It seems that Top Cow Productions, Arclight Films and Platinum Studios are teaming up for a live action feature film adaptation of the Top Cow comic book series Witchblade. The Witchblade saga centers around Sara Pezzini, a tough-as-nails NYPD homicide detective who comes into possession of the Witchblade, a supernatural, sentient artifact with immense destructive and protective powers. The weapon has bonded with various women throughout history, the most recent being Danielle Baptiste. Others who have come into contact with the Witchblade include Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Sara struggles to hone the awesome powers of the Witchblade and fend off those with a nefarious interest in it, especially entrepreneur Kenneth Irons.

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I must preface this by saying that the only reason I probably would ever have been interested in this song is because The Rock was in it, but after listening to it again this morning, you got to love a song that can borrow from Ricky Martin and John Denver at the same time.

The video quality isn’t so great, but enjoy… this is one of my kitschy favorites. I forgot at the end that Rock laid the smack down on the big guy.

P.S. If anybody can find me a video of Rock telling The Coach to dance the Charleston, I would love to see it. The closest video of that era that I can find on YouTube is when Rock told Coach he wasn’t praying right when he said, “What up, G?” and then Rock’s eyes got all bulgy and he literally kicked Coach’s ass out of the picture.

These smile-inducing renderings by the talented Donald Soffritti - who has created a whole series of art pieces depicting classic superheroes as old timers - are pure pop culture fun! Aw, the ravages of time, no one - not even Aguaman - can escape!

Enjoy more here: http://donaldsoffritti.blogspot.com/search?q=decadence

This ad for the Playstation 3 is quite possibly the most disturbing and very, very, very horrific ad I have ever seen. Penis envy is one thing but video-game-thumb envy? Barf-o-rama! I am not sure who this ad is targeted to, but count me out!

Enjoy this so very NSFW ad yourself

About:

Bamboo Blade is a Japanese manga series written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young Gangan starting December 3, 2004. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. An Anime adaptation by AIC A.S.T.A was broadcast in Japan between October 2, 2007 and April 2, 2008 on TV Tokyo.

Story:

Toraji Ishida is a high school kendo teacher. His friend and fellow kendo teacher makes him a bet: if Ishida can assemble a girls’ kendo team that can defeat his girls’ team in a practice match, he’ll treat Ishida to free meals at his father’s sushi restaurant for a whole year. Now Ishida must find five girls to join the team.

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Blah, Wizard Mag just celebrated their 200th issue and you’d think after such an achievement some semblance of maturity and, I dunno, maybe respect would come along with such a milestone? Naw, such high-level concepts don’t apply to the frat-boy “dudes” running Wizard.

Not only did Wonder Woman come in at a lowly #15 in Wizard’s list of the 200 greatest characters for all time (15? Really? Behind mother fraking Jesse Custer? C’mon), but the good old boys compiling the list just couldn’t help but make a sexual comment about the beloved grand dame of comics before they even try to venture writing anything resembling respect for the character’s greatness.

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Chris Gore is a speaker and writer on the topic of independent film. He is also the main writer and founder of Film Threat, a project dedicated to covering independent and underground movies. He appears weekly on the G4 television program “Attack of the Show” in a segment entitled DVDuesday in which he reviews the newest DVD movies released that day. His books include The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made , The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 3rd Edition, and The Complete DVD Book: Designing, Producing and Marketing Your Independent Film on DVD. Sidenote: he remembered me as the guy who loved “Amalgam Comics”.

Yep. I’m the second caller.I called him up recently so get an insight of the future of film and any other projects he has in the works and to see what lies in that spiky head of his.

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TNA had a show last night? Yawwwwwwwwwwwwn… Really? I guess I hadn’t been paying attention to them since the last turkey they dropped.

They opened the show with Jeremy Boring hassling Kurt Angle about the neck injury he suffered overseas last weekend in South Korea. Angle said that his doctor told him not to compete. Be careful, Kurt… that’s what got Torrie Wilson fired. Angle also dropped a bunch of WWE trademarks into his lingo.

Meanwhile, one of TNA’s random broads hassled Scott Steiner about Angle’s injury when he arrived, and Steiner was happy. Kevin Nash also got out of his limo. Then, Jeremy Boring hassles Samoa Joe as he got out of his limo (no wonder TNA has astronomical travel expenses), and he was bummed out about Angle’s injury, but when he found out about Nash riding with Steiner, he got angry… why? Because Nash pays up to stock the wet bar in the limo.

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Yes it is official Reboot one of my favorite animated TV shows of all time is being revived by Rainmaker Animation, into multiple movies and a comic.! I’ve been a reboot fan since the VERY beginning and I cant wait to see what Rainmaker Animation is going to do with the awesome franchise. But when it comes down to it, more than anything the cliff hanger must be finished up, so that we can get closure on the series. After that they can always start making changes to the show but just as long as all the regulars are there i.e. Dot, Bob, Matrix, Andraia, Mouse, even Ray then I will be a happy fanboy.

I’m just not sure what the target audience is going to be for the new movies and comics though, maybe the old fans and adult. Or maybe a new generation of fans all together. I think that with the new technology, it would be possible to make ReBoot more life-like while still retaining everything about the characters that we know and love but only time will tell I guess.

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[[WARNING! THIS COLUMN MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!]]

“We’re going to burn it all down. Because this is not the future we were promised. And if we can’t have that, then we shouldn’t have anything at all.” Doktor Sleepless, Doktor Sleepless #6.

Damn, that Doktor Sleepless quote is harsh, but it’s a good example of the comics “philosophy”, as it takes a definitely “punk-ier” turn. On another note, and before I go on with the rest of the column, I’d like to thank my new friend Julia, from Russia, who works for the same company I do; and gladly helped me with some Russian inquiries (yes, Mike Mignola did his homework for BRPD: 1946) when I contacted completely out of the blue. благодарю, Julia!
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I am really starting to enjoy RD Senno Chosashitsu after watching the first 4 episodes that has currently aired in Japan so far, I am now totally hooked on it and I cant wait for the next episode to air. The show has picked up some serious momentum and pace since episode one and I am hoping that it keeps it that way for the rest of the show.

Episode 4 we see Haru and Minamo take on there first mission as EISF members, the mission to save someones consciousness from the virtual reality world know as “The Metal”. I wont go into the details to much as it contains potential spoilers for the rest of the series.

This episode also dished out one of the best “LOL” moments in the show so far:

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Talented designer Takashi Murakami, who is possibly best know as the current fabo creative-head for Louis Vuitton’s ultra popular handbags, is quite the Pop Art/Anime artist. Perhaps one of his most eye-popping pieces might have to be entitled, “My Lonesome Cowboy,” which features a very manga-ish looking character squirting, well, having quite an…uh…explosion of joy.  

Despite its pretty erotic nature, or maybe because of it, this Lonesome Cowboy is for sale at famed Sotheby’s Auction House, with a current asking price being a mere 4 million dollars. So run out and pick it up today!

Check out an image of the happy fella (beware, so not NSFW) here:

http://www.artificialgallery.co.uk/artwork.php?form_load_id=3466759468

 And bid on the piece (and see some other goodies by Murakami) here: 

http://browse.sothebys.com/?q=%20Takashi%20Murakami 

Oh man, I just know I’m gonna burn in hell over my absolute love of the “pee-my-pants-hilariousness” that is The Other Family; a very off-color, very wrong, very, very sick, and therefore insanely hysterical, take on the dear, sugary-sweet Family Circus newspaper strips.

Seriously, this bastardization is laugh-out-loud funny and seriously un-PC in every way, shape and form. So enjoy at your own risk!

http://www.theotherfamily.com/

I know these adorable Marvel Super Hero Squad toys are meant for the little kiddies - the toy line is marketed towards the 3 and up set - but I just can’t help but love them too! In fact, I have a fabulous array of these toys sitting on my desk at work smiling up at me with their sunny cheeriness! Everyday is a fun day with these mini-heroes!

So can I be anymore stoked that these way awesome little versions of my fave heroes are going to be made into a cartoon? Aw yeah they are! Sure the ‘toon might be really, really, really juvenile, but I am holding out hope that Marvel takes a page from the Sponge Bob book and gears the new cartoon to 3 year olds and their parents. A show that both the whippersnappers and the old farts can equally enjoy is entertainment at it’s finest! This has the potential to be a gi-normous hit!

Check out the full toy line and just try to resist their charms: http://www.hasbro.com/marvel/superherosquad

Survey says, probably not. Looking at the numbers, the inaugural release from Marvel Studios really brought home the bacon. Domestically, Iron Man pulled in a whopping $102 million in gross returns this weekend, giving it one of the 10 best opening weekends of all time (boxofficemojo.com). That’s quite a feat, considering that this was one of the first comic book film adaptations that didn’t feature a villain of prominence.

Many industry pundits theorized that the release of the latest installment in Rockstar Games’ ragingly successful and undeniably controversial Grand Theft Auto series would have cannibalized sales from the movie. While there is no doubt that the game has been selling quite well, that was to be expected. Iron Man arrived with very little fanfare. How many movie posters or billboards did you see before its launch? In comparison, GTA IV posters could be found all around Chicago, along with a host of billboards and TV ads.

Industry experts are theorizing that GTA IV might stand to earn $450 million in sales this year, but let’s stack that up against where Iron Man is likely to land by year’s end. Even if it fares only moderately well, say along the lines of Bruce Almighty. That means Iron Man would pull in over $480 million during its theatrical run. But to be fair, I’m guessing that this fantastic film will fare even better, probably more along the lines of Shrek 2 and Spider Man 3, somewhere around $800 million.

What do you have to say to that, Niko?