Watch It!: Star Trek Meets Monty Python

(Chekov! Stop that foolishness and get back to your nucwear wessels!)

Two absolutes: geeks like Star Trek and geeks like Monty Python. So it makes perfect sense that geeks would love “Star Trek Meets Monty Python”. The video is a bit of a throw back (YouTube user StarshipConductor put it up in 2006), but it is so well done that I believe it deserves recognition on this site. Much like most of Python, it is a bit absurdest but quite funny and worth a watch, particularly the beginning which does a great job of syncing up video and audio. Check it out after the jump.

Spider-Man Spinoff ‘Venom’ Still On The Way

After making the announcement earlier this year, the writing team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick behind Zombieland has confirmed they are working with Sony which is moving forward with the project. Despite the negative reaction to the character in Spider-Man 3, Sony remains committed to giving the character his own spin-off movie.

Trailer: A Christmas Carol

Who wants to take a trip into the uncanny valley? All kidding aside, the new trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol looks like an interesting take on the classic Dickens story. While I don’t exactly remember Scrooge shrinking, being shot through a pipe and being assaulted with icicles, I am sure that it will all look pretty damn cool on an eighty foot screen in 3D (Screw you, Jeff Katzenberg. You can’t make me not enjoy it). All we can really hope for at this point is that the film is nothing like The Polar Express. Trailer after the jump.

Tucker and Wilde Join Haggis’ The Next Three Days

Already sporting a cast that includes Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks, two more have been added to the cast of Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days, a remake of the French thriller Pour elle.

Out Now: Away We Go / Monsters vs. Aliens / Management

Good bad and meh – it’s kind of scary how often this DVD release schedule has pumped out that pattern. Three new DVD releases for the week after the jump.

WTF: Blood Energy Potion

Two years ago this wouldn’t be film news. Sure, it would be weird (perhaps even weirder than it is today), but it would have no connection to the movie world. Then Twilight had to appear in cinemas and ruin everything, as every thirteen-year-old girl started running out to Hot Topic hoping that an Edward in their life would turn them into a vampire. Of course, because vampires are not real, this is just stupid. Not stupid enough for the people at Urban Collector however.

Photo Dump: The Beaver

(FREEDOM!!!!)

Every part of me wishes that these photos were not from the set of Mel Gibson’s new film. I wish that I had never heard about Mel Gibson’s new film. I wish I could look at these photos of Mad Max running around with a flat-tailed mammal on his wrist and think, “well, that just makes sense.” But I do not live in that world.

Eight new photos have appeared online from the set of The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster and starring Steve Carell Jim Carrey Mel Gibson, a film about a man who acquires a beaver puppet and begins to treat it as though it is a real creature. Check out the photos after the jump.

Disney Comes To Its Senses On Anne Frank Film

In a move that surprises no one, Disney has decided that David Mamet’s take on The Diary of Anne Frank is “too dark” and unfriendly for the studio. We were as surprised as anyone when the announcement was made that the profane writer/director behind Glengarry Glen Ross was handed the sensitive story of the holocaust in the first place, but after a look at where the movie was going, Disney quickly put the project in turnaround a month after it was announced.

Photo Dump: The Other Guys

Set pictures have leaked from Adam McKay’s (Anchorman, Eastbound & Down) upcoming comedy The Other Guys shooting in New York. There has been alot of buzz that these may be not-yet-approved studio stills from the blog Accidental Sexiness, and they look great. While you see Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and Rob Riggle, and Damon Wayans Jr., who is apparently replacing the rumored Craig Robinson (sadly) several cast members have been added in the last few weeks including Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Steve Coogan, as well as Eva Mendes and Michael Keaton (where has he been lately?).

The premise of the film as McKay explains is, “Basically the idea is that you have your star cops of New York City, picture like a Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson-type pair. They’re the guys who get all the car chases, all the girls. But this is the story of the guys in the desk next to them, the other guys.… The premise is you have the stud cops in New York City, and the other cops are the wannabes who want to be the stud cops, So Ferrell and Wahlberg have another pair of cops who are competing with them to be the stars.”

Photos after the break. And you have to love Wahlberg in the “Bayside Pride” shirt… beat Valley!