Venom by kg21 (deviantART)

SCI FI Wire talked to Paul Wer­nick who co-wrote the script for the Spider-Man spin-off Venom with Rhett Reese and it looks like Sony is going for­ward with the project. Accord­ing to Wer­nick “the project is still mov­ing for­ward and the writ­ing team has turned the script in to the suits at Sony”. Appar­ently, the stu­dio has two drafts of Venom to con­sider and is try­ing to fig­ure out its next step. It seems unlikely that Venom will hap­pen before Spider-Man 4, which the lat­est rumors have shoot­ing  in early 2010. Wer­nick was tight-lipped when asked about a pos­si­ble rela­tion­ship between the two movies.

I’d love to see a Venom movie, that’s for sure! And I know a bunch of peo­ple who’d sell their moth­ers to do so too. It will be inter­est­ing to see whether the film will ignore what’s hap­pened in Spider-Man 3 or starts fresh if they decide to go through with the project. I still hate the fact that Venom didn’t get enough screen-time in the third install­ment of the Spidey franchise.

Over the last few days I spent a lit­tle time on Word­Press, inter­est­ing plug-ins, and some set­tings. First of all, I improved your abil­ity to com­ment on my ram­blings. Now you have the power to con­ve­niently for­mat your text. In addi­tion, there’s a new option to keep you up to speed, if you decide to pro­duce some text. This option is dis­abled by default but you can turn it on by acti­vat­ing the check­box titled “Notify me of fol­lowup com­ments via e-mail”, which is located right under the text editor.

Next, I finally cus­tomized my 404 error page. The default page may be nice but I didn’t like it all that much. This isn’t a final ver­sion but it’s def­i­nitely bet­ter than its pre­de­ces­sor. In addi­tion, I fixed a few things which were bro­ken in IE. Nat­u­rally, this site is opti­mized for Fire­fox but the lay­out should now be the same on IE as well. If the site looks really messed up you can always fall back on Firefox.

Of course, I installed a few addi­tional plug-ins and opti­mized a few lines of code, even though PHP isn’t a script­ing lan­guage I’m very famil­iar with. Let’s just say that I removed a few unnec­es­sary PHP/MySQL calls by hard­cod­ing a few things as out­lined in this excel­lent arti­cle over at Dig­ging into Word­Press. Any­way, the site loads a tad faster and surely is a bit more con­ve­nient to use than it was before. Finally, thanks to Reg­is­ter Plus you can reg­is­ter more eas­ily now. Read more…

How to exclude an image from your gallery? That’s the ques­tion I’ve been ask­ing myself a few days ago. Obvi­ously, Word­Press doesn’t pro­vide a solu­tion for this action out of the box so I had to get some help. As usual, Google wasn’t shy and came up with a lot of sug­ges­tions. First, I tried to hack my functions.php accord­ing to this awe­some post from the devel­op­ment team at Code Greene. Yes, it worked out quite well but I didn’t like all the has­sle … and I kinda fried my functions.php because the pro­vided code was full of HTML enti­ties (you know, & instead of & and the like).

So, I had to look fur­ther and I stum­bled over a nice lit­tle plug-in called Cleaner Gallery. This plug-in mainly takes care of the invalid XHTML that Word­Press pro­duces when using the gallery short­code. Addi­tion­ally, it pro­vides the user with a few more fea­tures not the least of it the abil­ity to exclude or include any images from your gallery. Just install it, take a look at the pro­vided readme.html and there you go. Nice work!

Ever since I saw the trashy The Dark Side of the Moon back in the Nineties I was into sci-fi flicks. There are lots of other movies but this one I couldn’t for­get and I still know a few scenes. Of course, I absolutely loved Event Hori­zon and Sun­shine. And now there’s another movie promis­ing a nice mix con­sist­ing of sur­vival hor­ror and sci-fi ele­ments: Pan­do­rum.

I haven’t enjoyed any sci-fi movies lately. I hope this one’s good and worth the money. In any case, I rely on Cameron’s Avatar to once again blow me away like he did with Ter­mi­na­tor II but I’m digress­ing. Read more…

Yeah, right! Some­body posted the offi­cial trailer of the Boon­dock Saints sequel Boon­dock Saints II: All Saints Day over at YouTube.  Hon­estly, I don’t know what to expect from this sequel to one of my favorite movies but I’d love to see more right now. We got our broth­ers and their father back and a hot chick – Julie Benz (who plays Rita Ben­net in my favorite TV show Dex­ter) – joined the fray! Accord­ing to IMDB the movie is cur­rently slated for a Novem­ber 1 release. And here’s the trailer: