update on Gears of War film

from killer film:

Probably surpassing Halo in its popularity on the Xbox, Gears of war and its hugely successful sequel  are to put it lightly extremely popular with the gaming crowd, so when news came of a film adaptation in the works the news came with skepticism and overwhelming joy.   Chris Morgan who previously penned Wanted and the last two Fast and Furious films will be doing the screenplay for the Gears of War film which has the infamous delta squad battling the deadly alien race called the locust horde.  Morgan, just recently gave an update on the films status and states: “A draft went in and we’re talking about it now and we’re budgeting it out,”  “It’s looking incredibly good.”

“All the stuff you want to see, we put that in there and then we blow it out a little more, even. Now it’s just a matter of honing in on all of the character arcs and determining production types of things.”   Morgan also stated on the huge scope of the film stating:“It’s huge,”   “One of the things they’re really talking about now is the budget of the film and how big of a spectacle this is going to be. My argument is, look at the underlying material. Look at the game and the scenario — the fact that the world is being taken over by the Locust, it has to be huge.”

Here is the link to the MTV story

stiller tops box office memorial day weekend

Ben stiller’s night at the Museum 2 topped this weekend at  the box office.   with 53.5 million

Chart can be found here.

NFL Comcast Agree on deal, comcast adding espnu as well

from DCRTV.com-
The Wall Street Journal
reports that the NFL Network and area cable TV giant Comcast have
settled their long-running dispute over carriage of the NFL Network.
Comcast will pay a monthly fee of about 45-cents for each of the
roughly 10 million “Digital Classic” subscribers among Comcast’s
roughly 24 million customers. The NFL had accused Comcast of
discriminating against it while giving favorable treatment to
programming owned by the major cable companies, including Comcast’s own
sports networks. Comcast responded that the NFL Network didn’t appeal
to a broad enough segment of its subscribers to justify a high fee or
carriage on its widely-viewed expanded basic tier…..

In addition to today’s deal between Comcast and the NFL, Jim Williams in the Examiner
tells us that Comcast has reached agreement with ESPN to provide
digital cable sports tier access to ESPNU, a college sports channel,
and ESPN 360, a broadband sports service…..

My thoughts-well ITS ABOUT TIME, just sucks we have to wait till aug 1 for nfl.

2nd poll music store purchases

ilounge poll for music purchasing

i found this poll on ilounge regarding music purchases at the various digital music stores here

JJ Abrams Open to ‘Star Trek’ Sequel w/ Shatner or Khan

After last weekend’s $76.5 million opening, three phrases keep getting tossed in the direction of “Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams: sequel, Khan, and William Shatner. On Friday, as the filmmaker hoped to maintain momentum heading into his second weekend, Abrams told MTV News that he’s open to all three.

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How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to Galactica?

725.35 meters. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That’s how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Battlestar Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS.

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Fall tv cheat sheet

the following is from EW.com

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/04/fall-tv-cheat-s.html

The Music Store Apple Forgot About

Unfortunately, Apple hasn’t really done much with the Lesson Store since its debut in January. At launch, it featured 18 ‘basic lessons’ (nine each for guitar and piano), along with ten ‘artist lessons’ which feature accomplished musicians showing how to play their songs. It was a decent selection to begin with, but it was hardly comprehensive.

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NFL Network, Comcast, co-existing for now

taken from DCRTV.com

More: Comcast Continues Carrying NFL Net – 5/1 – In the Examiner, Jim Williams has the latest on the negotiations between Comcast and the NFL about continued carriage of the NFL Network on the local cable giant’s systems. And the latest news that Comcast will continue carrying the network past the 5/1 deadline, while talks continue…..

this way i think things are looking up

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