Another llama just got loose in America. Six months after the country lost its collective mind over footage of llamas running wild in Arizona , a similar incident took place this week in North Carolina. According to the report featured here, a llama named Phantom broke free from his enclosure and hit the quiet streets of Buncombe County, flummoxing both local residents and reporters alike. Fortunately (for us), videographer John Boyle was on hand to capture the moment that Phantom moved from a golf course to a field, as we see him being chased by lurching and mostly helpless bystanders. Eventually, after THREE HOURS, the llama was apprehended and no person or animal was injured. That means it's okay to watch this footage and laugh. Enjoy!
In what may be one of the most inspired cross-promotion deals of the year, Deadline reports that Warner Bros. and WWE Studios will team up to produce a Scooby-Doo animated feature in which the Mystery Inc. team investigates strange goings-on at Wrestlemania. (Now, that’s a loaded premise.) WWE personalities Triple H, John Cena, Kane , The Miz and WWE CEO Vince McMahon will be among those lending their voices to the production, and it occurred to me that not only will their cartoonish on-air personalities lend themselves well to animation,. but that a number of the classic Scooby-Doo villains would make memorable WWE Wrestlers. Tell me that the Phantom Puppeteer was not a proto-Undertaker, or that Big Show and the Wax Phantom are not brothers from another mother. With that in mind, I invite you Scooby lovers out there to choose which classic Scooby-Doo,Where Are You! villain below would make the best WWE Wrestler. If you’re one of those meddling-kid types who thinks the best choice is not on the list, leave him or her in the comments section. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Billy Bob Thornton Tells Nightline He Blew Marriage With Jolie By Being Insecure SMH @ this guy not being able to deal with his wife’s looks and career overshadowing his… “I blew it because I didn’t think I was good enough for her,” Jolie’s ex-husband told “Nightline” Tuesday night. “She has one way she wanted to live her life and I had another way to live mine and I was just too insecure.” The quirky couple, who met in 1999 while co-starring in “Pushing Tin,” married in 2000 before calling it quits three years later. At the time, both were Oscar winners and Thornton had more fame than the “Girl, Interrupted” actress. But when Jolie, now 36, played the lead role in 2001’s “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” the tables turned — and Thornton, 56, found that he couldn’t keep up. “When you’re in a relationship, any two celebrities or whatever, you know, I think that puts on a lot of pressure,” he said in the interview. “When Angie and I got married, during that time, I was more famous than she was to start with and then when she becomes this big thing, it’s hard in these relationships.” While they were married, the couple became tabloid fodder with reports that they wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks and even had a “dungeon” where they engaged in wild sex acts. The reality, Thornton said, was that the two had a strong connection, but one that was doomed to fail because he “chickened out.” “I did feel like the Phantom of the Opera hiding in the catacombs,” he admitted. “People have actually said that I didn’t deserve to be with her.” Now, Jolie is happily engaged to Brad Pitt, 48, and Thornton said they are still “good friends.” “We had a great marriage and I chickened out because I didn’t feel good enough,” he said. “That’s all that happened. It was no big deal, we never hated each other.” Sad for him, but she probably wasn’t too much sleep over it once she homewrecked Brad Pitt’s marriage fell apart and he landed in her lap. Continue reading →
The re-release of The Phantom Menace opens with that exhilarating blast of John Williams’s famous theme, the Star Wars title zooming off into the distance in 3-D before the familiar text crawl creeps across the starry backdrop, revealing the words we’ve all been longing to see back on the big screen: “Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.” Ah, yes. Rewatching this film (for me, the first time since it opened in theaters over a dozen years ago) really makes you admire the gutsiness of returning to one of the most beloved franchises of all time only to open with stalled galactic taxation negotiations. It takes you back, like some three dimensional Proustian sci-fi madeleine, to that feeling of slow deflation shared by so many back in 1999 as they fought to keep up their levels of enthusiasm as Episode I herked and jerked along. As an admirer of select Star Wars films but no serious devotee of the series, I don’t have quite the complicated relationship with George Lucas experienced by some fans, the emotional complexity of which is generally only otherwise seen in memoirists writing lyric essays about their loving but abusive fathers. And from a business perspective, the Star Wars films are a great candidate for the callous but surely profitable enterprise of transferring classics to 3-D and dumping them back into theaters with pricier tickets. But The Phantom Menace , in any number of dimensions, is an exercise in disappointment, a film filled with enough callbacks to the first trilogy to remind you about what you loved about them without adding much of note in all the new material. The 3-D looks fine, if subdued enough that you forget about it for long stretches. A few sequences do get a boost — the fraught journey through a planet’s sea monster-heavy core, for instance, and even more so the podracing sequence, which look particularly great in the Anakin’s-eye-view shots as camera darts through the rock formations. But 3-D tends to highlight spectacle, and much of The Phantom Menace is anything but: Senate or Jedi council debates, wooden exchanges between Jake Lloyd and Natalie Portman that are meant to indicate some deep (and future romantic) connection, and the parade of bizarrely racialized aliens, including freakin’ Jar Jar Binks. The film features some greatly imaginative worlds and scenarios, from watery Naboo’s hidden bubble-encased Gungan cities to the insectile droidekas to Tatooine’s ludicrously dangerous sport of choice (“Looks like a few Tusken Raiders have camped out on the canyon dune turn!” as the crowd cheers). Darth Maul (played by Ray Park and voiced by Peter Serafinowicz) still makes a major impression, pacing like a caged tiger during a force field-mandated pause in his duel with Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn and Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. Queen Amidala’s outfits are still ridiculous and awesome, and Portman’s trade-offs with Keira Knightley as the royal bodyguard/stand-in are easier to spot now that the latter’s face has become just as familiar. The rest of The Phantom Menace tends toward the dull — not always the terrible (though early in the film a lot of the dialogue sounds like a badly dubbed Google translation of something originally written in a language other than English), but the legitimately wan and colorless. The film serves as a feature-length extrusion of exposition for what’s to come in later installments, with a few livelier sequences inserted as payoff for sticking around this space opera. It’s both a shame and unavoidable that Episode I was re-released first in this planned 3-D roll-out of the entire series, but if you’re going to splurge on the extra for a 3-D ticket you might as well wait for A New Hope in 2015. Even if the conversion doesn’t add all that much overall to the experience, as is the case here, that one’s going to be much more fun to see on the big screen and with a crowd. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Early Bird Special: The world-famous waves off the shores of Teahupo’o, Tahiti are a thing to behold. Throw in the beauty-magnifying effects of a Phantom high-speed camera, and you’ve got awe-inspiration for days. [ u|w .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 31/08/2011 15:02 Number of articles : 2
Destin of Smarter Every Day used a Phantom high speed camera, a homemade aquarium, and two handguns to find out what happens when a gun is fired underwater. Answer: a broken aquarium. via One Cool Thing a Day Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 19/08/2011 03:00 Number of articles : 2
Watch the clip for Blood Pressures ‘ first single. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Consequence of Sound Discovery Date : 10/02/2011 15:25 Number of articles : 2
My children are confused enough by my LP collection. Imagine their reaction when they realize that those antiquated floppy disks I have shelved in the corner of my home office are also (potential) music makers! Via @thinkgeek Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : GeekDad Discovery Date : 10/02/2011 16:26 Number of articles : 2
The Christmas season may be over, but erstwhile Iceman Val Kilmer still has some giving to do. US Weekly is reporting that the one-time Batman owes the federal government nearly $500,000 in unpaid taxes . The feds have put a lien on Kilmer’s New Mexico ranch, which he has been struggling to sell since 2009 — with a starting price of $33 million, Val’s slashed the price to an affordable $18.5 million. Combined with Kilmer’s last brush with the gub’mint — wherein he had to apologize for saying Santa Fe is filled with drunks and calling his county the “homicide capital of the Southwest” — perhaps we’ll see him at a Tea Party rally sometime soon?[ USW eekly ]
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