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Agent Smith is Back, Has Job Shilling for GE Software

by Susana Polo | 5:46 pm, April 16th, 2013

I’m not going to leave you in suspense. There’s no joke about humans being a disease, plague, cancer, or virus in here. They make a different reference, which I guess is fair, if less in character.

Hugo Weaving, thank you for existing.

Michael Bay Pitches a Fit at Hugo Weaving Calling His Transformers Role “Meaningless”

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, October 18th, 2012

Uh-oh, Hugo Weaving. You made Michael Bay angry. And you won’t like him when he’s angry. A few days back Weaving made some critical-but-honest remarks about voicing Megatron in Bay’s Transformers, saying “I didn’t care about it, I didn’t think about it… I don’t regret doing it, but I very rarely do something if it’s meaningless. It was meaningless to me, honestly. I don’t mean that in any nasty way. I did it. It was a two-hour voice job, while I was doing other things.”

Well, Michael Bay didn’t like that. Not one bit.

Transformers Role Was “Meaningless” To Hugo Weaving, Has No Idea What’s Going On With The Hobbit

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:02 am, October 15th, 2012

Hugo Weaving has been in so many geek properties, he feels like an old friend. The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Captain America, and of course Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. He traveled back to Middle Earth for The Hobbit and admits he was just as clueless about the whole trilogy thing as we were but when asked about his time as Megatron in Michael Bay’s Transformers, the actor declared the role meaningless. Why does this not surprise me?

10 New Pictures From The Hobbit (They Are Not All of Dwarves)

by Susana Polo | 10:15 am, July 3rd, 2012

I promise. There’s some elves and hobbits and one old Maiar in here too! It’s hard to tell if they’ve made Gollum look more like Andy Serkis for The Hobbit, or if I’m just much more familiar with the face of Andy Serkis this time around.

Consider Your Period Piece Blown to Pieces: Captain America: The First Avenger

by Zoe Chevat | 12:55 pm, July 24th, 2011

NEEDLESS TO SAY, INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF SPOILERS THEREIN.

You’ve got to hand it to Marvel for figuring a few things out recently. While their Big Two competitor gleefully jettisons 70 years of questionable costume changes and Kraft single one-liners, Marvel’s gone back to their roots with stellar results. Their streak continues with the good old new-fashioned Captain America. Retro is always in style, and a dose of gee-wizardry can go a long way, particularly if you’re harkening to old school heroics for summer box-office fun. Don’t call Captain America a period piece, though; it’ll knock your period to pieces. Sincere, fun, and earnest without verging on treacly, the Cap’s big trip to the big screen has a potent mix of the retro winking and newfangled action that is Golden Age adaptation at its best.

Peter Jackson’s Second Videoblog From The Hobbits, Featuring Bilbo and Elrond

by Susana Polo | 11:32 am, July 9th, 2011

Also: throwing floaty sticks in rivers. For absolutely necessary cinematic reasons.

(via Bleeding Cool.)

Pre-Victorian Silhouette Portraits of Pop Culture Characters

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, June 1st, 2011

The strong silhouette is a very important aspect of character design, not just in comics, animation, and film where I’m guessing you could identify most of your favorite characters simply by their profile, but also in videogames, where players need to be able to discern, at a glance, whether that approaching enemy is Horde or Alliance, Spy or Scout, Witch or Tank.

We think that’s why we’re so fascinated with the pop-culture papercut portraits of Olly Moss, especially the ones of live action characters played by humans. These characters have considerably less character design in their making than their drawn and animated counterparts, and yet, as subtle as they are, they are still completely recognizable.

It’s Official: We’ll Get to See The White Council Throw Down With Sauron in The Hobbit

by Susana Polo | 10:24 am, May 31st, 2011

We’ve assumed it for a long time now, ever since rumors that Cate Blanchett would be joining the production of The Hobbit and that they were looking to cast someone as Radagast the Brown began to swirl, but Peter Jackson has now confirmed that the attack of the White Council on Dol Guldur will be a major plot point of the movies, which now have confirmed release dates of December 14th, 2012, and December 13th, 2013, under the names The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again.

A translation for everybody who just wants to go see the movies but hasn’t read the extra books you need to read to understand a bit of Tolkien story that didn’t even make it into The Hobbit itself follows.