Apr 24 2009 Wolverine Loves a Good Convenience Store Cappuccino
Oh, thank heaven for 7-11--mostly for making my new favorite X-Men Origins: Wolverine tie-in yet. Look how X-treme this highly-sweetened cappuccino is! It's probably the most X-treme "French vanilla energy boost" on the market. Way more X-treme than Candy Cane Cocoa, that's for sure. You hand one of these to Wolverine and he can't even wait for it to cool. (Luckily, his mutant healing factor quickly soothes his burnt tongue.)
Thanks to Dekker for taking the photo.
Apr 23 2009 Buy This Advertisement for Wolverine Razors; Also, Buy Wolverine Razors
So, you're a Wolverine fan. You've been ordering a Papa John's X-Men Origins X-treme Cheese Pizza every night in celebration of the new movie coming out, but there's still... an emptiness--which is strange, because your stomach is stuffed well over capacity with nearly a pound of cheese. The problem is Wolverine pizza is just too ephemeral. You need something that will last longer than the forty-eight hours it takes to digest all that mozzarella and garlic dipping butter. Something you can scrapbook, maybe. Something like this 2009 WOLVERINE Schick Quattro Razors ad on eBay!
You're probably thinking it's a photocopy. It's NOT a photocopy!:
This newspaper insert advertisement (which measures approximately 7x10.5 inches) has light wear, but is still in good shape! Not a photocopy. The images on the back are showing through some.
(Thanks, Odessa.)
That's the real deal, man: newsprint. And the light wear probably makes it even more valuable; gives it a story. BUY IT NOW for $9.95 (+$3 shipping)! With the attached coupon, that almost pays for itself.
Still not convinced? Then watch this awesome ad for the razors! I can't get it to load, but I assume it loosely connects Wolverine's three claws to the four blades of this revolutionary shaving device.
Apr 2 2009 Illegal Movie File Now Available on Internet
I avoided posting this yesterday a) for April Fool's validity concerns, and b) because I don't understand how legal things work, but if you didn't hear yet, apparently a workprint of a certain movie about a magical human with metal claw hands has leaked online. Thus, if you're determined and understand how to torrent things, you can download an unfinished copy of Wolverine. Though if you understand how to torrent things, you've also probably realized that you can download completely finished copies of nearly every other movie ever, so this news really isn't that exciting.
So, I'm not going to be the morality police here. And I also won't be the actual police, who are far more concerned with piracy than these fictional morality police. If you want to get an illegal copy of an early cut of a movie, go right ahead. But if you do watch it, don't come over here with your spoilers. I'm waiting for Wolverine to arrive, legally, in theaters. Then I'll most likely wait for it to leave theaters, play on all the premium cable channels, come to DVD, and finally end up highly-edited on TBS before I watch it.
Feb 17 2009 'Wolverine' on the Television, Part 2
Last night, Fox ran the second in its three-part series of Wolverine clips, and now a few hundred-thousand households are even more confused about 'That X-Man with the Claws.' "So he was born with bone claws, is brothers with the guy from Scream, and was in every U.S. battle since the Civil War? Which one was Professor X then?"
Feb 16 2009 'Wolverine' TV Spot Addresses Key Bone Claw Issues
The last Wolverine trailer sparked a huge controversy among people questioning if Wolverine originally had bone claws, those who answered he definitely did have bone claws, others who facetiously questioned if he had bone claws, and the angry people who didn't understand the sarcasm in the prior group's comments and felt they had to reassert that Wolverine did have bone claws. This new TV spot is either going to clear all that up or make the comments page go like this.
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Jan 30 2009 'Wolverine' Poster: We Get It, You Have Claws
I think I did this same chin-resting-on-fist pose for my senior pictures. Except instead of claws, I had a trumpet.
The X-Men Origins: Wolverine One-Sheet! [Coming Soon]
Jan 19 2009 A Somber Moment with the Cast of 'Wolverine'
I'll accept that someone has seen fit to simplify every superhero/villain costume in this universe down to either a sleeveless shirt or trenchcoat, but what is with this forced mournfulness? The best way to show a movie has the dark, brooding quality of The Dark Knight isn't necessarily to take a photo of the actors doing some kind of stilted group-brood.
Dec 15 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer: See Wolvering & Friends Do Everything Imaginable
Here's the trailer for the movie about that Wolverine character. Watching it has done nothing to lessen my reservations about this being something I'd watch more than once, but there's something I like about its unabashed fan pandering I find almost endearing.
Every comic fan of the '90s has wanted to see classically cool characters Gambit and Deadpool in live-action form, so it makes sense to shoehorn those guys into the plot, but the makers of Wolverine have gone so above and beyond that in terms of fulfilling every strange fan wish they could think of. Wolverine in a boxing match against The Blob, the padded gloves covering his primary weapons? Of course that happens. That was always the nucleus of the script. Wolverine launching off a motorcycle onto the back of a moving helicopter? That has been a fan request for so long, they just had to include it. And so much more:
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Dec 2 2008 'Wolverine' Shall Have a Vast Toy Line
20th Century Fox (best Fox century) has released four new production photos from Wolverine. There aren't any new looks at Gambit, Blob, or Deadpool, who are all in the movie for some reason, but there are some new shots of Wolverine and Sabretooth that reveal that the film is going to produce so many action figures. What kid isn't going to want their mom to buy them a Normandy Wolvie with Post-Traumatic Flashback Projector (above)! Or...
Nov 26 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer! ...News. Trailer News.
Fox has confirmed that the first trailer for Wolverine, the movie about the claw X-Man, will be attached to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to be released December 12. According to Coming Soon, "The trailer will be exclusively available in theaters and will not debut online or on TV until some time later," so it sounds like if you want to see the trailer on the 12th, you're just going to have to go to theaters and ask whoever is recording it with their phone what title they plan to use to hide it on YouTube.
Oct 1 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Rumors are flying that Tim Burton or Henry Selick may have a new stop-motion animated film on the way. Either way, Hot Topic is going to make a fortune selling its merchandise. [AICN]
- Remember the talk of HBO making a couple Deadwood made-for-TV movies? That was just to subside your sorrow until the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm gave you something else to tell your friends they were missing by not paying $90 a month for premium cable. They aren't happening. [Cinematical]
- The man hired to direct the Wolverine movie spoke out to pretend there were reasons other than money that inspired him to direct a Wolverine movie. Really, though, it's just the money. [IESB]
- Someone is making an animated Noah's Ark picture told from the point-of-view of--get this--the animals! Combining the comedy genius of both Evan Almighty and Madagascar will surely equal something at least as bad as one of them.
- Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas are teaming up in The Code, in which the former will play a veteran thief pulling one final job with a younger thief with a thick, sexy accent and his own line of scents. [Variety]
- Jessica Simpson's latest bimbo-defining role in Blonde Ambition was already headed to the world of straight-to-DVD, but now it's creating a new form of public shaming/release deemed "straight-to-QVC" (which is exactly what it sounds like), where it will be purchased as stocking stuffers by as many as hundreds of grandmas. [Faded Youth]
Jul 20 2007 Gavin Hood to Direct Wolverine
Gavin had mixed feelings; he'd never before won an award and passed a kidney stone on the same day.
Gavin Hood has been announced as the director of Wolverine, the X-Men spinoff starring Hugh Jackman. Hood is a dirty South African best known for writing and directing Tsotsi. I haven't seen Tsotsi, so I can't really speak to his competence as a director, but I do know that Afrikaans sounds really silly.
X-Men 3 director Brett Ratner was originally attached to the project, but split with producers after insisting Wolverine be played by Chris Tucker. I also saw him kick a pigeon once. True story.
