Monthly Archives: March 2015
Funko Releasing Boondock Saints Pop! Vinyls
The Boondock Saints themselves -- Connor and Murphy MacManus -- are getting the Funko Pop! Vinyl treatment this summer, with all-new adorable figures modeled after stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus.
According to Entertainment Earth News, Funko's undeniably cute Boondock Saints toys stand 3 3/4-inches tall and are packaged in window display boxes, like most other figures in the Pop! Vinyl series (which also includes Reedus as The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon).
Connor MacManus (Sean Patrick Flanery) Funko-fied.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Dies in Battle
Warning: Spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44!
In the pages of today's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44, Donatello was killed in a battle with Bebop and Rocksteady.
The series, by writers Tom Waltz and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, has committed to being more grounded in order to harken back to the original series, and this violent development certainly keeps in line with that.
Game of Thrones: Here’s 2 New Clips & 8 Photos
HBO has released two scenes and eight new photos from their upcoming fifth season of Game of Thrones.
The pair of clips show Jon Snow grilling Mance Rayder on whether he'll put his pride before his people, as well as Tyrion Lannister asking Varys why he set him free at the end of Season 4.
The new images can be viewed by scrolling through the slide show below:
Game of Thrones Season 5 debuts April 12th on HBO.
The Ring Prequel Photos Revealed
We've got our first (eerie) look at Rings, the upcoming prequel to The Ring.
Straight from director F. Javier Gutierrez's (The Crow reboot, Before the Fall) Instagram account, here are some suitably creepy pre-production photos from the upcoming horror prequel:
33 Marvel Comics Will Be Cancelled for Secret Wars
Marvel Comics will be ending 33 of their comic books due to the arrival of Secret Wars this May, according to an interview comicbook.com conducted with David Gabriel, Marvel's SVP of Sales & Marketing.
We already know that Secret Wars will bring the Marvel Universe to an end, and that Battleworld will be the setting of the new Marvel U going forward -- presumably until the end of Secret Wars this Fall -- but it's been a point of confusion as to what will happen to all of the current comics.
"There will be a number of titles reaching, what we’re calling, a '616 finale,' ending those stories and characters as you knew them – for now," Gabriel said. "Now in a perfect world, we’d have stopped every book with its April issue, putting out a nice clean May Previews catalog. Everyone would have seen upfront all those titles that had their finale, and all those titles that were starting fresh. But things don’t always go so easily. Instead we gave our creators the option to end their stories the way they wanted to; we let them tell "Last Days" stories if they wanted to; we let them tell 'Secret Wars' stories if they wanted to. So in the end 'Secret Wars' truly has been a creative driven process."
Terminator 2 Inspired This New 3-D Printing Process
A new technology significantly increases 3-D printing speeds, and it was inspired by an iconic scene from Terminator 2.
Just as the T-1000 robot rose from a puddle of metallic alloys in James Cameron's action classic, Carbon3D's innovation creates objects from a pool of resin. Unlike current 3-D printing processes, which slowly build an object layer by layer, Carbon3D's tech creates objects 25-100 percent faster than current tech on the market, according to a study published in Science.
Batman Eternal’s Mystery Villain Revealed
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Batman Eternal #50!
With DC's Batman Eternal comic wrapping up at the end of this month, the time has finally come to reveal the mystery villain that has been pulling the strings of the Bat family and many of Gotham's most iconic villains for the past year. Today, Batman Eternal #50 revealed the identity of the master villain who was tormenting the Caped Crusader in issue #1's flash forward sequence.
As it turns out, it wasn't a big gun like Penguin, Ra's al Ghul, Hush, Bane or any of the other iconic rogues appearing in Batman Eternal over the past year. Instead, it was Cluemaster.
Yep.
The Flash: Captain Cold and Heat Wave Return
In anticipation of next week's episode of The Flash, The CW has released an all-new poster of Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) to mark their return to Central City. Check out the image below:
Everybody... chill!
Here's the official synopsis of the new episode, "Rogue Time," airing March 24: "The Flash learns that Captain Cold and Heat Wave have returned to Central City. This time Snart has brought along his baby sister Lisa (guest star Peyton List) to help wreak havoc on the city."
Microsoft Launches Xbox Music Integration with OneDrive
Starting today, you can upload your own music files to Microsoft's cloud service, OneDrive, and stream the tracks via Xbox Music. The process seems fairly simple, and will allow you to add music which may not otherwise be available on Microsoft's streaming platform.
Rumors of cloud integration with Xbox Music popped up last year, when the feature was allegedly named OneDrive Music Locker. While there's no mention of that particular title, the concept is essentially the same.
Here’s What’s Leaving Netflix in April
Here's your official "last call" for these Netflix titles, which will be expiring from the site in April.
So if you've got a strong hankering for the Karate Kid trilogy or the Friday the 13th franchise, you better get to streamin'.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 1 Review
Also, say goodbye to stellar dramas Philadelphia and Mystic River as well as comedies Get Shorty, Clue, and Pee-wee's Big Adventure.