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Tyler Stout's 'Avengers' Poster, Gallery Photos Galore, Fan Art & More

It's high time for Marvel Studio's The Avengers, as the studio is finally ready to unleash this fanboy wet dream superhero team-up worldwide this week - and the best news of all is that it turned out awesome. That means any and every piece of marketing, plus fanboy masterwork, and any other artwork related to the movie has just about hit the web—and a few galleries—in time for its launch. There's so much hitting, I've decided to roll everything up and feature a few favorites. Starting with, of course, Mondo's final Avengers poster in their series, this one a Tyler Stout creation and boy is it gorgeous. There's also a massive gallery of art from Gallery 1988's Avengers show, and a fantastic gallery of fan art as well, to round everything out.

› Posted May 3 in Artwork, Comics, Cool Stuff, Hype | 6 Comments

Watch: Amusing New 'IMAX is Believing' Branding Video Released

By Alex Billington

"A ticket to somewhere else!" The upcoming summer for IMAX is going to be rather epic, not only with The Dark Knight Rises coming in July featuring nearly an hour of footage shot in IMAX, but The Avengers kicks this off this weekend playing in IMAX 3D as well. They've also got Ridley Scott's Prometheus coming up, The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. IMAX has recently launched a new branding video to to promote: IMAX is Believing. The video features testimonials outside of IMAX theaters (like we used to record!) talking about how amazing the experience of seeing an IMAX movie is. It's fun, check it out!

› Posted May 3 in Cool Stuff, To Watch | 9 Comments

'Skyfall' On Set: Observing a Bond Shoot Out First Hand in Istanbul

By Alex Billington

For as long as I can remember, as long as my dad has shown me movies, I've been a James Bond fan. I've seen all 22 multiple times, own well-worn copies of all of them on VHS, DVD, everything. Bond has always been one of my favorite series. I've dreamt of one day stepping into his world, visiting Pinewood Studios, but I never thought, one sunny April afternoon, that I would literally find myself standing on the set of a James Bond film. In the middle of an action scene. In the middle of a crowded marketplace in Eminönü in Istanbul... waiting for Bond to grab his Walter PPK and fire off shots. But somehow, this dream came true.

› Posted May 2 in Cool Stuff, Editorials, Featured, Set Visits | 18 Comments

Watch: Sleepy Skunk's 'Movies That Come to the Rescue' Mashup

By Alex Billington

"Shut up, crime!" Similar to those fantastic year-end cinematic recaps, our friends at an upstart film website named The Sleepy Skunk have put together an awesome mashup video called: Movies That Come to the Rescue. This nearly five-minute YouTube mashup features footage from every last superhero, super-anything, comic book-everything from Blade to every Batman to Watchmen to Spidey to TMNT to Kick-Ass to Ultraman to The Shadow and The Incredibles. With Marvel's The Avengers finally released to everyone in the world this week, it's a perfect salute to the excitement and emotion of all superheroes big and small.

› Posted May 2 in Cool Stuff, Hype, To Watch | 32 Comments

InGen's 'Jurassic Park' Dinosaur DNA Can Be Yours for Only $5,000!

By Ethan Anderton

While I'm sure people around the world would be willing to pay an exorbitant amount of money to actually venture into Jurassic Park, we're just going to have to settle for the blockbuster films on the big screen. Jurassic Park IV is apparently on the way with Steven Spielberg producing, and the original film will return to theaters in 3D for the film's 20th anniversary, but for those die-hard fans of the adventure 65 million years in the making, there's a special treat for you on the internet. If you've got $5,000 lying around the house, you can get your hands on the actual dinosaur DNA that Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) tried to steal.

› Posted May 2 in Cool Stuff, Featured | 14 Comments

Warner Bros. Launches Awesome 'Inside the Script' E-Book Series

By Ethan Anderton

While there's plenty of people out there who enjoy going to the movies, there are plenty of readers out there who, like myself, just soak up everything related to cinema. From soundtracks to books and all sorts of memorabilia, cinema is more than a hobby for many. Now Warner Bros. has a new way to quench the thirst for all things related to film as the studio has started the Inside the Script digital publishing initiative. Reading scripts of our favorite movies is one thing, but how about getting digital versions that also include production notes, storyboards, movie posters, set designs and behind-the-scenes photos? More below!

› Posted May 2 in Cool Stuff, Movie News | 2 Comments

Another Cool Trailer for Disney XD's 'Tron Uprising' Animated Series

By Ethan Anderton

We've already featured an awesome tease for the forthcoming animated series Tron: Uprising which takes place between the events of the original Tron and the recent sequel Tron Legacy in the computer world. Featuring a voice cast that includes Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Nate Corddry, Paul Reubens, Reginald VelJohnson and Bruce Boxleitner as Tron himself. Now we have a breathtaking full length trailer for the animated series which will begin airing on Disney XD this summer. This could be a great way to hold audiences over until a sequel to Tron Legacy gets off the ground. Watch the trailer below!

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› Posted April 30 in Cool Stuff, SciFi, To Watch, Trailers | 10 Comments

Check Out These Superheroes from A to Z with the Help of Helvetica

By Ethan Anderton

For those who don't know just how prominent the font known as Helvetica has become in advertising and art, you might want to take a gander at the documentary of the same name (available to Watch Instantly on Netflix) which takes an in-depth look at the history and use of the font in mass media. Now French graphic design student René Mambembe has created a series of A to Z posters featuring superheroes in Helvetica font. Well, they're not all superheroes as there's one for Alien and another for Terminator and other famous sci-fi characters, but this is still a cool collection of nerd art.

› Posted April 30 in Artwork, Cool Stuff | 7 Comments

'Amazing Spider-Man' Viral Picks Up with 'Parker's POV' Online Blog

By Alex Billington

"Sometimes the face in the mirror does not even look like me." Peter Parker has emotions. And he's very smart. They've tried to capture those traits in the latest major viral update as part of The Amazing Spider-Man viral (or ARG). However, this update, which took days to solve, seems unnecessarily complex, only to lead to a nifty website, an intriguing new blog called Parker's POV with tons of photos, and even shots of his webshooter (the mechanical one) that we've seen him building in the trailer. While this viral is very deep and does contain a lot of details, the most exciting updates are all the images revealed this week.

› Posted April 27 in Cool Stuff, Hype, Movie News, Viral News | 7 Comments

Time to Cry as 'Shaun of the Dead' LEGO Set Officially Turned Down

By Ethan Anderton

Some fans were pretty excited about the prospect of an officially licensed LEGO set commemorating the infamous climax of Shaun of the Dead in the Winchester Pub coming closer to a reality. The custom created set comes from Gregory Coquelz, or Yatkuu as he's now known online and a site called Cuusoo where a community of LEGO fans vote on custom sets, received the necessary 10,000 votes of support in order to go before a real LEGO jury to determine whether or not they want to put the set into production. Sadly the official decision is in and it looks like we won't be getting any red on our LEGO sets anytime soon.

› Posted April 27 in Cool Stuff, Movie News | 13 Comments

See a Trio of Vintage Travel Posters Featuring 'Ghostbusters' and More

By Ethan Anderton

Back in 2010 we featured a small series of vintage travel posters highlighting the fictional locations of Metropolis, Gotham City and Neo Tokyo from talented graphic artist Justin Van Genderen. He even used New York as a location, but used fictional heroes like Spider-Man to make it fantastical. Now he's delivered another fantastic trio of similar posters with a new variation on New York that will be easily recognizable to those of us who have always wanted to wear a positron collider, not to mention a Yippee-Ki-Yay worthy take on Los Angeles and a classic take on Chicago that's all so f*cking hysterical. See what I mean below!

› Posted April 26 in Artwork, Cool Stuff, Posters | 9 Comments

Florence + the Machine Delivers 'Snow White & the Huntsman' Song

By Ethan Anderton

Snow White and the Huntsman - Florence and the Machine Song

Sometimes, I'm somewhat annoyed with the artists chosen to contribute songs to film soundtracks. For example, if you haven't already heard, Will Smith will not be doing the traditional theme song for Men in Black III and the responsibilities have instead been handed over to Pitbull, who made a dreadful song called Back in Time (I dare you to listen to the whole thing here). But Taylor Swift crafted an awesome song for The Hunger Games (which has one hell of a soundtrack including Once musician Glen Hansard) and now Florence + the Machine have a song for the Snow White and the Huntsman soundtrack. Listen!

› Posted April 26 in Cool Stuff, Hype | 7 Comments

Target Craftily Assembles Store Products to Promote 'The Avengers'

By Ethan Anderton

Yesterday brought news of a new art exhibition at Gallery 1988 honoring The Avengers when the film is released next weekend, and Mondo already kicked off their poster series with prints for Black Widow and Hawkeye (with more coming sometime this week). Now Target is getting in on the fun with a cool series of ads from Wieden + Kennedy that take various products sold in their stores (including toys of the assembled comic book heroes and lots of Dr. Pepper) and combined them to form various shapes representing heroes like Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man himself. They're quite impressive. Look!

› Posted April 24 in Cool Stuff, Featured, Hype | 9 Comments

Gallery 1988 Unveils Art from Upcoming Exhibition for 'The Avengers'

By Ethan Anderton

Mondo kicked off their celebration of the forthcoming release of The Avengers with a couple of posters for Hawkeye and Black Widow last week, but they're not the only ones getting in on the hype surrounding this unprecedented assembly of superheroes. Gallery 1988 (who have hosted art exhibitions celebrating Bill Murray and Alfred Hitchcock most recently) are hosting an event at an all new location in Los Angeles between May 3rd through May 6th. There will be a handful of limited screenprints and even more limited digital prints from an artist lineup that includes Rhys Cooper, Dave Perillo and others. Look!

› Posted April 23 in Artwork, Cool Stuff, Events | 11 Comments

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