Author: John Bliss

Earlier this week, Paramount+ threw a party to celebrate the revival of Beavis and Butthead, the irreverent comedy brainchild of Mike Judge. The party which came after the successful release of “Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe” back in June, featured the usual things: drinks, friends, and a world record breaking amount of nachos. The nachos, served at Smorgasburg LA on Sunday, September 25th, were recorded as having a final weight of 4,870 pounds (~2209 kg). For reference, an African black rhino weighs in at around 4,600 pounds. That is a truly mind-breaking amount of day-glo orange cheese. A representative…

The German metal band Rammstein has filed a restraining order against Viagogo ahead of their upcoming European tour. The move is intended to crack down on online resellers like Viagogo, which notoriously house scalpers, drive up ticket prices, and make it harder for fans to get in to see shows. Louder reports the injunction was legally actioned by the district court of Hamburg, and effectively prevents the world’s largest ticket reselling platform from legally housing Rammstein tickets. This is actually the second time that the Hamburg court has forbidden Viagogo from touting Rammstein tickets, as frontman Till Lindemann successfully lobbied…

Sony has recently purchased the rights to Tarzan, the iconic wild man originally created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with the intention of creating a “total reinvention” of the character and intellectual property. This project is very much still in the planning stage. No actors, directors, or producers have yet been attached to the film. Tarzan’s story is well known: an orphaned boy raised in the jungle by great apes, who falls in love with a young woman named Jane. Eventually leaving the jungle for her, marrying her and moving to England where his eyes open to how barbaric so-called civilization…

Diane Kruger (“Inglorious Basterds,” “National Treasure”) is reconnecting with Fatih Akin for a tv series where Kruger will play iconic actress Marlene Dietrich. Currently under the working title “Marlene,” the five-part biopic series is produced by Akin’s Bombero International, together with German mini-major UFA Fiction. The show is being adapted by Akin and is based on the biography of Dietrich, “Meine Mutter Marlene (My Mother Marlene),” written by Dietrich’s daughter, Maria Riva. Kruger and Akin previously worked together on Akin’s “In the Fade,” where Kruger starred as a woman who takes revenge for the racially-motivated killing of her ethnic Turkish…

More than seven years after its final season, NBC sitcom “Community” is FINALLY getting a movie! NBC won the rights to the project after a bidding war, and will stream the finished product on Peacock, their digital platform. Six of “Community’s” nine central stars will return for the movie: Joel McHale (Jeff), Danny Pudi (Abed), Alison Brie (Annie), Gillian Jacobs (Britta), Jim Rash (Craig) and Ken Jeong (Ben). Series creator Dan Harmon will also be attached to the project, both as a producer and as a writer alongside Andrew Guest. Guest previously worked as a writer on “Community “during its…

The Chinese Chang’e 5 mission has returned to Earth with a new mineral retrieved from the Moon’s surface. Called Changesite-(Y), the transparent crystal could contain helium-3, an isotype with a wide range of technological uses. Changesite-(Y) is exceedingly tiny, about one-tenth the size of a human hair, and has been described by Chinese news outlet Xinhau as a “kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal.” Even in such a small sample, though, the presence of helium-3 is potentially world-altering. As more and more areas struggle to produce large amounts of power quickly and efficiently, helium-3 has been proposed as a fuel source…

Vocal icon, show-stopping diva, and bane of retail worker sanity every Christmas season Mariah Carey recorded an honest-to-goodness grunge album back in 1995. Carey provided backing vocals for the original pressing of the album, released under the band name Chick. Turns out that album is getting an official reissue! Many of us learned about the existence of Chick and their debut album “Somebody’s Ugly Daughter” when Carey wrote about it in her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.” Apparently recorded during the sessions for Carey’s 1995 smash “Daydream,” the grunge album was released by Sony/BMG, though it disappeared without a…

Riot Games has announced Lil Nas X is the President of “League of Legends.” The honorary title (meaning that the Grammy-winning artist is not actually an employee of the company) is part of an ongoing collaboration between the game developer and the musical star, the latest of Lil Nas X’s brand collaborations. In this newly created role, Lil Nas X will be responsible for “creating explosive musical moments,” including a live performance for the game’s 180 million monthly players and fans, as well as a new League champion skin. These explosive musical moments will be capped off at the opening…

In a recent scheduling shift, Disney has changed some release dates again. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the removal from the schedule entirely of Patty Jenkins’ upcoming “Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.” “The Haunted Mansion,” inspired by the iconic Disneyland ride, has shifted from March 10th of 2023 to August 11th. Drawing from the classic ride, this reboot of the 2003 film stars Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto, and Tiffany Haddish. The film, directed by Justin Simien, tells the story of a doctor and her 9-year-old son looking to start a new life who move…

Even if you don’t know Drew Scanlon’s name, you probably know his face. Also known as Blinking Guy, the gif of his incredulous face is the default to use when you hear something that gives you pause. He’s using his internet fame to team up with the National MS Society to help raise money to fund research into the disease. As Scanlon notes on his website, two of his close friends and members of their families suffer from multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease of the central nervous system that interrupts communication between the brain and the body. Millions of people…