Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
According to this article from CHUD.com with a moderately amusing photo-valentine, the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will start appearing on February 14th – on movies at the theater, and on Entertainment Tonight. Then at 12:01 a.m. the trailer will be released on IndianaJones.com. That’s about 21 days from now. Get in line while there’s still a spot available!
Entertainment Weekly celebrates sexy aliens, with our own Lando Calrissian clocking it at at #4. (Yes ladies, a fair amount of menfolk make the list, which is nice.) Slightly less innocent is New York Magazine’s ten movie vaginas even scarier than the one in Teeth, which ‘graciously’ includes the Sarlacc pit at #1. Whoo. (Our Google referrals are sure to get even weirder now.)
Meanwhile, for the folks not in the mood to oogle or wince, take a gander at Deputydog’s ten stunning ultra-geeky home cinemas. While many of the home theaters profiled are familiar, there’s plenty of brand-new ones to discover (or rediscover.)
So far, we’ve only heard of one case where LFL came down on someone making unlicensed t-shirts. And there have a been a lot of them… But is DustinCropsBoy.com walking too close to the line?
Of course, most of the fans don’t care. And if they can come up with some shirts that are more Threadless than Wal*Mart, even I might be swayed. (The current selection is less than encouraging, but it’s early.) But for now? I’ve spent too much time wrangling fanfic to be anything but wary of this sort of thing.
DarkHorse.com has finally posted the preview for Legacy #19, the conclusion of the ‘Claws of the Dragon’ storyline. Hopefully this is a good sign that it’ll actually come out next week as scheduled…
“The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom” author Andrey Summers responds.
His hate mail is hilarious. Oh, fandom. I have a faint hope that one day many of you will remove that pole from your collective asses. Please don’t prove me wrong.
I reluctantly expose you to the teaser trailer for the inevitable Family Guy: Blue Harvest sequel:
Assuming no other tragic circumstances bump it, the entertainment news show Extra! will be airing a behind-the-scenes visit on the set of this week’s episode Harmony.
Speaking of Harmony, Joe Mallozzi posted a behind-the-scenes video on his blog showing a small set-up and (of course) David Hewlett tormenting Jodelle Ferland.
Going back to last week’s episode, the official site posts interviews with episode writer Carl Binder and Katie Brown herself, Brenda James.
This time it’s the New York Times, checking out his new store in Chelsea. A brief paragraph addresses the Star Wars line:
He is also obsessed with “Star Wars” and somehow wrangled a licensing deal with the franchise. A white T-shirt has a storm trooper head rendered beautifully in little appliquéd crystals, while a likeness of Yoda in green dots on a brown T-shirt looks warty and nauseating. Mr. Ecko lovingly explains his fetish in a long paragraph printed on the back inside collar: “It’s no secret I am a fan of all things Star Wars,” it reads. “Just when I am getting pop culture fatigue, I watch Star Wars.”
In other merchandise news, StarWars.com features another line of t-shirts and a new Sideshow farmboy Luke.
