San Diego Comic-Con 2011 – the highlights

This years Comic-Con has just taken place in San Diego.

Over four days the convention took in everything from previews of new TV series Alcatraz (from Losts’, J J Abrams and Elizabeth Sarnoff), a season six trailer for Dexter, Jurassic Park 4 updates from Steven Spielberg, scenes from the soon to be relaunched Beavis & Butthead, the return of Pee Wee Herman and panel conversations with stars of the new Amazing Spider-Man reboot and the Total Recall remake.

The lovely people over at Empire Magazine have put together what they’re calling a, megavideblogisode (or a highlights video for those of you who don’t like made-up words) featuring amongst others, Peter Jackson, Colin Farrell, Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Cage,  Hugh Jackman and Idris Elba.

Embrace your inner film/comic/sci-fi geek and check it out here.

Herman’s no longer a hermit

Freaky american man-boy, surrealist-retard and cinema masturbator, Pee Wee Herman is making a comeback.

Pee Wee Herman was huge in America during the 80’s. His show (which originated as an innuendo-heavy stage act) debuted as a HBO special in 1981. Then Pee Wee hit the big time, starring in, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure in 1985, where the character toned down the adult innuendo to get the kids onboard.

Another film, Big Top Pee-wee, followed in 1988 and a TV series, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, ran from 1986 to 1991 on CBS.

Then in 1991, the man behind Pee-Wee, Paul Reubens was arrested after being caught wanking in a public theatre. Oh dear (chuckle, fnar)!

Since then, Reubens’ career has been inevitably almost non-existant, popping up in semi-flop, dark horse comic adaptation, Mystery Men in 1999 and then in August 2006, reappearing on late night American cable screens with a re-airing of Pee-wee’s Playhouse on Adult Swim.

Anyway, rumour has it that known fan and current Hollywood comedy darling, Judd Apatow is set to produce a comeback movie for old Pee Wee with Universal.

Read all about it over at the Empire magazine site here.