Friday, August 28, 2009
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Some Stuff: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
On this date in 1949, RCA announced it had invented a system for broadcasting color television
Check our Blog for an amazing looking teaser for Christopher Nolan's “Inception” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (In Theaters July 16, 2010) (Matrix and The Day the earth stood still)
That trailer for JAMES CAMERON'S upcoming flick "Avatar" was watched 4 MILLION times in its first day online. That's a record for Apple.com.
I didn't realize that "Hancock" was such a big hit . . . but it did well enough to warrant a sequel . . . which is in development as we speak. WILL SMITH and director PETER BERG are expected to return. There's no word yet on any other casting.
David Goyer seems to have a lot on his plate. He's currently working on "Flash Forward" for ABC and is lining up other projects like The Invisible Man. He's also still attached to direct X-Men Origins: Magneto, at least for the time being. Fox actively developing a Wolverine sequel, Deadpool spin-off, and X-Men: First Class spin-off
Snow Leopard is here months early it’ll drop on Friday. So here’s the deal… Apple is emphasizing performance over new features, calling this version "refined, not reinvented" and advertising such improvements as faster startup and shutdown times, a smaller disk footprint and a more crash-resistant Web browser.
Apple is also pricing Snow Leopard low enough to make it almost an automatic upgrade from the current, already-good OS X 10.5 Leopard: just $29, $100 less than what Leopard sold for at its debut. (If you bought a Mac from June 8 on, right after Snow Leopard had its first in-depth demonstration at an Apple conference, you can probably get it for just $9.95.)
But people running older versions of OS X aren't eligible for those deals, and many older Macs can't run Snow Leopard at any price.
A pair of Michigan law students have hit the Internet big-time with a website allowing users to share their strange and amusing text messages. Ben Bator and Lauren Leto, both graduates of Michigan State University attending law school at Wayne State University, said the funny texts they received from their friends led them to create their site, TextsFromLastNight.com. Bator and Leto said they go through 10,000 to 15,000 submissions each night to decide what makes it onto the site. Senders are identified only by their area codes. The messages on the Web site include obscene stories, bizarre confessions and existential question. (Warning: Many of the texts on the site are NSFW.)
"JESSICA BIEL" IS THE MOST DANGEROUS CELEBRITY NAME TO SEARCH FOR ONLINE:
Every year, the people at McAfee put together a list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for. In other words, the celebs whose names can get you in the most trouble.ie viruses, spyware, adware and other garbage that'll mess up your computer.
This year, that honor goes to JESSICA BIEL. McAfee says that searching Jessica's name gives you a ONE IN FIVE chance of landing on a site that has tested positive for some kind of online threat.
Here's the complete list of this year's most dangerous celebrities to search for . . .
#1.) JESSICA BIEL
#2.) BEYONCÉ
#3.) JENNIFER ANISTON
#4.) TOM BRADY
#5.) JESSICA SIMPSON
#6.) GISELE BUNDCHEN
#7.) MILEY CYRUS
(tie) #8.) ANGELINA JOLIE and MEGAN FOX
#9.) ASHLEY TISDALE
#10.) BRAD PITT (--He was #1 last year.)
Friday, August 21, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Some Stuff: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
1921: Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was born
2004: Internet search engine Google went public.
Robert Redford is getting back into the Washington scene with a film about a woman executed as an accessory in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Redford plans to direct The Conspirator, the story of Mary Surratt. Starting in the fall.
Internet Movie Database is out with the top 15 rated films of the new millennium -- the 15 made since 2000 that IMDb users have rated as the best.
5. Up (2009)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3. City of God (2002)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
Sony got on stage yesterday at GamesCom and confirmed that the new, slimmer PS3 is really real. It'll be out in the first week of September and will retail for $300. It's smaller and lighter, has a 120GB HDD, and packs "all the same features" of the regular PS3 while consuming 34 percent less power and taking up 32 percent less space. Rumour says Existing PS3’s will have their prices dropped by a hundred bucks this week in anticipation.
A new survey by the (CDC) reveals that gamers are more prone to depression and obesity than non-gamers. Findings:
- female gamers are more likely to be depressed than non-gamers
- male gamers have higher incidents of obesity than non gamers
- 45% of the population plays video games .. the average gamer age is 35
Some Stuff: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
On this date in 1969, Woodstock concluded with a performance by Jimi Hendrix.
A while back, we heard that BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN would be appearing in a few episodes of "Smallville" this season. He'll be playing Metallo . . . a man who's been fitted with a "heart of kryptonite." Check our blog for photo.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is actually in-production at 20th Century Fox. Disney dumped the Chronicles of Narnia franchise last year after Prince Caspian performed poorly, mainly due to marketing problems since that movie and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe were disconnected in setting and tone, among other things. Fox stepped up and now they're shelling out millions to get it made.
BRUCE WILLIS says that he, SYLVESTER STALLONE and ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER will unite for a cameo in Stallone's upcoming action flick, "The Expendables". Willis says, quote, "I don't know anything about [my character] yet, haven't seen any pages yet. But I'm excited about it." The cast of course also includes Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Randy "The Natural" Couture and Mickey Rourke.
Dutch researchers have created a new Swine Flu video game that challenges players to control the pandemic. The free game can be played online at www.thegreatflu.com. The game is simple as players pick a flu strain before setting up surveillance systems, stockpiling antivirals and vaccines, and closing schools and airports. The game keeps track of how many people have died and become infected.
Fujifilm Canada’s imaging products division, recently showed off the FinePix W1 REAL 3D, the world’s first 3D digital camera, which will arrive in Canadian stores on Oct. 1.
The world's first 3D-Photo camera to cost $700 bucks, $500 bucks for special monitor, no 3D output to computer, prints cost $10 bucks and they have to be processed in Japan. But hey, 3D
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Some Stuff: Monday, August 17, 2009
1970: Venera 7 launched. It would later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
Actress Alyssa Milano is a married woman. The 36-year-old Charmed star walked down the aisle with her agent boyfriend (David Bugliari) Saturday in New Jersey. Check our blog for some photos of Alyssa in Playboy:
It's finally here! Although the trailer will be online in about a week Fox has released the first official production photo from James Cameron's Avatar featuring Sam Worthington and his Avatar (in the background).
My source is reporting that Universal is developing another adaptation of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, to continue on that franchise that first hit the big screen back in 1994 with Interview with the Vampire. They don't have any details on what's going on with the reboot or which Anne Rice novel(s) they're going to be drawing from, but they do say that Robert Downey Jr. is in "close talks" to play the vampire Lestat.
Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst are all on-board once again for Spiderman 4 set to release in 2011, and it turns out things are moving ahead for Spider-Man 5 and 6. A writer has been hired James Vanderbilt, of The Losers and David Fincher's Zodiac, will write an over-arching storyline that will extend from the fifth movie into the sixth - which might mean both films could even be shot back-to-back.
Study shows UFO sightings increase whenever a movie about UFOs is released
Back in 1996 there was a spike in UFO sightings in the UK: 609, up from 117 the year before. David Clarke, a UFO historian and consultant to the National Archives, said it was probably no coincidence that the supernatural TV show The X Files was popular in Britain at the time, and that alien-invasion movie Independence Day came out the same year. "It's evident there is some connection between newspaper stories, TV programs and films about alien visitors, and the numbers of UFO sightings," Clarke said. "Aside from 1996, one of the busiest years for UFO sightings reported to the Ministry of Defence over the past half century was 1978 - the year Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released."
Motola, an elephant in Thailand who lost a foot and part of her leg when she stepped on a land mine 10 years ago, happily stepped out Sunday after being fitted with an artificial limb. In her first stroll with the permanent prosthesis, the 48-year-old female walked out of her enclosure for about 10 minutes, grabbed some dust with her trunk and jubilantly sprayed it in the air. Motola was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp near the Myanmar border, a region peppered with land mines after a half-century of insurgency. Her mangled left front foot was subsequently amputated. Motola had been wearing a temporary device for three years to strengthen her leg muscles and tendons and to prepare her for the permanent prosthesis.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Some Stuff: August 11, 2009
On this date in 1981, IBM introduced the Personal Computer .. it was equipped with the Microsoft operating system MS-DOS 1.0
Hugh Jackman recently commented at the Teen Choice about the sequel to wolverine, confirming pretty much what we already know. "Japan is where we're heading, [and] we're starting to work on it now. We're in the… first steps of developing that story."
Over the weekend G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned an estimated $100 million worldwide, despite mostly negative buzz and reviews. The film surpassed studio expectations -- which means a sequel is already in development.
Terminator Salvation director McG says he wants his follow-up to be a "better film". McG claims he did "a lot of things right" and "many things wrong" in the latest installment of the sci-fi series, revealing that eliminating the time travel element from the previous pictures was a mistake.
More updates on the Farrelly Brother's wacky Three Stooges movie. Jim Carrey, who was originally on-board to play Curly, has since dropped out, but they don't have a replacement just yet. Additionally, they say that Paul Giamatti has signed on to replace Sean Penn as Larry, since he is taking time off from acting.
A Texas-based bank, plans to release an update of its iPhone application this week that lets customers make deposits using the device's camera. The app will work by letting customers take a photo of both sides of the check and then submitting it to the Bank. According to The New York Times "customers will not have to mail the check to the bank later; the deposit will be handled entirely electronically, and the bank suggests voiding the check and filing or discarding it."
Some Stuff: August 10, 2009
Check our blog for a cool video of a batting cage machine shooting a baseball at a samurai, who cuts it in half with his sword.
Steven Spielberg has taken over development on the Halo movie that Peter Jackson previously tried to make. Jackson and Spielberg are working together on Tintin, so they've probably had plenty of time to talk about bringing one of the greatest video games in history to the big screen.
Sony Moving Forward on Developing Underworld 4 in 3D
TOM CRUISE'S son CONNOR has joined the cast of "Red Dawn" . . . a remake of the CLASSIC 1984 flick about a group of teenagers who fight back when their town is invaded by the Russians.
Louis Leterrier's Awesome Idea for a Summer of The Avengers
I’ll tell you my real dream: To work with Joe Johnston and ["Thor" director] Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau(director of iron man) and make like a triptych. We do four movies. We release them one a month for the summer. And the whole summer would be Avengers summer. So we do it the way they make television shows. One story arc but told in installments by different directors. So all of the directors that touch part of the Avengers world would do a part; we could make the movies shorter, maybe less than an hour and a half, and we use the same sets and save Marvel money.
Lamborghini plans to start building hybrids by 2015. CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the German magazine Automobile-woche that much like the Toyota Prius, the Hybrid electric motor will power the car around town, before switching over to a V-10 or V-12 motor on the open road. The problem is that this ignores the main reason people buy Lambos in the first place.
Monday, August 10, 2009
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