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Attention Americas Got Talent fans! It looks like theres a new host moving in to take over for Jerry Springer when the series resumes this summer. NBC announced today that Nick Cannon has been signed on to take over as host for the series, which was originally hosted by Regis Philbin, who was later replaced by Jerry Springer.
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Simon Cowell's new singing talent show 'The X Factor' doesn't hit TV until the fall, but there's already buzz brewing about whether former
'Idol' judge
Paula Abdul might rejoin him on the judge's panel. Cowell and Abdul were both on
'Access Hollywood Live' (Weekdays, Syndicated on NBC) today, and while they didn't appear on camera together, it was obvious they were both dancing around the recent rumors.
Cowell reported that no 'X Factor' judges have been officially signed yet. When asked about Abdul, he said, "She's in the mix, but, you know, a lot of people are in there."
As Simon was being interviewed, the camera cut to Abdul backstage as she placed electrical tape over his mouth on a TV screen. And when it was Paula's turn in the interview chair, the discussion quickly turned back to her British frenemy.
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GameSpot gets a Daily Demo of The Witcher2: Assassins of Kings from Tomasz Gop of CD Projekt
Everyone will be able to "see" DLC, even if not owned.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation claims it has made repeated attempts starting in 2001 to meet with Intel to discuss licensing.
Check out the GameSpot vs. SportsGamer Super Bowl Showdown!
TMC: New Xbox 360 gameplay footage of Metro 2033 thanks to the folks at Teamxbox Forums .The game looks incredible from the atmosphere,sounds and pacing to the amazing lightning system and graphics. Metro 2033 is coming out on March 16, 2010 for 360 and PC. Enjoy!
PS. 1st video is introduction. 2nd and 3rd videos are gameplay
Updated! Fan favorite to hit HBO today...
30-second ad expected to be seen by 100 million viewers.
EA has said that it will air a 30-second advert for Dante's Inferno at the upcoming Super Bowl, which is expected to be watched by 100 million viewers.
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Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman to win the DGA award for Outstanding Direction of a Feature Film with The Hurt Locker, defeating James Cameron's Avatar. This makes Hurt Locker the favorite for at this year's Academy Awards. As Roger Ebert points out, only 6 times in 60 years has the DGA winner NOT won the Oscar for Best Picture, and in 58 of the last 60 years, the DGA winner went on to win the Oscar for best director. A full listing of Director's Guild of America award winners can be found after the jump.
Movies:
Outstanding Direction of a Feature Film: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Outstanding Direction of a Feature Documentary: Louie Psihoyos, The Cove
Television:
Outstanding Direction of a Dramatic Series: Lesli Linka Glatter, Mad Men, "Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency"
Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series: Jason Winer, Modern Family, "Pilot"
Outstanding Direction of a Musical Variety Program: ...
Daylight Saving Time will arrive this year earlier than it has in the past -- at 2 a.m. on March 11. Companies are scrambling to make sure their IT operations will be ready.
Tech Ticker writes "The Indian Government last year announced the development of a cheap $10 laptop, but was later rectified as $100 laptop. Now the government has announced that HRD minister Arjun Singh will unveil the prototype of a Rs. 500 ($10) computer. The computer is developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. No specifications were revealed but DNA, a daily newspaper, has mentioned that it will be small and portable, will feature Wi-Fi, LAN, and expandable memory, and will operate on 2 watts of power."
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In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources.
Nintendo, maker of the hit Wii game console, said profit for April through December fell 9 percent after price cuts and the rising yen tarnished strong holiday sales. Nintendo reported Thursday a $2.1 billion profit for the nine months through Dec. 31, down from $2.4 billion a year earlier. Sales retreated 23 percent to $13.1 billion.
After the laughs of Ghostbusters last week, I thought this week would benefit from a change in tone. This week's movie for the Joblo Sunday Night Movie Chat is one my favorite fantasy films. An epic movie with an epic soundtrack... Highlander!
In case you hadn't heard, yours truly has been hosting The Joblo Sunday Night Movie Chat every Sunday night at 7pm EST. Over the past three months we've...
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Outside of Europe, Lars Von Trier got all the attention for Dogme 95, the film 'movement' that set down a set of naturalistic rules for directors. But the co-creator of Dogme 95 and director of the first film made under the resulting manifesto was Thomas Vinterberg. His film Festen (The Celebration) is a low-key tour de force, a portrait of family breakdown that toes a nearly undefinable line between satire and tragedy. It instantly established Vinterberg as a talent to watch.
Sadly, Vinterberg's later films haven't hit the same high. It's All About Love is vaguely like a more arthouse version of Southland Tales, while Dear Wendy only seemed to anger audiences. (I think I'm one of the few people who liked it at all.)
But I remain optimistic for each new film from Vinterberg. So here's the trailer for his latest, Submarino, which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival.
The trailer isn't ...
Ernest Borgnine is one of Hollywood's most venerable character actors, with a career that spans more than five decades. To celebrate Borgnine's 92nd birthday this week, Turner Classic Movies will air the interview special Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine on Jan. 26, which will be followed by screenings of several of...
Most organization don't know how much open source they are using and what
the licenses are.
If you've ever tried to drive a commercial truck onto a fishing boat, you'll totally sympathize with these guys.
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In brief: A mock ad for Apple's iPhone recently appeared on Conan Late Night, depicting the player as 'everything' from a treadmill to a hand grenade.... IK Multimedia has revealed AmpliTube 2 Jimi Hendrix Edition ($250), which it says is the first authentic software recreation of the complete guitar amp and effects rig of Jimi Hendrix.... MacProVi...
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With his previous two features,
Suzhou River (2000) and Purple Butterfly (2003), Sixth-Generation Chinese director Lou Ye has earned mostly unfavorable comparisons to Wong Kar-wai. However, he finally gets away from that with his new film, Summer Palace, which, instead, moves closer to seminal works by his own countrymen. Summer Palace is a tormented romance set between 1987 and 2001 in which a country girl, Yu Hong (Hao Lei), goes to school in Beijing, meets Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), and gets caught up in a whirlwind of romantic and social changes. Two other Chinese filmmakers have attempted historical dramas of this type, set against a backdrop of real, fairly recent events. The best of the Fifth Generation team of filmmakers, Tian Zhuangzhuang, made The Blue Kite (1993), and the best of the Sixth Generation team, Jia Zhang-ke, made Platform (2000).
Quite frankly, Lou's work pales next to these twin masterworks, but Summer Palace also comes with its own collection of beautifully dislocated moments. At times the film feels forced, or squeezed, to include certain events. Somehow, during the course of this timeline, our heroes manage to make it to Berlin in time for the Wall to come down in 1989, and to Hong Kong in time for the handover in 1997. Far more appropriate is the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Yu Hong, Zhou Wei and their friends join the fray in high spirits, thrilled to be a part of something so big, perhaps without realizing just how far it stretched and what it all meant. It could be argued that they saw it as a giant party, and a chance to sing, dance, and perhaps meet someone and get laid.
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Seagate Technology on Thursday reported a near tripling of quarterly profit, fueled by mounting demand for hard disk drives from businesses and consumers that left its plants short of supply.
Indie horror director Ti West tends to be divisive. I think that's in part because he has a flair for self-promotion and also because his most well-known film, The House of the Devil, was a very slow burn of a horror/thriller that featured an '80s aesthetic, which led to accusations of pretension and a certain preciousness.
But The House of the Devil worked really well for me, so West has become one of the young directors I follow with greater than average interest. His new film [1] The Innkeepers is available via VOD and digital platforms now, and will hit theaters in a limited run on February 3.
Ti West is also planning to make a science fiction film, which he's said is about "pharmaceutical testing in space and paranoia," and at one point had the title The Side Effects. That title could change, given that Steven Soderbergh is about to make another film with the same title [2]. But West is moving full-speed ahead with the project, and says that financing and casting are coming together now.
In a new interview with The Playlist [3], West sounds like a guy who has already learned difficult lessons from making films in the indie landscape, but is unbowed by the difficulties inherent in putting together a film without a studio.
I have this science-fiction movie that I’ve been raising the money for, for the past six months... I’ve now cast the lead, and I’ve got most of it together. But it’s a science fiction movie, so we need to build spaceships, so it’s one of those things I can’t really rush into and I can’t do it for less than we need for it, because we have to build things. But I would hope that right after Sundance, that kicks into gear, and I would love to be prepping that in February.
Despite the mention of spaceships, it sounds like we should expect something on the scale of Moon rather than, say, Prometheus. West tells The Playlist that the film is more expensive than some of his horror efforts, but will cost less than Cabin Fever 2.
Speaking of, West also talks about his efforts making Cabin Fever 2, which he disowned after Lionsgate took the film away from him,
I tried with ‘Cabin Fever 2’ to make a really crazy cult sequel, and I believe I could have done it had I not been derailed. I still believe it; if Lionsgate came to me and said, ‘We’ve got this much of a budget to do a director’s cut and re-score it,’ I’d do it tomorrow.
He also addresses what seems to be A Haunting in Georgia, which West was going to direct before fearing that it would end up like Cabin Fever 2:
I wanted to make that movie. It was a bigger movie, it wasn’t the greatest movie ever, but I thought I could make a good enough movie out of it and experiment in this big-budget world and get what it affords me, whether it’s financial stuff, effects, whether it’s crane shots, celebrities. There was a lot of appeal to doing that stuff.
Finally, the director is responsible for a segment in the anthology film V/H/S, and describes it like so,
It premieres next Sunday at Sundance. It's a found footage anthology film. I did one segment starring Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal and Kate Sheil. My segment is a home video of a couple on a road trip – and that is all I can say for now.
If you want a bit more on V/H/S, check the Bloody Disgusting [4] interview with Simon Barrett, who wrote two of the film's sequences. (He also wrote the TIFF and Fantastic Fest fave You're Next.) Barrett says, in part,
V/H/S is a found footage horror movie made by people who are every bit as sick of found footage as the average viewer is. I think everyone involved hates found footage and thinks it's completely played out. And because everyone was sick of it we were all forced to come up with something unique.
[1] http://www.slashfilm.com/the-innkeepers-trailer/
[2] http://www.slashfilm.com/channing-tatum-blake-lively-jude-law-star-steven-soderberghs-the-side-effects/
[3] http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-innkeepers-director-ti-west-hopes-to-start-sci-fi-project-in-february-anthology-film-vhs-goes-to-sundance?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed
[4] http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/27926
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One of the nation’s most renowned alternative rock stations, Los Angeles’ Indie 103.1, announced on air today that they’ll end their FM broadcast “effective immediately” and only exist on their website.
Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan on holding black people hostage.
Scripts 'Migel Munya' for Michel and Paul.
An extended behind the scenes look at When in Rome along with snippets from the film.
While hanging out at the Golden Globe awards.
certain birds can mookwalk just like michael jackson
Ex-employees of BioShock co-developer 2K Australia (formerly one half of Irrational Games) have formed a new independent studio. According to founder Jay Kyburz, Iron Helmet Games' goal is to develop "old school hardcore strategy games."
How new federal rules affect everything that could potentially be part of a federal civil suit or tort claim, which means everything in an organization.
Channing Tatum does his best Rocky impression.
Sex or breadsticks
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Hurry up and put your bid in for MGM will you, because it seems that whole situation will have to be settled before the next Bond film makes any more progress. According to producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, "Well, our timeline's a little up in the air what with the situation at MGM, so we have to be flexible. We just don't know enough about the situation to comment, but we know it's uncertain."
Scary. And I suppose it follows that if Bond 23 can be up-ended like this, so could The Hobbit, another MGM picture...?
Wilson and Broccoli were speaking to Total Film for an interview in the new print issue, and the quotes appeared on the Bond-crazy MI6 site. A slightly less clear indication of the same bad news came from Peter Morgan a couple of weeks back, when he suggested pre-production on the movie wouldn't start until ...
Given the many options out there, someone in the market for a portable computer may have a hard time deciding whether to go with an ultra-small netbook or a small-but-not-THAT-small notebook computer. If you want a netbook, you've got another choice ahead of you: Would you like that with Linux or Windows?
Speculation is swirling that network equipment maker Enterasys Networks is buying wireless security company Bluesocket, which recently announced its first 802.11n products.
Actress lands another traumatized role.
Kadin2048 writes "If you've gone to a big-box store and purchased a wireless card recently, you might have had some trouble getting it to work under Linux, or any non-Windows OS for that matter. One reason for this is that more and more manufacturers are producing hardware that are useless without proprietary firmware. While these new designs allow for lower parts counts and thus lower cost, it presents a serious problem for F/OSS software because it can sometimes guarantee no out-of-the-box compatibility. Jem Matzan has produced a detailed article, "The battle for wireless network drivers," on the subject, including interviews with manufacturers' representatives and OS developers, including Theo de Raadt. The bottom line? In general, Asian hardware manufacturers were far more responsive and liberal about firmware than U.S. manufacturers (Intel included). Look for more firmware issues in the future, as not only wireless hardware, but regular wired Ethernet cards, take the driver-loaded firmware approach."
From the PlanetXbox360.com feature article:
"With every passing year players all over the world are subjected to games both good and bad. To be brutally honest, people love a loser far more than a winner because we get some amount of twisted enjoyment out of seething our hatred upon something we know is a piece of complete and utter crap. So for the year 2009, I offer up to you the top 20 video games that made me scream in anger, roll my eyes with annoyance, and curse at the sky with dismay. I have a feeling that at least one of these resulted in a broken console, controller, or at the very least a cracked television. This list is just one person's opinion so there are many of my choices that you may disagree with, or whole-heartedly agree with – either way let's take a walk down memory lane 2009 – even if the walk is one of agony."
This story features video trailers with each game choice, enjoy.
PS3 Attitude returns with Part II of the PS3 Games of 2009.
Thanks to all those who mailed pointing out the games we missed in Part I we've added a further 50 PS3 games to the list. Is it now the exhaustive catalogue of the PS3's offerings in 2009?
Probably not.
The entire article is spread out over four articles (this being 2 of said 4) and lists all the known games alphabetically. This list starts at F and goes all the way up to L. Expect Killzone 2, L.A. Noire, Fat Princess, Final Fantasy XIII, God of War III and many many more.
UPDATE: Just for those wondering about the source of this information. The majority of the titles and their respective release dates are sourced directly from press releases from the corresponding PR company or Publisher involved with the game. Where a release date could not be pinned down the nebulous "2009" is quoted. As mentioned in the article, we are not claiming this is the definitive list of 2009 PS3 games as there are some games that will be delayed or get cancelled. It is simply a fair attempt to catalogue what games are likely to appear on the PS3 in 2009. The vast majority of games and their release dates are accurate.
Some games (like Highlander which is quoted below in the comments as cancelled) are also left in purely because we do not have an official statement from the publisher or PR company stating that the game in question is, in fact, canned.
Once again, this is not claiming to be the decisive list but merely a catalogue of games based on known information at this time.
Thank you.
