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Marvel Studios Set New Release Dates

Paving the way for the production and release of its multi-character superhero film, The Avengers, Marvel Entertainment, announced today an adjusted release pipeline for its self-produced feature film properties that reflects the first time individual Super Hero characters and story arcs will be inter-woven and culminate in a multi-character motion picture. Separately, Marvel Studios confirmed today that Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Spider-Man 4 on May 6, 2011. Additionally, Marvel Studios has revised the release dates for Thor and The First Avenger: Captain America as part of its release strategy for an uninterrupted road to The Avengers, now debuting May 4, 2012.

 

A Marvel character-based film will now launch the summer box office season for three years in a row, from 2010 through 2012.

 

Sony Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man 4 is slated for May 6, 2011. To date, all three motion pictures in the phenomenally successful “Spider-Man” franchise have generated nearly $2.5 billion worldwide theatrically.

 

Below is Marvel Studios’ 2010-2012 updated release schedule for its slate of self-produced and financed feature films:

 

Iron Man 2 – May 7, 2010

 

Thor – June 17, 2011

 

The First Avenger: Captain America – July 22, 2011

 

The Avengers- May 4, 2012

 

The release date for Iron Man 2 remains unchanged on May 7, 2010.

 

Stephen King’s “It” Rises Again As A Feature Film

Warner Bros. is bringing Stephen King’s landmark horror novel “It” to the big screen. Screenwriter Dave Kajganich will adapt the story, which follows a group of kids called the Losers Club. They encounter a creature called It, which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown called Pennywise. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle. The novel is set in 1958 and 1985, but the feature version will be set in the present day. “It” was the best-selling book of 1986 and in 1990 was turned into an ABC miniseries that starred John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole and Richard Thomas. Tim Curry played Pennywise. The screen rights have bounced around since then. Kajganich has made a name for himself with his dark materials, writing “The Invasion” for Warners and snagging gigs such as the “Pet Semetary” remake. He recently was hired to write New Line’s “Escape From New York” remake.

The Cardboard Office

Nothing is a new commercial creative agency in Amsterdam. While the city houses the agency in a fairly unconventional building – a nineteenth-century church – the Nothing office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard.

The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.

Apparently, the walls will double as a blank canvas with visitors encouraged to leave their mark on the surfaces.

Bolt DVD To Be Released On March 22nd & 24th

On Sunday, March 22nd, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases BOLT early in high definition as an exciting Blu-ray + DVD + Digital File combo! The standard DVD versions will be available on Tuesday, March 24th.

When BOLT, the super dog (voiced by John Travolta), is accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny (voiced by Miley Cyrus), his “person,” he springs into action to find his way home. With hilarious new sidekicks  Rhino (voiced by Mark Walton) – Bolt’s #1 Fan – and a street-smart cat named Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman), Bolt sets off on an amazing journey where he discovers he doesn’t need super powers to be a hero. BOLT was produced by Pixar co-founder and CGI pioneer John Lasseter.

1-DISC DVD BONUS FEATURES

Exclusive Bonus Short

Super Rhino – BOLT breakout star Rhino, the hyperactive hamster, gets a chance to headline his very own adventure!

2-DISC DVD BONUS FEATURES

The 2-Disc DVD includes the 1-Disc DVD Bonus Feature plus:

Music & More

“I Thought I Lost You” Music Video featuring the movie’s stars, Miley Cyrus and John Travolta.  

In Session with John Travolta and Miley Cyrus - A behind-the-scenes look at recording Bolt’s signature song “I Thought I Lost You.”

Backstage Disney

A New Breed of Directors: A Filmmakers’ Journey – First-time directors Chris Williams and Byron Howard take fans along as they traverse the road from concept to completion.

Act, Speak! The Voices of Bolt - Join the voice cast in session: John Travolta (Bolt), Miley Cyrus (Penny), Susie Essman (Mittens), James Lipton (Director) and Mark Walton (Rhino).

Creating The World of Bolt – Bolt’s painterly backgrounds have wowed audiences across the globe. The filmmakers explain how they fashioned the unique look of this CG movie.

Deleted Scenes - With optional introductions by directors Chris Williams and Byron Howard.

DisneyFile Digital Copy-Watch your DisneyFile Digital Copy on the go!

Bolt features top notch animation, great sound, exciting characters and a fast paced plot.  If you loved The Incredibles, then Bolt is right up your alley. 

 

 

Apple To Unveil iPhone 3.0 Software At March 17th Event

Apple announced today plans to hold a special media event for journalists on its Cupertino-based campus that will offer a sneak preview of the next-generation iPhone operating system dubbed iPhone 3.0.

The event will take place at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday March 17th in the intimate setting of the Apple Town Hall — the same venue used to introduce the company’s new unibody MacBooks last fall and the original iPhone Software Developers Kit (SDK) last March. (Read More HERE and thanks for the tip Don)

 

LOST: A Major Character Will Die This Season

E! Online is reporting that a major character death is coming this season. This is in addition to earlier internet rumors that a less major character would be leaving the show.

Collect yourselves, then read on if you want to know more….

Here’s what E! Online can tell you about this death:

• A current series regular is getting killed before the end of Season 5.

• The character who will die is someone who is much-loved by many fans.

• This is a real leaving-the-show death, à la Shannon or Charlie, not a quick-fix time-travel death like Jeremy Bentham/John Locke.

• The character getting killed off is NOT the Evangeline Lilly character Kate Austen.

After taking a week off, LOST returns with a new episode next Wednesday, March 18th, at 9 pm/ET on ABC.

Jim Gaffigan King Baby DVD

On March 31st Paramount Home Entertainment and Comedy Central will release Jim Gaffigan: King Baby on DVD ($16.99)! The very funny Jim Gaffigan shares his opinion on bacon to bowling.  This DVD includes some hilarious special features such as interviews and episodes of his Emmy nominated Pale Force.

 

In this Austin performance that capped off the 2008 sold-out stand up tour; Gaffigan does not let the audience catch their breath.   This all-new show proves no other comedian working today can romanticize laziness and over-indulgence like Jim Gaffigan.

The bonus features include:

-Pale Force: Sidekicks, Land of the Robots, Pale Christmas

-Our Massive Planet: Credentials, Primates 2, Zebras, Dogs

-X/M Sirius Interview

-Never Aired British Interview: Atlanta: Meet and Greet on Demand

-Sexy Tour – Friday Night Stand Up: Execs, Wardrobe, Omelet, Make Up, Models, PA, About Sexy, Call Director’s Chair, Sex Version 1

-The Beyond the Pale Tour – Friday Night Stand Up: Moby Dick, Bed, Neighbors #2, Phone (Free Tickets), Inner Monologue, Plant, Popefully Yours, Neighbor #1, Globe, TSA Cavity Search, TSA Cake

 

Google Voice

If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing’s for sure: Google Voice, unveiled today, will revolutionize telephones. It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens. And that’s just the warm-up. Google Voice starts with a clean, redesigned Web site that looks like an in-box similar to Gmail. It also introduces many game changing features. (Read more HERE)

 

DC Launches ‘What’s Next?’ Website

After reading The Watchmen, what comic should you read next? That’s the question DC Comics is trying to answer with a new website and multimedia advertising campaign aiming to route moviegoers and readers to the publisher’s broader line of contemporary titles.

 

The Jenga Pistol

Peanuts And Plungers

Ever wonder what instrument was used to make that funny sound of the adults talking on the Peanuts cartoons? It’s a trombone with the rubber end of a toilet plunger over the instrument’s bell. By opening and closing the plunger with the hand, thereby allowing more or less air out of the trombone’s bell, the trombonist is able to get a wah-wah effect, which the directors were able to use to mimic the rise and fall of our voice patterns, exaggerated, of course.

 

iTunes 8.1 Released Today

On the heels of its announcement of the third-generation iPod shuffle, Apple this evening released iTunes 8.1, a 65.4MB download for Mac users, and a 69.9MB download for Windows PC users. Unusually, a list of the many changes to this new version has been included in the Software Update feature of Mac OS X, noting the following:

“Faster and more responsive, with noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.
Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation)
Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ
Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV Shows
Improves performance when downloading iTunes Plus songs
Provides AutoFill for manually managed iPods
Allows CDs to be imported at the same sound quality as iTunes Plus
Includes many accessibility improvements
Allows iTunes U and the iTunes Store to be disabled separately using Parental Controls.”

Additional improvements and bug fixes are also included in the release.

Lex Luthor Bailout With Jon Hamm

Andy Richter’s Nissan Commercial

Awesome Food Art

Check out this amazing food art created by food art master Edith Zimmerman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-Year-Old Special Effects Genius

12 year old Kevin Lin filmed, acted in and edited this video with Adobe After Effects.

 

My Morning Jacket Announce Live EP

The EP entitled ‘Celebración De La Ciudad Natal’ will be released on April 18 and will be available exclusively in independent retail stores.

It features seven tracks which were recorded at two Louisville shows the band played last year: an in-store performance at local record shop Ear-X-Tacy, and a performance at local landmark Waterfront Park.

The band say they are “excited to make this a special release that you can only get at your favorite local independent record store, as now more than ever we all need to take the time to celebrate what our favorite local record stores and businesses mean to us – the value of community/human-to-human, non-internet related physical and spiritual contact, and supporting the hardworking people in your community who strive everyday to keep it unique and keep it local.”

The tracklisting is:

‘Evil Urges’
‘Highly Suspicious’
‘Gideon’
‘Where To Begin’
‘Librarian’
‘Phone Went West’
‘Dondante’

24 Ridiculously Expensive Everyday Items

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to win the lottery you probably only thought about which exotic car you would buy or imagined the location of your next gated home.  However, you probably overlooked the details of what type of custom toilet seat would best fit your needs or how many fancy tennis ball cans you’d purchase. HERE are 24 of the most ridiculously expensive everyday items that you could blow cash on.

 

The Periodic Table of Typefaces

The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world.  This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.

As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically.  The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces:  san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed. 

Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character “symbol” (made up by me simply based on logic), the designer, year designed and a ranking of 1 through 100.

 

Jimmy Fallon On The Palm Pre

Listable

Andre Torrez recently launched Listable, a web service where you can make lists for whatever you want.

Kitchen & Living Room Orientation of TV Sitcom Houses

Dan Meth created a chart breaking down the orientation of Kitchens and Living Rooms in houses on popular TV sitcoms. It’s the second in his series of Pop-Cultural Charts.

 

32 Songs In 8 Minutes

Song list and chord links found HERE.