With another Super Bowl comes another new barrage of trailers for this year’s most exciting genre-related films! While the blockbusters certainly made a lot of noise (DINOBOTS), they weren’t the only trailers that showed up. There were angels from Noah, evil Muppets, singing Muppets, and even a special Lego appearance at the Puppy Bowl! Check out all the cool genre commercials and trailers you might have missed during the Super Bowl. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 And a long “Enemies United” intro to the movie, including Electro’s origin: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Lots of new footage in this one, too: Transformers: Age of Extinction When all hope is lost…Optimus Prime shall crest the hill, riding a dinosaur:Here’s hoping the triceratops finds the leg that went missing from our production manager’s toy! He was never the same without it.) Darren Aronofsky’s (retelling? adaptation? ALWAYS WONDER) of the Noah fable upped its game even higher and now includes angels:
The internet continues to react to the Muppets sequel but now…Constantine is ready for them. He’s ready for us.) They and some singing vegetables also sold a Toyota or two during the Super Bowl: Terry Crews’ smile is surprisingly edgy. The hero of The Lego Movie himself showed up to the Puppy Bowl to toss the deciding coin! Tom Hiddleston and the British Villain Cadre And who could forget our favorite British supervillains selling Jaguar cars: The Matrix: “The Truth” A luxury car commercial starring…And then he’s singing? This makes us feel weird things. These engineering toys for girls went from Kickstarter to Beastie Boys to lawsuit to insane rocket-fueled Super Bowl commercial.James Taggart, Cunniff Kids News staffI think “The Lego Batman Movie” was amazing! “The Lego Batman Movie” was about Batman always wanting to work alone. We first met Batman in “The Lego Movie.��... Kimora Yancey and Nina PaquetteAdd Legos and Batman together and you get “The Lego Batman Movie.”
This movie comes out Feb. 10, 2017. Get ready to chuckle and laugh because this movie has hilarious... Allie Spillane and Kate Spillane The musical, “Billy Elliot,” is playing in Boston at Wheelock Family Theatre. The show is running until Feb. 26, 2017. We would give this show 10 out of...The Super Bowl can keep its 114 million worldwide viewers and $5 million ad buys. Because the Puppy Bowl, which celebrates its 13th year this Sunday on Animal Planet, has got something much better: puppies! Nearly 80 of them—and all of them adoptable. There are kittens, too (they provide the halftime entertainment), and Meep the tweeting cockatiel (follow him at @meepthebird) plus a host of other species. With the help of Dan Schachner, who’ll be donning the black and white stripes for his fifth go as the "Rufferee," we’ve uncovered 15 things you might not have known about Puppy Bowl. Yes, that long-running holiday television special that featured nothing more than the image of a log burning in a fireplace with Christmas music playing in the background is what inspired the Puppy Bowl.
And its broadcast debut, back in 2005, was a much less elaborate affair, comprised mainly of copious amounts of footage of puppies playing. But it did feature the game’s very first Unsportsmanlike Delay of Game penalty, issued to a pup named Riley for, in the announcer’s words, deciding to “use the field as his own personal bathroom.” (See the video above.) Puppies will be puppies. And puppies don’t always play fair. In addition to a veterinarian, who is on the set throughout the program’s production, representatives from the Humane Society and each of the shelters whose dogs are being featured are on hand to ensure the safety of the competitors. This includes giving the puppies a break from the lights, camera and action every 30 minutes. For the 2017 event, puppies from 34 shelters and rescue groups from 22 states and Puerto Rico will be represented. Puppy Bowl is not a live broadcast. It’s shot over the course of two days in October. “That element takes people aback,” admits Schachner.
But the reason why is totally understandable. “It’s three months of preparation because it’s two full days of shooting,” continues Schachner. “Plus it’s 21 cameras on the field. So that’s a lot of footage to edit and turn into a two-hour show.” Just how does the production team manage to get all those adorable up-close images? Of the 21 cameras used to capture all the on-field action, one is mounted beneath a glass-bottom water bowl while others are hidden in the dogs’ chew toys, but not before they’re smeared with peanut butter to attract the competing canines. “We’re very open-minded as far as our rules go,” says Schachner, who notes that in Puppy Bowl VIII, “we had a simultaneous touchdown and that had never happened before. Two puppies dragged two chew toys into the end zone at the same exact time. I didn’t know what to do, so I talked to our control room. We did an instant replay and determined that it counted. Each puppy was then awarded one touchdown point.”
In 2010, the Puppy Bowl added a bit of ra-ra-ra to the production when it included a team of bunny cheerleaders. In 2011, chickens were the animals cheering on the sidelines. In 2012, the chicks were replaced by a Piggy Pep Squad, followed by a team of hedgehogs in 2013, a group of peppy penguins direct from the Columbus Zoo in 2014, five Nigerian dwarf goats in 2015, and "five big-haired silkie chickens" in 2016. This year, a team of rescue rabbits and guinea pigs will be cheering the athletes on. “We’ve had penalties when puppies are too rambunctious, but also when they’re too lazy,” says Schachner of the behaviors that can disqualify a pup from competition. “That’s called ‘illegal napping’ or ‘excessive napping.’” When asked about the oddest penalty he has ever had to heap on a competitor, Schachner recalls “one puppy that was literally flattening other puppies. Puppies will shove and bite and sniff and tackle. But there was one puppy that was literally jumping up and landing on the backs of the other puppies.
So we made up a foul then called ‘pancaking.’ We sent her back 15 yards.” In 2008, a Puppy Bowl spinoff—Puppy Games—aired opposite the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. While the setup was the same as Puppy Bowl, the competitions were all new and included swimming, boxing, soccer, and gymnastics events. Cleaning up after the game’s not-always-housebroken competitors is part of the ref’s job. But Schachner says that the biggest misconception about his role is that “I’m picking up poop and pee all the time. [People] forget that there’s an amazing grounds crew here on staff. They’re like little elves who come in and magically erase all the pet poop that’s left on the field so that when the game is actually playing and those cameras are rolling, you’re not going to see too many fouls. You’ll see a couple, but you’re not going to see too much of puppies doing what comes naturally to them!” Yes, all of Puppy Bowl’s competitors are shelter dogs.
(So are the cats.) But because of the show’s October production versus February airing, “by the time the Puppy Bowl actually airs, most of these puppies have already found their forever homes,” says Schachner. “ during the airing and if you see a puppy that you fall in love with, check him out. They may be adoptable. And if not that shelter will have other puppies who are equally adorable, maybe even from the same litter.” Puppy Bowl X scored huge ratings; a total of 13.5 million tuned in throughout the 12-hour canine extravaganza, making Puppy Bowl the most watched cable program during 2014's Super Bowl Sunday and the second most watched show in all of television that night (second only to some football game playing on Fox). Though the total number of viewers dipped in 2016, it was still enough to make last year's Puppy Bowl the most watched cable show that night. The Puppy Bowl’s popularity has not gone unnoticed by other networks. Hallmark Channel will cater to the cat crowd with the fourth edition of its Kitten Bowl, while Nat Geo Wild will broadcast Fish Bowl IV.
14. THREE SPECIAL NEEDS PUPS WILL BE COMPETING. In a Puppy Bowl first, three of this year's competitors are pups with disabilities. This year, the Bowl also features three pups with special needs: Lucky is a rangy, dark-furred Terrier mix with an amputated leg; Doobert, an English Pointer, is hearing-impaired, so caretakers trained him to understand hand signals on the turf; and Winston is a fluffy Australian Shepherd with both vision and hearing impairments. He requires special monitoring, but officials say he relies on his keen sense of smell. For the second year in a row, this year's Puppy Bowl is being formatted for virtual reality, which can be accessed via Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl page, YouTube, Discovery's VR apps, and Facebook. "Every year, Animal Planet and ourselves have challenged each other to be more resonant and meaningful with what's happening in the world of media," said Melodie Bolin, brand manager of Pedigree, a Puppy Bowl partner. "We were so excited about it, because how cute is seeing everything through the eyes of a puppy on the field?"