Will Perkins

Will Perkins

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Will Perkins is a film and game journalist and marketing professional based in Toronto, Ontario. He co-founded ThatShelf.com with Jeff Brown and Lucas Rizoli in 2009. He has contributed to such outlets as Yahoo Movies, Design Bureau, Kill Screen, Maxim and Steel Bananas – work that has afforded him the opportunity to interview some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers, actors, and game designers. Will is the former co-owner of Art of the Title.

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  • June 10, 2009
    Trailer for Scorsese’s Shutter Island

    Director Martin Scorsese hopes to continue his successful collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio in their new film Shutter Island.  The psychological thriller follows Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), a US Marshal investigating the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane located on a remote island. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKXCSyPjyD8[/youtube] Shutter Island is based off the novel of […]

  • June 10, 2009
    It Might Get Loud Trailer

    I missed director Davis Guggenheim‘s It Might Get Loud at the Toronto Film Festival last year since I had another movie to attend.  The documentary features Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2 and Jack White of The White Stripes/The Raconteurs talking about music and the power of the electric guitar.  The trailer […]

  • June 10, 2009
    Mickey Rourke is Steampunk He-Man

    Paramount Pictures has let slip the first official photo of Mickey Rourke as Ivan “Whiplash” Vanko in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2.  Rourke’s character is actually a combination of two Iron Man villains: Blacklash and a Russian villain Crimson Dynamo.  The photo no doubt represents an early iteration of the character in the film; as […]

  • June 8, 2009
    Cameron, Verbinksi, Snyder to join Fincher’s Heavy Metal

    Film School Rejects is reporting that directors James Cameron, Gore Verbinski and Zack Snyder have all signed on to produce segments for a new animated Heavy Metal film being helmed by David Fincher. According to the article, three other big name directors are also in negotiations to create segments for the film, but have not […]

  • June 8, 2009
    Retro Kick: Growing Up with Canadian TV

    We Canadians often take for granted or mock Canadian TV programming.  Our television tastes have broadened so much in the last decade or so, that we often see our own television industry as producing shows that are too hokey, too corny and even too Canadian for our sophisticated TV palettes.  This is not to say […]

  • June 4, 2009
    E3 Roundup: Day Three

    Day Three of the Electronic Entertainment Expo has just about come to a close in Los Angeles (Though this is technically Day Two of the official E3 Conference).  With the big three press conferences over, the rest of the convention focuses on announcements from individual developers and publishing companies. Today featured press events from THQ […]

  • June 3, 2009
    E3: Brütal Legend Trailer

    Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions was showing off his new action/adventure game Brütal Legend at E3 yesterday. The heavy-metal–themed game stars Jack Black as Eddie Riggs, a double axe wielding (both guitar and giant axe) roadie, and features such metal greats as Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead and the Prince of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne to […]

  • June 3, 2009
    Mashup: Han Solo, P.I.

    “Han Solo, P.I” is the creation of YouTube user TheCBVee. The video is a mashup of Star Wars and the 1980’s TV show Magnum, P.I. starring Tom Selleck.  Oh, internet you never cease to amaze me. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYntjR4-pY4[/youtube] The Star Wars spoof  is a painstaking shot for shot re-imagining of the original Magnum, P.I. intro sequence, as […]

  • June 2, 2009
    E3 Roundup: Day Two

    Day Two of the Electronic Entertainment Expo is in full swing.  Today saw Nintendo and Sony hold their annual E3 Press Conferences, and it was a big day for both companies.  There were some huge game announcements, new footage from hotly anticipated games and new hardware unveiled by both Nintendo and Sony.  Read Dork Shelf’s […]

  • June 1, 2009
    E3: Star Wars: The Old Republic Trailer

    The first trailer for BioWare‘s upcoming massively-multiplayer game Star Wars: The Old Republic debuted at E3 today.  The Canadian developer previously developed the single player Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic role-playing games. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmiFSbyGwE[/youtube] Is it me or is that trailer almost better than all of the Star Wars prequels combined?  Regardless, I’m sure […]

  • June 1, 2009
    E3 Roundup: Day One

    The Electronic Entertainment Expo—E3 kicked off with a bang in Los Angeles today.  Microsoft got the ball rolling with their press conference this morning, and they did not disappoint.  There were major game and peripheral announcements aplenty, as well as first looks and gameplay demonstrations for many sequels.  Check out all the highlights after the […]

  • May 30, 2009
    Great Moments in Stop Motion Animation

    When I was 10 years old my mother introduced my brother and me to Ray Harryhausen.  We watched Jack the Giant Killer, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and other films featuring Harryhausen’s amazing stop-motion effects.  By this point in my life I was already well versed in the works of George […]

  • May 29, 2009
    Danny McBride wants Hench Movie set in DC Universe

    Variety reported yesterday that a few of the guys behind HBO’s hilarious Eastbound & Down are set to develop a film based on the comic book Hench. Danny McBride, star of Eastbound & Down and the upcoming Land of the Lost is set to star in Hench, a movie about a retired football player who […]

  • May 28, 2009
    EcoComics: The Economics of a World with Superheroes

    EcoComics is a hilarious blog that applies real world economic and political science theories to the universes of Marvel and DC Comics.  The site discusses what the economic realities of a world full of superheroes and villains would be.  Among the topics discussed are how the recession is affecting comic book characters and the propensity […]

  • May 26, 2009
    Trailer for ’77

    A new trailer for ’77 has hit the net. ’77 (previously known as 5-25-77, the release date of the original Star Wars) is a coming of age story that focuses on a geeky high-school student and aspiring filmmaker named Pat (John Francis Daley of TV’s Freaks and Geeks). Like many people, Pat’s life changed on […]