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Tech NewsTerminator Salvation Set Visit: It Just Might Not Suck
Good news, everyone! Terminator 4 might not suck. I can’t know for sure without actually seeing the film, but I do have a good feeling about it, having flown to New Mexico a few months back to explore various hot, dusty sets and meet cast and crew. The three themes I heard over and over … Continued
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Review: The Dark Knight Blu-ray Disc
I don’t claim to think that I can in any way influence your purchase of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray ($24) or DVD ($15/$21). In fact, I don’t really want to. I couldn’t care less if you buy it, rent it or stomp any loose copies you spot at the store. But to me, the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Full-Length MGM Movies To Come to YouTube
MGM’s apparently due to announce it’ll be putting full-length movies from its impressive archive on to YouTube, essentially making them free of charge. Full-length TV shows will be kicking off the new partnership, with old episodes of American Gladiators at first, and movies like Bulletproof Monk and the Magnificent Seven to follow. MGM will be … Continued
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io9Movies
This Week In Blu-ray: Kill the Baby Mama Edition
Giz pick of the week: Baby Mama Oh sure, Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 and are out, as are Rudy and Jerry Maguire, and there’s nothing special on the $35 Blu-ray edition that’s not the the DVD of Baby Mama (other than hi def). But roughly half of the Gizmodo staff has a crush … Continued
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This Week’s Blu-ray Releases
Giz Pick of the Week: The Nightmare Before Christmas Disney DVDs have a history of top-notch A/V transfer, and Tim Burton’s masterpiece of stop-motion animation should take full advantage of Blu-ray’s higher resolution. On top of that, you get a slew of bonus features-everything from the original DVD set along with a few more, including … Continued
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io9Movies
Movie Roundup: The Other Summer Blockbusters
Indiana Jones may be the current talk of the town, but it’s not the only big summer blockbuster worth discussing right now. With Iron Man already out, and Wall-E, The Dark Knight and The Incredible Hulk still to come, there’s plenty of movie goodness still to be had. Speed Racer ?…let’s not go there. Iron Man … Continued
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Tech News
iTunes to Carry Movies on DVD-Release Date
It seems that Apple is about to go nose-to-nose with Walmart in the playground. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the company is poised to announce a deal with a bunch of studios to sell new releases on iTunes the same day as the movies’ release on DVD. The studios thought to have signed on Apple’s … Continued
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USA Today Can’t See The Sunshine
Claudia Puig over at USA Today gets it wrong, yet again. The film critic has posted an article called “Dark themes shine a beacon of light at the theater” which is supposed to be about how depressing flicks were big at the box office, but it quickly devolves into nothing more than a list of … Continued
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Spielberg Gets Locked Into Underground Vault
Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. They’ll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really … Continued
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The Speckled SciFi Career of Charlton Heston
Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968’s The Planet of the … Continued
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Five Fan Films (Almost) Better Than the Real Thing
The upcoming Michael Gondry comedy starring Jack Back and Mos Def Be Kind Rewind features no-budget recreations of films like Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, RoboCop, and Ghostbusters. In fact, their RoboCop looks better than the original film did. Jack Black really nails Peter Weller’s robo-monotone. That got us thinking about all … Continued
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Nicole Kidman Killed Wonder Woman, Says Warner Bros.
Wonder Woman could be on hold forever — thanks to Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank. Actually, blame the sexist stumblebums at Warner Bros. The last three Warner movies with female leads bombed: Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion, Swank’s The Reaping, and Foster’s The Brave One. So Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov says he won’t … Continued
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