New Wolverine Film Gets Interesting Title

So news broke today that the next installment and Hugh Jackmans final appearance as Wolverine may have finally been given a title – Weapon X now those of you who know and love Wolverine as much as me knows that this title ties into the experiment that gave Wolverine his Adamantium skeleton.

Now this throws in a curve ball to the mix as there have been a fair few rumors around the film being linked to the Old Man Logan story from the comic books. This could just be a title that may mean Logan finally finds closure of what was done to him as we saw at the end of X-Men Days Of Futures Past Wolverine was taken away by a young William Stryker who we know was responsible for enlisting Logan into the Weapon X program. But this could also make a lot of sense as it has been rumored that X-23 a female clone of Wolverine (Has the Weapon X program been started up again?) it may fall to Wolverine to be the only one capable of stopping this.

Once again this give us more questions than answers to exactly what story line the film is actually going to be following or it could mean that they will be taking influences from a few of the different story arcs and then tying them together. It appears we will have to wait and see until the next batch of rumors to see if any of the information coming out can be cleared up.

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John Boyega Lands Lead In ‘Pacific Rim 2’

Pacific Rim fans have been treated to a massive announcement, as Legendary Pictures have chosen Star Wars star John Boyega as the leading man for Pacific Rim 2. 

The second installment of the franchise will be directed by Steven S. DeKnight and production is set to begin in the last quarter of this year, and is based on the world created by Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham.

John Boyega (Attack the Block, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens) has been cast as the son to the first films character Stacker Pentacost, who was played by Idris Elba (Luther, Thor).

Guillermo del Toro said on the announcement; “I am very proud and happy to welcome John into a fantastic sandbox. The Pacific Rim universe will be reinforced with him as a leading man as it continues to be a multicultural, multi-layered world. ‘The World saving the world’ was our goal and I couldn’t think of a better man for the job.”

Pacific Rim, released in 2013, was the story of a future in which alien monsters, named Kaiju (Japanese: Strange Beast) have breached Earth via a wormhole buried beneath the Pacific Ocean. To combat their invasion, Earth creates the Jäger (German: Hunter) to fight the creatures back. The story focused on Raleigh Beckett (Charlie Hunnam – Sons of Anarchy, Green Street) and his return to the  Jäger Programme, under the command of Pentacost. Working alongside Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi – 47 Ronin, Liar Game), the characters aim for one last assault to finally end the invasion of the Kaiju.

The film received an overall positive response, and has gained a large and loyal fanbase since its release. Fans have been eagerly awaiting news on the sequel, as several times it has seemingly been cancelled or put on hold.

Pacific Rim 2 has yet to announce a release date, but production will begin late 2016.

Hayley Joins The Call For A Netflix Revival Of Agent Carter – Do Your Part And Sign the Petition!

Peggy Carter is a strong, incredible, kick-ass character. She’s a competent woman in a time when women were still an underestimated and repressed majority.

She’s brilliant, oh so clever, and her confident statement – “I Know My Value” – has inspired hundreds of thousands of fans, as well as their tattoos, cosplays, and fan art.

Agent Carter is, in my opinion, one of the best Marvel shows aired outside of Netflix. And I’m not the only one who holds this belief, as the outcry from those selfsame fans upon the cancellation of Agent Carter was explosive, and as fierce as their gun-toting role model.

Within hours of the news of ABC’s massive blunder, one particular fan, Arnau S., started a petition to bring the show to Netflix.

With a day we had thousands of votes. Within a week, 75,000. As it stands, three weeks after the petition was first launched, we now have over 119,000 votes.

If you wish to add your voice to the rallying cry, click on the link below:

Save Agent Carter, Bring Her to NETFLIX – Petition

But ABC had already signed Hayley Atwell (the fantastic actress who embodies Peggy Carter) for their newest show Conviction. As long as the network that abandoned Agent Carter kept Hayley busy, could our petitions and votes every amount to anything?

Don’t lose hope yet, Lipstick Commandoes! Hayley Atwell herself has stepped up to the plate, stating that she is completely committed to reviving Peggy Carter and bringing her to Netflix.

In Hayley’s own words, she’d be willing to “shoot on the weekends”, if she had to – anything to give Agent Carter the run it deserves.

We’d get a wrap-up for that insane cliffhanger that season 2 left us with. And, according to Hayley, we might get some more of Peggy’s backstory – more specifically, her mysterious past and the events that created the fantastic heroine that we all adore.

“The showrunners were talking about a kind of twist, I suppose… something to do with the family,” she said. “They suggested there’d be more to do with my brother.”

The hints and clues and teasers are fantastic, making me ask questions that I’d never considered before.

As for whether or not we’ll see Peggy turn the S.S.R. into S.H.I.E.L.D., Hayley has this to say: “I think I’m going to save that for my own movie.”

The crowd exploded into riotous applause – and rightfully so.

Peggy needs – no, she deserves – to have her story told right, told well, and told in its entirety.

[SPOILERS]

Just because Peggy died in Captain America: Civil War, it doesn’t mean that her story is over.

[END SPOILERS]

And hopefully the epic combination and team-up of Hayley Atwell and us, her ardent fans, will convince Netflix of this fact.

So far, with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, Netflix has been my hero in terms of Marvel TV shows. With they pull through again, and save another hero?

We know Peggy’s value.

Does Netflix?

Pinheads Ep. 3 -Bernie vs Turkey

Silicon Valley SN3 EP6 – ‘Bachmanity Insanity’

Hello and welcome to this weeks review of Silicon Valley. This week, rather than giving a quick episode synopsis before getting on with the review, I’ve decided to sum shit up  in as few words as possible. I apologise to new readers for my use of the word shit, you’ll find that I try to swear as little as I can. On with the review.

This guy fucks.

This guy gets fucked

This guy does some light finger banging before fucking himself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The episode opens with the gang celebrating Richard’s reinstatement as CEO, proclaiming him the past and present CEO. Jared’s suggestion that he is also future CEO is immediately dashed by Erlich in the first of his many idiotic moments this episode.

The episode opens with the gang celebrating Richard’s reinstatement as CEO, proclaiming him to be ‘The past and present CEO of Pied Piper.’ Jared’s asking why not future is met with Erlich’s ignorant deadpan ‘We’ll worry about that later’. This is the first of his many idiotic moments this episode. The bar scene sets up some of the plotlines of today’s episode, Richard’s relationship with Winny and Erlich’s blowout Bachmanity party. Dinesh’s small plotline of pursuing romance with one of the offshore engineers is set up in the house, along with Jared’s announcement that he’ll also get back into the dating game.

Richard’s storyline can be summed up by Gilfoyle’s single statement after meeting Winny. ‘She seems nice, it’s a shame that Richard’s gonna fuck it up.’ Richard’s inability to go one hour without a neurotic hissy fit is his downfall this episode, with his incredulous reaction to Winny using spaces instead of tabs when coding. This manifests with him refusing to be around her anymore, cutting ties and childishly attempting to take the stairs eight at a time, resulting in an awkward conversation between Winny and a Richard who had recently fell down the stairs. Richard’s childish impulses and inability to see reason are setting up Pied Piper to crash and burn by the end of the season.

Erlich decides to throw a massive blowout party in Alcatraz prison to shove his newfound wealth (that isn’t his) into the faces of old enemies that he encountered over the years before Pied Piper. Of course a blowout party that includes expensive venders, an expensive venue and a complete Hawaiian themed redesign of Alcatraz doesn’t come cheap. This is where Erlich’s problem lies. Bighead’s new business manager cuts funding to him just as he needs it most due to his excessive overspending in the past two episodes. This leaves him in the lurch, with no money whatsoever. Bighead isn’t in a much better scenario, having lost all of his money due to Erlich and his own idiotic means. ‘You moved the pool?’ ‘Yeah, I thought it looked better there’ ‘Ok that’s understandable but then you moved it back’ ‘Well it turns out, the original owners had the right idea and it looked better where it was.’

The side stories of the episode gave the show episode humour mainly through call-backs, with the infinitely popular ‘Russ was right, this guy fucks’, from Dinesh after Jared leads a conquest out of the door. Erlich also has a great line ‘Hey, great using that dick’ before going back to the conversation at hand. Dinesh’s story came off as desperate, with a need to put in high definition video chat into the platform to see if the offshore engineer was a dogface, only for her to notice his looks and abandon ship as Gilfoyle proclaims Dinesh to be the dogface.

Overall, this episode was a good sixth instalment to the season, progressing the story as well as allowing the viewer to see more of the gangs everyday life outside of platform drivers. I particularly enjoyed the ending of the episode, where Erlich has to face the party goers after having just lost all of Bachmanity’s money.
Erlich: ‘Aloha’
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Bighead: ‘Which also means goodbye’

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Justice League Movie Title Officially Revealed.

After many rumors surrounding the title of the Justice League movie, Geoff Johns took to twitter to clear any misconceptions, and confirmed that the Justice League movie will simply be called Justice League. 

Clearing up any misconceptions — the Justice League movie is called "Justice League". @BenAffleck @GalGadot @ZackSnyder Happy Friday!

— Geoff Johns (@geoffjohns) June 4, 2016

Geoff Johns is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, and the newly appointed co-chief of the DC films alongside Jon Berg.

Justice League is currently filming in London and is expected to roll into theaters on November 17 2017.

Star Wars Replicas from the Prop Makers of The Force Awakens

Are you a lover of all things Star Wars? Well the Force is strongly in your favour, because the best of the best have stepped up to create the ultimate prop replicas for you. That’s right, the prop makers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Prop Shop, are using their talents to create precisely detailed prop replicas of the finest craftsmanship. For now eight prop replicas will be sold without limit, with the exception of two. So what’s for sale Jawas?

Darth Vader Helmet (Melted) $3,500 (limited edition of 500)

 

FN-2187 Stormtrooper Helmet $1,750 (limited edition of 500)

 

Kylo Ren Helmet $2,000

 

Poe Dameron X-Wing Helmet $1,500

 

Chewbacca Bowcaster $2,500

 

Kylo Ren Lightsaber Hilt $1,250

 

Rey Lightsaber Hilt $1,250

 

Rey Staff $1,250

 

Here’s what the talented prop makers have to say about this big project:

“Prop Shop’s been involved in the film business for twenty years, and to be invited to show such a Star Wars it comes with a responsibility. There’s certainly a leap of faith that Lucasfilm made to make this collaboration happen. It’s the first time that I’ve seen where the consumer can actually access props by the props company that worked on the film itself —it’s a very unique feature. We’re creating all of the parts for these props that will match with what you saw in the film. We’ve spent weeks and months developing these things into the best, most authentic, top quality item that we can possibly make. The technology we use when we scan objects and being on set means that we can then take all that detail, capture that, and then reproject that onto a clean model. So basically what you end up with at the end of the day is what you see on set. We carry a huge sense of responsibility to satisfy the fans and make sure they’re really owning a piece of history —that’s what we’re trying to achieve. The fans are gonna get this prop and they’re gonna be really blown away by it. Every day we came to work it wasn’t a job, it was a passion for us and so, I mean, we really, really care about what we’re doing, what we’re producing, and we’re really, really pleased with what we’ve come up with.”

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You can’t get any nearer to the real thing than this. The props will be where they should be, and that’s with the fans. It’s been a real labour of love for us at Prop Shop, and we really hope that you enjoy having these pieces in your homes.” – Prop Shop

 

For the full video, including a little behind-the-scenes footage, watch this:

Very interesting indeed. If you would like to browse their site, click HERE. If you buy one (or two) be sure to send us a picture. Personally I’d love to own the Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, or X-Wing helmet.What are your thoughts on the props? Any favourites? What other Star Wars props do you want to see Prop Shop make in the future? Comment, share and like below, or tweet me @SohoDoll. And as always, “May the Force be with you.”

Jason Statham Joins Giant Shark Movie ‘Meg’

Steve Alten’s ‘MEG: A novel of deep terror’

There are a few shark movies released the last years, to name some ‘Deep Blue Sea’, ‘The Shallows’, the ‘Shark Attack’ series and so on and so on. But I expect ‘Meg’ (shortcut for “Megalodon” a giant shark, which lived 2,6 million years ago) to be a qualitative movie, not only because of the cast.

The movie will hit theaters 2^nd March 2018, so there will be a lot of time to learn more about the movie. But one thing we can definitely announce is the name of the main cast and it’s none other than Jason Statham. We all know Jason Statham is famous for his strong characters like, Frank Martin in ‘Le Transporteur’ or Chev Chelios in ‘Crank’.

So it pretty surprised me, when they announced Jason Statham as part of a giant shark movie. Most of the giant shark movies are pretty trashy, but still with a cult factor and the advanced possibilities of animation, could make this giant shark movie a qualitative one. We also heard, that Eli Roth was Warner Brothers Picture first choice of director, but he quit the project recently. So now Warner Brothers Pictures decided to give Jon Turteltaub the reins and so filming is set to begin later this year in New Zealand and China.

What is ‘Meg’ about?

Naval Captain Jonas Taylor an expert sea diver, encounters an unknown creature in the deepest trench in the ocean, the Mariana Trench. The discovered unknown danger forced him to abort his mission and left half of his crew abandoned. This tragically incident happened five years ago and cost him his career and his marriage. Taylor first tries to forget about this all, but the Meg decides to go on a hunt at the surface of the water and so he decides with his remained crew to hunt this giant shark to put it to a stop.

Background to ‘Meg’

‘Meg’ is going to be an adaption of the New York Times best-selling Sci- Fi and Horror novel ‘MEG: A novel of deep terror’, which was published in July 1997 from writer Steve Alten. The novel follows the underwater adventures of a U.S. Navy deep sea diver, Jonas Taylor who discovers the giant creature. ‘MEG: A novel of deep terror’ appeared as a series and Alten already published four sequels and one prequel, after the first novel.

Here are the following books and their publishing dates:

‘MEG: A novel of deep terror’ July 1997

‘MEG: Primal Waters’ May 1999

‘MEG: Hell’s Aquarium’ July 2004

‘MEG: Night Stalkers’ June 2016

‘MEG: Origins’ August 2011 (prequel)

I’m curious if that possibly means, that we’ll may see more than just one movie of ‘Meg’ and Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor. We’ll keep you updated about the movie and I bet there will be more great news coming out soon.

The cast so far

There aren’t a lot of cast members announced yet, but we’ll keep you updated on here.

Jon Turteltaub director

Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor

Bingbing Fan as Suyin Zhang

I know the first book was released back in 1997, but should we do a review about the book, before the movie hit theaters? Let me know in the comments below, or on twitter.

A Look Back At Grey’s Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy, the name of the show gives it away a bit. Yes, it is a medical show but not in the way you might expect from the name. (Gray’s Anatomy is a book on the human anatomy.) This show is all about the anatomy of Meredith Grey, the main character. Don’t expect to see all bloody scenes (sure they have happened), because that is not what this show is about although it is a hospital series. The episodes are mostly narrated by Meredith to give an insight in what is going on in her live and the lives of her friends, who are mostly her co-workers, and the patients of Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle. As said most of her friends and surprisingly family (in laws and half-siblings) work in the hospital. We follow their lives as well as they are intertwined with Meredith’s. No issue is spared as it is in live. It makes it interesting to see how people deal with daily life struggles, as substance abuse, hook ups, break ups, accidents and whatever life might throw at them.

Meredith started as an surgical intern in Seattle Grace Hospital twelve years ago, which is now -after many name changes, due to some life altering events- Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital. She had a rocky start at the hospital, she had a one-night stand with Derek Shepherd aka McDreamy, who later turned out to be the married neurosurgeon of Seattle Grace Hospital. That story is a can of worms we shall not open right now. But personally I liked that can of worms, it was so fun to watch, to see how everything evolved from that one event.

So life happened to Meredith as is happens to most of us. She got married with her neurosurgeon, had his kids and lost her neurosurgeon to a car accident. And that is not all that happened to her, she survived a plane crash that killed her half-sister Lexie Grey, she almost drowned (she was technically dead but got revived), got beaten up by a patient with brain damage. But life isn’t getting her down thanks to her friends and family at Grey-Sloan Memorial. They are her rock in hard times as she is for her friends sometimes.

I do question what the chances are of one human being (even a very unfortunate one) having to deal with everything that Meredith has dealt with. I mean common I know it might have happened to some people but it is a build-up of one misery after another just for our entertainment. Sure I find it highly entertaining but some story lines to me are a bit far-fetched, like the bomb in the operating room inside a person.

So Meredith has learned not to dwell on the past (it took her a while though) and neither shall I. We are now twelve years along after she started as a surgical intern and is now for more than a year a widowed mother of three who lives in the house that she and her late husband build (played by Patrick Dempsey who got fired and hence killed off in the show). She has begun “dating” again. Her latest date is Nathan Riggs, a heart surgeon with a lot of issues, who she will date Grey-style. What that entails I will not give away as to avoid spoilers but rest assured it won’t be boring.

The show throws a lot of twist and turns at you just like life. To me it doesn’t get boring. Yes it has helped that the show has guys that have nicknames like McSteamy and McDreamy, but that isn’t what the show is all about. It is a show that is well written and funded to make it believable. Sure some story-lines like the Avery-Kepner break-up was a little too long for me, but when I got bored with it they did a 180 which was very surprising to me and got me interested in their story again. The writers in my opinion know how to keep you interested in characters that have seemingly settled by throwing curve balls at them and at you.

Some of my favourite characters have left the show, McSteamy (a beautiful role by Eric Dane) and Callie Torres, but most got the exit they deserved. McSteamy was a complex character with at first a one track mind (which lead to so many funny and full of innuendo scenes) who later turned into a family man. Who would have thought. I wouldn’t. Yes I am also critical I rather would have seen McDreamy not been killed off but that they just divorced. But I guess they wanted to make sure the actor couldn’t return to the show (there were some issues on set). Whatever the reason might have been I miss McDreamy. But even when I don’t agree with a decision from the writers or showrunners I don’t complain that much. They have usually the big picture for the episodes/seasons ahead in their minds. And I for one am anxious to find out what that will be.

So as we enter year thirteen at Grey-Sloan Memorial let us find out what Meredith will encounter. Will she start to date Nathan Riggs like a normal person or shall she date him Grey-style. Only time will tell. (And Meredith of course since she narrates the show.)

 

Orphan Black SN4 EP8 – ‘The Redesign of Natural Objects’

 

Last week I predicted it, and this week it happened!

Super Duncan/clone club team up is a thing now. But their end goal is to put Susan back on the Neolution throne, and of course, cure the incurable clone disease.

Some other interesting things happened this week, so let’s begin the breakdown!