Actress Visits Toy Store With Sons

Angelina Jolie took her sons Pax and Knox to the Mega Mart's toy store this weekend. The boys were entranced by the many offerings, but ended up leaving the location without any purchases.

"No Amy action figures?!" declared Jolie. "The boys were severely disappointed. Sure, there was a Parker Posey figure here, a Mark Addy play set there, but no Amy. Why open a toy store if you're not going to sell something covering the industry's number one violent lesbian dog? It's absurd."

Toy store management promised to look into obtaining some Amy toys in the near future.

The release date for Amy's next feature is not yet known.

A Break From What?

Carrot Top is set to step back from his busy schedule as a leading man in HTG films. In a new interview with this news source, the red-headed comic actor reveals that he plans to take a break.

“I’ve been doing it too much,” Carrot Top said of acting. “I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing. I think it’s good for me to take a break and reassess why I’m doing it and how I’m doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that.”

He adds, “I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. There’s a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film."

Although, upon examining the HTGmdb, the actor has not appeared in anything with HTG since 2011's Poop Protest, Carrot Top is trying to keep a good perspective. And while the star may indeed take a brief hiatus from acting, his motivation seems to be a desire to make smart choices as his career escalates.

“The more opportunities I’m given, the more I learn about how easy it is to (expletive) it up,” he tells Happening. “You fight for freedom and then you get it, and then you have enough rope to hang yourself. It’s like trying to exercise some restraint because I do have so much freedom.”

In the mean time, those who miss Carrot Top can visit him at his second job, manager of the Sweet Forever Suites.

"It's better than staring at congested traffic" he concluded.

Chat Server Crashes, Terrorists Suspected

It's an event straight from a film, or almost.

On Sunday afternoon, HTG Chat saw a flurry of quotes from the action blockbuster Die Hard. Including well-known phrases such as "Now I have a machine gun, too, ho-ho-ho" and "The quarterback is toast," the exchange of quotes also included lesser-known ones such as "I prefer strawberry jam, thank you" and "Is that a machine gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?".

The quotefest was cut short, however, when a chat member with the name hgindahouse24 declared "Enough is enough!" Chat screens across HTG Hollywood went offline. Fortunately, chat was restored shortly after. When returning chatters asked what happened, someone with the handle johnnysavesthedayagain said "ur welcome" and signed off.

What was the cause of the chat termination. Is the abundance of Die Hard quotes leading to something more?

"I think the flipconspiracy may be back!" announced a chatter who wished to remain anonymous.

All residents are invited to come to HTG Chat today to participate in the newest HTG Awards. Who will take home the Golden Yodas?

HTG Producer to Replace Pope?

The world is buzzing with the news that Pope Benedict, religious leader for millions and millions of devoted Catholics, will be stepping down from his position this year. With that void affecting so many people, it's important that a new pontif is found.

And HTG Hollywood is home to one of the candidates.

"I hear that the Church is considering Chris Harmer to take over as Pope" stated Assistant Mayor Jay during a recent interview at City Hall. "Makes sense. He's Canadian, so he's not objectionable to anyone. But I hear he's married. Can you be married and still be the Pope? Beats me. But, way to go, snookums, if this is true. Can you imagine a My Little Pony series written by the Pope? Too bad I quit the herb. Or maybe I didn't. This is just wild, wild news, so you never know."

A message left for Mr. Harmer has yet to be replied to. Stay tuned for further information.

Cable Hack Slams Producer Over Lawsuit

Cable TV show host and verbal hack Bill Maher fired back at HTG producer Pedro on Friday, thrashing the Dead Island author over his Chihuahua paternity lawsuit. Pedro is suing Maher after the comedian jokingly promised the huge sum of money to a charity of Pedro’s choosing if he could prove that he wasn’t the offspring of a dog named Amy.

Pedro furnished a birth certificate and sued Maher for “babo of contract,” even though most observers understood the offer to be parody. In a recent interview, Maher blasted Pedro for failing to “suck it up” and take a joke. After joking that Pedro was so angry he was “flinging his feces,” Maher slammed him for treating the legal system like “a toy for rich idiots to play with.”

"I am owed the money," claimed Pedro. "If I don't get it, I'll have to write another Screech Monkeys film. Don't make me do that."

Pedro's latest film, Return to Dead Island, is currently in theatres.

February Movie Releases

By Goliathus

So fast and we are on February of year 2013. The movie industry still, isn't on full speed yet and here's hoping there are more releases in the upcoming months. For now, let's enjoy the time that we don't need to choose too much between what to watch.

February 1, 1st week of February

February begins with Bargain. The name is exactly the same as a song from British supergroup The Who? You are right, it's an adaptation. Inspired by awards, Lucian hopes to develop this into a commercial sale so reviews are always welcome. What about the details? There's already another article for that...or you can just watch the movie.

February 8, 2nd week of February

Return to Dead Island continues the story of the last film, picking up from the end of it with the remaining survivors venturing to a diffedrent part of the island. There will be new survivors played by CObie Smulders, TJ Miller, Aaron Staton and Lake Bell and let's just say not all of them are good men. There will be more zombies and also internal conflict between the group. When you do zombie films in 2010s, you really need to have more than zombies as the bar is higher now.

February 15, 3rd week of February

Valentine Week is definitely the hugest week of February. With three releases, it's a shark fight over the box office. The first entry is one that I think even actual shark will fear, The Butcher Cuts Loose continues the story of The Butcher and is supposed to be the third entry to the trilogy so expect some epic battles as The Butcher is set to fight against his former sidekick, Menace Man and also Dr.TV, who has some really evil plans in work. There are some scene re-shots but don't expect this to be less violent than the last two, it's not.

Another entry is The Measure of A Man, an arthouse war film of a newcomer that I don't think I have heard of his product company yet. Maybe he is still working underground or something but when this is up, I think he will be entering the Hollywood business for real with company name and so forth. Known as more of a "test the water" product, it is ultimately a small-scale film staring Henry Cavill and Ryan Gosling. Not the best week to test the water in my opinion but we will see how this do.

The third one marks the return of Kaven Productions, the company is pretty active in the 2009 but goes on hiatus shortly after that. It is back and its desire to deliver visual excellence to the audience is very clear. The Homecoming really suits "the return" very well, I meant the name, not sure about the content. Well, it's a drama that tells the story of a criminal that received the long-desired freedom and his attempt to adjust himself from the world that abandoned him a decade ago. He has a family and the world has evolved so much, it's pretty fair to say that he is like an "alien" in the current environment.

February 22, 4th week of February

Big Brother 2 continues the first one as the remaining contestants are trying to beat the others to become the last survivor and of course, the winner. When there's less people involved, the fights are definitely more heated and more concentrated, lots of backstabbing and politic sort of things for anyone interested in them.

"Mini-Butchers" in College

By Goliathus

Entertainment media like video games and movies always influence the society in a lot of ways. One of the "hot" upcoming movie is the third part of The Butcher trilogy, The Butcher Cuts Loose, put eyepatch, regularly wore by the protagonist The Butcher, up on the fashion map and on occasion, people just love to put an eyepatch on their face.

Today, the entire class of Degree of Art of Miami Dade College all has an eyepatch on their right eyes, causing quite a spectacular sight in the school ground. Plenty of the college lecturers are shocked at their first gaze upon the class.

"I don't know, it's just feel weird when everyone is wearing an eyepatch. It's actually very uncomfortable at first but after I know that they are not doing anything bad, I am fine with that." says Robert, one of the class lecturers.

"I thought they are just doing it for fun, you know, they did a spec day and a scarf day before so I am actually used to it. Never know it's about The Butcher though, I am a Butcher fan too and I might wear one myself if I know about their plan, you know, be the representative on the lecturer's side." says Samuel, another of the class lecturers.

There are also a few from the other programmes that participate in this eyepatch-wearing event, most of them heard the event from their friends.

"We decided to spread it verbally instead of the internet. It's boring if there's too many wearing eyepatch today, we want to keep it under a certain amount, to stand out in the crowd." says Johnny, one of the idea planners.

There are plenty of eyepatch wearers but not everyone think it is cool. A few of them are actually laughing stock of their classmates.

"Meh, it's sad that I am the only one in my class that likes The Butcher. It's just not fun and they are making one-eyed jokes to me whenever there's an opinion to do so. I guess it really takes balls to be special." says Derek.

"My friends thought I had a terrible case of pink eye, my mother almost slaps me this morning thinking that I went to strip club yesterday. Not really a very fun experience." says John.

Overall though, this activity does spark up a fair bit of interest in the school ground and most seem to enjoy it. It has a fair share of attention in the "twittersphere" and you can definitely find a whole bunch of pictures on Flickr.

"It's great that they added She-Butcher into the movie, now even girls can wear the eyepatches proudly."

"This is Miami, man, if we don't support Dwayne Johnson, who else would?"

"It's really fun to see the world with one eye. It's fun to attract so much attention in the school ground really, although I am pretty sure their stare on me are not really the good kind, more of 'dude, he's weird' kind I think."

The Butcher Cuts Loose is in theater February 15, 2013.