| Analyst: PlayStation 3 to Smoke Xbox 360 and Wii |
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Yahoo!Games/PCWORLD:Begging trouble, Strategy Analytics forecasts Sony's PlayStation 3 will outsell both the Xbox 360 and Wii by the time things are winding down for all three. That's not all: In a report titled "Taming the Waves: Games Console Life Cycles and Platform Competition," the company offers specific figures, predicting everything from transitional timeframes to life unit sales.
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| Silver Banshee Wails For Smallville- April 2 |
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HollywoodNorthReport:As we first reported in January, DC Comics character 'Silver Banshee' aka 'Maggie McDougal' will appear in the 16th episode of the 9th season of Vancouver-lensed Smallville, airing Friday April 2 on the CW.
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| Quentin Tarantino faces plagiarism lawsuit over Kill Bill 1 and 2 |
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Guardian.co.uk/Film:Quentin Tarantino is being sued for more than $1m by a man who claims the Oscar-winning film-maker's martial arts-themed double feature Kill Bill was partly based on his ideas, according to US reports.
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| Disney sets date for 'Mars' |
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Variety/Movies: Disney has set a launch date for Mars.
Studio's live-action 3D film "Mars Needs Moms," starring Seth Green and Joan Cusack, will be released Mar. 11, 2011. Pic tells the story of a young boy who gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians kidnap her to the Red Planet.
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| Clock winds down for '24' |
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Variety/TV:"24's" time is almost up.
20th Century Fox TV and Fox appear ready to end the long-
running hit after this season, the show's eighth.
Studio and network execs declined comment -- but it's believed that the final decision will be made in the next day or two. Move is not a huge surprise, but still reps the end of an era for Fox.
"24" helped usher in Fox's ratings surge in the 2000s, as the franchise -- along with "American Idol" and "House," among other series -- led the network to the No. 1 spot in the adults 18-49 demo.
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| Original Cast Back for Paranormal 2? |
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EO:[Tread carefully; here be possible spoilers]. There are one or two reasons why we're surprised to be reporting that Micah Sloat may be returning for Paranormal Activity 2. And yet here he is, talking to MTV. "We have money now, but we're staying true to the heart of the movie, to the spirit of it, to the vision." What's all this "we"?
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| Tron Legacy Trailer Launches |
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EO:For all who have been eagerly anticipating the official online launch of the first Tron Legacy trailer, your wait is over. Yes, after the viral cinema event, the screenings attached to Alice and the various bootlegs, the promo has arrived online in glorious high definition.
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| Exclusive Repo Men Clip |
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EO:Jude Law, best known for serious dramas and literary adaptations, is going all action man in his new film Repo Men, set in a world where replacement body parts are bought on instalment plans and repossessed if you get behind on the payments. And here's a clip from the film.
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| Sacha Baron Cohen For MIB 3? |
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EO:It may not be the most hotly anticipated sequel bubbling along in development, but Sony is still solidly behind Men In Black 3. And now the studio is rumoured to be looking upping the comedy quotient, with Sacha Baron Cohen and Flight Of The Conchords’ Jemaine Clement on the wish list to play a new character.
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| Wizard Of Oz Remake Still Developing |
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Empire Online:Summon the flying monkeys! While various new versions of L Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz have been wandering the development halls of studios through the years, the box office success of Alice In Wonderland has Warners looking for a way to get one of them into production as soon as possible.
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| "Lars" Director Does "Fright Night" Remake |
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DH:Craig Gillespie ("Lars and the Real Girl," "Mr. Woodcock") is in talks to direct the remake of 1985 vampire cult horror/comedy classic "Fright Night" says The Los Angeles Times.
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| Liam Hemsworth Tackles "Arabian Nights" |
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Dark Horizons:Aussie hunk Liam Hemsworth ("The Last Song," "Knowing") has joined the 3D action feature "Arabian Nights" for Inferno Entertainment and ROAR says Heat Vision.
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| "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" a cold-case chiller |
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Yahoo!Movies/Reuters:Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.
The film adaptation of the first book, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is, like its source material, at once formula thriller, scathing social commentary and dark history lesson. But it's also a more eloquent work; smartly condensing the novel's sprawl, the feature forgoes prosaic detail for cinematic vigor. The result is a character-driven mystery of considerable emotional power, often harrowing and always compelling.
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| CHRISTOPHER NOLAN on SUPERMAN: "We Have a Fantastic Story" |
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Yahoo!Movie/Newsarama:The LA Times has some super news to start the day. Director Christopher Nolan is officially confirmed as shepherding the new Superman movie franchise. That rumor about David S. Goyer writing it? Turns out that one is true, too. The pair will develop the story, with Nolan producing and a director to be announced later. The movie is still in early stages, and won't be seen in theaters until 2012 or 2013, however.
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| "Spartacus" halted after star's cancer diagnosis |
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Yahoo!TV/Reuters:Starz's freshman drama "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" has halted series production due to star Andy Whitfield being diagnosed with cancer.
Whitfield, 38, plays the title role in the show and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and will begin treatment immediately.
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| As You Age, Better Health Means Better Sex |
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Yahoo!HealthDay:Better health translates into better sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex (and good sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new research finds.
This association held firm into middle-age and later life as well, according to the study by University of Chicago researchers.
The authors of the study, published in the March 10 issue of BMJ, also created a novel measure called "sexually active life expectancy." According to this new measure, men aged 55 could expect another 15 years of sex while women of the same age could expect 10.6 more active years.
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| 'Problem kids' risk future pain |
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BBC News/Health:Children with behavioural problems are twice as likely to suffer chronic pain as adults than others, say researchers.
Scientists at Aberdeen University, who followed the lives of more than 19,000 children, think faulty hormone signals in the brain may play a key role.
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| DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater' |
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BBC News/Science&Technology: Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.
The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade.
Italian researchers considered other origins for the ring, but say these are unlikely.
They presented their findings at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, US.
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| Illegal file-sharing policy criticised by BT boss |
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BBC News/Technology:Plans to suspend the internet accounts of people who download music illegally are unfair, according to the head of Britain's biggest telecoms firm.
British Telecom's chief executive, Ian Livingston, said illegal file-sharers should be fined instead of cut off.
He and other industry figures from Firms such as Google and Facebook have written to the Financial Times urging changes to the Digital Economy Bill.
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| Steam Gaming Service Coming to Mac in April |
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APPSCOUT:Who says the game selection for the Apple Macintosh platform sucks? Lots of people, actually: the OS has a pretty grim track record when it comes to games. But things have certainly been changing on that front over the past few years.
The Apple OS is about to make another bold step into the world of measured gaming respectability. Valve, the company behind online game-distribution service Steam, will be bringing that service to the Mac in April along with a number of big titles, including Left 4 Dead and Portal 2.
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| New Bleach No Longer Slated for April on Adult Swim |
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Anime News Network:The schedule of Adult Swim, the late-night television programming block of Cartoon Network in the United States, indicates that the Bleach anime series will be repeated from episode 129 onward, starting early in the morning of Sunday, April 25. Adult Swim had run an onscreen bumper in January that said that new episodes of Bleach would premiere in April, but no new episodes are listed in the April schedule after episode 167 repeats early in the morning of Sunday, April 18.
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| Syfy.com Readies Battlestar Galactica MMO |
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AA:Move over Star Trek Online ... it looks like Battlestar Galactica wants to intrude on your turf.
Universal Partnerships & Licensing, a division of Battlestar Galactica franchise owner NBC Universal, is planning to launch a Battlestar Galactica massively multiplayer online game on Syfy.com this fall.
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| TV Watchtower: Everything You Need To Know About 'FlashForward' *Spoiler Alert* |
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Airlock Alpha/WatchTower:This column contains spoilers of the first 10 episodes of "FlashForward" on ABC.
When “FlashForward” first aired last September, it was heralded as the next big science-fiction sensation.
However, as the episodes unveiled, the series proved to be a bit more difficult to track than originally anticipated. So the intricate storylines and heavy sci-fi basis (alternate realities) quickly left the viewers confused.
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| Cap Actor Will Get 9-Picture Deal |
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ICv2:The question of who will wield the shield is one of the most intriguing casting mysteries in contemporary Hollywood. It appears that Marvel has narrowed the field down quite a bit, though it is still unclear whether the studio will decide to go with a relative unknown or someone with a modest resume like Chris Evans (the Human Torch in the FF movies). The success that directors like J.J. Abrams who chose Chris Pine for Star Trek and James Cameron who went with Sam Worthington for Avatar have enjoyed certainly tends to indicate that casting unknown actors is no deterrent to creating a box office bonanza.
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| From 'Avatar' Heavy to 'Conan' Villain |
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ICv2:Stephen Lang, who played the tough as nails, nearly impossible to kill, marine-turned-mercenary Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar, will portray Khalar Singh, the villain in Millennium Films’ reboot of the Conan franchise, which is being directed by Marcus Nispel.
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| Fantagraphics Launches Manga Line |
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ICv2:Fantagraphics Books will launch a new line of manga in September with the release of Drunken Dream, a collection of short manga stories created between 1971 and 2007 by Moto Hagio, one of the pioneers in the development of shojo manga in the 1970s. Hagio, who was a founding member of the artist collective known as the “Magnificent 24,” has won nearly every key manga award during her illustrious career. Hagio has been credited as one of the founders of shonen-ai (boys’love) manga, but she also has created science fiction sagas (“They Were 11”), family dramas, and works in all sorts of genres, while winning the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. Hagio will be making her first visit to the U.S. this summer to attend Comic-Con International as a special guest.
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| 'Black Thursday' at Borders (Again) |
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ICv2:The financially-troubled Borders bookstore chain instituted a second round of layoffs in 2010 last week. According to Daily Finance.com, the cuts took place on March 4th, a day that Borders employees are referring to as “Black Thursday,” and involved a company-wide layoff of all inventory supervisors and an unspecified number of part time employees. The exact number of employees affected by the cuts has not been announced.
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| Chopra's 'Beyond' Headed to the Big Screen |
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ICv2:Liquid Comics and self-help guru Deepak Chopra are teaming up to produce a feature film based on Chopra’s graphic novel Beyond. Suri Krishnamma, who helmed Being Othello, has signed on to direct the British production.
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| 3D TV prices look reasonable, but it's the glasses that get you |
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Yahoo!Tech:The biggest TV manufacturers are finally starting to reveal prices for their new 3D TV sets, and believe it or not, several of the new sets will actually cost about the same or even a bit less than last year's equivalent 2D models. That said, there's a catch: The active-shutter LCD glasses that you'll need to watch 3D video cost a pretty penny.
Samsung was the first of the big four TV makers to flip its 3D pricing cards over this week; Panasonic is up tomorrow, while Sony and LG will follow in the coming weeks and months.
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| Teen Idol Corey Haim Dies at 38 |
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Actor Corey Haim -- best known for 80s films including License to Drive and the Lost Boys -- has died at the age of 38.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the actor's death to UsMagazine.com. From OMG! Yahoo!
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