An exhibition/auction is being held to support the non-profit organization, “Totoro No Furusato National Fund”, which was established by Oscar winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.The benefit auction, which will be held at the Pixar Animation Studios campus in Emeryville, CA on September 6th 2008, will feature more than 200 pieces of original art from some really [...]

We somehow missed this at Comic Con, but Eric Tan has created another wonderful retro-styled poster, this time for Pixar’s upcoming film Up. I’m a huge fan of Tan’s art, and in the past we’ve spotlighted his work for past Pixar productions, Indiana Jones, and X-Men. Like Tan’s work form WALL-E, the new art seems [...]

Gallery 1988 has released another poster for the second annual pop-culture art show Crazy4Cult. This one is by Scott Campbell, who you might remember from the One To Grow On show (we featured his crazy E.T. themed art on Cool Stuff). He’s also the guy responsible for that cool arcade drawing in The King of [...]

Thinkway Toys manufactures this really cool interactive motion activated Pixar Aniamtion Studios desk accessory toy. Luxo Jr comes to life and hops around just like in the opening animation on Pixar’s movies. It has motion activated or remote control settings, in addition to the button on the accessory itself. Check out the video below of [...]

Bob Dullam built a full size working replica of The Tumbler from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The whole thing was built from scratch without blueprints, using only photo references found online. The total cost is an estimated $50,000-$70,000. He did the project for fun, and does not plan to sell. “You wouldn’t want [...]

PineappleGate 2008 Update: The NY Daily News confronted James Franco about the growing t-shirt controversy and he continues to deny it, reiterating that David Gordon Green “came up with his own design” and calling PineappleGate “ridiculous.” At this time, no one involved with the film has contacted WOWCH for free popcorn.
For the sake of trivia [...]

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a children’s storybook that was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. JK Rowling decided to write the book within the book, and auctioned seven limited edition handwritten and illustrated copies to charity. One of the copies, the moonstone edition, sold to Amazon for $3.98 million. On July [...]

Puma is releasing a limited edition Goonies themed sneaker called The Goonies Disc Blaze.

The sneakers feature original artwork of the famous One Eyed Willie treasure map, in addition to the Goonies logo Goonies film logos on heel, sockliner and midsole and a silhouet of the Goonies and Sloth watching the pirate ship go down.

I’m not [...]

20th Century Fox is releasing a 40th anniversary Planet of the Apes set on Blu-ray. The set titled, Planet of the Apes: 40-Year Evolution will be available on November 4th 2008 for a suggested retail price of $158.98. The massive box set will include all five Planet Of The Apes films: The 1968 original Planet [...]

Gallery 1988: LA will be holding Crazy 4 Cult 2 on Friday, August 22nd from 7-11pm. Basically, it’s a pop culture-infused art show hosted by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier. The first show featured anything from Jay and Silent Bob to oil paintings of the guys from Shuan of the Dead playing with toys. Andrew [...]

We’ve been writing about artist Tyler Stout since we first discovered his “Remember the Alamo” poster at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Austin based artist frequently provides kick ass posters for the Alamo’s special events, most of which we have featured on /Film.
Stout has finally hit the big time, his poster for Hellride was actually made [...]

Sideshow Collectables is taking pre-orders for a life-size bust of General Grievous. Mounted on a Star Wars inspired display base which includes a ‘General Grievous’ nameplate, this Life-size Bust is both hand crafted and hand painted. Available for preorder for $499.99, estimated to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008.

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We first discovered Eric Tan through a cool UFA German inspired X-Men cinema poster he created for a Stan Lee art show event. We were lucky enough to score a print of this, and it sits framed on the wall next to my computer. Tan has done some incredible design work for Pixar which we’ve [...]

We’ve seen Han Solo frozen in Carbonite. We’ve even seen Jar Jar Binks frozen in Carbonite. But how now someone has finally created a Star Wars prop replica which has George Lucas frozen in carbonite. Bonniegrrl captured photos of such a creation at Celebration Japan last week.

Sideshow Collectibles has put a Star Wars Boba Fett bronze statue up for preorder. You can own this 21 inche tall bounty hunter for only $5,000. Why so expensive? It’s a limited edition with only 75 statues produced. Estimated to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008.
“This impressive piece stands atop an environmental display [...]