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By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2009 11:00 pm EST
31 news tidbits not fit for the front page, available after the jump.
The Alamo Drafthouse is taking the Air Sex Championships on the road to fifteen U.S. cities.
/Film reader Jeremy S sent me over this hilarious Lord of the Rings t-shirt parody design LEGOlas. [pampling]
Kevin Smith has confirmed that Eliza Dushku is now on twitter under the nickname @ElizaPatricia. Also, Ethan Suplee at @ethansuplee , and Jason Mewes at @JayMewes .
The movie trailer for the American release of Miyazaki’s Ponyo will hit theaters over July 4th weekend, possibly in front of Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. [Frank Marshall]
Spock and Kirk interview each other on MySpace’s Artist on Artist. Chris Pine talks about getting booed at Comic Con. And Zachary Quinto talks about having the giggles on the set of Star Trek.
Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan tells MTV that he’s still involved in the sequel, Wanted 2: “We knew we wanted to do ‘Wanted 2,’ so we started developing a take and came up with a story that’s pretty good and develops the characters. But in the process of developing it, I also had commitments to ‘Gears of War’ and the samurai movie I’m doing at Universal. Evan is going to go ahead and write the story that we came up with and I’m probably going to come on later.”
On Time.com , Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci show Rebecca Keegan and Emily Poenisch how to go boldly into screenwriting.
Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover and Sebastian Stan has joined the cast of the time-travel comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. [THR]Entertainment Weekly has a first look at Leonard Nimoy in the season finale of Fringe.Mark Mothersbaugh tells Yahoo that Drew Barrymore fired him from scoring her directorial debut Whip It! after two weeks of work. [playlist]FirstShowing wonders if Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche New York is an unintentional rip off of Fellini’s 8 1/2.Io9 has some great behind the scenes shots from JJ Abrams Star Trek.
The opening sequence of Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom is now available on YouTube for International readers who were unable to watch the Hulu exclusive.
Oh no, this is dangerous… Someone has actually created homemade Wolverine claws, “complete with a mechanism that releases the blades when he flexes his biceps.” [Gizmodo]
AMC has delayed the return of Mad Men until August. [AMC]
Advance tickets to Terminator Salvation are now available.
