The last we saw of our band of zombie ambushed fellows, they were running for their lives from a horde of zombie wanderers. They ran from Hershel’s Farm, and headed into the woods and journeyed towards the prison. This next story arc for the show is pivotal and is one of the key areas where they are tested. In this sneak peek provided by the people over at AMC, we see the cast bloodied, injured, and  filming in the jail.

Fans get a lot of promises that this season will be darker and gritty than the proceedings season, and will be a standout masterpiece of the show as a whole. Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) says that there is a big reason for why the survivors look as battered as the do. It’s all because of the direction of the show for Season 3:

“The pace of it is darker, harder, faster, deeper,” he says. “It’s incredibly dangerous, and it’s thrilling.”

Even though we have yet to see Michonne and The Governor, don’t be surprised to see a glimpse of her in trailer or sneak peeks for the show as it gets closer for the shows release this Fall.

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In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Director Robert Rodriguez discussed his two creative masterpieces, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and Machete Kills, which starts production this summer. Robert Rodriguez’s discusses the direction he plans to take the Sin City sequel by stylizing it to match the comic book.

“I really held back the first time, because I didn’t know whether audiences would go for it. So it ended up looking like a real movie, but in black and white, with a few flourishes. This one is going to push way further towards the books. It’s going to shock and surprise people.”

Rodriguez also reveals that some “seriously big names” are set to come on board for the film, but nothing is set in stone. Clive Owen is rumored to reprise his role, and while Angelina Jolie is also a rumored prospect for the role of Ava Lord, but Rodriguez did not confirm or deny whether she is a candidate for the role. Instead he told Empire that Ava Lord’s:

” a great part for any actress. She’s completely diabolical with no mercy. She’s as evil as evil gets.”

Of course when the interview moved on to Machete Kills, Rodriguez wanted to clear up the synopsis revealed by him and the production team behind the film.

“That synopsis we put out is misdirection — it’s all fake. Machete is recruited by the President, that’s true, but there’s no cartel leader and the weapon in space is just one of our early story ideas. That said, there is still a space element, for sure. We’ve given the character a much bigger playground. It’s going to be like a James Bond movie, with a Bond-style villain.“

He also lets Empire know that Mel Gibson’s role will be crazy, and his villainous character that will have people talking.

“Mel’s just a badass. We have the same attorney and we’ve talked over the years about stuff we’re making. This won’t just be him grinning, doing bad-guy stuff. He’s going to do something with it that’ll really get people talking.”

Robert Rodriguez is really clearing up a lot of rumors about both of his films, and giving his fans a lot to look forward to. What do you think about the sequels to Sin City and Machete, will it live up to the hype?

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DC New 52, it was only nine months ago that this re-boot of the entire DC Universe set the comic book community a buzz. How much would the canon we all grew up with change and would it reduce the integrity of the characters? Well with the constant competition between DC & Marvel, there has been a constant struggle to keep up or make an concept better than the other.

With Marvel’s recent announcement that they plan to wed two gay characters in next month’s issue of Astonishing X-Men, it should be no surprise that DC has an announcement of their own for the LGBT community. The face of LGBT at DC Comics has been Batwoman; the fiery red-head and former soldier  kicked out of the Army due to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, returns home to don the cape & cowl to fight crimes. But it won’t be enough to compete with Marvel’s big announcement, so what could DC have up its sleeve.

At Kapow Comics Convention in London over the weekend, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio was asked about the possibility of other DC Characters “coming out of the secret lair” due to the reboot. DiDio responded that he

“…was more interested in introducing new LGBT characters to the DC Universe than in rebooting old characters as gay or bisexual.”

But he did let slip that

“…the company’s about to re-introduce a previously straight character who will become “one of our most prominent gay characters” alongside the likes of Batwoman.”

So this clues us into the fact that the reboot of sexual orientation will not be for a prominent character in the DC Universe, i.e: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and etc. It may come from a character who will be making a reappearance in the universe after many years or one we haven’t seen  yet. Among the possible contenders could be: Martian Manhunter, Black Adam, Shazam! (aka Captain Marvel) and Hawkgirl. Of course they could just amp up Poison Ivy being a hardcore plant-lesbian, just sayin’.

Place your bets, and sit tight ’cause DC is keepin’ their lips sealed on the identity of the new LGBT character coming to DC.

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So yeah, I understand corporate synergy, but why oh why is Marvel making a “landmark” announcement about the comic book X-Men on The frakking View? Did Jimmy Kimmel think it was to gauche? The gang from Good Morning America only likes anti-mutant coverage?

Well, whatever the reason, there’s going to be a big announcement about The Astonishing X-Men #50 on tomorrow’s installment of The View. Here’s the press release from Marvel, and some accompanying art work. Make of it what you will.

Marvel Announces Landmark X-Men Story Tomorrow on ABC’s The View

Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major Marvel announcement! This is your first chance to get a look at the moment in Astonishing X-Men #50 that will have everyone talking!

About Marvel: Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit www.marvel.com

About “The View”: “The View,” a live, one-hour daily talk show from Time Square Studios, features Daytime Emmy Award-winning hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. It’s the original forum in which real women discuss everyday issues, share their opinions and engage in colorful conversations. “The View,” broadcast in HDTV and produced in 2-channel stereo sound, is now available to watch online daily at 4:00 p.m., ET/1:00 p.m., PT on ABC.com. “The View” is produced by ABC Daytime and Ms. Walters’ Barwall Productions, with Ms. Walters serving as executive producer along with Bill Geddie, who also serves as executive producer for “The Barbara Walters Specials.” “The View” is directed by Mark Gentile. For breaking

news and updated videos follow “The View” (@theviewtv) and hosts Barbara Walters (@BarbaraJWalters), Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg), Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar), Elisabeth Hasselbeck (@ehasselbeck) and Sherri Shepherd (@SherriEShepherd) on Twitter.™

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 Hugh Jackman  hit up his twitter account and tweeted that filming for the eagerly awaited  The Wolverine will begin shooting  in August.

Directed by James Mangold, and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Mark Bomback, The Wolverine will follow the feral mutant portrayed by Hugh Jackman in four X-Men movies and 2009′s spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as Logan heads to Japan where he battles nefarious bad guys like The Silver Samurai for the love and honor of a woman betrothed to someone else.

Are y’all excited about this? I for one, am not. I want to be, I do. I’m a huge Wolverine fan. I’d love to see a film that does justice to the character. However, with FOX and Jackman involved I don’t think we’ll ever get proper movie. A) FOX blows.  Their catalog of comic-book movies (minus X-Men First Class) all fucking suck. They haven’t proven to me that they can make a comic-book movie worth a damn. B) I know it’s nerdy blaspheme to say this, but Hugh Jackman sucks as Wolverine. Here’s the thing. The character of Wolverine is that of a wild beast trying desperately hard to find his humanity. Jackman plays it the other way around. That, and he’s far too tall and good looking for the role.

Anyhow, this is Fox’s last chance to give us the Wolverine we all want– and with McQuarrie writing the script, James Mangold behind the camera, and Hugh Jackman significantly older and more grizzled than he was before, maybe they can pull it off.

The Wolverine will claw into theaters July 26, 2013

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Everybody wears underwear . . . at least this NerdBastard hopes so, commando is only for special occasions.

You could be in an accident for Pete’s sake.

Nerds have always shown our love by wearing and even tattooing our bodies with our favorite things. So it should be no surprise to anyone that the people who wore Batman Underoos and Spiderman pajamas growing up would want to wear their favorite superheroes, television shows, and video game underwear.

This NerdBastard is aware that no one clicked on this posting to read my words on the wonderful world of Nerdy underwear, you’re all here to ogle the undies. Go ahead and check out the gallery below for some of some of the nerdy undies available for both men and women.

Do you own a pair we’re featuring?

Which is your favorite?

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While Peter Berg and Universal’s Battleship was solid in the international market this past weekend, pulling in a reported $226.8 million, it was its domestic release that would prove its worth. With a weekend haul of only $25.3 million dollars, Battleship was clearly a miss (see what I did there). While  live-action Hasbro film was able to defend against the third place $17 million dollar The Dictator, it was unable to take the top spot of Joss Whedon‘s Avengers,  which is now in it’s third week at number 1.

In an interview with Yahoo, Universal’s president of domestic distribution Nikki Rocco said she expected this, saying:

“It is obviously a disappointment, but we will move on. And we have Memorial Day coming up,”… “The studio has a picture that already has a quarter of a billion dollars in the bank, and it won’t die at $25.3 million domestically. We all know that.”

Even an executive with the studio is proud of how things for Battleship turned out, saying in his Deadline interview:

”Our P&A spend and production costs are even less than The Dictator – and our cast made it to the Oscars without offending AMPAS. Ha.”

The next time Universal wants to make a movie based on a board game maybe they should try using a few of our ideas.

The Marvel super flick now brings it’s total to an impressive $55 Million in it’s third weekend, building it’s total domestic earnings to $457.1M and over $1 Billion worldwide, but with Will Smith and Men in Black III just around the corner there could very well be a new number 1 next week. Any bets?

Source: Deadline

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(Welcome to Comics Rewind, a weekly column devoted to discovering – or re-discovering – great comics published some time in the past. Here you will find looks back at comics published in every era, from the Golden Age to the Modern Age, as well as retrospectives on the work of important comics writers, lists of “essential” comics, and evaluations of important works, as well as works worthy of a second look or a wider audience. Enjoy!)

Like most of his work, Grant Morrison’s lengthy run on Batman has its fair share of detractors. Some of it was just too radical for longtime fans of the Dark Knight, particularly when Morrison decided to place a gun in the Bat’s hands for the final act of Final Crisis (something I, as a Batfreak, still defend, but that’s another column). Even with his very first issues on the book, he was challenging us to accept new truths of the Bat-verse, by giving Batman a true son.

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I am sure many of you are like myself, both hungry for an early look at Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises, but desperately trying to not catch any spoilers. Well, you are in safe territory here. The first TV spot dropped last night and as near as I can tell it contains no new footage, unless you count awkwardly cutting in clips from the NBA.

So, are you more excited for TDKR and the NBA playoffs now?

Source: Geek Tyrant

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Super hero origins are scarred territory when it comes to the comic book genre — without an origin most heroes would be nothing more then crazed people wearing tight spandex.

So when two Hollywood studios decide to reboot two huge comic book franchises, the question must be asked: are they going to keep the origin stories pure? Nope. According to several sources, the post-Avengers films The Amazing Spider-Man from Columbia Pictures and director Marc Webb, as well as Warner Bros. Pictures Superman reboot, Man of Steel, will be getting altered tales of their creation.

Since both studios are looking to reboot their respective money makers, I suppose was always a possibility, but is this the right move?

A small warning, the following is going to contain spoilers, so if your afraid of ruining the movie for yourself, get ready to skip the following.

Spider-Man’s origin is well known: a nerd gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gains all the powers of said spider, as well as the ability to attract smoking hot red-heads. That last part is more implied, but that’s Spider-Man in a nutshell. However, The Amazing Spider-Man is going the route of 2003′s Ang Lee directed Hulk, making his powers a result of a dormant mutation his father is responsible for giving him. The events at the beginning of the franchise, the iconic spider bite, is nothing more then a kick start to Peter’s puberty gene.

Previous reports suggest that this “untold story” matches up with plot points from early previews and expands upon information rarely touched on in the Sam Raimi original. It’s sounds absurd that the studio would make such a change, but at least the Superman camp is giving them a run for their money.

As Brian Singer’s Superman Returns showed, the DC hero never really had a great reboot to begin with, Brandon Routh practically turned the “Man of steel” into a whinny wuss for two hours. After striking that mis-step from their records the studio thought it best to revamp the legend of the boy from Krypton. Gone is the alien refugee who crash lands on Earth, make way for the full-fledged alien prince, destined to save our planet from destruction. Granted, it’s not as big of a change as the Amazing Spider-Man alteration, and in a way, it actually adds to the story of Kal-El written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan. The pair helped bring Batman back into the fold as a solid Hollywood blockbuster, so if anyone can make this change creditable it’s the team of Goyer and Nolan.

What do you think? Are these changes really worth pissing off a percentage of the viewing audience or is it something we’re just going to have to deal with it like the grown adults that we are?

The Amazing Spider-Man hits theaters on July 3rd, 2012. The Man of Steel is tentatively scheduled for a June 14th, 2013 release.

Source: Screen Rant

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