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Spec'd: Iron Man 2
After generating over $600 million dollars worldwide this summer, Paramount Home Video will release Iron Man 2 on DVD/Blu-ray on September 28, 2010. The studio is streeting the home video version of the movie in three different options: a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack with a digital copy, a limited edition two-disc DVD with digital copy or as a single disc DVD.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Neil Gaiman's Sandman getting second shot as a TV series
When DC Comics released the first issue of The Sandman back in 1987 it didn't turn many heads. Only slowly, over the following months, did word spread about the quality of Neil Gaiman's fantasy-meets-horror comic book, but once critical mass was achieved, The Sandman did what very few comic books ever do: it crossed over into the mainstream and attracted readers that never before read a comic book.
Add a comment (2)Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Is it too early to start the Kick-Ass 2 hype?
Comic book writer Mark Millar is a marketing genius. He's been able to build up hype about himself and his projects, giving them what every movie producer and/or comic book creator wants: visibility with the public. Specifically, visibility with the online crowd. That in turn can be used to show Hollywood people higher on the money food chain that there's enough interest to get one of Millar's projects greenlit. It's a proven strategy, one that the Scottish-born writer has used time and time before.
Add a comment (0)Monday, August 30, 2010
Tron: Evolution collector's edition revealed
Have extra room in your game room? Disney Interactive wants to help you find a way to fill up that extra space with a lightcycle replica from the upcoming Tron Legacy movie. If you're thinking about picking up a copy of Tron: Evolution for your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 come December then Disney would like you to consider upgrading to the Collector's Edition version.
Add a comment (0)Sunday, August 29, 2010
Exclusive: Terra Nova pilot script reviewed
It must be getting harder to make new genre shows for television. Think about it for a moment and see if my point makes sense to you: suppose you're a TV creator and you've thought up an idea for a new sci-fi series set on a spaceship. Now you're going to be compared to Star Trek. What about a scientist that travels into the past? Quantum Leap fans are going to curse you out. Investigators of the paranormal? The X-Files did that a decade ago (though don't tell the Fringe guys – although they're doing OK by replacing the alien meme with parallel Earths.)
Add a comment (2)At summer's end The Last Exorcism squeaks out ahead
The final week of August is the near-last gasp of the summer. Technically there's one more week to go until the school year starts up and the box office can't rely on the free schedules of kids, teens and the college-aged crowd to make money during the mid-week. But even so, a $21.3 million dollar opening for The Last Exorcism is an amazing feat for Lionsgate. The budget for this shocker was reportedly under $2 million dollars (update: Bloody Disgusting says it's more like $8 million.) I'm guessing that the marketing budget must be somewhere between $10 - 15 million so at this point Lionsgate execs are high-fiving each other like The A-Team at the end of a mission.
Add a comment (0)Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Star Trek: The Next Generation that almost was
It might be darn near impossible to imagine anyone else telling his Number One to "Make it so" on the bridge of the Enterprise-D other than Patrick Stewart but before the show went to air it was a distinct possibility.
Add a comment (3)Friday, August 27, 2010
Toy Story 3 crosses the one billion dollar mark
Today Toy Story 3 earned its first ten figure dollar bill, pushing the worldwide take of the film to one billion dollars. The watermark isn't just significant for Disney and Pixar because the movie is now the animation house's highest grossing Pixar film ever but that Toy Story 3 is the second movie released by Disney in 2010 to earn $1 billion at the box office.
Add a comment (0)Thursday, August 26, 2010
It's Ok to laugh at M. Night's Escalation
Audiences in movie theaters that have watched the opening to Universal's Devil trailer had an unexpected reaction when the block of text came up with "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" on the screen...they laughed at the screen. That's not a good reaction if you're selling a scary movie.
Add a comment (7)Christina Hendricks, London Fog and Photoshop: not the threesome you had in mind
When it was announced two days ago that Mad Men star and notoriously curvy redhead Christina Hendricks would be the new face of London Fog, a respectible number of headlines appeared on Mad Men, fashionista and celeberazzi blogs. Hendricks, who's never been one to hide her ample curves, is shown in a series of photographs on the London Fog website prepping for the shoot. But in the final ads, was her alluring figure diminished through the wonder of Photoshop?
Add a comment (2)The Halo: Reach ad campaign continues
Earlier today I showed you the first commercial for Microsoft's Halo: Reach, likely to be one of the year's biggest sellers. This afternoon Bungie, the game's developer and creator, released the second ad. It's titled "Deliver Hope".
Add a comment (0)Half-Life game creators only want themselves to make the movie
One of the most coveted properties today in gaming is Valve's Half-Life franchise. Released in 1998, this first-person shooter borrowed story elements from The War of the Worlds, Alien and Stephen King's The Mist and to give us not just a strong action gameplay element but an equally as compelling storyline. In the game you play a scientist who tries to halt the invasion of an other dimensional alien force.
Add a comment (1)Spec'd: Predators
After proving to be a modestly profitable reboot of the Predator film franchise, Fox Home Entertainment has announced an October 19, 2010 release for Predators on home video. DVD and Blu-ray versions will be released.
Add a comment (1)Remember Reach
When you can't convince Hollywood to make a Halo movie, do the commercial.
Add a comment (0)Marvel's Iron Fist movie gets a writer
News on an interesting development for a Marvel Studios project involving a secondary tier superhero emerged yesterday on Deadline. If you know your comic book roster then the name of Iron Fist should ring a bell. If he doesn't, don't worry so much about it. Like I said, Iron Fist is not a major superhero on the Marvel scene -- but then again, how many of the general public knew that Blade hunted vampires in the Marvel U. before his movie came out?
Add a comment (0)Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Portal 2 video introduces a British AI
Valve Corporation has been working on Portal 2 for more than a year. A sequel to the brilliant 1997 first-person puzzle game Portal, which if you haven't played it you really should, the sequel brings back Chell, the woman that escaped from the clutches of Apature Science's evil AI GLaDOS using her portal gun and spring-augmented jumping jacks on her legs. Chell's back in trouble in Portal 2 as this latest video Valve has just released shows. It also introduces us to a new AI named Wheatley, voiced by the British humorist Stephen Merchant. If this short preview of Merchant's delivery and Portal 2's improved graphics are any indication of the finished game, we're going to have a blast playing Portal 2.
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation that almost was
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Christina Hendricks, London Fog and Photoshop: not the threesome you had in mind
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Neil Gaiman's Sandman getting second shot as a TV series
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Spec'd: Predators
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Half-Life game creators only want themselves to make the movie
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The Expendables secures a second weekend at #1