Puss in Boots Friday Film Fiesta

Content Note: Remember to vote for the 37th Annual WELPie Awards! You have until Midnight CST on Wednesday! DO IT.

Welcome to the Friday Film Fiesta, brought to you by Puss in Boots on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack with more expensive option that also includes an Ultraviolet Digital Copy!

Last week I asked you if Hollywood has gone overboard with sequels, and you answered that books do it, so why not movies?



-- Box Office News: Safe House is safe from, umm, not making money? Yeah I got nothing.
-- Trailer Time: Cherry, Good For Nothing, Bully, Detention, Blue Like Jazz, Delicacy, The Trouble With Bliss, Last Days Here, American Reunion, 4:44 Last Day On Earth, London Paris New York, The Raid: Redemption, and Wrath of the Titans
-- In Theaters This Week: Act of Valor, Gone, Good Deeds, and Wanderlust
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Hugo and Johnny English Reborn

-- From Glenn: How to create a movie poster!
-- From Jope: The director of Shaun of the Dead unites with Johnny Depp to bring you... A REMAKE!
-- Sasha Baron Cohen has been banned from the Oscars, and the main character from The Dictator has a response
-- A Seinfeld actor tries to join some of the deceased cast members in Heaven. Come on guys, you aren’t pro wrestlers; you don’t all have to die!
-- The Hunger Games is more popular than Twilight
-- A John Carter sequel is already being written
-- Here's a cool list of unused movie titles from Stanley Kubrick
-- Robert Downey, Jr. as Lex Luthor?
-- There will be an animated version of Day of the Dead
-- Last but not least, have some photos from Star Trek 2!
-- Speaking of Star Trek, here’s 15 minutes of Worf!

And that brings us to this week's poll.



Are you excited for The Hunger Games?
Yes
No
Hunger Games?
I just want to bone Jennifer Lawrence

FFF 3.0

SOILER ALERT: Welcome to the WELPie Nominated Friday Film Fiesta Version 3.0! But unlike AOL and their annoying discs, this column merely mildly annoys you with drunken tweets about people fighting with brass knucks inside Applebees.

Last week, Jope asked you what the movie of 2011 was. And the winner is...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

And here is special guest Andy with a late review of the year 2011 in film:

Meh. Vote for the WELPies and the Wrestler of the Week!

Thanks, Sheriff. I couldn't have said it better myself!

-- Box Office News: Men everywhere were dragged by women to see yet another generic romantic movie featuring Rachel McAdams!
-- Trailer Time: Gerhard Richter Painting, In Darkness, Dark Tide, Damsels in Distress, The Snowtown Murders, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Tomorrow When the War Began, and Intruders
-- In Theaters This Week: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, This Means War, and The Secret World of Arrietty
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Puss in Boots, Tower Heist, and J. Edgar

-- Toy Fair was this past weekend, and it gave us some information on the upcoming summer superhero movies, such as The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man
-- This week in “Unoriginal Remake” News: Emma Watson has been cast as Belle while Angelina Jolie has been cast as Maleficent  
-- Prepare yourselves for a third Crank, followed by a prequel trilogy!
-- Speaking of Crank, one of the directors is planning a Twisted Metal movie
-- Here is a clip from the Pixar short that will play before their next film, Brave
-- *hums* Tee-nage Mu-tant Nin-ja Tur-tles
-- A Hannibal TV series? On NBC? That'll put butts in the seats
-- Horror fans: Dracula: Year Zero is coming
-- Dwayne claims that Fast Six and Seven are shooting
-- Breaking News: Germans have bombed the Moon. In other news, ECW has been replaced by a show called NXT
-- Sequel News: News on Trans4mers and X-Men
-- Superman Soilers
-- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

And that brings us to this week's poll.



Has Hollywood gone overboard with sequels?
Yes
No
Books do it, why not movies?

Let's Get Comical!

Welcome to a DOUBLE EDITION of Let’s Get Comical!

Real life and laziness keep getting in the way of my comic reviewing, and I’m sick of reviewing comics a week late. So as a result, I’ll be COMBINING last week’s comics AND this week’s comics!

But this plan doesn’t come without consequences. I WAS planning on FINALLY reviewing Fantastic Four #600, which has been sitting on my desk since the week after Thanksgiving. It shall sit for another week! Also, I’ve decided to delay the catch-up reviews of Batwoman #4 and Daredevil #5 until next week.

Purchased Last Week (2/1/2012): Action Comics #6, Amazing Spider-Man #679, and Uncanny X-Men #6

Purchased This Week (2/8/10): Batman and Robin #6, Batwoman #6, Green Lantern #6, Scarlet Spider #2, and Star Wars Crimson Empire III #4

Random Sidenote: I was this close to picking up Detective Comics #6 due to a small week last week, but decided to pass, mainly to save cash. Maybe I’ll pick it up some day, even if it ranked 3rd out of the 4 Batman-centric titles.

Unsexifraturday Film Fiesta

Welcome to a condensed, unsexified version of the Friday Film Fiesta!

Last week, I asked you if you had any interest in movies based on toys and/or board games, and you answered with a resounding NO.

Remember that you have one more week to send in your nominations for the 2012 WELPie Awards! Send them to tbanks531@gmail.com by Midnight EST on Friday, February 17 (that's 10 PM PST on February 16 and 1 AM EST on February 18)!



-- Box Office News: America loves the chronic aspects of Chronicle. Or would that be Kronik? http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3363&p=.htm
-- Trailer Time: Short on time this week, so I can't list individual ones, but check out the new trailers here: http://www.comingsoon.net/trailers/
-- In Theaters This Week: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Safe House, The Vow, and Star Wars Episode I 3D
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: The Rum Diary

-- We start out with a submission from JOPE: Osama bin Laden LIVES~!!! http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/osama-bin-laden-rises-from-the-grave-to-wreak-bloody-havoc-in-osombie
-- New Images for the Amazing Spider-Man: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/new-website-images-and-character-details-from-the-amazing-spider-man
-- Get ready for another ___ of the Dead: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/dawn-of-the-dead-sequel-army-of-the-dead-will-not-renimate
-- Cool video about the making of Hugo: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/a-wonderful-featurette-on-the-making-and-magic-of-hugo
-- Coming 2013: The Wolverine http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/the-wolverine-gets-official-release-date-for-next-summer
-- WHERE IS BEN STILLER? http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/vince-vaughn-and-owen-wilson-will-reunite-as-interns
-- Han didn't shoot first! http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/george-lucas-claims-that-han-did-not-shoot-first
-- HBO comes up with an original idea never tackled before: a Muhammad Ali movie http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/hbo-to-sting-like-a-bee-with-a-new-film-about-muhammad-ali
-- And a look at Judge Dredd: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/this-quick-look-at-dredd-might-blow-you-away

And that brings us to this week's poll, guest written by JOPE!



What was the 2011 Movie of the Year?
Captain America: The First Avenger
Drive
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Source Code
The Muppets
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Thor
X-Men: First Class

The Super Bowl of Movie Columns

Welcome to the latest edition of the Friday Film Fiesta, a column that totally wasn't written right after I failed to score Eddie Vedder tickets this afternoon!

Last week, a slow news week combined with creative burnout caused me to not hold a poll at the end of the column. Let's try to prevent that from happening again this week!



-- Box Office News: The Grey becomes yet another "Badass Liam Neeson" movie, while Man on a Ledge fails to live up to its hype of being the best movie about a man on a ledge this year
-- Trailer Time: Crooked Arrows, The Cold Light of Day, Deadline, 7500, Boy, Cirkus Columbia, The Island President, The Hunger Games, and Tyler Perry Presents: Good Deeds
-- In Theaters This Week: Big Miracle, Chronicle, and The Woman in Black
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Twilight Part Whatever, Anonymous, and A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas

Once again we begin with links from the man who will not enjoy that "Eli Manning is Poopy" line:
-- Breaking Out and Breaking In
-- TALK, DAMN YOU!

-- RIP Ian Abercrombie
-- Screened is taking a look at some of the movies nobody saw in 2011. First up is some Gus Van Sant hipster movie
-- As discussed earlier this week, Watchmen is getting a prequel. Will a movie as terrible as the first one follow? TUNE IN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT!
-- More comics are getting movie adaptations
-- The Robocop reboot gets a new screenwriter
-- Coming Soon: Katy Perry in 3D(D)
-- Also coming soon: A movie called NSFW. ROFLMAO HTH G2G
-- Photos! Here is a sneak at 2019 Summer of Tarantino Roundtable film Django Unchained as well as the first photos from the Star Trek sequel and The Hobbit!
-- Laugh (or cry) at a terrible commercial for the Phantom Menace 3D cash-grab!
-- This Week in "Who the Hell Wanted THAT Movie Remade?" News: Short Circuit
-- Your Childhood is ruined. Again
-- Oh yeah, Adam Sandler will be starring in a film version of Candy Land. Umm, okay then
-- And take a look at film-related Super Bowl ads before they hit TV!

And that brings us to this week's poll.



Do you have any interest in movies based on board games and toys?
Yes
No
Meh, better than another remake/reboot

Let's Get Comical!

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Get Comical!

Short week this week with mainly DC Comics offerings to read and review. Kind of weird that it worked out that way, but I guess that happens when Marvel releases all of their stuff three times a month. Of course, I’m still lazy/working/being social, so these reviews are a week late again!

Anyway, I’ll be reviewing five NEW DC Comics, along with older editions of Batwoman and Daredevil! You’d think I’d finally have enough time to read the 100 page Fantastic Fur #600, but nope, I’m lazy. I’m trying to save it for the week the next Action Comics is released, which is typically another light week in purchases.

Purchased This Week (1/25/12): Aquaman #5, Fantastic Four #602, The Flash #5, Justice League #5, Superman #5, and Teen Titans #5

Let’s begin with the older comics...