Joe Sergi's Cup of Geek
  • About Joe
  • Publications
  • Reviews
  • Cup of Geek's Amazon Store
  • SKY GIRL
  • Great Zombies in History
  • Cup of Geek
  • Comic Book Law for Comic Creators Course
  • Links

Quick Shots--Green Ranger Update, Artist nabs Crook, Star Trek IMAX, Casting News, Trailers, And More

9/3/2009

0 Comments

 
Picture
Green Ranger goes MMA

I recently did a post on the where the surviving original Power Rangers are.  Turns out that 35-years-old Jason David Frank (The guy who wore more colors than Zorro the Gay Blade) is now a MMA fighter.  He is a 6th degree black belt recently signed a deal with a new management team with hopes of ultimately stepping inside the cage.

Here is his bio from You Bent My Wookie

“Frank began training in martial arts at the age of four, earning a black belt by age 12 and became an instructor. With his knowledge of many different styles of martial arts, Frank collected the most practical applications, modified them with his own philosophies and created his own blend of American Karate, “Toso Kune Do”. Most recently, on June 28, 2003, he was inducted into the World Karate Union Hall of Fame. Frank has a sixth degree black belt and owns, as of 2007, four karate schools under Rising Sun Karate, which includes the school Red Dragon Karate, where he initially started his training. The RSKA teaches a style of Toso Kune Do, which Frank is the founder of.

Picture
Artist Sketches A Bust

A real life superhero.  Not only does Chris Weston draw comics for for Marvel, DC, Wildstorm, and 2000 AD (Judge Dredd), he also fights crime.  He reports, in his blog.

that he witnessed a robbery in his local bank.  He immediately went home, sketched the criminal, and brought the sketches to the police.  He reports:

"I held up my drawings, and the policeman's eyes widened with astonishment! 'That's him!' he spluttered," wrote Weston. "Seems they'd already picked up a suspect who matched my drawings exactly. I then spent the afternoon giving a statement ... but I can't really expand on the situation any further than that for obvious reasons."

Picture
I'll bet that if this had happened in the 1990s, the police would still be looking for an extremely muscular man with feathered hair, bad feet, and an incredibly large gun.

Picture
Star Trek Boldly Goes Back To IMAX

Star Trek relaunches this weekend in 89 IMAX theatres for an additional two-week limited engagement..  So, if you missed seeing Star Trek it last May (where it also had a limited two-week run), you have no excuse this time.  Click here for details. 


Picture
McGillis Stakes Her Claim

UPI.com  reports that Kelly McGillis (Top Gun, Witness, The Accused) has signed to play a nun who joins a small team of survivors (along with Nick Damici, Danielle Harris and Conor Paolo) following a global spread of vampirism in Stake Land.  The picture is directed by Jim Mickle , who cowrote the script with Nick Damici.

Picture
Frag Will be the New Frack

Variety reports that Guy Ritchie has signed on with Warner Brothers to direct Lobo, a live action adaptation of the DC Comics title about an alien interstellar bounty hunter.  The script is written by Don Payne and the film will be produced by Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona with Silver Pictures and Weed Road.  Production early next year and is set for a  PG-13 rating.  The film is described as:

Lobo will be a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

Picture
If you want a Twilight Preview—You are going to have to work for it.

MTV will air an expanded preview of The Twilight Saga: New Moon during the "2009 MTV Video Music Awards": 

MTV grants fans another exclusive preview of one of the most anticipated films and soundtracks of the year, The Twilight Saga: New Moon during the “2009 MTV Video Music Awards” on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 9PM (Live ET/Tape delayed PT). After revealing the film’s first trailer at the “2009 MTV Movie Awards,” the network will once again treat viewers to an expanded trailer from Summit Entertainment’s second installment from the widely popular Twilight series that opens in theaters November 20, 2009. The movie’s cast has also been confirmed to appear including Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Also during the show, MTV.com will exclusively unveil "Meet Me On the Equinox," the lead single off of the New Moon Soundtrack (available October 20, 2009) from VMA nominees Death Cab for Cutie.

Picture
Could This Be the Making of CHANA

The Second superman related cast member joins the cast of Chuck.   First, Brandon Routh's is signed on.  Now, Michael Ausiello is announcing that Smallville's Kristin Kreuk is joining Chuck for multiple episodes.  In case you don't fly a lot, Kristin Kruek's last movie was The Legend of Chun Lee (sorry that was mean—even for me).


I Smell the Blair Witch

Does anyone know anything about this "based on actual events" movie?

Picture
Itunes has Spider-Woman Motion Comics Issue 2

Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev wow us with an appearance by Jessica Drew's "mommy."  Go pick up a season pass if only for Jessica sultry English accent.  Go to http://marvel.com/motioncomics

Astonishing X-Men preview

Speaking of Motion comics . . .
And Now for Something Completely Different
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Joe's Cup of Geek

    Trying to keep you up with all the news, reviews and views that's fit for geeks.

    If you have anything you want to see on this site, have something you want reviewed, or would like to be a guest blogger, please send me an email at:

    CupofGeek@gmail.com

    Archives

    June 2016
    September 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    December 2012
    August 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009
    September 2009
    August 2009
    July 2009

    RSS Feed