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Last night, the third trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered on YouTube and ESPN. Did you shit your dick? I definitely shat my dick. I think the dick-shittingest moment, for me, was when the new Darth Vader guy was doing the Force to the other guy’s brain, but the low-altitude aerial…
*pinches bridge of nose* *exhales noisily* Of course there’s a Star Wars Episode VII boycott. And there’s a hashtag to boot. Because of course there’s a hashtag. One-click buffet-style serving of shittiness, coming right up. (Behold, the Mary Sue article about it.) Apparently people are mad because blah blah black dude protagonist with a lightsaber, or…
In less than 24 hours, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already exploded the records for at least two major ticket sales sites. According to a statement from Fandango, the seventh Star Wars movie has surpassed The Hunger Games’ sales record. “We have already sold eight times as many tickets as we did on the…
Today in Stuff That Will Make You Hang Your Head In Despair, a bunch of white supremacists are tweeting under the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII. Why? Apparently J.J. Abrams’ new “Star Wars” installment is a little too multicultural for their liking (black actor John Boyega plays Finn, a stormtrooper, one of the presumed leads). Enjoy your daily dose of hate…
The official one-sheet poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens just dropped, and it’s glorious. It’s also loaded with new details, including our first glimpse of the rumored planet-killer superweapon. The new poster features the new characters that we know of so far: Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, Poe Dameron, Rey, Finn, BB-8 and Maz Kanataand,…
In an essay written for Lena Dunham’s “Lenny Letter” newsletter, Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts and reactions on finding out she made drastically less than her male co-stars on American Hustle. She highlights the ridiculous double standard that women face in all industries when it comes to negotiating salary and voicing their opinions to male coworkers. When it…
You’re going to need a giant salt lick for this one, but it’s not totally out of line with Marvel’s history: there’s a rumor that Fox exchanged the movie rights to Fantastic Four for the two X-Men series that were announced yesterday. Den of Geek does caution that they don’t have independent verification of what…
Z-Men, set in the universe of the classic Night of the Living Dead, is getting a major movie adaptation from Lionsgate! Source: Press Release Ah, the circle of life. Man creates beloved cult-classic movie. Half a century later, comic book publisher creates ten ongoing series set in the universe of the movie. Shortly thereafter, movie…
“Captain America is only interesting if he’s a prick,” Vulture recently declared, inspiring so many angry Marvel fan rebuttals that it probably qualified as outright click bait. Of course, the idea of Captain America as “boring” has already been debunked by the $580 million his new movie just made at the box office. What we’re really talking…
After dominating at the box office this past spring, Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller has some news regarding the upcoming sequels and Charlize Theron’s role in them. In an interview with Digital Spy, Miller confirmed that although he wasn’t sure whether Theron would return to portray the badass hero Imperator Furiosa, he had no plans for…