancholy colors.. you will laugh along with its stories of past times go by.. and as you give it one last hug, you’ll swell with emotion.
…and that is when it sinks its vampire-style teeth deep into your soul, tearing your very insides out and forcing your body to weep the blood and tears of the past times gone by.
The high-concept horror project from writers Justin Powell and David Charbonier follows two brothers who are terrorized by a sinister being..
A horror movie /for our time/ .. It was announced just yesterday that James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy) is returning to the horror genre with an upcoming film he’s producing, which will reunite Gunn with the star of his own Slither, Elizabeth Banks. Plot details are being kept under wraps at this time..
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Executives at A24 were familiar with the short story, and when they heard the author had separately written a script, they became intrigued and tracked it down. What the execs found was a shrewd character study where mystery and deep-seated scares blended in such a way that the company saw an opportunity to make a horror movie that could also be culturally relevant, sources say. The plan is to fast-track the script to production, sources added.”..
