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Rooster Teeth is uncoincidentally debuting its latest comedy competition series on 4/20. Titled Last Laugh, the venture -- part social experiment, part game show -- will see 12 contestants trapped in a room for six hours; whoever laughs, smiles, or smirks three times is eliminated until only one creator is left standing.

The unscripted series -- which will offer a $1,000 cash prize for one winner -- comes courtesy of Funhaus, a Rooster Teeth-owned gaming and comedy channel. The series was created by longtime Funhaus member and gaming personality Elyse Willems, with Rooster Teeth co-founder Geoff Ramsey serving as host, and Rooster Teeth’s Stephanie Ard directing.

The contestants are: James Willems, Adam Kovic, Willems, Jon Smith, Lindsay Jones, Michael Jones, Alfredo Diaz, Fiona Nova, Gus Sorola, Chris Demarais, Blaine Gibson, and Jessica Vasami. Each contestant has three lives, with one life lost for every smile, snicker, or full-on giggle.

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Funko’s second batch of Preacher Pop! vinyl figures are coming this August. The Tulip figure is a Previews exclusive, Jesse is a GameStop exclusive, and Cassidy the Irish Vampire will be sold exclusively at Hot Topic stores. Also: a trailer for Rooster Teeth’s Day 5 and the Penny Dreadful Spell Book Journal that will be an Entertainment Earth San Diego Comic-Con exclusive.

Funko’s Second Batch of Preacher Pop! Vinyl Figures: From Funko: “The beginning is nigh!

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It’s Sunday so it must be time for another installment of VOD Vault, taking a look at some of this weeks on-demand releases that have hit various VOD platforms. This time round we’re looking at a film only available via YouTube (to buy or view via the sites subscription service YouTube Red), the sci-fi comedy Lazer Team; and action-drama Mercury Plains, starring Scott Eastwood (Fury, Dawn Patrol) and Nick Chinlund (Training Day, Con Air).

Lazer Team

Stars: Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn, Alexandria DeBerry, Alan Ritchson, Steve Shearer, Kirk C. Johnson, Benjamin Scott, Johnny Walter, Chris Demarais, Jeremy St. James | Directed by Matt Hullum

Part Pixels, part Laserblast, Lazer Team comes from Rooster Teeth, the uber-successful YouTube channel behind long-running web series such as Red vs. Blue and Rwby; and tells the story of four idiots who accidentally shoot down an alien spacecraft with fireworks...

The endless list of Indiegogo backers appearing towards the end of Lazer Team‘s credits make clear that the movie will not be wanting for fans, since it was they who mostly helped fund this science fiction comedy. So the question is if this film will strike a chord with audience members unfamiliar with Austin-based production company Rooster Teeth, the creative minds behind the film? In their first-feature length project, the comedic troupe, best-known for their video-game-based web series Red Vs. Blue, have created a product composed of the elements that make them a bonafide YouTube sensation: effective, low-budget visual effects, bro-ish jokes, and a self-aware love of geekdom that’s completely free of cynicism.

Lazer Team relies on the iconic “Wow! Signal” to tell the story of a group of underdogs who become the planet’s only hope for salvation. The premise establishes that the signal discovered in 1977 was...

Would you want to be saved when everyone you care about is damned? In this round-up, we have the first chapter from Former, a novel by A. E. Stueve. Also: screening dates for Rooster Teeth's first feature film, Lazer Team, and an update on the casting of Terror Tales.

Former Preview: "Unlike his wife, his family, and his friends, Billy Dodge is alive. Profine, an international pharmaceutical and defense conglomerate, has cured him of an infection that has ravaged the Earth for over a decade. Life isn't easy for former infected, however, and despite Profine’s help, Billy is struggling to cope in a less than welcoming world. When Billy and a friend are blamed for an unfortunate death, things only become more difficult, and Billy finds himself at the center of a global crisis. As Billy wrestles with his inner demons and the strife around him, society struggles with...

Four small-town friends are banding together to save the fate of the entire planet in the official trailer, poster and stills for the upcoming action comedy, ‘Lazer Team.’ The sci-fi movie’s assets, which show the friends stumbling across an alien crash and subsequently becoming responsible to save the future of mankind, were released by its studios, Amplify and YouTube Red. ‘Lazer Team’ is set to be released in theaters on January 27, before it debuts on YouTube Red in early February. The action film was directed by Matt Hullum, who also co-wrote the script with Burnie Burns and Chris Demarais. The sci-fi comedy, which broke the Indiegogo record for “Most [ Read More ]

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We have a look at four pages from Dark Horse Comics' Dead Vengeance #4, stay tuned after the jump. Also in this morning's round-up: new details / trailer for Rooster Teeth's Lazer Team and Dance of the Blue Tattoo casting news.

Dead Vengeance #4: From Dark Horse Comics: "When John Doe uncovers the conspiracy that led to his untimely demise, he comes face to face with his betrayers as he squares off against the villainous Purple Gang!

* The thrilling conclusion!

* A noir horror story by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons)!

Writer:

Bill Morrison

Penciller:

Tone Rodriguez

Inker:

Keith Champagne

Colorist:

Carlos Badilla

Cover Artist:

Bill Morrison

Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Horror

Publication Date:

January 06, 2016

Format:

Fc, 32 pages; Miniseries

Price:

$3.99."

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Lazer Team: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Monday, December 14, 2015 - Sci-fi comedy Lazer Team, the first feature film from pioneering creative studio Rooster Teeth, is coming to YouTube Red in the U.

Lazer Team

Written by Burnie Burns, Chris Demarais, Joshua Flanagan & Matt Hullum

Directed by Matt Hullum

USA, 2015

We’re not a team, we’re a timebomb.

-Bruce Banner in The Avengers

Lazer Team is the story of a dimwitted group of ne’er-do-wells that stumble into the position of defenders of humanity — imagine the burnouts from Pineapple Express or the nerds from Superbad inheriting superpowers and you’re on the right track. The brainchild of the Rooster Teeth crew, Lazer Team features all the raunchy humor and cinematic hi-jinks that has endeared the brand to its wildly devoted fans over the past decade.

In Lazer Team, the American military intercepts an extra-terrestrial signal that warns them of an impending alien threat. So that humanity may stand a fighting chance, a benign alien race sends a ship carrying a suit of power to earth which provides the strength needed to defeat the invaders.

I’m going to dub Rooster Teeth’s Lazer Team the Anti-Pixels. Their plots are so eerily similar, but I guess that can be said about most of these “unlikely hero” arcs in science fiction. A group of friends stumble upon alien weaponry, training montages ensue, there’s an inner struggle that keeps the team at odds, an alien challenger comes to Earth for a universal pink-slip competition, and the team finally comes together in a moment of emotional triumph. The only difference? Lazer Team doesn’t totally suck like Pixels. In fact, it’s rather funny – but what else would you expect from Rooster Teeth? You’ve been watching these guys make a mockery of Halo for years, now watch them take aim at the sci-fi genre like only their brash immaturity could imagine.

So who is the Lazer Team? Just your run-of-the-mill chuckleheads who have no business saving the world.

Rooster Teeth has some more awkward situations lined up to entertain fans. Fullscreen’s Austin-based production studio will debut the second season of its prank experiment show Social Disorder on September 16, 2015.

Social Disorder stars Rooster Teeth employees Chris Demarais and Aaron Marquis use hidden cameras as they square off in a battle of wits to see who can make it through the most embarrassing social situations they can concoct for each other. In the first season of Social Disorder, for example, Demarais and Marquis had to enlist strangers to help them drag a body bag around town while the other prankster was inside.

Season two of Social Disorder will provide its own set of challenges for Demarais and Marquis. If the trailer is any indication, the two Rooster Teeth members will have to host a non-traditional yoga class, speak up boldly at a public town meeting, and wear pregnancy bellies...

Rooster Teeth has more information on its newest convention. The Austin-based entertainment studio has announced the location and date for its upcoming Rtx Australia event.

The first-ever Rtx Australia will take place at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney on January 23 and 24, 2016. Tickets for the event range from $35 single-day passes to $400 for a VIP pass; these go on sale starting July 2, 2015 on Rtx Australia’s official site. So far, Rooster Teeth co-founder Gus Sorola and community manager Barbara Dunkelman are confirmed guests.

Rooster Teeth’s Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan revealed the Rtx Australia details at Supanova Sydney on June 19, alongside Cameron Rooney of Hanabee, the licensing and pop culture event company co-producing Rtx Australia. The Down Under event will also be produced by Supanova.

Originally announced on June 12, Rtx Australia is Rooster Teeth’s answer to its large, global fanbase. The main convention in Austin, Texas, has continued to...

Rooster Teeth will start greeting more fans in person in the Land Down Under. The Austin-based digital entertainment company, known for web series like Red vs. Blue and Rwby, is bringing its annual Rtx event to Australia.

Described in a release as “where gaming meets the internet meets Australia,” Rtx Australia will be co-produced by Aussie’s anime licensing and pop culture event company Hanabee and Sydney’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo. Rooster Teeth employees Chris Demarais and Josh Flanagan, along with Hanabee’s Cameron Rooney, will announce more date, ticket, and location information about Rtx Australia at this year’s Supanova on June 19, 2015, at 7:00 Pm Australian time (5:00 Am Est).

"It's true! Rtx is coming down to Australia and we couldn't be more excited," said Rtx Co-Directors Gus Sorola and Barbara Dunkelman. "Thanks to our friends at Supanova and Hanabee we're finally bringing Rtx down under. We're announcing all the details soon!

Rooster Teeth never ceases to appreciate and delight its fans. With that in mind, the Austin-based production shop responsible for some of the most popular web series in online video history (like Red Vs. Blue and Rwby) just released their new murder mystery series, Ten Little Roosters, on November 4, 2014. It's a whodunit tale that immediately gets the viewers involved. The first episode takes place at the First Rooster Teeth Banquet, a formal event hosted by Rooster Teeth co-founder Burnie Burns in appreciation of nine of his staff members. The night quickly turns sour when Achievement Hunter's Michael Jones accuses everyone in the room of their awkward and gruesome past crimes and threatens to turn them into the authorities. However, Jones soon falls over dead by way of a poisoned his drink, and from there on it’s all Clue-the-movie-style mystery and mayhem as the rest of the staff tries to...

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Morgan Spurlock, and comedian/actor Russell Brand are set to appear at next year’s South By Southwest confab, which today announced the first wave of 2015 Convergence speakers. The announcement of over 60 sessions includes panels in the growing SXsports program, TV, and Digital sidebars. The 2015 edition runs from March 13 – 22 in Austin, Texas – scroll down for the rundown:

A Curious Mind: The Inspiration for a Creative Life

Brian Grazer (Imagine Entertainment), Charles Fishman (The Big Thirst)

Russell Brand Interview with Brian Solis

Russell Brand (Comedian), Brian Solis (Altimeter Group)

SXsports

Athletes are Suddenly Funny: The Power of Comedy & Sports

Patrick Starzan (Funny or Die)

Battling Tradition to Re-Invent Youth Sports

Matt Farrell (USA Swimming), Kurt Kamperman (Us Tennis Association), Jeff Price (PGA of America)

Beyond the Bar Graph: Insights Over Info

Christopher Glode (Under Armour), Marybeth Thomson (MyFitnessPal)

The Business of Preparing Potential NFL Draftees

Jason...

Public pranks are one thing, but social prank experiments involving real-time improvisation with the general public are quite another. That’s what Chris Demarais and Aaron Marquis are learning in Rooster Teeth’s newest show, Social Disorder. The two hosts aim to best each other by coming up with interesting (and decidedly awkward) social experiments they can take to the streets of Austin, Texas, to earn points and film using hidden cameras. The goal is to complete the objective of the experiment within 30 minutes, or if that’s not possible, come out with the most points at the end. However, this isn’t as easy as it sounds, especially when you take a look at the first episode which was released on September 13. In “The Body Bag,” Demarais and Marquis decide to see who can get a body bag from Marquis’s apartment to the river, using nothing but themselves,...

Rooster Teeth, the Austin, Texas-based production company, has another title to add to its roster of gut-busting antics. The company partnered with ChAIR Entertainment to create The iBlade Trilogy, a spoof on the Infinity Blade games. Having catapulted onto YouTube on August 22, 2014, part one of the series introduces the viewers to Russ (played by A Simple Walk Into Mordor's Chris Demarais), an engineer determined to update the “medieval” efficiency and mindset of his father’s iBlade, Inc. company. He expects to continue his family's legacy as the 197th CEO, but is passed over for a less competent (and unrelated) co-worker who’s a fantastic salesman. But soon after, Russ uncovers a threat which could bring down the long-standing company, and has to figure out how to stop it and prove his worth before the end of the day. Literally. Shot as a live-action, the series spoofs ChAIR’s Infinity Blade iOS app games,...

In our last San Diego Comic-Con International interview, Latino-Review caught up with producers/directors Chris Demarais and Miles Luna on the floor of the convention.

They were there to promote the DVD release of “Rt Shorts.” In addition, we also discussed other projects from Rooster Teeth, including “A Simple Walk Into Mordor,” and “Rwby.”

To watch some of their shorts and series, visit www.roosterteeth.com.

Check out the full interview below.

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"One cannot simply walk into Mordor."

Just the other day when I posted an article about a Hobbit Pub called The Green Dragon in New Zealand, I mentioned how I've always wanted to go to New Zealand to take the Middle Earth tour. I'm not sure when or if that will ever happen, but I'd love to do what these two Lord of the Rings fans did! 

Kerry Shawcross and Chris Demarais are the Red Vs. Blue guys who run the website Rooster Teeth. They decided to take a trip to New Zealand, and put Boromir's words to the test. With a guide, sleeping bags and lembas bread they set off from Hobbiton to make the 120 mile long trek to Mount Ngauruhoe, which is the mountain that stood in for Mount Doom in the films. Along the way they have fun chasing and yelling at farm animals and get shocked by electric fences.

Siri The Holiday Horror Movie Trailer. Rooster Teeth‘s Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie trailer stars Barbara Dunkelman, Marshall Rimmer, Michael Jones, Chris Demarais, and Joel Heyman. Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie plot synopsis: a group of friends get the iPhone 4Ss for Christmas unaware that the Siri assistant within the phone has a blood thirst.

Video tagline: “Beware the upgrade…..” This faux movie trailer is hilarious. The knife scene was probably one of the funniest moments. I couldn’t figure out if the iPhone4S was possessed by a demon or if Siri (the phone’s preloaded virtual assistant) was the evil force and had been evil all along. Regardless, it is very entertaining and Rooter Team did a good job on it.

Watch the Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it in the comments section. For more hilarious lol posts, check out our Lol Page.

Created by Brad Anner, Zach Anner, Jordan Crowder, Chris Demarais, Aaron Marquis and Marshall Rimmer (all but Brad star in the show) The Wingmen suffers from a few things, not the least of which is the length of each episode. It’s quite possible that the several creative voices making this show also creates a preciousness that allows things to stay in that should be long gone or at the very least cut way down. The show has its fans out there though, with enough of them rallying behind the boys to net it a Streamy nomination earlier this year for the Audience Choice award.