After months of hedging, speculation and delays, Comic-Con International has announced the plan for the show’s long-anticipated potential move after 2012: it’s staying put in San Diego and its convention center (and bits of the convention center’s neighboring hotels) until at least 2015, rather than moving to either Los Angeles or …
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Ultimate Gamer 2’s Rachel and Justin on the Trials of the Gauntlet
For those of you who said there was too much drama going on in the WCG Ultimate Gamer 2 house, this week it was strictly gaming – with some added twists, of course.
The Gauntlet is a series of video games that the remaining six contestants had to compete in. Each gamer who came in last place during each video game round ended up …
The Comic Book Club: “You’ll Never Know” and “Action Comics”
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss You’ll Never Know: Collateral Damage and Action Comics #893.
DOUGLAS: The first volume of You’ll Never Know, Carol Tyler’s projected three-volume …
Sam Raimi To Direct Movie That GI Joe Should’ve Been
Leave it to the man behind The Evil Dead, Darkman and the two good Spider-Man movies – yes, I know he made the third one, I just like to pretend it doesn’t exist is all, okay? – to be behind a movie that sounds like it’s based on the greatest toy line never made. Vulture is reporting that Raimi will produce but not direct a movie …
Why Would NBC Waste Two Great Talents On The Munsters?
What happens when two creators whose work you admire team up for a project that sounds, at best, like an ill-considered idea? I’m about to find out, with the news that Pushing Daisies‘ Bryan Fuller may be rebooting The Munsters for NBC, with Guillermo del Toro taking some kind of behind the scenes position on the series. Now, I loved …
Inception’s Ending Spoiled By Michael Caine
The question on everyone’s mind this past summer – well besides, “what came first the chicken or the egg?” – has been “did the spinning top drop at the end of Inception?”
SPOILERS AHEAD
Cinesnobs and other pretentious movie elite maintain that the true ending can only be revealed by Christopher Nolan, and he’s not getting tired of …
Is Apple TV Just One Big App That’s Destined for the iPad?
Funny thing about the Apple TV box that just came out. It appears that the underlying interface is just one big application called “Lowtide,” according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
“Apple TV seems to run Lowtide, an application responsible for all user interactions, which is derived from the previous Front Row application.
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Panel of the Week 9/29/10
And we’re back! Didn’t go anywhere. Just wanted to say it. It’s time for Panel of the Week once again. As I sit here trying to break in my new Rainbow sandals that I didn’t even know came in size ‘effing huge’ to fit my Ronald McDonalds I’m trying pick out those moments in this week’s comics that have got that special something. I don’t …
Back To The Future Director Returns To Live-Action With Time-Travel…& Superman?
After seeming stuck in a CGI rut with movies like The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis is returning to live-action movies with his next project – and it’s also a return to a genre that’s been very good to him: time travel. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Zemeckis will direct Timeless, a movie …
For Harry Potter and Friends, Nowhere Is Safe
For those of us muggles eagerly awaiting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One, feast your eyes on the new character posters. The apocalyptic, gritty-looking pictures feature the slogan, “Nowhere Is Safe.” (More on Techland: New Trailer for Harry Potter Shows The Finale is Nigh)
It’s channeling a bit too much of …
Scrabble for Kindle Review: Good Fun, Bad Graphics
Scrabble for the Amazon Kindle was released about a week ago. As a self-proclaimed Scrabble nut, I downloaded it as soon as I found out about it—all the time wondering how in the world EA could publish Scrabble as the first paid Kindle app while neglecting to make Scrabble available in the Android Market after all this time. Give …
I Am Number Four Teaser Trailer Debuts
The first trailer for I Am Number Four has just made it online, and if director DJ Caruso set out to make a movie that looks like a mix of Twilight, Blade and every generic teen superhero movie ever made, then he’s definitely succeeded.
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I Am Number Four isn’t, sadly, a prequel to …