Kenneth Branagh's hoping he'll get to direct another Marvel movie

Kenneth Branagh's hoping he'll get to direct another Marvel movie
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Robert Pattinson says Breaking Dawn could have been ridiculous comedy

TWILIGHT'S teen vampires proved they had lost none of their appeal when Breaking Dawn Part 1 scored a fangtastic $138million opening weekend in the USA and then added a further $153million from overseas territories.

The USA figure is the fifth highest debut in history, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3 and previous Twilight instalment New Moon.

Breaking Dawn's stars have expressed their delight at the massive success of this latest film, which features sex and childbirth and is easily the most graphic of the films so far.

Robert Pattinson has revealed that although he loved filming the gory birth scene, it could easily have turned into "a ridiculous comedy sequence."

R-Patz, who who stars as vampire Edward Cullen, explained: "Breaking Dawn begins with preparations for Bella and Edward's wedding and the chaos that ensues on their honeymoon, and the inevitable downfall that always happens in Twilight movies.

"The wedding scene is a relatively momentous moment for the series. I think Edward's proposed to her about 50 times now, so it's been building up and building up.

"Edward's excited. He's always been obsessed about marriage. It's what he has wanted for a long time. I think it's one of the first points of stability in Edward and Bella's relationship."

Their honeymoon on a beautiful island in Brazil "starts off quite nice and just gets progressively worse", reveals Pattinson.

"It just goes downhill after they have sex. Edward gets to relax - but only for a second. It's like a set-up so he can get punished again for the rest of the movie consistently."

Shooting the love scenes with Stewart, widely believed to be Pattinson's girlfriend, brought some pressure because of fans' expectations for the previously celibate on-screen couple.

Sighing, he says: "It's more an abstract idea of living up to expectations because you don't know what the expectations are. Especially with the h...

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10,000 Mexico City undead set new zombie walk world's record

10,000 Mexico City undead set new zombie walk world's record
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Catching Up With Iron Man and Thor, Post-Fear Itself

Share this link on Facebook!As you’ve doubtless heard by now, Marvel followed up the Fear Itself event mini-series with issues 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.  Let’s be kind and say the reception to these issues was mixed, at best.  If you’re like me, those “point” issues put some titles on probation.  Let’s see what happened with [...]
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14 Funny College Pranks

From a guy wrapped up in duct tape to a funny marker pen drawing on your drunk mate. 14 Funny College Pranks

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Once Upon A Time Episode 6 “The Shepherd” Trailer

Here's the promo trailer for the December 4 episode of Once Upon A Time, which is titled The Shepherd. Who will David choose?
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Europe: A Natural History

A stunning four-part series, charting the dramatic events which have shaped the ever-changing landscapes and wildlife of Europe. Genesis. An epic three billion year story begins, with the unraveling of clues as to how Europe’s stunning landscapes and wildlife were created. Witness Oxford roamed by dinosaurs, the

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The Presidents

The Presidents is an unprecedented eight-part survey of the personal lives and legacies of the remarkable men who have presided over the Oval Office. From George Washington to George W. Bush, The Presidents gathers together vivid snapshots of all 43 Commanders in Chief who have guided America

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[Source: Top Documentary Films]

Books-A-Million Offering Discounted Print Subscriptions

Over at the Books-A-Million website, on the magazines page, DC's "New 52" is being highlighted. "Action Comics," "Justice League" and "Batgirl" are rotating in the middle slot at the top of the page, sandwiched between magazines like "Vogue" and Maxim. At the bottom of the page, filed under "special interests" are Batman, Action, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Detective, Supergirl, Green Lantern Corps and Batman & Robin.
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Gender swap Avengers poster gives us lots of butt

We're not sure if this Russian Avengers teaser was ever found to be "official" or not, but it doesn't matter, because artist Kevin Bolk has given it a gender swap, with the male characters showing the kind of twisting butt-and-face pose that is usually reserved for The Black Widow. It's called Avengers Booty Ass-emble :
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The City Of The Future Will Be Covered In Lichen

Lichen loves to grow on tall, rocky mountains. But it doesn't know the difference between that and a skyscraper. Covering our buildings in it would keep them cool for free, if one artist's experiments work out.

Singapore's aspiration to become the world's garden city notwithstanding, most metropolises are the antithesis of green. If we're going to become more energy efficient, cities must become denser still, which means even more concrete and fewer plants. But what if we could turn the stone and brick faces of all those buildings into a habitat for one of nature's most tenacious symbiotes?



Lichen often lives on the bare face of rocks and trees, inhabiting territory where no other living thing can even get a toehold. It's a unique collaboration of fungi and algae, in which the fungus provides structure and protection to the algae, which feeds itself and its host through photosynthesis.



Lichen is light colored, and plants that respire help cool anything they're attached to, so it's not so far-fetched to imagine that if you could pull it off, a lichen-encrusted building wouldn't just look like a ship you just pulled off the ocean bottom: It would also help keep itself and the city around it cool.



In order to tease out whether this is even possible, Elizabeth Demaray, a professor of fine arts at Rutgers-Camden, figured out how to turn lichen into a slurry she can "paint" onto buildings. One building on 14th street in New York City is even contemplating covering its entire facade with the stuff.



"Lichen can live where plants cannot, and it can thrive without human intervention or maintenance. Also, anyone can "plant" it--all you have to do is smear it on the outside of your building," Demaray said via email.



In nature, lichen thrives in arid, exposed environments like mountaintops. The granite and sandstone facades of New York City's buildings are reasonable facsimiles for these environments. Nothing in nature cultivates lichen on its surface deliberately, but for p...

[Source: Fast Company]

The Teen, The Tweet, And The Governor: Social Media Lessons From The Emma Sullivan Fiasco

What happens when a teenager tells a governor he “#blowsalot” on Twitter? Here are four lessons on teens, social media, and politics from the Emma Sullivan affair.

The whole thing blew up pretty quickly; it blew over just as fast. Last week, Emma Sullivan, a Kansas teenager, wrote a nasty tweet about her governor, from the back of a crowd of students that had gathered to meet him. "Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot," she tweeted. As political commentary goes, it wasn’t the most elevated (it also wasn’t true: she hadn’t criticized him to his face). But both the governor’s office and Sullivan’s school reacted quickly, with the latter demanding she write a letter of apology. On Monday, Sullivan held her ground, refusing to write the letter and citing her right to free speech. By the time the afternoon rolled around, the governor himself apologized--via Facebook: "My staff over-reacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize. Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms."

This story may have turned out to be a minor tiff, rather than the epic showdown between teen and governor some had hoped for. Even so, there are a number of lessons to be drawn from the funny Kansan encounter between 18-year-old Emma Sullivan and Governor Sam Brownback, and about the emerging ways a generation weaned on social media is participating in politics.

1. Teens are using social media to engage politically.

"I do think that social media has helped Millennials become more politically aware, and some more politically active," Melanie Shreffler, editor-in-chief of Ypulse, a "guide to youth" for marketers, tells Fast Company. She thinks that Sullivan’s casual criticism of the governor is mirrored, in a somewhat more serious manner, in the various ways teens have become involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Shreffler visited Zuccotti Park last month to interview youths who were assembling there. Many of the young people had learn...

[Source: Fast Company]

Celebrity moms strike a chord in the fight against childhood cancer at inaugural St. Jude Soul Celebration Gala

The inaugural St. Jude Soul Celebration Gala brought together red carpet celebrities like Elise Neal, Terri Vaughn, Roger Bobb, Demetria McKinney, Mike Peterson (NFL Atlanta Falcons), Dikembe Mutombo (NBA Hall of Fame), and Fredricka Whitfield for a good cause – to raise funds and awareness for St. Jude.
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New Promo Trailer For FOX’s Alcatraz

Trailer for FOX's upcoming series Alcatraz
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Geek Gossip Pt 2: Star Trek 2, Pacific Rim, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Fly

ALTHOUGH coming together largely behind the scenes - either it's being kept under wraps or there isn't anything nailed down just yet - a sequel to 2009's Star Trek is reportedly getting ready for lift-off.

The fansite TrekMovie has learned that filming on Star Trek 2 will start on January 15, 2012, with a release expected sometime in 2013.

The much-anticipated follow-up had originally been set to arrive in cinemas in June 2012, but it soon became clear it wouldn't be ready in time and so that slot was reallocated to G.I. Joe 2.

Screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are now collaborating on the third draft of the script to ensure it's within the budget set by Paramount. Work has started on constructing new sets and on creating outer-space special effects.

The site adds that director JJ Abrams and his team are scouting for locations and are considering a site in Hawaii to stand in as a "jungle planet." There have been no hints at the plot, leading to much speculation about Khan or Klingons being the key element of the story.

All the major cast members - Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Zoe Saldana - are expected to return. No new characters have yet been cast, although Benecio Del Toro was last month expected to be offered the part of an unspecified villain, a role so secret that even the actor didn't know who he would be playing.

In a far more advanced stage is the Guillermo del Toro-directed monster movie Pacific Rim. Filming started on November 14 for the production for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, which sees mankind creates pilot-operated giant robots to battle creatures emerging from a dimensional rift in the ocean.

Del Toro tells Wired: "We are working with actors that I absolutely adore. Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It's a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-storey-high rob...

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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]

11 Funny Product Names

From Megapussi Potato Chips Random Crap Cigar.11 Funny Real product names


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Star Wars Advent Calendar Craft

By Bonnie BurtonCounting down to the holidays can be fun, especially when you make this Star Wars Advent Calendar. You never know who will be peaking behind the door each day! Will it be a C-3PO reindeer? Or maybe Yoda baking cookies? Create this one-of-a-kind funny calendar for December using old Christmas cards and Star [...]
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Pics: Laura Vandervoort In Desperately Seeking Santa

Laura Vandervoort stars in the TV-movie Desperately Seeking Santa which airs tonight on ABC Family.
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Thundercats “Between Brothers” Images & Description – Airs Friday

Most other TV series are taking this Friday off, but the Cartoon Network's Thundercats will be new at 8:30 (ET) with an episode called "Between Brothers." It looks like conflict between Lion-O and Tygra will come to a head. And here's the official spoiler description: Tygra and Lion-O enter the Astral Plane to retrieve the [...]
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War on Our World

War on Our World from Dominoes Falling Productions, is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various material. The film examines war, imperialism and some of the causes and consequences of this, with a particular look at the Military-Industrial complex. An aim of the film is

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San Francisco Builds Giant LEGO Yoda Santa

Photo by transbay.This weekend, Star Wars fans in San Francisco gathered in Union Square to help LEGO Master Builders construct a 12-foot tall LEGO Yoda Santa from about 250,000 bricks!Wired reports:Contributing some brick building to an undertaking like this is a strangely satisfying thing. Participants create large ‘bricks’ which are used to scale up from [...]
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Hunger Games killed that Battle Royale remake we were hoping for

Hunger Games killed that Battle Royale remake we were hoping for
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America's best college football stadiums

Get ready for rousing cheers, touchdowns, and traditions when game day kicks off at these college football stadiums.

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David Attenborough’s First Life

In fifty years of broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough has traveled the globe to document the living world in all its wonder. Now, in the landmark series, David Attenborough’s First Life, he completes his journey by going back in time to the roots of the tree of life,

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Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick

The comedian (and father of two daughters) salutes the feminine future.

[Source: Fast Company]

Akshay Kumar on bringing 'the fittest body' to his new film Desi Boyz

RELEASED in cinemas worldwide today is the new comedy Desi Boyz. Set in the UK, it sees Bollywood star Akshay Kumar reunite with screen hunk John Abraham in a tale of a two overseas students who turn to pole-dancing when they are desperate for cash.

Akshay was recently voted "the fittest body" by People magazine. He and John Abraham previously appeared together in 2005 comedy Garam Masala, while John showed off his own impressive physique when he led the cast of crime drama Force earlier this year.

The cast of Desi Boyz also includes Bollywood beauties Deepika Padukone and Chitrangada Singh.

Desi Boyz marks the directorial debut of Rohit Dhawan, son of one of Indian's cinema's most prized comedy directors, David Dhawan.

Filming took place over several months in locations including Oxford University and London. Below is the official synopsis and a Q&A with Akshay about the new film.

Official synopsis:

With huge aspirations and dreams in mind, two innocent young friends, Rocco (Akshay Kumar) and Hunter (John Abraham) arrive in UK as overseas students at Oxford University, only to find themselves taking up work as male pole dancers in order to supplement their lack of student funds.

Friendship soon turns to bitter rivalry as the fight to get to the number one pole position begins. To make things worse, Rocco makes the biggest academic faux pas by falling in love with a lecturer at Trinity College.

In addition to a laugh-a-minute, on-screen riot, cinemagoers can expect to be treated to an eyeful of Akshay's six-pack and perfectly toned abs. The girls will swoon and the boys will be inspired, as the Desi Boyz expose their incredible torsos.

Akshay Kumar Q&A

The Geek Files: Tell us a little about the character of Rocco you play in the film and how does it differ from what we have seen you playing before?
 
Akshay Kumar: My name in the film is really Jerry Patel, I am basically a guy who doesn't care about anything or anyone. ...

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Books-A-Million, the DC Boycott That Wasn’t and a Comics Clearance Booth

I'm in Iowa for the holidays, so I thought I'd drop in to the local (brand new) Books-A-Million and see what kind of comics they had after they joined Barnes & Noble in removing the boycotting the 100 DC graphic novels made exclusive to the Kindle. There were a lot more Marvel books there than DC and, of course, no Grant Morrison Batman or Batman: Hush or... uh, oh. What's that on the shelf?
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Confessions of...a resort's activity director

Think working at a beach resort is just one piña-colada-soaked-bash after another? Think again. We got a four-year veteran of a Jamaican resort to spill the secrets of island-hospitality life.

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Who Invented Liposuction?

Four doctors get the credit for founding and advancing the medical procedure know as liposuction. Doctor Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invented the liposuction procedure in 1974. Doctor ...

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Holiday explorations: Jon Klassen

Jon Klassen is an animator turned illustrator who's pretty amazing. He made the above BAFTA-nominated promot spot for the BBC's Winter Olympics coverage, and worked in character design om such films as Coraline. Now he's switched to books with such things as I WANT MY HAT BACK.
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Once Upon A Time Episode 5 Sneak Peeks!

Once Upon A Time returns with new episodes on ABC Sunday, November 27. The next episode is called "That Still Small Voice," and here are some preview clips from the episode. A gallery of images from the episode can be found here on KSiteTV.
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Iraq, Turkey end bans on flights

Iraq and Turkey have agreed to allow flights between their countries, ending a mutual ban that began with a dispute about how an Iraqi government oil company owed millions of dollars to Turkey, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

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Best city hotel rooms with a view

Even if you choose the right hotel for amazing views, there's always a risk you'll end up facing the highway rather than the ocean or the building next door. Not if you request these specific rooms.

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