Recurrent Events 5/14/16: 'Beetlejuice 2' Latest, 'Robotech' Now On Crackle, Donkey Kong World Record Broken Again

Welcome to your weekly source for retro pop culture news, the Recurrent Events! Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaways over the past couple weeks. I'm looking to do more in the near future so stay tuned!

There are many things I'm looking forward to this summer. I got an exciting email this week and I'm hoping I'll get a chance to actually review a highly-anticipated summer product before it hits the store shelves...(yeah, it is the one you are thinking of.) Might get my boys to get in on the reviewing action too.

Here are the articles posted this week on RD80s:

• Atari Classics 'Missile Command' And 'Centipede' To Receive Movie Adaptations
• New 'Voltron: Legendary Defender' Trailer Features Lion Team and King Zarkon
• First Look: Golden Girls Funko POP! TV Vinyl Figures
• Andre The Giant Biopic In The Works Based On Graphic Novel
• Album of the Week: Top Gun Soundtrack

Top Gun's 30th anniversary is just a couple days away so how about a Star Wars/Top Gun mashup for the Video of the Week? Found this thanks to THR...

Video of the Week

Here are your Recurrent Events links for May 14, 2016!

MOVIES

Tim Burton Finally Weighs In On ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ And Its Chances Of Being Made Aren’t Looking So Hot - UPROXX
André The Giant’s Daughter Wants Joss Whedon To Direct The André Movie - UPROXX
Flashback Friday: Young Tom Cruise Talks 'Top Gun' in 1986 - Yahoo! Movies
Meet the Real-Life Badass Who Inspired 'Top Gun' Love Interest - Yahoo! Movies
Ghostbusters 2016 – Updated Trailer - Pop Rewind
‘Top Gun’ Quotes For When You Need To Unleash Your Inner Maverick - UPROXX
The 80 best '80s movies: 39-1 - Empire
Best Moments of Stand by Me (1986) - Nola Film
10 things you didn't know about 'Top Gun' and its enduring appeal 30 years later - Stuck in the 80s
Still Only One: Remembering the King Kong Hype of 1976 - Flashbak
Cult Film Club Episode 33: My Science Project - Cult Film Club
Geena Davis Staged a League of Their Own Reunion, and It Turns Out There Is a Ton of Crying in Baseball - Vulture
E.T. Reimagined as a 1990s Sitcom - Laughing Squid
30 years later, ‘Short Circuit’ still long on nostalgia - Stuck in the 80s

TV

Sony's Crackle Picks Up '80s Anime Series 'Robotech' to Anchor New Channel - Variety

Bad Dreams: When Bobby Ewing Returned to 'Dallas' - Mental Floss

‘MacGyver’: What We Know About The Changes On Newly Picked Up CBS Series - Deadline

This 1980s Army Commercial Is The Hottest Thing To Come Out Of The Cold War - Task & Purpose

WATCH: Courteney Cox's Super '80s Tampax Commercial - Backstage

Fox Orders Lethal Weapon and The Exorcist to Series; Look Out, Movies, TV Can Do Reboots, Too - Vulture

Lets Talk About that Epic HBO Feature Presentation Intro from the 80s - Branded in the 80s

MUSIC
John Mellencamp Reissuing Classic 1980s Albums on Vinyl Next Month - KWBE
David Bowie Was Going To Appear in 'Twin Peaks' Reboot - Billboard
Courtney Love to Star as “Self-Destructive Mother” in 80s Rock-“Infused” Drama - Flavorwire
Snake Plissken Kindly Suggests You Watch This John Carpenter Music Video Right Now - io9
'80s heroes: Harold Faltermeyer - Empire
1980s' action movie anthems: a mixtape - Den of Geek


VIDEO GAMES

Donkey Kong's all-time record broken again, with a 'perfect' game [Update] - Polygon
Authentic Sound Effects Are the Best Part of This Super Mario Bros. Lamp - Gizmodo
Cancelled Nintendo NES Movie Tie-In ‘Happily Ever After: Starring Snow White’ ROM Preserved For Download - RetroCollect
Super Mario vs. Mecha Bowser - Kotaku
Spy Hunter: An Arcade Classic That Still Holds Up - The Midnight Post
Atari Lynx SD Card Reader Available For Pre-Order - RetroCollect
How I Got My Mother to Cross the Freeway - Retroist
RetroUSB Announce ‘AVS’ Nintendo NES HDMI Ready Clone Console Due For Summer Release - RetroCollect

POP CULTURE

This Build-it-Yourself Ghostbusters' Proton Pack Is the Coolest Thing You Will See Today - Gozmodo
Kotobukiya Gives Edward Scissorhands a “Sexy” Female Makeover - Nerdist
But Does it Hold Up? - Branded in the 80s
Ghostbusters Trading Cards Are Now Available! - Cryptozoic
Watch a First Person Video of Disney's New Tron Roller Coaster - io9
A Dream Come True? Who Remembers McDonaldland? - Flashbak

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