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Fifty Shades Porn Parody Targeted In Big Hollywood Lawsuit

Porn has had a good run parodying box office franchises like Star Wars (Star Wars XXX). Such hijinks are considered constitutionally protected "fair use," so long as you're commenting and not just copying. Superstar adult producer Axel Braun (Star Wars XXX) told us last year that porn parodies attr ... More >>

Hollywood Action Movies Suck These Days (But They Don't Have To)

By Vern Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the '80s and '90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily re-created) in the Expendables movies? No offense to your Iron Men and your Jason Bournes, but I miss movies like D ... More >>

Kim Kardashian 'Aurora Dress' Promoted After Dark Knight Massacre: Boutique Apologizes

See also: *Dark Knight Massacre: LAPD Sends Undercover Cops Into Area Theaters. From the Department of Too Soon comes news of this unfortunate Twitter FAIL: An online fashion retailer called Celeb Boutique was feeling the heat today after it capitalized on the trending popularity of the term Auror ... More >>

Chicano Batman, Caped Crusader

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] With the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, the iconic Batman franchise returns for its seventh summer with the usual panoply of "pows," "bangs" and Chri ... More >>

Star Wars Light Saber Relay Heads From Santa Monica to Comic-Con San Diego This Summer

Legions of nerds will head to San Diego Comic-Con this summer not in their Scions, scooters or Priuses, as usual, but on-foot, with Star Wars lightsabers in hand. In probably the most physical activity geeks have ever embarked upon, the Course of the Force lightsaber relay will take these human cal ... More >>

Boba Fett as a Girl: N.C. Winters Mashes Up Star Wars and My Little Pony in 'Abandoned Menagerie'

In "Abandoned Menagerie," open at Gallery 1988 through April 7, artist N.C. Winters delves deep into his childhood memory for a series of pieces based on pop culture figures of the 1980s. The Carlsbad-based artist paints characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gremlins, The Muppets, Super Mari ... More >>

A Spider-Man That Doesn't Bite

Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

From Schindler's List to middle-aged action star

Bronson Bared

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Inception Star's Crowdsourced hitRECord Website Becomes a Book

It takes six seconds to read a short tragedy about an upbeat orange and a suicidal egg in The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume I. One of 33 bite-sized narratives culled from nearly 8,600 submissions to actor-slash-crowd-sourcing impresario Joseph Gordon-Levitt's hitRECord website, the tale is told ... More >>

Blade Runner Stadium

Miles Morales: Spider-Man's PC New Replacement Is Half-Black, Half-Latino

MarvelMiles Morales​Apparently, half-human, half-spider wasn't diverse/culturally cutting-edge enough for Marvel Comics' most revered superhero. Sorry, Peter Parker: In its "Ultimate" line of Spider-Man adventures, Marvel is looking to do like Beyonce and "Upgrade U" (or, more accurately, ki ... More >>

Simon Pegg's New Autobiography: Well Done, Nerd!

​ Since he and Edgar Wright unleashed their horror-comedy masterpiece Shaun of the Dead on audiences in 2004, Simon Pegg has become as in-demand a performer here as in his native Britain, not to mention something of an alpha geek amongst genre fans. His deeply-rooted boyhood love of the Star W ... More >>

Star Tours Revamp at Disneyland, the LA Weekly Review: The Force is Strong with This Ride

©2011 Disney Enterprises, Inc./Lucasfilm Ltd.Make sure all tray tables are in the upright and locked position.​ The crowds were thick on the opening weekend of Disneyland's newest offering Star Tours -- The Adventures Continue, with throngs of fans sporting prehensile Yoda backpacks plopping ... More >>

BotCon 2011: Transformers Fans Head to Pasadena for Vintage Toys, New Video Games and More

Shannon Cottrell​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery, "Transformers Fans Gather for BotCon 2011." One thing we can say with certainty after covering conventions for LA Weekly for the past two-and-a-half years is that whether we're at small events like MacrossWorld or something as la ... More >>

Five Movies Opening This Weekend, including Beginners and 'Dumbass' X-Men: First Class

Dean Rogers/The Weinstein Company​ Hey guys, it's National Donut Day! I know, I know, calm down. After you're done raiding every Winchell's in the tri-county area, why not digest in the non-judgmental comfort of your local movie theater? This weekend's picks range from the highbrow (Cameraman ... More >>

Arnold's Love Child Saga Means He Won't Be Back in Movie Theaters For Now

I won't be back.​Following this week's love child revelations, Arnold Schwarzenegger said today through his lawyer that he's putting his Hollywood comeback on hold. That put to rest speculation that, while bad for political aspirations, sleeping around and getting mad headlines for it, even w ... More >>

10 Geeky Hollywood Artifacts Sold at Auction Over the Weekend, from Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek, Willy Wonka, Walt Disney and Others

Courtesy of Profiles in HistoryCar from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang​ An auction of big-name Hollywood geek porn organized by Profiles in History at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills this past weekend grossed more than $5.8 million. We bring you the highlights: 10. An original film cel from the c ... More >>

Star Wars Day: May the Fourth ( A Thematically Appropriate Cake) Be With You

pixelbitesHan Solo Frozen in Carbonite (and Cake)​ Being an avid reader of Wookiepedia, the proud owner of a plastic light-saber you keep holstered next to your cell phone, and a fan of the much-maligned 1978 Christmas special, you probably know this already: Today, May 4th, is Star Wars Day. ... More >>

Star Wars Street Art: Free Humanity Talks Barack Obama, Akira Kurosawa and Mr. Brainwash

Keith Plocek​See more posters at "Star Wars Street Art: The Works of Free Humanity."​Jabba the Hutt and Salacious Crumb, stenciled on top a page of the Wall Street Journal with the words "Greed is good." Boba Fett, standing alone with "I'm sorry for the deaths of the innocent but that happen ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

Alicia Silverstone Signs Her Cookbook Tonight at Vroman's

​If you're one of those people who has secretly watched not just Clueless but Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed way more times than you'll admit, you have somewhere to be tonight. Namely, Vroman's in Pasadena, where Alicia Silverstone will be signing her New York Times bestselling cookbook, The ... More >>

Hearts Aflame: An Evening of Love Letters, From 11th-Century Missives to 21st-Century E-mails

R2D2 — and Double-Ds

Cool Costumes, Props and Memorabilia from 'Resident Evil: Afterlife,' 'Inglourious Basterds,' 'Return of the Jedi' and More up for Auction

Saturday morning at 11 a.m., Premiere Props will be hosting a massive prop and costume auction that will be broadcast live on its site. The centerpiece of the auction is the collection of items from Resident Evil: Afterlife, including what Dan Levine of Premiere described as "hero props," items that ... More >>

Inception: Dream Weaver

With his latest mind-boggler, can Christopher Nolan save the summer?

'Star Wars', 'Star Trek' or 'Battlestar Galactica'? We Ask at Wumpskate's 'Star Skate'

Monday night, fans of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Spock, William Adama and more outer space heroes congregated at monthly roller rink party Wumpskate for "Star Skate." The theme party brought together science fiction tunes (S.P.O.C.K.'s "Dr. McCoy," The Timelords "Doctorin' the Tardis") with costumes and dozens ... More >>

Harry Warner's Hancock Park Manor Sold at $2.9 Million.

Harry Warner's former estate located at 501 South Rossmore Ave.​The late Harry Warner's Hancock Park manor was recently sold for $2.9 million by a bank, the real estate firm that handled the transaction announced this week. The structure was built in 1923 by Warner, the movie mogul who cofoun ... More >>

Top 5 Classic Sci-Fi Characters That Would Have Looked Even Cooler with Mustaches

Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. ... More >>

WATCH THE MAYHEM WHEN THE BAD BOYS OF BLOGGING MEET BURLESQUE DANCERS!

MIMOBOT's New Star Wars Flash Drives Feature Jawa and Obi-Wan

One of the first things L.A. Weekly spotted at San Diego Comic-Con last summer was a tiny, limited edition MIMOBOT flash drive that looked like Darth Vader, but revealed itself to be Luke Skywalker. Like most MIMOBOT flash drives, it was cute, reminiscent of chibi anime characters. I almost had a ge ... More >>

COREY HAIM'S FINEST WORK?

THAT'S LAVA B-S

LIGHTS! CAMERA! FLEET-FOOTED ACTION!

Decisions, Decisions

Credit Crunch Hits Hollywood Studios

Paramount Is First to Feel Financing Woes