Skateboarder Danny Way takes the starring moment in Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Waiting for Lightning . Featuring interviews with Travis Pastrana, Laird Hamilton, Rodney Mullen, Mat Hoffman, Ken Block, Rob Dyrdek and Tony Hawk, the story focuses on “how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the challenges life presents, and how high and far dreams can fly.” Official log line: Waiting for Lightning is the inspirational story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way. The film follows the journey of a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him fame and a lifetime of accomplishments. Way’s drive has no limits as exemplified by his creation captured on screen, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China’s Great Wall on a skateboard. It’s a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the challenges life presents, and how high and far dreams can fly. Danny Way has not only proven himself to be an incredibly talented skateboarder but also the sport’s greatest innovator. In his quest for greatness, Way continues to shape the very sport which helped save his own life. From the producers of Act of Valor , Step Into Liquid and Dust to Glory comes Waiting for Lightning , a Bandito Brothers production in association with DC Shoes, directed by Jacob Rosenberg, written by Bret Anthony Johnston, edited by Carol Martori and produced by Max Leitman, Darryl Franklin, Jacob Rosenberg and Hana Ripperger-Suhler. The film features interviews with Travis Pastrana, Laird Hamilton, Rodney Mullen, Mat Hoffman, Ken Block, Rob Dyrdek and Tony Hawk. Waiting For Lightning heads to theaters and is available for download December 7th.
The report shows pig feces as a staple in the Tilapia diet and other unsanitary practices with shellfish! According to Bloomberg At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a seafood exporter on Vietnam’s southern coast, workers stand on a dirty floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. There’s trash on the floor, and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled room in Ca Mau. Elsewhere in Ca Mau, Nguyen Van Hoang packs shrimp headed for the U.S. in dirty plastic tubs. He covers them in ice made with tap water that the Vietnamese Health Ministry says should be boiled before drinking because of the risk of contamination with bacteria. Vietnam ships 100 million pounds of shrimp a year to the U.S. That’s almost 8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat. “Those conditions — ice made from dirty water, animals near the farms, pigs — are unacceptable,” says Samadpour, whose company, IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group, specializes in testing water for shellfish farming. Ngoc Sinh has been certified as safe by Geneva-based food auditor SGS SA, says Nguyen Trung Thanh, the company’s general director. “We are trying to meet international standards,” Thanh says. At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China’s Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. “The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella,” says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China. On a sweltering, overcast day in August, the smell of excrement is overpowering. After seeing dead fish on the surface, Chen, 45, wades barefoot into his murky pond to open a pipe that adds fresh water from a nearby canal. Exporters buy his fish to sell to U.S. companies. Yang Shuiquan, chairman of a government-sponsored tilapia aquaculture association in Lianjiang, 200 kilometers from Yangjiang, says he discourages using feces as food because it contaminates water and makes fish more susceptible to diseases. He says a growing number of Guangdong farmers adopt that practice anyway because of fierce competition. “Many farmers have switched to feces and have stopped using commercial feed,” he says. About 27 percent of the seafood Americans eat comes from China — and the shipments that the FDA checks are frequently contaminated, the FDA has found. The agency inspects only about 2.7 percent of imported food. Of that, FDA inspectors have rejected 1,380 loads of seafood from Vietnam since 2007 for filth and salmonella, including 81 from Ngoc Sinh, agency records show. The FDA has rejected 820 Chinese seafood shipments since 2007, including 187 that contained tilapia. How the hell is the FDA only checking 2.7 percent of imported food?? Just another way they’re keeping us down. Images via shutterstock
This bald pussy loving model turned actor is more of a Fox than Megan Fox ever could be…which is my horrible play on words for the day…because I have limited mental capacity and more importantly…I am just humiliating myself in front of all my internet friends…. The truth is, I think Rosie Huntington-Whitely is lovely to look at…and not just because she made Megan Fox and her horrible attitude obsolete….but because she looks good half naked…. I am 90 percent these pics are recycled, because it is for FHM China and despite China being a mega power in the world dominance world…I feel like their men’s magazines are just accessing old pics…from the old pic database…but I’ll still look at Rosie Huntington-Whitely half naked…because I’m just that supportive of all her hard work….
Contestants present creations during the final of a national fashion model contest in Yingkou, northeast China#39;s Liaoning Province, Sept. 29, 2012. A total of 30 contestants competed here on Saturday.
With tension high between Japan and China over ownership of uninhabited East China Sea islands, there is only one question on skin fans minds. What do porn stars think of the situation? Enter mega-mammed AV idol Sola Aoi , a hardcore honey whose star power in Asia matches the breadth of her massive melons. So when she posted two images in Chinese on her Sina Weibo account (China’s equivalent of Twitter) that read “Japanese-Chinese Friendship”, it reached the hairy palms of her 13 million followers. Unfortunately, there has since been a furious backlash accusing Sola of being a spy and warning her to keep out of politics. It’s a sad day when a porn star can’t bring us all together. More after the jump!
Nadzeya Ostapchuk Costs Belarus Gold Medal For Shot Put After Testing Positive For Steroids Turns out the London Olympics wasn’t steroid free after all! Shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus became the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the London Olympics after her gold was withdrawn Monday for doping. Valerie Adams of New Zealand was awarded the gold and Evgeniia Kolodko of Russia was bumped up to silver. Fourth-place finisher Gong Lijiao of China was moved up to bronze. The International Olympic Committee said Ostapchuk tested positive for the steroid metenolone. She won the shot put exactly a week earlier. The IOC said she was tested the day before her competition and again following the event. Both samples were positive. “The (Olympic committee) of Belarus is ordered to return to the IOC, as soon as possible, the medal, diploma and medallist pin awarded to the athlete in relation to the above-noted event,” the IOC said in a statement. The announcement came hours after the flame was extinguished at the closing ceremony with athletes and officials heading out of London. A day earlier, IOC President Jacques Rogge had proclaimed the fight against doping a success. The Belarus team had already sent home hammer thrower Ivan Tsikhan because of suspicions over a sample provided after his silver-medal performance at the 2004 Athens Games. Besides Ostapchuk, only one athlete tested positive for a banned substance after competing. U.S. judo fighter Nick Delpopolo was cited for traces of kush in his urine sample. He blamed “inadvertent consumption” of food baked with the substance. The IOC disqualified him from seventh place in the 73-kilogram class. Seven more were caught in doping controls conducted since the official testing period for the games began July 16. One of the seven competed in London before her test result was known. “I think that is a sign that the system works,” Rogge said Sunday. “I am happy about the fact that we could catch athletes who cheated, both before the games and at the games.” The IOC had said this would be its most extensive Olympic anti-doping program. It took almost 6,000 urine and blood samples, including no-notice tests ahead of athletes competing. Rogge cautioned that some samples are still being analyzed and “we might hear something tomorrow or the day after. Hopefully not, but you never know.” Syrian runner Ghfran Almouhamad tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine two days before her 400-meter hurdles heat. She placed eighth and was eliminated before the IOC disqualified her. Until this latest turn of events, the London Games were set to end with medal standings in all 302 events unaltered by doping scandals. Three Beijing events were tainted during the games, and two more medals were changed months later when a new test for the blood-booster CERA was introduced. The signature men’s 1,500-meter gold medal was stripped from Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain. Rogge reminded that the IOC will store all samples from London and can reanalyze them, revise results and reallocate medals until the statute of limitations expires in August 2020. “When there is no new tests, we wait until the last moment; if there is a breakthrough new test, we’ll test immediately,” he said. Indeed, the next Olympic doping scandal could be from the 2004 Athens Games instead. Next week the IOC could announce up to five new disciplinary cases based on retested samples. It’s kinda sad that this woman marred the pretty much perfect London Olympics, but we’re glad they were able to catch her so the athletes who didn’t cheat could get their medals. When are people gonna learn? Source
The first, explosive, action-packed trailer for the notoriously delayed Red Dawn remake is a time capsule in more ways than one: Not only does it lay on nods to the gloriously cheesy 1984 original, it features three-years-ago Chris Hemsworth before he packed on all that Thor muscle AND cute little Josh Hutcherson before he made it to the big time with The Hunger Games gig. Kids with guns vs. evil Chinese North Koreans after the jump. Red Dawn was initially slated for a 2010 release, but MGM’s bankruptcy threw a kink into those plans. Last March producers opted to take even more time to digitally change the film’s already-shot invading villain force from China to North Korea in a bald, bold bid for more of that Chinese box office, which is just one of a few gambles we’ll see play out come release on November 21. Thanksgiving: a time for family, armed patriotism, and putting firearms in the hands of children! Because as much as Red Dawn promises to be the kind of ubercool explosion-y action pic you’d expect from a remake of an explosion-y ’80s action classic (It’s got rampant violence! It’s what audiences crave!), the kind of straight-faced militancy that made the original Red Dawn so damn heavy at its core doesn’t quite translate to the slick Expendables -esque fetishism of violence of today’s popcorn action flicks. And maybe it’s just me, but in the wake of the Aurora tragedy and last weekend’s Sikh temple attack I’m not too juiced to watch a bunch of kids with an arsenal of assault weapons righteously gun down their ethnic invaders in the name of freedom. The difference between watching Stallone and his beefy cohorts blast their way through nameless baddies and seeing Hemsworth lead his Wolverine pack into battle is that there’s zero seriousness underlying the mindless shenanigans of Sly & Co. (which entertain me to no end, incidentally). Red Dawn , on the other hand, toys with more concerning, actual issues — war, nationalism, geopolitics, self-defense, the Second Amendment, guns, violence in the media ( Red Dawn is rated PG-13). And, benefit of the doubt, maybe the remake is conscious of these things and will turn out to be more thoughtful and thought-provoking than a sexy, attention-grabbing 2 1/2 minute trailer. But you tell me. I’m still in it for the cast and the curiosity factor, and maybe a few months’ time will help me get over myself. Via Yahoo : Synopsis: In Red Dawn, a city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky – shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerilla group of fighters. Taking inspiration from their high school mascot, they call themselves the Wolverines, banding together to protect one another, liberate their town from its captors, and take back their freedom. Red Dawn hits theaters November 21. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The Campaign , the new comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, faces the challenge that troubles all political satires these days, which is coming up with material that can rival what’s actually happening in the news. And that’s not a point made in some hacky stand-up comedian way — “Those crazy folks in D.C., am I right?” No, it has become a legitimate, daunting task to come up with anything that can surpass, for instance, the wild reality show that was the recent Republican primaries. Director Jay Roach has, of late, mixed HBO dramatizations of contemporary political events like Game Change into a career otherwise dedicated to comedies like the Austin Powers franchise and Meet the Parents . The Campaign should theoretically fall nicely into the Venn diagram intersection between these two realms, but while frequently funny, it’s a film that also feels disconcertingly and disappointingly mild, ignoring all sorts of specific, choice ammunition in favor of a storyline about how far political discourse has gotten from actual issues (while itself skirting any actual issues). The villain in this case is unassailably soulless “big money,” embodied by Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow, playing scheming billionaires whose real-life counterparts you may just be able to make out from the fact that they’re named the Motch brothers — and even in that, the film doesn’t really have any sting. It feels akin to setting a film in North Korea and then filling it only with jokes about accidentally ordering dog meat at restaurants. There’s a giant elephant (and donkey) in the room. As a goofball comedy, at least, The Campaign generally works, pitting Ferrell at his most obliviously pompous against Galifianakis in full, mincing weirdness. Ferrell’s Cam Brady is the incumbent Congressman in the fictional 14th district of North Carolina, a Democrat (not that, as mentioned, it matters in the least) with a ferociously ambitious wife (Katherine LaNasa), two kids and an apparently steady, unchallenged political career. But after a sex scandal involving a misdirected answering machine message tarnishes his image, Brady’s position doesn’t seem as secure, and the Motchs decide to fund an opponent who’ll favor their interests. Their pick is the cardigan-and-turtleneck wearing doofus Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), who has no experience or anything else to recommend him for the job except that his father (Brian Cox) is a former Republican bigwig. He desperately wants to prove himself to his dad, and with the help of Motch agent Tim Wattley (Dylan McDermott) as his campaign manager, he starts shaping up to be a viable candidate. Most of The Campaign deals with the increasingly absurd escalation in hostilities between the opponents, with Brady launching the first salvo against his naive opponent at a bipartisan brunch and the action quickly upping from there to spite sex and retaliatory “hunting accidents.” There’s a particularly rewarding recurring joke about a misdirected punch, an absurd take on a politician’s nightmare that becomes an amusing twist on just what it would require to end a career these days. In that regard, the film has an entertainingly cynical take on how ridiculous moves, like the release of a sex tape campaign ad, result in a bump in the polls, likability competitions as bread and circuses for the masses. The Campaign gets mileage out of pandering to religious groups — Brady does a press day at a snake handling church, while Huggins salutes Jesus Christ as the “greatest American who ever lived” — but neither that nor the repeated cracks about the candidates’ non-answers, filled with talk of “freedom” and “jobs” and no actual content, are exactly hard-hitting or fresh. Bits about Brady noting that Huggins keeps pugs, which are from China and therefore must be of Communist origin, or Huggins digging up a book Brady wrote in the second grade as evidence of his belief in the redistribution of wealth really don’t seem that far from actual, awful political attacks. There are plenty of practical reasons for The Campaign ‘s choice to remain non-partisan — isolating potential market share is, as the Motch brothers could surely tell you, bad business. But while funny enough, the film feels even smaller than its 85 minute runtime, like it runs through every last bit of the territory deemed safe to tread and just barely makes it to the credits at a credible feature length. Ferrell and Galifianakis both do what they’ve proven they can do so well in the past, while McDermott, clad in all black, is surprisingly good in a comedic role. You wish there was more for Aykroyd, Cox and Lithgow to do in their small and largely symbolic roles — Aykroyd and Lithgow in particular seem like they could have done more with a joke about disguising sweatshop labor that, while lifted from 30 Rock , is still a good one. At a dark moment in his career, Ferrell’s distraught Brady promotes the first person he sees in his office to the position of his campaign manager. The kid turnes out to be an intern, and the first thing the eager poli sci major brings up is that fact that we shouldn’t give tax breaks to corporations that outsource jobs. Brady immediately throws him out in favor of someone with a background in sports marketing. It’s cute, but it’s also what you’d imagine the process of conceiving of and writing The Campaign was like. Having a character land on stage at an election event playing a keytar in the midst of cheerleaders while fireworks go off? It pales in comparison to an actual Herman Cain ad . Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Trend-setting collaborators Rihanna and Drake lead the star-studded list of nominees for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, released this morning. Following a year when both singers pushed boundaries by mixing in even more dance and R&B flavor, the pair lead all nominees with five apiece. Rihanna, in fact, has two chances to take home the top Video of the Year prize for her solo hit “We Found Love” and her duet with Drake, “Take Care.” Chris Brown , a name often linked to both Rihanna and Drake for different reasons, also scored a pair of nominations at the annual extravaganza. Frank Ocean, who came out as bisexual earlier this summer, is up for two awards. 2011’s biggest winner, Katy Perry, is second with four nominations. This year’s show will air live on September 6 at 8 p.m. EST from the Staples Center in Los Angeles and feature a host of big-name performances. Read the full list of 2012 MTV Video Music Awards nominees below: Video of the Year Katy Perry, “Wide Awake” Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know” Rihanna, “We Found Love” Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care” M.I.A., “Bad Girls” Best New Artist Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, “We Are Young” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe” Frank Ocean, “Swim Good” One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful” The Wanted, “Glad You Came” Best Hip-Hop Video Childish Gambino, “Heartbeat” Drake feat. Lil Wayne, “HYFR” Kanye West feat. Pusha T, Big Sean & 2 Chainz, “Mercy” Watch the Throne, “Paris” Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz, “Beez in the Trap” Best Male Video Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend” Frank Ocean, “Swim Good” Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care” Chris Brown, “Turn Up the Music” Usher, “Climax” Best Female Video Rihanna, “We Found Love” Katy Perry, “Part of Me” Beyonc
