Nov 27

It’s Back! New Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Promo!

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.

 

Nov 27

Update: Twilight Dominates with $69.6 Million

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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Nov 26

Obama wants to hang on to his BlackBerry

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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Nov 26

Geek Actually Episode 16 – Cinematic Television

Geek ActuallyHosts: 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

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(This post edited 24th May, 2009)

Nov 26

Police hire private spies to snoop online

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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Nov 24

Will Smith Says Oldboy is an Adaptation of the Comic

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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