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Winter Break Movies
Finally the film makers are (and renew classic) movies, you can change your life. Tron: Legacy, Yogi Bear and the Little Fockers, are some of the most anticipated movies of 2010. It ‘s a known fact that the films have a tradition during the winter break.
Whether you see it again, or see the movie five times, as the Post last year, the cinema has never been a disappointment cold and rainy day. So sit back and enjoy what the theaters have to offer.
Tron: Legacy: Probably #1 on most people’s list is the up and coming sci-fi, action, adventure movie, Tron. This was a popular movie in 1982, and the director, Steven Lisberger, is coming back, this time as a producer for the sequel. For many years, Sam Flynn has been troubled by the disappearance of his father, Kevin, who was the former CEO of ENCOM International. One night, friends of Sam’s father, visit Sam and show him a mysterious page from Kevin’s arcade. While Sam is investigating, he is suddenly transported to the digital world of The Grid. Sam must find his father and find a way home. Garrett Hedlund and the Academy Award winner, Jeff Bridges, go along in search for family and the truth.
Little Fockers: This is a sequel to both Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. Jack Byrnes and Greg Focker have never seen eye-to-eye on Greg and Jack’s daughter, Pam’s, marriage. For the past ten years, the quote, “Trust me, Greg, when you start having little Fockers running around…” has finally been put into reality. Greg and Pam have had twins, and the addition to the Focker family is pushing Greg into a midlife crisis.
When the twins have a birthday party, Jack and Dina Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) and Bernie Focker and Rozalina (played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand) to pay a visit. The stress of having to show Jack that he is the true man of the house is too much for Greg. This film is a must see and will leave you with hilarious and memorable lines like the first two.
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MTV Network Allow to Share Articles, Comment and Videos on Social Network
MTV Networks (MTVN) has taken Janrain Engage offers visitors a unique log-in more than 50 online properties, as well as the ability to share articles, comment and videos from a number of friends on social networks and sites such as Facebook , Twitter, Yahoo and MySpace.
After about six weeks after deployment in seven locations, MTVN has identified positive trends in an A / B, but it is too early to speculate on the details, since many parts of the network running, according to TJ Marchetti, Vice-President products of social media at MTV Networks. “We replaced the Facebook Connect integration and then gave all the marks that are specific experiences as the establishment, how they would like to see the registration screens,” he said.
The technology aims to remove hurdles and allow site visitors to connect and share content more easily. The content is shared on social networks and draws visitors back to the MTVN sites. The process is the same for TeenNick as it is for VH1, ColbertNation or TheDailyShow. The company plans to extend the deployment throughout 2011.
The ability to post back to multiple social networks allows site visitors to share messages with friends. Larry Drebes, Janrain chief executive officer, says the MTVN properties now have a 12-to-1 referral rate. That means 12 additional clicks occur for the one post. “It’s free marketing for the properties by the users,” he says.
Another advantage to outsourcing the social feature means it removes engineering burdens from MTVN, putting the responsibility on Janrain, Drebes says. That movement created a new service industry for Janrain. About half of the company’s nearly fifty employees are engineers or have technical skills. He tends to hire the “Web heads” — those a little on the “nerdy side.”
Web operators want to increasingly outsource technology not central to their core content, so Janrain staked out user management as a service where it can excel. There’s a ton of operational behind-the-scenes plumbing, from privacy and security that the company can support. As more focus turns to consumer data it will become more important for companies to get it correct.
MTV Networks has joined the list of entertainment companies adopting JanRain. These include the Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Warner Music, and Sonora Windup Records, Terra Network
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Greatest Christmas Movies
Now that the holidays are upon us and the end of the year is around the corner, and many publications present their “best of” lists and posts is no exception.
That said, I’m sure there will be disagreement on this compilation of the greatest Christmas movies of all time, but this is the case. Some of them are pretty standard, others not so. So without further ado:
Honorable Mention: The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Santa)
This short deserves an admirable mention because, while only about five minutes long, The Spirit of Christmas was Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s precursor to “South Park.” In this animated film, the South Park boys oversee a Mortal Kombat-esque brawl between Santa Claus and Jesus Christ with plenty of “South Park”-style humor. The social commentary pretty much writes itself.
5. Die Hard
One of the staples of action movie heroism can also be categorized as one of the best Christmas movies of all time. Although the film could have been set on almost any holiday, who could forget the RUN DMC Christmas music and John McClane’s now infamous “Yippee ki-yay”?
4. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
If I do not put this classic on here, I’m sure readers will send me anthrax in the mail. A Christmas staple, almost every scene in this film has been quoted by movie buffs for over 20 years and is often considered the best of the series.
3. The Muppet Christmas Carol
There have got to be, at the very least, 30 different renditions of the Charles Dickens story in release … this year. This one is probably the most kid-friendly and utilizes the Muppets as comic relief when so many other interpretations follow the serious tone of the book. Honestly who doesn’t love the Muppets?
2. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: “Mystery Science Theater 3000” version
Right up there with Plan 9 from Outer Space, this film is considered one of the worst pieces of crap ever made. Once you give it the “MST3K” treatment however, this laughable cinematic failure turns into a hysterical riot. Turning bad line delivery and terrible stage props into comedic gold, Tom Servo, Crow and Joel heckle this holiday film from awful to awesome.
1. Bad Santa
Not only one of the greatest Christmas movies ever, Bad Santa is arguably one of the greatest comedies of all time. This film solidified Billy Bob Thorton’s character asshole deadbeat drunk person, and his Santa Claus is not a shred of holiday cheer throughout the body. How many quotable lines from Animal House, Bad Santa can not honestly be considered the best film ever made Christmas issue.
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Movie Review – The Warrior’s Way
There are a lot of good as well as bad Kung-Fu movies out. Depending on your point of view “The Warrior’s Way” is one of those movies that can occur between these ranges.
The film begins with Yang, played by Jang Dong-gun, a murderer legendary sword of course work for a corrupt lord. After many successful missions, Jang finally decides to give back to his master, refusing to fulfill a mission assigned to him.
Naturally, his lord is not satisfied with these turn of events and tried to kill Jang. This is obviously not possible due Jang is so highly qualified. After defeating its master Jang men fled to America and hiding in the Badlands. It Jang try to start a new life among the people he now calls friends.
Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush play local cowboys who befriend Jang as he settles into his new surroundings. As times passes and Jang starts to believe he may have successfully escaped his old life, it naturally comes back to collect. It’s from here that we know what to expect to happen. Jang, with the aid of his new friends, now must fend off, not only a horde of evil ninjas, but also his lord and master.
Visually this movie draws from what we’ve seen from most Kung-Fu movies of late. High flying, well choreographed stunts that look amazing quite frankly. And regardless of what else you may think of this movie, it can be said that the fight scenes are stunning. But that’s all there really is in this movie, the plot doesn’t add anything new to the genre, the characters don’t really grab hold of you in any way, even our hero, and the movie itself looks a bit too cartoony. You can see influences from movies like 300, Sin City and Watchmen but what worked well for those movies just doesn’t cut it this time around.
Now there are a lot of Kung-Fu fans who may find a place in their hearts for this movie. There are certainly plenty of movies that have found a loyal cult following over the years even when most people think they don’t deserve it. We could spend hours listing those movies.
Why not this film does deserve to be ranked among the other entire great classic cult again, because this film adds has nothing new to its genre. A film like Trouble in Little China, or who live tells a unique story that has been able to penetrate the heart of rabid movie fans. The Way of the Warrior tells one story, a funny story that is true, but anyone can tell a funny story and it takes a special kind of voice to tell a good story.
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Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 1 Still On Top
Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 1 film stayed atop the box office despite four new films were released this week.
The fate of Harry Potter has helped the film to stay on top, selling about $ 50.3 million over the weekend, scoring a total of $220.4 million new inmates. New movies Burlesque, a musical film from Sony Pictures Entertainment, drugs other love, a romantic comedy released by Century Fox and Walt Disney tangled, Faster, a thriller from Sony and CBS Films.
However, the new animated movie of Rapunzel’s fairytale hit the second place. Tangled is Disney’s new offering this holiday season, having $49.1 million over the weekend and gathering a cumulative of $69 million since its opening salvo Wednesday.
Despite this holiday season was big business days for the top two movies, studio estimates regarding receipts of the Thanksgiving record fell short compared to the record have been set last year, when The Blind Side and The Twilight Saga: New Moon were released.
In the fourth week of Megamind, a super villain hero animated adventure movie, it took the third place, with $12.9 million. It has total earnings of $130.5 million.
Burlesque a musical movie starring Cristina Aguilera and Cher by Sony Picture Entertainment, a movie about regarding a small-town girl who has a big voice and bigger dreams, is in the fourth place, earning $11.8 million over the weekend and a cumulative of $17.2 million for five days.
“Burlesque movie was certainly a crowd-pleaser, and added that the movie is truly a movie that people will love to see over and over again,” Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony Said.
Unstoppable, the film thriller Crazy Train by Twentieth Century Fox, earned $11.75 million is in fifth place in its third week. Opening out of the Top five, Love Other Drugs earned $14 million, while Faster with $12 million sales.
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Viacom Blocks Complete Episodes Series from Google TV
Viacom announced Monday that it has blocked the entire length episodes of shows that were available online through Google TV. It is the latest TV network to block content from Google’s TV platform.
Recently, Fox has also closed its programming to be published in Google TV. ABC, NBC and CBS have also blocked the web version of their TV shows through Google, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We’re blocking access to our full episode content from Google TV’s Web browser,” an MTV Networks spokesman said. “We continue to evaluate Google TV to identify opportunities where it may make sense to optimize our Web content for the platform.”
The blocking started at the end of last week.
Google spokesman said in a statement “Google TV allows access to all web content, which already today on the phone and the PC, but ultimately, the choice of content owners to restrict their fans to access their content on the platform,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
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HBO’s Deadwood Complete Series Blue-ray Catalog Launched Soon
CHICAGO – Just in time for holidays, the excellent HBO’s “Deadwood” was chosen to introduce the complete series Blu-ray catalog for the major television networks over the last twenty years. Very few HBO series are available in the full range of HD sets HBO (“Band of Brothers,” “Rome”, “The Pacific”) and all the fans of “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Six Feet Under “may finally be the season next vacation, this masterpiece belongs to David Milch.
The 36 episodes of Milch’s brilliant deconstruction of the TV Western have been segmented into 13 discs – four per season and a bonus disc. Basically, this is what the HD translation was published two years ago on the standard disk. If you are still dreaming, it is often said that the film, which would apply to all ends of the canceled-too-soon as the program is needed to keep on dreaming.
One of the best programs of the ’00s is named after the real American frontier town that serves as the dramatic backdrop for a convergence of law, greed, love, the past, and the future. Deadwood was the first melting pot, a place where businessmen, soldiers, Chinese laborers, prostitutes, and gunfighters all struggled to survive. Milch’s incredible drama was riveting from first episode to last, not just a great TV Western but one of the best of its genre of any medium, film and fiction included.
“Deadwood” won multiple awards, including Emmys (all technical although actors Brad Dourif, Robin Weigert, and Ian McShane were nominated) and a Peabody Award, and was massively critically-acclaimed but it fell victim to something of a house cleaning at HBO as they were trying to find their identity at the end of the ’00s and cutting high-budget programming. Series like “Carnivale,” “Rome,” and “Deadwood” were all cut tragically-short.
Everything you’d find in the individual season sets have been imported to the complete series set along with the new special features available on the 2008 release. The best of that set was “The Meaning of Endings,” a 23-minute discussion with Milch about the controversial end of the show in which the creator walks the set and talks about where he was planning to go in season four. The other features on the extra disc include “The Real Deadwood: Out of the Ashes”, “Q&A With Cast and Creative Team”, “Deadwood 360 Tour”, and “Al Swearengen Audition Reel (as performed by Titus Welliver)”
What more is there to say about “Deadwood” other than that I still miss it? I like what HBO is doing nowadays but they don’t seem to be taking the creative risks that they once did with shows like this one or “Carnivale.” Let’s face it — “True Blood” is fun but it’s a relatively-obvious hit with its mix of sexuality and the genre trend of the day. “Deadwood” was daring, something that I’m not sure HBO is as much as it used to be. It will be again. But we’ll always have these three seasons to remind us of what can be done when a brilliant TV creator is given creative freedom and when a network takes chances.
Deadwood: The whole Series is launched by HBO Home Video and stars Jim Beaver, W. Earl Brown, Timothy Olyphant, Kim Dickens, Brad Dourif, Anna Gunn, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Dayton Callie, John Hawkes, Jeffrey Jones, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, Titus Welliver, Brent Sexton, Bree Seanna Wall and Powers Boothe. It was created by David Milch. It will be Launched on Blu-ray on December 23rd, 2010.CST.
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Gaylord Entertainment Co. Received Good Plug on HBO
Gaylord Entertainment Co. has received a good addition to HBO as a prelude to the Saturday night’s title fight between Manny Paquiao and Antonio Margarito.
It took place during the last episode of HBO “24 / 7 Paquiao-Margarito,”series with two boxers preparing to fight at Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas. Both fighters remained at the Gaylord Texan in the last week before the fight, which was often mentioned in the show. Margarito is a stage of work in a gym Gaylord Texan around 1 am, shortly after his arrival at the airport. There were also some outside shots of buses with the company logo.
Pacquiao won the fight in a unanimous decision to punish Margarito after round, to win his eighth title in different weight class eighth. Margarito battered with a swollen face and cuts around his eyes must have been quite a sight when checking the Gaylord Texan.
If Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will never accept a fight, maybe Nashville could jump into the game trying to hold the event.
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Disney Promotes the Sale of Digital Movies
Walt Disney Co. has begun rolling out its plan to encourage the purchase of digital cinema technology to eliminate the barriers that have so far hampered growth.
The Disney studio has silently launched movies online, which allows users to rent or buy digital versions of Disney and Pixar movies and watch them on the internet.
The site was designed as a bridge company transition gentle stream of consumer entertainment of the family of the physical to the digital world. It began in May, without fanfare.
How, without fanfare? Disney does not promote the site further, including the Web address in a sleeve inside the packages of DVD and Blu-ray. Not even a link to it on the main website of the company.
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Lions Gate posted 2nd Quarter Loss
Niche studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which is in a battle for control of the principal shareholder of the company, Carl Icahn, said Tuesday it recorded a loss in the second quarter, against a profit last year because of cost by releasing two films more than this period.
Net income for the quarter ending Sept. 30 came to $ 29,700,000, or 22 cents per share compared to net income of $ 31.7 million, or 26 cents per share a year earlier. Revenues rose 25 percent to $ 456.3 million to $ 366.1 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting a loss of 11 cents per share on $418.9 million in revenue.
Lions Gate, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, but run from Santa Monica, Calif., said its costs rose because its distribution and marketing costs rose with the release of four movies in the quarter, up from two a year earlier. The new movies included “The Expendables” and “The Last Exorcism.”
It also said it booked an equity interest loss of $20.7 million, a $14.5 million charge for extinguishing convertible debt in a legally contested transaction that diluted Icahn’s stake, and a $4 million charge for defending against “shareholder activist activities.”
Lions Gate shares rose 2 cents to $7.26 after hours after the results were released. They had closed down 6 cents at $7.23.
Carl Icahn, who owns about 66% of the company, has extended his offer to acquire shares that he doesn’t hold for $7.50 apiece through Nov. 12.
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