Author: Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

Once upon a time ago, I was anti- WoW.  Mostly because I lived through the craziness of “The Sims”, and new I had lost DAYS of my life to sitting there for 14+ hours playing.   And then I fell prey to peer pressure, and started my first character. That was six years ago, and […]

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It’s been quite awhile since AMC’s The Walking Dead shambled onto Sunday night television, and I have to say, I’m kind of glad.  The strength of the past two seasons has been in it’s characters, mostly Carol and Darryl.  Carryl?  Darrol?  What is the appropriate pairing name for those two, anyway?  It looks like 17.3 million total […]

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The internet lit up today when rumors of a possible Labyrinth sequel spread faster than glitter on a fantasy film set.  This story steams from an interview with Billy Crystal over on Variety, where a mention at the VERY bottom of the piece says that Lisa Henson CEO of Jim Henson Studios is working on these […]

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Everyone’s favorite Batman from The Lego Movie is getting his own movie.  No, seriously, it’s happening. Will Arnett will be returning to voice the character. The Hollywood Reporter goes on to say Warner Brothers is eyeing a 2017 release for the spinoff, possibly even on the original date for Lego Movie 2. The next Lego movie […]

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Earlier today at New York Comic Con (NYCC) Disney and Marvel announced their plans for an upcoming series for Disney XD about everyone’s favorite marvelous group of misfits, The Guardians Of The Galaxy. Here is the test footage shown during the panel: We don’t have an official word on the voice cast, nor the air date, […]

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We are VERY happy to report the newest femme fatale to join the ranks of “Bond Girl” has been announced today.  Lea Seydoux (Midnight In Paris, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) will star opposite Daniel Craig in Sam Mendes’ upcoming 24th instalment. The yet unnamed Bond film is set to begin filming in around six weeks time.

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It seems like that long standing, long awaited Ghostbusters 3 film with the original cast isn’t going to happen.  In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, the director of the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot Paul Feig said “I love the first one so much, I don’t want to do anything to ruin the memory of that.  So it […]

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While many other sites have been reporting this development as tied into the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek VII, it would appear that isn’t the case.  Because, well, DARTH VADER DIED. As we reported previously this week, the new Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels was picked up for a full second season before it’s pilot even aired. […]

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When Brad Bird was asked about his film Tomorrowland he had this to offer: “We begin our movie asking what did [the future] used to be?” Bird says. “What’s good about the future and what’s scary about it? And we wrestle with those things in a slightly mythical way.” Here is the first teaser trailer for the […]

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