April 1, 2008 | by Vic Holtreman 

Don’t Believe Everything You Read Today

april-fool.jpgOk, I can’t stand it any longer. :-)

Happy April Fool’s Day!

The first year I ran Screen Rant, I thought I’d serve as the beacon of truthiness in the movie blogosphere and warn everyone to keep an eye out for fake news announcements. This year I’m sharing the list below for fun and not out of any sense of “outing” anyone (you’ll see one very familiar site in the list below as proof, BTW).

So before you guys start getting seizures based on any movie news you read today, here’s a list of items that have been posted on the internets today just for fun:

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SlashFilm – Superman vs. Spider-Man Film Announced

JoBlo – Jake Gyllenhaal will be replacing Tobey Maguire in the next Spider-Man movie

IESB – X-Files 2 Gets a Title – X-Files: Full Moon Rising

Rope of Silicon – POSTER: ‘Art House Movie: There Will Be Farts’

Cinematical – BREAKING: Christian Bale and Brandon Routh Sign for ‘Justice League!!!’

Bloody Disgusting – Steven Spielberg to Remake ‘Duel’ and Possibly ‘Jaws’?!

Bloody Disgusting – Tyler Perry Moves on From Comedy to… Horror?!

ComicBookMovie.com – CAMEO: Wolverine to Make Appearance in Incredible Hulk Movie!

ComicBookMovie.com – Sea-Monkeys Movie Coming to the Big Screen

ScreenRant – Iron Man To Get Staggered, Late April Release Dates

Moviehole.net – Colin Farrell in Once remake

Moviehole.net – Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo!

Cinema Blend – Kevin Spacey Signed For Superman Sequel

Giant Freakin Robot – Cloverfield Monster In Transformers 2!

Thanks to First Showing for compiling the above list. :-)

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  • darkbhudda
    Hey Vic,

    It's all good buddy.

    I know people who fall for them years later and post up links without checking the dates. They're the same sort of people who send out advisories to the entire company via email to burp when you get chest pains etc..

    Teevee.org used to do hilarious ones, they'd replicate various station websites with the "new upcoming shows" taking the piss out of their current shows. The radio version they've got up now is pretty funny.
  • KEL
    And I saw supermanhomepage, guys. They had some pretty crazy stuff there too.....
  • KEL
    Glad that day is done with.....I was so pissed when I found out that that Routh and Bale in JLA news was a DAMN JOKE!!!! AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!
  • Hey Dark, I usually add a disclaimer to a post after the holiday since the posts do hang around the search engines forever.

    Vic
  • 790's
    Opps.
    Its the.
    www.thetvaddict.com

    Vic, Jim C, Flame on, and DBudda I think you'll get a laugh out of checking this out.

    Happy end of Aprils fools day 2008,as its 20 min til April 2nd the boring day after Aprils fools day.
  • 790's
    Tvaddict.com was practically all bs today. Some funny shat up there.
  • darkbhudda
    It's actually 2 crappy news days due to a pesky little thing called the international dateline. And the worst ones of course still get indexed by google so you still need to check the date of any articles years later.

    However I did like Blizzard's Tauren Space Marines for Star Craft 2, and and Lord of the Rings Online expansion: The Battle of Amon Hen.
  • Rob
    The sad thing is, most of the rumours *should* be true if movie execs wanted to make some awesome theatre experiences.

    Most notably, the Han Solo thing, Cloverfield monster vs. Optimus, Routh and Bale in JLA, Marvel Crossovers, etc.
  • Jim Carey
    Flamestrike, you had me too! I was gonna ask you to stay (if you were still lurking) cuz your screen name is the best. Well, the best if you don't count Iron Bastard, LOL.
  • 790
    Saw ya coming Flame on....ยป
  • FlameStrike
    "Oh crap... did you just pull one on ME??? LOL, nice one, dude. :-)"

    I'm glad you appreciated it. I figure if someone gets me, I'll just turn around and return the favor.
  • Smitty
    Hey Vic,

    You missed Zelda the movie.
    Check out www.IGN.com
    It is pretty funny!!

    Smitty
  • Smitty
    Hey Vic,

    You missed Zelda the movie.
    Check out www.IGN.com
    It is pretty funny!!

    Smitty
  • Oh crap... did you just pull one on ME??? LOL, nice one, dude. :-)

    BTW, some of the sites above are among the biggest movie news sites out there, so I'm in pretty good company.

    Vic
  • FlameStrike
    Vic, I have just two things to say:

    A) Of the sites listed, Screen Rant is the only one I visit.

    B) Have you forgotten what today is? If so, may I point out your headline? "Don't Believe Everything You Read Today."

    I may hate April 1, I may get seriously annoyed by the foolishness this day usually results in, but leaving a site because of it is just overreacting. If I did that, I wouldn't have any reason to keep paying for internet access.
  • G.K
    Heyy, what about the Superman homepage?
  • Vic
    Sorry to see you go, then again, if one post out of 500 on a day known for pranks annoys you that much...

    And based on the number of sites listed above you've got a lot of bookmarks to remove.

    Vic
  • Surma
    Best April foolery by a website this year is won by Youtube by far.
  • FlameStrike
    Well, thanks for clearing up that Iron Man story. Screen Rant has now been removed from my bookmarks, and I will no longer be visiting. I don't respect sites that participate in this kind of foolishness.
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