More news on Spider-man 3!
News from Joshibear!
So IGN released concept art for the main character of the Spider-Man 3 game coming out for all the Next-Gens (I'm assuming it'll be when the movie comes out). Quickly after posting said pics, I think Sony bitch-slapped them or something, because the pics were removed faster than a tub of cookie dough ice cream at a weight watchers convention. Wellll, a friend of mine managed to snag the pics and save them to his hard-drive before they were yanked,
and in the spirit of paying things forward, here you go. We may not have been able to see what Venom looked like in the new trailer, but gosh darnit, this has to be the next best thing, and i have to say, I like it. They stay true to the black costume of Spidey in the movie, while staying true to the Venom we know / love / get a little annoyed with every now and then in the comics.
I love the twisted Webs on Venom, it really makes him look like an evil, twisted version of Spidey.
the Hobgoblin looks like a syphon filter/SSX douchebag. Horrible horrible design.
correction, the guy who gave this to me said it was from a place called "AICN"....i don't know what that is, but that's what he said.
and yeah, i think harry looks a little to 'extreme-sports' for my tastes.
and yes, venom looks pretty sweet, imo.
That would stand for "Ain't It Cool News".. and it's not.
It started out as a website run by this geek named Harry Knowles to put out geek news to other geeks. But then he went waay commercial, started letting the studios "comp" him on things like trips out to see lame movies being filmed in return for his "praise of one the greatest movies you'll ever see" (I think that was his review of Van Helsing or Godzilla or some other crappy movie).
I used to know a lot of people who went to the website back in the early days. But now everybody and their cousin has a website that can pitch a movie to geeks.
Go to WIKI and check out some of the stuff Knowles has been up to, including (and this is posted from WIKI):
In 2002, Knowles was shown early cuts of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by Lucasfilm’s licensing head, Howard Roffman. Prior to posting the early spoiler-filled review on his site, Knowles boasted of the “leak” to Matt Drudge and long time friend and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. While attending the Austin Film Festival Knowles told Rodriguez that the leak originated “from the top.” Lucasfilm released a statement to the press on 10/9/02 claiming that it had made an arrest in connection with the leak, but no such charges were ever filed. On 10/15/02 Knowles posted his own reply to the crime disassociating himself from the man arrested. No one was ever charged with the crime.
Knowles has also been the subject of a fair bit of controversy for actions that would not be considered ethical if performed by mainstream journalists. In 1999, he wrote an article praising a script by Drew McWeeny. He failed to mention, however, that McWeeny was a contributor to the site, writing under the pseudonym "Moriarty." This and other alleged lapses were reported in a series of articles in Film Threat magazine [1].
Perhaps his most egregious—and inauspicious—lapse of ethics occurred in early 2000 when Knowles posted materials stolen from an ABC staffer's home computer, which Knowles believed to be the Oscar nominees for the Academy Awards—a day before the official announcement. When the actual nominees were announced the following day, it was discovered that his finalists in almost every category were incorrect. Knowles posted several excuses for this action when it became clear he was wrong, including the IP address of the ABC staff person in question.
And I've been told by conventiongoers that he smells. But that's unconfirmed by this nose...