A new trailer for the much buzzed Tron: Legacy hit Comic-Con today.The film is gearing up for its Dec. 17 release in a big way, garnering throes of attention from Comic-Con goers. With its huge promotion efforts and strong fan base, the sequel to the 1982 Academy Award nominated film looks to be one of the biggest movies of the …
Last night, we got word that Brad Pitt will star in World War Z, the screen adaptation of Max Brooks’ epic zombie tale. Brooks broke the news to MTV at Comic-Con in San Diego and confirmed a rumor we hoped wasn’t too good to be true: Brad Pitt is a zombie guy.
Pitt’s production company, Plan B, purchased the rights to World War …
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 – Happy Comic-Con!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
First Look At New LOST Epilogue Released [The Hollywood Reporter]
Projector Wedding Ring Will Make you Look Highly Unromantic By Comparison [Gizmodo]
Five Apps For Comic-Con Survival [IGN]
iPad Fueling …
Last week, the web was (once again) having itself a good long belly laugh at another geeky gag by the talented crew at Improv Everywhere. This time we got a reenactment of the first meeting between Princess Leia and Darth Vader set in the subways of New York City. One week later, we’re still smiling. Behold, the mission’s …
How many of you believed we’d live in a world where our handwriting would become a novelty? (Show of hands?) E-mail is uniform and impersonal, and a handwritten note doesn’t meet today’s instant gratification standard of messaging. But melding the two? Now, that’s enticing. PilotHandwriting.com allows you to turn your handwriting into a …
From the brain trust behind 2009’s interactive musical play toy YouTube Piano comes YouTube Radio, a medley of YouTube-themed ditties.
Eight stations cover the music spectrum and aside from my inability to translate cat, each spits out YouTube centric lyrics in different musical styles. Hate jazz? Just change the station by clicking …
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Comic Con 2010: San Diego Insiders Share Their Survival Tips (And Ninja Tricks) [LA Times]
I (Almost) Live In The Cloud [NYT]
Droid 2 Launching Aug. 12 With R2-D2 Edition? [Gizmodo]
Apple’s $15.7 Billion In Revenue Is Highest Ever …
In the horror landscape, B-movie mania at its best points right to Roger Corman. His oddball approach to cheesy creature features and unnecessary nudity have become a comfy oasis somewhere between horror and campville. The deaths are messy, the sex is unexplained and the situation is always dire.
(More on Techland: Avatar Heads Back …
Editor’s Note: Today, we’re rolling out the first of our App Of The Week series, where we’ll take a look at a new app (iPhone, Android, iPad or otherwise) and bring you comprehensive reviews on the latest and greatest in the app world. If you’ve got a suggestion, please feel free to email us at tips@techland.com.
I can never …
Because James Cameron really loves to make a huge pile of money even bigger, mega-hit Avatar is headed back into theaters in late August.
(More on Techland: Is James Cameron About To Piss Off All Of Hollywood?)
If you remember, Cameron and FOX were pretty peeved after Avatar was kicked off of screens to make way for Disney’s Alice …
Author Max Brooks recently sold his one millionth copy of The Zombie Survival Guide ($10, Amazon). Since the book’s release in 2003, Brooks has risen to become an authority of zombie horror, and we got to sit down with last month for a marathon geek fest. Read on for the second installment of our chat featuring Brooks’ thoughts on his …
Surely a creator of one of the most theory-driven plots in recent history can solve Christopher Nolan’s “Is It? Or Isn’t It Reality?” mystery of Inception. Yesterday, LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof took to his Twitter account to offer up some of his theories on the flick. (For Steve’s take, read The Inception Debate: Alive? Dead? Or …
