Kevin's Korner, Week 3 is up!

Check it out, everyone. This week has news on Twilight, Kevin Smith, Benecio Del Toro's Wolfman, and a couple of great videos.

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Iron Man 2 viral marketing starts up

I am a huge fan of what has become known as viral marketing. The creativity of some of these campaigns is often better than the films themselves. My favorite example is of Cloverfield. All over the net, they had news reports about companies and environmentalists going at it, they had fake CNN newsreports that most people didn't know where fake, and they had Myspace accounts for all the characters in the movie, and all the accounts became inactive as of January 18, the date of the 'event.' This was something that really worked on me, and me me want to see the movie even more than just a great trailer.

So, with that in mind, check out the first hints of some Iron Man 2 viral marketing, it cracked me up!

Kevin Pollack as the Enterprise crew

Thank you to ScreenRant for digging this old video of a classic standup with Kevin Pollock doing the original series crew of Star Trek. This is by far, the best James T. Kirk impression I have ever seen. To be honest, I never knew Pollock did standup before this.

Bonus points to anyone who can identify the all the actors he's imitating.

Doin' the Happy Dance

So, it was announced today by the wonderful people at Spoilertv.com that Burn Notice and Royal Pains were both renewed for a second season!

That's right, your doing the happy dance too, aren't you? Burn Notice, starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabriel Anwar and Bruce Friggin Campbell is one of my favorite shows on TV, I just wish they would give each season a few more episodes to truly get my Burn Notice fix.

Royal Pains has started off really slow, and has just been one of those shows that is on, not one that I change plans around for, but the show has just recently started to explore some really great storylines and getting into the depth of the characters they created, and could be really interesting, although, not one of the interesting characters is the lead, Hank Lawson.

1954 Ghostbusters

Check out this video for what it would be like to make a Ghostbusters movie back in the day.
I loved this video, the cuts were excellent. Bonus points to anyone who can reckognize what any of the scenes are from!

Inspector Gadget: Book of Shadows

Attack of the Shows Kevin Perrara stars in this trailer about the darker side of Inspector Gadget.

This is a must-see. The part with the umbrella nearly made me spit out my coffee. Check it out!

Video Games - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

AOTS interviews Iron Man director Jon Favreu

Check out this video of G4's Olivia Munn interviewing Jon Favreu.
Ya know, if there is one director I would love to sit down with and have a beer, it seems to be Jon Favreu. He truly seems like he not only has a handle on his movie, but the franchise, and Marvel, too, which is a very rare and valuable quality; that, and he was Bateman from Replacements!

So, here is the video, enjoy!

Video Game - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Pics

Check out the pics for the new Prince of Persia Movie:

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/07/28/prince-of-persia-sands-of-time-pictures-are-here/

This looks pretty promising, and I'm actually getting kind of excited. I need to keep reminding myself this is based off a video game, and we all know what that means!

Fast & Furious DVD review

So, I did my first official DVD review and it came out today.
The movie was only OK at best, as was the DVD, but I enjoyed it and plan to do a few more.
As always, let me know what you think!

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/07/28/dvd-review-fast-and-furious-vin-diesel/

Is Anakin a looker or what?!?

So, in case you haven't heard, Jake Lloyd has resurfaced after 10 years in obscurity. For those of you who need IMDB to find out who he is, Lloyd is the kid that played the 10 year old Anakin in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. If you ask most Star Wars fans, they will tell you, next to Jar-Jar Binks, he is the reason for the downfall of Star Wars as the greatest franchise of all time. My personal feelings are a bit different.

I watched this video of a sarcastic, squirming young Anakin who seems a bit bitter, and oh, did I mention he looks the exact same as he used to, only...well, uglier? I mean, look at this picture!

In the video, he brings up an interesting point about the movies being geared toward a new, young generation, but I don't think I've ever heard a youngster say they liked this movie.

If you want to see the really, really awkward video, check it out:

A Sam Axe TV Movie?

One of the many rumors that came out of Comic Con this year was at the Burn Notice Panel. There were some ideas that were tossed around that Sam Axe, played by Bruce Friggin Campbell (no, really, that's his middle name, "Friggin") would get a made for TV movie that would explain the back story.

Now, this is just an idea, and there is nothing remotely concrete about it, but what do you guys think?

For me, I love Bruce Campbell, I think he is the man, and every moment with him on Burn Notice is a great moment. That being said, I don't think this move is neccesary. I think the natural progression of the story fills in some of the gaps nicely. So, put him in Spiderman 4, let him play some level 104 wizard in the new World of Warcraft movie and call it a day.

How to see Kevin Mark Out in 1 easy step:

The answer is to post a picture of a great poster, tossed back to the days of yore for CHUCK! I know, I know, I'm totally geeking out here, but I love Chuck for many different reasons, the main one being Yvonne Strahovski, but there are many more, and reminding me of that gets the old blood a pumpin' on Monday.

Check it out:

The new Tron Legacy teaser trailer

It's here, and it is amazing. I loved Tron from back in the day, and the special effects were pretty special, but the movie has not aged well, so I can't wait to see what the rest of the movie will be like. So, check it out!!!

Kevin's Korner Wk. 2 is up!

They even put me on the Creative Loafings Homepage!

I am going to try to improve this column each week. I'm trying to make it more and more exciting to read, so, if you have any ideas, I would love to hear them.

Here is the link:

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/07/24/kevins-korner-comic-con-alice-in-wonderland-and-iron-man-2/

a Back to the Future Geek-tastic video

Anyone who has read Kevin's Movie Blog will know that I am a huge Back to the Future fan, like my father before me, err...whatever. Anyway, if you've seen the movies, you'll notice the second two movies have a different Jennifer (Marty's girlfriend) which actually made them re-shoot the final scene from the first movie to use in the second. Did you ever wonder how close they got it from the first (no? Oh, well, I did, so, whatever).

Check out the video comparing the two scenes.