Media Hijinks - Good News, Bad News, AWESOME News

This week in media news, I bring to you a bit of fun, a bit of bad news, something completely altogether useless, and the best news ever for Hannibal fans.  Fill in the blanks that I intentionally left there in my teaser by continuing to read on.

The first is a clever little project put together by those folks over at Machinima.  What happens when you take super hero and video game fanatics, lock them in a room and then tell them to produce something or you’ll not be giving them any beer?  Well, this Man of Steel trailer made completely with Minecraft graphics is one brilliant example of this liquor-starved creativity.  They put a lot of time and effort into this, so you should click on the link to check it out. 

Next up, some not-so-good news from reboot land.  It appears that Hollywood truly has run out of ideas.  The absolute proof of this is the news that they’ll be rebooting the Leprechaun franchise.  You remember that horribly cheesy flick from 1993 that had poor Warwick Davis dressed up as a little Irish monster and killing people?  Yeah, that’s the one.  Worse yet, the line-up of people involved in it so far doesn’t look too impressive, but I guess what can you expect?  Check out all the details by clicking here.

The next bit is kind of pointless, but fun none-the-less.  The Facebook blew up the other day with recycled versions of the following picture and a pile of speculation on whether Patrick Stewart’s twitter announcement was indeed as literal as it seems.  But seriously, no pizza ever?

And the final bit of news, the official announcement that NBC has picked up Hannibal for a second season.  This one pleases me to no end, since it’s probably my favorite show on television right now.  I know there’s more than a few of you out there that will also be peeing your seats about now.  So get ready for the lovable doctor to chow down on some more unfortunate folks while making the people around him slowly go insane.

Don’t forget to check back next week when I will hopefully have even more good news to report.  But most likely it will be more stuff along the lines of the Leprechaun reboot.

Hannibal promo courtesy of heavy.com

Patrick Stewart eating pizza courtesy of The Mary Sue

Mine of Steel video courtesy of machinima