FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 2018

BLACK MIRROR in real life: The Swedes appear to have embarked on an audacious project resembling something from an episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror; they intend to make fully conscious copies of the dead in a bid to offer digital immortality.

NASA captures Jupiter’s south pole as you’ve never seen it before

KFC says sorry for not having enough chicken..

Flu cases finally begin to fall *(and I got it*)

A New York man says he kicked Chevy Chase in self-defense after the comedian climbed into a vehicle and tried to punch him during a profanity-laced traffic dispute.

Oprah 2020: She says NO NO NO NO..

Lisa Marie Presley sues former manager for $100 mil after announcing massive debt..

Will BLACK PANTHER movie success equal toy success?

Deadline reports today that King’s The Bone Church, a poem the horror master wrote in the ’60s, has been acquired by Chris Long and David Ayer’s Cedar Park Entertainment. The plan? To develop the poem into a television series

Camp Crystal Lake, the fictional location of the 80s horror flick Friday the 13th, is really Warren County’s Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a camp owned by the Boy Scouts of America and not open to the public.

LOGAN director James Mandgold speaks about PG related violence in movies.. “I have a lot of misgivings about violence and PG ratings. A PG film might show hundreds of people dying, falling off buildings, getting mowed down by rapid-fire guns, but you don’t feel the deaths because the ratings system dictates the amount of agony being played by the actor. In a weird way, that makes violence more palatable because when we excise the upsetting bits, we de-sensitize ourselves to death to the point where it’s almost like shooting ducks at a carnival.”..

 BATGIRL may still happen: Michelle Wells, an executive VP at Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertain, has reached out to “Black Panther: World of Wakanda” comics writer Roxanne Gay following Gay’s expression of interest in writing the live-action “Batgirl” film on social media. Gay sent out the tweet: “Hey @DCComics I can write your Batgirl movie, no prob” to which Wells replied: “If you’re serious…contact me.”..