Source: http://www.riverreporter.com/
Drivers slowed and stopped with bemused tolerance as actors dressed as zombies paraded under the railroad bridge on Main Street on June 12. The 16 thespians were students from the Highland Lake-based Margolis Method Center, and they were making a three-minute zombie video as part of the 2009 Digit Exposition.
The exposition, sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, was held from June 12 through June 14, in various locations in Narrowsburg, and part of the lineup was a “Quick and Gritty Video Slam.” The slam consisted of five videos, each less than three minutes in length and shot during the weekend in Narrowsburg.
One of the performers, Sarah Harwood, said with a wide grin that the zombie filmmakers were “going for a kind of a metaphor. Sometimes, we all walk through life like zombies, so the film is kind of an advocation for living life to the fullest.”
Did they achieve that with their video? Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4C3hZryQ2E to find out. The film tied for first place along with Cass Collin’s “Narrowsburg at Night.” Each was awarded a $500 prize.
Kari Margolis, founder of the Margolis Method and a co-founder of Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, said the company usually performs in places like New York City, and other places around the world with large venues.
She added, however, that this weekend the company will be staging a show at the Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg on June 20, at 8:00 p.m. It’s billed as a theatrical improvisational performance event. Go to www.margolismethod.org for more on the performance.
Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/
THE CAST for season ten of The Ultimate Fighter has leaked – and SunSport can reveal who will pit their wits against Kimbo Slice.
With the ninth instalment of the show ending on Saturday at the TUF 9 Finale, mixed martial arts fans are already eager to find out which men will make up the roster for the next series.
We understand that the full list of the 16 heavyweights who will compete for a six-figure contract with the UFC will be:
KIMBO SLICE: The YouTube phenomenon and former Elite XC headliner will be the main attraction in the new season. UFC president Dana White has continually derided the 35-year-old, claiming “he would get killed in the UFC”. It will be interesting to see if he is proved right.
ROY NELSON: Boasting a 13-4 MMA record, the 32-year-old is a former Elite XC fighter who is perhaps best known for being knocked out by Andrei Arlovski last October.
WES SIMS: Formerly on the UFC roster, the 29-year-old was cut after just one year in the promotion in 2004 after losing three successive fights to Frank Mir (twice) and Mike Kyle.
MARCUS JONES: Former NFL defensive end for Tampa Bay Buccaneers between 1996 and 2002. Occasional guest on the popular American radio show Bubba the Love Sponge. Trained in MMA for just over two years.
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Source: http://topcultured.com/
UP was good, in that whole animated-for-kids-but-ill-still-watch-it-cause-some-girl-i-like-wants-me-to-go-with-her kinda way. I would have preferred to see UP IRL and it looks like I just might be able to soon enough!
Source: http://weblogs.newsday.com/
Moments after eye-poking his way to victory over Mostapha Al-Turk at UFC 99 in Germany, Mirko Cro Cop bolted from the UFC to the Japan-based Dream, according to Yahoo! Sports.
“He didn’t keep his word,” UFC president Dana White told Yahoo! MMA writer Kevin Iole.
White said he’d had a two-hour talk with Filipovic on the day Filipovic texted and asked to be able to return. “He talked about honor and all this other [expletive] and he [expletived] me.
Pretty chump move to call White and beg for a one-fight deal — but only against a tomato can — then turn around and leave for another MMA organization. Should this be true, it looks like Cro Cop learned a lot from his time in Croatia’s parliament.
If it’s just a money move, I can’t blame Cro Cop since I’m fairly certain everyone of us would leave our current job if an offer to do the same thing for more money came along. Still, it comes off as sketchy, at best. It’s a WWE good guy turns bad guy move. Remember when The Rock joined the Corporation?
We’re predicting that Cro Cop winds up on the same side of Dana White’s brain as Tito Ortiz.
Source: http://screenrant.com/
It has been announced that Watchmen and X-Men screenwriter, David Hayter, will help develop and write the screenplay for an adaptation of the on-going comic book series, Deadworld. The post-apocalyptic zombie story is being adapted for the big-screen by Dark Horse Studio partners Hayter and Benedict Carver, along with Pandemonium’s Bill Mechanic. As well as writing and developing it, Hayter will also conceive and design the look of the film. Gary Reed, who currently owns the rights through his Caliber Comics company, will exec produce the movie.
Published by Image Comics, Deadworld is set in a post-apocalyptic world where flesh-eating undead rule the earth with humans being very few and far between. The protagonist of the comic is King Zombie, “a Harley-riding corpse who holds a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast.”
As Matt Goldberg at Collider points out, the only thing that’ll set the Deadworld movie apart from other zombie tales is that it’s told from the perspective of the zombies. However, that still doesn’t stop the comparisons to the likes of Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Land of the Dead, Day of the Dead, and any other zombie films you can think of. I hope the zombie perspective angle can make it feel original as something like Shaun of the Dead felt, even if at it’s core it’ll just add to the ever-growing zombie movie list.
The Deadworld comic became noted for it’s gory artwork, both on the cover and on the inside pages. Although even if they translate literally what’s on the page to the big-screen, it won’t be that shocking in today’s movie-going age where we have gore-fests like the Hostel and Saw series’. I still hope they keep it consistent from page-to-screen. With Hayter involved, who practically co-translated Watchmen page-for-page from graphic novel to movie, I think the source material will be kept pretty faithful to.
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