Another Look at Electro in Amazing Spider-man 2

Entertainment Weekly offers us another look at Electro (Jamie Foxx) and Spider-man (Andrew Garfield) in this week's Comic-Con issue. Spider-man fans have already gotten a look at Jamie Foxx's Electro earlier this year, but the new cover has a much better with all of the post-production effects added. The blue-skin Electro has looks vaguely like Mr. Freeze from Batman and Robin, but as long as there aren't any shockingly awful puns, I think they will be ok.

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The Politics of Ender's Game

At a Comic-con panel for Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game there is a noticeable absence at their table, writer of the novel, Orson Scott Card. The reason is not sickness, or that the writer is uncomfortable in public arenas, the reason is that Card is has made a spectacle of himself regarding his anti-gay beliefs. Card being asked to stay home isn't a surprise (he was also let go by DC Comics after the announcement that he would be the lead writer for a new Superman comic) but Ender's Game is a much more public platform.

Backlash will continue against Card as promotions for the film begin to ramp up, but he can't be hidden from the media forever, and even if he could, the boycott of the film won't go away.

Card isn't the first person in filmmaking with a controversial opinion (screenwriter Roberto Orci believes that the U.S. government was behind 9/11 and the Boston Marathon horrors), but his entrenched position in his beliefs and his need to be very vocal about those beliefs may exacerbate the matter. Oddly enough, no fuss was made when Orci announced he would be showing up at the panel.

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Zeebox Shows Fans the Love

zeebox, the award-winning second screen companion app, today launched the “Get a Room!” contest to celebrate and reward TV watchers for their passion by inviting them to get creative with TV Rooms – the latest feature within the app allowing users to create vibrant communities around their favorite shows, stars and TV topics. zeebox is calling on all fans to create their own TV Rooms, share the love with comments, photos and videos, invite friends and earn the chance to win $10,000 for the most awesome TV Room. Leading up to the grand prize, zeebox is also giving away $1,000 per day for the next 30 days to TV Room members who create the biggest buzz in rooms.

How to Win

1. Any US-resident user of the free zeebox app for iPhone, iPad, Android or the web can take part. Make sure to download the latest version for the full set of TV Room features.

2.“Get A Room!” - The top TV Room will be selected by zeebox to win the grand prize of $10,000. Judges will select the winning TV Room based on three criteria: membership growth, highest quality of content (taking advantage of image, video, GIF and link-sharing) and greatest activity (volume of quality comments and posts). TV Rooms can be created around one show or a number of shows and unified by a show, star, topic, brand or broader theme (e.g. ‘Reality TV Lovers’).

3.“Show The Love” in a room to be eligible to be one of the thirty $1,000 daily winners. zeebox will be rewarding diversity including funniest, wittiest and most engaging posts, comments or image, video and link contributions as well as best sharing across a user’s social networks to bring others into the experience.

The winner of the “Get A Room!” $10,000 grand prize will be selected within five days of the close of the contest on August 9, 2013 and will be notified within 10 business days via a notification in the zeebox app.

For more information, visit zeebox.com

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Why Box-Office Shouldn't Matter

Disney's The Lone Ranger made a lot of news this week. Not because of glowing reviews, or even the controversy of Johnny Depp playing a Native American, the big news about Lone Ranger was its poor grosses from the weekend thus far.

The Lone Ranger only made $9.7 million on Wednesday, with many blaming the film poor performance on negative word of mouth from critics. The projected opening weekend take is around $50 million (BoxOffice.com), far below what Disney expected from the picture initially. This isn't the first time Disney has dealt with something like this--John Carter similarly flopped in theatres in 2012.

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The Best of Viggo Mortensen

You know him as Aragorn, but Viggo Mortensen is much more than that. He is a chameleon. Whether he be playing Satan, an unassuming diner owner, or a Russian hitman, Viggo Mortensen is one of today’s top actors around. Here’s a look at some of Viggo Mortensen’s best roles.

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Unassuming local Tom Stall inadvertently commits an act of heroism and sends shock waves throughout his community when the truth that comes to light isn’t as it seems. When a mobster (Ed Harris) comes through and starts posing questions about Tom’s ability to save the day, suddenly everything about Tom comes into question.

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot #34

The game where I throw out one of cinema's more obscure quotes and you try to guess it. Readers are currently 24 for 33. Last week was a tough one, so this week's quote should be a little easier.

Well, I don't want to be accused of micro-managing, but I cannot understand why I Heart Huckabees is on a list of DVDs considered suitable for armed forces entertainment.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Trailer

A very punny new trailer for the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was released today and the same zany brand of humor that made the first film so fun looks to be infused here as well. With Bill Hader off of Saturday Night Live now, we have to get our fix of him where we can.

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