Apple Integration with Airlines

Apple team up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to deliver iPod integration.

“There is no better traveling companion than an iPod, and now travelers can power their iPods during flight and even watch their iPod movies and TV shows on their seat back displays,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. “We’re excited to work with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United to offer iPod users an even better in-flight experience.”

See the full press release here

Gervais vs Merchant for same award

Extras creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant must face each other for the best TV actor category at the British Comedy Awards.

Peep Show double act David Mitchell and Robert Webb are also in the running for best actor, and their show is listed with Extras under best comedy.

Catherine Tate is up for best actress while Ant and Dec, Harry Hill and Paul Merton compete for top personality.

The awards will be presented in London by Jonathan Ross on 13 December.

MGM Talk Film

MGM have the following to say about its top Licenses.

Steve Martin has delivered his script for the proposed The Pink Panther sequal, shooting is expected to start in February.

The next Thomas Crown movie is expected to start shooting in March with a budget of $100 million.

Daniel Craig is expected to return in the sequel to Casino Royale.

Rocky Balboa is likely to the last Rocky film as they fear Sylvester Stallones age may get the better of him.

The Hobbit will be made, advanced talks with Peter Jackson is currently happening. They hope to make two Hobbit Films, one would be a direct adaption of the book and the other would be drawn from 'footnotes and source material connecting the 'Hobbit' and the 'Lord of the Rings'.

Thanks to Variety

$200 Million is no Wii Budget!

Sorry for the blatant Scottish Pun, but Nintendo have announced their advertising budget for the next year as $200 million for the Wii alone, a massive 20% larger budget than they spent on the Gamecube.

They will also produce adverts portraying grandparents playing the wii with their grandchildren.

The console war continues...

Halo 3 Goodies coming?

On the company's most recent Weekly Update, which is posted every Friday, community manager Frank O' Connor says the following: "A bunch of stuff is going down to celebrate the fifth anniversary of a little game we like to call Halo... Next year, Halo 3 will conclude the story arc begun all those years ago and next week, we'll take a long lingering look at the series to date. There will also be some pretty BIG surprises and maybe announcements. Who can say?"

New trailer perhaps, ingame footage? maps? Official release date?

I want to see the packaging design, i bet its going to be special this year after teasing us with a semi-nice metal tin for Halo 2.

Wii have Locked down Wikipedia! and other Consoles!

Web encyclopedia Wikipedia--which allows anyone to write or edit its entries--has locked down its pages relating to Sony and Nintendo's next-generation consoles after continued vandalism.

A series of less-than-impartial edits over the last few weeks has led to the temporary lockdown to "protect" the entries, in the hope that the virtual vandals will lose interest by the time the pages are reopened to changes.

Users have been hijacking the site's entries to add what Wikipedia refers to as "funny" edits. Top of the list is the Nintendo Wii--a name that pranksters seem to find especially entertaining.

Last week the complete Nintendo company page was replaced with the phrase "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!!!!!" briefly before the Web site reloaded the original entry. Previous vandalism efforts include someone doodling on a Hitler moustache and horns on the photograph for the entry for Bill Gates, and the sentence "Microsoft is Zomg T3h Suck0r!!!!!!" briefly replacing the computer software company's page. via: Gamespot

PS3 can't handle your iPod

The Queen due to attend Casino Royale Premiere

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will attend the world premiere of the James Bond film Casino Royale in London's Leicester Square later.

The movie is an adaptation of Ian Fleming's first Bond novel and is one of the few without gadget-maker Q or much-loved secretary Miss Moneypenny.

Early reviews have been positive, with many critics impressed by Daniel Craig's performance in the lead role.

The 38-year-old has said all Bond films have "something special about them".

Dr No and From Russia with Love were two of his favourite movies, he told BBC News, and he had particular respect for one of his predecessors, Sir Sean Connery.

Thanks to the BBC

Cohen is Sweeney Todd's Nemesis

Variety reports that Sacha Baron Cohen has confirmed his role in Tim Burton's next flick 'Sweeney Todd' Sacha will play the nemesis of Sweeney Todd, Signor Adolfo Pirelli.

Todd's the barber who teams with the murderess Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) to kill people, grind them up and use them in her meat pies.

Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing with Richard D. Zanuck and John Logan. Logan wrote the script.

Cohen's next project will of course be another one of his characters, 'Bruno'

Tonight NECA dine in Hell - 300 Action Figures

In 480 BC the Persian empire was poised to conquer all of Greece. While their countrymen turned and fled from their invaders, a band of 300 Spartan warriors faced off against the largest army the world had ever seen. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans would show an empire what it meant to be truly heroic.

From Warner Bros. comes 300, an action-packed epic inspired by Frank Miller's award-winning graphic novel. Starring Gerard Butler as Leonidas, 300 is a ground breaking special effects masterpiece. For those in doubt, just check out the trailer at The Official 300 Website.

NECA is pleased to announce we will be releasing action figures for this awesome film, including: King Leonidas, Immortal, Queen Gorgo, Ephialtes

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