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SOUTH PARK (SEASON 11)
South Park has become almost run-of-the-mill in its episodic delivery of insanity these past few years, losing a little bit of that hilarious edge and non-stop creativity that made it once so very special. Even so, it remains above and beyond one of the best comedic shows on television, and there is always at least a couple great moments per episode. This includes everything from Randy incorrectly filling in the word “N_ggers” on national television to terrorists [...]

This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry’s.

THE COUNTERFEITERS
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this movie tells the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, which employed the use of Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps to help fund the Nazi War effort. With a 94% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.7 rating on IMDB, The Counterfeiters has been widely praised for its gripping exploration of survival and the lengths people will go in order to retain it, as well [...]

This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Fry’s.

HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY
(Available as single-disc and 2-Disc Special Editions)
From White Castle to Guantanamo Bay, Harold & Kumar’s adventures have grown just a tad more ridiculous since the last time we saw them. The clever balance of high brow/low brow gags and biting racial commentary are intact though, and those two things (along with John Cho’s and Kal Penn’s engaging performances) help immensely in making this one of the funnier and more respectable comedies of the past [...]

Before today, the only thing that had really been seen from the Friday the 13th reboot was a single grainy image, but for a select group of horror buffs at Comic Con, this is no longer the case. Producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form joined the cast onstage and unveiled the first ever trailer for the film, as well as the teaser poster (seen right thanks to Latino Review, click over to see high resolution).
The teaser trailer (Update: which is now available online on YouTube) begins with a shot of Camp Crystal Lake. Two teens, a boyfriend and girlfriend, enter Jason Vorhees’ house and see some strange looking hair sticking [...]

While at Comic Con, I got the opportunity to sit down and talk one-on-one with Friday the 13th producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, both of whom were nice enough to give me the lowdown as to what stage of production their other upcoming remakes are currently at.
Here’s what they said about each…

The Birds - “Martin Campbell is going to be directing that. Naomi Watts has said that she wants to star in the movie. We have a treatment that we’re submitting to the studio in the next week or so. And if they sign off on that treatment, we’ll go to script, and hopefully we’ll have a script that’s [...]

Unlike the Heroes panel presentation, where they delivered in full by bringing out the entire cast and airing the season premiere, the only good thing to come out of the Lost panel was a sampling of interesting tidbits and one quick clip.
The brief footage featured everybody’s favorite Asian Dharma doctor, this time introducing himself as Dr. Marvin Candle. Instead of the usual scratched up black-and-white recording, the video was being shot digitally with Marvin sitting on a couch. He briefly starts off with his normal spiel, but quickly gives up and states there’s no point in playing games anymore. He admits his name is Pierre Chang, and tells the people [...]

As a special treat for Comic Con attendees, creator Tim Kring joined the entire Heroes cast onstage with a metal briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, and proceeded to pull out a burned DVD with the handwritten text “Heroes Volume III (Episode One)” written on it. This could only mean one thing, and as the lights dimmed, fans erupted in applause.
For those, like myself, who found the second season of Heroes to have been incredibly weak but with a small handful of redeeming qualities toward the end, you’ll be happy to know that for the most part things do seem like they’ll be getting better. Whereas last season’s premiere was both [...]

During the Comic Con panel for Fringe, someone asked J.J. Abrams if there were any updates on a Cloverfield sequel. Abrams response started off very much in the same way that it did when he was asked about it before, but then he let slip a piece of information that is sure to spark conjecture amongst fans.
“There’s something we’re playing with now that may or may not happen. There’s an idea we have that plays with… it’s not a literal sequel.“
Unfortunately, that’s where the discussion ended. Abrams is known for being pretty tight-lipped when it comes to his projects, so all we can do is wonder what exactly him and [...]

Update: The trailer has leaked onto YouTube.
There have been a number of rumblings in the film news world about another Tron film being released by Disney, including word that it would be in 3D, and even that Jeff Bridges was going to be hearing a pitch about a sequel. No actual information had been confirmed though.
Until now.
Courtesy of the folks at Disney, Comic Con got a surprise look at a scene from the film. The teaser starts off with the camera panning through a strange stylized landscape. At this point, nobody knew what we were watching, so only silence filled the hall. And then, two blue/yellow suit-wearing motorcyclists burst into [...]

Although the Watchmen panel itself didn’t yield many answers as to what would be happening with all of the extra footage being shot for Watchmen, such as the Black Freighter comic book and various text essays from the graphic novel, Zack Snyder did end up revealing his current game plan later on in the day at the Entertainment Weekly Visionaries session.
It was already announced that there would be an animated Black Freighter movie being released around the time when Watchmen hits cinemas, but apparently the extent of its involvement in the Watchmen mythology won’t end there. Snyder made mention that they’ve also filmed the transitions featured in the graphic novel [...]

Video game lovers will be pleased to know that, among all the other fascinating side projects that will complement the film, the game counterpart to Watchmen will not just be some half-assed cash grab. Zack Snyder has made sure that all these interconnecting elements building up this Watchmen universe won’t just be tossed out there without any foresight. He’s clearly thinking these things through, and making sure they all amount to something meaningful.
This was particularly evident when a Comic Con attendee asked him a question regarding what we could expect from the recently announced Watchmen video game:
We had quite a back and fourth about that. They sent me a script [...]

Director Zack Snyder and the entire Watchmen gang had a lot to live up to at Comic Con after that extensive teaser trailer took the world by storm in front of all those Dark Knight screenings. As it turns out, they weren’t quite able to live up to it, but that’s not at all a commentary on the quality of the film.
The footage itself was fantastic, helping to further remove any inklings of doubt that the filmmakers wouldn’t be able to retain the greatness of the graphic novel. The downside was that there wasn’t nearly enough of it. I personally was hoping for at least a couple of full scenes [...]

ROCKNROLLA
A new trailer premiered at Comic Con today for RocknRolla, giving a more in-depth look at the characters and also allowing viewers to change their questions regarding the first trailer from: “Wait, what the hell is this movie about?” to: “Oh, OK, the movie’s about… No wait, seriously, what?” That’s not to say it doesn’t look fun though, as it appears to be taking all the elements we loved from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and repackaging them again in a slick new format. That’s not exactly the biggest film progression, obviously, but Guy Ritchie was kind enough to address that topic during the movie’s presentation panel.
And [...]

Robert Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, and director Douglas Aarniokoski sat down to answer a bunch of questions from fans about Red Sonja at Comic Con today, and also took the liberty of showing off some of the teaser poster artwork they had come up with. Putting aside the bizarre coincidence that one of the teasers was the third poster this week to play up the hot-girl-licks-dripping-blood theme (complete with the contrast of the pale white skin against the harsh red hues), the artwork on display amounted to some damn fine looking imagery. I particularly like the shot of McGowan sitting on a mountain of skulls with her glowing red hair blowing [...]

In an entirely unprecedented move, Hugh Jackman burst onto the scene at Comic Con after having flown straight from Australia, with filming on Wolverine literally finishing up just this past week. He announced that he just had to reveal to the real fans (without whom he claims he “wouldn’t have a career”) what the movie would be like, offering up the first ever seen trailer/footage.
Naturally, this caused an onslaught of applause from audience members.
The trailer kicks off with Wolverine and Sabertooth in a prison cell. They get taken outside, strapped to posts, and shot to hell by a firing squad. “What did that feel like?” a man asks. Wolverine responds: [...]