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Stanley Tucci Cast As Dr. Erskine in ‘Captain America’

Posted on June 8, 2010

Coming on the heels of Jeremy Renner’s casting as Hawkeye in The Avengers comes some more great Marvel movie news: Stanley Tucci has recently been cast as Dr. Abraham Erskine, the creator of the Super-Soldier serum that turns Chris Evans into the titular character in Captain America: The First Avenger.

From a Marvel Studios press release:

In the early comics, Dr. Erskine was a German scientist behind Project Rebirth, the secret experiment that created the Super Soldier known as Captain America. Joe Johnston will direct the film penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.

“Captain America: The First Avenger” will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

Not only does this confirm the role for Tucci, but also proves that Marvel is planning on making this film mostly about Steve Rogers’ time before and after taking the Super Soldier serum, rather than his costumed days as Captain America, either during WWII or today.

Tucci joins a heavily growing cast of Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, and Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull. Expect more casting news to release soon, as the film is starting shooting in London. Be sure to catch Captain America: The First Avenger in theaters on July 22, 2011.

‘Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’ Announcement Trailer

Posted on June 8, 2010

On Friday, Activision brought news of the latest installment to their smash music genre series Guitar Hero with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Instead of just being the traditional formula of playing through various setlists with no context or story behind it, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock looks to redefine the style of the genre using Quest mode. In addition, the game will feature an all knew “rock inspired” guitar controller, the largest on disc collection of any Guitar Hero game to date and an all new Quickplay+ mode as well.

David Haddad, Chief Operating Officer, Guitar Hero said, “Guitar Hero has set the standard for music based gaming and with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s all-new Quest Mode, robust and authentic set list, over-the-top challenges and rock-inspired new hardware, we are once again bringing the soul and energy of rock n’ roll to fans around the world.”

In Quest Mode, players will use eight Guitar Hero characters in any combination of instruments to help the Demi-God of Rock take down “The Beast” and save rock n’ roll. With “venues” ranging from the punk rock palace of CBGB’s in New York City to mythical lava fields, the game looks to have a fantasy motif under it somewhat similar to that of Brutal Legend. As seen in the trailer below, the game will put lots of focus on these eight characters and the respective beasts they become.

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TV RECAP: ‘Breaking Bad: Half Measures’

Posted on June 7, 2010

Now, that’s how it is done. The best show on television gave us one of the best hours of television I can remember. It took me a full ten minutes after the conclusion to pick my jaw up off the floor and compose myself. It was that good. I LOVE THIS SHOW!

I also cannot really talk about this episode without revealing huge spoilers, so please don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode. This is one you don’t want spoiled.

This week’s trademark opening sequence shows the day in the life of a prostitute, Wendy, who is working out of the Crossroad Hotel. She looks rode hard and put away wet, and wears white go-go boots while she orally services dozens of men who pick her up in the parking lot. Her tawdry acts are juxtaposed against the jaunty song “Windy” by The Association. Perfect.

She takes a bag of fast food burgers to the street corner (where Combo died) and gives them to the two drug dealers we saw in the last episode. She hands over some money, and at first I thought they were her pimps, but she was actually buying product, and Jesse is watching the whole transaction camped out in his car.

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War Movie Mondays: ‘The Longest Day’

Posted on June 7, 2010

In celebration of the Normandy D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, this week’s review is the 1962 “Grandaddy of all war movies” The Longest Day. Legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck and directors Ken Annakin (British scenes), Andrew Marton (American scenes), Bernhard Wicki (German scenes) and an uncredited John Wayne bring Cornelius Ryan’s 1959 best selling novel to the big screen.

The Longest Day stars over forty two (at that time) of the most acclaimed international actors including Eddie Albert (Colonel Thompson, 29th U.S. Infantry Div.), Paul Anka (U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion), Richard Beymer (Pvt Arthur “Dutch” Schultz, 82nd Airborne Div.), Red Buttons, (Pvt. John Steele, 82nd Airborne Div.), Mel Ferrer (Major General Robert Haines) and Henry Fonda (Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Deputy Commander 4th U.S. Infantry Div.).

It also featured Jeffery Hunter (Sgt. (later Lt.) John Fuller), Roddy McDowall (Pvt. Morris, 4th U.S. Div.), Robert Mitchum (Brig. General Norman Cota, Asst. Commander 29th U.S. Infantry Div.), Robert Ryan (Brig. General James M. Gavin, Asst. Commander 82nd Airborne Div.), and the Duke himself, John Wayne as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort, Commander 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Reg.

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Brand New Season of ‘Torchwood’ Coming, Will Air on Starz in U.S.

Posted on June 7, 2010

We’ve been hearing about this possibility for quite some time but now it looks like we’ll finally be getting a fourth season of the awesome Doctor Who spinoff series Torchwood. And as if that’s not good enough, we have even more awesome news to share with you.

Not only will the show be back with Captain Jack (John Barrowman), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and show runner Russell T. Davies onboard, it will feature a new “International” flavor and will not air on BBC America in the States. Instead, the show will run on Starz, home to one of our favorite shows of all time: Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Awesome news.

“’Torchwood’ has to date been located primarily in Cardiff, Wales,” Starz’s press release said. “The new series will allow Davies and his writing team to tell a more explosive and global story, one that takes advantage of the unlimited narrative opportunities of a premium television service like Starz.”

Does this mean we’ll be seeing more now that the show will be airing on Starz? More action, more violence, more blood and more of Captain jack and Gwen Cooper? Only time will tell. Still, with Torchwood already being a rather adult show anyway, now with it airing on Starz, where judging by Spartacus pretty much anything goes, the “unlimited narrative possibilities” are pretty great indeed. Who knows, maybe we’ll even see a Spartacus / Torchwood crossover episode? That could be cool.

Check out the full Starz press release after the jump. Look for the fourth season of Torchwood to hit Summer of 2011.

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‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ Trailer Now Online

Posted on June 7, 2010

If you watched the MTV Movie Awards last night and were paying attention you got to see a lot of trailers for movies that didn’t involve vampires versus werewolves or star Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner or Kristen Stewart. In fact, another tween-friendly franchise you might have hear of dubted a trailer during the show last night. That franchise? Harry Potter of course.

In this new teaser we get a good look at some of the events that will make up the next Potter film. All of your favorites are back, of course, and they all look a bit older, a bit wiser (maybe) and it looks as if they will be engaging in all sorts of new adventures. Well, new to anyone who hasn’t read the books that is (like me). Why do Harry and Ron have to fight? So sad.

It’s sometimes hard to tell from trailers just what a movie will really be about. But if previous Potter trailers have taught us anything, we know that these images are just the tip of the iceberg. We can look forward to a whole lot more when the film eventually comes out.

Check out the trailer after the jump just in case you missed it or want to relive the magic again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part the first hits theaters on November 19.

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Apple Announcement Round-Up From WWDC 2010

Posted on June 7, 2010

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference today from the Moscone Center in San Francisco and we’re bringing you all of the big announcements.

While Job’s typically uses his keynote speeches to announce new products, much of the wind has been spilled from his sails, as details of the next iPhone were leaked months ago by gadget reporting site Gizmodo. Still, given Apple’s well-known secrecy, there are bound to be some surprises in store. Jobs himself even commented on the pre-conference speculation and rumors by saying, “You won’t be disappointed.”

With that said, we’re anticipating that Jobs will most definitely unveil the next iPhone, details and a launch date for the iPhone OS 4, and rumors are suggesting a possible cloud-based version of iTunes that allows wireless syncing. So let’s separate fact from fiction; read on for all of the big announcements from Apple this morning.

Jobs did not, as I anticipated, begin with a joke. “So an iPhone developer walks into a bar . . .” Instead he launches into some amazing stats on Apple’s most recent product launch: the iPad. 8,500 native apps for iPad, downloaded 35 million times, 17 per iPad. Some impressive numbers for a product barely into its 3rd month.

The iPad’s iBook app gets an update. With 22% market share some new features are coming online for this popular book-reading app. The ability to make notes, added control to bookmark page to make it more like Amazon’s Kindle, the ability to view and read PDFs, added a selector on top, a new bookshelf just for PDFs.

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World Shocked as ‘Twilight: New Moon’ Dominates MTV Movie Awards

Posted on June 7, 2010

While it may not seem like it, MTV still appeals to kids. Though they aren’t the same cut of “kid” that was watching Twisted Sister music videos (or music videos in general), they’re still the #1 demographic for the network.

With that in mind, it was no surprise that Twilight: New Moon took home nearly half of the awards from last night’s MTV Movie Awards. A few other upsets included Ken Jeong winning for Best WTF Moment, and international superstar Rain being crowned Best Badass.

Aziz Ansari managed to hold together the night, bringing the same amount of energy and seniority that Andy Samburg brought to the awards show last year. A few fun surprises like Sandra Bullock and a drunk Peter Facinelli were entertaining. The newest go-to gag of Betty White and yesterday’s go-to gag Will Ferrell delivered, as usual.

Biggest surprise of the night has to go to Tom Cruise reprising his Les Grossman role from 2008’s Tropic Thunder. 2008! That would be two years ago. Long enough for it not to be relevant, but not far away enough for it to be retro. That would be like Owen Wilson doing a bit as Marmaduke 3 years from now. Not entirely necessary.

Check out the full list of broadcast winners from last night’s show, and be sure to catch the worthwhile clips of last night’s ceremony all over the web.

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