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Geek Deal: Up To 60% Off Blu-Ray Movies
26 December 2009 10:53 PM, PST
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Amazon is having a sale on select Blu-Ray movies, offering over 100 titles for up to 60% off retail price. Here are a few of the titles on sale:
$59.99 Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (The Motion Picture / The Wrath of Khan / The Search for Spock / The Voyage Home / The Final Frontier / The Captains Summit Bonus Disc
$9.99: Terminator 3, Wedding Crashers, A Clockwork Orange, Constantine, American History X, The Perfect Storm, Wedding Singer, The Wild Bunch, Being There, Swordfish, A Time To Kill, The Pelican Brief, Under Siege 2, Risky Business, Freddy vs. Jason, In The Valley of Elah, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Final Destination
$8.00 - $9.49: Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Blazing Saddles, Bullitt, Under Siege, Beerfest, Omega Man,
And many others!
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- Peter Sciretta
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Focused Favorites: Films Based on Sci-Fi Shorts
6 December 2009 5:24 PM, PST
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Focused Favorites is an ongoing taste of my personal favorites, narrowed down with a fine-tooth comb, into very specific categories… just for fun. It’s a way I can share some of my personal choices in film and hopefully introduce others to films they may not have otherwise seen or even heard of. Enjoy!
I love short fiction! Nothing personal against the novel. I’ve read a few myself and have my favorites, but nothing appeals to my personal philosophy of “less is more” than a well-written and concise short story. For anyone who has worked on a production of a 30-second TV commercial, you know that shorter does not necessarily mean easier. 30 seconds may not be much time, but you’ve still got to tell a story and have it make sense. Here lies the challenge. It’s generally more difficult to tell a great story in a very
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Top Ten Tuesday: George Clooney
1 December 2009 3:52 PM, PST
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From humble beginnings in films like Return To Horror High and Return Of The Killer Tomatoes, a two-time “Sexiest Man Alive”, four-time Academy Award nominee (so far), and one-time winner of Best Supporting Actor (so far) was born. George Clooney’s career has been a long and winding road in both film and television. Today, he takes all roles from absolutely serious (Syriana) to comical (Leatherheads) to downright silly cameos (South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over). It is for this eclectic mix of performances and characters that we salute this week the top 10 of George Clooney. Whether it is his performance or the roles themselves he brings to life, each character listed below is memorable in their own right. And, with films like Up In The Air and The American forthcoming, we are sure to see even more memorable characters brought to life by Clooney.
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Upgrade Your Warner DVDs to Blu-ray for as Low as $7.95
17 November 2009 11:02 AM, PST
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Warner Home Video just announced a new program where you can upgrade several of your DVD titles to Blu-ray for as low as $7.95, and right now the price doesn't go any higher than $9.95. This is a similar program to the Red2Blu offer they made allowing customers to upgrade their HD DVD titles to Blu-ray, a program I actually took advantage of and loved it as a result.
The process to upgrade is simple. Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc. Consumers who place orders over $25 will receive free shipping. For a complete list of titles visit DVD2Blu.com, but I have included the most recent list of titles and prices directly below.
10,000 B.C. ($9.95)
Rush Hour 3 ($9.95)
Full Metal Jacket ($9.95)
Pan's
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- Brad Brevet
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Warner Bros. Launches DVD to Blu-ray Upgrade Program
17 November 2009 10:57 AM, PST
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Warner Bros. has announced a DVD to Blu-ray upgrade program. While the list doesn’t include all their titles, it’s at least a start. According to WB, the process to upgrade is simple. Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc. If you mail in one DVD, it’s $7.95 plus shipping. If you order more than $25, you’ll receive free shipping.
While some people haven’t been converted to Blu-ray, I’m all in. I think the picture quality is amazing on Blu-ray and I definitely see a difference between DVD and the HD format. All I can say is, if you have an 1080p TV, the format is absolutely worth the investment. For a complete list of what WB is willing to
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Production Designer of "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" shares his industry insight with MakingOf
13 November 2009 6:27 AM, PST
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William Sandell continues his discussion with MakingOf and in his latest segment opens up about the fragility of his position and advises aspiring production designers on how to cope with industry politics. Sandell notes that on-set his allegiance is always with the director and stresses the importance of being honest.
Click here to learn more from William Sandell, an industry veteran whose work can be seen in films that include “Robocop,” “Air Force One,” “The Perfect Storm,” and “Poseidon.”
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The Weather Channel Will Be Singing In The Rain
22 October 2009 4:08 PM, PDT
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Ordinarily people tune in to the Weather Channel merely to get an overall view of weather conditions in their area for the day, rarely sticking with it long enough to view ads. The exception is a major weather-related disaster. Now, the channel, which was acquired by NBC last year for $3.6 billion, has hit on a way to hold onto audiences longer -- by airing movies related to the weather. It announced Monday that the first such film, The Perfect Storm, starring George Clooney, will air as part of a Friday-night feature titled "The Weather Channel Presents" beginning October 30, the 18th anniversary of the actual "perfect storm" on which the movie was based. In a statement, TWC programming chief Geoffrey Darby said, "Adding films to our Friday night lineup is a great way for us to further demonstrate how weather is an all-encompassing part of our lives that entertains and inspires us.
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The Weather Channel To Show Movies
22 October 2009 10:52 AM, PDT
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Probably the number one point of conversation in our daily lives is the weather. What’s next on the most discussed list? I’d make a strong case for TV/movies: They’re something we’re all fans of, some to far more of an extent than others (can’t you tell we here at Screen Rant are an example of that? ). But did you ever think that movies and the weather would collide (outside of a Roland Emmerich movie)? Well today, in a rather odd piece of news, that’s exactly what’s happened.
The guys over at /Film are reporting that The Weather Channel (yes, The Weather Channel) will start showing movies starting the day before Halloween, October 30th, and every Friday thereafter. So what sort of movies will the channel be showing? Well, weather-related movies, of course! What else? Starting off the series - which runs from
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- Ross Miller
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What's next? Will movie channels start telling us weather news?
21 October 2009 7:45 AM, PDT
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Starting Friday, October 30, The Weather Channel begins airing movies as part of a new block of programming called The Weather Channel Presents. The first film is The Perfect Storm, Wolfgang Petersen's dramatization of the loss of the fishing vessel Andrea Gail during the infamous 1991 Atlantic storm season.
Network meteorologist Jen Carfagno will introduce each film and then add commentary about the factual elements of the storm or weather related event at the heart of each movie. "From the Nor’easter in The Perfect Storm to the tornado that takes Dorothy to Oz, weather has a long history as a film star," remarked Geoffrey Darby, the executive vice president of programming for The Weather Channel. "Adding films to our Friday night lineup is a great way for us to further demonstrate how weather is an all-encompassing part of our lives that entertains and inspires us."
The week after The Perfect Storm
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- Patrick Sauriol
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The Weather Channel is about to become The Weather Movie Channel
21 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT
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Looks like TV Land isn't the only cable channel going away from their original programming model and getting into movies.
The Weather Channel has announced that it is adding movies to its schedule. The movies would have a scroll at the bottom that would keep viewers informed of the weather and other weather-related news and information, and each movie will be hosted by a meteorologist. The movies they've chosen so far all have a weather or a nature theme to them, including The Perfect Storm, March of the Penguins, Deep Blue Sea, and Misery. I'm guessing they picked Misery not for the crazy-woman-holds-a-writer-hostage angle but for the fact that the story takes places during a snowstorm.
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- Bob Sassone
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The Weather Channel Decides to Show Movies Now That No One Watches The Weather Channel
20 October 2009 9:40 PM, PDT
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A channel entirely devoted to weather was a fantastic idea until we got phones that would tell us the weather and do so without waiting ten minutes to see what the weather was like in a major city in our area. So what’s a network entirely devoted to weather to do? What if they turned their efforts to covering hard news not just of natural disasters (as much fun as it is to toss a reporter into a hurricane) but of their aftermath? What if they did an investigative report on how Fema has attempted (if at all) to change in response to Hurricane Katrina? What about a special on how a disaster like a tsunami leaves damage beyond the loss of life and property but affects drinking water and dispersed children and other factors we don’t traditionally think of?
Or they could just show movies about weather.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Weather Channel Will Show Movies Which Have Nothing To Do With Weather
20 October 2009 6:03 PM, PDT
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Slashfilm reported something very interesting... they received a press release from the Weather Channel saying they'll be showing movies.
You must be thinking, hey that's pretty awesome! I forgot that channel existed.
But hold your excitement. The first movie they'll be showcasing is The Perfect Storm. Okay, it's a movie about a huge ass storm. That's highly relevant. There's even going to be weather type commentary from meteorologist Jen Carfagno.
But the next week, things get shaky... when they show March of the Penguins... but still, they could tie weather into that somehow right?
Then it just gets stupid when they show Misery. Yes, the one with Kathy Bates. On the weather channel. I'll just let that sink in.
The Next week, we basically hammer the nails in, with Deep Blue Sea.
Look weather channel, I know personally, I never tune in. But I don't think showing Katy Bates busting
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Weather Channel to Show Weather-Related Movies
20 October 2009 4:55 PM, PDT
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By Associated Press
The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history, starting with perhaps the obvious choice: "The Perfect Storm."
The 2000 George Clooney-Mark Wahlberg film, about a horrific storm off the New England coast, will air Oct. 30, the 18th anniversary of the actual storm.
"Perfect Storm" begins a four-week period in which The Weather Channel will try some Friday night movies.
Read more at the Associated Press.
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- Lisa Horowitz
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The Weather Channel to show movies? Hail no!
20 October 2009 4:12 PM, PDT
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Ok, that's it, I'm calling shenanigans. We've witnessed MTV stop really caring about music, VH1 abandon video hits, A&E decide to have nothing to do with Arts or (arguably) Entertainment, and Tlc race as far and as fast as it can from programming that could cause anyone to actually learn anything. But this was the final straw: The Weather Channel announced today that it will air feature-length movies on Friday nights starting Oct. 30.
Yes, that's right: The. Weather. Channel. Granted, the first movie on the docket, The Perfect Storm, is relatively appropriate, but then we're gonna get March of the Penguins,
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- Adam B. Vary
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Weather Channel Faces 100% Chance of Selling Out
20 October 2009 4:00 PM, PDT
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It always starts this way: A specialized network builds a constituency with influential programming, then gradually alters its format to accommodate a wider audience. But I don't know if anyone saw that coming with The Weather Channel, which announced today it will augment some of the cable's most influential programming on cable with weekly, weather-themed Hollywood movies. First up on Oct. 30: The Perfect Storm, followed by March of the Penguins, Deep Blue Sea, and Misery -- yes, that Misery, which begins in a blizzard. Great. Surely Menage a Tornado, Born in a Tsunami and other stimulating Weather Channel original programming isn't be far behind. [AP]
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The Weather Channel Will Begin Broadcasting Feature Films
20 October 2009 2:54 PM, PDT
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I opened up my inbox and saw and saw an e-mail subject line that read "Weather Channel Adds Feature Films to Network Schedule". I immediately clicked on the headline thinking iI would find a link to another brilliant parody from The Onion, or maybe a video from FunnyOrDie or College Humor. I was surprised to discover that the e-mail was not a joke, but an actual press release.
That's right, The Weather Channel is going to start airing feature films, movies which are in some way weather themed, beginning with The Perfect Storm. Remember the days when you could turn on MTV and see music videos? Well it appears the days where you could tune into the Weather Channel for weather forcasts might be soon behind us as well. Not that I care that much. If I need a weather forcast, I'll go online, or turn on my iPhone and
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- Peter Sciretta
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What are Your Guilty Pleasure Movies, but Don't Like to Admit It?
14 October 2009 12:38 PM, PDT
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I thought the response to my "Do You Ever Lie about the Movies You've Seen? " post was excellent, and on top of everything so many of you said, several new questions came as a result. One of them, offered by 'Steve Mott', asks the question in the headline: Do you have guilty pleasures you don't like to admit to?
Steve lists his guilty pleasure as 10 Things I Hate About You, a film I personally love and was just discussing recently with a friend when the topic of "Where the hell did Julia Stiles go?" came up. To that effect I also love Save the Last Dance and to answer the Stiles question before someone gets smart in the comments, yes, she has the Bourne films and wrote and directed a film starring Zooey Deschanel and has also been doing plenty of work on stage. Moving along...
Other personal
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- Brad Brevet
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Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life
29 September 2009 5:07 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Actress Karen Allen, who made a debut smash in the 1978 film ‘Animal House,’ is most likely to be remembered as Marion in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and 2008’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.’
But the versatile performer is more than just a companion for Indiana Jones, having a long career in movies and on stage, including the films ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ ‘Challenger’ (playing astronaut Christa McAuliffe) and ‘The Perfect Storm.’
HollywoodChicago.com caught up with Ms. Allen during her appearance at the new Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Illinois, as she signed autographs and introduced a special showing of Raiders. She talked about the two Indiana Jones movies, her connection to Paul Newman and how she barely kept her head above water while making ‘The Perfect Storm.’
Karen Allen at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Il, September 25th, 2009
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
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Story Behind 'Whiteout' More Interesting Than 'Whiteout'
13 September 2009 9:02 AM, PDT
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The Antarctic murder mystery Whiteout was a wipe-out this weekend, with almost universally negative reviews and a sixth-place debut at the box office. The movie's lousy -- here's Cinematical's scathing report, courtesy of Peter Hall -- but by most accounts the graphic novel it's based on, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Steve Lieber, is pretty good. In conjunction with that, Portland film critic and cartoonist Mike Russell interviewed Lieber (who's also a Portlander -- lots of comic book people here) about the process of drawing the book and seeing it turned into a movie. Russell adapted this conversation into an edition of his "Culture Pulp" comic, which appears occasionally in the Oregonian newspaper and online at Russell's website.
As is often the case with bad movies, the behind-the-scenes stories for Whiteout are fascinating. Wolfgang Petersen (Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) expressed interest in making a film version
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- Eric D. Snider
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Wolfgang Peterson adding ‘Paprika’ to his movie menu?
12 August 2009 9:16 PM, PDT
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Wolfgang Peterson (The Perfect Storm, Troy) is a filmmaker known for three things… epically entertaining adventure flicks, long intervals between films and a frequent inability to keep his films under two hours. Out of his last nine films, six of them surpassed the two hour mark, including Das Boot (1981) which holds the crown with a 149 minutes theatrical cut, a 209 minute director’s cut and a mind-boggling 293 minute uncut version.
Peterson has had a few goes at projects that never panned out, the most recent of which was a long roller coaster of a ride attempting to get Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi epic Ender’S Game on the big screen. This ultimately ended with the project being scrapped, making many skeptical sci-fi buffs very happy, as the story is considered by some as being “unfilmable”.
So, with Ender’S Game off Peterson’s schedule, what is a man to do?
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