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#NYCC2014 @filmfetish Casts of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and the new Daredevil TV series headed to @NY_Comic_Con

Reed Pop continues making major announcements surrounding New York Comic-Con and their first-ever New York Super Week. This one involves Marvel Television and Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel Animation, which will be officially taking flight at NYCC 2014. Fans at this year’s NYCC will get to experience the first cast appearance of ….

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Rock is finally dead. . . I am so sad that the next 15-year-old kid in a garage someplace in St. Paul, that plugs into his Marshall and wants to turn it up to 10, will not have anywhere near the same opportunity that I did. He will most likely, no matter what he does, fail miserably.

#filmfetish Troma heads to @DragonCon to celebrate 40 Years #dragoncon2014

After the Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Vol. 1 film premiere at the Twin Tiers Comic-Con and Monster Mania Weekend, Troma Entertainment President and Co-Founder Lloyd Kaufman has been invited to Atlanta as a Special Guest for Dragon-Con 2014 in celebration of Troma’s 40th Anniversary. On Friday August 29th, Dragon-Con presents the “Troma: 40th Toxic ….

Keanu Reeves to play assassin in upcoming television series Rain

Slingshot Global Media announced today that Keanu Reeves is attached to executive produce and star in the television series Rain, based on the New York Times best-selling book series written by Barry Eisler. Rain is being described as a globe-trotting action drama featuring lead character “John Rain,” a half-Japanese, half-American contract assassin who specializes in ….

Win a copy of The Walking Dead Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray featuring extended episodes

AMC is set to release the fourth season of The Walking on DVD and Blu-ray next week, on August 26th. Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, AMC’s The Walking Dead enjoyed its most popular season to date, averaging 13.3 million live/same day viewers per episode and ….

Infernal Affairs director tackles Chinatown New York street gangs in Revenge of the Green Dragons

Revenge of the Green Dragons is based on Frederick Dannen’s New Yorker article that chronicled the underworld of Asian-American gang life in 80’s and 90’s New York City. Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo co-directed the film from a script Loo co-wrote with Michael DiJiacomo. Revenge of the Green Dragons stars Justin Chon (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), ….

Producer of cult classic films Enter the Ninja, Breakin’ and Bloodsport – Menachem Golan – dies at 85

Sadly, Variety and Haaretz have reported that producer and director Menachem Golan, whose Cannon Film Group crafted hundreds of popular low budget movie productions during the 1980s and 90s, featuring the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris, before going bust, died Friday in Israel. He was 85. Myself, along with millions of American teenagers ….

#cultflavor Three the Hard Way also celebrating major anniversary

Speaking of anniversaries, 2014 is the 40th Anniversary of the Gordon Parks Jr.-directed cult classic Three the Hard Way, starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown and the late Jim Kelly. The action thriller Three the Hard Way was originally released on June 26, 1974. Major characters from the film included Jim Brown as Jimmy Lait, Fred ….