For the third consecutive year, the Marseille Web Fest unveils its official selection of 25 web series. This year, the official selection focuses on the quality and originality of the web-series. This selection validated by a committee of french experts from audiovisual and media, is made ​​from specific qualitative criteria: (script, directing, acting, technical skills, etc..). With this official "labeling", selected works will also benefit from the promotion and awareness always increasing of the Marseille Web Fest.

Continued at Marseille Web Fest.

Watch the Marseille Web Fest Trailer.

Watch Universal Dead.

io9: Is there any scientific basis, however tenuous, for sharknado?

Thunder Levin: Yes.

Continued at io9.

Blomkamp wrote the script with Terri Tatchell. Simon Kinberg is producing the character-driven movie.

Continued at The Wrap.

AND

Guillermo del Toro Says It's "Very Unlikely" HELLBOY 3 Will Happen; Talks Difficulty of Getting the Sequel Off the Ground
by Adam Chitwood
Fan enthusiasm for a third Hellboy movie from director Guillermo del Toro has ceased to wane in the years since the 2008 release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but movement on the sequel has thus far failed to materialize. Del Toro has become a (deservingly) beloved director in the filmmaking community over the years, and he has proven adept at telling engrossing stories through his own unique eye, leading to some rather high-profile gigs. The director has finally been handed the reins to a giant studio tentpole with this summer's Pacific Rim, and he's already lined up a ghost story called Crimson Peak as his follow-up film. Nevertheless, the looming question of when/if Hellboy 3 will come to fruition remains.

Continued at Collider.

And even stranger than that? The commenters all have their own ideas of what the most disturbing scenes were, far beyond writer Rob Bricken's 15.

Read the full article with videos at io9.

ADDENDUM

Speaking of the folks behind MSTK3,
Do Not Forget that this Thursday, August 15th at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville, is the result of Rifftrax glorious KickStarter campaign (they wanted to riff on TWILIGHT. That fell through, BUT...!)

The guys got an agreement with Sony Pictures for STARSHIP TROOPERS!

Fans of the movie STARSHIP TROOPERS will love it!

Or they'll despise it. Personally I don't care because I totally want to see RiffTrax unmercifully gut STARSHIP TROOPERS!

RiffTrax KickStarter.

PLUS

The Ring Style Wake Up Prank! - - Waking up to a Ghost coming out of TV
In case you haven't seen it yet, The RING Prank! One Boyfriend, one Girlfriend, one dubious sense of humor.

Ring Style.

Dragon Con will Continue the Agreements With Hotels, Guests and Performers.

ATLANTA – July 8, 2013 – The Board of Directors and Shareholders of Dragon Con / ACE, Inc., producer of Dragon*Con, Atlanta's internationally known pop culture, fantasy and sci-fi convention, have agreed to merge the company into Dragon Con, Inc. (Dragon Con) in a cash-out merger.

Led by Pat Henry, David Cody and Robert Dennis, ownership of Dragon Con includes five of the six founding owners of Dragon Con / ACE (the old Dragon Con). The effective date of the merger is July 8, 2013.

Edward Kramer, who has not had any role in managing or organizing the convention since 2000, was offered cash for his shares in the old company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

"This decision only affects the ownership of the old Dragon Con," said Pat Henry, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dragon Con. "Our members and others who attend Dragon*Con 2013 will experience the same fantastic convention they have come to expect from us."

Dragon Con will continue the agreements with each of the host and overflow hotels associated with the convention as well as all of the guests and performers scheduled to appear at this year's event, either "as is" or with amendments recognizing Dragon Con as owner.