Movie Cowboy
Check out Digital Cowboy of Japan’s latest release - the Movie Cowboy HDD-based media streamer which is iPod friendly that decided to enlist the help of star power from DC Comics. Unfortunately, the external DC logo is as far as it goes with this piece of technology concerning the comic company’s involvement in the partnership, so you can forget about seeing a pre-loaded version of the Watchmen on the DC-MC35ULI.
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Robin Hood
Initially the screenplay for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood called for Russell Crowe to play a dual role as both the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood, but that idea was dropped early on. Scott decided to go a different direction. He has said in interviews that the Sheriff character is “less important”, and that the main villain of the story is actually the country of France. After countless casting announcements, not one mention of the actor who would play the Sheriff, even though there was mention of the character in the official plot synopsis. I wasn’t really interested in many of the news stories tonight so I decided to do some digging, and have found the answer.
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Roger Friedman, a well-known entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by “zero tolerance” when it comes to movie piracy.
On Friday, 20th Century Fox – owned by News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled over by Mr. Murdoch – went berserk after reading Mr. Friedman’s latest column. (Movie bloggers actually started opining about it late Thursday, alerting the studio.) The subject: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week.
Mr. Friedman posted a mini review, adding, “It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.”
The film studio, which brought in the FBI last week to help hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Mr. Friedman’s column “reprehensible,” among other things. Then News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it asked Fox News to remove the column. (It did.)
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Viewers tuning in for the 100th episode of “Lost” next week will be served an extra dose of mystery.
Sources said ABC will be launching a stealth promo campaign for new series “Flash Forward” during the episode, in which Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) will come clean about what he knows about the island.
While questions from the dense mythology of “Lost” probably will be answered in the episode, the commercial breaks are sure to raise a host of new ones with perplexing snippets that might direct viewers to a Web site.
The mystery spots will in fact be for “Flash Forward.” They are said to be part of an elaborate marketing campaign for the drama, which has not officially been picked up but is quietly being positioned on ABC’s schedule for next season.
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