Oh, Dish Network. You were so close to turning Blockbuster from a overlooked clump of hair in the drain to a new and exciting brand. But with Blockbuster Movie Pass, you blew it.
For weeks, rumors swirled that Blockbuster was going to launch a streaming video service to rival Netflix, and the timing couldn’t have been better. Netflix …
After taking a beating from Netflix and Redbox, going bankrupt and getting bought by the Dish Network, Blockbuster is trying to lure customers back with lower prices. Now all you’ve got to do is find a Blockbuster.
(More on TIME.com: Dish Network Wins Blockbuster with $320 Million Bid at Auction)
Effective today, thousands of …
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For months, there have been rumors that Facebook was working on turning the inboxes of its 500 million-plus users into a full-blown e-mail service. Today, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally unveiled the subject of the rumors–code-named “Titan” and officially named simply “Facebook Messages”–at an event in San Francisco. And …
2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Back To The Future. A special trilogy pack with never before seen footage will be included and today we have a peak at one of them. In the following clip Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talk about replacing Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly after five weeks of shooting. The movies …
Each film he directs is more epic than the last. Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic…and, of course, Avatar. That last film, a 3-D extravaganza that quickly became the highest-grossing movie of all time, was re-released August 27 with nine additional minutes of footage. Cameron spoke to TIME’s Rebecca …
In honor of Thirsty Thursday, I present to you a drunken spoof of everyone’s favorite mindfrak thriller Inception. You might be on your last legs, Internet, but I still love you.
[via Vulture]
I’ve never tried Chat Roulette. Am I the only one?
Thanks for the tip, KB!
It isn’t every day you get to interview someone like Edgar Wright – someone so interesting, insightful, inspired. This guy clearly loves movies. He loves to watch them, to make them, to think about them, to talk about them. And after spending 45 minutes on the phone with him, I can already tell: This is the kind of dude you want to …
Don’t expect this video to last too much longer on YouTube.
Video has surfaced from today’s Star Wars Blu-ray box set announcement and it’s a doozy. The scene was thought to have been lost forever but it shows Luke in a cave putting the finishing touches on his green lightsaber.
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Relativity Media has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming Sci-Fi flick Skyline. Have you ever wondered what it would look like if aliens abducted us on a large scale? Try not to freak out.
Skyline will be in theaters November 12, 2010.
Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck.
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