GeekiN #114
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
This week is E3 and while we do a little bit of related discussion in this episode, look for a closer look at the E3 presentations from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in this week’s two GeekiN Extras to be released on Wednesday and Thursday. For now, we have lots of movie and TV discussion to tide you over.
Discussion
Television
- Geoff Johns hints at a live action Jamie Reyes Blue Beetle TV series
- Mostly empty Game of Thrones teaser hits the web
Movies
- Christopher Mintz Plasse and David Tennant join the Marti Noxon penned remake of Fright Night
- The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made gets a release date of Christmas 2011
- Batman Year One animated adaptation in the works from the DC Universe Animation Studios
- Footage released for proposed Mortal Kombat reboot
- Harry Potter filming wraps
- Sam Raimi considering directing The Great and Powerful Oz, and delaying World of Warcraft. RDJ attached to star
- Green Lantern writing team hired to pen Green Lantern 2 and The Flash
- Aaron Johnson and Anton Yelchin added to Spider-Man “short”list; villain to be The Lizard?
- RUMOR: Joseph Gordon Levitt to play the Riddler in Batman 3?
- Transformers 3 – 3D and Shockwave confirmed as villain
Video Games
- New Xbox 360 design is officially revealed
- Project Natal officially renamed “Kinect for Xbox 360″
- Rock Band 3 adds Keys and Harmonizing
- Telltale Games to develop episodic games based on Back to the Future and Jurassic Park
- Comic Jumper video
- Scott Pilgrim is timed PS3 exclusive
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I keep hearing good things about the new Mortal Kombat .
I think it will be hell of alot less cheese as the old ones , I just hope it not like the last street fighter movie that the ad look good but the movie sucked .
A new movie, their great web videos, and the tv show being released on dvd. This is a great time to be a fan of the Muppets.
Hey guys, It’s weird maybe it depends on where you live but I saw more commercials for Karate Kid than A-Team. In fact I only remember seeing a commercial for A-Team like 2 or 3 times.
The biggest thing I took away from the 20-second teaser for Game of Thrones is that it is now tangible. The footage wasn’t that amazing or anything, but now it feels like something that actually exists for me. I can’t wait until we can see more.
It’s too bad that A-Team didn’t do very well at the box office. I thought the movie was a blast, easily my favorite movie so far this year.
Karate Kid is likely my new favorite movie of the year. At least in the glow of the after effect. But A-Team was a great movie as well.
I would say that I would go see Karate Kid this weekend….except Toy Story 3 is coming out. I do want to see Karate Kid at some point though.
I don’t think they expected much from karate Kid either. Looking at my movie display at work the other day I realized they sent us NO tie-in material for it. Usually for anything remotely marketed to kids they put out a junior novelization, a couple beginning readers, maybe a coloring book, etc. But for The Karate Kid? Nothing. Hell, I got a MARMADUKE novelization and beginning reader but nothing for Karate Kid. I have no interest in the movie myself but I have to think this was a surprise hit for even the studio that released it.
I can not fathom why A-Team flopped. I hope this doesn’t mean studios will think traditional action movies won’t sell nowadays…
The thing I liked the most about A-Team was that it didn’t try to put a serious spin on the material. It knows that it is a big, goofy action comedy movie, and it embraces the “crowd pleaser” mentality.
I thought Sharlto Copely’s insane antics were freaking hilarious, and the so-far-over-the-top-that-it-was-awesome scene involving the falling tank was probably my favorite part of the movie if I had to pick one. I also loved Patrick Wilson’s character (and it took me forever to realize that I had just seen him in Watchmen) and how smarmy he was.