Stephen King’s Cell TV Miniseries?

Stephen King’s popular horror novel Cell was originally supposed to be adapted for the big screen by director Eli Roth. Now that Roth has dropped out of the project, it seems that Cell will become a television miniseries instead of a feature film.

According to Fangoria, director John Harrison, who adapted Clive Barker’s Book of Blood, is currently writing a four hour telefilm based on the contents of the novel. The story finds America being transformed into a population of mindless, rampaging killers after a signal is sent through a series of cell phone networks. The project is currently being shopped to various channels.

At this time, Harrison is not set to direct Cell, but has stated that he would love to jump aboard the project if the opportunity arose.

The World’s Fastest Everything

Here is a video compilation of the world’s fastest everything, from cup stacking to clapping.

The Beatles Box of Vision

With less than two months until the Beatles’ remastered catalog is reissued on September 9th, the Fab Four and Apple Corps. have announced a deluxe companion set called Box Of Vision ($80) for fans to store the upcoming releases. The Box of Vision isn’t just a storage vessel, however: The set will also feature a 200-page LP-sized book featuring all of the Beatles artwork — covers, back covers, gatefolds and inserts from both the U.S. and U.K. releases — covering every album from Please Please Me to the Beatles Love compilation.

An additional book in the Box of Vision will also house the Beatles’ “Catalography,” featuring all the track lists and other information from every release, plus a new essay from Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. But the real highlight is the storage book, which gives fans an eye-catching alternative to just plopping their reissued albums on the shelf. The Box of Vision was conceived to allow the digipaks housing the reissued albums to be stored within the box. Please note that the Beatle’s CD’s and booklets are not included in the package.

The Batman DVD Collection

Warner Home Video has announced a Batman Collection as part of its new 4 Film Favorites wave. The 2-disc set will include Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin. Each will be presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. You’ll be able to own this one from the 29th September for around $20.

Split Ring Key

Why carry around a separate bulky keychain when your key can be the chain? The Split Ring Key ($7/2-pack) is a blank that can be cut by any key cutter to fit KW1 or SC1 keyways, but featuring a ring at the top for connecting the rest of your keys.

The Hot Dog Hideaway

Forget Mr. Potato Head or the Easy Bake Oven! Archie McPhee’s bestselling Hot Dog Hideaway kit ($79.95) comes with enough cured deli slices and kosher dogs (Over 10 pounds!) to make a veritable McMansion of meat! Just follow the included blueprints and use the pate spackle to join it together and smooth over the rough edges. Not only will you get the complete Hot Dog Hideaway, but also a set of meat landscaping materials to make pimento loaf trees and meatball bushes. Please note that the kit will only remain edible for three weeks without refrigeration.

The 10 Best Book Websites

Literature is thriving on the web. It’s not just for sale on mega-sites such as Amazon either, but being swapped, analyzed and recommended by fellow bookworms. You can download page after page of free material, post your work online and even catch the eye of a publisher.  Check out the top book websites HERE.

Anthony Bourdain Declares 3 Little Pigs The Greatest Sandwich in America

In the latest episode of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain went to Chicago and visited the Silver Palm restaurant. He had the Three Little Pigs Sandwich: smoked ham, a breaded pork cutlet, two strips of bacon, and two fried eggs, blanketed in a thick coat of gruyere, all on a brioche bun.

Bourdain is blown away, and drops tons of praise: “This is a work of genius, in an evil way…. A two-fisted symphony of pork, cheese, fat, and starch… that sandwich is the greatest sandwich in America. This is the apex of the sandwich-making art… the sandwich that dreams are made of.”

Plans For The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park

“The Wizarding World of Harry Potter,” the $200million-plus “theme park within a theme park” that is scheduled to open by next summer in Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure, has sparked a near-constant stream of speculation about just how the resort will bring Harry Potter’s universe to life.  Read more about the plans for the park HERE.

The Married Life Montage in Pixar’s Up

There’s a short new article appearing in the Entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times specifically about the poignant, critically-acclaimed four-minute-long montage that anchors Carl’s story early on in Up (termed “Married Life” on the Up soundtrack).

Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera share their thoughts on the various aspects of the montage, such as the inclusion of the heartrending scene of Ellie crying at the doctors’ office after having a miscarriage and the use of particular colors to assist in illustrating the various stages of Carl and Ellie’s life together.

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Ryan Reynolds is the Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds has landed the coveted role of Green Lantern, getting the starring role in Warner Bros.’ live-action film based on the DC Comics hero.

Martin Campbell will direct. The studio is still working on the picture’s budget, but production is expected to begin in January.

The news caps off a memorable summer for Reynolds, who played Deadpool in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” a performance that prompted Fox to begin development on a spinoff film. Reynolds followed that by starring opposite Sandra Bullock in the romantic comedy “The Proposal,” which crossed the $100 million mark this week.

Warners and Campbell chose Reynolds, who vied for the superhero role along with “The Hangover” star Bradley Cooper and Jared Leto. The momentum built for Reynolds in the last week, as he was the only actor whose option was extended. Greg Berlanti wrote the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green.

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M.C. Escher Exhibit At The Portland Art Museum

Printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) created visual puzzles that astonish with their mathematical rigor and their patent absurdity. This exhibition traces the development of the artist’s work from his early stylized depictions of landscape and architecture to his later use of repeated geometric patterns, stimulated by his visit in 1936 to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. There he discovered Moorish decorative tiles with their purely abstract designs. By adding the suggestion of human or animal forms to such logical patterns, Escher began creating imaginary images in which one form morphs into another. Exploiting the potential for visual paradox of reversals of figure and ground, manipulations of perspective, and shifts between spatial illusion and the flatness of the picture surface, he created virtual worlds.

Drawn from the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum and from two private Oregon collections, the exhibition is comprised of some 120 objects, including material never before presented at the Museum. The exhibition features prints in the media most favored by Escher: woodcut, wood engraving, linocut, and lithography. By including drawings as well as printing blocks created in preparation for several of the prints on display, the exhibition illuminates Escher’s working process and the sweep of his graphic production.

The Virtual Worlds exhibit  at the Portland Art Museum includes many of the iconic Escher prints from the late 1930s through the 1960s, such as Day and Night, Ascending and Descending, and Belvedere. It will run until September 13^th, 2009.

If you would like to learn more about the artist M.C. Escher, then I highly recommend reading Doris Schattschneider’s classic M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry ($40). This gorgeous coffee table book is the most penetrating study of Escher’s work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. The 384 page book includes many of Escher’s masterworks, as well as hundreds of lesser-known examples of his work. It also features an illustrated epilogue by the author that reveals new information about Escher’s inspiration and shows how his ideas of symmetry have influenced mathematicians, computer scientists, and contemporary artists. Visions of Symmetry is a trip into the mind of a creator who continues to captivate the world today.

Get Your Free Clean Energy Sticker!

MoveOn is partnering with acclaimed artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the iconic Obama Hope poster to offer a free Clean Energy for America sticker.  Click HERE to get yours.

All These Years, I Have Been Doing It Wrong

Christmas Vacation DVD

Warner Home Video has announced DVD ($39.92) and Blu-ray ($49.99) releases of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for the 27th October. Extras will include commentary with Randy Quaid, Beverly D’Angelo, Johnny Galecki, Miriam Flynn, director Jerimiah Chechnik, and producer Matty Simmons, plus a replica of Clark Griswold’s holiday Santa hat, a set of holiday themed drink coasters with memorable quotes from the film, a box of faux snow, and an “I survived a Griswold Family Christmas” button. Exclusive to the Blu-Ray gift set is a collectible Moose figurine.

Cardboard Tube Fighting League

Humans have been battling each other with swords, sticks, lightsabers, and other long staff-like things for pretty much as long as they’ve been around, but we rarely get a chance to practice this ancient art in the modern age of computers, cars, and strip clubs. Which is why the Cardboard Tube Fighting League is so great. The rules are simple: grab your tube, engage your foe, and the first one to break their tube loses. It’s a great way to have fun while honoring your primal urges, and with upcoming events in cities across the country, there’s no reason not to go forth and do battle.

Domino’s Targets 3 Cities With GreenGraffiti

This morning, residents of 3 metropolitan cities will awake to find their cities have been targeted with a new, cutting edge and environmentally friendly form of marketing known as GreenGraffiti.

With the help of a template and a high pressure water sprayer an advertising message is cleaned out of the dirt. The result is a high impact message and a cleaner street.

220 Domino’s “American Legends” logos will be placed around New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. But there is also a bonus twist to this campaign. Domino’s has created a bit of a scavenger hunt for their customers.

The first 250 people to email pr@dominos.com and submit a photo of them with a Green Graffiti sidewalk Domino’s logo will receive a $15 Domino’s gift card, good for a Domino’s American Legends pizza.

Click HERE for full details on the contest.

Cool HP Printer Ad

In response to a call from Hewlett Packard for user-made advertisements, two students (Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth) at London’s Kingston University pulled off a mesmerizing synchronized printing routine with a stable of HP printers. The ad is both artistically and conceptually impressive.

Saturday is Free Slurpee Day

On July 11th, 7-Eleven stores across the country celebrate their birthday by giving away free Slurpees. To celebrate their 82^nd birthday, the chain plans on handing out 5 million frosty beverages at participating locations. The Slurpee cups will be imprinted with codes that can be redeemed for $7.11 lawn seats to select Live Nation shows.  Enjoy your Slurpee at a regular pace and don’t get a brain freeze.

Michael Moore’s New Film Gets a Title

Michael Moore has titled his upcoming documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, which addresses the causes of the global economic meltdown, reports Variety.

“It will be the perfect date movie,” Moore said in an announcement Wednesday. “It’s got it all — lust, passion, romance and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It’s a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let’s just say it: It’s capitalism.”

The film is described as focusing on “the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world.”

Moore has made three of the top six highest-grossing documentaries — Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko and Bowling for Columbine.

Monsters vs. Aliens DVD

DreamWorks has announced 1-disc DVD, 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray releases of Monsters vs. Aliens for the 29th September. Extras on the 1-disc DVD will include a filmmaker commentary, featurettes (“The Tech of Monsters vs Aliens”, “Modern Monster Movie Making”), 3 deleted scenes (“Monger’s Plan”, “War Room Turns on Monsters”, “If You Don’t Know”), a DWA Music Video Juke Box, and Top Secret Sneak Peak Files (“How To Train Your Dragon”, “Shrek The Musical”, “Kung Fu Panda World, “The Penguins of Madagascar”, “Shrek The Halls”, “Secrets of the Furious Five”, “Monsters vs Aliens Activision Game Trailer”). The 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray releases will include all that, along with a disc containing 2D and 3D versions of new adventure B.O.B.’S BIG BREAK. Four pair of 3D glasses will also be included, as well as a Karaoke Music Party feature, and more.

Miller High Life Innovations

Eternal Moonwalk

Eternal Moonwalk is a video slideshow of people, animals and inanimate objects doing Michael Jackson’s signature move. Each video clip is about 6 seconds long and a counter keeps track of the number of meters traveled as you watch. A continuous music loop plays as a soundtrack and you can click on a series of buttons to add the various exclamations that Jackson was famous for.

There are currently over a thousand video clips on the site, each with a unique number. When you see one you really like, take note of the number. Then, whenever you want to see that clip again, enter the number in the search box and it will go into the queue to play among the next few videos. You can also submit your own moonwalk video to add to the collection.