It is not every week that GeekScholars Movie News gets to both discuss big blockbuster franchises like Star Wars and X-Men, as well as cover smaller independent films on the horizon, which makes this week’s episode rather special. To start, the hosts have a conversation about the news that Gareth Edwards, the director of Godzilla, is set to direct a Star Wars spin-off […]
Category: Announcements
VIZ Media Acquires North American Rights for Sailor Moon!
VIZ Media has just acquired the North American rights for the Sailor Moon franchise – one of the most popular anime series in the world – including the fifth season of the series, Sailor Stars, not previously seen in North America. The deal covers digital streaming rights, electronic sell-through and all home media products in […]
WonderCon brings in sneak previews of upcoming tv shows and movies
WonderCon celebrated current and upcoming tv shows and movies with screenings and panels. These included WGN America/Fox 21’s Salem, CW ‘s The 100, NBC’s Revolution, Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, Teen Titan’s Go!, Uncle Grandpa and Clarence & Regular Show, CW’s Starcrossed, NBC’s Revolution and Cartoon Hangover’s Bravest Warriors and Bee and PuppyCa, and 20th Century Fox’s The Maze Runner, and Cartoon […]
Ranma ½: Set 1 Crossing All Kinds of Lines!
Ranma ½ is a genre-busting, subversive manga/anime that features a boy who changes into a girl when splashed with cold water; his father, who becomes a panda under the same circumstances; an arranged engagement between the gender-fluid youth and the daughter of the owner of a martial arts dojo and more spoofs of martial arts […]
Abigail Breslin Named Honorary Chair of 2014 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival!
Oscar®-nominated actor Abigail Breslin has been named honorary chair of this year’s Julien Dubuque International Film Festival in Dubuque, Iowa. In its third year, MovieMaker Magazine dubbed the event one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World.” The Julien Dubuque International Film Festival runs from April 23-27. Check out the press release for […]
Design a Bleach T-Shirt; Win a Trip To Anime Expo 2014!
VIZ Media and Bleach licensee WeLoveFine.com are partnering to hold a special, first-ever Bleach design contest. Create original designs for Bleach t-shirts and merchandise – and submit them by April 8th – and you could win one of a number of prizes that include cash and other valuable premium. One creative fan will win a […]
Win this AWESOME Westone W10 Headset!
Beats, Bose, Sony, Skullcandy, are well known audio brands that us consumers are likely to purchase but Professionals get their headphones from Westone Audio and gamers get a different set too! source – http://progamerreview.com/. I’m currently working on a review of the amazingly cool W40 – perhaps the best set of headphones I’ve ever used in […]
Pharrell Williams (Minus The Hat?) To Perform On The Oscars®!
Pharrell Williams was more than a presence at the 2014 Grammys and now it has been announced that he will perform his Oscar®-nominated song, Happy, on the Oscars®. One can only hope he chooses more appropriate headgear. The 86th Academy Awards®, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air live on ABC, Sunday, March 2nd.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead!
We generally don’t do death notices here at EM because, frankly, I’m not qualified to write heartfelt obits on people. But Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of my favorite, criminally, underused actors. He first caught my eye in Boogie Nights, from there I loved him in just about everything he’s done. He won an Oscar […]
Contest: Win a Skooba Design Tablet Courier v3 Bag!!
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good old fashion EM Contest. Courtesy of our friends at Skooba Design, we’re kicking off 2014 giving away this pretty awesome iPad/Tablet Courier V.3 messenger bag!
McFarlane’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey Premieres March 10!
Seth McFarlane is carrying on the legacy of Carl Sagan (and how strange does that sound?) with Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey, the new science-is-cool show that premieres on Fox on March 9 (10/9C) and around the world on National Geographic Channels International on March 10. For the series, McFarlane has teamed up with Sagan’s original […]