July 24, 2008

ITALIAN SPIDERSHIRTS!

Tshirts. TSHIRTS. TEEEEEESHIIIIIRTSSSS!

You wanted them; you got 'em!



If you want to get your grubby little mitts on an official Italian Spidershirt, jump over to www.Alrugo.com and register your interest in the Merch section. As soon as you add your details, you will be added to the AlrugoList, allowing Alrugo to contact you at a later date (coming soon) to give you further details about the tshirts. The Tshirts will only be created if enough of you show a serious interest, so if you want one, you really must let Alrugo know!

STAY TUNED TO THE INTERWEBSES!

Arrivederci!

Alrugo Public Service Announcement

DO NOT FEAR little children, you will not be left hanging over the next few months while Alrugo repairs and re-masters the next installment of Italian Spiderman, not by a long shot.

STAY TUNED TO THIS BLOG and the Alrugo.com website for CONSTANT UPDATES in the Alrugo and Italian Spiderman Universe. We fully intend to keep your Italian Spiderhunger well sated with news, behind the scenes features, interviews, small film clips etc, so there is NO CHANCE of you missing out on goodies, as long as you drop in once in a while (do it every day). The time will simply FLY by between now and when Part 2 is available for viewing.

So that you may not worry, here is a short Public Service Announcement from Vivaldi and Verdi Alrugo about Italian Spiderman:



See? Everything is going to be alright. More Italian Spiderman is on its way! Furr Certenn!

STAY TUNED TO THE INTERNETS!

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 10 - Part 1 End!

L'ESTREMITA DEL MONDO E ORA!

Here it is Italian SpiderBoys and Vietnamese LlamaGirls; the final episode of Italian Spiderman Part 1. We've all been through so much together. Snakes, motorbikes, purple smoke, penguini, goblins and ginos, blow-darts, coccodrilli, boobs, lizards, spiders, asteroids, landrovers filled with henchgoons, syringes filled with air, punches filled with fist meat...

We have no time to lament the passing of this interstellar conquest though, as Italian Spiderman still has a crap-load more henchgoons to rip apart before the final bell rings. How will everything be wrapped up in 5 minutes? Just watch...

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN PART 1, EPISODE 10, THE FINALE!


Mind blowing. Simply mind blowing. Now scoop your brains up off the floor, poke them back into your cranium through your ear with a sharp stick, and feel the warm blanket of knowledge that Italian Spiderman shall return. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but he SHALL return.

We here at Alrugo very much hope you've enjoyed viewing Italian Spiderman Part 1 as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. In dark times, the world needs a new hero, but a hero is nothing without people to protect and fight for. That is where YOU come in. YOU, faithful viewer, have made Italian Spiderman the hero he is. Without you, he is simply the coolest uncle ever.


INSIDE THE DRAGON

This will obviously be the last Episode Inclusive Inside The Dragon for a while, but do not cry... because there will be WHOLE INDIVIDUAL INSIDE THE DRAGON POSTS over the next few months! That's right, more behind the scenes crap than you can poke a giant stick at! Now, onto the episode:

Set Photos: 'Henchboyz' - the hottest Boy Band of all time.





Set Photo: Mr Franchetti w/ young student from his 'Gun-Lessons-for-Kids' side-business.



Set Photo: Henchgoon #23 (Boris), Sam (Boris), Dario (Boris), Franco (Franco)



Set Photo: Henchgoon #0, aka Chris Asimos, aka Best Actor in the Entire World. Sorry Ladies, he's spoken for!



Action Photo: Chris Asimos BEING the Best Actor in the Entire World just before Franco accidentally ended his life. RIP #0.



Set Photo: Sam 'upskirt' King runs alongside Italian Spiderman to get the shot that is the chickeniest bit.



Location: The Quarry - A Spectacular Gravel Mine in the Adelaide Hills. plus, Sarah and Sam!



Set Photo: Ha ha haaa it's all fun and games folks, Franco and the henchgoons are best buds. See?




Well, that's it for this week kids!
MORE ITALIAN SPIDERMAN COMING SOON.

STAY TUNED TO THE BLOG AND THE ALRUGO WEBSITE FOR CONSTANT UPDATES, NEWS AND ITALIAN SPIDERGOODIES!

www.alrugo.com
www.alrugo.blogspot.com

Arrivederci!

July 17, 2008

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 9

LA BATTAGLIA FINALE COMINCIA!

Bernardi is DEAD! Maximum has the ASTEROID! Now they are OUTSIDE! All sorts of intense things are occurring now folks. When you strike down a man's personal professor, you better be ready for that man to go 8 shades of crazy and proceed to rip you and everyone you know into tiny pieces to place in a small glass bowl in his bathroom. A Vendetta Potpourri if you will. If that man is an Italian SPIDERman, you'll be lucky to even end up in a bowl. Maximum, you are going down. Supposedly.

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN EPISODE 9


Cliffhangers are the only remaining bastion of childlike excitement. Remember when you were 6 and couldn't sleep the night before christmas, or your birthday, or your bar mitzva? You won't find that level of nervous anticipation anywhere else in your adult life than right here people, right now. Will Italian Spiderman be able to overcome a Landrover-load of henchgoons? Sure, probably - he's already taken down that many guys on a number of occasions - but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Santa may throw a complete curve ball and not bring any toys at all. What if Santa only brings the pain?
Don't worry, Italian Spiderman will kill Santa.


INSIDE THE DRAGON

Production Photo: A Landrover, series 3 short wheelbase w/ optional Henchgoons.



As an extra special treat celebrating the final two epic episodes (epicsodes?), we present to you the 3rd piece of genius in a series of genius.

Comic Cover: stunningly created by our own personal Ghandi: Danilo Beyruth


Danilo's blog: http://www.evilking.net

We love you Danilo. We put our lips to our palms and blow you a romantic internet kiss. Look out, there's tongue in there...


ONLY ONE MORE EPISODE LEFT IN ITALIAN SPIDERMAN PART ONE!
What will you do without your weekly hit of Italian Spideraction? Die I bet.
This coming final episode will hurt your brain with it's epic epic-ness.

Stay tuned Italian Spiderlovers, for
ITALIAN SPIDERMAN PART ONE FINALE!
NEXT WEEK - JULY 24!

kisses

UPDATE: Fixed my retarded miss-naming of Landrover. I'm sorry Mr Rover. Always feel free to correct me when I've made some mistake folks. Sure you'll be banned from the internet and everyone will hate you forever, but won't you feel smart!

July 14, 2008

Italian SpiderPress #1


From time to time, Italian Spiderman and Alrugo appear in the media, either on TV or inside the interwebs. If you aren't googling us on a daily basis, you may have not been witness to such 'spidersploitation' in the press. SO, from now on, I'll be posting links to magazine interviews, newspaper reports and basically any videos which reference our italian megahero.

Todays linky-link is an interview that Italian Spiderman Director Dario 'dario' Russo did with Australian Merge Magazine. If you want some serious project back-story, definitely check this out:

http://www.mergemagazine.com.au/verge/italspider

More news-press coming soon. There's tons more alrugo-related press out there, I just like keeping you in suspenso.

Merge Magazine: http://www.mergemagazine.com.au/

July 10, 2008

Italian SpiderFan Art #3

Get ready for some of the finest works of art to ever grace Batman's green earth.

Ready?

GO ART NOW!

1) The jolliest christmasiest friendliest Italian Spiderman Ever

http://whoisrico.deviantart.com/

2) I like the slightly mod chic rectangle motif. This one captures his Italian-ness pretty dang well

http://davinder.deviantart.com/

3) First someone made a gif and it went all over forums, now there is the JOKER'S version. Nice.
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4) We've been graced with his brilliant artwork before, and now we have some more! Jon Colton is a damn fine artist. LOOK HOW BUFF HE MADE COCCODRILLO. I'm really that buff in real life, the costume just isn''t flattering. This cover reminds me of the early Superman Action Comics. I love the way Jon uses colour, and the way he makes every character as buff as Ronnie Coleman. Every aspect of the Coccodrillo suit is spot on, right down to the red high-heeled boots and german Luger. Very cool. Go to Jon's blog NOW and check out the rest of his work before I punch you in the mouth with my buff fist.

http://joncolton.blogspot.com/

5) No words. Just...no words to describe the sheer level of awesomeness going on here. Oh wait, 'sheer awesomeness' is words. WHO CARES JUST LOOK AT THIS.


This frankly jaw-droppingly accurate and stunning piece of work was created by Danilo Beyruth, and is in serious jeopardy of making me tear away violently at my computer screen in the hopes of touching its divine majesty. The sheer amount of detail that Danilo has put into this is just straight out respectful, and is to date the most faithful comic book adaptation of Italian Spiderman. The body shape is BANG ON, the detail and shading on the pants is a thing of beauty, the lip-curled sneer hilarious and the effort Danilo has gone to in order to replicate the look of a classic retro comic book - complete with spine-degradation and the Alrugo Logo - is just what superhero wet dreams are made of. Yes even superheroes have wet dreams. Not Italian Spiderman obviously. He's got babes on call 24/7. Danilo, for the time being, you are our own personal Jesus.

Oh and he made another one...


Spectacular, simply spectacular. In this one we reckon Franco looks like Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead. WHICH IS AWESOME. How gorgeous is that masked babe? My personal favourite part is the dragon fly though.
Check out Danilo's blog at http://www.evilking.net


Finding, receiving and posting fan art like the 6 pieces above has become my favourite aspect of creating this blog. It's such an incredible honor to have immensely talented artists from all over the world join in the fun of our film. This is what art is about man. dude. man.

If YOU have any Italian Spiderman influenced artwork of ANY kind, please DO NOT HESITATE to send it over to me via 'the emails' at AlrugoBlog@live.com

Would YOU like to see a WHOLE ITALIAN SPIDERMAN COMIC BOOK?
If so, do let us know by posting comments saying something along the lines of "YES" or "NAH" in reply to this post.
If enough of you show an interest, you never know what will happen!

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 8

È UNA PRESA DIABOLICA!

It appears Italian Spiderman has fallen prey to an evil plot, formed by an evil man, spawned from an evil serpent woman. Will Italian Spiderman escape and bring justice to the world? Of course he will. No man can stop the wind. No man can hold the air. Unless they have a balloon. But then they are merely holding plastic which CONTAINS air. Just like Italian Spiderman, because, he's...uh...made of plastic? Everything I say makes sense! You probably just aren't smart enough. Ask me to explain when you're older.

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN EPISODE 8


Lizards! Spiders! Machine-guns! Multiplying Hench-Goons! Boobs! Murder! It's all happening now baby.
So, Bernardi is dead, but don't think that will stop Italian Spiderman. Hell, it won't even slow him down. In fact, it will most probably speed him up and get him so fired up that the next two whole episodes are just going to be the most epic and insane things you may ever bare witness to. That's just a guess though. I don't know anything about this movie. What movie? Batman Does Italy was it?

INSIDE THE DRAGON

Episode 8 was filmed entirely within the confines of 'Alrugo Soundstage One', otherwise known as the *Adventure 4WD mechanic garage, run by David and Rose Wilson.

Film Cap: Capitan Maximum gets all gunny



Film Cap: Hench-Goon #42 (Matthew Crook) gets sufficiently jugulared.



Set Photo: Cinematographer Sam King watches the microcosm of the world right next to him



Set Photo: Hench-Goons #13, #42 and #0 (Michael Crisci, Matthew Crook and Chris Asimos)



Production Design: The Rack, The Trap, The Lair... and a bazooka. By Tait Wilson



Production Photo: Italian Spiderman with Machine Gun created by Prop Dude Brad Maddern



*Adventure 4WD. South Australia's Foremost 4WD Adventures
http://www.adventure4wd.com.au/

Only TWO MORE episodes left!
Stay tuned Italian Spiderlovers, you do NOT want to miss what's coming...

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN EPISODE 9 - JULY 17

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 7

SERPENTI! MOLTI SERPENTI!

This week we welcome Italian Spiderman home with a truck-load (seriously we trucked them in) of snakes. Just like herpes, you can only escape snakes for SO long; eventually they'll catch up to you, bite the ever-living crap out of you and then you're down for the count and unable to procreate for the rest of your life without someone saying 'ew.' Seriously man, watch out for snakes.

Italian Spiderman Episode 7


Sure Italian Spiderman gets knocked out a lot, sure he does, but he only LETS himself be knocked out because he knows full well that when he wakes up, he's going to be in the best underdog situations ever, necessitating MORE killing of people. Like when you get herpes; it sucks, but hey, now you get to take down as many other people as humanly possible! Keep score! Alrugo is ALL ABOUT finding the silver-lining in tough situations folks.


INSIDE THE DRAGON (rare mega-edition)

Once again we return to 'The Shack' for more Casa Del Spider action.

Production Photo: MaxiMen 'Uno' and 'Due', Tait Wilson and Will Spartalis


Set Photo: Italian Spiderman giving the ol' protection shove to Jessica, aka Susanna Dekker



Set Photo: Director Dario Russo reclining while Cinematographer Sam King laughs his nutsack off before destroying a prized sacred porcelain Cougar



Porcelain Cougar Pre-Destroyed. Poor beautiful little bastard. Rest in pieces. PIECES!



Set Photo: Hallway Snake Extravaganza which cost the majority of the budget. Snakes on fishing line tied to sticks don't just make THEMSELVES. If they do, let me know, I'll crap my pants.



Production Design: Asteroid, Mallard Cigarette Packet (became il Gallo), Snakeinatoaster Rig by Tait Wilson



Film Cap: Lanciatore Della Fiamma



Wow, that was a lot of dragon!

*Production Photography By Lucy Spartalis
www.juxtaposition.com.au/

Tune in NEXT WEEK, JULY 10 for
ITALIAN SPIDERMAN - EPISODE 8

July 02, 2008

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 6

What does one do upon awakening face down in the sands of a deserted beach? Just how exactly must one act in such a situation? What social graces must one observe? The answer to this and many other monumentally important questions are not taught to us in our schools. They are not second nature instincts imbued by any maternal force, nor are they provided in any governmentally distributed 'healthy living guideline' pamphlet. It can easily be seen that life's most important questions are all best answered by our superheroes, if not through their words, than via their actions toward the people (enemies) around them.

In other words, when you wake up on the beach after seriously tripping out: KILL EVERYBODY

Italian Spiderman - Episode 6


I wish to remind you that no animals were harmed in the creation of this episode, and that all animal action onscreen in Italian Spiderman Episode 6 was monitored and supervised by Boris.

INSIDE THE DRAGON

On Set Photo: Surf Scene Super Special Visual Effects. SSSSVFX.



The ever-lovely Wake Twins, copping sweet spear-to-neck action.



Production Design: Meteor Shrine (unused) and Tiki Bar (very used) by Tait Wilson



Tune in next week Italian Spiderfans. There'll probably be another episode or something, who knows?

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN EPISODE 7 - JULY 3RD!