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03 May

George A. Romero’s Twilight of the Dead: 13 Directors Who Could Helm the Zombie Sequel

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Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero may have left this plane of existence in 2017, but his legacy — the post-apocalyptic zombie movie genre that he created — lives on. According to the THR, Romero was working before his death on Twilight of the Dead, a film that would have been his final statement on the subject and the last installment in the series that included the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1979), Day of the Dead (1985), and others. Now Romero’s widow Suzanne, who has been developing the script that her late husband started…
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29 Apr

A Comprehensive History of George R.R. Martin’s NFL Draft Takes

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Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin loves three things above all else: writing exhaustive descriptions of feasts, killing Starks, and watching NFL football. When the “A Song of Ice and Fire” creator is not writing the most impactful bit of fantasy storytelling since The Lord of the Rings, he follows his two favorite football teams: the New York Giants and the New York Jets (yes, supporting two teams in the same city is highly unusual and yes, he’s apparently fine with it).  Martin is fond of expounding upon his fandom in interviews (including this one with ex-NFL defensive end…
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09 Apr

How George C. Romero’s Heavy Metal Comics Keep Dad’s Zombie Legacy Alive

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The name is Romero. George C. Romero. And in case you didn’t guess, George C. Romero is the son of the late, legendary George A. Romero, the pioneering filmmaker whose 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead changed the face of horror cinema forever. George A. Romero and his small independent film collective created the modern zombie mythology, which has occupied a vast swath of the horror genre from George A.’s own later masterpieces like Dawn of the Dead all the way to modern weekly nightmares in The Walking Dead. Meanwhile George Cameron Romero — the elder George’s son…
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08 Mar

Link Tank: Facts About George Orwell’s 1984

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Check out some little-known facts about George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. “George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given us a whole slew of shorthand phrases for dystopian or oppressive governments and surveillance, but even if you’ve already read about Winston Smith’s struggle against Big Brother, there are a few facts, stories, and theories about the novel that are worth a closer look.” Read more at Mental Floss. One of the most anticipated conflicts on Titans, Starfire versus Blackfire, has a long history in DC Comics. “In the upcoming season of DC’s Titans on HBO Max, we will see a…
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03 Feb

George R.R. Martin Sees His Shadow, Provides Hopeful Winds of Winter Update

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February 2 is an important date on the United States calendar. That’s the day when a beleaguered, snow-stricken nation casts its eyes to a Midwestern meteorological rodent, who then communicates to us whether spring is on the horizon or winter will last for six more weeks. Funnily enough, this year’s Groundhog Day also indulged another increasingly frequent tradition. For, just like Punxsutawney Phil, beloved Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin emerged from his den to let us know if Winter was on the way…The Winds of Winter that is. Martin took to his charmingly outdated Livejournal blog, fittingly titled…
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22 Dec

The Midnight Sky: How George Clooney Made His Emotional and Timely Sci-Fi Movie

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George Clooney has a relatively simple answer when asked by Den of Geek what inspired him to make his first science fiction film as a director, The Midnight Sky. “I thought I had a take on it, you know?” says Clooney, who also stars in his seventh outing behind the camera. “I felt like there was a story that I understood in a way about what we’re capable of doing to one another if we don’t pay attention, if we don’t listen to science, if we don’t pay attention to divisions and hatred and pay that forward. I thought I…
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09 Dec

The Midnight Sky Review: George Clooney Returns to Space in Netflix Movie

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Until until now, George Clooney’s efforts as a director have stayed firmly planted on Earth, with the stories that attract him being either inspired by true events (Good Night, and Good Luck) or tapped directly into the zeitgeist (The Ides of March). With The Midnight Sky, Clooney not only expands his horizons as a filmmaker, literally, but he also takes a giant leap into the speculative. In the process, he’s made a film that doesn’t always hang together, yet it ends up as possibly his most moving feature to date. To be sure, Clooney’s track record as a director is…
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30 Sep

George Takei Narrates Hope for the Future

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George Takei has lived through cataclysmic times, but he’s never given up his hope for a better future. You can see this sense of hope in his choices of projects, whether it’s the vision of Gene Roddenbery in Star Trek or in his most recent project, narrating two stories by Ken Liu for Serial Box. “Many of my friends are saying, ‘This is cataclysmic, what we’re living through. It’s dystopian, everything being destroyed, this is the end of the earth,’” he says. “I tell them, ‘No, we go through many cataclysms.’ And I tell them about my childhood.” As a…
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29 Sep

Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin Names His ‘Least Favorite Scene in the Entire Show’

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A dozen dogs, minimum. At least thirty men wearing puffy tunics and women in massive croissant-shaped hats. Boars, deer, bears, spears and carcasses everywhere you look. Any 15th century tapestry will tell you that in ye olden days, a royal hunting expedition involved more fuss and hoopla than your average Glastonbury. So why, when King Robert Baratheon, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm goes hunting in Game of Thrones’ first season, does he pitch up with only his little brother, a single guard, a spear apiece, and a boy to carry the wine bladder? That’s the complaint…
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08 Sep

Nina Hagen and George Clinton Call for Unity in Black Lives Matter Tribute Single

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Now this is what you call P-Funk. Nina Hagen, Germany’s Godmother of Punk, and Prime Minister of Funk George Clinton, America’s Dr. Funkenstein, came together for the iconic singer’s new single, “Unity,” according to Rolling Stone. Hagen, who wrote the song immediately after the murder of George Floyd, says this her tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement. Hagen also announced she will issue her first album in nine years, since 2011’s Volksbeat. “’Unity’ was created immediately after the incredibly cowardly and brutal murder of George Floyd,” Hagen said in a statement, via Rolling Stone. “A song about the indestructible…
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04 Aug

Why The Living Dead May Be George A. Romero’s Most Epic Zombie Tale Yet

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Before George A. Romero passed away in 2017, the legendary filmmaker was working on a novel — his first — called The Living Dead. Conceived as an epic reboot/reinvention of the zombie horror genre he defined with his landmark 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, the book was set to encompass the entire world of Romero’s six Dead movies — including classics like Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead — while giving him the kind of free creative reign he never quite enjoyed with his films. But we sadly lost Romero at the age of 77…
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29 Jul

Game of Thrones Fans Prepare to Put George R. R. Martin in Jail

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Look, there’s not a massive amount to do at the moment. Our social calendars aren’t exactly overflowing, and very few people will experience the consequences of this frustrating predicament more than George R. R. Martin today, thanks to the burgeoning memeification of one of his old blog posts. Back in 2019, the beloved fantasy novelist pledged to touch down at this year’s World Science Fiction Convention in New Zealand with long-awaited A Song of Ice and Fire instalment The Winds of Winter thoroughly “in hand” – and if he should fail to deliver said book by July 29, 2020? Well,…
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23 Jul

Day of the Dead: George A. Romero’s Misunderstood Epic

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When legendary horror auteur George A. Romero set out to make Day of the Dead — the third chapter in a trilogy that included the wildly popular and groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1979) — he envisioned it as an epic conclusion to the story that he first began telling back in Pittsburgh in the late 1960s with a crew of friends and co-workers and a budget of just $114,000. But the movie that Romero ended up making was not the one he started out with — and even though many were perhaps…
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06 Jul

Hamilton: What Drove King George III Mad?

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It never fails to get a laugh. Whether live in the theater or at home on Disney+, the bristling energy of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton comes to a sudden halt the moment King George III makes his pompous entrance. Draped in a red, white, and gold mantle, and trapped beneath a sparkling crown, he looks like an oil painting that’s been shrunk on a postcard—and a perfect satire of British monarchy. I didn’t have the pleasure of seeing Jonathan Groff perform King George III live, but I giggled all the same at every stammering outburst in the three variations of the…
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15 May

George Miller Confirms Details on Mad Max Furiosa Prequel

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Furiosa is set for a grandiose solo return to the big screen… just not Charlize Theron’s portrayal of the post-apocalyptic warrior woman who stole the show in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, according to franchise mastermind George Miller. In a bit of news that essentially verifies what previous reports have come to accept, Miller, in an interview with The New York Times, confirms that his mooted prequel movie centered on Fury Road standout character Furiosa is in the works, having settled a highly-publicized legal dispute with Warner Bros. However, said sequel will not see a role reprisal by Theron. Thus,…
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22 Jun

George Carlin Commemorative Collection

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DVD Talk Collector Series The Collection: As we remember George Carlin on the tenth anniversary of his passing (June 22,2008), it will come as a great joy to fans to be able to celebrate George's talent with a new 10-disc multi-format set, George Carlin Commemorative Collection. The set incorporates all fourteen of George's stand-up specials for HBO, several hours of additional television appearances and interviews, the recent posthumous CD I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die, and HD versions of his final two specials. It's the definitive George Carlin video collection.Fans of stand-up comedy already know that George…
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16 Sep

What Really Happened When Harrison Ford Gave George Lucas Crap On Set

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This has become a long-running among Star Wars fanatics and the actors who have played their heroes over the years. Mark Hamill also has a lot of fun blasting George Lucas for the terrible dialogue that he put into the mouths of characters like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. This has become a long-running among Star Wars fanatics and the actors who have played their heroes over the years. Mark Hamill also has a lot of fun blasting George Lucas for the terrible dialogue that he put into the mouths of characters like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Source from..
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16 Sep

How Star Wars Fans Can Own Carrie Fisher’s Original Scripts, Signed By George Lucas

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Star Wars fans will soon have the opportunity to buy some of the Original Trilogy scripts that Carrie Fisher used, most of which have been autographed by George Lucas. Star Wars fans will soon have the opportunity to buy some of the Original Trilogy scripts that Carrie Fisher used, most of which have been autographed by George Lucas. Source from..
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