In lighter news, the trailer for the Max Payne movie with Mark Wahlberg has come out… doesn’t look too bad, looks about a 6 out of 10 just because of the implied cheese factor; little things you notice, like how his gritty, world-trodden trench coat is brand new and pristine or the snow-covered Glock… cause [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Badass! The remake of Clash of the Titans, an awesome movie from the 80s covering Greek lore, has gotten the director of the newly successful The Incredible Hulk remake, Louis Leterrier. It also looks like the movie is going to be getting the fast-track treatment to get this puppy done and out by Summer 2010. Hope [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
You probably already knew that, but the part of this news that should blow your skirt up is: Director: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) Writer: John Logan (Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd) For the folks that aren’t familiar with the game, it takes place in the 1950s/1960s alternate future and begins with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Saw this over on I Watch Stuff, it’s the “trailer” for Tokyo Gore Police, which is a ridiculously over the top 80/90s-style cheesy Japanese gore-fest… sort of like Riki-Oh, if you ever saw that or to a lesser extend the original Toxic Avenger from Troma. So if you like movies like that cause you are curious [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 16, 2008
It seems that DreamWorks has snagged the rights to the Ghost in the Shell movie… one of the best animes out there. They described the movie as a 3D (yay!) live-action (booo!) hybrid and said that GITS provided the perfect story to be delivered on that platform. Having just watched Appleseed: Ex Machina, and thinking it was [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 10, 2008
I ran across this new somewhat by accident… but then again I tend to do awesome things by accident. One time I accidentally grew 3″ taller… and another time I accidentally smashed a tiger and a lion together so hard that I made a Liger. Anyway, if you are an anime fan or even have just [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 4, 2008
This post is for all the Dune fans out there (tdod!), looks like a new Dune movie is in the works (IMDB Link): the producers have secured the rights to the Dune novel from Frank Herbert’s estate and are looking for writers to provide a screenplay that is true to the original text. So yea… if the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 31, 2008
Well it’s official, looks like New Line (now Warner Bros) is going to go forward with the Gears of War movie: “We’ve got our script on and a director we’re about to attach. We’ll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010,” said Godfrey. If you haven’t caught it already, there has been massive [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 29, 2008
Interesting… it looks like there is going to be a Live Action remake of Akira in 2009. So far the two rumored roles for the leads (for the main guy and his friend that gets sucked into the government experiment) are: Leonardo DiCaprio: Joseph Gordon-Levitt: both actors I love (DiCaprio after The Aviator and The Departed… he really [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ted Regulski sends in the scoop that Firmware 2.20 is released, this is the one that includes the BD-Live support that is part of the Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0. Some of the other stuff in this release: The ability to copy PS3 Music and Photo playlists to a PSP system. We introduced the ability to create [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 20, 2008
See, this is why I’m glad my Blu-ray player is my PS3… it’s infinitely upgradable. A new update coming at the end of March adds all the BD Live support stuff now: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that system software update v.2.20, for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3), planned for release in late March, will add [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 6, 2008
Did you see I Am Legend? Did you think the ending blew asshole? Well… so did everyone else. *** SPOILER after the jump ***
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 27, 2008
So I was in the market recently for a portable media player that I wanted to not only use for music but primarily for playing video when I was bored at the gym or traveling on a long domestic flight. After a lot of searching I eventually found a pretty nice Wikipedia page that has [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 17, 2008
Chris Hunkele sends in news that Toshiba has officially stepped out of the HD-DVD race and will stop producing disks and devices based on the standard. It’s over folks… officially.
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
Ted Regulski, AKA Ted “The Ted Man” Regulski, sent in news that Susan Chronister from Wal-Mart has confirmed that the employee-raping giant will go Blu-ray exclusive by June with no plans to continue stocking HD-DVD media or players. So everyone that bought a $99 HD-DVD… yea… that freaking sucks
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