| "We're going to see a lot of price pressure put on games," says Molyneux |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 7:06 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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GI.biz:Lionhead studios boss, Peter Molyneux, has detailed his view on the games industry over the past year and speculated over what would happen over the coming 12 months.
Speaking to the BBC, the designer behind Fable II commented on the performance of the latest generation of consoles, the success of Grand Theft Auto IV, and the lacklustre sales of LittleBigPlanet.
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| Next Mistwalker RPG for Xbox 360 cancelled |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 7:03 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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GI.biz:Japanese publisher AQ Interactive has confirmed that it has cancelled Xbox 360 role-playing game Cry On.
The title was in development at Mistwalker, the studio behind 360 exclusives Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, with Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi producing the game.
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| Mattel's "Hot Wheels" Gets Into Gear |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:59 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Dark Horizons:Adding to their plans for their live-action "Barbie" movie, Mattel is finally moving forward with a film based on their popular "Hot Wheels" toys.
Barry Waldo, VP for entertainment and marketing for Mattel, tells Variety that "We always start out not wanting to make a long toy commercial. We want to make a credible story that will make people go to the theater."
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| Crank 2: High Voltage Trailer |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:55 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Empire Online:Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's insane Crank is possibly the most outrageous action film ever made, but from the looks of the Crank 2: High Voltage trailer here, they've outdone themselves with the sequel.
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| French courts ban copyright protection on DVD |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:49 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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FS:Yes this sounds bizarre but at the same time so right, but a French court have decreed that film companies must remove the copyright protection from DVD's as it violates the basic rights of the owner to copy the film for their own
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| Red Dwarf the film? |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:46 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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FS:No chance I say, but it would appear that at one time there was talk of a Red Dwarf film, probably when Red Dwarf was a well watched show and wasn't relying on fans watching the many repeats while the stars went off to other projects.
Craig Charles, one of the stars of the series, is promoting a new one off special of Red Dwarf that they're all off filming just now, and so he's obviously going to punt the idea of a film of the much loved series.
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| Scream star and writer talk Scream 4 |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:42 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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FilmStalker:It's hard to believe that there could be room for a fourth Scream film, and some of the stars seem to think that too, but Bob Weinstein is holding out hope for it, so much so that there's a script and stars are being courted.
According to Jamie Kennedy and the scriptwriter Michael T. Kennedy, the film is happening and the script is written, but Weinstein wants the entire crew back for the fourth film, alive or dead.
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| Exclusive! David Goyer reveals the secrets of The Unborn! |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:37 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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A creepy kid, a lissome brunette, Nazis, a dog with an upside down head and Jews! The Unborn's got 'em all! This latest movie from prolific filmmaker David Goyer--he provided the story for The Dark Knight and wrote and directed Blade: Trinity, among other movies--goes straight for the horror jugular with a story of unborn twins, hauntings, family curses and a Jewish exorcism rite.
Starring Odette Yustman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet and Gary Oldman, The Unborn is the tale of one woman's survival as she fights a family curse and struggles to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born. The Unborn opens Jan. 9.
Goyer sat down exclusively with SCI FI Wire last month to talk about the movie. Following is an edited version of that interview.
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| Profile: ZACH BRAFF 'SCRUBS' OUT FOR SEASON 8 |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:15 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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iF Magazine:“I’m getting Rowdy -- I get the dead dog,” says an excited Zach Braff. As fans of SCRUBS may know, this is Braff’s eighth and last season on SCRUBS. Of course, he can’t leave without taking a souvenir; enter Rowdy, J.D.’s pet stuffed dog.
“Bill [Lawrence, creator of SCRUBS] would have first claims to the dead stuffed dog, but Christa Miller [Lawrence’s wife] would never let him put that in their house,” Braff continues. “The way I see it, I got second dibs on Rowdy and so Rowdy’s going with me.”
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| How Will McG Handle the Terminator Paradox? |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 6:05 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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MoviesOnline:The question was posed in a comment on an early post and it really got my brain spinning. When you consider the timeline and the way that 'time' itself has been effected by the various Terminators jumping back in time you have to wonder. How will McG and his team of writers handle the Paradox?
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| SAG Executive Director Doug Allen Says Strike "Will Not Shut Down The Industry" |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:59 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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NFDHD:So SAG leaders continue conducting their education campaign about the Strike Authorization Vote despite the ballot delay and upcoming January 12th-13th National Board meeting which could deep-six the idea. The following is the first in what is described to me as a series of responses to members’ questions at recent Town Hall meetings. Its major point is SAG executive Director Doug Allen saying a strike "will not shut down the Industry". Then what's the point of a strike?
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| Are You Buying Fewer Games in this Bad Economy? |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:54 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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LivingDice.com:Gaming is an expensive hobby. Rule books, miniatures, maps and convention travel all conspire to empty a gamer’s wallet. While planning my Gen Con trip budget today, I wondered how much the current dire economic situation is impacting gamers. To satisfy my curiosity, I am running the very first Livingdice.com poll. The poll will run for one week, so encourage every gamer you know to contribute. Prevailing wisdom is that games tend to be “recession resistant” like movies. People will still spend on “fun” activites regardless of how bad the economy becomes. Is this the case for you or are you saving that cash for a rainy day.
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| Why the Comic-Book Movie Industry Needs a Female Superhero |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:47 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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RopeOfSilicon:In a time when comic book geeks are actually getting laid and cute girls are parading around the convention halls in next to nothing to emulate their favorite superheroines, isn’t it a little sad that us girls have yet to have a quality superhero moment on celluloid? For the past decade or so we’ve been proud to shell out our ten bucks to the movie house to watch Tobey Maguire and Christian Bale kick ass in spandex, because seriously, it’s Tobey Maguire and Christian Bale in Spandex, but we deserve more than that.
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| Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call' |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:43 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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BBC News/Health:Cancer cells cheat death by reversing a process which causes normal cells to commit suicide at the end of their natural life, scientists have shown.
They showed cancer cells were able to recover even after exposure to a chemical cocktail which triggers suicide in normal cells.
The ability may help cancer cells to block the effect of chemotherapy drugs.
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| Getting into space by broomstick |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:40 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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BBC News/Science&Environment:The prospects for the space elevator have been shaken up with a simple prototype using a broomstick.
Age-Raymond Riise of the European Space Agency demonstrated the device at a space elevator conference in December.
The project could see a 100,000km long tether anchored to the Earth as a "lift into space" for cheaper space missions.
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| China to 'clean up' the internet |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:36 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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BBC News/Asia/Pacific:The Chinese authorities have launched a fresh campaign to get rid of unhealthy, vulgar and pornographic content on the internet.
The authorities have also published the names of 19 websites that have failed to heed requests to get rid of unsuitable material.
These include Google and China's top internet search engine, Baidu.
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| Exclusive: Push Power Classifications |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:29 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Superhero Hype! has your exclusive first look at the powers of the characters in Summit Entertainment's Push, opening in theaters on February 6th. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the action-thriller stars Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, Maggie Siff and Scott Michael Campbell.
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| The Trailer for Smallville's "Legion" |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:25 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Superhero Hype!:'The Shadow' pointed us to the new trailer for the Thursday, January 15th episode of "Smallville" titled "Legion." The show gives us a first look at a live-action version of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Don't miss the episode on The CW at 8/7c!
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| Donald Blake Character Added To Thor |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:18 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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The Movie Blog:It seems the Donald Blake from the Thor world has been added to the upcoming Thor movie. As some of you may already know, the original script for Thor had the entire story and movie taking place in Valhalla and not crossing into the “real world”. I thought this was a terrible idea right from the start.
But according to our friends over at IESB.Net some significant script changes have been made and the Donald Blake character has been added which obviously suggests that the Thunder God will, at least in part, be in our world. If you’re not familiar with who Donald Blake is:
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| Pat Hingle, Versatile Actor With Recurring Role in Batman Movies, Dies at 84 |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:11 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Pat Hingle, a versatile character actor of stage and screen who became accustomed to winning critical praise in a career that spanned five decades, died on Saturday at his home in Carolina Beach, N.C. He was 84. The cause was myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, his wife, Julia, said. From The New York Times/Arts.
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| Ask John: What Can Fans Look Forward to This Year? |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 5:04 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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ANNB--Question:What do we have to look forward to next year?
Read John's answer...
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| First Images From Albert Pyun’s SWORD AND THE SORCERER Sequel TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMP |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:43 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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TWITCH:We first brought news of the impending sequel to classic 80s fantasy flick The Sword And The Sorcerer back in April and while production was delayed some by this past year’s labor uncertainty and while the cast has undergone some slight alterations things are now up and running, with principal photography now freshly begun. Here’s how director Albert Pyun first described the project to us: “It’s got a sexy sorceress, hordes of demonic vampires, a giant serpent, sea pirates, nasty sword (and axe, spear, leg of cow) fights and gore and nudity galore. Everything that a rousing adventure needs to have.”
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| One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:37 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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WIRED Magazine/People:The heat in Max Butler's safe house was nearly unbearable. It was the equipment's fault. Butler had crammed several servers and laptops into the studio apartment high above San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, and the mass of processors and displays produced a swelter that pulsed through the room. Butler brought in some fans, but they didn't provide much relief. The electric bill was so high that the apartment manager suspected Butler of operating a hydroponic dope farm.
But if Butler was going to control the online underworld, he was going to have to take the heat. For nearly two decades, he had honed his skills as a hacker. He had swiped free calls from local telephone companies and sneaked onto the machines of the US Air Force. Now, in August 2006, he was about to pull off his most audacious gambit yet, taking over the online black markets where cybercriminals bought and sold everything from stolen identities to counterfeiting equipment. Together, these sites accounted for millions of dollars in commerce every year, and Butler had a plan to take control of it all.
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| Steve Jobs Cites Treatable Hormone Imbalance For Weight Loss |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:31 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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WIRED/Apple:Steve Jobs has broken a deafening silence on his health to tell the "Apple Community" that it is not a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer but a treatable hormone imbalance that is the cause for his noticeable weight loss.
Jobs, in an open letter signed "Steve," said he had already begun treatment for the condition, that he would remain on as Apple CEO during his recovery, that he expected to be noticeably improved in a matter of months.
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| Forest Whitaker Eyes 'The Expendables' |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:25 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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Zap2it:Forest Whitaker may soon become expendable.
The actor, who won an Oscar for his role in 2007's "Last King of Scotland," is in negotiations to join the cast of "The Expendables," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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| Mayfair Plans for 'Steam' 'Expansion' |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:18 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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ICv2:Martin Wallace’s Steam, due out from Mayfair on April 2nd, not only includes a number of variations of the game in the core box, it also sets the stage for play with both past and future expansions and variants.
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| Umbrella Academy Figures |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:15 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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ICv2:Dark Horse has announced plans for two figure products based on Gerard Way’s and Gabrial Ba’s Umbrella Academy comics to be released this spring: Umbrella Academy Figure Set and Umbrella Academy Book and Figure Set.
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| Turtles 25th Anniversary |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:11 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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ICv2:The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the creation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kicked off at the beginning of 2009, according to an announcement from Mirage Studios and 4Kids Entertainment. The characters were created for a self-published comic by Kevin Eastmen and Peter Laird released in 1984.
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| Terry Pratchett Knighted |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:08 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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ICv2:Fantasy author Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld series, was knighted in the New Year Honours List released on New Year’s Eve. Pratchett described himself as "...delighted and honored and, needless to say, flabbergasted."
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| NYCC Expecting 'Fairly Significant Growth' |
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Jan 05, 2009 - 4:05 PM - by Truth Seeker IV
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<p><b><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="3">ICv2</font></font></b>:<b>Lance Fensterman</b>, the <b>Reed Exhibitions</b> VP in charge of <font color="blue">New York Comic Con</font> , told us he’s expecting “<font color="red">fairly significant growth</font>” for the show this year in its earlier dates of February 6-8. We caught up with<b> Fensterman</b> late last week <a href="http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14023.html" target="_blank">to ask about expectations for the show, the impact of the earlier dates, and other changes for this year’s event.</a></p>
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