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Twilight New Moon Tramples Weekend Box Office with $140.7 Million

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November 22, 2009

The Twilight Saga: New Moon came up short of toppling The Dark Knight’s weekend box office opening record but still managed to double that of the original Twilight. Per early studio estimates, New Moon racked up an incredible $140.7… Read More

New Avatar Footage in Colonel Quaritch Featurette

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November 22, 2009

Fox has released a new promotional featurette for James Cameron’s Avatar that shines a spotlight on the man emerging as the film’s perceived main antagonist, Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang). The cool thing about “Through… Read More

Amazon Launches Big Under $20 Blu-ray Sale

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November 22, 2009

Online retailer Amazon.com is getting a head start on Black Friday with a new Blu-ray Disc sale featuring new and catalog releases alike which reflects a holiday pricing trend we wrote about not too long ago. The sale features 203 titles that… Read More

Twilight New Moon Nabs Box Office Opening Day Record

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November 21, 2009

Summit Entertainment has reported that The Twilight Saga: New Moon has exploded to a $72.4 million opening on Friday, easily besting the $67.2 million take by Warner’s The Dark Knight and beating Twilight’s entire opening weekend… Read More

Cool Stuff: The “Smart Strip” Surge Protector

November 20, 2009

I have often wondered why my rack of home theater electronics has to look like a string of Christmas lights when everything is supposedly turned “off.” The standby effect helps a little in finding a switch in near dark conditions,… Read More

Updated: Twilight New Moon Claims Midnight Opening Box Office Record

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November 20, 2009

UpdateThe revised numbers for New Moon have it making a whopping $26.3 million off midnight showings. The first midnight showing estimates are in for The Twilight Saga: New Moon and predictions of the record falling were dead on. According… Read More

Second Trailer for HBO’s The Pacific Miniseries

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November 20, 2009

HBO has released a second trailer for The Pacific, a new World War II based miniseries following in the footsteps of Band of Brothers. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are presenting The Pacific as 10 episodes in the exact manner as they did Band… Read More

The Running Man, The Phantom, Drop Zone and Hard Rain Blu-ray Bound

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November 20, 2009

Lionsgate Home Entertainment will add to its Blu-ray catalog on February 9 when they debut The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Phantom with Billy Zane, Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes and Hard Rain with Morgan Freeman in high definition.… Read More

First Look: The Godfather and Part II Get Blu-ray Sapphire Series Treatment

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November 20, 2009

Paramount Home Entertainment has released the final box art for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II on Blu-ray, the fourth and fifth titles selected for inclusion in the Sapphire Series Blu-ray collection. Both films were included in… Read More

Plan B to Develop Dark Void Film as Possible Brad Pitt Vehicle

November 19, 2009

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment has snatched up the feature film rights to Dark Void, the upcoming science fiction adventure video game for Xbox 360, PS3 and the PC currently in the final stages of completion at Capcom. The official… Read More