Okay, this is damn cool. So much better than American Idol. Check it: Every week, the hopeful filmmakers will produce short films from a chosen genre, running the gamut from comedies to thrillers, personal dramas to romance, sci-fi to horror. They’ll have access to the best resources the industry has to offer – professional writers, [...]

It truly saddens me how “Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny” has barely been a blip on our collective radar. We’d been waiting for a Tenacious D movie for so very long that it just kind of faded from our collective minds. And now that it was finally upon us, I hadn’t heard so [...]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. This aired during football, which I don’t watch, but I wish I did so I could have seen this in HD. Supposedly will be available on the X360 marketplace soon. AWESOME.

And you’ll never guess who she is. Hilarious, though I find it hard to believe… the comments from the denizens are even better. Discover the porn star here.

A bit of an aside, there’s a great feature over on UGO called Studio UGO, which has exclusive video segments with up-and-coming or legendary indie bands. A couple sets, mostly acoustic, and an interview, alongside MP3 downloads, wallpaper and the inane rating stuff. Personally, I like Susanna Hoffs (still hot!), Three Days Grace and Stellastarr*, [...]

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Moviegoers who have become inured to ads and trivia quizzes before the film may soon be getting something that’s old enough to seem new: cartoon shorts.

I really don’t get it. What’s so special about this frackin’ penguin flick? And wow, the Fall of Taj gets bested by that schlocky Hostel ripoff? Weekend Box Office Estimates: December 1-3, 2006 Happy Feet (Warner Bros) $17.0 million – 3 wk total $121.1m Casino Royale (Sony) $15.1 million – 3 wk total $115.8m Deja [...]

You said you wanted a map of the United Federation of Planets, also showing the Romulan Empire and the Klingon Empire. Yes, you did. Shut up, you DID. Screw you man, here it is anyway:

Today’s Headlines: Maguire Not Keen On “Spider-Man 4″; The Rise of the Small Production Team; Ghost Rider Footage Previewed In Cemetery; A Desktop 3D Scanner, Really Cheap?; ILM Alumnus Kevin Townsend Talks Evolving Digital Media; Ray Harryhausen’s Greatest Hits On YouTube; “Cleopatra” Epic Planned; They’re Still Lining Up For `Pirates’; Stan Winston Thrilled With His [...]

This one’s for Rommel, who’s a big fan of Mr. Hands: “A documentary, Zoo, about the Seattle man who died last year while having sex with a horse, has been selected for Sundance.”