Monthly Archives: June 2015
Halt and Catch Fire: See the Creation of Chat Rooms
IGN has a new exclusive clip from Sunday's new episode of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, as Lev (August Emerson) and Donna (Kerry Bishé) serendipitously invent the chat room in the 1980s-set series about the rise of the computer industry.
On the new episode, titled "Infiltrator," Cameron and Joe cross paths again, putting Cameron in a tailspin. Meanwhile, Gordon searches for connection as he processes difficult news.
Check out the clip below!
Halt and Catch Fire: Season 2 continues on Sunday, June 28 at 10pm ET/PT.
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Destiny: Bungie’s PR Nightmare Week – IGN’s Fireteam Chat
Destin Legarie, Jose Otero and Fran Mirabella are back discussing the apology from Bungie, The Red Bull Fiasco and what they want to see in The Taken King.
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Vin Diesel Talks Fast & Furious: Supercharged
The Fast & Furious ride opened this week at Universal Studios Hollywood with a big event befitting a franchise that's become this huge.
On the Universal Studios backlot, in the same famous area used as Hill Valley for Back to the Future, several filmmakers and cast members from the film series gathered, along with Universal executives and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, to commemorate the new ride, which is functions as the concluding portion of the Universal Studio Tour. Alongside the speeches given was a big stunt moment, as a car sped up a ramp and actually busted through the huge sign for the ride, marking the opening of Fast & Furious: Supercharged.
Asked about being a part of a theme park ride, Vin Diesel remarked, with a laugh, “It's pretty surreal!”
Get Your Own Working Jet Pack Starting Next Year
Customers will be able to purchase their own commercially available jetpacks as soon as the second half of 2016.
According to a report by The Guardian, the jetpack will allow pilots to fly up to 30 minutes at speeds of 74 kph, or roughly 46 mph, at altitudes as high as 1 kilometer. There's even a built-in parachute for unplanned accelerations toward the ground.
All this airborne adventuring opportunity doesn't come cheap, however. The list price for the New Zealand-built Martin Jetpack is expected to be $150,000 USD. But manufacturer Martin Aircraft Company sees the machine as worth the price, especially for first-responders and other emergency personnel.
Tarantino and Hateful 8 Riding Into Comic-Con
Quentin Tarantino and his latest western, The Hateful Eight, are coming to this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
Tarantino and a handful of unspecified actors will take part in a panel on July 11 at 1:30pm located in Hall H. Hosted by Chris Hardwick (Talking Dead), the director and actors will discuss production of the film, its upcoming roadshow release, and the 70mm format it'll be released in. Exclusive footage of the film will also be shown during the panel.
The Hateful Eight follows the adventures of eight gunslingers trapped in a frontier way station during a snowstorm. The cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum, and Demian Bichir.
Jurassic Team Bringing Crichton’s Micro to the Screen
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to Micro, a novel by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, DreamWorks Studios CEO Michael Wright announced today.
Here's a quick outline of Micro, courtesy of today's press release:
"The high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them."
Frank Marshall (Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark) will produce the film adaptation, with Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau from ChrichtonSun LLC on as executive producers.
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The 21-Year Rise, Fall, and Rise of XCOM
Over the 21 years since its inception, the X-COM series – now called XCOM – has had a dramatic run. It’s the story of an original game that was regarded as not only one of the best of its time, but among the best of all time, yet the next nearly two decades’ worth of games that followed were a long string of disappointments, failures, and disasters that couldn’t recapture what made it special. But it’s also a story of redemption, when after a long period of darkness a new developer picked up the torch and returned the series to greatness.
1994's Sectoid vs the 2015 Sectoid-human hybrid of XCOM 2.
Marvel Movies’ New Spider-Man
Download Keepin' it Reel, Episode 292!
Welcome back to Keepin' It Reel! In this week's podcast, Jim Vejvoda and Roth Cornet bring you the latest in genre movie news.
This week's topics include the casting of Spider-Man, Captain America: Civil War,, The Batman, Avengers: Infinity War, Wolverine, X-Men: Apocalypse, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man, Green Lantern, Uncharted, Rampage, Independence Day Resurgence, Paranormal Activity's end, Jurassic World, Inside Out and more.
2015 Box Office Hits Record High
This year's domestic box office revenue has hit a new record high, with a whopping $5.303 billion in year-to-date sales.
According to Rentrak (via THR), this figure eclipses 2012's previous record, which raked in $5.153 billion over the same period. "We have been breaking records in almost every single month, and that's how you build a record year," Rentrak box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.
Thanks to a solid start at the beginning of the year with hits like American Sniper and Furious 7, 2015 has been a great year for the film industry, with the former earning $350.1 million and the later amassing $351 million in North American ticket sales.