It’s a milestone year for the Disneyland® Resort, and D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans is celebrating with the premiere of DESTINATION D, a brand-new, two-day event exclusively for D23 Members that illuminates Disney’s fascinating history. D23 announced its latest members-only event on its first anniversary – capping a …
Read More »Wood Drops Out of Web
Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has hit another stumbling block. Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe, The Wrestler), who was to play Peter Parker’s love interest Mary Jane Watson, has dropped out of the long delayed production due to scheduling conflicts. The producers of the show have stated …
Read More »Mattel Unveils Mad Men Barbie Line
In a move of what can be called interesting licensing, Mattel has unveiled limited edition Barbie’s based on the AMC television series Mad Men. The four dolls will be versions of Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, and Don and Betty Draper. Mattel is using the classic early 60’s Barbie face for …
Read More »Corey Haim, A Lost Boy Forever
One time teen heartthrob and young star of the Lost Boys, Corey Haim has passed away in the early hours of March 10th, in Los Angeles at the age of 38. Haim was suffering from flu-like symptoms and four prescription medications were found at his home. Haim was found unresponsive …
Read More »Tribeca Film Fest Announces Partial Line Up For this Year
Today the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival The 9th Annual announced a partial line up for this years festivals, which will run from April 21st – May 2nd. This year’s roster will showcase 85 feature films. The rest of the film fest’s line up will be announced Monday, March 15th. …
Read More »PlayStation Network Delivers High Definition Movies
Sony announced that 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution will offer high definition (HD) movies for purchase and rental on the PlayStation®Network video delivery service in the United States. PlayStation Network is the first to offer high definition …
Read More »Battlestar Galactica Enters The Realm Of MMOG
Bigpoint will be demonstrating Battlestar Galactica Online, a tactical space combat and adventure MMOG based upon Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica series at the Game Developers Conference. The MMOG, inspired by one of the most popular science fiction series in television history, will launch worldwide exclusively this fall on Syfy.com for a …
Read More »Red Riding Hood, Werewolf Hunter
Felicia Day, star of web videos The Guild and Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, who also played “Vi” in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will portray a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie, Red. Scheduled to premiere in …
Read More »A Very Smurfy Movie
Under the “…why?!” category of films being made now is the Smurf movie, based on the 1980’s cartoon, comes voice casting news, which makes this go from “ho-hum” to Smurf-tastic. Last week, is was said that Neil Patrick Harris (where isn’t he lately?) had signed on to the project. Now …
Read More »Hurt Locker Wins Big at the 82nd Oscars
Sunday night, the world watched as the 82nd annual Academy Awards were televised. Though most Oscar predictors were thinking it would be a close match between Avatar and the Hurt Locker (both with 9 nominations), it was a night that felt almost predictable, with The Hurt Locker snatching up 6 …
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