Australia tanks at the US Box Office
November 29, 2008
Baz Luhrmann’s wannabe epic Australia has tanked on its first day at the US Box Office. According to news.com.au, Variety and the Herald Sun, the film made $3.4 million on its first day (Thanksgiving). This works out to an average of $1318 per screen. Compare this to Twilight’s takings of an average $35.055 per screen and we start to realise that it really didn’t open.
Even Oprah’s endorsement couldn’t get bums on seats it would seem.
Thanksgiving is a tough weekend at the US box office and Australia was competing with Twilight, Four Christmases (Reese Witherspoon’s new film that has been renamed Four Holidays in Australia), Transporter 3 and Quantum of Solace.
I am going to see Australia tonight, I’ll review it on the next podcast (episode 17) in detail.
Read the whole articles by clicking the links above.
Vodafone offers $0 laptop plans
November 28, 2008
This was a pretty neat little article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Also, if you go to the Dell site you could win a computer.
Dell and Vodafone take a leaf out of the mobile phone handbook and offer $0 netbook computers on a 5GB wireless broadband plan.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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New Geek Actually Poll
November 27, 2008
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Forget Australia – Wolverine’s Back!
November 27, 2008
Empire magazine has revealed some new shots (including the cover) from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”.
Forget the movie “Australia,” Hugh Jackman was born to play Wolverine! He had this to say about the new film, ”There’s a scene in the first X-Men movie, where Wolverine’s introduced in a bar, fighting in a cage, and you felt that he did this every night of his life. If this movie is successful, you should feel that this guy can walk straight off the end of this film and into that bar.”
I don’t know about you, but as a comic geek (and a huge Marvel fan and a even bigger X-Men fan) I am suddenly excited about this. Please don’t mess this up!
Click the Empire link at the top to see the cover.
It’s Back! New Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Promo!
November 27, 2008
Geeks of the world unite! Battlestar Galactica is almost back. As we discussed on this weeks podcast (episode 16), SCI FI Channel has revealed a new promo for the second (and final) part of the fourth season for “Battlestar Galactica.”
The season continues January 16, 2009. As everyone knows, the series is going to go where the original wasn’t allowed to … Earth! While the series is very popular and successful, the producers have decided to finish it. I don’t know, but I can’t wait to see how this all wraps up. Here is the trailer.
Update: Twilight Dominates with $69.6 Million
November 27, 2008
Summit Entertainment’s Twilight , an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel, dominated the box office earning $69.6 million from 3,419 theaters. The opening marks the fifth-biggest ever for the month of November, surpassing this month’s earlier releases Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ($63.1 million) and Quantum of Solace ($67.5 million), and trailing only 2004’s The Incredibles ($70.5 million) and the three “Harry Potter” movies that opened this month – “Chamber of Secrets” ($88.4 million), “Sorcerer’s Stone” ($90.3 million) and “Goblet of Fire” ($102.7 million). Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Melissa Rosenberg, the love story between a teenage girl and a vampire averaged an impressive $20,368 per location. The film, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Cam Cigandet, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone and Ashley Greene, was made for just $37 million.
Source: comingsoon.net
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Obama wants to hang on to his BlackBerry
November 26, 2008
Adding on to a previous conversation on the podcast, I found this article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Click the link at the bottom to read the full article.
US president-elect Barack Obama is trying to work out how he can hang on to his beloved BlackBerry once he moved into to the Oval Office next year.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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Geek Actually Episode 16 – Cinematic Television
November 26, 2008
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Hosts: David McVay, Mirren Lee, Jacob Oberman and Nicholas McVay
This week we are flooded by tech and movie news. We discuss internet censorship, Nicole Kidman’s baby, Stephen Colbert’s comic book appearance, Google’s new search tools, Princess Leia’s new book, Russell Brand’s a pirate, Obama adds to his geek credentials and much, much more. We review the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
We also discuss how television is kicking cinema’s ass!
The episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent bad language.
Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes
(This post edited 24th May, 2009)
Police hire private spies to snoop online
November 26, 2008
Makes me wonder if they are watching my site because of the anti-internet censorship campaign I am trying to start 
The internet communications and websites of anti-war campaigners, environmentalists, animal rights activists and other protest groups are being secretly monitored by state and federal agencies.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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Will Smith Says Oldboy is an Adaptation of the Comic
November 24, 2008
An yet, I still don’t understand. Was the original film by Chan Wook-Park an adaptation of the comic too? Anyone know the answer to this?
Earlier this month, it was announced that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were in discussions to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-park’s Oldboy . Not so, says Will Smith in an interview with Film School Rejects . Instead, their new DreamWorks Pictures project will be an adaptation of the comics by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi.
Source: comingsoon.net
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