Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Want To Own Your Own Video Game Store? $30,000 Is All It Takes

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:21 PM PDT

Quite the interesting new item is up for bidding on eBay, and the winner will find themselves the proud new owner of an entire video game store!

The store, located in Grand Junction, Colorado, is currently still active and the owners have decided to part ways with it. If you win the auction, you can either continue running the store from Colorado, OR you can have the entire inventory shipped to your location, were you can add it to your own inventory or start your own new game store. Shipping seems fair; if you pay the asking price or more the first 750 miles are free and $1 each additional mile.

Included in the inventory is games from all platforms, including Nintendo, SEGA, Super NES, PlayStation, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii and many others. There's also game systems, accessories, displays and signs and shelving and every bit of what comes with a game store. And the most intriguing part of all of this? There's a Buy it Now option for $30,000, which, if you have it, isn't bad at all for what you get. According to the seller there's $60,000 worth of inventory included. [...]

UPDATED! ‘Mad Men’ Star January Jones Replaces Alice Eve As Emma Frost In ‘X-Men: First Class’

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

For a long while, She's Out of My League star Alice Eve was expected to play Emma Frost in the movie adaptation of comic book series X-Men: First Class. As it turns out, that deal was never sealed with ink and now comes word that a new actress will be taking on the role.

Deadline reports that Mad Men beauty January Jones will instead be taking on the part of the White Queen in director Matthew Vaughn's movie. The two-time Golden Globe nominated actress has also appeared in movies like American Wedding, We Are Marshall, and Pirate Radio.

Some other smaller castings for the movie have also been revealed as well. The most notable of these is Zoe Kravitz, who is set to play a younger Angel. This is odd because Angel has always been a male character, played in X-Men: The Last Stand by Ben Foster.

Rounding out the smaller casting, Bill Milner has been brought on to play an even younger version of the young Magneto that Michael Fassbender will play for the majority of the film; and Morgan Lilly will play a young version of Raven. [...]

Jock Releases ‘Tron: Betrayal’ Graphic Novel Art

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 01:21 PM PDT

Are you as excited for Tron Legacy as I am? If you are, then you might want to prepare for the film by reading Tron: Betrayal, the film's 128-page prequel graphic novel.

Check out here below the concept art and cover by Jock, who released the images on his blog.

The prequel comic, which was written by Jai Nitz, will first be released as a 2-issue limited miniseries in October, with the collected graphic novel coming out on November 17, 2010. Tron Legacy comes to theaters on December 17, 2010.

Below are the solicit details for the graphic novel from Marvel and Disney Enterprises Inc. [...]

Ramona Flowers and 5 Other Manic Pixie Dream Girls Who Aren’t

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 10:15 AM PDT

When I first picked up Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series, I fell for it, hard. Here, finally, was a quirky, beautiful love interest who wasn't just another Manic Pixie Dream Girl -- a three-dimensional girl with motivations and an inner life of her own. (It doesn't sound like that should be too much to ask, but the sad case is that it often is.) I found O'Malley's take on the archetype to be just about perfect.

Then Edgar Wright's film adaptation came out, and it was hilarious, and inventive, and energetic, and sweet, and... and yet another story about a Hapless Hero and a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Although the film remained mostly faithful to the main plot of the source material, it had to cut copious amounts of backstory to fit into the running time. Perhaps no one suffered more than Ramona Flowers, who went from a fascinating, complex woman to a pretty trophy to be won.

What was most disappointing about it is that the downgrade felt unnecessary. Manic Pixie Dream Girls abound, but there's always an opportunity for them to be more than that. Below, in honor of O'Malley's original Ramona Flowers, are five other Manic Pixie Dream Girls who aren't [...]

Trailer For Wes Craven’s ‘My Soul To Take’ Arrives Online

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:18 AM PDT

A new trailer for the new Wes Craven suspense thriller My Soul To Take has been released by Rogue Pictures.

The movie tells the story of a serial killer who vows to return from the dead one day and kill the seven kids who were born on the day that he died. Almost two decades later when people begin disappearing, the question of whether the killer has returned as promised arises, and one of the seven kids has to use their knowledge of the situation to try and save their friends.

My Soul To Take is written and directed by Craven, and stars Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, and Raúl Esparza. It's currently set for release on October 8, 2010, and will also be released in 3D.

Click on over to the other side to take a peek at the new trailer for My Soul To Take now! [...]

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