Saturday, January 05, 2008

Awesome Indiana Jones LEGO

Word's can't describe how good this LEGO will be. Click here for some brilliant images.

Matthew Fox Talks Lost Season 4

Talking with Entertainment Weekly, "Lost" actor Matthew Fox revealed a few revealing details about what to expect for the mystery drama's upcoming fourth season beginning January 31st.

Originally slated to be sixteen episodes, the show has been truncated to just eight due to the writer's strike. So what will happen to the other eight? "We're not sure if we're going to come back and do more this [season]. The audience only getting eight would really be a bummer. But I'm optimistic."

Much of the season will be dealing with the repercussions of last year's season finale - most notably the 'flash forward' in which we saw Jack and Kate getting off the island. Does this mean others get off as well?

"That's the question for the first part of this year, for sure. Jack gets people off that island, [and] suddenly he and the other people are very well-known -- it becomes this massive story because everybody thought that every person on this plane was lost.... Who are they? What is everybody else doing? Jack's mission was to get all of them off. It's the overriding force behind him. So, the fact that he ends up getting off and doesn't get that accomplished -- I'm very curious to find out how that all goes down. And part of that is going to be part of the reason why he wanted to jump off the bridge in the future" says Fox. Read More here.

James Bond gets his 'Girl'

Although Gemma Arterton has been rumored for the part for a while, producers now officially announce her in Bond 22. She plays a character called "Fields."

She is British too!!! Hurrah for real accents. Unless she is from Canvey Island...

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Del Toro for Frankenstein

Great news for Del Toro Fans: This from Dark Horizons:

Director Guillermo del Toro has revealed to MTV News that he is planning a "definitive take" on Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" story.

Del Toro says that his vision, which is in the earliest stages of pre-production, will not be a literal adaptation - "The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries. But I think there permutations in which you can tell the myth in a different way.

Superman, Justice League and Batman Happenings

This from Variety: (all very unofficial though)

Speaking of DC Comics pics, it is highly unlikely that Bryan Singer will return to shoot the next Superman movie. (The director is finishing up Tom Cruise's Nazi film Valkyrie, and prepping The Mayor of Castro Street). The next Superman we will see on the big screen will not be Brandon Routh, but a younger Superman among a cast of youthful superheroes in The Justice League. That movie will likely not be shot, however, until after the WGA strike is resolved. Warners is so happy with Dark Knight that their fondest hope is that Nolan will return to do another Batman.

Bond 22 Villain Revealed

Variety has revealed that Mathieu Amalric has been cast alongside Daniel Craig as Bond's main adversary.

Sony have also announced that Jeffrey Wright will return as Bond's CIA buddy, Felix Leiter.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Amazon sell 17 Wii's per Second in the US

News of a sickening amount of Wii sales from Gizmodo

I realise that it’s pretty sickening to hear that Amazon was selling Wiis at a rate of 17 per second over the Christmas period elsewhere while most of the UK and Ireland got zilch, but that’s life.

Extrapolate those figures and Amazon sold a staggering 1,020 Wiis a minute, 61,200 an hour and a frightening 1.46m per day. Of course, none of that’s actually true, just a theory because there weren’t that many Wiis out there – anywhere.

Amazon actually said that at peak, the Wiis old at a rate of 17 per second “when they were in stock”. Not too often then.
Other stats showed that Dec 10th was the busiest day with 5.4m purchases and that 99% of Christmas orders shipped on time.

Watch Movies and TV Online - Top Links

Here we 'direct' you in to the paths of other sites hosting and streaming online content.

We believe that you should have the right to watch things online, just buy the dvd or go to the cinema if you like it.

Watch-Movies.net - http://www.watch-movies.net/
a great site to watch all the latest releases, easy to see whether the link is worth visiting or not.

Video Lemon - http://www.videolemon.com
a easy to navigate site packed full of links to streaming media sites.

AllUC - http://www6.alluc.org/alluc/
a vast amount of TV content available on this simple website.

Cucirca - http://www.cucirca.com/
great site to watch all of your modern cult shows such as prison break, lost and heroes.

TV Link Vault - http://www.tvlinkvault.com/
a really simple way to view your favourite TV shows, split into simple categories.

Movies on Demand - http://www.movies-on-demand.tv/
nice site featuring lots of new release movies.

Remember - Buy or Rent!

New Indiana Jones Images

Brand new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull images from the Vanity Fair interview.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Arnie not in new Terminator Trilogy

The Sun Newspaper revealed that:

ARNIE will NOT be back for the new Terminator movie.
Producer MORITZ BORMAN has revealed that Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is set before the famous fighting machine has been built.
“We’re keeping the script under very tight security,” Borman told Empire magazine.
“And one of the reasons is that we have a huge twist at the end, which we’re being careful not to reveal. Like with the last Terminator — we kept that under tight wraps so not even the crew got the last six or seven pages.
“I can tell you this much — this is the story everybody has been waiting for. Namely, we’re in the future. The part of it where Arnold’s character has not yet been built but is on the drawing board.
“And in the next two episodes we’ll get to the point where time-travel is more in the foreground. It’s the war against the machines, the start of Skynet taking over the world.”
But Borman hinted that Californian governor Schwarzenegger could feature in two subsequent movies.
“It’s convenient that he hasn’t been built at this point of the story, as Arnold has more important things to do right now, but that doesn’t mean he might not re-appear later in the trilogy,” he said.
“He knows the material and is very supportive of what we’re doing. There might even be hints of his character in this one.”
Borman refused to be drawn on rumours that CHRISTIAN BALE is set to play John Connor.
“No comment. You can draw your own conclusions from that,” laughed Borman.
“Everyone is assuming there is a John Connor and a Terminator in the script. Connor is in there along with another figure, but who is that figure?”

Bond 22 Begins Shooting

Dark Horizons reports that the new James Bond Movie, as of yet unnamed 'Bond 22' begins shooting this week.

Director Marc Fosterspoke with Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung recently and confirmed that shooting will begin this coming Thursday reports MI6.

In a surprisingly frank interview Forster revealed that he would have liked to have cast Bruno Ganz as the main villain, but couldn't as the French actor Mathieu Amalric had already signed on for the role.

He did confirm reports earlier this month that Gemma Arterton had landed a small Bond girl role. Even though it's not the major role (a South American Latina actress is being sought for that role), Arterton beat out 1,500 girls to land the part.

Forster says the producers have not blocked any of his ideas yet, except a couple which were not possible as they were too expensive. Locations had changed once the Paul Haggis script was locked, notably his home country of Switzerland was no longer to be a part of the production.

As for the film's tone: "When Bond began in the Connery days, travel was a luxury not everyone could afford. Today, the world has become smaller. If Bond goes to a beach with palm trees it's almost banal now. The only interesting trip remains the journey inwards, deep in to the psyche."

Amongst the first bits of filming will be a scene at the Barbican Centre in the heart of London. Other shooting will take place in the UK, Panama, Bolivia and Italy.

8 Hot Hits for 2008

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Set at the height of the Cold War in 1957, Indy is in a race for the Crystal Skull against operatives from the Soviet Union. The adventures take him to New Mexico, Connecticut, Mexico City and the jungles of Peru. Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Karen Allen, Andrew Divoff

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV (referred to as GTA IV or GTA4) will be the eleventh Grand Theft Auto game in the series. Take Two and Rockstar Games Currently have 150 developers working on the game and work has been in progress since 2004, right after San Andreas was released. Since then, the game has been developed by Rockstar teams in Edinburgh, San Diego, and New York. Although Delayed this game will be one of the most desired bit of kit since Halo 3 in 2008.

WALL-E

WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and his programming was to help clean up. You see, it's set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.

Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her

Samsung Blu-Ray - HD-DVD Hybrid Player

The BDP-UP5000 will support all the features of either movie format, including Internet extras through an Ethernet connection that both formats will recognize. It should also eliminate the stilted motion effects caused by pulldown conversion and can output movies at either a film-native 24 frames per second or as quickly as 60 frames per second for faster videos. No trouble is expected with playing movies at a full 1080p, Samsung says. While the final cost of the player hasn't been finalized, the device should be ready by October or November and will sell at a roughly 400-Euro ($544) premium compared to a single-format Blu-Ray movie reader by the time it reaches stores.

Master Replicas Halo 3 Force FX Plasma Sword

Master Replicas have recently announced their 2008 product line and with it comes their answer to their hugely successful Force FX Lightsabre range. The Force FX Energy Sword from the Halo Universe. Not many details are known at this stage but we predict this to be a top seller.

The Dark Knight

The follow-up to the action hit "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight" reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne. In the new film, Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Following the style of its predecessors, the game uses a battle system different from that of typical fighting games. Choosing from a variety of characters, one to four players fight on various stages, trying to knock their opponents off the screen. Instead of using health bars like those used in most fighting games, percentage displays are employed. These start at zero percent, and increase as the characters take damage up to 999%. As a character's percentage goes up, the character flies farther back when hit. When a character is knocked beyond a stage's boundary and disappears from the screen, the character loses either a life or a point depending on the mode of play. We expect this to do for Nintendo in 2008 what Mario Galaxy did for Nintendo in 2007, looking forward to this one.

Cloverfield

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

This film didn't have a name for most of its promotional duties in 2007 helping building up the hype, but alas here is Cloverfield. We all just hope it lives up to its hype. Don't you just love a good disaster movie?