Ian Ziering Dishes On "Sharknado 2," Talks About Being "Daddy Of The Year ...

The FriskyIan Ziering Dishes On "Sharknado 2," Talks About Being "Daddy Of The Year ...The FriskyAfterwards, Ian and I chatted about what's ahead for the hotly anticipated sequel to his sleeper hit “Sharknado” and discussed his work with DaddyScrubs.com as their “Daddy of the Year.” Can I just say that Ian is hands down the kindest, coolest, most ...

My Basic Cable Exploding Shark Attack of the Year: The Sharknado Finale

Michael Weinstein/SyFyNow more than ever, pop culture is about the small stuff - an obscure TV show, a few notes in a pop song, a tweet. To celebrate a year of micro moments, every day a new Grantland writer will highlight one specific thing - a Big Little Thing - that we won't soon forget.

For one magical July night, a made-for-Syfy feature film captured the hearts and bile ducts of a nation. The film was Sharknado, so named for the Los Angeles-terrorizing cyclone filled with watery predators that serves as the movie's primary antagonist. This is the greatest possible endorsement: The only thing I have to do to show how special the climax of the film was is simply list the events as they happen.

Movie hero Fin (ocean word!), played by Ian Ziering, having recently sent a Hummer loaded with nitrous tanks into the sharknado in the hopes of dispelling it with the explosion - it works, kinda? - has acquired a conveniently located chain saw in a parking lot and is in the process of running back to his estranged family with grim declarations of "I'm gonna finish this," which he appears to have already done, because sharknadonitro explosion and all, but lo! Fin knows something we don't!

Fin's otherworldly sense of the trajectory of irregular objects in space can see there's a great white among sharks cascading to Earth post-'nado, can see it's headed right for his daughter, who is for some reason BRANDISHING AN AXE, a plot point that was not explored NEARLY enough in the movie's final cut. And then Spawn-of-Fin just stands there staring like a jawless fish at her approaching father, who is screaming at her to GET OUT OF THE WAY, like, at what point during the whole AFFAIR D'SHARKNADO do we not maybe put our HEADS ON A SWIVEL, Fin heaves her out of harm's way, and:

There are no words except descriptors: Displaying astonishing ups, Fin leaps directly into the gullet of the falling shark, chain saw a-snarling, and disappears from view. He reemerges moments later, chain saw first, dripping shark innards, and a few breaths later, REENTERS the body cavity, emerging with - could it be? It is! - the still-living body of Nova, his pluckiest employee, who of course was swallowed whole by the shark in a previous scene when her helicopter was thrown off course by a midair shark attack. We've all been there. Swallowed by that same shark. Of all the skyfalling sharks in all the world.

Sneer, dismiss, and lob passive-aggressive social media salvos at the gleeful frenzy that surrounded this phenomenon to the content of the shiny black pit where your heart should be, and then recall Maria Popova on Susan Sontag and pop culture: "[The] greatest peril of the false high/low divide is that it robs a writer - a person - of being able to absorb the vibrant wholeness and multiplicity of life with complete awareness, to be fully present with the world and attentive to all of its dimensions." I don't believe in ironic enjoyment, and you shouldn't either. Live within the world and be attentive to all possible combinations of lethal animal hybrids on this Earth or any other. Like what you like, recognize that nothing anybody else has to say about it can tangibly affect your life, and wait impatiently for the sequel. It won't be as magical. That's fine. Recapturing the delirium of that initial airing isn't humanly possible. That's what made it so special in the moment.

But Sharknado will be surpassed, someday. Those who would say that's impossible are forgetting the lessons of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Humanity's capacity for invention is limitless, as limitless as the possible combinations of dangerous animals and threatening weather spectacles. Sharknado functions as both a milestone and a jubilant portent of wonders to come. You say a Possumconda and Hippocuda would never meet in the wild, could never exist in the first place owing to the incongruent origins of their component species, and would never, ever fall in love, so why bother telling the tale of their sordid romance? I'd reply with the words of George Mallory, confronting Everest: "Because it's there."

Fin. Tags The Big Little Things of 2013, tara reid, sharknado, syfy, ian ziering, exploding sharks y'all, Holly Anderson

Use a Facebook account to add a comment, subject to Facebook's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your Facebook name, photo & other personal information you make public on Facebook will appear with your comment, and may be used on ESPN's media platforms. Learn more.

Ian Ziering talks Chippendales, 'Sharknado' and being a dad

Celebrity spotlight

Ian Ziering manages to keep himself in the spotlight, 13 years after his star-turning role on Beverly Hills: 90210 ended.

At 49, he's in terrific shape. But don't thank good genes; there's a lot of grunt work involved.

"Eighty-five percent of fitness is diet," Ziering says by phone. "I feed my body with the right fuel. Most days I'm not eating for taste."

That translates to few carbs and foods high in protein, low in fat.

Though Ziering wouldn't confirm nor deny if he would be reprising his role in Syfy's Sharknado sequel, rumored to be gearing up to film in New York, he likes to keep toned for his role as Chippendales ambassador.

Unfortunately, he won't be in attendance at the casting call Friday (we'll have to gaze at Jaymes Vaughn, of The Amazing Race, instead). But he's fully supportive of the famed male revue opening up at Mansion in Miami Beach, Jan 9-25, 2014.

"I think it's exciting and kind of unexpected for the area," Ziering says. "It's a company that's been around awhile and they just do it right - a well-oiled machine."

Ziering also seems to think attending a performance with barely dressed men on stage is something you could bring mom to and not be embarrassed. "The show is flirty, not dirty - this is not jock straps and dollar bills. The dancers are incredibly well-built, amazing athletes, and fantastic singers and dancers."

Well-built? Ziering knows about that, but he admits to slacking off when his wife, nurse Erin Ludwig, was pregnant with their second child (Penna, 8 months) last year.

"Having babies, you make sacrifices," says Ziering, whose older daughter, Mia, is 2.

"I would get up early so my wife would have a couple of extra hours to sleep, and those were hours I would have typically gone to the gym."

A guest MC gig for Chippendales at The Rio in Las Vegas over the summer was a wake-up call.

"I had to start focusing on myself again," he said. "Now it was no longer about the jelly roll; now it was about the shoulder roll!"

But dad managed to make workout time family time.

"My daughter used to sit on my shoulders when I did push-ups. Fun for her, not so fun for me."

To be able to don the bow tie and nothing else up top, Ziering logged up to four hours of cardio a day for five days a week as well as targeted weight lifting.

"Health and fitness have always been part of my wheelhouse," said the actor-producer. "And if you have to rip your shirt off, you want to concentrate on areas people see the most."

Intense? Yeah, but all part of the gig.

"That's my job. If I were a heart surgeon, I'd be in surgery all day."

Speaking of his other job, acting: What about that Sharknado sequel? Though he couldn't discuss specifics of the made-for-TV movie about a shark tornado, Ziering does have a healthy respect for the man-eaters.

"If they walked on land we'd be in trouble," he says, laughing. "I did a dive inside a steel cage off Catalina back when I hosted Beach Patrol. We saw big ones. I was very happy to get back on the boat."

Madeleine Marr

More info about Friday's 1 p.m. audition at Mansion, email info@chippendales.com or call 305-432-9293.

Celebrity spotlight

Ian Ziering manages to keep himself in the spotlight, 13 years after his star-turning role on Beverly Hills: 90210 ended.

La vida local

We knew something was off when Miley Cyrus's name mysteriously disappeared from the website selling tickets for the New Year's Eve party she was to host at the Fontainebleau with performances by Pharrell and Afrojack. Now we know why. She got a better gig.

Actor Dick Van Dyke is 88. Actor Christopher Plummer is 84. Actor-singer John Davidson is 72. Actress Kathy Garver ("Family Affair") is 68. Singer Ted Nugent is 65. Actress Wendie Malick is 63. Singer Morris Day of The Time is 57. Actor Steve Buscemi is 56. Actor Johnny Whitaker ("Family Affair") is 54. Reality TV star NeNe Leakes is 47. Actor Jamie Foxx is 46. Singer Amy Lee of Evanescence is 32.

Best of 2013 (Behind the Scenes): How a 'Sharknado' happens

On Saturday, July 11, a perfect storm hit Twitter in the form of Syfy's original movie Sharknado, an L.A.-set "unnatural disaster" creature feature starring Beverly Hills 90210 's Ian Ziering and American Pie 's Tara Reid. With 387,000 total tweets, the film came within 2,500 tweets of tying Game of Thrones ' "Red Wedding" episode. Here, Syfy's EVP of Programming and Original Movies, Thomas Vitale - who's in the midst of developing a New York-set sequel to air in summer 2014 - explains how the phenomenon happened. And people still want to know: Vitale apologized for phoning EW late because, "I had a movie producer in here saying, 'How can I make you a Sharknado?' That's a fact, those exact words," he said. "'We want to make your next Sharknado.'" Read more stories behind this year's top TV and top movie moments throughout the month of December.

Click here for more Best of 2013 coverage.As told by: Thomas Vitale

A MEMORABLE TITLEWhere Sharknado came from is one of the more interesting stories. Some of our ideas come internally - from me, my team, other people who work on the floor. Sharktopus came from a woman in our marketing department whose kid, I think, said 'sharktopus,' and we said, 'That's a great title! We should make that!,' and we called up Roger [Corman] and said, 'Make Sharktopus.' My kids, people's dentist, the company president - everyone's come up with these. And obviously, a lot of writers and producers pitch us things. A lot of times in the pitch process, someone will come up with an idea and then we'll tweak it. We'll get on these phone calls where you have five or six people on the line, and it's that great natural brainstorming that happens. When you're talking about original fun, escapist-style movies, everybody in the room and on the phone lets their inner 8-year-old come out and just starts to riff on things. Once we have the idea, we enter the serious work of making sure there's logic and characters and flow, but the imaginative part's a blast.

What happened with Sharknado is, we had a St. Patrick's Day movie the previous year called Leprechaun's Revenge [starring Billy Zane]. Anthony C. Ferrante, who was the director of Sharknado, wrote Leprechaun's Revenge. As a throw-away joke line in Leprechaun's Revenge, he used the word 'sharknado.' This crazy thing was happening with this killer leprechaun in the town, and a reporter says to someone something like, 'We haven't had a situation like this since that sharknado hit last year.' And we had the same reaction you did: We laughed and thought the line was pretty funny. The word stuck in our head, and then when we were looking for a shark movie to do for the summer - you can't go wrong with a shark movie in the summer - we were talking with The Asylum [the production company behind the film]. They had pitched a movie called Shark Storm, and one of the guys on my team remembered the word 'sharknado,' and we came back and said, 'No! You gotta do Sharknado!' Asylum thought that was funny. Anthony had written the line, so he came on as director, and they hired Thunder Levin to write it.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A JOKE AND A MOVIE When we do these movies, you gotta figure out how far you go: When does the audience say, "I get it, that's funny, I like it," and when does the audience roll their eyes and turn away? One of the charms of these movies is that they are played straight. The characters in these movies want to survive. They accept that there's this crazy thing happening - a sharknado - and from there, they try to play it like anybody would if you were in a disaster situation. What do we do? How do we save our family and friends? Where do we go? That helps keep the audience engaged. The audience is laughing thinking, This is wild! This is crazy! What am I gonna see onscreen?! But the characters are taking it seriously, so then you get sucked into this story and you start to say, "I want Ian Ziering's character and Tara Reid's character to survive. I want them to save their children."

I've used this example before: The Killer Koala pitch. I've gotten that pitch eight or nine different times over the years. When you hear "Killer Koala", you're like, "Oh, I get it. There's alliteration, it flows off the tongue." But you know no one wants to see it. That's just a joke. Koala bears are great on nature shows, but they don't make this kind of movie. Other times, we've gotten pitches about killer rats or killer roaches. There's nothing fun or imaginative about that. I've lived in Manhattan many years, and rat and roach infestations are not really fun. Then you get other pitches, like the deadly squirrel pitch. It's like, "Well, squirrels aren't scary." And then the writer or producer comes back with, "But imagine how scary it'll be at 10 feet tall, with those little hands and the teeth." I'm like, "Yeah, that's a joke. That's not a movie." We always like to say, "If it's not scary little, it's not scary big." Our movies need to connect with some inborn fears that people have. That's why people have done shark movies to great success. Spiders, snakes, dinosaurs, gators, crocs - there are certain types of animals that people have this natural fear of.

Besides being scary, it's what's imagination-stirring. We talk about disasters as being "unnatural disasters." Sharknado's the best of both worlds because it's a creature movie and it's an unnatural disaster movie. A volcano in Hawaii - that's not really imagination-stirring because there are volcanos in Hawaii. If we were to do an earthquake movie, we probably wouldn't do an LA earthquake movie, because it's something that is real and could happen. When we did [2006's Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York [starring Alexandra Paul, Costas Mandylor, and Michael Ironside] that movie got a great rating. "A volcano in New York? How did they pull that off? What is that?" That's stirring the imagination. Then we come up with this pseudo-science plot that makes it make sense. A tornado in Kansas? That's not us. A tornado full of sharks in LA, or now in the sequel, a tornado full of sharks in New York? That's imagination stirring.... You've got to always figure out where the line is - and is the line moving. I think some years, the line is further than other years. I don't know if that's about the mood of the country and the TV viewer during that year, or about other stuff on TV. Would Sharknado have worked every year? Maybe not.

THE SCIENCE OF CASTING You want to get people who are familiar to the audience and put them in a different type of project than people are used to seeing them in. Tara Reid is someone who's never done this kind of movie before, so she's a surprising choice. Ian Ziering is not known for this kind of movie, so he's another great choice. We did a Melrose Place reunion where we had three or four actors in [2007's] Ice Spiders. We did a [2012] movie called Bigfoot, which had Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams, so Danny Partridge and Greg Brady. I'll tell you, when we did the Debbie Gibson-Tiffany movie, [2011's Mega Python vs. Gatoroid], we decided to play with the idea that when these two women were both teenagers and popstars they were rivals. We had talked to both of them over the years, and they said they were rivals in the press and in album sales, but they weren't personal rivals. That was all built up by teen magazines at the time. In fact, they'd barely ever met. Still, that was the perception, so we decided to put them against each other in this movie. No one expects to see Tiffany and Debbie Gibson battling gatoroids and mega pythons. I remember the first time we had Danica McKellar, little Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years. She's done a number of genre movies, but we put her in her first one. I think it was [2005's] Path of Destruction [costarring Chris Pratt], and we got a lot of press because you would expect if she's going to do TV movies, it might be Lifetime, ABC Family, Hallmark-style movies. Instead, she decided to go for a fun escapist movie on Syfy, and that was interesting to people. The perfect cast might be someone familiar to the science fiction audience, mixed with someone from completely left field like a musician, and a couple of up and coming young faces who we think have some talent. It's always great to get someone who's got a theatrical movie coming out next year, and we can catch them now before they break.

Ian Ziering and Tara Reid were perfect for Sharknado. They were our top choices and we were lucky we got them. You gotta remember, not every actor can be in this kind of movie. They have to understand that this is a fun opportunity. A lot of the success of the movie is based on the actor getting the tone right. If they go too broad into comedy, it doesn't work. These aren't comedies. If they go too, too serious, it doesn't work either. If you look at their performances, they are spot on for what Sharknado wants to be.

Omg omg OMG #sharknado

- mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) July 12, 2013

THE SOCIAL PUSH We trend often on Twitter, but nothing has blown up like Sharknado, and no one can predict that. I think it was a mixture of the celebrities who tweeted along, and then the volume obviously. You can't make that happen. Usually, I watch the movie at home with my wife and kids. We'll put the movie on, and at the same time, I've got Twitter going, too. I remember I looked over at my wife, and said, "Something's happening here." "What do you mean?" She's on Twitter on the iPad. I'm on the PC. One of my kids, my eldest, is on the iTouch. We're like, "Ohmygosh, did you see who tweeted?! Mia Farrow just tweeted!" It was person after person. That was a fun experience. All the people at Syfy started emailing each other: "Look at what's happening. Go on Twitter! Tweet!" And then the next day, with all the press we got on it, it was just incredible. We actually fantasized and joked about that for awhile [asking Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to make good on his tweet suggesting he write five pages of a sequel, then pass it off to Patton Oswalt, who'd pass it off to someone else], but it just wasn't something that could actually happen. The fact that so many talented people were having fun with this and talking about it - that's the goal of these movies. The goal of these movies is so people can come home and relax and have an escapist moment. Different shows, whether on Syfy or a different network, have different goals. Battlestar Galactica won a Peabody - that's a different kind of show with a different goal. Different types of entertainment, they're all valid. Sharknado is just the height of escapism on television. The tweeting showed that the audience got what we were going for. It's up for a People's Choice Award [for Favorite TV Movie/Miniseries of The Year against American Horror Story, Behind the Candelabra, The Bible, and The White Queen], and I think it has a shot.

Ian Ziering says he did 'Sharknado' to keep up health insurance

UPI.comIan Ziering says he did 'Sharknado' to keep up health insuranceUPI.comLOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Ian Ziering says he initially agreed to star in the TV movie "Sharknado" because he needed the job to keep up his family's health insurance. The summer 2013 Syfy film has since become a cult favorite and a ...

Surprising Selfless Reason Why Ian Ziering Did 'Sharknado'

ABC News (blog)Surprising Selfless Reason Why Ian Ziering Did 'Sharknado'ABC News (blog)Ian Ziering had no idea his summer Syfy movie “Sharknado” would be a huge hit, but admits “I had to do it.” Ziering, 49, didn't know this little independent movie — about a tornado filled with sharks that has Los Angeles residents running for their ...

Happy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Chia Seeds, Bacon, Prince George, and ...

PARADEHappy Thanksgiving! Be Grateful for Chia Seeds, Bacon, Prince George, and ...PARADEHere's the thing, sometimes being trendy isn't exclusively a matter of what you put on your body, but what you put in your body as well. Earlier in the week I listed some of the top beauty trends of the year—here are some fun trends from 2013 that ...

Thankful for all from Sox to 'Sharknado'

Boston HeraldThankful for all from Sox to 'Sharknado'Boston HeraldIt's Thanksgiving, a day to kiss, not to dis. So we will try to resist the temptation to tweet “just stuff it,” even though everyone will think we're talking turkey! Instead, the Track will bow its head and give thanks for all the tasty dish served up ...

AFM '13: Here's the Poster for Sharknado 2: The Second One

One year ago, ShockTillYouDrop.com was the first to bring to your attention Sharknado, the SyFy film that would draw rabid attention from the mainstream press. Today, as we touchdown at the American Film Market, we bring you a look at the sales art/poster for Sharknado 2: The Second One.

Sharknado 2: The Second One, which will be produced by The Asylum, hits land July 2014. The movie will be set in New York City, as you can see from the art inside, which finds a Sharknado destroying the Statue of Liberty.

Stay up to date with the latest horror news by "liking" Shock Till You Drop's Facebook page and following us on Twitter!

AFM 2013: Official Sales Artwork for Sharknado 2 Rips Through the Internet

The juggernaut is carving out a path of destruction at this year's AFM, and we have the first good look at the artwork for Sharknado 2: The Second One RIGHT HERE!

After reviewing more than 5,000 Twitter submissions to its " Name Sharknado 2" social media contest, the title of Syfy's eagerly anticipated Sharknado sequel is... SHARKNADO 2: THE SECOND ONE.

Sharknado 2: The Second One, which will also be produced by The Asylum, hits land July 2014. The movie will be set in New York City.

In the original Sharknado regulars of a beachside bar, including owner Fin (Ian Ziering/"Beverly Hills 90210"), bartender Nova (Cassie Scerbo/"Make It or Break It"), and local drunk George (John Heard/ Home Alone), teamed up with Fin's ex-wife, April (Tara Reid/"Scrubs"), to investigate the ecological nightmare that has sharks swimming through the streets of Los Angeles and falling from the skies.

Read our original Sharknado review here and a Q&A with star Tara Reid and director Anthony Ferrante here. And in case you missed it, read about the first Sharknado sighting here!

VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news?Click here to submit it! Get caught in a toothy twister in the comments section below!

Jets Shoot Down Sharknado

The start was solid, expectations were up and then the usual happened. A first goal, then a second allowed shortly after and the fans' mood once again turned sour. It was an old refrain again from the faithful as Twitter filled up with comments of 'solid effort to start the game', 'Jets have looked good in the beginning', and 'the first five minutes are encouraging'.

Aside from the good thoughts and optimism reality quickly set in, as it usually does with Winnipeg. A power play that could no convert and within a few minutes of missed opportunities the Jets were down 2-0. Old habits die hard.

It got worse because while the Jets PP failed to convert the Sharks made it look easy on theirs as Dan Boyle took a filthy pass from Pavelski across the front of the crease and easily put past Pavelec.

It got worse though as the pairing of Byfuglien and Clitsome left an opening so wide Hertl could have been pulling a semi as he took a long pass from Demers to put the Sharks up by two goals in the first period.

Cue the naysayers, critics, cynics and whoever else has piled on this team in recent weeks or days (yours truly included) as no one wanted another performance like what was seen against Chicago.

Not all was lost as the Jets kept pressing, and didn't give up hope. Perhaps it was the pre-game ceremony having an effect. One where a veteran nicknamed Kroppy was honoured. He's a bit of a celebrity in Winnipeg as he is shown during each anthem saluting at the end from his ice-level seats. This week the Jets and their broadcast sponsors made sure the fans got to know more about Kroppy and his servicve story.

All the being said- today is Remembrance day. I have a lot of family that served in the military, both grandfathers my own father and many uncles. If you live in Winnipeg it's hard to not know some one who has connections to the military. So if you are out today getting a coffee, pay it forward, say thanks or acknowledge them. We remember today in the hopes that no ever experiences the horrors of war, of any scale. Make friends not war.

The second period started with more pressure from the Jets and it was Matt Haslischuk who was able to get past the Sharks defense before feeding a silky pass to Frolik who put it past a reaching Niemi. The Sharks responded fast though as they Wingels potted one up stairs where mom keeps the peanut butter and the Sharks restored their three goal lead.

The response came quick from the Jets though as they got some position in the Sharks zone and with Wright providing a screen Byfuglien took the feed from Clitsome and blasted one that deflected off a Sharks player and past Niemi.

The Jets continued their pressure and from a nearly identical spot with the two defense reversed Clitsome stepped in and fired a wrist shot on net that caught something to fool Niemi and the game was tied.

The Sharks PP came alive again to give the visitors the lead as Boyle got an early goal to start the third. The Jets showed something that has been distincltly missing this season: resolve. They battled hard as you can see from the graph below.

With just over a minute and half left in the third it was the captain Andrew Ladd who brought the house down for the first of two times as he took a feed from Bryan Little and fired a quick wrist shot from the slot to beat Niemi.

In OT the Jets piled on more chances but could not solve the problem that was Niemi, the goalie who stopped 42 of 46 shots.

Shootouts are not the Jets forte, either from a scoring point of view or a goaltending one but that was only plartially the case last night. Once again it was Andrew Ladd who as the last shooter scored the lone shootout goal. It was a nifty toe-drag type move that froze Niemi and allowed Ladd the opportunity to rip the puck up high and score.

Pavelec did his job on the final shooter and the Jets came out with a win and necessary two points in a game where they never had the lead. Just when everyone is preparing for the worst with the Jets they go out and beat Detroit, blank Nashville then make some Shark fin soup. So it's safe to say that we're all just asking a different series of questions.

Pete's Points

I tweeted out a comment last night about Evander Kane and anyone seeing him? The Sharks did a good job to hold him at bay as he only had 3 shots in 25 mins of ice time.

Last night we saw the Good, the Bad and the Byfuglien of the Jets big defender. Does the good outweigh the other parts of his game? I think it did last night.

One tweet I sent out seemed to gather a lot of responses. I've noticed a trend that it seems more and more media use Twitter as a way of trying to reinforce that they are smarter than the reader. The tweet was meant as more of broad-based observation and not at anyone in particular, particularly in Winnipeg. It's one of the downsides to interactivity but communication is a two-way street and I bet it gets real tiring having your @'s filled with drive-by BS.

When the Jets get healthy and players such as Trouba and Slater return where does that leave the bottom six and the defense pairings? They are not ideal right now and I wonder with all the recent moves around the NHL if Chevy is not getting some calls about a player or two.

Jets go to Motown for action tomorrow before coming home to host the hot mess that is Philly. It might be interesting to see what the Flyers look like by the end of the week.

AFM '13: Here's the Poster for Sharknado 2: The Second One

One year ago, ShockTillYouDrop.com was the first to bring to your attention Sharknado, the SyFy film that would draw rabid attention from the mainstream press. Today, as we touchdown at the American Film Market, we bring you a look at the sales art/poster for Sharknado 2: The Second One.

Sharknado 2: The Second One, which will be produced by The Asylum, hits land July 2014. The movie will be set in New York City, as you can see from the art inside, which finds a Sharknado destroying the Statue of Liberty.

Stay up to date with the latest horror news by "liking" Shock Till You Drop's Facebook page and following us on Twitter!

Watch online: 'Sharknado,' 'Angels Sing,' 'Redlegs'

Washington Post (blog)Watch online: 'Sharknado,' 'Angels Sing,' 'Redlegs'Washington Post (blog)And nothing says sharing better than “Sharknado,” the SyFy channel's schlocky summer hit, now available on demand and best viewed with a group of friends who appreciate the fouler things in life. Directed by proud hack television writer Anthony C ...

Shark Happens in the Sharknado 2 poster

moviepilot.comShark Happens in the Sharknado 2 postermoviepilot.comGlobal warming has nothing on a CG shark storm driven by bloody Twitter chum. Of course, I'm referring to one of the most important films of 2013, Sharknado. I thought its 15 minutes were up until I started getting more and more excited for the film's ...

17 Ways to Be a Meme for Halloween

Olivia B. Waxman

The key to this Sharknado costume is wrapping a tomato plant holder in saran wrap, spray painting it, taping little plastic toy sharks all over it, and then putting it on your head, says photographer Nick McGlynn, 31.

Next Socially Awkward Penguin

Just When You've Recovered From 'Sharknado', Here Comes 'Avalanche Sharks'!

Science FictionJust When You've Recovered From 'Sharknado', Here Comes 'Avalanche Sharks'!Science FictionJust as our nation is beginning to recover from the Sharknado, another deadly threat has arisen, making it deadly to hit the slopes… 'Avalanche Sharks'! Syfy, in association with legendary horror magazine Fangoria, is going back to the shark well for ...

TV Friday: Sharknado bites back with fresh airing

The ProvinceTV Friday: Sharknado bites back with fresh airingThe ProvinceSharknado, one of the wackiest TV events in recent memory — a made-for-TV movie so out-there it makes Sleepy Hollow look like PBS Frontline — gets a fresh airing Friday, on the specialty channel Space. And while it may be true that a little goes a ...

Shark attack hits Philadelphia with midnight showing of 'Sharknado'

Examiner.comShark attack hits Philadelphia with midnight showing of 'Sharknado'Examiner.comKnown for its purposefully ridiculous premise, over the top acting, and deeply flawed plotline, “Sharknado” stars Cassie Scerbo, Ian Zeiring, and Tara Reid and is the story about a tornado that scoops up sharks and deposits them in Los Angeles, causing ...

Friday on TV: Sharknado is so bad it's good

Sharknado, one of the wackiest TV events in recent memory - a made-for-TV movie so out-there it makes Sleepy Hollow look like PBS Frontline - gets a fresh airing Friday, on the specialty channel Space. When Sharknado first aired on the U.S. Syfy Channel, on July 11, 2013 - a date that will live in TV infamy - the Twitterverse lit up like an exploding sun.

Cory Monteith, in one of his last tweets before he died, wrote, 'What the crap is Sharknado,' then, moments later, added: 'Oh. It's a SHARK TORNADO.' The ratings that first night were no more than they are for any other of Syfy's D-list exploitation movies, but Twitter was another matter.

Syfy, startled that so many had so much to say about such a lousy movie, repeated

Sharknado a week later. Once again, Sharknado - forgive the pun - shredded accepted TV conventions.

'You cannot be serious,' Syfy executives must have thought to themselves, so they repeated Sharknado a second time, two weeks later, on July 27. This time Sharknado set a ratings record for the channel. (9 p.m. & 1:30 a.m., Space)

■ It's too easy to dismiss Shark Tank as being lame after Sharknado, but there it is. In Friday's Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary, Robert Herjavec, Mark Cuban and the others listen in rapt attention as recording artist Brian Mc-Knight tries to sell them on the idea of a syndicated radio show that specializes in lovesong dedications. (9 p.m., ABC, CTV Two)

■ On a more serious note, The Fifth Estate journeys to Bangladesh where correspondent

■ Mark Kelley asks, rhetorically, who made the shirt you're wearing, and then exposes some of the dirty secrets of the trade. (9 p.m., CBC)

Keeping it real, Bill Maher's guests Friday on Real Time include Chris Matthews, MSNBC pundit and author of Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked; radio host Carol Roth; Jim Glassman and Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. (10 p.m., HBO)

Friday on TV: Sharknado is so bad it's good

Sharknado, one of the wackiest TV events in recent memory - a made-for-TV movie so out-there it makes Sleepy Hollow look like PBS Frontline - gets a fresh airing Friday, on the specialty channel Space. When Sharknado first aired on the U.S. Syfy Channel, on July 11, 2013 - a date that will live in TV infamy - the Twitterverse lit up like an exploding sun.

Cory Monteith, in one of his last tweets before he died, wrote, 'What the crap is Sharknado,' then, moments later, added: 'Oh. It's a SHARK TORNADO.' The ratings that first night were no more than they are for any other of Syfy's D-list exploitation movies, but Twitter was another matter.

Syfy, startled that so many had so much to say about such a lousy movie, repeated

Sharknado a week later. Once again, Sharknado - forgive the pun - shredded accepted TV conventions.

'You cannot be serious,' Syfy executives must have thought to themselves, so they repeated Sharknado a second time, two weeks later, on July 27. This time Sharknado set a ratings record for the channel. (9 p.m. & 1:30 a.m., Space)

■ It's too easy to dismiss Shark Tank as being lame after Sharknado, but there it is. In Friday's Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary, Robert Herjavec, Mark Cuban and the others listen in rapt attention as recording artist Brian Mc-Knight tries to sell them on the idea of a syndicated radio show that specializes in lovesong dedications. (9 p.m., ABC, CTV Two)

■ On a more serious note, The Fifth Estate journeys to Bangladesh where correspondent

■ Mark Kelley asks, rhetorically, who made the shirt you're wearing, and then exposes some of the dirty secrets of the trade. (9 p.m., CBC)

Keeping it real, Bill Maher's guests Friday on Real Time include Chris Matthews, MSNBC pundit and author of Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked; radio host Carol Roth; Jim Glassman and Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. (10 p.m., HBO)