— via www.alloverthehouse.net
Cthulhu seems to be all the rage these days. Are more people suddenly reading Lovecraft? Are we embracing octopi like never before? Is it just fun to make the squid face? Is it caused by certain incredibly disturbing fetishes? — via Surviving the World
Like many of its Deadite
(read zombie) antagonists, it’s the movie series that never seems quite ready to rest in peace. According to a US report, Sam Raimi is planning a remake of his notorious 1981 horror, The Evil Dead.
The new film would presumably mark the launch of a new series of films – The Evil Dead was followed by Evil Dead II in 1987 and Army of Darkness in 1992. Bruce Campbell starred in all three films.
Rob Tapert, Raimi’s longtime producing partner, told the Detroit Free Press the film-maker wanted to see The Evil Dead remade for a proper theatrical experience
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An unfinished masterpiece
filmed by Orson Welles nearly four decades ago is finally to reach the screen.
The Other Side of the Wind portrays the last hours of an ageing film director. Welles is said to have told John Huston, who plays the lead role: It’s about a bastard director… full of himself, who catches people and creates and destroys them. It’s about us, John
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inspired by jeannr, I flowcharted the Beatles classic,
Hey Jude.now you can buy a print!
If you haven’t seen the announcements, the big news is that BBC Online is having to cut its budget by 25% and is being reorganised. Part of this reorganisation will see the BBC moving away from stand alone communities and message boards. Last year some message boards were closed, more will close this year. The BBC’s other big community 606 is scheduled for closure. (You can read about why we’re moving in this direction on this blog post from Ian Hunter.)
The review is part of the BBC’s Putting Quality First strategy which you can read about here. BBC Online will be reorganised into five portfolios of “products”. All parts of BBC Online have to fit with these. Over the past year all areas of the site have been reviewed to see where, and if, they fit. Sadly the conclusion myself and my colleagues have come to is that H2G2 does not fit in the new shape of BBC Online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Micro-blogging service Twitter is being sued by a company that claims it had already come up with the idea for an online network of celebrities.
One of Twitter’s biggest appeals is that it gives web users a chance to get inside the mind of their favourite celebrities by reading updates about their daily lives. Whether it’s musings from Demi Moore, Aston Kutcher and Stephen Fry, or the likes of Katie Price discussing her divorce.
However, according to VS Technologies, Twitter infringes on its patent, which was granted in 2002, for a method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
German tabloids have been mourning reality TV star Carolin Sexy Cora
Berger, who died in a coma after her sixth breast operation, aged 23 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When sci-fi TV shows gets canceled (on any network), many fans talk about how the ratings system is broken and doesn’t count sci-fi viewers correctly. After all, sci-fi fans are tech savvy and don’t watch live TV shows on TV … they DVR them, they buy them on iTunes and they illegally download them from BitTorrent. If the archaic Nielsen system only took these viewers into account, many sci-fi TV shows would have massive ratings and last many more seasons — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via deviantART
Sean Hartter’s large collection of Alternate Universe Movie Posters (which includes numerous book covers and other ephemera) are extremely well-done and present a tantalizing view of a better world than this one — via Boing Boing
— via CRAFT
The monster from the Sy-Fy movie has been enshrined in plush! This is a one-of-a-kind Sharktopus was hand-made by Suzannah Ashley — via Neatorama
An app a day: RunPee. What is it? Ever missed that crucial part in a movie because you simply had to, well, pee? Or worse, sat cross-legged in the cinema too afraid to leave in case you lost the plot?
Californian Dan Florio has. It was while watching the three-hour King Kong movie, which he uncomfortably endured despite an urgent need to go to the loo. In retrospect he realised he could have missed the boring bug scene and so created RunPee, a website, now an app, of a host of films and their missable parts. The app is available on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android platforms — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
This awesome beanbag chair in the shape of a Snorlax (from the world of Pokémon) was made by DeviantART member SmellenJR for a Christmas gift.
This took I think… over 100 dollars in supplies to make. I ended up with a little extra cream colored fabric and muslin. Thankfully muslin is super cheap.
Most of the work was done the last minute to be in time for Christmas. The box we put it in was perfect because when she lifted the top box off, it’s arms flopped out as if to say:
HUG ME!
— via Neatorama
A group of Hollywood studios and technology companies has come up with a system for buying digital movies and TV shows that’s supposed to do away with the problem of content being locked to a narrow set of devices by the company that sold it.
They say the system, called UltraViolet, will allow consumers to buy a DVD or digital download and then watch it on almost any TV, computer or games console from any participating manufacturer, regardless of where it was bought — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US judge has dismissed a legal action accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of copying the work of another author — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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