No love for thy neighbor? Florida Man Beats His Neighbor To Death With A Hammer A Tampa Bay man is in police custody after he allegedly snuck up on his neighbor and delivered a fatal beating inside their trailer park with a hammer. via Fox News A Tampa-Bay area man who authorities say attacked his neighbor with a hammer has been charged with second degree murder with a weapon. A Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office press release says 28-year-old Jarrett Kyle Brooks was booked into jail late Saturday. Authorities say Brooks approached Jonathan Acree from behind at a Thonotosassa trailer park, striking him in the head and neck multiple times with a hammer. Acree was pronounced dead at the hospital. The sheriff’s office SWAT team was called to the home where Brooks was barricaded. Authorities say he surrendered after tear gas was shot into the mobile home. There was no one else in the trailer. Investigators have not released a motive for the attack. A hammer?? What a horrible way to die…smh. Image via Shutterstock
President Obama interrupted Monday Night Football to give a speech about the Newtown tragedies and it looks like not everyone in America appreciated it…. Northern Alabama Player Kicked Off Team For Racist Tweets Last night’s Sunday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and New England Patriots was interrupted in the first quarter by President Barack Obama giving a speech at the Newtown memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Via The Grio reports: Football fans did not appreciate the interruption and instead erupted in numerous racist and offensive tweets on Twitter. One Division II, University of North Alabama player, Bradley Patterson tweeted: “Take that ni**er off the tv, we wanna watch football!” Later in the evening, UNA Athletic Director Mark Linder tweeted that this player was no longer a part of the team. “Thx 2 everyone who brought the inappropriate tweet to our attention. @UNAAthletics does not condone. He is no longer a member of the team,” Linder tweeted. This is absolutely disgusting! The leader of our country gives a heartfelt speech to help comfort an entire nation and this idiot has the nerve to hurl a racial insult because he’s missing some football. That’s what your dumbazz gets!! Hit the flip to peep what the racists around Twitter had to say about Obama during his speech…
Recently, I’ve been giving the title of hottest MMA ring girl to Brittney Palmer because not long ago Arianny Celeste put out a terrible music video which was a major turn off. Well, here they are together at the Hard Rock Hotel and it’s clearly evident that Brittney was out “boobed” by Arianny. I don’t know what the hell she was thinking, but showing up to an event wearing jeans and a blazer alongside your biggest competition is just not good business sense. No wonder Arianny has double the amount of Twitter followers. I hope Brittney has learned something from this.
Game developer Crytek has hired director Albert Hughes to bring its Crysis gaming franchise to the big screen. Half of the Hughes brothers team behind Menace II Society and T he Book of Eli , Albert is directing The 7 Wonders Of Crysis 3 , an online series set in a reforested future New York 2047. Behold the teaser: Production companies often have trouble converting video game properties to film, which is why Crytek isn’t bothering — with the production companies. Using no actors or movie cameras, Hughes is directing the game engine itself, rendering his cinematic vision with the same software players will use to shoot each other in the face. And here are four reasons to look forward to it. 1. The Greatest Graphics The Crysis series has always been famous for its stunning visuals. While other games worry about the mass-market, Crytek’s approach is “Bring us your most powerful and expensive computers and we will make them cry gorgeously detailed tears with realistic fluid dynamics.” Its CryEngine is the heart of the entire company, rendering massive, fantastically detailed worlds. In fact, Crytek’s first game, Far Cry, began as a technology demo which impressed people so hard it was developed into a full game. The engine has been constantly updated every since. The latest iteration, CryEngine 3, eats supercomputers and spits out state-of-the-art graphics cards. 2. A True Video-Game Movie It was only a matter of time until someone saw video games and asked “Wait a minute, why do we even still need people?” The answer is lots of reasons. But when most of the people in your film are extras designed to catch the heroes’ bullets, those reasons become less important. The technology for vactors — “virtual actors” — simply isn’t ready yet. But computers have been better than reality at special effects for years. Live-action movies already use computers for all the difficult bits. So when you’re setting the entire movie inside a computer, the whole world’s a stage: a special-effects stage loaded with pyrotechnics. And when you consider that Crysis 3 is about a nanosuit-enhanced soldier battling corrupt security forces, like the guy above, whose name is “Psycho,” and aliens, which do you think will be a bigger part of that story: facial expressions or explosions? Big-name videogames have become more like movies every year. Where once the player was a roving character exploring a maze of hallways, now they’re a single cog in a vast cinematic machine. Carefully guided from set piece to set piece by invisible walls and an omnipresent director, distributing cutscenes between every 10 explosions. Setting the game to “play” itself by hiring a director to say what happens instead of a gamer is just the logical next step in that evolution. 3. The Product Is The Advertisement Calling The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3 a fusion of video games and cinematics would be incomplete. It’s really a combination of video games, cinematics, and advertising. And that’s no bad thing. Sure, it’s blatantly designed to show off the proprietary Crytek graphics, but video games, movies, and adverts are the three fields most based on showing off amazing visuals and compelling stories that completely capture our attention. The resulting cinematic chimera has great promise. After all, Guy Ritchie has already directed an ad for Black Ops II . When the guy behind the Sherlock Holmes franchise is directing the star of that franchise in a video-game commercial, anyone who doubts they’re just as big as movies simply hasn’t been paying attention. Besides, any product is meant to be its own advertisement. Here that advice is literally true. Games As Art (And New Ideas) Hybridization always creates new ideas. And the only people still arguing about whether video games are art were eligible to retire before we started playing them. Even the most violent shooter can be stuffed with artistic flourish and deeper meanings. Bioshock was a beautiful steampunk fantasy which turned a generation onto Atlas Shrugged . The “soldier shoots other soldiers, also aliens” might not sound like a vehicle for quite as much content, but it’s beautiful. Crysis has always been about binaries, and not just in the 1s and 0s that make it happen. Every aspect of the games has a duality. You fight armed human soldiers, then inexplicable aliens. You’re outfitted with state-of-the-art technology but find yourself enmeshed in nature. You’re encased in a nanotechnological miracle of body-enhancing armor and you find yourself wielding a bow and arrow. And it looks awesome. And it looks awesome. The series started on Dec 12. You can watch the first episode right now on the Crysis YouTube channel . (Be sure to choose max HD quality for the full effect.) Luke McKinney loves the real world, but only because it has movies and video games in it. He responds to every tweet . Follow Luke McKinney on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
23. No, it’s not the number of boyfriends Taylor Swift has had this year. It’s her age, as the musical superstar celebrates a birthday today!!! Swift has made constant headlines throughout 2012 (where will she rank in our Celebrity of the Year countdown?!), largely for her music… but also for her personal life. As of this writing, Swift is definitely dating Harry Styles of One Direction, while her latest album has already gone Triple Platinum. It’s been a very, very impressive few months, even by Taylor’s high standards. So sit back, enjoy the following montage of Taylor Swift photos , and send in your birthday wishes to the icon now!
Natali Germanotta, 20, doesn’t have the same eccentric fashion tastes as her older, famous sibling. You may know her sister, who usually goes by Lady Gaga. Just the same, in a photo shoot for ViralFashion (dot) com, the Parsons The New School for Design student strikes a pose in various high-end pieces. Can you see the family resemblance? The fact that Natali agreed to appear in this photo shoot is surprising, since she’s rarely seen in the public eye and typically allows her sister to get all the attention. She did accompany Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) down the red carpet at the CFDA Fashion Awards in 2011, and starred in her 2010 “Telephone” video. Other than that, she’s kept a low profile. Germanotta’s fashion shoot also features her wearing Alaia, J Mendel, and Proenza Schouler as she hangs out with well-dressed pals at Joanne Trattoria. That’s her parents’ Italian restaurant located on New York City’s Upper West Side. Good advertisement for the eatery, no? Lady Gaga’s weight gain has also been attributed to the restaurant – by the singer herself – which also means the food’s gotta be great.
I knew taking a little time off from Sofia Vergara would be a good thing. Because after a near-record one and a half weeks without a Sofia post, here she is out wearing a see-through shirt. Obviously, Sofia wanted to get my attention, and it worked. I should play hard to get more often. Don’t worry Sofia, you’re still my #1, but it never hurts to email me a few bikini pictures just in case. Related Articles: Sofia Vergara’s Breasts Win Big!!! Sofia Vergara Takes Her Big Breasts Out Sofia Vergara Ruins My Upskirt Shot Sofia Vergara Needs To Release The Tatas Photos: PacificCoastNews
I’ve never heard on Factice Magazine, so it’s no surprise someone like Kim Kardashian is in it. She does anything for a quick buck. You know, I’d really like to get on the “Kim K Bandwagon”, but when she’s done up like this, girl looks like a tranny. Even her body has tranny-esque qualities and that includes her big fat ass. Look up hormone therapy for he-shes and see what it does to a dude’s ass. I’m just saying…
The world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in New Zealand last week may have caught the attention of an entire nation and a good chunk of the world’s press, but the 166 minute feature’s New York premiere nevertheless turned into a lively event Friday night at the Ziegfeld Theater in Midtown. Peter Jackson , fittingly, kicked off the festivities introducing much of the cast, including Sir Ian McKellen (in fact there were a lot of “Sirs” Thursday night including Jackson himself), Martin Freeman , Elijah Wood , Andy Serkis and many of the dwarfs. [ Related: ‘Hobbit’ Fans Complain Of Dizziness & Nausea ] “It’s so exciting. Tonight was great because the Ziegfeld Theatre is where The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers opened,” Serkis told ML at the after-party at Guastavino’s, a venue beneath the Queensboro Bridge Thursday night. “It was the first time I realized that Gollum had worked as a concept and a characterization. I literally felt the audience sat forward in their seats. And I loved watching it tonight because I’m relaxed enough to watch it since I’ve seen it two times.” Not surprisingly, the movie is packed full of action, wizardry, surrealism, battles and amazing imagery. Serkis said that one time may not be enough for many fans since there “is too much to take in,” but Lord of the Rings adherents should be pleased. [ Related: ‘The Hobbit’ 3-D Early Review: Back Again, But Not Quite There ] The Hobbit also gave Serkis an opportunity to look at his character Gollum anew since the latest trio of films, set before The Lord of the Rings , gave Serkis the chance to re-introduce the Hobbit. “I have to really forget a lot of The Lord of the Rings because during that time, Gollum is driven by revenge because he’s crazed and depleted with the ring being away from him so physically he’s more wrecked,” said Serkis. “This is 60 years before and of course he doesn’t know he’s lost the ring…I’ve seen so many impersonations of Gollum that I’ve had to grab hold of him and make him mine again.” [ Related: ‘The Hobbit’ At 48 FPS: A High Frame Rate Fiasco? ] Serkis chatted with party-goers in the cavernous venue. Non- Hobbit invitees included Ben Affleck, Patrick Stewart and Terry O’Quinn, and Hobbit -inspired imagery was kept to a minimum save for the feast of food and drink that would satisfy many a dwarf. Given the recent media attention, it’s not surprising the 48 frames per second issue arose during casual chatter at the post-screening event, though an unscientific poll by people ML ran into gave the experience a thumbs up. Serkis spoke well of the visuals saying the effects combined with 3-D brought on an “immersive experience” that combined live action footage with the film’s expansive tech-generated material. “The trolls, the goblin king, Gollum, they all feel like they’re living in the same time frame and space as the live-action characters and you can’t deny that those two beings are in the same space and there’s something about 24 frames that draws a veil between the two worlds.” Watch the 13-minute The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey featurette below: Watch the video on YouTube. [ Top Image: Hobbit filmmakers and cast at the Ziegfeld in New York, credit: Getty Images ]
Seriously, I am not liking this new haircut from Rose McGowan one bit. I’m hoping she just went blonde for some new movie role, but since I know Rose doesn’t work much anymore, that’s probably just wishful thinking. Anyway, thanks to the hair combined with the ugly Christmas sweater, I’m officially downgrading Rose from “cougar” status to “lonely cat lady” until she gets this corrected. » view all 12 photos Related Articles: Rose McGowan Upskirt That Should Have Happened But Didn’t Rose McGowan’s Booty Profile Rose McGowan Because She Is Red Hot Rose McGowan Is Damn Sexy! Photos: Fame , PacificCoastNews
