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Digital Deal: ‘Star Trek VII: Generations’

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:28 AM PDT

Star Trek: Generations

Amazon is offering up Star Trek VII: Generations for purchase for only $3.99 through their Video On Demand service.

This digital deal is only for today, Thursday, October 14 until midnight PST, so grab it while you can. The digital version is regularly $9.99, and the 24-hour rental is $2.99.

Visit the Star Trek VII: Generations product page to purchase the film. Released in 1994, Generations is the seventh film in the Star Trek franchise and was an effort to bring together the original members of the Enterprise crew, including James T. Kirk (William Shatner) with the full cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, captained by Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). While not brilliantly executed, the film but it does have a few elements worth watching for like the android Data getting an emotion chip, and the two captains meeting up to battle a new foe (Dr. Soran played by Malcolm McDowell). There's also something that happens in this movie that has and still does anger fans.

Synopsis: Capt. Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Capt. Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix. [...]

Deal: ‘Torchwood’ Season 1 & 2 DVD or Blu-ray

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:08 AM PDT



The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is Torchwood Season 1 and 2 on DVDs and Blu-rays for 58% off.

Note, this deal is only for today, Thursday October 14, 2010 until midnight PST while supplies last.

Get the Complete Season 1 and 2 DVD and Season 2 Blu-ray for $33.99 each (that's 58% off the list price of $79.98); Season 1 Blu-ray for $41.99 (that's 58% off the list price of $99.98).

Each DVD/Blu-ray comes with a bonus features like episode commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes, and more.

The BBC television series Torchwood is the Doctor Who spin-off that stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack.

- Torchwood - The Complete First Season - DVD - $33.99

- Torchwood - The Complete Second Season - DVD - $33.99

- Torchwood: The Complete First Season - Blu-ray - $41.99

- Torchwood: The Complete Second Season - Blu-ray - $38.99 [...]

‘Inception’ Coming To Blu-ray & DVD This December

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:53 PM PDT

Inception Blu-ray

Inception, this summer's "mind-blowing" blockbuster film, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand through Warner Home Video on December 7, 2010.

The Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray disc, DVD, and Digital Copy) will contain will over 90 minutes of bonus material featuring writer/director Christopher Nolan and star Leonardo DiCaprio, and have a suggested retail price of $35.99. The widescreen DVD will apparently has "mind-bending featurettes" and has a suggested retail price of $29.99.

You can pre-order both formats right now at Amazon and lock in their discounted price: Blu-ray Combo Pack ($24.99) or DVD ($20.49).

Warner Bros hasn't released the full list of bonus content at this time, but their solicitation beckons, "Go inside the dream with extraction mode," which I'm guessing is some sort of Blu-ray-only feature that allows you to press a button during playback that will give you facts and other details, perhaps in a picture-in-picture format. Maybe, just maybe, some of our unanswered questions regarding the film will be answered with this feature! [...]

Massive Coven Casting Announcement Made For ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:32 PM PDT



Summit Entertainment has made a huge casting announcement regarding the many Covens that will be seen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

The two-part movie will be directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters), and is schedule for release on November 18, 2011 and November 16, 2012. Stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and others will all reprise their roles in the movies, which will close out the ultra-successful franchise.

For the full press release, which details all of the Covens and the actors that will now play members of these Covens in Breaking Dawn, be sure to click on over to the other side now.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN -- Casting Update

Summit Entertainment announced today the following have been cast in THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN for roles in The Amazon Coven, The Egyptian Coven, The Irish Coven and The Romanian Coven as well as the American and European Nomads as outlined below. [...]

CONFIRMED: Rhys Ifans Will Be The Lizard In ‘Spider-Man’ Reboot

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 04:27 PM PDT



A few days ago we were informed that the fantastic Rhys Ifans would be playing the villain in Marc Webb's new reboot of Spider-Man for Sony and Columbia Pictures. The problem was that they wouldn't say who exactly Ifans would be playing in the movie.

This matched with the news earlier today that Tom Hardy would be in Batman 3, but that his part was also unknown, had us a little fearful that an aggravating Hollywood habit may be forming. But alas, not but a few days later, it has been unearthed just who Ifans will become before he battles Spider-Man to the death, and that, my friends, is The Lizard.

Ifans will play Dr. Curt Conners, a character played by Dylan Baker in Sam Raimi's films, which fans had been demanding be utilized by bringing Lizard in as a villain in the movies. Curt Conners lost his arm in war, after enlisting and becoming a battlefield surgeon. After that, he researched limb regeneration common in certain reptiles, and after a successful test on a rabbit, tried the procedure on himself. [...]

Remastered ‘Sandman’ Volumes 1-3 Available Now; ‘Annotated Sandman’ On The Way

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Sandman Volume 2

I've lost count of how many times I've written of my love for Neil Gaiman's work, especially his Sandman comic book series, which is why I'm excited that today the first three special edition volumes of Sandman were released. And if that wasn't awesome enough, there's also news that an annotated Sandman is also in the works!

The new trade paperback special editions feature recolored artwork -- the same treatment given to the Absolute Editions -- as well as new covers and other upgrades from their original publication, which began in 1989.

The remaining volumes of the series, which are published by DC's Vertigo imprint, will have the same remastering treatment in the future, but no dates for those have been announced.

If you already own the entire series, you might be wondering if the new editions with recolored artwork are worth the cost of a repurchase. If you check out Vertigo's blog, you can see a few comparison samples between the original and recolored art. Also, below is an excerpt from Gaiman's blog from 2006 in response to a fan questioning the recoloring on the Absolute Editions [...]

Comic Review: Sweets #1 & 2

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 12:07 PM PDT

Sweets

Sweets #1 & 2
Story & Art By: Kody Chamberlain
Cover Art: Kody Chamberlain
Price: $2.99
Image Comics
Release date: July 14, 2010 & August 18, 2010

Sweets is a five-issue miniseries written and drawn by Kody Chamberlain. The miniseries is a crime tale set in New Orleans just days before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. A serial killer is on the loose and has piled up a massive amount of victims in a killing spree around New Orleans. Detective Curt Delatte has already had a bad few weeks. His daughter was killed in a hit and run. His wife wants a divorce and now he must search for this ruthless serial killer.

Sweets is a definite must-read if you're into crime stories like Criminal and Scalped. The biggest difference between those books and Sweets, is that Chamberlain brings a rare blend of storytelling to the readers. Sweets reads like a crime film, in which the reader is glued to the book and they never want it to end [...]

‘Inception’ Star Tom Hardy Re-Teaming With Christopher Nolan On ‘Batman 3′

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 11:21 AM PDT



Fans have waited patiently as director Christopher Nolan took his break from Batman after The Dark Knight and made a little movie called Inception. The director did the same thing after Batman Begins with The Prestige, and this is just the way of Nolan's world.

But now that Inception has indeed come and gone, everyone is getting pretty anxious for things to get going on the next chapter in the DC Comic superhero's dark new story, currently just being referred to as Batman 3. And today it would appear that our first casting has occurred.

It's being reported that Tom Hardy has been cast by Nolan for a major role in the next Batman. Unfortunately for us, it hasn't been revealed what exactly this role will be, or even if it's a villain or not. This is already starting to become an unpleasant new Hollywood habit, as we just saw with the casting Kevin Bacon as an unknown villain in X-Men: First Class and with Rhys Ifans as an unidentified villain in Spider-Man. Before we know it, every big casting will come with massive questions of who they're playing in the movie they've been cast in. [...]

Must See: Michael J. Fox Goes ‘Back To The Future’ In Marty McFly Reunion

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 10:38 AM PDT



It's been twenty years since the third and final Back to the Future movie was released, but the popularity of this classic trilogy seems just as high right now as it's ever been before...perhaps even higher!

Putting the length of time that has passed since the last film was released aside, Back to the Future has continued to show up every now and again over the years. We've seen the creation of things we saw in the movies like the hoverboard, word of the big Blu-ray trilogy being released later this month, the announcement of a new game featuring Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, and even the footage of Eric Stoltz playing Marty McFly just yesterday.

But if there's one thing people would really just love to see, it would have to be Mr. Michael J. Fox, back in full McFly attire, and reuniting with his Delorean, right? Well, now we can. Continue on to the bottom of this post to see a video of just that! [...]

Album Review: Adam WarRock ‘The War For Infinity’

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:34 AM PDT

Adam Warrock

Adam WarRock
The War For Infinity
Silver Age Records & Marketless Music
Release Date: October 7, 2010

Eugene Ahn, comic book fan and podcast host, has created a hip-hop alter ego named Adam WarRock. On WarRock's debut album, The War For Infinity, listeners are treated to an "event" comic book story in musical form.

On the first track, "I Am Him," we are learn the origin story of Adam WarRock. Adam WarRock created a perfect society with his mic, but is shunned by the very people that he was seeking to save. He creates a gauntlet that stores his power and ascends into the clouds and sleeps until he is needed again. That day inevitably arrives, and Adam WarRock awakes again.

WarRock's saga continues throughout the course of the album, and eventually he meets Demonos on the track "Battle (Intro)". Demonos and WarRock meet in an arena, complete with cheesy announcer. WarRock also informs Demonos of his power with lines like "Ya'll must be crazy, thinking you can mess with Adam, man/Thinking I'm a goody two shoes like my name was Adam Ant." The lyrical and heroic battle continues over the course of the album, especially on the track "Heroes Requiem," where Demonos vanquishes several well-known super heroes. WarRock and Demonos have their final showdown on the song "Battle (Finale)" and it is an epic contest [...]

Video Game Deal: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:17 AM PDT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360, PS3, or PC for only $36.99 each (that's 38% off the list price of $59.99).

Note, this deal is only for today, Wednesday, October 13, 2010, until midnight PST while supplies last.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 combines a thrilling single player story with some very fine cooperative segments to make one of the best multiplayer games ever. This sequel takes place five years after the original Modern Warfare (all other Call of Duty games take place in a World War II setting), and sees you filling the shoes of multiple different characters as they fight in battles all over the world [...]

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