Back in November we posted an image that we thought was fanmade featuring a Johnny Depp Mad Hatter

that looked a lot like someone’s grandmother. Now it’s looking like that image might have actually been, seriously, one of the concept images for the production. Weird how that happens. At least, judging by the first official pictures to come out of the production anyway.

Drop some acid, and check them out for yourself:

As you can see, Depp actually looks a lot like the original picture from back in November – crazy red hair, manic eyes and what look like Ron Weasley’s dress robes. Helena Bonham Carter (surprise! she’s in it!) looks like she’s got an incredibly sexy receding hair line, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen has a very Gandalf the White look to her. I suppose that last one might have inevitable.

I can’t figure out for the life of me whether these images for Alice in Wonderland are creative or not. Here’s why: Tim Burton has a fantastic mind, but we’ve come to expect a certain style from him. So when he delivers on that style, it almost seems like he’s not trying even though he’s delivering exactly what we’d want from him.

Meanwhile, the full shots of the world he’s created do look absolutely gorgeous, so that’s a plus. Check out more of them below, courtesy of USA Today. Alice in Wonderland hits theaters on March 5, 2010.

Article from Film School Rejects
Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 22, 2009

You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.

Those who have grown curiouser and curiouser about what the offbeat reinventor of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory might conjure up in his version of Alice in Wonderland can feast their eyes on this array of concept art and publicity images, due to hang in movie theaters this week to promote the March 5, 2010, release.

“It has been Burton-ized” is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Many elements are familiar, from the enigmatic Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) to the fierce Jabberwock (Christopher Lee). But none has been presented in this sort of visually surreal fashion.

“We finished shooting in December after only 40 days,” Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D.

The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn’t remember.

Among those who welcome her back is the Mad Hatter, a part tailor-made for Johnny Depp as he collaborates with Burton for the seventh time. “This character is off his rocker,” Zanuck says.

Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO’s In Treatment, has the coveted title role. “There is something real, honest and sincere about her,” Zanuck says. “She’s not a typical Hollywood starlet.”

There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, whose favorite retort is “Off with their heads,” has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle it. “The book itself is pretty dark,” he notes. “This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago.”

Article from USA Today.
Written by By Susan Wloszczyna

I have been getting increasingly upset by almost daily announcements that my favorite childhood movies are being re-made. Neverending Story? Really?! It’s getting out of hand, I know it’s on everyone’s mind so I decided to make a song about it. I love Eminem, he’s a freaking genius, so I chose his song that is about “copies” in it’s own way as well.

The Crew: Layton Matthews, Lawrence August, Jasin Amodeo, Mark Peters, Jeremy Tillery, Curt Clendenin and Jacque Babb

Thanks to Beat Royalty, Chris @ Hitching Post Theatres and all of you people as annoyed with re-makes as we are.

You can download the song at the link below:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/61389955e…

Make sure you go to youtube, leave a comment and vote!!!

Learn all about Steve Rogers before he returns this summer in CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN

NAME: Captain America
REAL NAME: Steve Rogers
HEIGHT 6′2″
WEIGHT 240 lbs
FIRST APPEARANCE: CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 (1941)

30-WORD ORIGIN:
To serve his country during World War II despite physical limitations, Steve Rogers volunteered for the Operation: Rebirth experiment, transforming his puny frame and becoming a Super Soldier with peak-human abilities.

30-WORD BIOGRAPHY:
A veteran fighter, skilled tactician, Avenger, and the inspiration of virtually every Marvel hero, Captain America’s unwavering morals and pursuit of justice survived him in life’s battles through his death.

KEY ISSUES
-CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 (1941): The first appearance of Captain America
-AVENGERS #4 (1964): Captain America joins the Avengers
-CAPTAIN AMERICA #180 (1974): Steve Rogers becomes Nomad
-CAPTAIN AMERICA #250 (1980): Captain America considers running for President of the United States
-CAPTAIN AMERICA #25 (2007): The death of Captain America

FUN FACT
Before entering WW II, Steve studied as a Fine Arts student.

Article from Marvel.com

By Matt Powell

This is the life size Gundam that is being built in Odaiba, Tokyo.

This is just a taste. Click the two links below to see all the images. This thing is massive. To bad it’s not fully mobile…yet.

Assembled Life Sized RX78 Gundam Part 1

Assembled RX78 Gundam Part 2

Article is from Moe Passion

They say that when you have kids, your life changes. Then, you screw it up by teaching them all the wrong things. So be proactive:

What five things would you want to tell your unborn children?

1. Think of all the things that did (and didn’t) have to happen for you to be here. That is the miracle.
2. Don’t be intimidated by silence.
3. Question everything. If you find the answer is God, then your logic is sound. If you find anything else, try again.
4. If you’re sad: Start with prayers and some Mozart.
5. When you see a homeless person, remember: You are three bad decisions and/or four unlucky days away from being him/her. Treat that person with dignity.

:: list by a penny for the old guy

:: Article from SoulPancake