40 Behind The Scenes Photos From Horror Movie Sets:
Making a horror flick sure looks like a lot of fun, at least according to this collection of behind the scenes photos showing cast members clowning around with monster props and costumed creeps.
Movie monsters look far less scary when they're smiling, or taking an off-set coffee break, but the pic showing Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) tearing his prosthetic face off is still pretty darn disturbing despite the goofy expression on his face. Link
Until not so long ago, fans of Community might have been excited for, or at least interested in tonight’s TV schedule. The show’s fourth season was originally set to premiere tonight, giving us the first taste of the troubled series without creator Dan Harmon. But the shortened season, now run by David Guarascio and Moses Port, has been indefinitely delayed by NBC.
But you can have some new Community today, as the cast (Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Chevy Chase, Ken Jeong, Jim Rash) has come together to create a promo to explain just what today really means for fans of the show. Hint: it’s a mental state.
Axe Cop: The Cake:
Axe Cop's favorite food is birthday cake with a candle of himself on it, so when 6-year-old Nathan requested an Axe Cop cake for his birthday, that served as the starting point for inspiration. Link
‘Mockingbird Lane’ Trailer: Big Effects, Light Comedy From Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer:
Time once again to speculate about just what NBC expects out of Mockingbird Lane, the Munsters revamp from producer/writer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) and director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men). Over the past couple weeks we’ve heard that the expensive pilot came in below NBC’s standards, and that the network was either dumping the show altogether, or airing the pilot as a pre-Halloween special in order to make back a few bucks on the investment.
Now we’ve got the first ad for the show, so we know the “one-time special” airing is really happening. This is also our first real look at what Fuller and Singer pulled together for the show, which stars Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa.
It’s an effects-heavy comedy with an aesthetic that will be familiar to fans of Fuller. The stuff pulled for this brief tease looks pretty good, especially by television standards. Whether the comedy works or not will come down to personal preference, but for a pilot that has been the subject of such pessimistic speculation this doesn’t look like a wreck.
So Eddie Izzard is doing a pretty good Malcolm McDowell there, and I like the FX shots we get of the characters forming out of mist and rats. The general tone and stabs at comedy aren’t my style, but I expected something a lot more dire. It’s easy to hide flaws in a trailer this brief, but based on this I’d probably give the show a look, if only for curiosity’s sake. And that might be exactly NBC’s plan. [TVLine]
Watch Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ Short Film ‘Partysaurus Rex’:
The latest Toy Story short, Partysaurus Rex, premiered recently in front of the 3D re-release of Finding Nemo, and just showed up on television this week, thanks to the Disney Channel. The short gives Rex the dinosaur a brief starring role, as he turns into an unlikely party maven when left alone with a new group of toys. Now you can watch the short online.
The story quickly gets underway, and the short doesn’t waste much time in giving Rex a great Godzilla scream. Soon, it turns into a cute little tale, even if the end is a bit abrupt. Disney has this embed:
As you know by now, Disney Animation’s Wreck It Ralph follows the journey of a villain from an old 1980′s arcade game. To help promote the film, the mouse house has created an awesome viral video which claims to be a 1982 commercial for the Fix It Felix Jr arcade game. Watch the television spot embedded after the jump. And if you haven’t already, play the Fix It Felix Jr. arcade game online (also available on the Apple app store).
The tv spot first appeared on BuzzFeed. Some might remember that Disney ran a simular viral for Toy Story 3, creating old tv commercials for the Lots-o-Huggin Bear (also a Japanese version).
Here is the original one page flier for Donkey Kong, an arcade game which Fix It Felix Jr is inspired by:
A scene that didn't make it into the finished film Lilo and Stitch confronts racism among tourists, but Disney dropped it late in the production. -via Buzzfeed
Cosplaying As Archer:
Only fans of Archer will recognize this great cosplay based on last season's Space Race episodes. But those that get it know just how funny these outfits are. Link Via Fashionably Geek
“Factory Girls,” a [paywalled] New Yorker piece this month by John Seabrook, explores the rise of the two billion-dollar Korean pop music industry and "its fraught entry into the Western music market" despite the YouTube-driven viral success of PSY's "Gangnam Style.”
Typical K-pop “is an East-West mash-up,” writes Seabrook. “The performers are mostly Korean, and their mesmerizing synchronized dance moves, accompanied by a complex telegraphy of winks and hand gestures, have an Asian flavor to them, but the music sounds Western: hip-hop verses, Euro-pop choruses, rapping, and dubstep breaks.”
My brother Carl Hamm, a club and radio DJ who regularly spins K-Pop nights (including one this Friday night in Richmond, VA), says, "This is one of an endless stream of articles I have read that sort of 'warns' of a pending K-Pop invasion. But the fact is, it's already happened. Not just PSY, but groups like EXO (which they mention), and BIG BANG, and 2NE1. All are well on their way to being huge over here among young American kids. And yes, the whole thing about manufactured, assembly-line personas of the artists is, for the most part, true. But these groups are awesome."
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