#December2010
CAGE MATCH: The Week in Nic Cage
Welcome back to the Cage Match, Omega Level’s weekly column on the actor who owes $6 million in taxes and is somehow not in prison: Nicolas Cage. Anticipation for the grossly delayed Season of the Witch is building and as we draw closer to its January release date a slew of new stills and BTS pics have been released. There’s even a new clip featuring lots of CGI wolves! Speaking of those taxes, our man is getting in even more legal trouble in L.A. We’ll take a look at those court documents as well as ALL of Cage’s homes – all 15 of them! James Franco – who Cage directed in Sonny – appeared on Inside the Actor’s Studio and had some (homo) juice on Cage. Oh, and, Cage’s brother Christopher has been taken on a terrible “alias.” More on that later. Now, what about those wolves?
Mo’ Swords, Mo’ Wolves
It looks like Season of the Witch (January 7, 2011) will be light on Cage insanity we all love but will be entertaining overall. IMDB has an exclusive clip (which is un-embeddable) that has some cheesy looking CGI wolves attacking the carriage escorting the witch. I think. The brains at IMDB have entitled the clip “Wolves.” Nice one, guys.
On the hunt for more Witch? The folks at FearNet have a gallery of over 40 stills and behind the scenes photos. It looks like Dominic Sena and his crew got the Medieval vibe down!
Poor, Poor Nic Cage
Yesterday, Cage pleaded before the court in L.A., asking that his “high powered” business managers be banned from speaking with Nevada State Bank. NSB is suing Cage over a house he once owned in Nevada that went into foreclosure. He owes them around $2.5 million. His business managers are being asked by NSB to appear before a deposition early next month. Cage addressed the L.A. court, stating his “private financial and business records, confidential tax returns, confidential communications with tax authorities and documents” should be protected by attorney-client privilege. (via Radar)
I’m just a simple boy from small-town New Jersey, so the world of high powered L.A. lawyers is like Narnia to me. Not to play obsessed super-fan, but I imagine they make Cage miserable. He’s more concerned with family, comic books, and being the man (see picture above) than with legal BS. Keep your head up, tiger!
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Wide Lens Time-Lapse Video of The Stars Is Cosmic Porn.
Over at Bad Astronomy they posted this video by Stéphane Guisard. Using a fish-eye lens he managed to capture the entire fucking night sky in Chile. The results are nothing short of existential tits-hardening. Watch as the colors change and the Earth dances about the cosmos.
Hit the jump for the video.
Batman: Arkham City Gets Dong-Tip Teasing Trailer
Apparently everyone’s a fucking fan of teaser trailers for trailers these days. Specifically, for shit they’re revealing in this weekend’s Spike Video Game Awards. First it was BioWare, and now it’s time for Rocksteady Studios to tease the new footage of Batman: Arkham City that’s being revealed on Saturday. It features Batman laying down the stinky-hammer on a bunch of jabronis that are hunting him, and looking all smoldering and shit.
Hit the jump for the video.
Sex Club Game Lets You Buy Japanese Smut Stars. Get Your Virtual Hump On!
Japanese developer DMM.com has released a game which was obviously secretly created and coded by myself. It is titled rather aptly, “Virtual Sex Club”. I could only come across this title after several hours of hyperbaric meditation, and I have to say I’m pretty proud of it. However, I’m much more excited about the premise. You pay a monthly fee, ¥1,800 (US$21), then that entitles you to 30,000 Gold. Why gold? ‘Cause isn’t that what we’ve always wanted to spend when buying porn stars? Hey you! Porn star! Fourteen gold bricks to brick your bung-hole!
It’s me, making dreams come true.
But wait, there’s more!
New Resistance 3 Screens Depict Humanity Raped, Ravaged.
The original Resistance? Justification for my first-wave purchase of my PlayStation 3. The sequel? An unremarkable journey through the universe. My hopes for the third game? Pretty fucking high. Insomniac Games always delivers the goods, and despite how unmemorable the third one was, I still enjoyed it.
These screens for the third game dropped, and as Luke Plunkett points out, they’re totally Half-Life 2 in their feeling. Tattered remains of humanity post-alien invasion? Check. Beautiful destruction? Check. That’s all straight though, Half-Life 2 is one of my favorite games of all time.
Resistance 3 would be so lucky as to be mentioned in the same breath as HL2. Hit the jump for the screens.
DEFEAT. 011 – Poor Vanessa
[DEFEAT. is Rendar Frankenstein’s truest attempt at fiction. Presented in weekly episodes, the novella tells the tale of Daryl Millar – a hero who dies at the intersection of pop culture, science-fiction, war epic, and fantasy]
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“OH MY GAWD, IT WAS HIM!”
“Who?”
“Daryl Millar, the good-looking guy I met at work today.”
“At Game World? Damn, Vanessa, you must be desperate.”
Hugh Jackman Talks About Aronofsky’s The Wolverine.
I’m excited about The Wolverine. While it isn’t the first thing you’d think of when you conjure up Darren Aronofsky, I’m stoked to see what he can bring to such a huge franchise. He’s got such a unique touch that my naive ass thinks he can bring his own feel to the typically typical huge tentpole movies. Hugh Jackson is totally feeling me.
Slashfilm via EW:
He’s a visionary. I’ve been trying to get Darren since X-Men 3, really. We’ve been talking about this and Wolverine for so long.
[cont]
…we had a meeting about three weeks ago, catching up as friends more than anything, and he just ran a few ideas by me and my eyes just lit up, because already I think this is like a whole new ballgame — just the ideas, the level of depth, and intelligence, and creativity. I think he’s been waiting so long to do a movie in this genre. When he found the script, he said this is it. It’s really exciting.
Jackman and Aronofsky teamed up for The Fountain. And while it’s my least favorite of his movies, it did enough to jerk off my ocular glands that I came out entertained. Let’s see what the duo came bring about in this flick. I mean, Christ, it can’t be worse than the first Wolverine movie.
Sexy Travel Posters of Comics’ Most Famous Locales
Justin Van Genderen dropped some gorgeous prints over on his Flickr. They’re sexy travel guide renditions of some of comic book’s most famous locales. Oh, and Neo Tokyo just for good fucking measure.
Hit the jump for his gorgeous work, and if you dig them, you can buy them right here.
Variant Covers: Dig Up The Soul Of Steampunk God!
Variant Covers. Sometimes it’s a love affair. Sometimes it’s an apathetic union. And sometimes its a ruthless hate fuck. Today is the latter. Pressed up against a deadline, I am inspired to do nothing. Refresh the same websites. Pound caffeine. Ignore my schoolwork. But I’m here, you’re here, and there are comics coming out tomorrow. Here’s the shit that may grease your underwear with excitement.
Per usual, hit the comments box with your pull list for tomorrow.
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Lady Mechanika #1
This new comic from Joe Benitez caught my eye when wandering through the various release lists for tomorrow’s loot. G’damn! Sometimes something sneaks up on you, and you want to kiss the gaping asshole of whatever force pushed you in its direction. I’m hoping this a dope find. A gorgeously illustrated steampunk release starring a vixen? Had me at vixen. But here, check out the plot description, “the tabloids dubbed her “LADY MECHANIKA”, the sole survivor of a psychotic serial killer’s three-year rampage through London. Found locked in an abandoned laboratory amidst countless corpses and body parts, with her own limbs amputated and replaced with mechanical components, her life began anew.”
C’mon! Tell me that isn’t worth at least a glance at the introduction. Sold.
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A Collection of Collections.
There’s a collection of collections coming out this week that caught my eye. ‘Tis the season and shit! Gift a comic book nerd you know with one of these bad boys. First up is the second collection of Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth. As someone who is following this in trades, I’m excited to dive back into this series. Think The Road meets fantasy meets familiar tropes of responsibility for society’s future, et cetera. It’s one of my favorite releases of the past year or so.
Speaking of Jeff Lemire, his Superboy #2 is coming out, and if you read the first issue you understand: this title has promise. I don’t give a shit about Superboy, or Smallville for that matter. Or rather, I didn’t. Then Lemire stepped up. God, the dude has writing chops. Jealousy +500.
As well, tomorrow carries the first collection of James Stokoe’s Orc Stain. I can’t find this motherfucker at any comic book shop near me. Trust me, I’ve looked. As my local comic shop continues its depressing slide into bankruptcy, my comic book shop love has become polyamorous. So I’ve slutted around in my search. Now’s a chance to snag it all up and collected from my buddy, Mr. Amazon. I have a good feeling Stokoe is going to be someone we’re all going to be hearing a shitload from in the next couple of years. He’s talented, eccentric, off-kilter, and bizarre. Something of a kindred spirit for my demented brain.
Also last week hee did the world an enormous solid and released an entire unreleased comic book over on his website. Murderbullets. It’s fantastic, and I’m actually saddened I couldn’t spend money to support the effort.
Help A Girl Out And Slap The Bugs Off Her Boobs; Ah Japanese Video Games.
Ah, Dream Club Zero by Tamsoft. This is the same game that I covered a bit ago. You know, the “dating simulation” that lets you pump sausages into what appears to be underage chicks’ mouths? Hey man, it’s a date! You’re just feeding them! Well, Kotaku dropped some news on another way you’re going to help some chicks out; slapping bugs off their tits. Pesky bugs!
According to Andriasang, players will be able to brush away bugs from sensitive areas of the hostesses they’re trying to charm. Good and bad attempts of insect-removing techniques are shown, but both look like clumsy gropes that serve as an excuse to fondle virtual girls.
Excuse me? An excuse to fondle virtual girls! Why! What an accusation. What girl doesn’t want a Sir Lancelot to come into their life, and help them out? And for those not in the know, nothing says helping out like slapping bugs off of a helpless girls’ boobs, and I’m going to assume inner thighs.
It’s called chivalry. Clearly in Japan it’s not dead.
