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Aug

2012

Planning to see ‘The Hobbit’ in 48 FPS 3D? Not so fast. . .

Posted By on August 8, 2012 at 2:00 pm
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While Peter Jackson has made a big deal out of filming his new trilogy of Hobbit movies at 48 frames per second, twice the standard speed in use for over 100 years, Warner Brothers has stated that it plans a slow rollout of the film at 48 FPS. In fact, it will only be available in full 48 FPS in a “handful of theaters”, and “perhaps not even all major cities”, according to Variety.

Good news everyone! On yesterdays earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that they had locked up a exclusive agreement with Joss Whedon through 2015, which includes both writing and directing the sequel to the $1.5 billion worldwide grossing (yes, that’s billion, with a ‘B’, and that doesn’t include any merch, just ticket sales) Avengers, and that along with that, he’ll also be developing a Marvel based TV show for ABC.

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Aug

2012

McDonald’s Testing Offering Breakfast Starting at Midnight

Posted By on August 7, 2012 at 11:07 am
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A long time ago, I used to work as a overnight delivery driver. (OK, I was a paperboy.) That meant I was up and out from about 1am to 6am. One thing that always bugged me when I worked third shift was the availability of a decent meal, particularly breakfast, at that time of night. If I wanted a real breakfast sandwich to go when I woke up at midnight, I didn’t really have a choice except for a frozen Jimmy Dean’s biscuit since, being a east coaster, we don’t have any 24 hour Jack in the Boxs, Sonics, or Waffle Houses. Otherwise I would have to wait until 6:30 AM and have breakfast for lunch. Well, finally someone is paying attention to third shifters (and drunk people) who want a drive thru breakfast at 3 AM (well, if they are drunk hopefully a sober friend takes them there, as they won’t serve your drunk ass if you just walk up to the window), because McDonald’s is testing out offering breakfast at its 24 hour McDonald’s in Ohio starting as early as midnight.

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Aug

2012

Friday Five – Favorite Movies From the ’90s

Posted By on August 3, 2012 at 2:52 pm
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Ughhh, this week’s topic is particularly hard. The breadth of awesome ’90s movies is very wide indeed. Narrowing this down to just five is extremely difficult. I tried to pick a bunch of movies that typified the ’90s, and that I’ll watch over and over and over again.

Today producer Bryan Singer told IGN that work is under way on the sequel to X-Men: First Class, and the plan is to adapt the classic Chris Claremont/John Byrne story Days of Future Past from Uncanny X-Men 141-142.

Sounds totally sweet to me. So long as it’s at least as good the X-Men animated series take on the same story, it should be good. Earth-811 is a very busy place, so there should be plenty of story to tell. It even opens up the possibility of a bridge between the characters and actors from the first trilogy interacting with their counterparts in First Class. Wonder if this means they would have to bring back Ellen Page to be Kitty Pryde?

Stay turned for more details as they become available.

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Aug

2012

Review – Avengers Vs. X-Men Act 2

Posted By on August 2, 2012 at 2:57 pm
To Comic Books

I’ve read every AvX branded title all crossover long, so I think I come from a good position to review all the action so far.