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Official Title of Batman vs Superman Confirmed by Warner Bros

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Official Title of Batman vs Superman Confirmed by Warner Bros

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The Warner Bros sequel to The Man of Steel which is more commonly know as Batman vs Superman, has received it’s official name – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.  

The highly anticipated ensemble of superheroes is still some time away with a release date of 6th May 2016, but new information and glimpses are slowly being fed to the general public, beginning the the promotional onslaught that will fill our social feeds for the next two years.

Here is the official press release that also confirms filming is under way, though we knew that already because Snyder can’t help but be a tease. Share your thoughts below.

BURBANK, CA, May 21, 2014 – Filming is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the highly anticipated action adventure from director Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill in the role of Clark Kent/Superman, and Ben Affleck as BruceWayne/Batman.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” also stars Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, with Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane returning from “Man of Steel,” Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, and Holly Hunter in a role newly created for the film.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”is written by Chris Terrio, from a screenplay by David S. Goyer. Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder are producing, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Wesley Coller, David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers.

Principal photography will take place on location at Michigan Motion Picture Studios and on location in and around Detroit, Michigan; Illinois; Africa; and the South Pacific.

Set to open worldwide on May 6, 2016, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” is based on Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, Batman characters created by Bob Kane, and Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston, appearing in comic books published by DC Entertainment.

Pop A Tent Over the New Arkham Knight Trailer

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Pop A Tent Over the New Arkham Knight Trailer

It’s been about a month since the abomination that was the incredibly short and half thought out DLC for Arkham Origins. I, like anyone else with a brain fell in love with the glorious EXE suit, and hated the trite and lazy gameplay. With WB Montreal basically telling the franchise to “fuck off”, we were left to turn pin our hopes on Rocksteady’s latest offering: Arkham Knight.

We have been promised a lot. And if this trailer is anything to go by, Holy FlameThrower-Weilding-Velocoraptor Batman, this looks ridiculous.

 

15 Reasons Dating a Geek is worth it.

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15 Reasons Dating a Geek is worth it.

One of the reasons I love my FB feed (and why it annoys me that I don’t get all the pages I’ve liked anymore) is for things like the below, which was shared on my wall today (taken from TICKLD.)

Being a recently singled geek I’d have to agree with most of what has been said (though I hate Mountain Dew!)So ladies, its time to ditch the sultry, metro-sexual, hipster and get yourself a geek! There are 15 good reasons for your below:

 

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Brand Spanking New ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Trailer is AWESOME

Becca Harper
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Brand Spanking New ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Trailer is AWESOME

I am finding it hard to construct a sentence that can convey just how fucking excited I am about this film. This trailer has stepped it up to a level I couldn’t even imagine. I. CAN’T. WAIT.

It is visually pleasing, the sound track is rocking and we finally get to hear the voices of Rocket and Groot! WATCH IT NOW!

 

http://youtu.be/9bz0QOOT9Hk

Superman takes on Goku in the latest Epic Rap Battle

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Superman takes on Goku in the latest Epic Rap Battle

We here at Geek Pride love the videos that the guys over at Epic Rap Battles of History pump out, particularly when they pit our favourite fandoms against one another. After last week’s amazing clash between Walter White and Rick Grimes, this week they’ve gone for the daddy of all ultimate geek battles – Goku Vs. Superman! Check out the clip below!

Who wins? You decide!

Whats on at May MCM London 2014

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Whats on at May MCM London 2014

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Well its only 4 more sleeps until the extravaganza that is May MCM London (lets hope the weather holds out!) and yours truely will be there, laden with Camera equipment, taking photos, interviewing people and, as is tradition, getting seriously drunk in the Fox!

Below is a press release I received from MCM, listing what goodies they have in store for you this year; so you can prioritise yourselves or, if you haven’t decided to come yet, quickly buy yourself some day tickets!

MCM LONDON COMIC CON – EXCEL LONDON – 23-25 MAY

What’s on at MCM London Comic Con?

The UK’s biggest and best celebration of pop. culture, MCM London Comic Con returns to ExCel London on 23-25 May for a long weekend packed with special guests, sci-fi, movies, videogames, comic books, eSports, online video, anime and cosplay. Here’s a taste of what will be on show:


Special Guests

Special guests meeting fans, presenting panels and signing autographs at the show include:

  *   Orphan Black star Dylan Bruce (Arrow, 24: Conspiracy, Unstoppable).

  *   Falling Skies’ Drew Roy (Secretariat, Hannah Montana), Connor Jessup (Blackbird), Seychelle Gabriel (The Spirit) and Luciana Carro (Battlestar Galactica).

  *   Game Of Thrones’ James Cosmo (Braveheart, Highlander), Julian Glover (Star Wars, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) and Josef Altin (Eastern Promises).

  *   Nikita,  Kick-Ass and How I Met Your Mother star Lyndsy Fonseca.

  *   Once Upon A Time’s Meghan Ory (Intelligence) and Beverley Elliott (Unforgiven).

  *   Henry Winkler, famous for playing iconic character  The Fonz on Happy Days.

  *   Robert Llewellyn, best known for playing Kryten in sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf.

  *   Shane Richie, who stars as Alfie Moon in much-loved BBC One soap EastEnders.

  *   Cast and crew from Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist will present a world exclusive panel on the new live action series, which debuts on Machinima on the opening day of comic con.

  *   Tamara Taylor, best known for her role as Dr. Camille Saroyan in crime drama Bones.

Other special guests include Ian McNeice (Doctor Who, Rome), Scott Adkins (The Expendables 2), Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me), Nick Nevern (Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie), Annette Badland (Doctor Who) and Nina Wadia (EastEnders). For the full line-up, visit: www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/special-guests<http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/special-guests>


Great Games

  *   Games publishers attending include Capcom, Nintendo, Tecmo Koei, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Jagex, Reef Entertainment & Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

  *   MCM eSports Powered by ESL – MCM Expo Group has recently partnered with the Electronic Sports League (ESL), who will be producing the Razer-sponsored League of Legends Invitational and Open Tournaments taking place across comic con weekend.

  *   Not only is Honda bringing an anime-inspired bike to the show – the ace NM4 Vultus – but visitors will get to meet the designers and virtually ride it thanks to an Oculus Rift headset.

  *   Bandai Namco will also be bringing a special guest along to MCM London Comic Con; famed Tales of… series producer Hideo Baba!

  *   For the first time, MCM London Comic Con will be showcasing the work of independent games developers in a dedicated zone – Go Indie Games.

Comic Village

  *   The sold-out Comic Village will be home to more than 200 talented artists and writers, including Robert Rankin, Boo Cook, Richard Starkings, John McCrea, Lee Bradley and Gary Erskine. For a full list, visitwww.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/comic-village<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/%20http:/www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/attractions/comic-village/>

  *   Superstar wrestlers Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian – who formed famous TNA tag team Bad Influence – are coming to the show with their new comic, Christopher Daniels And Kazarian Wrestle Ah Yeah Comics, drawn by Eisner Award-winner Art Baltazar.

Online Video

  *   Bigger than ever, MCM’s celebration of online video Vidfest UK features a host of great channels and world premiere web series, including Geek & Sundry, Raindance Film Festival, Eddsworld, Tomska, Weebl’s Stuff, TimH, Jack And Dean, World Of The Orange, Chris Bingham and Ashens And The Quest For The GameChild, starring Stuart Ashen, Warwick Davis and Robert Llewellyn.

Anime, Cosplay & Asian Culture

  *   This show’s Anime Guests of Honour are Blue Exorcist: The Movie’s director Atsushi Takahashi (Rideback) and producer Takamitsu Inoue (Naruto, Shiki).

  *   Special guest Wendee Lee has voiced some of anime’s most iconic heroines, including Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star’s Konata Izumi and Cowboy Bebop’s Faye Valentine.

  *   The UK’s three leading anime distributors – Manga Entertainment, MVM Entertainment and Anime Limited  – will be taking part in an on-stage industry panel.

  *   JapanEx has been expanded to create a new PopAsia zone, packed with all the vibrant colour, delicious food, beautiful art and fabulous fashion of traditional and modern Asia.

  *   As well as hosting a Cosplay Masquerade, MCM London Comic Con will be the venue for the UK qualifiers of the EuroCosplay Championships, Europe’s biggest cosplay competition.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Post-Credits Scene

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Post-Credits Scene

Following the London premier, a post-credit teaser scene from X-Men: Days of Future Past was added to the film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, due to an existing deal between Webb and 20th Century Fox. To give some context, Marc Webb was supposed to make another film for Fox Searchlight after ‘500 Days of Summer’. Fox, however, allowed him to direct ‘Spider-Man 2′ just as long as Sony included a free preview for ‘Days of Future Past.’

The scene’s inclusion sparked confusion among some fans, who incorrectly thought an X-Men / Spider-Man crossover film was being planned, based on how Marvel Studios and Disney use end credit scenes within the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) to promote future films.

The scene itself is set during the Vietnam War, and sees Mystique breaking into a military base on her own, to liberate several mutant soldiers who have been detained and are set to be shipped to a “private facility”; among these mutants are Havok and Toad. We are also given a look at the younger version of William Stryker, who appears to be in charge of the operation to subdue them and bring them to the facility.

The scene has been released online, and May 23rd cannot come quickly enough!

The Kill Screen #1: I Love You

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The Kill Screen #1: I Love You

“Set two years after ‘The Kill Screen’ event, humanity is left on the brink of extinction leaving the remaining survivors caught in a deadly 8-bit fight for survival. No one knows what caused computer errors and technological faults to infect our world, but with a wide range of different dangers, threatening the lives of the survivors on a daily basis, no one cares. Surviving is all that matters.”

It’s certainly an interesting premise.The fusion of video game themes and concepts combined with the ever popular post-apocalyptic setting delivers a fresh take on the age old tale of human survival. And while the comic is not exclusive to gamers and tech-heads, if you do happen to be one then you’re likely to appreciate it all the more. The title itself refers to the point in which a game becomes unplayable due to bugs. The story takes us through a world in which these bugs are much more literal, infecting humans to become “players” in various games across the world. Those uninfected must attempt to survive in a world torn apart by technology.

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The writing itself is strong, working strong emotional angles to gut punch the reader with the bleak brutality of the reality of the Kill Screen. The comic will be utilising a sort of anthology format, showcasing a broad range of stories to show the full impact of the virus on the world. Issue 1, I Love You, sees two survivors, Chris and Jill, meet and attempt to escape after finding themselves caught in the middle of a deathmatch between the red and blue teams. To its advantage, the story is kept simple. Relying on basic emotions and brief moments of action rather than overly long narrative, the struggles of the survivors are related more through the situation they find themselves in than any expansive dialogue explanations. Almost Cormac McCarthyesque, Mike Garley creates an expansive world with sparse strokes.

What really stood out to me though, above Garley’s writing, is the artwork of Josh Sherwell. Throughout the issue, Sherwell delivers panels that are evocative not just for the technical skill that is apparent in them but for the distinctly impressive blending of gritty, realism with game influenced moments. For example, the infected are shown to be plagued with the virus by pixelated errors on their body or actual error messages showing on their skin. Blood, as seen in the picture below, also shows in a pixelated form. It’s an evocative art style that not only serves to greatly benefit the written premise but really shows off the talents of an artist given creative reign to work within a narrative expanse.

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Game Over

The Kill Screen is certainly an interesting prospect and one I’ll look forward to seeing fulfilled. If I was to lay any criticism at its door it would be that with the use of the anthology format, we may perhaps lose some of the drive, lacking a central guiding character as it is. However, this is a small complaint that may prove to bear no fruit as, on the basis of this issue alone, the creative team behind TKS have a lot to bring to the table in a way that is fresh in approach and confident in follow through. With the first issue pulling no punches and coming straight out of the stable with a deathmatch, i’m intrigued to see where in the world we’ll be taken next. The Kill Screen is a comic for anyone interested in a fresh take on the classic postapocalyptic scenario but, with its well designed references through both writing and art, anyone who’s a gamer will love it all the more.

New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Warps In!

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New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Warps In!

Moviegoers who have gone to see Godzilla this week may have been lucky enough to catch the new trailer for upcoming sci-fi film Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, best known for The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and for producing Man of Steel. Fortunately, Warner Bros. have now put the trailer up for everyone to see, and boy does it look like Nolan’s done it again!

The film, starring Matthew McConaughey (Mud, Dallas Buyers Club), Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), and Nolan regular, Michael Caine (The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception) follows the journey of a team of explorers and scientists as they venture through a newly opened wormhole in space, transcending the standard limitations of space-travel. Little else is known of the plot just yet, but going by the trailer and Nolan’s previous work, it’ll likely be a very interesting and thoughtful endeavour.

Spoiling us with new content, the film’s Facebook page also gave us this beautiful poster to oggle:

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I’m excited.

Interstellar hits UK cinemas on 7th November, 2014.

WWE’s heartbreaking tribute to Connor The Crusher

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WWE’s heartbreaking tribute to Connor The Crusher

It’s now been a week since this video was published on YouTube. It has now amassed over 2 million views, or at least that’s the video I saw. It’s been re-uploaded by many parties, and this version that I have posted here was published by an account named “WWE GC” – it’s the only video from the user, and comments are disabled. I don’t know if the company did it this way themselves, or if they didn’t even try to upload it, but it slipped out. I’m guessing the first. It seems to be accepted in the online community that WWE didn’t want to take too much credit from it or make it seem like a publicity stunt for them. They just wanted the video to be seen and Connor’s breathtaking story to be told.

The video follows a young, terminally ill boy named Connor Michalek and his Dad, as they embark on a journey to Wrestlemania. In an attempt to give Connor something to fight for, and something to hang on to, WWE put together this series of meet-and-greets and adventures. He did battle long enough to go to the biggest show of the year and see his favourite superstar Daniel Bryan become WWE World Heavyweight Champion. It was a dream come true for Connor. In the words of his father: “I truly believe that the whole experience extended Connor’s time with me. There is no greater gift that I could get, and no way I could ever re-pay them for that. As a father, that’s all I can ask for – is more time” The little boy gets to meet all of his favourite heroes, make Daniel Bryan tap out and even knock Triple H out in the middle of the ring. He did all this, before he tragically died.

This video is both heart-warming and soul-destroying at the same time, and just another example of the way in which the art of pro-wrestling can enchant and inspire a child. Anybody who thinks that their kids shouldn’t be watching WWE television, take a look at this video and see if it might change your mind.

Oh, and if that doesn’t choke you up enough. Take a trip down memory lane, with the truly astounding story of the San Francisco Batkid.

 

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