Scottish Hotel Owner Discovers Face of E.T. in a Tree Trunk

E. TREE?

Apparently E.T. didn't make it back to his home planet. He ended up in Scotland...in a tree? In the land where Nessie supposedly resides, a hotel owner recently discovered the face of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in a tree trunk.

"We kid you knot," says Billy Harley, the proprietor of the Uig Hotel on the Isle of Skye. Harley was the Elliot who spotted smiling E.T. "inside the trunk of a tree he was chopping to make firewood for the popular bar of his hotel."

Harley was quoted as saying, “The weather has got a lot colder in the last week and I was getting some additional logs ready to keep the place warm for our guests. I put the chainsaw through a trunk and there was ET staring back at me. I phoned home and my wife brought a camera out to take some pictures.”

Harley's plans are uncertain, “We’re not quite sure what to do now. We could turn ET into a coffee table or a bar stool maybe.” So you can potentially enjoy your scotch whilst sitting on the tree face of a famous movie alien.

The Isle of Skye is certainly an appropriate place for E.T. to end up and the Harley family is hoping his appearance will drum up business and draw in folks who are "perhaps wishing for a glimpse in the sky of ET’s parents coming to collect him." They are also considering naming one the hotel rooms after the world-famous alien.

I guess you never know what you'll find when you're chopping wood? Adorable things, that's what! Matrixing is cool.

-Larissa Mrykalo

'E.T.' designer Carlo Rambaldi: 1925-2012

Rambaldi and E.T., courtesy AICN,
Universal

I first saw this sad news over at Ain't It Cool News, and wanted to share. Carlo Rambaldi was one of those movie magic masters who helped create some of the most celebrated images from my childhood. In addition to his Oscar-winning design work on E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Rambaldi helped to design the sandworms in Dune, the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and helped to create the Alien head.

As AICN aptly puts it, it was Rambaldi's work on E.T. that we'll remember him most fondly for because, "E.T. is squat, ugly, and completely loveable, and that's due to Rambaldi's ability to make him as real as possible, not only to the audience, but even to the actors on set."

-Aaron Sagers

Indiana Jones gets Blu-ray release date

courtesy Paramount Pictures

The end of Summer and beginning of Fall 2012 will henceforth be referred to as the Season of Spielberg.

Even though we've known the Indiana Jones series would be appearing in Blu-ray form for a few months now, it was announced by Paramount Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm that Indiana Jones: The Complete Collection would arrive Sept. 18 - and included a completely restored Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Indy collection comes about a month after Jaws is released on Blu-ray on Aug. 14, and about a month before E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial hits in October (with the digitally erased guns back).

Now, watch the previously-released trailer for the Indiana Jones collection (along with trailers for Jaws and E.T.), and try to contain the goosebumps ... after the jump

- Aaron Sagers