NerdFu Nerd News & Needs
Welcome to the Nerd Fu podcast – Season 2: Episode 41. If you’re looking for the latest & greatest in nerdy/geeky news, then this IS the podcast you’ve been looking for.
Every week (mostly), we bring you the latest in Nerd News, including SCREENSHOT (movies & tv), STOCKPILE (collectibles), HIGH SCORE (gaming), COMICS n CONS (that one explains itself) and WILD CARD (our catch-all, random stuff category).
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Movies in Theaters This Week
- The Legend of Tarzan (D: David Yates) – Alexander Skarsgard, Christoph Waltz, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson
- The Purge: Election Year (D: James DeMonaco) – Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell
- The BFG (D: Stephen Spielberg) – Mark Rylance ,Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement
Movies / TV to Buy
- Eye in the Sky
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
- Kung Fu Panda 3
- Red Vs Blue: The Chorus
- Darth Vader confirmed to return in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – [collider]
- Sully movie poster – [collider]
- Tyrese Gibson joins Transformers: The Last Knight – [collider]
TV
- Preacher has been renewed for an expanded season 2 – [collider]
- NBC promises not to cancel shows quickly – [comicbook]
- 24: Legacy might bring Jack Bauer after all – [collider]
Subscription Boxes
- Loot Crate Dystopia (JUNE) – [thenerdfu]
- Next Box (JUL) Futuristic
- Marvel Collector Corps – Next box themed Spider-Man (AUG)
- Women of Power REVEAL (JUNE) – [thenerdfu]
- DC Legion of Collectors [Next Box] – Suicide Squad (JULY)
- Star Wars Smuggler’s Bounty [Next Box] – Jabba’a Palace (JULY)
Funko Information
- SDCC 2016 Exclusives
- Wave SIX
- Toy Tokyo
- Wave SEVEN
- Wave EIGHT
- Wave SIX
- Duck Dodgers Pop!
- Labyrinth Pop!
- Mystery Minis – Disney Villains with Companions
- Suicide Squad Converse x NIKEiD – [cbr]
- Boba Fett’s Prototype Armor Ride Exclusive x Hot Wheels – [cbr]
- Ramona Flowers Collectible Figure x Mondo available for pre-order now – [mondotees]
- Mixtape Massacre board game – [thenerdfu]
- Throwdown: The Quest for Cards – [gamespot]
- ReCore available to pre-order for $39.99 on Xbox Live / game drops 9.13 – [xbox]
- Warzone Firefight comes to Halo 5 on June 29th) / XBox Live Gold members can DL the full game and play for free from June 29 to July 5th – [xbox]
InvestComics Hot Picks of the Week Hot Picks #430, (Top 5: #68) which includes a Jade Street title, is here and Jay has the lowdown on the latest comics you should be picking up or passing up!
- Uncanny Inhumans #11 – (Sold Out across the board)
- Grayson Annual #3 – (Harley Quinn appearance – Sold Out)
- Spider-Gwen Annual #1
- Captain Marvel #6
- Deathstroke Annual #2 – (New villain named Balkan joins the fray)
- …. and many, many more
Conventions
Game of Thrones getting it’s own convention – [comicbook]
- RTX [July 1 – 3] – 3 Day VIP [SOLD OUT], schedule is live, Facebook event page is up, autograph emails sent out
- Pre-game for RTX 2016 – [thenerdfu]
- SDCC [July 21 – 24]
- Luke Cage heading to SDCC – [deadline]
- WB returning with 21 shows – [collider]
- WB bringing Kong: Skull Island
- Skottie Young tweeted that he might be going
- Orphan Black will return to SDCC for 5th and final season
- HBO bringing GOT, Silicon Valley, Outcast and Vice Principals
- Bandai America revealed Power Rangers exclusives at SDCC
- Doctor Strange banners are up around town
- Trains are wrapped for The Exorcist and Agents of SHIELD
- Crazy4ComicCon has a great list of offsite events – [crazy4comiccon]
- MONDOCON [ Oct 22-23 ] Mondo sent out a tweet announcing dates, says ticket info coming soon
- NYCC [Oct 6 – 9] – Fan verification closed
