South Park fans, here’s a reminder that the second half of season 14 begins tomorrow night (Wednesday, October 6) at 10PM on Comedy Central. If you happen to miss it, don’t worry; Comedy Central reairs it multiples times throughout the week (at midnight and 10:30PM on Thursday, 11PM on Sunday, and 2AM on Monday). For now, preview the Nascar-themed episode titled “Poor and Stupid” in the window above.
[Via IGN]
Zack Snyder, helmer of 300, Watchmen, and the upcoming Sucker Punch, has signed on to direct the Superman franchise reboot. He joins a stellar creative team in the Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures backed project. Christopher Nolan, the man famous breathing life into the Batman franchise, is producing alongside wife Emma Thomas, Charles Roven (The Dark Knight), and Zack’s wife and producing partner Deborah Snyder. The Superman story has already been imagined by Nolan and David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight); Goyer is currently penning the script.
Deadline recently spoke with Snyder about the news. “I’ve been a big fan of the character for a long time, he’s definitely the king of all superheroes, he’s the one. It’s early yet, but I can tell you that what David and Chris have done with the story so far definitely has given me a great insight into a way to make him feel modern. I’ve always felt he was kind of awesome.” Snyder promises to get started on Superman as soon as production wraps on Sucker Punch. Warner Bros. and DC Comics are aiming for a 2012 holiday release.
[Via Deadline]
Today TBS revealed the first TV promo for Conan! Oh, just watch it! CoCo returns November 8 at 11PM.
And peek after the break for more Conan O’Brien shenanigans. He’s been answering fan questions and his response videos are nothing short of hi-larious. Continue reading First promo for ‘Conan’ is here!
Aussie Benjamin Stanford, better known by his artist name Dub FX, is a worldwide street performer and recording artist who combines live looping with effects pedals and his voice to create user-generated beats and awesome music. In the music video above–which has garnered over one million hits on YouTube–he performs “Made”, a song that incorporates unique beats and vocals with hints of reggae and hip hop thrown in for good measure.
Brendan Becker, aka InversePhase, is just like the rest of us. He listened to Cee-Lo Green’s insanely catchy tune “F–K You” and couldn’t get it out of his head. What makes him different, however, is his innate ability to transform the track into 8-bit bliss and come up with all new lyrics that follows the rocky relationship between the aging NES and fashionable Sega Genesis during the late 1980s. The original song features Cee-Lo cursing out a girl who left him for a richer man; here it’s Nintendo gettin’ a little sumpthin’ off its chest.
[Via Wired]
Using Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as a platform, Fallon, Timberlake, and The Roots perform a medley of classic rap songs. Oh, it’s good.
Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, and Michael Caine lend their voices to this upcoming retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The 3D flick will feature original music from the talented Elton John. Too cute to pass up now ain’t it? It opens wide February 11.
Bryan Fuller, the brilliant mind behind Pushing Daisies, is creating a “modern-day reboot” of the classic 1960s sitcom The Munsters. According to EW’s Michael Ausiello, NBC has ordered a pilot and the reboot is being described as “Modern Family meets True Blood.” And there’s this: Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth) is rumored to have a behind-the-scenes role in the show. Uhhh…count me in! I wonder what The Munsters will look like in beautiful HD technicolor, don’t you?
[Via EW-AusielloFiles]
Actress Malin Akerman hinted at it a while back and now it’s official. Cartoon Network has ordered a third season of Rob Corddry’s web series-turned-TV show Childrens Hospital. The hilarious ensemble cast, including Malin Akerman, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally and Henry Winkler, are expected to return when the third season picks up sometime next year. Childrens Hospital airs Sunday nights at midnight on Adult Swim. The season 2 finale is slated to air this November.
The post title says it all, really. On November 22, the Tron: Legacy motion picture soundtrack will release in physical and digital formats. The physical in-store copy will come bundled with a Tron poster, so you’re going to want to opt for that one. Nab the soundtrack in November and keep it POUNDING on repeat until the film’s debut on December 17.
Update: What the post title says.
[Via Gizmodo; TronSoundtrack]
Here’s Em’s latest music video off his hit album Recovery. It’s “No Love” featuring Weezy. As Eminem lays down his rhymes in the recording studio, a young boy gets harrassed by bullies at school. Hang tight ’till the end when revenge gets served in the cafeteria.
[Via EW-MusicMix]
Thanks to a gang of hackers and bloggers Kanye West has decided not to release a new G.O.O.D. Friday track this week. On Wednesday an unfinished track off Ye’s upcoming album called “Lost in the World” leaked onto the Internet. Shortly after it made waves ’round the ‘Net Kanye shared the news via his Twitter account. “Due to blogs leaking unfinished songs from my actual album I’ve decided to pass of Good Fridays this week”, he tweeted. “It’s messed up that one hacker can mess everything up for everyone… I love to take a year to finish my songs and deliver them … to you guys in there most completed form… It would have seemed like since I give free music every week even the lowest form of human being would respect that enough not to leak unfinished songs from my real album…” I gotta side with Yeezy here. He’s been gracious enough to spend extra hours in the studio to deliver weekly hits for us; the least we can do is not leak songs that haven’t be certified as completed.
But there may still be hope! Late last night (10/1) Kanye tweeted, “For the real hip hop fans… even though I had to shift all my energy to mixing my album do to leaks. I’m trying to still deliver a new Good Friday song 2nt… Let’s pray!!!” Friday has come and gone and there’s no new G.O.O.D. Friday song to be found. Let’s keep on praying, huh?
Update: Around 4am Saturday morning Kanye posted single art for a new track called “Christian Dior Denim Flow”. It features Kid Cudi, Pusha T, John Legend, and Ryan Leslie. He tweeted, “Christian Dior Denim Flow GOOD FRIDAY… fuuuuck I need some sleep.” So is this the G.O.O.D. Friday song of the week? It appears to be that way, but there’s no download link…yet. Single art is pasted above.
Update 2: Kanye delivers! “Christian Dior Denim Flow” is here. Preview and download below.
[audio: Kanye West – Christian Dior Denim Flow.mp3][Via @kanyewest; KWBlog]