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TVGB: "It appears hope of Splinter Cell: Conviction making its way to the PlayStation 3 at a later date may have faded a bit more. During Ubisoft's fiscal year 2009-10 Q3 conference call today it was once more said that the game will be an exclusive to the already announced platforms, those being the PC and Xbox 360."
As Online Chat Emerges, So Do New Errors in English Class
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A producer who alleges Jon Peters sexually harassed him is hoping to call a string of A-list stars to act as witnesses in the upcoming trial.
In possibly one of the more ambitious outlooks for Mac market-share increases, Gartner is forecasting that Apple will double its market-share in the US and Western Europe by 2011. The reason for the dramatic increase is said to be two-fold: Apple co...
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'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' (Sun., 8PM ET on ABC), any glee from getting a new house was trumped by the chance to meet -- and dance with --
Justin Bieber. When he taught Katrina some of his trademark moves, she wasn't shy at all.
"We do it differently where I come from," she said, and a dance battle ensued: Katrina and her friends against Bieber and his dancers. Her mother noted, "Having her friends there and being able to go onstage and meet Justin Bieber, you could just see a stronger Katrina. And I'm so thankful for that."
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More than ever, that's the answer. Time Inc's People Magazine has secured the first pictures of Nicole Richie's baby, Harlow. The winning bid: $1m, according to someone who participated in the auction. Which is a useful sum for the anorexic former reality star, daughter of singer Lionel Richie. "This is probably Nicole Richie's only paycheck for all of 2008," says the source. Richie's take is impressive, but not as rich a price as that being offered for first photographic evidence of the baby boy born to Christina Aguilera, the singer, earlier this month. We hear that bidding between People and OK! Magazine, which bid $1m earlier this month, has now reached $1.5m. So what economic rationale can there be for such inflation in the cost of baby pictures?
First of all, the celebrity weeklies are minting stars who sell magazines, but can't sustain TV shows or pull audiences into movies. And the music stardom pays less than it did. So minor celebrities rely on paid exclusives for a growing share of their income.
But this is the more significant reason: celebrity weeklies represent one of the few growing magazine categories, and one of the most competitive. Never-seen-before pictures of the offspring of alpha celebrities are irresistible to female readers; they offer a guaranteed kick to sales. That's something embattled market leader, People Magazine, desperately needs. The Time Inc. title, under pressure from feistier competitors such as US Weekly, will report an 8% drop in circulation for the second half of 2007.
Not only is the former market leader trying to shore up circulation; it also now contends for "exclusives" with OK!, a UK import with no scruples about checkbook journalism. For instance, People used to buy preferential access to news from the Spears family; OK! paid $1m to poach the story of the pregnancy of younger sister, Jamie-Lynn, and future baby pictures.
You think that's premature? We're hearing that both People and OK! have put in bids for the story of Angelina Jolie's pregnancy. (The actress' first child by Brad Pitt, Shiloh, was the most valuable baby in celebrity media history, garnering donations worth $4m for US and international rights.) The difference this time: nobody even knows for sure whether the pouting Hollywood star is even expecting.
"The bidding wars going on between those two for these so-called exclusives is like nothing I've seen before," says a rival. "It's completely journalistically distasteful, but also fascinating to watch."
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Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blamed the SEC for the nation's financial crisis yesterday, shortly after the Boston native was done pretending to care about the Jets.
In response to Barack Obama's plan to limit the size and scope of the financial institutions that single-handedly crippled the nation's economy with unchecked idiotic risk-taking—a plan that even British Tories support—Mayor-for-Life Mike said: "Trying to interfere with capitalism always leads to some unintended consequences."
Right. We'd better not spook our sensitive (but wise and benevolent!) bank overlords! Because we wouldn't want unintended consequences. Those sound bad!
The Ultimates 3 #1In its monthly analysis of Diamond’s direct-market numbers, ICv2.com reports that 2007 was “a very strong year” for comics sales, with graphic novels up 18 percent over the previous year, and single issues up 7 percent. That makes for a combined 9 percent increase.
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These tips on finding and weeding out system hogs, optimizing memory, and restraining Vista's features will make your system soar.
The landmark inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States Tuesday drew an estimated 1.8 million spectators to the Mall in Washington, D.C. Online, many more followed the pomp and circumstance online at their favorite social networks. Facebook teamed with CNN.com to provide simultaneous streaming coverage, while MySpace joined with Hulu and Fox News to bring users streaming coverage of the celebration.
Director Errol Morris has made a career out of solving mysteries, which comes as no surprise since the man used to be a private detective. Whether he was exonerating Randall Dale Adams in The Thin Blue Line or unraveling a sordid sex tale in Tabloid, Morris has deftly used his subjects to provide gripping accounts of situations that have been wrapped in intrigue and ambiguity.
In his book, Believing is Seeing, Morris turns his attention to the art of photography. In a series of photographic whodunnits, Morris explores the truth-telling capacity of photos. His conclusion? "Photographs don't have truth value."
I had a chance to sit down with Morris in his Cambridge, MA office during his recent book tour and chat extensively with him about the nature of photography, the plausibility of re-enactments, and Joyce McKinney's controversial reaction to Tabloid [1]. After the break, read highlights of my discussion with Morris. Below, you can also download and listen to the entire hour-long interview I had with him. You can buy his book at Amazon [2] or in bookstores. Tabloid is now also for sale on DVD [3].
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Early on in our conversation, Morris asserted that "Photographs don’t have truth value. There aren’t photographs that are more true than other photographs. They’re all equally devoid of truth or falsity. Truth or falsity, properly considered, are about the relationship of language to the world, not about photograph images to the world." Asserting that a photo is true or false particularly gets you into trouble when a photographer takes multiple images.
Morris's book begins with an exploration of two photographs taken by Roger Fenton about 150 years ago.
Taken during the Crimean War, the photos depict the same scene. In the first photograph, which Morris dubs "OFF," there are cannonballs scattered on the side of the road, while in the second photograph, dubbed "ON," the cannonballs are on the side of the road AND in the middle of the road. Which one of them is an accurate depiction of the scene? Which one of them is "true," as it were?
"If you’re convinced somehow that photographs are true or false or some are more true than others, you look at these two photographs and you say to yourself, 'Which is true and which is false?” Or 'Which is more true and which is more false?' I think the whole question is nonsense," Morris explains. Susan Sontag, in her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, asserted that Fenton had scattered the cannonballs onto the road to make it appear more war-battered before taking the second picture, ON. Morris could not see a logical justification for this assertion.
"How did she order them?" Morris asked. "It seems to me that she ordered them on the basis of imagining what Fenton’s intentions were in producing those two photographs, and then the question becomes, well, how did she know what Fenton’s intentions were?" In Believing is Seeing, Morris got to the bottom of this question and even traveled to the Crimea to determine the answer. Along the way, he reflected on why it is we believe the things we believe about photographs.
"Perhaps the entire philosophy of photography can be contained in these two images, just by thinking about them," Morris asserted.
Believing is Seeing reflects some of Morris's other tendencies, namely his attitude towards truth. Morris doesn't see himself as getting at the nature of truth. Rather, "It’s almost the flip side of truth. Call it an obsession with error of the mistakes and errors that are made and why we may choose untruth instead of truth, if it is a choice at all," Morris said.
This is evident in Morris's film, The Thin Blue Line. That story involved people who passionately believed something that was false. Why does this happen? What caused them to develop and keep these beliefs? "I sometimes think we like some simple solution to the riddle of what’s out there in the world, what’s true, what’s false, what exists, what doesn’t exist, etc. But there are no simple solutions and that includes photography," Morris said. "Photography doesn’t give us any secret access to the world, and yet people talk about it as though it does, as though somehow [there’s] no need to worry about epistemology or anything like that anymore when a photograph is involved. And of course, that’s nonsense."
Morris also believes these things concepts apply to filmmaking. He recalled, "When I first started making movies, there was a received idea about how you were supposed to make a documentary. Call it whatever you want: cinéma vérité, direct cinema, blah blah blah. But it was this idea of shooting with available light, shooting with a hand-held camera, the fly-on-the-wall idea. You’re observing, you’re not interacting, you’re not altering." The implication was that by following these rules, arbitrary or not, one might somehow be able to produce something that was "truthful." But Morris rejected this idea. "Just because you adopt a style of shooting, somehow, truth doesn’t pop up a kind of magic meat grinder that produces the truth," he insisted.
So what is it about photography that's so interesting? Most photographs are connected to the world in some way, a product of light and celluloid, the result of the work of a human being trying to capture reality. "Part of Believing is Seeing is trying to reach back," Morris explained. "A photograph is like a time machine. So, to reach back into that world and try to ask certain questions about what am I looking at."
As a fan of Morris's films and now his new book, I hope he'll keep asking his questions for many years to come.
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Hallmark celebrates 100 years with one-of-a-kind Star Wars art.
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You're going to see a lot of bad reviews of Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, as I did before I went to see it. But having gone in with lowered expectations, I came out thrilled. I liked Cassandra's Dream a great deal. I went back and looked at some of the reviews, and I couldn't see how what they said related to the film. It seemed that most of the bad reviews were directed at Allen himself, his habits and ideas, or perhaps an expectation of Allen, or an expectation of the crime genre, rather than the film itself. This leads to a complex discussion of Allen's career, which goes much deeper than I'll ever have room for here. But suffice it to say that Allen has had a far more difficult time pleasing moviegoers than he did before he broke up with Mia Farrow and married Soon-Yi Previn.
I am a longtime fan, and in the past I have willingly put myself in the position of defending Allen's work even when there wasn't much to defend. I have written rave reviews only to revisit the films later and realize that I may have been wrong. But I believe he has tried harder, and tried more different kinds of things, in recent years than he did when he was younger and far more popular. I also believe that in the future, Allen's work, like Ozu's or Fassbinder's, may make up a far more coherent whole than it will a collection of individual masterpieces. That said, Cassandra's Dream is the third of Allen's British series. It ignores the previous entry, Scoop (2006), and harkens back to Match Point (2005), which most critics considered a successful comeback and a reinvigoration for Allen. It also revisits the themes that bubbled through Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), wondering not how one accomplishes a crime but how one deals with the concept of having accomplished a crime.
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The new blog Toycutter focuses on custom action figures designed by fans. Check out a few recent posts: The LEGOS Legion of Doom, The Punisher as Captain America and the Calvin & Hobbes-inspired snowman diorama pictured above.
I've been only mildly interested in THE HUNGER GAMES film adaptation. Jennifer Lawrence is a huge draw for me, however, I feel like I'd have more of an attachment if I had actually read the original source material. Eventually I will check it out but I've gotta get through with Chuck Palahniuk's "The Damned" first.
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Sigourney Weaver showed off her singing and comedy skills on late-night TV in America on Saturday night (16Jan09) - and even poked fun at herself during her second Saturday Night Live guest hosting stint.
It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived. One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to "engage" and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.
After initial unspecified delay, Microsoft now planning Visual Studio 2010 in April.
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Briefly: If you've been hoping to hear more about Shaun of the Dead and Scott PIlgrim director Edgar Wright's plans for an Ant-Man movie with Marvel, here you go. An LA Times [1] update reveals that the writer/director is working on a new draft of Ant-Man, which marks the first active work he's done on the film since dedicating himself to Scott Pilgrim two years ago.
We don't know much more than that, and there's no word on the budget, casting or even the tone of the film. So keep those questions for now -- all that stuff comes after there's another draft. (Hopefully.) But Mr. Wright did reiterate, "This one's not about about the urgency of summer tentpoles and things going into production without a script. It's slightly different than that."
Which is pretty much what he said this time last year when asked about the film. Good to know, though, that without the pressure of a pre-established date, he and Joe Cornish (who is also in the midst of dealing with the release of his first directorial effort, Attack the Block, in the UK) can just get a script into fighting shape and then move forward. You know, the way it's supposed to work.
[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/01/ant-man-edgar-wright-cornish-marvel.html
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If there was ever a sign that DC was beginning to listen to fans after all, Dan Didio’s recent interviews about Final Crisis may be it. In his latest talk with Wizard, he repeats the basic plan from his Newsarama interview, and adds some more details:
Final Crisis stands alone. It’s an eight-part miniseries. There will [...]
Edge writes: "Microsoft proclaimed Monday evening that Xbox 360 has sold 28 million units worldwide through 2008 since its launch in November 2005.
Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg told Edge in a phone interview that the company sold 10.3 million Xbox 360s throughout the year. According to Greenberg, this puts Microsoft's console more than 8 million units ahead of the PS3, a console that launched a year after Xbox 360."
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A regular kid joins the gifted class for a not-so-fantastic voyage into the world of imagination.
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Not wanting to let Hasbro hog up all the cash with their TRANFORMERS franchise, Mattel is looking to get in on the cinematic game by making a film based on their popular "Hot Wheels" toys. Those of you hyperventilating with traumatizing SPEED RACER flashbacks, Barry Waldo, VP for entertainment and marketing for Mattel, reassures with this: "There's a huge scope of what you can do. It's a...
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Physics-based platformer dated, WiiWare version seemingly on hold.
Developer Nicalis has confirmed that its quirky physics-based platformer, Night Sky, will be released on PC on Friday.
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Sonoro's Eklipse iPod / CD sound system has been available in Europe for a few months now, but it hasn't exactly made much of a ripple 'round these parts. That looks like it could well be changing, however, as the device has just recently landed in the hands of the folks at the FCC, who unsurprisingly seem to be particularly interested in the system's remote control. As for the rest of the system, you can expect to get an always welcome OLED display, along with 7.5W of power output, a headset jack, a standard 3.5mm input to accomodate your non-iPod devices, and support for MP3 and WMA-loaded CDs in addition to plain old audio CDs. Of course, an FCC appearance doesn't always assure a US release, but if there is one, you can probably expect to pay about the same €499 (or $690) that it currently demands in Europe.
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The entrepreneur was not one to pass up a marketing opportunity. However, when Jason Calacanis went on a bit too long about his latest product at a technology conference in August -- at least in some eyes -- pioneering software developer Dave Winer had had enough. Winer, of Berkeley, Calif., jeered Calacanis from the crowd as a shill.
Only hours after the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware seeking to exploit her death was making the rounds. "Even death isn't sacred to some," said a security researcher.
Nate gets up close and personal with the mercenaries while trying to escape the burning mansion.
Gamerlimit: "For a gamer, regardless of what consoles you do or do not own, 2008 has been good to you. Companies have been wising up and releasing more multiplatform games, allowing more and more gamers to enjoy their products, however there is still a good amount of exclusive games to contend with, and Gamerlimit.com is taking a look them. We've assembled a list of exclusives released in 2008 for both of the major consoles."
United Nations flagMarvel is teaming with the United Nations to create a comic book showing the international organization working with superheroes to solve conflicts and rid the world of disease.
The Financial Times reports that the comic, set in a war-torn fictional country — I vote for Latveria or Sierra Gordo! — initially will be distributed [...]
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Koch Media has released a batch of new screenshots from the PS3 and Wii versions of Ferrari Challenge along with a new trailer and some concept images.
Roxie escapes to grab some breakfast goodies!
Steven Tyler has been making the late-night talk show circuit in anticipation of his debut as a judge on the 10th season of 'American Idol' (premiering Jan. 19).
Germany's Eee PC News has spied what it believes is Asus's new S121—der maxi S101, if you will—stuffing an Atom-powered netbook platform into a 12-inch form factor.
