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This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the undisputed king of intellectual property in the entertainment industry. As of February 9th, 2023, the day I record this episode, there have been thirty full length motion pictures part of the MCU in the past fifteen years, with a combined global ticket sales of $28 billion, as well as twenty television shows that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a entertainment juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon. This comes as a total shock to many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, who were witness of cheaply produced television shows featuring hokey special effects and a roster of has-beens and never weres in the cast. Superman was the king of superheroes at the movies, in large part because, believe it or not, there hadn't even been a movie based on a Marvel Comics character released into theatres until the summer of 1986. But not for lack of trying. And that's what we're going to talk about today. A brief history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 1980s. But first, as always, some backstory. Now, I am not approaching this as a comic fan. When I was growing up in the 80s, I collected comics, but my collection was limited to Marvel's Star Wars series, Marvel's ROM The SpaceKnight, and Marvel's two-issue Blade Runner comic adaptation in 1982. So I apologize to Marvel comics fans if I relay some of this information incorrectly. I have tried to do my due diligence when it comes to my research. Marvel Comics got its start as Timely Comics back in 1939. On August 31, 1939, Timely would release its first comic, titled Marvel Comics, which would feature a number of short stories featuring versions of characters that would become long-running staples of the eventual publishing house that would bear the comic's name, including The Angel, a version of The Human Torch who was actually an android hero, and Namor the Submariner, who was originally created for a unpublished comic that was supposed to be given to kids when they attended their local movie theatre during a Saturday matinee. That comic issue would quickly sell out its initial 80,000 print run, as well as its second run, which would put another 800,000 copies out to the marketplace. The Vision would be another character introduced on the pages of Marvel Comics, in November 1940. In December 1940, Timely would introduce their next big character, Captain America, who would find instant success thanks to its front cover depicting Cap punching Adolph Hitler square in the jaw, proving that Americans have loved seeing Nazis get punched in the face even a year before our country entered the World War II conflict. But there would be other popular characters created during this timeframe, including Black Widow, The Falcon, and The Invisible Man. In 1941, Timely Comics would lose two of its best collaborators, artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to rival company Detective Comics, and Timely owner Martin Goodman would promote one of his cousins, by marriage to his wife Jean no less, to become the interim editor of Timely Comics. A nineteen year old kid named Stanley Lieber, who would shorten his name to Stan Lee. In 1951, Timely Comics would be rebranded at Atlas Comics, and would expand past superhero titles to include tales of crime, drama, espionage, horror, science fiction, war, western, and even romance comics. Eventually, in 1961, Atlas Comics would rebrand once again as Marvel Comics, and would find great success by changing the focus of their stories from being aimed towards younger readers and towards a more sophisticated audience. It would be November 1961 when Marvel would introduce their first superhero team, The Fantastic Four, as well as a number of their most beloved characters including Black Panther, Carol Danvers, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Thor, as well as Professor X and many of the X-Men. And as would be expected, Hollywood would come knocking. Warner Brothers would be in the best position to make comic book movies, as both they and DC Comics were owned by the same company beginning in 1969. But for Marvel, they would not be able to enjoy that kind of symbiotic relationship. Regularly strapped for cash, Stan Lee would often sell movie and television rights to a variety of Marvel characters to whomever came calling. First, Marvel would team with a variety of producers to create a series of animated television shows, starting with The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966, two different series based on The Fantastic Four, and both Spider-Man and Spider-Woman series. But movies were a different matter. The rights to make a Spider-Man television show, for example, was sold off to a production company called Danchuck, who teamed with CBS-TV to start airing the show in September of 1977, but Danchuck was able to find a loophole in their contract that allowed them to release the two-hour pilot episode as a movie outside of the United States, which complicated the movie rights Marvel had already sold to another company. Because the “movie” was a success around the world, CBS and Danchuck would release two more Spider-Man “movies” in 1978 and 1981. Eventually, the company that owned the Spider-Man movie rights to sell them to another company in the early 1980s, the legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, New World Pictures, founded and operated by the legendary independent B-movie producer and director Roger Corman. But shortly after Corman acquired the film rights to Spider-Man, he went and almost immediately sold them to another legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, Cannon Films. Side note: Shortly after Corman sold the movie rights to Spider-Man to Cannon, Marvel Entertainment was sold to the company that also owned New World Pictures, although Corman himself had nothing to do with the deal itself. The owners of New World were hoping to merge the Marvel comic book characters with the studio's television and motion picture department, to create a sort of shared universe. But since so many of the better known characters like Spider-Man and Captain America had their movie and television rights sold off to the competition, it didn't seem like that was going to happen anytime soon, but again, I'm getting ahead of myself. So for now, we're going to settle on May 1st, 1985. Cannon Films, who loved to spend money to make money, made a big statement in the pages of the industry trade publication Variety, when they bought nine full pages of advertising in the Cannes Market preview issue to announce that buyers around the world needed to get ready, because he was coming. Spider-Man. A live-action motion picture event, to be directed by Tobe Hooper, whose last movie, Poltergeist, re-ignited his directing career, that would be arriving in theatres for Christmas 1986. Cannon had made a name for themselves making cheapie teen comedies in their native Israel in the 1970s, and then brought that formula to America with films like The Last American Virgin, a remake of the first Lemon Popsicle movie that made them a success back home. Cannon would swerve into cheapie action movies with fallen stars like Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and would prop up a new action star in Chuck Norris, as well as cheapie trend-chasing movies like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. They had seen enough success in America where they could start spending even bigger, and Spider-Man was supposed to be their first big splash into the superhero movie genre. With that, they would hire Leslie Stevens, the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits, to write the screenplay. There was just one small problem. Neither Stevens nor Cannon head honcho Menachem Golan understood the Spider-Man character. Golan thought Spider-Man was a half-spider/half-man creature, not unlike The Wolf Man, and instructed Stevens to follow that concept. Stevens' script would not really borrow from any of the comics' twenty plus year history. Peter Parker, who in this story is a twenty-something ID photographer for a corporation that probably would have been Oscorp if it were written by anyone else who had at least some familiarity with the comics, who becomes intentionally bombarded with gamma radiation by one of the scientists in one of the laboratories, turning Bruce Banner… I mean, Peter Parker, into a hairy eight-armed… yes, eight armed… hybrid human/spider monster. At first suicidal, Bruce… I mean, Peter, refuses to join forces with the scientist's other master race of mutants, forcing Peter to battle these other mutants in a basement lab to the death. To say Stan Lee hated it would be an understatement. Lee schooled Golan and Golan's partner at Cannon, cousin Yoram Globus, on what Spider-Man was supposed to be, demanded a new screenplay. Wanting to keep the head of Marvel Comics happy, because they had big plans not only for Spider-Man but a number of other Marvel characters, they would hire the screenwriting team of Ted Newsom and John Brancato, who had written a screenplay adaptation for Lee of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, to come up with a new script for Spider-Man. Newsom and Brancato would write an origin story, featuring a teenage Peter Parker who must deal with his newfound powers while trying to maintain a regular high school existence, while going up against an evil scientist, Otto Octavius. But we'll come back to that later. In that same May 1985 issue of Variety, amongst dozens of pages of ads for movies both completed and in development, including three other movies from Tobe Hooper, was a one-page ad for Captain America. No director or actor was attached to the project yet, but comic book writer James L. Silke, who had written the scripts for four other Cannon movies in the previous two years, was listed as the screenwriter. By October 1985, Cannon was again trying to pre-sell foreign rights to make a Spider-Man movie, this time at the MIFED Film Market in Milan, Italy. Gone were Leslie Stevens and Tobe Hooper. Newsom and Brancato were the new credited writers, and Joseph Tito, the director of the Chuck Norris/Cannon movies Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A., was the new director. In a two-page ad for Captain America, the film would acquire a new director in Michael Winner, the director of the first three Death Wish movies. And the pattern would continue every few months, from Cannes to MIFED to the American Film Market, and back to Cannes. A new writer would be attached. A new director. A new release date. By October 1987, after the twin failures of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe, Cannon had all but given up on a Captain America movie, and downshifted the budget on their proposed Spider-Man movie. Albert Pyun, whose ability to make any movie in any genre look far better than its budget should have allowed, was brought in to be the director of Spider-Man, from a new script written by Shepard Goldman. Who? Shepard Goldman, whose one and only credit on any motion picture was as one of three screenwriters on the 1988 Cannon movie Salsa. Don't remember Salsa? That's okay. Neither does anyone else. But we'll talk a lot more about Cannon Films down the road, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cannon Films, although I will leave you with two related tidbits… Do you remember the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg? Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk martial-arts action film where JCVD and everyone else in the movie have names like Gibson Rickenbacker, Fender Tremolo, Marshall Strat and Pearl Prophet for no damn good reason? Stupid movie, lots of fun. Anyway, Albert Pyun was supposed to shoot two movies back to back for Cannon Films in 1988, a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and Spider-Man. To save money, both movies would use many of the same sets and costumes, and Cannon had spent more than $2m building the sets and costumes at the old Dino DeLaurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where David Lynch had shot Blue Velvet. But then Cannon ran into some cash flow issues, and lost the rights to both the He-Man toy line from Mattel and the Spider-Man characters they had licensed from Marvel. But ever the astute businessman, Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan offered Pyun $500,000 to shoot any movie he wanted using the costumes and sets already created and paid for, provided Pyun could come up with a movie idea in a week. Pyun wrote the script to Cyborg in five days, and outside of some on-set alterations, that first draft would be the shooting script. The film would open in theatres in April 1989, and gross more than $10m in the United States alone. A few months later, Golan would gone from Cannon Films. As part of his severance package, he would take one of the company's acquisitions, 21st Century Films, with him, as well as several projects, including Captain America. Albert Pyun never got to make his Spider-Man movie, but he would go into production on his Captain America in August 1989. But since the movie didn't get released in any form until it came out direct to video and cable in 1992, I'll leave it to podcasts devoted to 90s movies to tell you more about it. I've seen it. It's super easy to find on YouTube. It really sucks, although not as much as that 1994 version of The Fantastic Four that still hasn't been officially released nearly thirty years later. There would also be attempts throughout the decade to make movies from the aforementioned Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man, from companies like New Line, 20th Century-Fox and Universal, but none of those would ever come to fruition in the 1980s. But the one that would stick? Of the more than 1,000 characters that had been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics over the course of forty years? The one that would become the star of the first ever theatrically released motion picture based on a Marvel character? Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck was not your average Marvel superhero. Howard the Duck wasn't even a superhero. He was just some wise crackin', ill-tempered, anthropomorphic water fowl that was abducted away from his home on Duckworld and forced against his will to live with humans on Earth. Or, more specifically, first with the dirty humans of the Florida Everglades, and then Cleveland, and finally New York City. Howard the Duck was metafiction and existentialist when neither of these things were in the zeitgeist. He smoked cigars, wore a suit and tie, and enjoy drinking a variety of libations and getting it on with the women, mostly his sometimes girlfriend Beverly. The perfect character to be the subject of the very first Marvel movie. A PG-rated movie. Enter George Lucas. In 1973, George Lucas had hit it big with his second film as a director, American Graffiti. Lucas had written the screenplay, based in part on his life as an eighteen year old car enthusiast about to graduate high school, with the help of a friend from his days at USC Film School, Willard Huyck, and Huyck's wife, Gloria Katz. Lucas wanted to show his appreciation for their help by producing a movie for them. Although there are variations to the story of how this came about, most sources say it was Huyck who would tell Lucas about this new comic book character, Howard the Duck, who piqued his classmate's interest by describing the comic as having elements of film noir and absurdism. Because Universal dragged their feet on American Graffiti, not promoting it as well as they could have upon its initial release and only embracing the film when the public embraced its retro soundtrack, Lucas was not too keen on working with Universal again on his next project, a sci-fi movie he was calling The Journal of the Whills. And while they saw some potential in what they considered to be some minor kiddie movie, they didn't think Lucas could pull it off the way he was describing it for the budget he was asking for. “What else you got, kid?” they'd ask. Lucas had Huyck and Katz, and an idea for a live-action comic book movie about a talking duck. Surprisingly, Universal did not slam the door shut in Lucas's face. They actually went for the idea, and worked with Lucas, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics and Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, to put a deal together to make it happen. Almost right away, Gerber and the screenwriters, Huyck and Katz, would butt heads on practically every aspect of the movie's storyline. Katz just thought it was some funny story about a duck from outer space and his wacky adventures on Earth, Gerber was adamant that Howard the Duck was an existential joke, that the difference between life's most serious moments and its most incredibly dumb moments were only distinguishable by a moment's point of view. Huyck wanted to make a big special effects movie, while Katz thought it would be fun to set the story in Hawaii so she and her husband could have some fun while shooting there. The writers would spend years on their script, removing most everything that made the Howard the Duck comic book so enjoyable to its readers. Howard and his story would be played completely straight in the movie, leaning on subtle gags not unlike a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, instead of embracing the surreal ridiculousness of the comics. They would write humongous effects-heavy set pieces, knowing they would have access to their producer's in-house special effects team, Industrial Light and Magic, instead of the comics' more cerebral endings. And they'd tone down the more risqué aspects of Howard's personality, figuring a more family-friendly movie would bring in more money at the box office. It would take nearly twelve years for all the pieces to fall into place for Howard the Duck to begin filming. But in the spring of 1985, Universal finally gave the green light for Lucas and his tea to finally make the first live-action feature film based on a Marvel Comics character. For Beverly, the filmmakers claimed to have looked at every young actress in Hollywood before deciding on twenty-four year old Lea Thompson, who after years of supporting roles in movies like Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves and Red Dawn, had found success playing Michael J. Fox's mother in Back to the Future. Twenty-six year old Tim Robbins had only made two movies up to this point, at one of the frat boys in Fraternity Vacation and as one of the fighter pilots in Top Gun, and this was his first chance to play a leading role in a major motion picture. And Jeffrey Jones would be cast as the bad guy, the Dark Overlord, based upon his work in the 1984 Best Picture winner Amadeus, although he would be coming to the set of Howard the Duck straight off of working on a John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Howard the Duck would begin shooting on the Universal Studios lot of November 11th, 1985, and on the very first day of production, the duck puppet being used to film would have a major mechanical failure, not unlike the mechanical failure of the shark in Jaws that would force Steven Spielberg to become more creative with how he shot that character. George Lucas, who would be a hands-on producer, would suggest that maybe they could shoot other scenes not involving the duck, while his crew at ILM created a fully functional, life-sized animatronic duck costume for a little actor to wear on set. At first, the lead actor in the duck suit was a twelve-year old boy, but within days of his start on the film, he would develop a severe case of claustrophobia inside the costume. Ed Gale, originally hired to be the stuntman in the duck costume, would quickly take over the role. Since Gale could work longer hours than the child, due to the very restrictive laws surrounding child actors on movie and television sets, this would help keep the movie on a good production schedule, and make shooting the questionable love scenes between Howard and Beverly easier for Ms. Thompson, who was creeped out at the thought of seducing a pre-teen for a scene. To keep the shoot on schedule, not only would the filmmakers employ a second shooting unit to shoot the scenes not involving the main actors, which is standard operating procedure on most movies, Lucas would supervise a third shooting unit that would shoot Robbins and Gale in one of the film's more climactic moments, when Howard and Phil are trying to escape being captured by the authorities by flying off on an ultralight plane. Most of this sequence would be shot in the town of Petaluma, California, on the same streets where Lucas had shot American Graffiti's iconic cruising scenes thirteen years earlier. After a month-long shoot of the film's climax at a naval station in San Francisco, the film would end production on March 26th, 1986, leaving the $36m film barely four months to be put together in order to make its already set in stone August 1st, 1986, release date. Being used to quick turnaround times, the effects teams working on the film would get all their shots completed with time to spare, not only because they were good at their jobs but they had the ability to start work before the film went into production. For the end sequence, when Jones' character had fully transformed into the Dark Overlord, master stop motion animator Phil Tippett, who had left ILM in 1984 to start his own effects studio specializing in that style of animation, had nearly a year to put together what would ultimately be less than two minutes of actual screen time. As Beverly was a musician, Lucas would hire English musician and composer Thomas Dolby, whose 1982 single She Blinded Me With Science became a global smash hit, to write the songs for Cherry Bomb, the all-girl rock group lead by Lea Thompson's Beverly. Playing KC, the keyboardist for Cherry Bomb, Holly Robinson would book her first major acting role. For the music, Dolby would collaborate with Allee Willis, the co-writer of Earth Wind and Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, and funk legend George Clinton. But despite this powerhouse musical trio, the songs for the band were not very good, and, with all due respect to Lea Thompson, not very well sung. By August 1986, Universal Studios needed a hit. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in March with Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa, the first six films they released for the year were all disappointments at the box office and/or with the critics. The Best of Times, a comedy featuring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends who try to recreate a high school football game which changed the direction of both their lives. Despite a script written by Ron Shelton, who would be nominated for an Oscar for his next screenplay, Bull Durham, and Robin Williams, the $12m film would gross less than $8m. The Money Pit, a comedy with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, would end up grossing $37m against a $10m budget, but the movie was so bad, its first appearance on DVD wouldn't come until 2011, and only as part of a Tom Hanks Comedy Favorites Collection along with The ‘Burbs and Dragnet. Legend, a dark fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to be one of the biggest hits… of 1985. But Scott and the studio would fight over the film, with the director wanting them to release a two hour and five minute long version with a classical movie score by Jerry Goldsmith, while the studio eventually cut the film down an hour and twenty-nine minutes with a techno score by Tangerine Dream. Despite an amazing makeup job transforming Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness as well as sumptuous costumes and cinematography, the $24.5m film would just miss recouping its production budget back in ticket sales. Tom Cruise would become a superstar not three weeks later, when Paramount Pictures released Top Gun, directed by Ridley's little brother Tony Scott. Sweet Liberty should have been a solid performer for the studio. Alan Alda, in his first movie since the end of MASH three years earlier, would write, direct and star in this comedy about a college history professor who must watch in disbelief as a Hollywood production comes to his small town to film the movie version of one of the books. The movie, which also starred Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfieffer and screen legend Lillian Gish, would get lost in the shuffle of other comedies that were already playing in theatres like Ferris Bueller and Short Circuit. Legal Eagles was the movie to beat for the summer of 1986… at least on paper. Ivan Reitman's follow-up film to Ghostbusters would feature a cast that included Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah, along with Brian Denny, Terence Stamp, and Brian Doyle-Murray, and was perhaps too much movie, being a legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller. Phew. If I were to do an episode about agency packaging in the 1980s, the process when a talent agency like Creative Artists Agency, or CAA, put two or more of their clients together in a project not because it might be best for the movie but best for the agency that will collect a 10% commission from each client attached to the project, Legal Eagles would be the example of packaging gone too far. Ivan Reitman was a client of CAA. As were Redford, and Winger, and Hannah. As was Bill Murray, who was originally cast in the Redford role. As were Jim Cash and Jack Epps, the screenwriters for the film. As was Tom Mankewicz, the co-writer of Superman and three Bond films, who was brought in to rewrite the script when Murray left and Redford came in. As was Frank Price, the chairman of Universal Pictures when the project was put together. All told, CAA would book more than $1.5m in commissions for themselves from all their clients working on the film. And it sucked. Despite the fact that it had almost no special effects, Legal Eagles would cost $40m to produce, one of the most expensive movies ever made to that point, nearly one and a half times the cost of Ghostbusters. The film would gross nearly $50m in the US, which would make it only the 14th highest grossing film of the year. Less than Stand By Me. Less than The Color of Money. Less than Down and Out in Beverly Hills. And then there was Psycho III, the Anthony Perkins-directed slasher film that brought good old Norman Bates out of mothballs once again. An almost direct follow-up to Psycho II from 1983, the film neither embraced by horror film fans or critics, the film would only open in eighth place, despite the fact there hadn't been a horror movie in theatres for months, and its $14m gross would kill off any chance for a Psycho IV in theatres. In late June, Universal would hold a series of test screenings for Howard the Duck. Depending on who you talk to, the test screenings either went really well, or went so bad that one of the writers would tear up negative response cards before they could be given to the score compilers, to goose the numbers up, pun only somewhat intended. I tend to believe the latter story, as it was fairly well reported at the time that the test screenings went so bad, Sid Sheinberg, the CEO of Universal, and Frank Price, the President of the studio, got into a fist fight in the lobby of one of the theatres running one of the test screenings, over who was to blame for this impending debacle. And a debacle it was. But just how bad? So bad, copywriters from across the nation reveled in giddy glee over the chances to have a headline that read “‘Howard the Duck' Lays an Egg!” And it did. Well, sort of. When it opened in 1554 theatres on August 1st, the film would gross $5.07m, the second best opener of the weekend, behind the sixth Friday the 13th entry, and above other new movies like the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason dramedy Nothing in Common and the cult film in the making Flight of the Navigator. And $5m in 1986 was a fairly decent if unspectacular opening weekend gross. The Fly was considered a massive success when it opened to $7m just two weeks later. Short Circuit, which had opened to $5.3m in May, was also lauded as being a hit right out of the gate. And the reviews were pretty lousy. Gene Siskel gave the film only one star, calling it a stupid film with an unlikeable lead in the duck and special effects that were less impressive than a sparkler shoved into a birthday cake. Both Siskel and Ebert would give it the dreaded two thumbs down on their show. Leonard Maltin called the film hopeless. Today, the film only has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 81 reviews. But despite the shellacking the film took, it wouldn't be all bad for several of the people involved in the making of the film. Lea Thompson was so worried her career might be over after the opening weekend of the film, she accepted a role in the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful that she had turned down multiple times before. As I stated in our March 2021 episode about that movie, it's my favorite of all John Hughes movies, and it would lead to a happy ending for Thompson as well. Although the film was not a massive success, Thompson and the film's director, Howard Deutch, would fall in love during the making of the film. They would marry in 1989, have two daughters together, and as of the writing of this episode, they are still happily married. For Tim Robbins, it showed filmmakers that he could handle a leading role in a movie. Within two years, he would be starring alongside Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, and he career would soar for the next three decades. And for Ed Gale, his being able to act while in a full-body duck suit would lead him to be cast to play Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies as well as Bride of Chucky. Years later, Entertainment Weekly would name Howard the Duck as the biggest pop culture failure of all time, ahead of such turkeys as NBC's wonderfully ridiculous 1979 show Supertrain, the infamous 1980 Western Heaven's Gate, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman's Ishtar, and the truly wretched 1978 Bee Gees movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But Howard the Duck, the character, not the movie, would enjoy a renaissance in 2014, when James Gunn included a CG-animated version of the character in the post-credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy. The character would show up again in the Disney animated Guardians television series, and in the 2021 Disney+ anthology series Marvel's What If… There technically would be one other 1980s movie based on a Marvel character, Mark Goldblatt's version of The Punisher, featuring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle. Shot in Australia in 1988, the film was supposed to be released by New World Pictures in August of 1989. The company even sent out trailers to theatres that summer to help build awareness for the film, but New World's continued financial issues would put the film on hold until April 1991, when it was released directly to video by Live Entertainment. It wouldn't be until the 1998 release of Blade, featuring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire, that movies based on Marvel Comics characters would finally be accepted by movie-going audiences. That would soon be followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, the success of both prompting Marvel to start putting together the team that would eventually give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe we all know and love today. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 102, the first of two episodes about the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures, is released. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Howard the Duck, and the other movies, both existing and non-existent, we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the undisputed king of intellectual property in the entertainment industry. As of February 9th, 2023, the day I record this episode, there have been thirty full length motion pictures part of the MCU in the past fifteen years, with a combined global ticket sales of $28 billion, as well as twenty television shows that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a entertainment juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon. This comes as a total shock to many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, who were witness of cheaply produced television shows featuring hokey special effects and a roster of has-beens and never weres in the cast. Superman was the king of superheroes at the movies, in large part because, believe it or not, there hadn't even been a movie based on a Marvel Comics character released into theatres until the summer of 1986. But not for lack of trying. And that's what we're going to talk about today. A brief history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 1980s. But first, as always, some backstory. Now, I am not approaching this as a comic fan. When I was growing up in the 80s, I collected comics, but my collection was limited to Marvel's Star Wars series, Marvel's ROM The SpaceKnight, and Marvel's two-issue Blade Runner comic adaptation in 1982. So I apologize to Marvel comics fans if I relay some of this information incorrectly. I have tried to do my due diligence when it comes to my research. Marvel Comics got its start as Timely Comics back in 1939. On August 31, 1939, Timely would release its first comic, titled Marvel Comics, which would feature a number of short stories featuring versions of characters that would become long-running staples of the eventual publishing house that would bear the comic's name, including The Angel, a version of The Human Torch who was actually an android hero, and Namor the Submariner, who was originally created for a unpublished comic that was supposed to be given to kids when they attended their local movie theatre during a Saturday matinee. That comic issue would quickly sell out its initial 80,000 print run, as well as its second run, which would put another 800,000 copies out to the marketplace. The Vision would be another character introduced on the pages of Marvel Comics, in November 1940. In December 1940, Timely would introduce their next big character, Captain America, who would find instant success thanks to its front cover depicting Cap punching Adolph Hitler square in the jaw, proving that Americans have loved seeing Nazis get punched in the face even a year before our country entered the World War II conflict. But there would be other popular characters created during this timeframe, including Black Widow, The Falcon, and The Invisible Man. In 1941, Timely Comics would lose two of its best collaborators, artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to rival company Detective Comics, and Timely owner Martin Goodman would promote one of his cousins, by marriage to his wife Jean no less, to become the interim editor of Timely Comics. A nineteen year old kid named Stanley Lieber, who would shorten his name to Stan Lee. In 1951, Timely Comics would be rebranded at Atlas Comics, and would expand past superhero titles to include tales of crime, drama, espionage, horror, science fiction, war, western, and even romance comics. Eventually, in 1961, Atlas Comics would rebrand once again as Marvel Comics, and would find great success by changing the focus of their stories from being aimed towards younger readers and towards a more sophisticated audience. It would be November 1961 when Marvel would introduce their first superhero team, The Fantastic Four, as well as a number of their most beloved characters including Black Panther, Carol Danvers, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Thor, as well as Professor X and many of the X-Men. And as would be expected, Hollywood would come knocking. Warner Brothers would be in the best position to make comic book movies, as both they and DC Comics were owned by the same company beginning in 1969. But for Marvel, they would not be able to enjoy that kind of symbiotic relationship. Regularly strapped for cash, Stan Lee would often sell movie and television rights to a variety of Marvel characters to whomever came calling. First, Marvel would team with a variety of producers to create a series of animated television shows, starting with The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966, two different series based on The Fantastic Four, and both Spider-Man and Spider-Woman series. But movies were a different matter. The rights to make a Spider-Man television show, for example, was sold off to a production company called Danchuck, who teamed with CBS-TV to start airing the show in September of 1977, but Danchuck was able to find a loophole in their contract that allowed them to release the two-hour pilot episode as a movie outside of the United States, which complicated the movie rights Marvel had already sold to another company. Because the “movie” was a success around the world, CBS and Danchuck would release two more Spider-Man “movies” in 1978 and 1981. Eventually, the company that owned the Spider-Man movie rights to sell them to another company in the early 1980s, the legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, New World Pictures, founded and operated by the legendary independent B-movie producer and director Roger Corman. But shortly after Corman acquired the film rights to Spider-Man, he went and almost immediately sold them to another legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, Cannon Films. Side note: Shortly after Corman sold the movie rights to Spider-Man to Cannon, Marvel Entertainment was sold to the company that also owned New World Pictures, although Corman himself had nothing to do with the deal itself. The owners of New World were hoping to merge the Marvel comic book characters with the studio's television and motion picture department, to create a sort of shared universe. But since so many of the better known characters like Spider-Man and Captain America had their movie and television rights sold off to the competition, it didn't seem like that was going to happen anytime soon, but again, I'm getting ahead of myself. So for now, we're going to settle on May 1st, 1985. Cannon Films, who loved to spend money to make money, made a big statement in the pages of the industry trade publication Variety, when they bought nine full pages of advertising in the Cannes Market preview issue to announce that buyers around the world needed to get ready, because he was coming. Spider-Man. A live-action motion picture event, to be directed by Tobe Hooper, whose last movie, Poltergeist, re-ignited his directing career, that would be arriving in theatres for Christmas 1986. Cannon had made a name for themselves making cheapie teen comedies in their native Israel in the 1970s, and then brought that formula to America with films like The Last American Virgin, a remake of the first Lemon Popsicle movie that made them a success back home. Cannon would swerve into cheapie action movies with fallen stars like Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and would prop up a new action star in Chuck Norris, as well as cheapie trend-chasing movies like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. They had seen enough success in America where they could start spending even bigger, and Spider-Man was supposed to be their first big splash into the superhero movie genre. With that, they would hire Leslie Stevens, the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits, to write the screenplay. There was just one small problem. Neither Stevens nor Cannon head honcho Menachem Golan understood the Spider-Man character. Golan thought Spider-Man was a half-spider/half-man creature, not unlike The Wolf Man, and instructed Stevens to follow that concept. Stevens' script would not really borrow from any of the comics' twenty plus year history. Peter Parker, who in this story is a twenty-something ID photographer for a corporation that probably would have been Oscorp if it were written by anyone else who had at least some familiarity with the comics, who becomes intentionally bombarded with gamma radiation by one of the scientists in one of the laboratories, turning Bruce Banner… I mean, Peter Parker, into a hairy eight-armed… yes, eight armed… hybrid human/spider monster. At first suicidal, Bruce… I mean, Peter, refuses to join forces with the scientist's other master race of mutants, forcing Peter to battle these other mutants in a basement lab to the death. To say Stan Lee hated it would be an understatement. Lee schooled Golan and Golan's partner at Cannon, cousin Yoram Globus, on what Spider-Man was supposed to be, demanded a new screenplay. Wanting to keep the head of Marvel Comics happy, because they had big plans not only for Spider-Man but a number of other Marvel characters, they would hire the screenwriting team of Ted Newsom and John Brancato, who had written a screenplay adaptation for Lee of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, to come up with a new script for Spider-Man. Newsom and Brancato would write an origin story, featuring a teenage Peter Parker who must deal with his newfound powers while trying to maintain a regular high school existence, while going up against an evil scientist, Otto Octavius. But we'll come back to that later. In that same May 1985 issue of Variety, amongst dozens of pages of ads for movies both completed and in development, including three other movies from Tobe Hooper, was a one-page ad for Captain America. No director or actor was attached to the project yet, but comic book writer James L. Silke, who had written the scripts for four other Cannon movies in the previous two years, was listed as the screenwriter. By October 1985, Cannon was again trying to pre-sell foreign rights to make a Spider-Man movie, this time at the MIFED Film Market in Milan, Italy. Gone were Leslie Stevens and Tobe Hooper. Newsom and Brancato were the new credited writers, and Joseph Tito, the director of the Chuck Norris/Cannon movies Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A., was the new director. In a two-page ad for Captain America, the film would acquire a new director in Michael Winner, the director of the first three Death Wish movies. And the pattern would continue every few months, from Cannes to MIFED to the American Film Market, and back to Cannes. A new writer would be attached. A new director. A new release date. By October 1987, after the twin failures of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe, Cannon had all but given up on a Captain America movie, and downshifted the budget on their proposed Spider-Man movie. Albert Pyun, whose ability to make any movie in any genre look far better than its budget should have allowed, was brought in to be the director of Spider-Man, from a new script written by Shepard Goldman. Who? Shepard Goldman, whose one and only credit on any motion picture was as one of three screenwriters on the 1988 Cannon movie Salsa. Don't remember Salsa? That's okay. Neither does anyone else. But we'll talk a lot more about Cannon Films down the road, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cannon Films, although I will leave you with two related tidbits… Do you remember the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg? Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk martial-arts action film where JCVD and everyone else in the movie have names like Gibson Rickenbacker, Fender Tremolo, Marshall Strat and Pearl Prophet for no damn good reason? Stupid movie, lots of fun. Anyway, Albert Pyun was supposed to shoot two movies back to back for Cannon Films in 1988, a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and Spider-Man. To save money, both movies would use many of the same sets and costumes, and Cannon had spent more than $2m building the sets and costumes at the old Dino DeLaurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where David Lynch had shot Blue Velvet. But then Cannon ran into some cash flow issues, and lost the rights to both the He-Man toy line from Mattel and the Spider-Man characters they had licensed from Marvel. But ever the astute businessman, Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan offered Pyun $500,000 to shoot any movie he wanted using the costumes and sets already created and paid for, provided Pyun could come up with a movie idea in a week. Pyun wrote the script to Cyborg in five days, and outside of some on-set alterations, that first draft would be the shooting script. The film would open in theatres in April 1989, and gross more than $10m in the United States alone. A few months later, Golan would gone from Cannon Films. As part of his severance package, he would take one of the company's acquisitions, 21st Century Films, with him, as well as several projects, including Captain America. Albert Pyun never got to make his Spider-Man movie, but he would go into production on his Captain America in August 1989. But since the movie didn't get released in any form until it came out direct to video and cable in 1992, I'll leave it to podcasts devoted to 90s movies to tell you more about it. I've seen it. It's super easy to find on YouTube. It really sucks, although not as much as that 1994 version of The Fantastic Four that still hasn't been officially released nearly thirty years later. There would also be attempts throughout the decade to make movies from the aforementioned Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man, from companies like New Line, 20th Century-Fox and Universal, but none of those would ever come to fruition in the 1980s. But the one that would stick? Of the more than 1,000 characters that had been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics over the course of forty years? The one that would become the star of the first ever theatrically released motion picture based on a Marvel character? Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck was not your average Marvel superhero. Howard the Duck wasn't even a superhero. He was just some wise crackin', ill-tempered, anthropomorphic water fowl that was abducted away from his home on Duckworld and forced against his will to live with humans on Earth. Or, more specifically, first with the dirty humans of the Florida Everglades, and then Cleveland, and finally New York City. Howard the Duck was metafiction and existentialist when neither of these things were in the zeitgeist. He smoked cigars, wore a suit and tie, and enjoy drinking a variety of libations and getting it on with the women, mostly his sometimes girlfriend Beverly. The perfect character to be the subject of the very first Marvel movie. A PG-rated movie. Enter George Lucas. In 1973, George Lucas had hit it big with his second film as a director, American Graffiti. Lucas had written the screenplay, based in part on his life as an eighteen year old car enthusiast about to graduate high school, with the help of a friend from his days at USC Film School, Willard Huyck, and Huyck's wife, Gloria Katz. Lucas wanted to show his appreciation for their help by producing a movie for them. Although there are variations to the story of how this came about, most sources say it was Huyck who would tell Lucas about this new comic book character, Howard the Duck, who piqued his classmate's interest by describing the comic as having elements of film noir and absurdism. Because Universal dragged their feet on American Graffiti, not promoting it as well as they could have upon its initial release and only embracing the film when the public embraced its retro soundtrack, Lucas was not too keen on working with Universal again on his next project, a sci-fi movie he was calling The Journal of the Whills. And while they saw some potential in what they considered to be some minor kiddie movie, they didn't think Lucas could pull it off the way he was describing it for the budget he was asking for. “What else you got, kid?” they'd ask. Lucas had Huyck and Katz, and an idea for a live-action comic book movie about a talking duck. Surprisingly, Universal did not slam the door shut in Lucas's face. They actually went for the idea, and worked with Lucas, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics and Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, to put a deal together to make it happen. Almost right away, Gerber and the screenwriters, Huyck and Katz, would butt heads on practically every aspect of the movie's storyline. Katz just thought it was some funny story about a duck from outer space and his wacky adventures on Earth, Gerber was adamant that Howard the Duck was an existential joke, that the difference between life's most serious moments and its most incredibly dumb moments were only distinguishable by a moment's point of view. Huyck wanted to make a big special effects movie, while Katz thought it would be fun to set the story in Hawaii so she and her husband could have some fun while shooting there. The writers would spend years on their script, removing most everything that made the Howard the Duck comic book so enjoyable to its readers. Howard and his story would be played completely straight in the movie, leaning on subtle gags not unlike a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, instead of embracing the surreal ridiculousness of the comics. They would write humongous effects-heavy set pieces, knowing they would have access to their producer's in-house special effects team, Industrial Light and Magic, instead of the comics' more cerebral endings. And they'd tone down the more risqué aspects of Howard's personality, figuring a more family-friendly movie would bring in more money at the box office. It would take nearly twelve years for all the pieces to fall into place for Howard the Duck to begin filming. But in the spring of 1985, Universal finally gave the green light for Lucas and his tea to finally make the first live-action feature film based on a Marvel Comics character. For Beverly, the filmmakers claimed to have looked at every young actress in Hollywood before deciding on twenty-four year old Lea Thompson, who after years of supporting roles in movies like Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves and Red Dawn, had found success playing Michael J. Fox's mother in Back to the Future. Twenty-six year old Tim Robbins had only made two movies up to this point, at one of the frat boys in Fraternity Vacation and as one of the fighter pilots in Top Gun, and this was his first chance to play a leading role in a major motion picture. And Jeffrey Jones would be cast as the bad guy, the Dark Overlord, based upon his work in the 1984 Best Picture winner Amadeus, although he would be coming to the set of Howard the Duck straight off of working on a John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Howard the Duck would begin shooting on the Universal Studios lot of November 11th, 1985, and on the very first day of production, the duck puppet being used to film would have a major mechanical failure, not unlike the mechanical failure of the shark in Jaws that would force Steven Spielberg to become more creative with how he shot that character. George Lucas, who would be a hands-on producer, would suggest that maybe they could shoot other scenes not involving the duck, while his crew at ILM created a fully functional, life-sized animatronic duck costume for a little actor to wear on set. At first, the lead actor in the duck suit was a twelve-year old boy, but within days of his start on the film, he would develop a severe case of claustrophobia inside the costume. Ed Gale, originally hired to be the stuntman in the duck costume, would quickly take over the role. Since Gale could work longer hours than the child, due to the very restrictive laws surrounding child actors on movie and television sets, this would help keep the movie on a good production schedule, and make shooting the questionable love scenes between Howard and Beverly easier for Ms. Thompson, who was creeped out at the thought of seducing a pre-teen for a scene. To keep the shoot on schedule, not only would the filmmakers employ a second shooting unit to shoot the scenes not involving the main actors, which is standard operating procedure on most movies, Lucas would supervise a third shooting unit that would shoot Robbins and Gale in one of the film's more climactic moments, when Howard and Phil are trying to escape being captured by the authorities by flying off on an ultralight plane. Most of this sequence would be shot in the town of Petaluma, California, on the same streets where Lucas had shot American Graffiti's iconic cruising scenes thirteen years earlier. After a month-long shoot of the film's climax at a naval station in San Francisco, the film would end production on March 26th, 1986, leaving the $36m film barely four months to be put together in order to make its already set in stone August 1st, 1986, release date. Being used to quick turnaround times, the effects teams working on the film would get all their shots completed with time to spare, not only because they were good at their jobs but they had the ability to start work before the film went into production. For the end sequence, when Jones' character had fully transformed into the Dark Overlord, master stop motion animator Phil Tippett, who had left ILM in 1984 to start his own effects studio specializing in that style of animation, had nearly a year to put together what would ultimately be less than two minutes of actual screen time. As Beverly was a musician, Lucas would hire English musician and composer Thomas Dolby, whose 1982 single She Blinded Me With Science became a global smash hit, to write the songs for Cherry Bomb, the all-girl rock group lead by Lea Thompson's Beverly. Playing KC, the keyboardist for Cherry Bomb, Holly Robinson would book her first major acting role. For the music, Dolby would collaborate with Allee Willis, the co-writer of Earth Wind and Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, and funk legend George Clinton. But despite this powerhouse musical trio, the songs for the band were not very good, and, with all due respect to Lea Thompson, not very well sung. By August 1986, Universal Studios needed a hit. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in March with Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa, the first six films they released for the year were all disappointments at the box office and/or with the critics. The Best of Times, a comedy featuring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends who try to recreate a high school football game which changed the direction of both their lives. Despite a script written by Ron Shelton, who would be nominated for an Oscar for his next screenplay, Bull Durham, and Robin Williams, the $12m film would gross less than $8m. The Money Pit, a comedy with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, would end up grossing $37m against a $10m budget, but the movie was so bad, its first appearance on DVD wouldn't come until 2011, and only as part of a Tom Hanks Comedy Favorites Collection along with The ‘Burbs and Dragnet. Legend, a dark fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to be one of the biggest hits… of 1985. But Scott and the studio would fight over the film, with the director wanting them to release a two hour and five minute long version with a classical movie score by Jerry Goldsmith, while the studio eventually cut the film down an hour and twenty-nine minutes with a techno score by Tangerine Dream. Despite an amazing makeup job transforming Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness as well as sumptuous costumes and cinematography, the $24.5m film would just miss recouping its production budget back in ticket sales. Tom Cruise would become a superstar not three weeks later, when Paramount Pictures released Top Gun, directed by Ridley's little brother Tony Scott. Sweet Liberty should have been a solid performer for the studio. Alan Alda, in his first movie since the end of MASH three years earlier, would write, direct and star in this comedy about a college history professor who must watch in disbelief as a Hollywood production comes to his small town to film the movie version of one of the books. The movie, which also starred Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfieffer and screen legend Lillian Gish, would get lost in the shuffle of other comedies that were already playing in theatres like Ferris Bueller and Short Circuit. Legal Eagles was the movie to beat for the summer of 1986… at least on paper. Ivan Reitman's follow-up film to Ghostbusters would feature a cast that included Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah, along with Brian Denny, Terence Stamp, and Brian Doyle-Murray, and was perhaps too much movie, being a legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller. Phew. If I were to do an episode about agency packaging in the 1980s, the process when a talent agency like Creative Artists Agency, or CAA, put two or more of their clients together in a project not because it might be best for the movie but best for the agency that will collect a 10% commission from each client attached to the project, Legal Eagles would be the example of packaging gone too far. Ivan Reitman was a client of CAA. As were Redford, and Winger, and Hannah. As was Bill Murray, who was originally cast in the Redford role. As were Jim Cash and Jack Epps, the screenwriters for the film. As was Tom Mankewicz, the co-writer of Superman and three Bond films, who was brought in to rewrite the script when Murray left and Redford came in. As was Frank Price, the chairman of Universal Pictures when the project was put together. All told, CAA would book more than $1.5m in commissions for themselves from all their clients working on the film. And it sucked. Despite the fact that it had almost no special effects, Legal Eagles would cost $40m to produce, one of the most expensive movies ever made to that point, nearly one and a half times the cost of Ghostbusters. The film would gross nearly $50m in the US, which would make it only the 14th highest grossing film of the year. Less than Stand By Me. Less than The Color of Money. Less than Down and Out in Beverly Hills. And then there was Psycho III, the Anthony Perkins-directed slasher film that brought good old Norman Bates out of mothballs once again. An almost direct follow-up to Psycho II from 1983, the film neither embraced by horror film fans or critics, the film would only open in eighth place, despite the fact there hadn't been a horror movie in theatres for months, and its $14m gross would kill off any chance for a Psycho IV in theatres. In late June, Universal would hold a series of test screenings for Howard the Duck. Depending on who you talk to, the test screenings either went really well, or went so bad that one of the writers would tear up negative response cards before they could be given to the score compilers, to goose the numbers up, pun only somewhat intended. I tend to believe the latter story, as it was fairly well reported at the time that the test screenings went so bad, Sid Sheinberg, the CEO of Universal, and Frank Price, the President of the studio, got into a fist fight in the lobby of one of the theatres running one of the test screenings, over who was to blame for this impending debacle. And a debacle it was. But just how bad? So bad, copywriters from across the nation reveled in giddy glee over the chances to have a headline that read “‘Howard the Duck' Lays an Egg!” And it did. Well, sort of. When it opened in 1554 theatres on August 1st, the film would gross $5.07m, the second best opener of the weekend, behind the sixth Friday the 13th entry, and above other new movies like the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason dramedy Nothing in Common and the cult film in the making Flight of the Navigator. And $5m in 1986 was a fairly decent if unspectacular opening weekend gross. The Fly was considered a massive success when it opened to $7m just two weeks later. Short Circuit, which had opened to $5.3m in May, was also lauded as being a hit right out of the gate. And the reviews were pretty lousy. Gene Siskel gave the film only one star, calling it a stupid film with an unlikeable lead in the duck and special effects that were less impressive than a sparkler shoved into a birthday cake. Both Siskel and Ebert would give it the dreaded two thumbs down on their show. Leonard Maltin called the film hopeless. Today, the film only has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 81 reviews. But despite the shellacking the film took, it wouldn't be all bad for several of the people involved in the making of the film. Lea Thompson was so worried her career might be over after the opening weekend of the film, she accepted a role in the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful that she had turned down multiple times before. As I stated in our March 2021 episode about that movie, it's my favorite of all John Hughes movies, and it would lead to a happy ending for Thompson as well. Although the film was not a massive success, Thompson and the film's director, Howard Deutch, would fall in love during the making of the film. They would marry in 1989, have two daughters together, and as of the writing of this episode, they are still happily married. For Tim Robbins, it showed filmmakers that he could handle a leading role in a movie. Within two years, he would be starring alongside Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, and he career would soar for the next three decades. And for Ed Gale, his being able to act while in a full-body duck suit would lead him to be cast to play Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies as well as Bride of Chucky. Years later, Entertainment Weekly would name Howard the Duck as the biggest pop culture failure of all time, ahead of such turkeys as NBC's wonderfully ridiculous 1979 show Supertrain, the infamous 1980 Western Heaven's Gate, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman's Ishtar, and the truly wretched 1978 Bee Gees movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But Howard the Duck, the character, not the movie, would enjoy a renaissance in 2014, when James Gunn included a CG-animated version of the character in the post-credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy. The character would show up again in the Disney animated Guardians television series, and in the 2021 Disney+ anthology series Marvel's What If… There technically would be one other 1980s movie based on a Marvel character, Mark Goldblatt's version of The Punisher, featuring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle. Shot in Australia in 1988, the film was supposed to be released by New World Pictures in August of 1989. The company even sent out trailers to theatres that summer to help build awareness for the film, but New World's continued financial issues would put the film on hold until April 1991, when it was released directly to video by Live Entertainment. It wouldn't be until the 1998 release of Blade, featuring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire, that movies based on Marvel Comics characters would finally be accepted by movie-going audiences. That would soon be followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, the success of both prompting Marvel to start putting together the team that would eventually give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe we all know and love today. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 102, the first of two episodes about the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures, is released. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Howard the Duck, and the other movies, both existing and non-existent, we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
Countless world upon worlds. Worlds without end. In these galaxies every possible reality exits. And what is reality in any new world is mere fantasy in all others. Here, all is real and all is illusion. What is, what was and what will be start with this once maligned 80's flick. So travel with us to Cleve-land as we jam out to Cherry Bomb's greatest hits. But be on the look out for the DARK OVERLORD as Tim Williams and guest co-host Laramy Wells from "Moving Panels" Podcast discuss “Howard the Duck” from 1986 on this episode of the 80's Flick Flashback Podcast! There are no additional behind the scenes trivia for this this episode. Sources: Wikipedia, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Box Office Mojo https://www.eightieskids.com/13-marvelous-facts-you-never-knew-about-howard-the-duck-vidazoo/20 Send us an email or reach out to us on social media to let us know what you liked, what you loved, what we may have missed, or what 80's movie we should discuss next! You can also support the podcast by becoming a subsrciption member through "Buy Me A Coffee". Click on the following linktree link for more details and other great extensions of the podcast. https://linktr.ee/80sFlickFlashback --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/moviviews80sff/message
The trio talks about running and participating in social encounters and social situations in a tabletop RPG. They talk about the challenges and suggestions for players and GMs. Ideas are applicable to any RPG such as Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). This week's cool stuff found is a card game where you are an evil overlord. 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - Cool Stuff Found - “Aye, Dark Overlord!” - Fantasy Flight Games 12:30 - Main Topic Visit us at https://masteringtherpg.com and mail gamemaster@masteringtherpg.com for comments and questions! Twitter is @masteringtherpg
According to the internet, here's a list of the worst films made in the 1980s... Mac and Me No Holds Barred Smokey And The Bandit III Supergirl Dream A Little Dream Jaws: The Revenge She's Out Of Control The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Teen Wolf Too Superman IV: The Quest For Peace Police Academy 4, 5, and 6 And last but certainly not least, Howard The Duck! Yet despite being one of the worst films ever made, one cohost of Buzzn The Tower prays at the webbed foot altar of this film. Today on Buzzn The Tower, I will attempt to understand why Max loves Howard The Duck. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the DARK OVERLORD to my Cajun sushi restaurant, Max Sanders. And with that...
A horny duck from another planet or maybe another dimension lands in Cleveland and tries to return home with the help of his furry-loving girlfriend and some scientists. Along the way he has to battle rednecks who want to eat him and some kind of demon monster. Perhaps giving George Lucas full control of something is not the best idea. Tara loved this one as a child. Adam has some very strong feelings as well.
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She's your average heavy metal rockstar; he's a walking, talking duck. Together, they're magic, if only the Dark Overlord of the Universe would stop getting in the way! Join JD and J Dogg for a deep dive into the fowl underbelly of, er, Ohio, in this epic adventure, box office bomb and badly underrated movie, it's...Howard The Duck (1986)! Howard The Duck (1986) Copyright Marvel Entertainment, Lucasfilm and Universal Pictures. Theme song: Aries Beats- Turbo Drive. Used with kind permission. Check out his excellent music: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriesBeats
In the first hour of the Rich Zeoli Show, inflation has risen gas, food, and other products and services have grown due to worker shortage and Biden pushes clean energy instead of using natural gases that cause prices to increase. The FBI was hacked over thousands of emails that were breached by a malicious group called the Dark Overlord. Cancel culture has taken over all media propaganda. McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski is facing backlash for comments he made in a text to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This month's episode will welcome Dr. Bobby Newman and Jessica Cauchi to discuss the topic of Let's Talk About Sex. Affectionately known as the Dark Overlord of ABA, Bobby is the first author on 13 books regarding applied behavior analysis, the philosophy of behaviorism, autism spectrum disorders, and utopian literature. He has published over two dozen articles in professional journals, as well as numerous popular magazine articles, and has hosted two series of radio call-in shows. Jessica is the Director of Atlas Behaviour Consultation and a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst. She received her Master of Science degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis from St. Cloud State University in Minneapolis. She has over 18 years of experience using Applied Behaviour Analysis to teach children, teens, and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. You'll want to tune into this one!
Our Midweek Mention begins our week long delve into the world of Marvel movies.Egged on by Sidey's unrelenting claims that Howard the Duck is the best Marvel movie, Reegs picked this classic tale of girl meets duck. There are many strange moments in this PG rated film. They include but are not limited to: duck wanking, potential rape, Dark Overlord transmogrification and flying a microlite.To summarise, this movie is fucking rad.
The attack against FireEye turns out to be an even bigger problem, with countless government agencies also compromised. And Vinny Troia, CEO of Night Lion Security, joins to talk about his efforts tracking down the hacking collective known as The Dark Overlord.
Let's go back to 1986 and talk HOWARD the Duck!!!! We dive back in time to find out if this cult classic is worthy of a watch in 2020. Is it actually the worst movie ever?Rob, Jon and host Stew are joined by Timboslice to review and discuss.Our Links
Episode XXXII Drops Like A Hunter Biden Blackmail Bomb: Martin Luther King screams "Free At Last" because the Dark Overlord of Victoria has let us out of prison after ~120 days of lock up. Speaking of long roads, almost 40 years of hither and dither the long journey comes good for singer-songwriter MARK HENDRYX who dazzles us with his first solo studio album in an AMAZING exclusive interview that reveals that life is what happens to you when you try and make plans. Plus EXCLUSIVE first listen of the single ONE DAY from the upcoming album that will make you forget about the Gallagher brothers ever getting back together. Final USA Election Preview is going to be a LAWN-SLIDE. What's the worst thing that can happen to you TRICK OR TREATING on HALLOWEEN? The new Supreme of the Supreme Court. There's nothing sexier than a game of CHESS, especially when you're playing against an alluring ex-orphan who pops pills in a mother-daughter act. I am still crying from the BEST WAR MOVIE I've seen since Zero Dark 30, and I even forgive the author of the source material for working for a #fakeNewsNest... because his book and this movie is SO GOOD! Why I smell like a BLACK ORCHID when I walk on the beach. Vale Keyboard Whiz Dan 'The Man' Magoun. New ARMED DWARF honours in the best rock and roll book collection ever. Why living for free on Walt Disney's tab at the RITZ CARLTON BUCKHEAD in the 80's was amongst the best 6 month of my life. I honoured Virgil Abloh in an earlier Ep and now he's back on MY back with my big 'out of lockdown' purchase. Why President Abe Lincoln's experiment with Rohypnol in 1861 was an epic fail. #AnyaTaylor-Joy #MarielleHeller #BillCamp #ScottFrank #TheQueensGambit #TheOutpost #RodLurie #JakeTapper #CNN #OrlandoBloom #ScottEastwood #EricJohnson #PatriotsDay #TheFighter #MarkWahlberg #ChristianBale #PaulTamasy #Roxee #Harrods #TomFord #BlackOrchid #VirgilAbhol #offWhite #BlueCuracao #BidenCrimeFamily MARK HENDRYX
The Dark Overlord has picked out a monster-themed episode topic for us... Known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman, we sit down with our very own Ron Powers to discuss Bigfoot. Sam, a non-believer, Thomas, a skeptic, and Ron, a full-blown believer in bigfoot have a conversation in the underworld. Hosted by Thomas Williams and Samuel Conver
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including: The UHS ransomware attack Someone is messing with TrickBot: Did the USA release the hounds? US Treasury issues final warning on sanctioned ransomware crews Azerbaijan and Armenia going at it Fancy Bear owns US government department Nucleus Security co-founder Scott Kuffer joins the show in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about how they have discovered a LOT of enterprises are actually trying to develop in-house vulnerability management software and how that is not going well. Links to everything that we discussed are below and you can follow Patrick or Adam on Twitter if that’s your thing. Show notes A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain | WIRED German investigators treating ransomware attack as negligent homicide, reports say Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet — Krebs on Security Microsoft: Some ransomware attacks take less than 45 minutes | ZDNet US Treasury says some ransomware payments may need its express approval | ZDNet Front companies for Chinese and Iranian APTs doxxed - Risky Business Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack — Krebs on Security Alleged Iranian hackers balanced espionage with personal cybercrime, US indictment says - CyberScoop US charges Iranian hackers for breaching US satellite companies | ZDNet A China-Linked Group Repurposed Hacking Team’s Stealthy Spyware | WIRED Microsoft says Iranian hackers are exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability | ZDNet Spies hacked Azerbaijan government officials as Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalated North Korea has tried to hack 11 officials of the UN Security Council | ZDNet Federal Agency Compromised by Malicious Cyber Actor | CISA Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Likely Penetrated a US Federal Agency | WIRED Microsoft removed 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese state-sponsored hacker group | ZDNet TikTok, WeChat survive in US app stores — one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Russia wants to ban the use of secure protocols such as TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI | ZDNet Kevin Rudd: «The Dollar is One of the Things China Fears» Portland passes landmark private sector facial recognition technology ban | The Daily Swig All four of the world's largest shipping companies have now been hit by cyber-attacks | ZDNet UN maritime agency says it was hacked | ZDNet Trump officials hint at update for US maritime cybersecurity Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information to Criminals KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange hacked for $150 million | ZDNet GitHub rolls out new Code Scanning security feature to all users | ZDNet Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data | ZDNet Senator asks DHS if foreign-controlled browser extensions threaten the US | Ars Technica A security flaw in Grindr let anyone easily hijack user accounts | TechCrunch Hackers claim they can now jailbreak Apple's T2 security chip | ZDNet Critical stored XSS vulnerability in Instagram’s Spark AR Studio nets 14-year-old researcher $25,000 | The Daily Swig Mozilla shuts down Firefox Send and Firefox Notes services | ZDNet Member of 'The Dark Overlord' hacking group sentenced to five years in prison | ZDNet LinkedIn hacker Nikulin sentenced to 7 years in prison after years of legal battles John McAfee arrested in Spain, charged with tax evasion
ShadowTalk hosts Kacey, Charles, Alec and Digital Shadows CISO Rick bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: -A member of TheDarkOverlord was sentenced to multiple years in prison, APT41 members have been charged with computer crimes, and 179 cybercriminals have been arrested for pushing illicit drugs and weapons on criminal marketplaces. -Fancy Bear activity uses NATO training documents for a phishing campaign -Activision suffers a potential data breach - what we know -University Hospital targeted by ransomware attack - the team discusses the fallout Get this week’s intelligence summary at https://resources.digitalshadows.com/digitalshadows/weekly-intelligence-summary-25-september-2020 ***Resources from this week’s podcast*** Dark Overlord: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/108599/cyber-crime/the-dark-overlord-group-member-sentence.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-dark-overlord-group-member-sentence APT41: https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/16/justice-department-charges-apt41-chinese-hackers/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANj1ao-t2OsjXeOqgLz3US1ZkDpaX5RiLvv2kDHGEQV5BemCfHZcLxOmEja-NawLGOwxwCL8IwjIc5HN2Gl0gPjqYzRVUxyK8_vrC5XleANawX6KANKYzLUmnl9OSYTFtSOu6CGWx-pRNK12tKqvbvi5dsVEcQHotxktiwUv0Dta Dark Web Drug Raid: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54247529 Fancy Bear: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-hackers-use-fake-nato-training-docs-to-breach-govt-networks/ Activision Hack: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/09/21/activision-accounts-hacked-500000-call-of-duty-players-could-be-affected-report/#12ed502c7bbe University Hospital Hack: https://www.cyberscoop.com/germany-ransomware-homicide-duesseldorf-hospital/
Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 976. Im heutigen Video geht's um folgende Themen: Erster Bitcoin ETF erhält Zulassung, Rollenspiel treibt Litecoin (LTC)-Transaktionsvolumen nach oben & Dark Overlord verhaftet. 1.) Paukenschlag: Erster Bitcoin ETF erhält Zulassung https://www.btc-echo.de/paukenschlag-erster-bitcoin-etf-erhaelt-zulassung/ 2.) Rollenspiel treibt Litecoin (LTC)-Transaktionsvolumen nach oben https://blockchain-hero.com/rollenspiel-treibt-litecoin-ltc-transaktionsvolumen-nach-oben/ 3.) Bitcoin’s Dark Overlord verhaftet https://www.coinkurier.de/bitcoins-dark-overlord-verhaftet/ Telegram Kanal: https://t.me/bitcoininformant LBRY.tv: https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@bitcoininformant:e Steemit: https://steemit.com/@denniskoray HIVE: https://hive.blog/@denniskoray Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denniskoray/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/btcinformant/ Top 10 Kryptowährungen am 23.09.20 um 9:00Uhr Sonnige Grüsse Dennis "Bitcoin Informant" Koray
Cup of Cyber - September 23rd, 2020 - Russian Hackers Tied To German Death Join us for an inside view of today's Cyber News and why it matters. ————————— News ————————————- Judge sentences UK National for role in ‘Dark Overlord' Hacking Group https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/judge-sentences-uk-national-role-dark-overlord-hacking-group (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmo/pr/judge-sentences-uk-national-role-dark-overlord-hacking-group) Google Chrome Bugs Open Browsers to Attack https://threatpost.com/google-chrome-attack/159466/ (https://threatpost.com/google-chrome-attack/159466/) Call Of Duty Accounts Hacked? Activision Denies Any Compromise https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/09/21/activision-accounts-hacked-500000-call-of-duty-players-could-be-affected-report/#41f29c267bbe German Experts See Russian Link in Deadly Hospital Hacking https://www.securityweek.com/german-experts-see-russian-link-deadly-hospital-hacking (https://www.securityweek.com/german-experts-see-russian-link-deadly-hospital-hacking) —————————-Todays Offbeat Holiday————- Today is: Checkers Day and Dogs in Politics Day https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/09/18/cheeseburger-day-2020-freebies-bargains-mcdonalds/5804190002/ (https://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/18395-dogs-in-politics-day-nixon-checkers-speech) __________________Products shown today_____________ SWAG is at: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyber-recon.com%2Fswag%2F&event=video_description&v=DSUm5h_E4JI&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTVieFBZSEgyQVg2Z2tnUDBrNWxpaEtxV0VvQXxBQ3Jtc0trc3lfQmRFSU9NMHpZOE1ONDZEMHM5Y1BSZnNXMGU0ZEVSclhzR1FWa2ZadjJ2X2dleWtNU0VMMWNoYlFKS2ZIeWZRS3BFRGx3M2c5enVTOU5JQW9vbVhObVhqcm1PTHVVSFVlajNFam1BdzVxT0Y1MA%3D%3D (https://www.cyber-recon.com/swag/) Support this podcast
This week, Dr. Doug talks Zerologon, Wicked Panda, OSINT, Doom found to run on Xbox, and Dark Overlord! Jason Wood returns for Expert Commentary on why to Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/swn67
This week, Dr. Doug talks Zerologon, Wicked Panda, OSINT, Doom found to run on Xbox, and Dark Overlord! Jason Wood returns for Expert Commentary on why to Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/swn67 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly
This week, Dr. Doug talks Zerologon, Wicked Panda, OSINT, Doom found to run on Xbox, and Dark Overlord! Jason Wood returns for Expert Commentary on why to Think Twice Before Using Facebook, Google, or Apple to Sign In Everywhere! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/swn67 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly
In an unusual lapse, Microsoft briefly left a Bing backend server exposed online--now fixed. Sources say the CIA has concluded that Russian President Putin is personally involved in setting the direction of operations designed to influence the US elections, The deal to spin out TikTok Global to avoid a US ban may not be enough, Europe looks for more control over tech companies. Activision’s hack seems to be a mere rumor. Ben Yelin on section 230 of the communications decency act. Our guest is Ramon Pinero from Blackberry on the challenges of coordinating public services during the pandemic. And a Dark Overlord cops a plea. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief: https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/184
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mueller's group failed to fully investigate Trump's illicit financial ties, mostly because Mueller was manipulated by his deputy while he suffered from mental decline.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Manhattan DA's office cited “a mountainous record” of public allegations of misconduct to support its quest for Trump's taxes; a British man was sentenced to five years in prison for helping the hacking collective, Dark Overlord, steal info from several US companies; and, a NYC police officer is charged with spying on Tibetan immigrants for the Chinese government.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Italy's right wing opposition leader Salvini failed to make the breakthroughs he had hoped for in regional elections that showed a massive turnout of voters; and, Navalny demanded that Russia return his clothes for the Novichok investigation.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” ― Ernest Hemingway "A Moveable Feast"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/22/1979482/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays
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Got Faded Japan ep 554 In order to summon Zooloo the Dark Overlord of the Abyss one needs only to travel to Japan’s Gifu prefecture and find a young cow. After finding thus cow one must remove the head and leg with only her/her bare hands. Once this task is completed Zooloo is satisfied and ready to greet you however only after you say these words three times aloud: Beetle Juice!If you are or were in a band or have a friend who is in a band, send us one of their tracks and we'll play it at the end of the show. UNDERGROUND BANDS ONLY. We all LOVE SLAYER but this isn't the place for them ( unless they're on the show :D ). NOW YOU CAN DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON! Supporting GOT FADED JAPAN ON PATREON directly supports keeping this show going and fueled with booze (seriously could you imagine the show sober?? Neither can we) SUPPORT GFJ at: https://www.patreon.com/gotfadedjapan CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORT THE SHOW!!!! 1. THE SPILT INK: Get prints and art at: SITE https://www.thespiltink.com ETSY https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSpiltInk?ref=hdr_shop_menu 2. Ghost Town Pomade FADE IN STYLE with Ghost Town Pomade.Get yours today by contacting: ghosttownpomade@gmail.com 3. MITSUYA: 1 Chome- 13 -17 Asagayaminami, Suginami Tokyo 166-0004 Tel & Fax: 0303314-6151Email: saketoyou0328@gmail.com 4.Harry’s Sandwich Company1 min walk from Takeshita Street in HarajukuCall 050-5329-7203 Address: 〒150-0001 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Jingumae, 1 Chome−16−7 MSビル 3F https://www.facebook.com/harryssandwichco/ GET YOURSELF SOME GOT FADED JAPAN MERCH TODAY!!! We have T-Shirts, COFFEE Mugs, Stickers, even the GFJ official pants! BUY NOW AND SUPPORT THE SHOW: http://www.redbubble.com/people/thespiltink/works/16870492-got-faded-japan-podcast The Got Faded Japan Podcast gives listeners a glimpse of the most interesting side of Japan's news, culture, peoples, parties, and all around mischief and mayhem. Hosted by Johnny and Tom who adds opinions and otherwise drunken bullshit to the mix. We LOVE JAPAN AND SO DO YOU! Send us an email on Facebook or hell man, just tell a friend & post a link to keep this pod rolllin' Fader! Kanpai mofos!
In this episode, we are speaking with cybersecurity researcher, pentester, and author Vinny Troia. His new book is "Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques." He explains how he tracked down the alleged hackers behind Gnostic Plays, Shiny Hunters, NSFW, and the The Dark Overlord groups. And it turns out, there are some very tight connections between these groups. Troia reveals the identities of two teenage hackers that he says are responsible for a whopping 42% of all non-payment card data breaches from 2017 to mid-2020. Also, new hacker infrastructure and underground hosting 101 research, just published by Trend Micro, our premiere podcast partner. RESOURCE LINKS: • Research: Trend Micro's *NEW* Hacker Infrastructure findings: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/hacker-infrastructure-and-underground-hosting-101-where-are-cybercriminal-platforms-offered • Report: The Dark Overlord revealed: www.thedarkoverlord.info • New SecureWorld VIRTUAL conferences: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/events • SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast briefings: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/resources?cat=remote-sessions The SecureWorld Sessions podcast gives you access to people and ideas that impact your cybersecurity career and help you secure your organization.
In this episode, Stephanie and Andy discuss corkscrew condoms and Bloomingduck's as they review Willard Huyck's HOWARD THE DUCK. Andy dubs The Dark Overlord a Sass Queen, Stephanie is here for Lea Thompson, and they both question the chemistry between Howard and Beverly. Reading Recommendations: MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY, by Sean Howe
In this episode, Stephanie and Andy discuss corkscrew condoms and Bloomingduck’s as they review Willard Huyck’s HOWARD THE DUCK. Andy dubs The Dark Overlord a Sass Queen, Stephanie is here for Lea Thompson, and they both question the chemistry between Howard and Beverly. Reading Recommendations: MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY, by Sean Howe
Howard the Duck is a mess. That's as simply as I can put it. And it was a high profile one for George Lucas, who shepherded it to the screen. What was originally envisioned as an animated project transitioned—becoming a live-action movie in service to a contractual obligation of Lucas'. That term, as the pod has noted many times over, is a dreaded one. This duck wasn't roasted properly. Its script is not only unfunny—tragically so for a supposed comedy—it lacks an actual narrative; and it culminates in a third act as random as the appearance of an anthropomorphic duck on earth. Frankly, it's all wet. Critics and audiences agreed. Howard the Duck left some serious egg on Lucas' face. It sits at 15% on Rotten Tomatoes with 48 reviews; and it grossed a paltry $38 million on a budget of $37 million. That is some puny-sized poultry. It's failure also left Lucas' pockets bare. Worse, the poor director's (Willard Huyck) career flew south for the winter—an extended one. But, hey, Howard's trip to earth earned him a rocking credits song! And the disastrous film wasn't without some form of technical merit—even if that never came across onscreen. So sit back, hook your space tentacle into a few Galaxy Drifter American IPAs from Pontoon Brewing Co., and play some righteous air guitar to the musical stylings of Cherry Bomb! I, the Thunderous Wizard (@WriterTLK), Capt. Cash, and Chumpzilla are priming the neutron disintegrator to blast the Dark Overlord back to the void of space! This Week’s Segments: Introduction/Plot Breakdown – We dive deep into Lucas' bizarre attempt to translate this Marvel character to the big screen. (00:00) Our Overall Impressions – This is certainly a strange movie, but did any of it work? (48:35) The Quacktastic Trivia Challenge and More Open-Ended Questions – Chumpzilla challenges us to trivia about the film, as well as the curious sex life of actual ducks. (1:13:15) The Shit Movie Championship Showdown and Recommendations – This is not a good film. Is it bad enough to topple the pod's reigning champion, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, though? We debate. And next up: Prepare for some turbulence! We take to the skies one last time with Summer Rage with Nicolas Cage's bonus episode, Con Air! (1:34:33) And, as always, hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to check out all the interesting factoids—how Howard's flop led to Pixar and more—from this week’s episode! You can find this episode of Hops and Box Office Flops on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Podbean, Spotify, Acast, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio!
Welcome to the concluding part of Not So MARVELous March. With my look at Howard the Duck. This movie finally cracked me and made me go quackers. So this is a quickie review. The duck out of water story about our hero Howard trying to save the world from the evil Dark Overlord. Also can he rescue his punk rock girlfriend and her scientist friend before their goose is cooked? Find out here. Twitter: @heresjohnnyspod Don't forget to like, share, comment and subscribe. Also leave a 5-star review.
Howdy folks, Double J here, with an OpGCD invasion of the Good Vibrations Podcast, 2019 Alternative Theory Year End Review. This is where Mr. Mark Devlin, host of Good Vibrations Podcast, sits down for a convo with Mr. Darren Williams, famously of Liverpool England, for a year end review of Darren’s top 10 Alternative Theory (aka. Conspiracy Theory) type topics. However, Mark Devlin is heavily engaged in other research matters at this time…so I’m baaaaaack, Double J here…with another invasion. Just like the 2018 Year End Review on Good Vibrations Podcast. Offering my unique brand of Operation GCD-style humor to Mr. Darren Williams’ (once again, famously of Liverpool England) top 10 Alternative Theory type topics of 2019. Connect with Mark Devlin Good Vibrations Podcast (available on apps podcasts are found): Emailmark@markdevlin.co.uk Websitehttp://www.markdevlin.co.uk Twitter@djmarkdevlin Connect with Darren Williams Twitter - @DazAltTheory Numerous guest appearances on Good Vibrations Podcast, Operation GCD, & many other Alternative Theory type podcasts. Connect with Double J & the Operation GCD Podcast (available on apps podcasts are found): Twitter - @OperationGCD Email - OperationGCD@gmail.com Website - www.OperationGCD.com Links & Show Notes DazAltTheory Top 10 of 2019 Notes 1). Stephen Dorril - senior lecturer in journalism at Huddersfield University (UK) whom specializes in researching the activities of British Military Intelligence was contacted by the wife of a deceased MI6 Agent (the Wife died in 2014). The Agent - Peter Hornsby was Lead Editor of the MI6 covertly funded Magazine: Flamingo (1961 - 1965) It deliberately targeted, the new influx of Black People from the then British Colonies in The Caribbean & West Africa. MI6 feared the ideology of Communism that was going throughout The Third World would arrive in the UK via the new immigration into the nation which was required after the devastation of World War 2 to the infrastructure & public sector, so the magazine was designed as a means to cleverly attack Communism by promoting Anglo – American values. Geopolitical articles within the magazine where of a serious nature near identical to media releases from the British Foreign Office's semi-secret Information Research Department. Also, revealed by Dorril was numerous Community Centres throughout London that serviced the mentioned new intake Afro – Caribbean Community where funded by C.I.A fronts in the form of 'charitable foundations' with the aim of identifying potential threats along with recruitment of new operatives. These Community Centres where also found in the major cities throughout the UK (Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield & Leeds) therefore was this C.I.A / MI6 Network even more extensive ? The revealing of this by Stephen Dorril – an academic along with author of numerous books on British Military Intelligence is important yet also worrying as it proves the covert manipulation of The Black Population of Britain. Therefore, has this continued in various ways such as elevating carefully chosen individuals from The British Black Community within Pop Culture (Music, Acting, Television Presenting & Journalism) with the counter narrative being individuals WITH talent that are deemed to not being able to be turned or having honour values being prevented from having opportunities ? If, this is the case then the UK is more tightly controlled than East Germany during the Cold War. Source: “Sex, ska and Malcolm X: MI6’s covert 1960s mission to woo West Indians” - theguardian.com/uk [ Saturday 26th January 2019 ] PAGE 1 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 2). The best friend of the current Pope whom was given the role of Treasurer for the entire Roman Catholic Church – Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of sexual offences against minors occurring in 1996 in his native Australia. One of the victims died of a drug overdose in retaliation in 2014 due to the impact of the abuse. This was without doubt, the most important news story of 2019 as it places the decision making plus general awareness of Pope Francis into question YET the significant Mainstream Media Outlets within the Western World didn't place the proper focus upon this scandal compared to say allegations made towards the historic sexual behaviour of R&B Singer R. Kelly in the SAME calender year which was a media hype – fest. Pell was sentenced to Six Years with parole happening after Three Years & Six Months along with being for the rest of his life on the Sex Offenders Register. Pell who remains an archbishop and a member of the College of Cardinals has been placed in protective custody during his incarceration has been visited by former Australian Prime Minister (2013 – 2015) Tony Abbot. A national outrage occurred in Australia due to this with Abbot justifying this by 'simply visiting a friend'. Then, on Christmas Eve 2019 – a group of local Catholics as a show of support for Pell decided to sing Carols outside the Melbourne correctional facility. Seems, they should re – read their Bible for... Matthew 18 : 6 Sources: “George Pell: Cardinal found guilty of sexual o ences in Australia” - bbc.co.uk/news [ Tuesday 26th February 2019 ] “Christmas Eve carolers for Cardinal Pell gathered at Melbourne prison” - catholicherald.co.uk [ Thursday 26th December 2019 ] PAGE 2 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 3). A concrete “altar” & a pagan metal plaque was discovered on Whinny Hill above St. Margaret’s Loch in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh (Scotland). Holyrood Park, which is also known as The Queen’s Park, is a royal park that remains part of Holyrood Palace, The Queen’s official residence in Scotland. The various articles don't detail how it was discovered yet photos show it BEFORE it was removed by unknown person(s) embedded in the ground within a section of turf cut into a triangle shape. A concrete altar was found buried beneath the topsoil and apparently was surrounded by “display objects”. It was later discovered that rather than the first believed ancient relics, one of them was carefully embedded into the ground using concrete & was part of artwork available on – line from Portland (USA) based artist: Maxine Miller. One of the pieces that was placed in concrete is priced as $75.00 (£54.00p) known as: Horned God and Goddess Celtic Elemental Pentacle Wall Plaque Cold Cast Bronze Miller's artwork is based in ancient occult knowledge. Therefore, what was discovered contemporary occult ceremonial worship ? Sources: “Satanic Plaque and Altar Unearthed in The Queen’s Holyrood Park in Scotland” - ancient-origins.net [ Saturday 22nd June 2019 ] “Mysterious ‘Altar’ unearthed in Holyrood Park most likely used by pagans not devil worshippers” - scotsman.com [ Saturday 22nd June 2019 ] “Mystery as pagan altar and symbol unearthed in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park” - edinburghnews.scotsman.com [ Saturday 22nd June 2019 ] Horned God and Goddess Cel c Elemental Pentacle Wall Plaque Cold Cast Bronze available at maxinemillerstudios.com PAGE 3 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 4). The following is NOT saying that MSC & J.P. Morgan Asset Management are involved in illegal activities. American Customs and Border Protection impounded 20 Tones high – grade Cocaine with a value of $1.3 Billion (£765. 9 Million) on Monday 17th June 2019 at Philadelphia’s Packer Marine Terminal from a container ship: MSC Gayane. The Ship is owned by global Merchant Bank: J.P. Morgan Asset Management and chartered to Mediterranean Shipping Company commonly known as MSC. Earlier in 2019 on Thursday 28th February – ANOTHER MSC Container Ship - the Carlotta docked at the Port Newark – Elizabeth Marine Terminal which is the major Port of New York and New Jersey. The main container ship facility for goods entering and leaving the New York Metropolitan area representing... New York City, Long Island, New Jersey inc. Newark and Jersey City & Connecticut (Stamford). MSC Carlotta was searched in a joint operation involving: US Customs and Border Protection, US Coast Guard, Homeland Security Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration commonly known as The DEA, New York Police Department commonly known as the NYPD and the New York State Police. What was found was 1.5 Tones of high – grade Cocaine $77 Million (£58. 9 Million) making it the largest sizure of narotics at that Port in 25yrs. The MSC Carlotta was bound for London (UK). So, in the SAME calender year on the American East Coast the amount of high – grade Cocaine confiscated totalled $1. 300. 77 Billion [ one billion three hundred and seventy - seven million ] (£824. 8 Million) was on container ships of the SAME company whose ownership is represented in corporate offices in Geneva (Switzerland) [ MSC ] & Mid - town Manhattan (New York City, USA) [ J.P. Morgan Asset Management ]. The nation with the lowest GDP thus the poorest in the world is South Sudan (African Continent) that was worth in 2019: $275.1 Million (£210. 5 Million). Therefore, the Cocaine found was £614. 3 Million MORE than South Sudan. The mentioned is NOT saying that MSC & J.P. Morgan Asset Management are involved in illegal activities. PAGE 4 4 continued). Sources: “MSC pays millions to release MSC Gayane a er drug seizure” - safety4sea.com [ Tuesday 16th July 2019 ] “U.S. Seizes MSC Container Ship A er Record Drug Bust” - wsj.com [ Tuesday 9th July 2019 ] “New threat' as record-breaking $77m of cocaine seized at New York port” - news.sky.com/uk [ Monday 11th March 2019 ] “A Shipping Manifest Said the Container Held Dried Fruit. Inside Was 3,200 Pounds of Cocaine” - nytimes.com [ Monday 11th March 2019 ] “£1 million of cocaine bound for London seized in 1.5 tonne New York drugs bust” - mylondon.news [ Monday 11th March 2019 ] “Ship Seized In Record $1.3 Billion Cocaine Bust Belongs To JP Morgan” - zerohedge.com [ Wednesday 10th July 2019 ] The 20 countries with the lowest gross domes c product (GDP) per capita in 2019 (in U.S. Dollars) – statista.com [ Monday 9th December 2019 ] Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... PAGE 5 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 5). Hacker group known as: The Dark Overlord announced it had obtained unauthorized data connected to September 11th 2001 Insurance Claims from the following three firms... Silverstein Properties, Hiscox Syndicates Ltd & Lloyds of London. Via, Twitter & other Web Sites it declared that they had reviewed the data placing them into five sections known as Layers with Layer 5 having the most sensational content. To, have the sections revealed was based upon an amount chosen by them paid via the digital currency: Bitcoin. Layer 5 being worth in American Dollars: $2 Million (£1.5 Million) Crowd – funding paid for the documents in Layer 1 to be revealed thus proving the hack did in – fact take place. What was noticed was a sudden vast transfer of Bitcoin from one account to another yet due to the manner digital currency is the sender & receiver are anonymous yet the ripple is visible. In, December 2019 – a British Man: Nathan Wyatt 39yrs old of Wellingborough (Northamptonshire, UK) was extradited to St. Louis (Missouri, USA) under Federal Charges of being a key member of the hacking collective. Who paid for Layers 3 to 5 ? What information was on these sections that reveal unaware details relating to what happened in Manhattan on that tragic day of Tuesday 11th September 2001 ? The Mainstream Media of the Western World seemed to be done with this incident once payment was made. Sources: “Ransom Moves: The Dark Overlord Keeps Pressuring Vic ms” - bankinfosecurity.com [ Friday 4th January 2019 ] “Dark Overlord hackers release alleged 9/11 lawsuit documents” - nakedsecurity.sophos.com [ Thursday 3rd January 2019 ] “The Dark Overlord & 9/11 Documents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know” - heavy.com [ Friday 4th January 2019 ] “Cybersecurity Expert on Dark Overlord's 9/11 Data: It Might Paint Bigger Picture” - sputniknews.com [ Monday 14th January 2019 ] “Pack your bags, you're going to America, Lord Chief Jus ce tells accused Brit hacker” - theregister.co.uk [ Monday 18th November 2019 ] “UK extradites Dark Overlord hacker Nathan Wya to the US” - teiss.co.uk [ Thursday 19th December 2019 ] PAGE 6 6). The following is NOT saying that Kevin Spacey is involved in illegal activities. On, Christmas Eve 2019 (Tuesday 24th December 2019) via his official YouTube Channel – the two time Oscar® Winning Actor: Kevin Spacey released a video titled: “KTWK” (Kill Them with Kindness is the full meaning) This 59 second video performed as the fictional character: “President Frank Underwood” from Netflix Series - "House of Cards” was a follow – up to a previous YouTube video titled: “Let Me Be Frank” As, with “KTWK”, the earlier YouTube video was released by Spacey on Christmas Eve 2018 (Monday 24th December 2018). What, makes “KTWK” different is 24hrs later on Christmas Day 2019 (Wednesday 25th December 2019) in the rural Norwegian Community of Lommedalen (40 minutes drive west of the capital Oslo) - Ari Behn committed suicide. In December 2017, Behn said that Spacey had groped his genitals in 2007 during the V.I.P after - party for the Nobel Peace Prize held in Oslo. Why, this go global attention was at the time of the incident Behn was married to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway whom is 4th in line to the Norwegian Throne & 26th in line to the British Throne. On, Sunday 29th December 2019 – the respected Pop Culture expert & author Christopher Knowles published a blog entry regrading Spacey titled: “Kevin Spacey, Super-Villain at Large” This article inspired me to look at the roles Spacey has played particularly focusing on Films. A significant amount of roles are characters that play Professional Criminals some having superior intelligence... “Keyser Söze” - “John Doe” - “Lex Luthor” - “Doc” - Turkish Crime Lord who operates a decades old international network. a serial killer bent on savagely punishing those who have committed the seven deadly sins bringing attention to evil in a world that he claims has accepted any & all types of immorality. billionaire industrialist that happens to be the arch – enemy of “Superman”. mysterious kingpin of an Atlanta (Georgia, USA ) based crime syndicate. Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... Then two portrayals based upon real – life individuals... “Michael Lynch” - loosely based on Martin Cahill, infamous Dublin crime boss assassinated by The IRA. James Arthur Williams - only person in the state of Georgia (USA) ever to be tried four separate times regarding a single homicide. PAGE 7 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 6 continued). What is strange is actors commonly leave roles that have popularity due to fearing they will be type – cast to the characteristics displayed in what made them popular. Yet, the work done by Kevin Spacey shows a deliberate choosing of master – criminals. The symbolism used in BOTH “Let Me Be Frank” & “KTWK” is fascinating from props such as specific Coffee Mugs to home ornaments to the emphasis placed by Spacey on specific words using the cadence of the fictional character - “President Frank Underwood”. In, September 2019 – an anonymous massage therapist who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Spacey died, according to a notice filed in court by the actor's attorneys. The individual, suing as a "John Doe", filed claims in September 2018 with the allegation of being forced to grab the actor's genitals twice during a massage two years earlier at a private residence in Malibu. The combined etymology of “Roger 'Verbal' Kint” & “Keyser Söze” translates into contemporary English as... Famous Verbal King A rather apt description of Kevin Spacey. The mentioned is NOT saying that Kevin Spacey is involved in illegal activities. Sources: “Norwegian Author and Kevin Spacey Accuser, Dies at 47” - hollywoodreporter.com [ Wednesday 25th December 2019 ] “Massage therapist who accused Kevin Spacey of sexual assault dies” - pagesix.com [ Wednesday 18th September 2019 ] “Kevin Spacey, Super - Villain at Large” - secretsun.blogspot.com [ Sunday 29th December 2019 ] “Joe Rogan Reacts to the Kevin Spacey News” - JRE Clips Channel on YouTube ( https://bit.ly/2QHRw2e ) [ Monday 24th December 2018 ] “Kevin Spacey's Latest Bizarre YouTube Video” - JRE Clips Channel on YouTube ( https://bit.ly/2QHRw2e ) [ Monday 6th January 2020 ] PAGE 8 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 7). Katherine Keating is the 38yr old daughter of former Australian Prime Minister: Paul Keating (in office December 1991 – March 1996). You've likely have seen Katherine as the woman Prince Andrew is waving goodbye to in a very friendly manner at the then Manhattan Townhouse home of a certain Jeffery Epstein in December 2010. Whilst, Paul Keating was an overtly anti – British Royalty to such an extent he declared this in a famous February 1992 speech with Elizabeth The 2nd being in the audience at Sydney (Australia), his daughter is the complete opposite being a friend of Prince Andrew. Katherine is a New York Socialite to such an extent she attended the 2019 Halloween Party of the acclaimed Film Director - Todd Phillips. You might have enjoyed, Phillips most recent Film: “Joker”. Katherine attended the Party in fancy dress as that mentioned film main character: “Arthur Fleck” in full face – paint. Why, Katherine Keating has my attention is recent footage of her pleasant goodbye with Prince Andrew has her face blurred out. This doesn't need to occur as the incident happened along with footage & still photographs of others from that day being used yet NOT edited. In, a now difficult to locate video - Katherine Keating during her time working at The Huffington Post interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell that was made for Social Media. Ghislaine Maxwell ultimate ambition from my research was to be Chief Executive for an NGO given the role by The United Nations to protect marine biology of ALL International Waters. If, Ghislaine Maxwell was successful her TerraMar Project would have had Diplomatic Immunity which would have covered their compete fleet of Ships & Submarines along with Employees. As, international regulator of the world's International Waters – it would have given the TerraMar Project complete access to EVERY Dock yet Customs Enforcement would be banned from doing inspections. With, what has been revealed about Ghislaine Maxwell since the arrest of her former lover Jeffrey Epstein in July 2019 – we should all be thankful that she never obtain such levels of power including unrestricted international travel. Katherine Keating is part of a collective of selected individuals known as: The 21st Century Council. This is funded & part of The Berggruen Institute. Nicolas Berggruen identified firstly that Western Nations have populations that have realized the competing political elites care MORE for party ideology plus globalism than their socio-economic struggles. Secondly, Developing World Nations particularly China are too strict in the rule of their populations leading to a lack of creativity placing restrictions on GDP expansion. The 21st Century Council wish to use their expertise as individuals in the 25yr to 60yrs age range whom work in Politics to Pop Culture to advise nations on the best way of managing their populations. PAGE 9 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 7 continued). Katherine Keating has a number of positions on various boards yet her main job is Chief Sustainability and Strategy Officer of Maverick an American entertainment company. Keating head up a department that provides strategic resources to partner companies in the entertainment, technology and direct-to-consumer industries. She is supported by two subordinates: Head of Policy and Research & Head of Development. These are few names that Maverick represents... Paul McCartney Madonna Britney Spears U2 It's surprising that the MeToo Movement lead by American actress, activist, model & author Rose McGowan has been somewhat quiet regarding the associates, acquaintances & friends of Jeffrey Epstein ? Sources: Katherine Kea ng interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell in 2014 for The Hu ngton Post promo ng the work of The TerraMar Project [ a mirror copy due to original being deleted ] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a0rj6QdjW8 “Inside the high-al tude world of Katherine Kea ng” - afr.com [ Thursday 22nd August 2019 ] “How Katherine Kea ng's fortunate life among New York's elite barely skipped a beat a er video emerged of her being shown from Je rey Epstein's apartment by Prince Andrew ” - dailymail.co.uk [ Monday 25th November 2019 ] “Katherine Kea ng Joins Maverick as Chief Sustainability & Strategy O cer” - variety.com [ Thursday 15th November 2018 ] “Revealed: Why Katherine Kea ng was visi ng Je rey Epstein's mansion” - smh.com.au [ Saturday 21st September 2019 ] “Prince Andrew's links to Je rey Epstein” - bbc.co.uk/news [ Saturday 16th November 2019 ] The TerraMar Project O cal YouTube Channel - youtube.com/user/terramarproject PAGE 10 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 8). On, Thursday 12th December 2019 during her acceptance speech as the first ever recipient of The Billboard (American Music Industry Media Outlet) Woman of the Decade Award, for being one of the most accomplished musical artists over the course of the 2010s Taylor Swift accused the billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros of participating in "toxic male privilege" due to bankrolling music executive Scooter Braun, who outbid Swift to purchase the rights of her music from her first record label. Swift said: “This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent. after I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital and The Carlyle Group.” adding Ithaca Holdings, 23 Capital, The Carlyle Group & Soros family are: “...potentially harmful force.” The Carlyle Group is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management & financial services corporation. It has invested in the following... Booz Allen Hamilton, Freescale Semiconductor, Getty Images, Nielsen Holdings etc. Monday 10th to Tuesday 11th September 2001 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Manhattan (New York City, USA) held an annual general meeting of The Carlyle Group which had... Sir John Major (former UK Prime Minister 1990 – 1997) George H. W. Bush (former American President 1989 – 1993) Shafiq bin Laden – the eldest billionaire Brother of a certain Osama bin Laden. The conference was stopped due to the attacks on The World Trade Centre. Swift has 85.5 Million Followers on Twitter & 125 Million Followers on Instagram. It will be interesting to see if Swift repeats her displeasure towards Soros & The Carlyle Group yet her mention of them has introduced Alternative Research to a significant percentage of her vast devoted fanatical following. Sources: “Taylor Swi Blasts George Soros For Exploi ng Her Music Without Her ‘Consent’ ” - dailywire.com [ Friday 13th December 2019 ] “Taylor Swi calls out the unregulated world of private equity” - qz.com [ Saturday 14th December 2019 ] “From 9/11 To PRISMgate - How The Carlyle Group LBO'd The World's Secrets” - zerohedge.com [ Monday 10th June 2013 ] “George W. Bush: “My Dad Was Mee ng with the Brother of Osama on September 11”, 2001. Does That Make Him a Terror Suspect ?” - globalresearch.ca [ Tuesday 17th March 2015 ] PAGE 11 Top 10 of 2019 Notes (Continued)... 9). As, the UK was winding down in preparation for Christmas – one of the highest courts in the land: Investigatory Powers Tribunal of the High Court voted 2 to 1 that MI5 (Internal) & MI6 (External) CAN engage in torture, killing & other illegal activity under the protection of the nation for ‘the greater good’. This ruling is a contradiction going AGAINST the foundation of Law in Britain.. The Magna Carta, which means ‘The Great Charter’ one of the most important documents in history it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice & the right to a fair trial. Yet, it seems Military – Intelligence along with Black Op’s of The UK can now commit serious offences under the protect of the very law that is supposed to prosecute such behaviour. This means that the UK in the 21st Century is in some ways no different to East Germany under the control of the infamous: Stasi (1950 – 1990). Sources: 10). Source: “MI5spiescankillwithoutfearofprosecu oniftheycanprovepublicinterest, High Court rules” - telegraph.co.uk [ Friday 20th December 2019 ] “Magna Carta: What is it – and why is it s ll important today ?” - independent.co.uk [ Monday 2nd February 2015 ] “It's cool for Brit snoops to break the law, says secre ve spy court. Just hold on while we pull o some legal jujitsu to let MI5 o the hook...” - theregister.co.uk [ Friday 20th December 2019 ] Man who receives a bone marrow transplant discovers sections of his body have replaced his DNA with that of the donor including four months after the transplant his semen contained 100% of his donor’s DNA...!!! “When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away” - nytimes.com [ Saturday 7th December 2019 ] Every January, I wrap – up the ten things that got my attention for the previous year. This started with looking at 2017. If, you’d like to hear my thoughts on 2017, 2018 & now 2019 please search for: Mark Devlin Good Vibrations Podcast At, the time of writing this Good Vibrations is hosted at spreaker.com Also, please go to www.operationgcd.com/podes whom have a fantastic archive. Additional Information: Am, always on Twi er: @DazAltTheory - h ps://twi er.com/DazAltTheory END. PAGE 12
Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency headlines Bitcoin is up 1% at $7,177 XRP is up 2% at 19 cents and Ethereum up 1% at $128 Top gainers in the last 24 hours: Decentraland , up 19% NavCoin up 18% Robinhood is facing a fine for failing to ensure the best execution when routing customer orders. Blockstream is making an effort to keep the peace on the lightning network with Watchtowers Ripple has taken on more funding in a 200 million series C led by Tetragon. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has been awarded a U.S. patent for a Bitcoin sending method. A British national has been extradited to the U.S. for his alleged participation in “The Dark Overlord” hacker group.
Spanish TV is temporarily replaced by Russian programming. APT20, Violin Panda, is back, and playing a familiar tune. Rancor against Cambodia. The US Congress gets frosty with China and Russia. How Zeppelin ransomware spreads. Due diligence in M&A. Germany’s BSI warns of an Emotet campaign. A suspect in the Dark Overlord case is arraigned in St. Louis. The FBI collars a guy who ratted himself out over social media. David Dufour from Webroot with a review of their 2019 mid-year threat report. Guest is James Ritchey from GitLab with lessons learned on the one-year anniversary of their bug bounty program. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/December/CyberWire_2019_12_19.html Support our show
'The SecureWorld Sessions' is a new cybersecurity podcast that gives you access to people and ideas that impact your career and help you secure your organization. Brian Krebs criticized our podcast guest for the way he connects with hackers. Vinny Troia is a cybersecurity researcher and author of the book "Hunting Cyber Criminals." Troia uses aliases on the Dark Web to communicate with hackers such as Gnostic Players, The Dark Overlord, and NSFW. He explains what motivates them and how they get caught, and shares about the hacker who claims he's smarter than the NSA and CIA! LINKS: • Trend Micro Dark Web Law: https://blog.trendmicro.com/tackling-the-bec-epidemic-in-a-new-partnership-with-interpol/ • Vinny Troia's book: http://bit.ly/hunting_cyber • SecureWorld 2020 conference calendar: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/events
Howard is just your average anthropomorphic duck living on a parallel Earth—aptly named Duckworld. That is, until Dr. Jeffrey Jones foolishly uses the Buch-cannon™ to beam him to Cleveland. Stranded, Howard teams up with local rocker Lea Thompson and Tim "Museum Janitor" Robbins to search for a way home, and possibly some hairless ape fornication. Oh yeah, then Jeffrey Jones gets possessed by a demonic “Dark Overlord of the Universe" that turns him into Emperor Palpatine for some reason! Practice your Quack Fu, do some toot, and grab this month's issue of Playduck, because we are about to get shot through space via Lazyboy with Howard the Duck.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)
Vamos a hablar sobre la misión Wfirst que es un nuevo proyecto de la nasa para poder ver planetas aún más lejanos de lo que estamos acostumbrados, también hablaremos de la rotura del tratado de las fuerzas nucleares por parte de EEUU, además comentaremos una breve noticia sobre una notificación que recibieron los empleados de Microsoft,de nuevo hablamos de los hackers Dark Overlord y por último hablaremos del científico que habló de la posibilidad de que omuamua fuera de origen artificial. Voz de la intro de:Xavi Villanueva. Web: https://abismofm.com Twitter: @abismofm Facebook: Abismo ProduccionesTwitter : @universoredYoutube: Misterioso universo en la redGmail: misteriosouniversored@gmail.comGrupo de Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CojMVk23rEffbALlwCDVpQ
Premier épisode de mars 2019 (2/2) Préambule Shameless plug Prochaines activités ShawiSec 19 au 21 Mars - Montreal. 5Éme édition. Sécurité de l'information. https://www.lesaffaires.com/evenements/conferences/securite-de-linformation-/606247 25 Mars - Lille (France). Cyber Monday proposé par l'ISEN. Cycle de conférences grand public sur la cybersécurité. https://www.isen.fr/ https://www.isen-lille.fr/actus/inscription-conferences-cybersecurite/ 28 mars 2019 - QuebecSec - Enregistrement de La French Connection Épisode CENT 100 !@#!@%!@#!@!! 8 avril 2019 - Québec Numérique - SéQCure Shownotes and Links Social Media Attacks Generate $3.25 Billion for Crooks Each Year Dossier de l'immigration au Québec: des pirates informatiques essaient de manipuler l'opinion publique Comptes Twitter automatisés: les élections fédérales dans la mire des perturbateurs, dit un expert Depuis plusieurs mois, les pirates informatiques maîtres chanteurs du groupe The Dark Overlord menacent de révéler des informations sensibles sur les attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Ils souhaitent rançonner assureurs et cabinets d'avocats piratés. TDO vient de diffuser la 3e clé déchiffrant plus de 8 000 nouveaux documents. Perte de 250 MM$ en cryptomonnaies à cause de la mort du fondateur qui détenait à lui seul le mot de passe. Le lendemain c'est la faillite !!! Un contrôleur est nommé (E&Y) et a découvert jusqu'à présent 900 000$ qui ont glissé entre les doigts du fisc canadien. L'AMF infiltre une entreprise de cryptomonnaies qui a subi un audacieux vol l'an dernier (2018) Search into missing cryptocurrency turns up empty ‘cold wallets:' Report Quadriga Crypto Mystery Deepens With ‘Cold Wallets' Found Empty L'ONF victime d'un virus informatique depuis plus de deux semaines Inside a Chinese APT's very flexible playbook Les nouvelles restantes Les Services de contre espionnages Français communiquent. La Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieur, la DGSI (ex. DST), vient de publier un flash évoquant l'ingérence économique dont des sociétés françaises sont régulièrement victimes. Les chasseurs d'espions de la République reviennent sur plusieurs exemples qui additionnent malveillances, mails et informations d'entreprises emportées par des sous-traitants. Le bug Bounty yes We hack a levé 4 millions d'euros pour faire évoluer son projet. AWS Pentest moins de restriction CRXcavator : Blueteam à maintenant un outil pour analyser la sécurité des extensions Chrome. Duo CRXcavator Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information Devrons-nous bientôt marcher pour déverrouiller notre téléphone? Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4 million high-risk individuals has leaked U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms Police in Canada Are Tracking People's ‘Negative' Behavior In a ‘Risk' Database Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server Tax Returns Exposed in TurboTax Credential Stuffing Attacks Google Chrome zero-day used in the wild to collect user data via PDF files Hackers Start Exploiting Serious WinRAR Flaw to Spread Malware ‘Thunderclap' collection of hardware vulnerabilities affects Mac, Windows, Linux systems A researcher made an elite hacking tool out of the info in the Vault 7 leak Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America Crew Nicolas-Loïc Fortin Damien Bancal Patrick R. Mathieu Vincent Groleau Steve Waterhouse Crédits Montage audio par Intrasecure inc Music Detana!! TwinBee “My Friend, the Wind” par Czyszy via OverClocked ReMix Locaux virtuels par Zoom
Il gruppo hacker Dark Overlord ha cominciato a pubblicare le chiavi di cifratura per accedere ai documenti rubati alle compagnie che avevano assicurato il World Trade Center nel corso dell'attacco del 11 settembre 2001. --- A Decryption Key for Law Firm Emails in Hacked 9/11 Files Has Been Released - MotherBoard
Dem HAFL Bois discuss the recent Of Chase and Tre comedy tour leg, the true legend of Tater Jim, and the Dark Overlord hackers. Also, Bingy threatens to put Tre in an armbar.
On a new season of Dark Fringe Radio we discuss the horror movie "Us", we talk Gene Okerlund, and we uncover the connection to September 11th and the hacker group "The Dark Overlord"
Hoy Javier nos contará sobre un grupo de hackers llamado Dark Overlord que está extorsionando a personas con poder a cambio de no publicar información que les comprometa y también nos contará datos sobre una mega antena gigante que esta construyendo China de forma secreta. Twitter : @universoredYoutube: Misterioso universo en la redGmail: misteriosouniversored@gmail.comFacebook: Misterioso universo en la redGrupo de Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CojMVhEut5kETWMt8EtjVA
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Man, the cybersecurity world did not stop over our break. Shutdown news, Dark Overlord, Magecart, political hacks....they all happened over the past few weeks. Let's talk about it all. After we are done with that, we talk to Ellison Anne Williams, founder of Enveil. She talks about the cool things she is doing with encryption, and what exactly the data triad is.
In today’s podcast, we hear that ICEPick-3PC is out in the wild and scooping up Android IP addresses. Shin Bet warns of influence operations threatening Israel’s April election—much predictable yelling and finger-pointing ensues. German authorities are pretty convinced Hackerangriff is the work of a lone, disgruntled student. OXO may have suffered a Magecart infestation. Dark Overlord’s labor market play. Facebook sharing. Internet autarky. And did Kaspersky finger an NSA contractor to NSA for mishandling secrets? Dr. Charles Clancy from VA Tech on security gaps in the 5G specification. Guest is Denis Cosgrove from Booz Allen Hamilton on the growing connectivity and autonomy in motor vehicles. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/January/CyberWire_2019_01_09.html Support our show
In today’s podcast, we hear that investigation into the doxing campaign German political leaders suffered continues, and the Interior Minister promises a transparent inquiry. Attribution remains unsettled, but a lot of people are looking toward Russia. Marriott thinks fewer guests were affected by its Starwood breach than initially feared. Online gamers affected by breaches. The Dark Overlord continues to make a pest of itself. And can alt-coin production become less of an energy hog? Awais Rashid from Bristol University on securing large-scale infrastructure. Guests are Karen Waltermire and Harry Perper from NIST, discussing the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2019_01_07.html Support our show
A few hours before midnight on New Year’s Eve, the mysterious hacking group the Dark Overlord tweeted a link to an encrypted file: “We'll be providing many answers about 9/11 conspiracies through our 18,000 secret documents leak.”This is just the latest in a string of high profile hacks by the Dark Overlord, who have popped celebrity plastic surgeons, schools, family businesses and Netflix studios. Their motivation is simple: they want money, and they’re not afraid to extort people for it. CYBER talks to reporter Joseph Cox about the hacking crew and the motivation behind their latest hack. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A few hours before midnight on New Year's Eve, the mysterious hacking group the Dark Overlord tweeted a link to an encrypted file: “We'll be providing many answers about 9/11 conspiracies through our 18,000 secret documents leak.”This is just the latest in a string of high profile hacks by the Dark Overlord, who have popped celebrity plastic surgeons, schools, family businesses and Netflix studios. Their motivation is simple: they want money, and they're not afraid to extort people for it. CYBER talks to reporter Joseph Cox about the hacking crew and the motivation behind their latest hack. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Seth Breedlove | Small Town Monsters https://www.smalltownmonsters.com/ #### MONSTER #### Monstrous creature ‘turned its head and looked straight at our car,’ Kentucky woman says https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/article223524695.html Cryptozoology TV and Film Projects Burst Forth in 2019 http://www.cryptozoonews.com/tv-fim-2019/ #### NEWS #### Who Is The Dark Overlord Threatening To Leak Sensitive 9/11 Documents? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/01/02/hacking-group-the-dark-overlord-threatens-to-leak-sensitive-911-documents/#4db621a43138 Alien life PROOF? ‘Best documented UFO crash in history’ REVEALED https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1065756/Alien-life-proof-ufo-crash-dalnegorsk-roswell-spt China holds breath as probe prepares to land on far side of moon https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/02/chinese-spacecraft-to-become-first-to-land-on-far-side-of-moon-chang-e-4 CES 2019: Robotics And Artificial Intelligence Could Be The New World Order https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/gadgets/ces-2019-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-could-be-the-new-world-order BRITISH INTELLIGENCE INFILTRATES VOICE OF EUROPE MEDIA OUTLET https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/70062/british-intelligence-infiltrates-voice-of-europe-media.html Tim Pool on the alternative influence network https://youtu.be/S4hq5uVsb5k?t=213 Strange Israel law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7t07EoHWbo Kevin Spacey delivers pizza https://uproxx.com/movies/kevin-spacey-paparazzi-pizza/ Deniro pedo https://twitter.com/anopensecret/status/1080191354012160001?s=21 Crazy pope pizza thing https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/22/living/feat-pope-pizza/index.html Firm that warned about troll farm ran a troll farm https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-30/firm-warned-americans-russian-bots-was-running-army-fake-russian-bots CNN says witch just is offensive to witches https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/1079274540763475968?s=21 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ▀▄▀▄▀ LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/obdm ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ourbigdumbmouth ► YouTube 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrj4SPfo5ySkEnyaQAW5zvA ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/obdmnews ► Everything we do could be considered performance art
In today’s podcast, we hear that prize for first big breach of 2019 goes to Australia, but the year is young. Ryuk “artisanal” malware implicated in newspaper print-plant hacks. reCAPTCHA gets captchu’d, again. The Dark Overlord teases some pretty dull stuff, a step ahead of the law and Pastebin content moderators. PewDiePie followers continue to pester Internet users. And there’s a new play about Reality Winner, the alleged NSA leaker. Johannes Ullrich from SANS and the ISC Stormcast podcast on cold boot attacks on laptops. Guest is Sarah Squire from Ping Identity with results from a survey on consumer response to breaches. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2019_01_03.html Support our show
Il gruppo hacker The Dark Overlord minaccia di distribuire 18.000 documenti rubati alle tre più grandi assicurazioni del mondo contenenti i dettagli dell'attacco al World Trade Center del settembre 2001. --- Hackers Threaten to Dump Insurance Files Related to 9/11 Attacks - Motherboard
A daily look at the relevant information security news from overnight.Episode 53 - 02 January, 2019First data breach takes less then 24 hours - https://www.cbronline.com/news/2019s-first-data-breachBCBS of Michigan breached - https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/bcbs-of-michigan-data-breach-may-have-affected-15-000-medicare-members.htmlTown of Salem game hacked - https://www.spieltimes.com/featured/massive-town-of-salem-data-breach-over-7-million-accounts-compromised/Dark Overlord hacks 9/11 documents - https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/dark-overlord-rings-in-new-year-with-threat-to-release-9-11-related-docs-pilfered-from-law-firm/Vietnam’s anti-privacy law - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/681373274/to-the-dismay-of-free-speech-advocates-vietnam-rolls-out-controversial-cyber-law
This week the gang sits down with Mr. Bubz's owner, Lizze Gordon, (AKA the Motherwife!) to talk about the internet's new top dog, what it's like to be the mother of a viral hit, and why Mr. Bubz decided to go with Spreadshop for his custom merch shop! "Just looking at the site and how easy it is to manage as a creative myself. It was a no-brainer. It’s just so simple. You upload the image, you launch it, you design it yourself, or you can have someone design it for you, its too easy. And I’ve got other stuff going on in my life, the less I have to worry about, branding the dark prince, the better, you know? What I like about Spreadshop is my fans can go in there and pick the color of the shirt they want, we get inspired by their designs just as they do ours. And it’s so fun and I love they can go in there and make their own phrase." - Motherwife Insert your demonic hissing sounds here! And ALL HAIL MR. BUBZ!
What the hell was the point of the Laser Spectrometric Sampler Telescope thing??? Who keeps a Neutron Disintegrator in a closet that can be accessed by simply kicking the door open? WHY IS THIS MOVIE SO AWESOME???? (Or is it, I don't want to spoil the ending :) ) Howard is officially 3'2" tall and he's armed and dangerous!! Is he really Beverly's boyfrienc? Does that skip into some wierd territory? We try to answer all of those questions. We hope. If you haven't been kidnapped by a Dark Overlord (or Prinicpal Rooney), take a moment an leave us some feedback on our Facebok page https://www.facebook.com/wriosmr/ or email us at wrios2016mr@gmail.com or catch us Twitter @OurshelvesW
E.G talks about The Infamous Hacker Group "The Dark Overlord" also Goes in on T.I and his run in with the police.T.I. was adamant he didn't deserve to be arrested for an incident with the security guard at his gated community, because he was just trying to ask the guy some questions ... according to security footage from the jail. In the vid -- obtained by TMZ -- the rapper's pretty calm and collected while going through the booking process at the Henry County Jail in Georgia early Wednesday morning ... until he tries to get an explanation from the cop who arrested him. That's when the officer tells Tip he was "acting a fool" ... which he strongly denies. T.I. claims it's his right as a homeowner in the community to question the security guard working the gate, but as you can see ... the cop disagrees. Eventually the cop and T.I. do come to an agreement, though ... to settle matters in court.
When 10 million patient records were posted for sale on the dark web, a hacker collective called the Dark Overlord took credit for the data dump. The mysterious group's taunting attacks underscored a much larger problem for healthcare: cybersecurity. Read the full story here. http://www.hcanews.com/news/defending-your-data-from-the-dark-overlord
Our best moments of 2017. Silicon Valley's reaction to Trump's immigration ban. Snapchat's IPO makes one high school $24 million. The Dark Overlord. Is Zuck running for president? Google I/O highlights. Amazon buys Whole Foods. Travis Kalanick out as Uber CEO. Google's viral anti-diversity memo. Jerry Pournelle, 8/7/1933 - 9/8/2017. KFC follows 11 herbs and spices. iPhone X: best launch in history. Animoji karaoke. The life lessons from Grandpa that made Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world. Happy Holidays! Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Bandwidth for This Week in Tech is provided by CacheFly. Sponsor: GoToWebinar.com/podcast
Hey everyone sorry for not posting in a while had some crazy stuff happen and had to take care of it, but here we are on our 9th episode in this one we talk about the marvel masterpeice directed by Greorge Lucus, and cost more than The Return of the Jedi..... Yes we are talking about Howard the Duck!!!! (just in case i was using sarcasm if you couldnt tell) Come listen to us tear in this 1986 flop of a movie about a chain smoking FOWL mouth washed up guitarist duck known as Howard who gets sucked onto earth where he meets Beve (Lea Tompson) and they go from trying to get him home to working in a sleazy hot tub joint , to fight off a interstellar Dark Overlord with a black belt in Quack-FU! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itcamefrom-thevideostore/support
There's little time to celebrate our 50th episode, because there are rants to be had about MailChimp's switch to single opt-in, Graham upsets Piers Morgan on Twitter, and the Dark Overlord hacking gang are up to some pretty horrid tricks. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who didn't bother to organise a special guest this week. Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes. Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
In this episode of Indie Film Weekly, No Film School co-hosts Liz Nord, Jon Fusco, and Emily Buder discuss the camera that Panasonic hopes will win back indie DPs, and the threat holding Hollywood ransom. We also uncover the indie heart of the Wonder Woman phenomenon, and how its director Patty Jenkins' next move is coming directly to a niche streaming service near you. The episode goes into Apple's first original program, and says goodbye to Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace from the ‘Wallace and Gromit’ films and a true supporter of independent filmmakers. Charles Haine joins us for an update from the Cine Gear Expo—including Panasonic's EVA1—and more gear news. In Ask No Film School, Elise McCave from Kickstarter shares some do's and don'ts for crowdfunding your film. As always, we also bring you the latest gear news, upcoming grant and festival deadlines, this week’s indie film releases, and other notable things you might have missed while you were busy making films. You can see all the links from this show in this week’s podcast post at nofilmschool.com
Social Improv Extravaganza In this episode, our hosts start out with some newly played games. Everyone tried out a prototype game from a friend, Adrian and Jeff got to finally experience Unfair, and Adrian continues to be infatuated with Tramways and Food Chain Magnate. In the News section, CMON picks up yet another person and announces a miniatures games based on the A Song of Ice and Fire Universe, and Games Workshop slowly catches up with the present. In Kickstarters, Restoration Games brings back Stop Thief!, Solstice and Dinosaur Island are getting ready to finish, and an expansion for Pursuit of Happiness is announced. Our Hosts then move on to the Game(s) Review of the week, Aye Dark Overlord!, Snake Oil, and Spyfall. Do these social, improvisationally-based games have what it takes to bring something new to a game group? Or do these games not have enough to separate themselves from the shadow of party games likes Cards against Humanity? Find out inside! Another email closes out the show. 00:00:46 Banter! Featuring: Fast Casual Dining, Playtests with Sounding Board Co, Power Grid: The Card Game, Captain Sonar, Unfair, Tramways, Food Chain Magnate 00:19:31 News and Kickstarters! 00:19:50 Eric Lang hired by CMoN 00:22:28 A Song of Ice & Fire Tabletop Minis Game 00:26:55 TMG selling shares for equity 00:32:40 Games Workshop repeals online sales ban 00:34:57 Gloomhaven reprint split from Founders of Gloomhaven Kickstarter 00:36:35 Stop Thief! 00:39:43 Solstice 00:42:20 Dinosaur Island 00:44:56 The Pursuit of Happiness: Community 00:48:01 MHGG Review: Games with an improv twist! 00:48:33 Aye, Dark Overlord 01:04:02 Snake Oil 01:16:49 Spyfall 01:33:01 Final discussion of all 3 01:40:04 Emails, contacts, and sign-off!
7 Wonders Duel With the end of our 2nd giveaway, this episode starts out with a recap of newly played games. Jeff gives us his first impressions on Diamonds and Aye, Dark Overlord before Zach and Adrian give a rundown of the experience at GenghisCon over the weekend. Zach finally got a chance to try out RoboRally, and Adrian played The Dragon and Flagon and had another try at The Colonists. In the News Section, The Incident at Outpost 31, a boardgame based on “The Thing”, a New Eldritch Horror Expansion, and more details of Pandemic Legacy Season 2 come out in the form of the back of the box. In a short Kickstarter Section, a set of expansions for the Champions of Midgard and Tramway’s New York and Paris Maps are mentioned. Our hosts then move on the Game Review of the Week, 7 Wonders Duel. Does this game use the correct resources to extract the best parts of 7 Wonders into a 2 Player specific game? Or does building these Wonders leave you wanting more? Does the Expansion add enough to the game to be worth it? Find out inside! The winner of the 2nd Giveaway is announced and an answer to a twitter question finishes out the show. 00:00:57 Banter! Featuring: Diamonds, Aye Dark Overlord, GhengisCon, Podracing: Gambler's Gauntlet, Kings Cribbage, Vinhos, RoboRally, Dragon & Flagon, Colonists, At the Gates of Loyang, and a fan experience! 00:40:56 News & Kickstarters! 00:41:02 New T.I.M.E. Stories expansions announced 00:41:41 The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 00:43:35 New Eldritch Horror Expansion 00:44:18 Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 info!! 00:48:17 Black Orchestra 00:49:40 Champions of Midgard: The Expansions 00:53:35 Tramways: Paris and New York 00:55:55 MHGG Review: 7 Wonders: Duel 01:26:46 MHGG's Imperial Settlers Giveaway Results!! 01:29:45 Contest Feedback, Contact Info and Closeouts
Episode 21: Last Will Opening up the episode, our hosts catch up on all the gaming they have been doing, including Adrian’s game-filled Snowboarding trips and a trio of newly played games, Inis, Cry Havoc, and Concordia. Jeff finally gets himself a win in this week’s Bloody Minute. They then move onto the news, including a new edition of Aye, Dark Overlord! and the recent BGGCon. In recent Kickstarters, a bunch of interesting ones are currently active, including Wordsy from Gil Hova and the highest funded Tiny Epic game, Tiny Epic Quest. In the review section, our hosts try and figure out the worst way to spend money and see if Last Will and its expansion is worth it. The show closes out with another email. 00:00:47 - Banter! Games discussed include: Space Cadets, D&D 4th Ed, Jeff's Bloody Minute, Hero Realms, Inis, Cry Havok, Concordia 00:09:53 Bloody Minute 00:21:04 News and Kickstarer Round up 00:21:10 Munchkin X-man & Munchkin CCG 00:23:41 X-Com Expansion 00:25:23 Aye, Dark Overlord 00:26:47 BGGcon is over, future convention plans. 00:31:11 Mythic Battles: Pantheon 00:33:34 Bears Vs Babies is wrapped up 00:34:53 MegaMan Pixel Tactics 00:35:34 Tiny Epic Kingdom 00:36:21 Wordsy 00:37:17 Lisboa 00:38:36 Feudum 00:40:18 Man vs Meeple 00:41:29 MHGG Review: Last Will 00:41:50 Game Overview 00:42:41 Initial Thoughts 00:46:29 Components and Art 00:47:37 Gameplay 00:53:34 Rules 00:55:20 Expansion: Getting Sacked 01:02:11 Final Thoughts 01:04:54 Listener Email, Closing Thoughts and Contact Info
Clear Business Directory Listen in as we discuss Star Wars and Business Transparency with Ruke of BlinkStyle.com What do Star Wars and website design have in common? Listen in as we talk to the Dark Overlord of Business himself, Ruke of Blink Media. Ruke has been a creative artist since third grade and operates his business with galactic proportions of integrity. Listen in as we discuss #TheGreatestStarWarsCollection ever and the questions you [...] Listen in as we discuss Star Wars and Business Transparency with Ruke of BlinkStyle.com Clear Business Directory
What do Star Wars and website design have in common? Listen in as we talk to the Dark Overlord of Business himself, Ruke of Blink Media. Ruke has been a creative artist since third grade and operates his business with galactic proportions of integrity. Listen in as we discuss #TheGreatestStarWarsCollection ever and the questions you [...]
Sean and Chris start out So Bad They're Still Bad month with a film that is widely considered to be one of the worst of all time: Howard the Duck. The film follows the titular character as he is unwittingly transported to Earth. There he falls in love with Beverly (Lea Thompson), is annoyed by Phil (Tim Robbins), and must fight the Dark Overlord of the Universe (Jeffrey Jones). It's a film like only George Lucas can present complete with duck sex and duck tits.As always, you can follow Chris Stachiw on Twitter at @KultureStach, Sean Liang at @Seannifer and Kulture Shocked at @KultureShocked. You can also subscribe to the Kulturecast on iTunes here. Also, don't forget to check out our official Facebook page for news, upcoming reviews, contests, and new content.
Neste Episódio #38 do Ludocast Brasil falamos sobre as mecânicas que envolvem os jogos de tabuleiro. Quando você rola um dado, a forma que pode mover uma peça ou até como comprar e usar as cartas, tudo isso são exemplos de mecânicas que estão difundidas em muitos dos jogos. Existem 51 mecânicas nos mais de 77.000 jogos de tabuleiros existentes. Entenda um pouco desse universo e descubra qual a sua favorita. Participantes: Emerson Lopes, Fel Barros, LucasPereira, Groo, Ricardo Gama e Vegeta Mecânicas citadas no cast: Ação Simultânea, Ação/Movimento Programado, Administração de Cartas, Alocação de Trabalhadores, Apostas, Atuação, Campanhas/Batalhas Dirigidas por Cartas, Cantar, Cerco de Área, Colecionar Componentes, Colocação de Peças,Construção a partir de Modelo, Construção de Baralho, Construção de Rotas, Controle de área/Influência de Área, Cooperativo, Desenhar, Desenhar Rota com Lápis, Eliminação de Jogadores, Especulação Financeira, Force sua sorte, Reconhecimento de Padrão, Impulso de Área, Jogadores com Diferentes Habilidades, Jogos em Equipe, Leilão, Marcadores e Hexágonos, Memória, Mercado de Ações, Movimento de Área, Movimento em Grades, Movimento Ponto-a-Ponto, Narração de Histórias, Negociação, Ordem de Fases Variável, Papel e Caneta, Pedra, Papel e Tesoura, Pegar e Entregar, Posicionamento Secreto, Rolagem de Dados, Rolar e Mover, RPG, Seleção de Cartas, Simulação, Sistema de Pontos de Ação, Sistema por Impulsos, Tabuleiro Modular, Linha do Tempo, Toma essa, Vazas/Truque, Votação Se você encontrar alguma descrição de mecânica que gostaria de melhorar, escreva nos comentários desse podcast ou deixe uma mensagem no Fale Conosco. Jogos citados no cast: The Game of Life, Monopoly,Senet,Tic-Tac-Toe,Gekido, King of Tokyo, Tales & Games: The Three Little Pigs, Dominion, Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends, Ubongo, Takenoko, Jungle Speed, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Tsuro, Carcassonne, Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords, Eclipse, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition), Tikal, Bullfrogs, El Grande, Dominant Species, Conquest of the Empire, Go, Terra Mystica, Hey, That's My Fish!, Through the Desert, Hex, Agricola, Zombicide, War, Pandemic, Eldritch Horror, Arkham Horror, Chinese Checkers / Stern-Halma, Imperial, Xadrez, Checkers, Descent: Journeys in the Dark (second edition), Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set, Steam, Age of Steam, Railways of the World, Merchants & Marauders, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Merchant of Venus (second edition), Power Grid, Planet Steam, Black Gold, Modern Art, Goa, RoboRally, Space Alert, duck! duck! Go!, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, Colt Express, Ca$h 'n Guns (second edition), 7 Wonders, Cuba, Dixit, Runewars, Tannhäuser, Kemet, Merlin, Key Market, Village, Alien Frontiers, Puerto Rico, Thebes, World of Warcraft Miniatures Game, Stronghold, LEVEL 7 [Omega Protocol], Tokaido, Twilight Imperium (second edition), Archipelago, The Settlers of Catan, Zaubercocktail, Lifeboat, The Resistance, The Sheep Race, Inner Circle, Horse Fever, Munchkin, Muffin Games, Spartacus, Werewolf, Battlestar Galactica, Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue, Pandemic On The Brink, Bang! The Dice Game, Wiz-War, Bang!, Love Letter, Coup, Masmorra de Dados, Imperial Settlers, Seasons, Quarriors!, StarCraft: The Board Game, Mage Knight,Thunderstone, Tanto Cuore, Star Realms, Warzoo, Mage Wars Arena, Uno, Neuroshima Hex!, Race for the Galaxy, Arcania, High Frontier, Ouro de Tolo, Formula D, Zombie Dice, Brass, Citadels, Ticket To Ride, Thurn and Taxis, Elfenland, Giants, Empire Builder, String Railway, Stratego, Interpol, Fury of Dracula, Dungeons & Dragons: Attack Wing – Starter Set, Twilight Struggle, Memoir ‘44, BattleLore (Second Edition), Jogo da Fronteira / Hart an der Grenze, Aye, Dark Overlord!, Imagem & Ação, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem (second edition) Links: Logo da Ludopedia Funcionalidade de Pesquisa avançada para filtrar por Mecânicas Novo no Jogo: Mecânicas, Mecânicas, Mecânicas!!! - Groo Complementação do post "Mecânicas, mecânicas, mecânicas! - Gabi
Neste Episódio #38 do Ludocast Brasil falamos sobre as mecânicas que envolvem os jogos de tabuleiro. Quando você rola um dado, a forma que pode mover uma peça ou até como comprar e usar as cartas, tudo isso são exemplos de mecânicas que estão difundidas em muitos dos jogos. Existem 51 mecânicas nos mais de 77.000 jogos de tabuleiros existentes. Entenda um pouco desse universo e descubra qual a sua favorita. Participantes: Emerson Lopes, Fel Barros, LucasPereira, Groo, Ricardo Gama e Vegeta Mecânicas citadas no cast: Ação Simultânea, Ação/Movimento Programado, Administração de Cartas, Alocação de Trabalhadores, Apostas, Atuação, Campanhas/Batalhas Dirigidas por Cartas, Cantar, Cerco de Área, Colecionar Componentes, Colocação de Peças,Construção a partir de Modelo, Construção de Baralho, Construção de Rotas, Controle de área/Influência de Área, Cooperativo, Desenhar, Desenhar Rota com Lápis, Eliminação de Jogadores, Especulação Financeira, Force sua sorte, Reconhecimento de Padrão, Impulso de Área, Jogadores com Diferentes Habilidades, Jogos em Equipe, Leilão, Marcadores e Hexágonos, Memória, Mercado de Ações, Movimento de Área, Movimento em Grades, Movimento Ponto-a-Ponto, Narração de Histórias, Negociação, Ordem de Fases Variável, Papel e Caneta, Pedra, Papel e Tesoura, Pegar e Entregar, Posicionamento Secreto, Rolagem de Dados, Rolar e Mover, RPG, Seleção de Cartas, Simulação, Sistema de Pontos de Ação, Sistema por Impulsos, Tabuleiro Modular, Linha do Tempo, Toma essa, Vazas/Truque, Votação Se você encontrar alguma descrição de mecânica que gostaria de melhorar, escreva nos comentários desse podcast ou deixe uma mensagem no Fale Conosco. Jogos citados no cast: The Game of Life, Monopoly,Senet,Tic-Tac-Toe,Gekido, King of Tokyo, Tales & Games: The Three Little Pigs, Dominion, Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends, Ubongo, Takenoko, Jungle Speed, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Tsuro, Carcassonne, Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords, Eclipse, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition), Tikal, Bullfrogs, El Grande, Dominant Species, Conquest of the Empire, Go, Terra Mystica, Hey, That's My Fish!, Through the Desert, Hex, Agricola, Zombicide, War, Pandemic, Eldritch Horror, Arkham Horror, Chinese Checkers / Stern-Halma, Imperial, Xadrez, Checkers, Descent: Journeys in the Dark (second edition), Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set, Steam, Age of Steam, Railways of the World, Merchants & Marauders, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Merchant of Venus (second edition), Power Grid, Planet Steam, Black Gold, Modern Art, Goa, RoboRally, Space Alert, duck! duck! Go!, Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game, Colt Express, Ca$h 'n Guns (second edition), 7 Wonders, Cuba, Dixit, Runewars, Tannhäuser, Kemet, Merlin, Key Market, Village, Alien Frontiers, Puerto Rico, Thebes, World of Warcraft Miniatures Game, Stronghold, LEVEL 7 [Omega Protocol], Tokaido, Twilight Imperium (second edition), Archipelago, The Settlers of Catan, Zaubercocktail, Lifeboat, The Resistance, The Sheep Race, Inner Circle, Horse Fever, Munchkin, Muffin Games, Spartacus, Werewolf, Battlestar Galactica, Zombicide Season 3: Rue Morgue, Pandemic On The Brink, Bang! The Dice Game, Wiz-War, Bang!, Love Letter, Coup, Masmorra de Dados, Imperial Settlers, Seasons, Quarriors!, StarCraft: The Board Game, Mage Knight,Thunderstone, Tanto Cuore, Star Realms, Warzoo, Mage Wars Arena, Uno, Neuroshima Hex!, Race for the Galaxy, Arcania, High Frontier, Ouro de Tolo, Formula D, Zombie Dice, Brass, Citadels, Ticket To Ride, Thurn and Taxis, Elfenland, Giants, Empire Builder, String Railway, Stratego, Interpol, Fury of Dracula, Dungeons & Dragons: Attack Wing – Starter Set, Twilight Struggle, Memoir ‘44, BattleLore (Second Edition), Jogo da Fronteira / Hart an der Grenze, Aye, Dark Overlord!, Imagem & Ação, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem (second edition) Links: Logo da Ludopedia Funcionalidade de Pesquisa avançada para filtrar por Mecânicas Novo no Jogo: Mecânicas, Mecânicas, Mecânicas!!! - Groo Complementação do post "Mecânicas, mecânicas, mecânicas! - Gabi
“Howard the Duck! Boom!” Sådan gik mange sikkert storsyngende ud af de danske biografer tilbage i december i 1986, Eller også skyndte de sig væk og forsøgte at glemme det de lige havde overværet. Mange psykologers sommerhuse er sikkert blevet betalt pga. regningerne for at have behandlet eftervirkningerne af denne “duck out of water”-komedie fra en af de største instruktører og producere, som Hollywood nogensinde har set. Manden bag “Howard the Duck” er selveste mr. George Lucas og ham kan vi godt lide her ved De Gnavne Filmnørder: ingen tvivl om det. Han har ikke selv instrueret filmen, men fingeraftrykket er så stort, at man ikke er i tvivl om hans genialitet. Undervejs i dette podcast bliver der bl.a. snakket om duck tits, manglen på lummerhed, Lea Thompsons hotness, Howard the Ducks fantastiske kostume, Jeffrey Jones som Dark Overlord, hvordan Tim Robbins nogensinde fik lov til at lave endnu en film efter hans præstation i denne film og ikke mindst om måleenheden “fod” er den samme på andeplaneten som på Jorden? God fornøjelse.
Horror! Medo! Desespero! Sofrimento! No episódio desta semana nos reunimos para analisarmos o filme Howard o Super-herói! Lançado em 1986! E para a alegria do Exumador vocês irão ouvir nossa conversa sobre George Lucas, Super-heróis aves e é claro sobre o incrível Dark Overlord do Mal! Então aumente seu iPod porque mais um Podtrash está no ar! Duração: 78'31'' Média TD1P: 3,4 ELENCO Almighty, o Estagiário do mal! Bruno "Gunfree" Gunter Demétrius, o Anjo Grego Douglas Fricke, o Exumador de filmes CONVIDADO ESPECIAL Alexandre Nerdmaster Paranerdia EXTRAS DESTE PODTRASH Howard the Duck no IMDb Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness Doctor Mordrid Podtrash 42 - Capitão América contra os Carcamanos Mulher-hulk do John Byrne Tributo ao Howard o Pato! FEEDS E LINKS DO PODTRASH Podtrash na iTunes Store Feed completo do Podtrash Feed sem os Lado B Feed do Lado B Canal do Podtrash no Youtuner CONTATOS DO PODTRASH podtrash@td1p.com Siga nosso perfil do Twitter Curta nossa Fanpage do Facebook Coluna do Podtrash no Cinemasmorra Caixa Postal 34012 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP 22460-970 CAPA DESTE PODTRASH Arte Megalovaxfoda do Marcelo Damm! Visitem a fanpage do Marcelo!
Junkies, don your armor and grab your weapons, because the GFL series is about to invade bookstores all over the US and Canada. We’re thrilled to announce the creation of Dark Øverlord Paperbacks, an imprint of Diversion Books. Dark Overlord/Diversion will publish trade paperback versions of THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER, which are scheduled to hit stores on August 7, 2012. And yeah, all-new covers. Bøøm. We’re wicked like that. Take a listen to the short interview Scott and I did with Scott Waxman, Chairman and Co-founder of Diversion Books to learn all about this exciting news. The audio is a bit wonky in a couple of places, but we thought it was worth it to share the good news quickly. This is one more step on our quest for world døminatiøn. The US and Canada will be the first to fall. All your bookstores are belong to us. Here’s a link to the press release at Diversion Books.
by The Pulp Gamer CrewWe go way over the top, starting with Brenda's Geek Scouts troop - what the heck is that? Our main topic: comedy in your roleplaying game. Roleplaying games include Underground, Paranoia, Feng Shui, and Toon. Card Games include Munchkin and Aye, Dark Overlord.