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First Look: The Ballad of Nessie
Walt Disney Animation Studios has provided us with hi-res stills from its upcoming short titled, The Ballad of Nessie, which will appear alongside Winnie the Pooh when it debuts this summer, on July 15, 2011. Narrated by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and directed by the Emmy® Award-winning team of Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (‘Prep ...
Hobbits are EPIC!
Peter Jackson’s upcoming 3D movie, The Hobbit, will be filmed with the revolutionary new $58,000 RED EPIC camera — 30 of them to be exact. The RED EPIC cameras are the latest product from RED DIGITAL CINEMA, the company who shot to the top of the film production world with the release of the RED ...
Where were you October 18, 1985?
Twenty-five years ago, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System (lovingly known as the NES) in the United States. The iconic gray-and-black 8-bit console (which sold 61.9 million units worldwide) pushed boundaries in both hardware and software design and served as a rallying point for the suffering video game industry in the post-Atari era. In honor ...
Where were you on September 13th, 1985?
On September 13th, 1985, 25 years ago, Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan. Originally dubbed Jumpman, the character was eventually renamed by Nintendo USA after a surprise visit from their disgruntled landlord Mario Segale. Other fun facts about Mario include: he was originally a carpenter (not a plumber) and most of his iconic features (hat, suspenders, mustache) were added ...
Video Games Can Never Be Art
Roger Ebert, known as one of the most recognizable film critics of all time, is making headlines for what many consider an area that’s way out of his league. Sure, he knows storytelling, pacing, shot composition and other elements that make a great film great, but what does he know about video games? Well, according ...
Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather in Buenos Aires
Here’s a cool article I scanned about Francis Ford Coppola’s stay in my hometown of Buenos Aires. He vacationed there, fell in love with the culture and made it his official home away from home. Now, The Godfather director has turned Buenos Aires into his own back lot for future films.
Call of Duty: Legal Warfare
The Modern Warfare Fight: Your Guide to Activision Vs. Infinity Ward [ via Kotaku ] The ongoing legal tussle between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and publishing giant Activision is full of intrigue, accusations, lawsuits and, more recently, an exodus of key staffers from the studio behind the game. At stake is ...
Game Changing DSLR’s
Robert Rodriguez + Canon 7D + Zacuto! The game changing HD DSLR movement is creating quite the stir with Hollywood DPs and Directors. Yesterday, DP Philip Bloom posted the story of Danny Dale of D2visions.com who recently caught site of Robert Rodriquez filming in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas.“DSLR cameras have hit the big time,” ...
Top 10 Video Game Side Kicks
Via joystickdivision.com — written by James Hawkins The Supporting Cast The heroes are the ones that always get the glory. But, as we all know, many of them wouldn’t be nearly as successful if they didn’t have loyal friends to follow them as they traverse worlds and defeat evil. These sidekicks, the often used and ...
Captain Jack Sparrow Returns?
When one thinks of some of the great films made by Disney, one cannot help but think of the Pirates of the Caribbean Saga. With all three films grossing a total of more than 2.5 billion dollars, one cannot let such a franchise die. There have been many rumors floating around in the past year ...
Major in Video Games @ UCI
It’s official, students will be able to major in video games at UC Irvine. UCI, which is already outfitted with a Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds meant to expand research into those fields, will now let undergraduate students major in Computer Game Science after final approval was granted during a divisional senate assembly ...
The Oscars
One of the most important nights in film history is the dream of actors and filmmakers around the world. As the hype of the Oscars has the stars cleaned up and ready to roll on this historic night hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, viewers all over the nation will take the events of ...
Inglourious Haiti Benefit
The situation in Haiti has called for many charity benefits and many sources of support. Sometimes support comes from the most unlikeliest of places. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 WWII film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Since it’s release it has gained a lot of attention. But with the tragedy that occurred in Haiti ...
It’s Adventure Tuesday!
Valentine’s is just around the corner kiddies! And guess it’s time to shell out and trade in your greens again, in exchange for your special someone’s red kisses. But for all you gamers out there who happen to have extra cash from all those flowers and chocolates spent, Tuesday happens to be a perfect time ...
The Conan and Leno Battle
The “Late Night Wars” that have come up recently became the talk of many news reports and articles. Basically, Conan has chosen not to do The Tonight Show on NBC any longer. More specifically, Conan O’Brien will not do The Tonight Show on NBC at 12:05, because that’s not the time it was originally. The ...
God of War III: No Myth, Only Colossal Expectations
These newly-released screen shots from Sony’s eagerly anticipated finale to the God of War series only helps reinforce one thing: this bad boy’s going to be absolutely epic. Games this big, expectations this palpable — moments like these come by far and few in between. When the first two games in the series were released, ...
Blue Skies Still Exist in Video Game Industry
As we watch our well-known stores and companies fall to the troubling times in the economy, video games are still standing tall. The industry is still selling well despite taking a few small hits. As Michael D. Gallagher, President of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), states: “…these difficult times did not prevent us from achieving ...
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