Universal Studios has revealed their concept art for a real life Simpson's theme park. And this tiny Springfield includes Moe's, Krusty Burger, Duff Beer, Lard Lad Donuts and a Kwik-E-Mart. Fantastic.

Filmthrasher has the official press released and concept art from the proposed park which will be built in Universal Orlando near the pre-existing Simpson's Ride. Here's the highlights:

ORLANDO, Fla. (May 23, 2013) - Woo Hoo! Springfield, hometown to America’s favorite animated family, The Simpsons, comes to life at Universal Orlando Resort this summer.

The expansive, new area within Universal Studios will be anchored by the mega-attraction, The Simpsons Ride, and will allow guests to enter the world of The Simpsons like never before. It will be the only place in the world where guests can walk the streets of Springfield. It will include a brand-new outdoor attraction, places and foods pulled right from the show and two new Simpsons characters who will make their debut with the new area – Krusty the Clown and Sideshow Bob.

And yes – there will be Duff Beer, brewed exclusively for Universal Orlando.

For the first time ever – anywhere – fans will be able to walk down Fast Food Boulevard and visit the places that helped Springfield stake its claim as “Shelbyville by the Sea.” They will be able to grab a Krusty-certified meat sandwich at Krusty Burger, snatch the catch of the day at the Frying Dutchman, get a slice at Luigi’s Pizza, go nuts for donuts at Lard Lad, enjoy a “Taco Fresho” with Bumblebee Man and imbibe at Moe’s Tavern.

The new attraction – called Kang & Kodos’ Twirl ‘n’ Hurl – will take “foolish humans” on an intergalactic spin designed to send them into orbit.

Sounds amazing. We're already giddy over the statue of Jebediah.

Aiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi! Bust out your breast plates and headband braids, because Xena: Warrior Princess might be up for a revival!

It's been 15 cold, long years sense we've seen the lovely Lucy Lawless don her leathery warrior wear. But perhaps it's time for a revival? The actress was on Twitter teasing us about the possibility of Xena returning in some form:

Had an interesting call from a chap who wants to re-invigorate the #Xena brand. You guys may have started something.

— Lucy Lawless (@RealLucyLawless) May 23, 2013

But there's a lot of red tape around #XWP so don't get your knickers in a twist. It may come back in a different form.

— Lucy Lawless (@RealLucyLawless) May 23, 2013

Who could this "chap" be? If it's someone with actual real ties to the studio or executive producers Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi maybe, just maybe there's a chance. What could it be? A webseries? A Funny or Die short? Maybe a miniseries on Netflix? We don't care as long as it has Gabrielle. Please, please, please let this be real.

[Via The Mary Sue]

Think After Earth is just about Will Smith reconnecting with his son on a dangerous future Earth? WRONG. There's a whole baffling alien backstory, that you don't even know about. It's just not in the trailers. Journey with us as we attempt to untangle M Night Shyamalan's ridiculously complicated movie. And meet the Skrels, who kill humans! For unknown reasons!

Spoilers ahead...

Thanks to the movie companion book the United Rangers Corps Survival Manual, we now (kind of) understand the wickedly overcomplicated plot behind After Earth. Turns out, there are aliens in this movie — lots of them. Different species, in fact, which sound infinitely more interesting than a boy with a spear in the woods.

But in order to fully explain it we're going to need to break down what leads up to the jungle adventure, year by year.

1908 - An alien ship crash lands in Russia. All collective world governments then keep this discovery a secret basically forever. (But they let smarties like Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein play with the remains).

2012 - NASA announces that they've invented WARP ENGINES. By secretly tapping into the alien spaceships knowledge of the universe's "dark energy." Tah Dah!

2071 - 2072 - Earth is all GTFO, humans. No one can live here any more, because it's poison for us, so 750,000 survivors leave on ARKS (one is named the Asimov). The Arks were created thanks to additional information pulled (over the years) from the downed spacecraft.

32 AFTER EARTH - The Rangers (who are basically the super militarized government now) invent a religion while on board the Arks. Because you gotta have faith. It's called Primus, after the band. This backfires horribly.

67 AE - Primus makes its own religious army, because of course they do. And they also decide to rewrite their rules, to make the head of Primus (also called Primus) the ruler indefinitely, until death. A few of the remaining Arks (some die out) start adopting the office of Primus.

100 AE - Only three out of the six Arks survive. But the rest of the folks land on their new planet Nova Prime.

222 AE - A Primus leader starts speaking out against science and industrialization on their new planet, because that's what got them all in this mess in the first place. Of Course They Do. After "much debate" the role of Savant is created to oversee the science side of the human race on Nova Prime.

243 AE - The Skrel attack Nova Prime for reasons unknown. Nova Prime was allegedly uninhabited when they landed, so this is a big WTF. The Rangers manage to protect the civillians. The Primus zealots have a field day. Note these are NOT the same aliens that crash landed on Earth.

350 AE - The Skrel return with a new look (see picture). No one has actually seen a real Skrel body yet — just the ships and Skrel drones.

576 AE - The Skrel return again, but this time to drop off the Ursa, a genetically engineered creature who's designed to kill humans. How the people of Nova Prime know that, since they have never met or spoke to a Skrel and this is the only other alien they've met, remains to be seen. Anyway, this Ursa creature evolves into an a better killing machine with each new generation. Think Resident Evil monsters, only not as fast. Ursa can only see humans based on our secretions caused by fear. Because that's how the Skrel made them — without eyes. But they can smell our fear.

651 AE - More Ursa are dumped on Nova Prime. Once an Ursa "imprints" on a human, it will hunt them until its prey has been killed. Which is basically the same thing that happens in Twilight. They have secret a black venom that paralyses victims.

726, 876, 951, 997 AE - Even MORE Ursa are unleashed, now mutated into super-fast killing machines. The Rangers struggle to save what remains of humanity. The Rangers' best defense is "ghosting," in which a Ranger becomes fearless, and thus can fight the Ursa without being smelled. 980 AE Is the first "official" Ghosting.

OOOOOOH NOW those After Earth ads make sense!

1000 AE - Will Smith and his son are traveling somewhere with a Ursa who's been captured, in a big pod (pictured above). They crash land on Earth and NOW we are where the trailer starts. PHEW.

Apart from explaining this wildly detailed and yet pretty vague backstory, the Rangers Manual has a bunch of images of their tech and doo dadery. Most of it was your usual scifi gadgetry (hologram maps, hologram instructions, but the LUNG GEL jumped out at me the most. Here is a shot of the Universal Air Filtration Gel, which coats the lungs, so they can breathe on the now fairly toxic Earth. It looks like hair treatment.

And finally, here are a few shots of the more civilized parts of Nova Prime, a few decades after they first arrived. Along with a few shots of the Rangers' air base. It's actually pretty gorgeous.

So there you have it — the secret behind M. Night's new world has been revealed. Does it make you want to see the movie now? Is anyone surprised there's a overly complicated backstory tied to this? Hey at least it's not a twist, unless... WE ARE THE SKRELS!

Honestly we could be into a movie just about this backstory.

We were all a little terrified when MGM announced they would be remaking Poltergeist. However, we took some solace in the hiring of Monster House director Director Director Gil Kenan. But when the alleged synopsis dropped earlier this week we couldn't stop screaming. The whole thing sounded like a bad mirror of the original. Thank goodness, a bit more plot detail has surfaced.

Bloody Disgusting previously described the plot of the new film as such:

[T]he new version follows Eric Bowen and his family who, after he loses his job, relocate to a new town to start anew. His daughter, Madison, is abducted, making him truly understand what’s important in life: family. In the new version, Eric’s wife, Amy, can communicate with the dead.

Another interesting new character is Carrigan Burke, a television personality who hosts “Haunted House Cleaners.”? The supernatural doesn’t scare this guy. Dr. Brooke Powell is Carrigan’s ex-wife who is a parapsychologist at a local university.Her team investigates the supernatural events surrounding the disappearance of the Bowen girl.

Which is basically a remake of the original, with the obligatory "let's sex it up to be modern" crap, like adding reality TV. Which — okay, fine, whatever, this is why we can't have nice things, etc. BUT WAIT — Moviehole is now reporting that this synopsis is lacking in important details that make this movie a sequel, NOT a reboot. Which is promising:

Firstly, the Kenan-directed Raimi-produced reboot – much like the “Evil Dead” remake – exists in the same world as the previous “Poltergeist” films. So while it is a ‘reboot’ of the franchise, it’s also somewhat of a sequel – taking place years after the Freelings were ran out of town.

In one scene in the new film, the kids’ find some things behind the sliding panel in the attic. Yep, you guessed it – they find some of the Freeling’s possessions, intentionally left behind. There’s the Star Wars bed sheets (from Robbie’s room), a black-and-white TV set (why, of course!), and some Christmas decorations.

Now this is something we can get behind. We love that old horror trope of a town collectively denying anything bad ever happened. It's all so very Nightmare on Elm Street. These kids are DOOMED. Moviehole continues on describing a few fan service scenes such as the presence of the scary tree and that terrible clown.

Honestly we're much more excited now that we know this movie isn't going to pretend that Poltergeist the original, never happened.

So there you have one for the left brain, and one for the right brain. Boom, problem solved! Right? Now unto the next question, WHY ARE MONSTERS COMING OUT OF THE OCEAN? Can't wait.

Holy cow, the J.J. Abrams-produced Superman: Flyby is certainly shiny. Just think of all the lens flare you could get off all that alien chrome. Back in 2003, Abrams wanted to make a Superman movie and this is what it would have looked like.

The movie Superman: Flyby hired concept artist Phil Saunders to create the famous pod design that Kal-El would ride to Earth. And he also created the Rouser the giant machine Superman would have to fight (piloted by his cousin Kata-Zor). The movie was supposed to be directed by Brett Ratner or McG, but obviously that didn't end up happening. But here's a look at what could have been!

[Via Concept Art World]

But can you make Timecop without Jean Claude Van Damme? And if you can, why would you?

Heat Vision reporting that the time-traveling action flick from 1994 is getting the reboot treatment from Universal. In the original film, Timecops were deployed to stop criminals from messing with the time stream in 2004 (where time travel is a normal part of life). Their greatest weapon, of course, was the split jump. Van Damme isn't involved, but he should be. There is no one attached to direct or write the reboot just yet, but the word is out.

"What's "Captain America's shield made out of?" "Name me some of the stones in the Infinity Gauntlet!" "Where does the Dark Surfer trap Thanos and Captain Marvel?" BOOM! YOU JUST GOT SCHOOLED BY A LITTLE GIRL.

This is Mia Grace (according to the YouTube page this video originated from). Mia Grace is awesome. Try not to fall over when she shouts, "It's clobberin' time!"

[Via The Mary Sue]