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Warners Unveil DC Movie Strategy... Maybe [Dc Comics]

Graeme McMillan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:00:38 PDT

How to replace a multi-million dollar movie franchise with Harry Potter? Well, if you're Warner Bros., the answer seems to be "Suddenly realize you own a company that's specialized in creating movie franchise IP for years." Enter the DC years...

Speaking at ShoWest this week, Warners movie head Alan Horn told theater owners that they shouldn't worry about the fact that there are only two Harry Potter movies left:

As we ease out of Harry Potter, we hope to bring you the excitement of the DC [Comics] Library!

Collider's Steven Weintraub unpacks that announcement:

The thing you need to realize is under Alan Horn, Warner Bros. instituted a tent pole release strategy which calls for a few event films to be made every year. For the last decade, Harry Potter has been used to fill the release calendar and now that the franchise is ending after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the studio needs [new] blood to take its place and a new way of earning the huge money that only tent pole releases can generate... While nothing is officially on the calendar yet, I've heard in 2012 we're getting not only a new Batman movie… but The Flash! I've heard the studio is currently talking to directors and they'll announce who it is when they've found the right choice.

Rumors of a Flash movie have been around for years, but newly-installed DC Entertainment CCO Geoff Johns (and current Flash comic writer) has recently confirmed that he has worked on the script, suggesting that an announcement is imminent. With Batman, next year's Green Lantern and The Flash as a backbone - along with the in-progress-but-we'll-wait-and-see-what-happens-with-that-court-case Superman reboot from Christopher Nolan - Warners will have created a strong backbone for an ongoing DC Comics franchise, even if we're wondering where Wonder Woman is in the middle of all of this. But that's not all Warners have to compete with Marvel/Disney; also at ShoWest, Horn made an announcement many had been expecting, in light of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland's successes:

After the presentation Alan Horn talked about how much 3D is a game changer and how they'll be releasing a ton of movies in 2011 in 3D. He also told us that all future Warner Bros. tent pole releases will be released in 3D.

Firstly, does anyone really want the Dark Knight follow-up in 3D? And secondly, with Warners now apparently promising annual DC superhero movies in 3D, how soon before Disney/Marvel announces the leap to 3D for Thor, Captain America and Avengers?

Scarier Monsters And Super-Creepy Doctor/Companion Relationships In New Who? [Doctor Who]

Graeme McMillan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:00:15 PDT

The new Doctor Who will see familiar monsters be scarier than even before, according to new showrunner Steven Moffat, and that's not even describing the new Doctor/companion relationship... Mild spoilers ahead.

With the press push for the new Doctor Who season well underway in the UK, Moffat has been teasing what fans should expect from the new season. As seen in the trailer, "Blink"'s Weeping Angels are back and, apparently, more scary than their first appearance:

Those scary statues, I should warn you - and your children - are on their way back and they're way way worse this time.

That might be the new benchmark for Who scares that Moffat is referring to here:

There is an episode in this series that I showed to my 10-year-old son and he said there is one scene that is the scariest thing that has ever happened in Doctor Who. There is another episode that will make you gasp, then want to press rewind so you can see it all again.

That said, we're more curious about what Moffat's talking about in terms of the Doctor/Amy relationship:

You take two attractive people and they will probably be a bit romantic about each other... It is a complex story between Amy and the Doctor - it is not simple. It is not a story you have ever seen between the companion and the Doctor before.

We're calling it: the Doctor will fall in unrequited love for Amy. Surely that's the only Doctor/companion relationship we've not seen by now...?

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RandomFrequentFlierDent — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:33:00 PDT

Who are your top 5 favourite Terry Prachett characters and why?

(If you can't keep it down to five that's fine, I'll probably end up going over too when I do it).

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RandomFrequentFlierDent

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Roklimber — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:33:57 PDT

Equinox + 1
[antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Happy spring, northern-hemisphere citizens !

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Roklimber

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DominicConstable1 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:32:59 PDT

Chapter 4 has been published on thefalling.co.uk.
Vinnie Leach has made it to safety but looks out on a world torn apart. He can't rest though as he has to save a man from the terror in the skies only to find that this stranger brought into his home isn't alone.

[www.thefalling.co.uk]

Here's an exert....

""She followed him, there was no thought for anyone else in the house as they lived alone. Vinnie's father had left five years ago, nobody knew where he was. They would have considered going through to the sitting room but its large bay windows were blown out. Vinnie closed this door and turned back down the corridor, up the stairs and into the large main bedroom, which over looked the normally quiet street. His mum was quickly beside him, whipping back the floral net curtain. The taught wire holding the broad white sheet pinged and it flexed outwards to fall and gather like an avalanche of snow before the long ribbed radiator. A scene of terror was presented.
They were stunned into silence as they stared out on complete mayhem. The miniature parachutes were still landing, hovering patches of swarming unknowns, blurred rocking clouds infesting the sky and in between these bullets of brown smashed through unguided to hammer blow anything in their way. The sound of car alarms had become a horrific soundtrack, sharp peaks of noise tearing at the sky and on the road cars were slowing up or speeding to avoid the air bombs. An old SEAT mounted the curb, ripping a high pitch screech from the undercarriage, to navigate around a stationary white van but it too came to a full stop as its window screen imploded, one of the aliens striking it with the force of a plummeting brick. There was a scream, as the car door flung open and Samantha Doggett tumbled out of the driver's side.
Mary from her vantage gasped, "Samantha!" taking a step closer to the window.
Outside the stumbling woman was heavy, thickset with short mousy hair that revelled the rolls of fat ribbing the back of her neck. Vinnie could see them quite clearly from his bedroom vantage . Samantha Doggett glanced around and appeared dazed, side stepped a slow descending alien, flinched, the pressure on her ankle too great and fell, out of view and into the gutter behind a soft top Saab.""

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DominicConstable1

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Lemcott87 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:23:17 PDT

So I posted a thing in the Which tv/movie/ etc post, but it seems to be dying out... hopefully someone in here can help me and the others having problems with this novel.

it's a book, I read it in 2003/04, but it was obviously from the late 80's/early 90's (leaning more on 90's. Anyway, this book starts off with a kid who comes out of suspended animation, to this dystopian world where the people Live forever due to some new drug that the kid's dad invented. but the kid's dad's ACTUAL drug kept people alive, and healthy, the drugs people use now kept them alive, but were pale and malnourished. This company lures this kid in and eventually befriend him, and find out that "the dad told the kid the formula of the perfect drug without side effects, but the kid forgot what they were" (remembered that plot in great detail). to get out the information, they cut open his head while he's awake, and use (another point of detail) a "hairdryer-shaped device) to scan through his memories. Long story short the kid finds out the company is evil somehow, and tries to make sure they dont have the formula or something.

other then that I cant remember much beyond I KNOW there is a love story between this kid and some girl he meets. there is also a seen where, the kid's dad was heralded, and his house was preserved as a museum (in the story they liken this preservation to how elvis' house is today) and he gets to spend a couple of days in his old room on his actual bed from hundreds/decades(?) ago.

This was in 6th (?) grade for me, so it would probably be lumped into some young adult sci-fi genre.

I WANT to say there is some sort of crazy building that's transparent with some sort of AI they have to get past. It's segmented into large different rooms, i want to say it had checkered floors in one of them. and something about either the AI was actually a human or visa versa. also I want to say this glass-based building is either underwater or in space. When ever I try to think of the AI in this building I want to say a big glowing red eye (Which i was quick as a kid to point out the HAL reference). Anyway I'm fairly certain this was another book, which sadly is the only part I remember if it is a separate book.

Another person reminded me that the protaganist has "black, glittery" eyes. they had to replace his real ones with synthetics, because the cryogenic freezing produced ice crystals in his eyes that damaged them.

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Lemcott87

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ceti — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:31:09 PDT

Just finished reading His Dark Materials. Pretty good although the plot frays into loose end territory by the Amber Spyglass. Was struck as well by the third appearance in recent memory of a plucky and brilliant girl heroine as the central character, and a slightly older male hero as a protector-action dude (Aenea and Raul in Endymion, and Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow in City of Ember).

In Endymion and His Dark Materials, Aenea and Lyra are also messianic characters fighting totalitarian religious authorities.

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ceti

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Ruthless if you let me — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:36:09 PDT

I'm playing Aliens vs Predator as a marine, on "nightmare" difficulty. The pings on the motion tracker are freaking me the fuck out.

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Ruthless if you let me

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ExtensionOfBob — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:02:24 PDT

Watching Alone in the Dark for the first time. Best.opening.scroll.ever. I wish I was absurdly wealthy just so I could write Uwe Boll a blank check to continue making movies.

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ExtensionOfBob

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Darklighter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:23:19 PDT

How do I follow up last night's choice of Hot Fuzz? Netflix has Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill on Watch Instantly.

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Darklighter

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ObservantUnderachiever — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:13:28 PDT

I just saw a commercial on Syfy advertising Merlin as a Syfy original series. Did I miss something?

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ObservantUnderachiever

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mamadragon49 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:05:15 PDT

Well, I've always heard that if you don't know, ask. So I'm asking:

Can someone tell me what "posts," "messages," and "favorites" on my profile page are and how to use them? I would really truly appreciate the information. Thanks

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mamadragon49

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Groucho Marxism — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:50:39 PDT

Bryan Singer might not be directing X-Men: First Class, after all:
[www.hitfix.com]

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Groucho Marxism

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BullfightsOnAcid — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:45:13 PDT

Real Housewives of Witch Mountain

Gawker just posted biographies of the cast of the new 'Housewives of Beverly Hills' TV show and one of them is Kim Richards who starred in the Witch Mountain movies of the 70's as a child.

[gawker.com]

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Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:08:49 PDT

Pixar's The Terminator.

Oddly more creepy than the original:

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Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.

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Spaceknight — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:46:00 PDT

You know that Fringe musical you wrote about?

[scifiwire.com] offers a bit more info about it, including a very distressing dose of reality...
"set to air during a Glee-themed week of musical programming in May"

It's no longer a cool idea, it's now a contrived piece of network product placement.

I guess the TV Guide article you originally referenced didn't think that part of the story was important. There's no mention of it there. *shrug*

Fox sucks.

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Spaceknight

Steampunk Dinosaur Madness in Luc Besson's "Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec" [This Is Awesome]

Annalee Newitz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:46:30 PDT

You don't need to speak French to appreciate how awesome this trailer is for Luc Besson's latest SF flick. A brilliant, sexy adventurer named Adèle Blanc-Sec has discovered a dinosaur egg - and now a pterodactyl threatens steampunk Paris!

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec hits theaters in late April, and as far as I can tell it combines everything that is best in life: Dinosaurs, lusty adventuresome ladies, mummies, and French people dressed in period costumes worthy of Dr. Grordbort. Luc Besson is the director of scifi classics Subway and 5th Element, and recently penned the kickass near-future Paris flick District 13.

Adèle Blanc-Sec - Le film-annonce. sur Yahoo! Vidéo

[spotted on /Film]

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Roklimber — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:39:13 PDT

Not a demand, only suggestions...

mamadragon49
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CuriousYellow
[io9.com]

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Roklimber

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AlexKap — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:35:01 PDT

one step closer to growing organs for transplant:

[www.telegraph.co.uk]

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AlexKap

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gods-n-clods — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:33:09 PDT

Caprica:
I was researching some graphics, and came across an article on Tauron tattoos.
And all you Sasha Roiz fans can thank me later:
[www.chicagonow.com]

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gods-n-clods

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Scotland — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:12:44 PDT

#starthisperson: for petition-style demands that someone receive a star.

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Scotland