In today’s Daily Blast: A creepy CGI Paddington Bear! Michael Keaton is…Birdman? Two Tom Hardys! Apple’s AWESOME Cafeteria! And Ice Cube yells nice things!
All that and more – just read on, dear reader!
Movies
– At the top of the post: the new IMAX poster for Transformers: Age of Extinction. I don’t doubt that this movie will be awful, but I’m really stoked for the Dinobots.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxMMv_LD5Q)
– In the upcoming October release Birdman, Michael Keaton plays…a washed up actor best known for playing a superhero. Where’d the fourth wall go?
– Oof. Looks like Harrison Ford got injured by the Millennium Falcon on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ALMl1nTPdA)
– Home brings together an alien and an earthling in Dreamworks Animations next original film, due in March 2015.
– What’s better than one Tom Hardy? TWO Tom Hardy’s! And that’s what we’re getting in the forthcoming British gangster film Legend.
– The Dwayne-Johnson-Punches-A-Lion-In-The-Face-Epic Hercules will get an IMAX 3D release now.
– Rumor says that the box office for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was so underwhelming that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is getting pushed back to 2017.
– Tumblr is about to start loving country music: Tom Hiddleston (Thor: The Dark World) has signed on to star as country legend Hank Williams in I Saw The Light.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTfUMXOdS0)
– With a realistic CG bear, Paddington is kind of a freaky looking adaptation of the children’s book series.
– Did you guys know Robert Downey Jr. does movies OTHER than Iron Man? Look for him as a lawyer defending his father in a murder case in this October’s The Judge.
The last Guardians of the Galaxy character poster has hit Fandango – it’s Chris Pratt as Star-Lord.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjctHUEmutw)
– Denzel Washington bring vigilante justice in this trailer for his remake of The Equalizer.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiskihiI8NE)
– Dreamworks Animation is giving the Penguins of Madagascar their own film, due out this November. The Madagascar franchise may never end.
Gaming
– The Angry Birds franchise continues to grow with Angry Birds Epic, the first RPG in the grumpy avian game series.
– The Kickstarter darling Broken Age has now arrived on the iPad.
– That’s some high quality E3 reporting, Los Angeles Times!
Comics
– It’s wise cracks versus trick arrows, as Hawkeye vs. Deadpool kicks off this October.
TV
– Hope you aren’t too attached to True Detective. Creator Nic Pizzolatto says he can only see the anthology series going for three seasons.
– Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever hits Lifetime this Christmas. Airing at 14:59, I assume.
– Cameron Crowe goes back to the rock music well with his new series Roadies, which has been picked up by Showtime (and produced by JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot).
– Bumblebee takes the lead role in the forthcoming new Transformers: Robots in Disguise series.
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_k7H43Y-M)
– From last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, here’s Ice Cube saying nice things angrily.
Tech
– OK, so Apple has the coolest cafeteria ever.
Toys
– Mattel has extended their agreement with DC Comics to be their primary toy licensee. Expect toys for the comics, movies such as Batman v Superman, and even the Arrow and Flash TV shows in the near future.
Music
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GD_D95Ekfg)
– Weezer’s new album – which I will continue to hope will be the next Pinkerton, even though no album since has even touched it – will be titled Everything Will Be Alright In The End.
So ends another Daily Blast! See you back here on Monday!