Entertainment

Apple Wants You To Stream Movies To Your iPad

Apple put its iTunes music in the cloud and soon it may be doing something similar with its movies. A rumour from the Wall Street Journal suggests the company is in talks with Hollywood about a movie streaming service.


October 13, 2011
Entertainment

Alan Turing’s Biopic Might Get Leonardo DiCaprio

Alan Turing, the venerable WWII-era nerd icon who helped crack the Nazi Enigma machines and came up with the robot sentience-checking Turing Test, is the subject of a new biopic, and apparently Leonardo DiCaprio “has the inside track” to play him.


September 18, 2011
Entertainment

Feature: The CIA Really Wants To Make Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster

Are you an aspiring filmmaker who wants to produce a spy thriller? Well, you’re in luck because the CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around.


August 23, 2011
Entertainment

WarGames Getting The Remake Treatment

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This smells like a bad idea. Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess… or would that now be Minecraft?


May 17, 2011
Computing

Not One, But Two Amazon Tablets Coming This Year?

Boy Genius Report has sources telling them that two Amazon tablets are on the way this year, in two different sizes and configurations.


May 14, 2011
Entertainment

Confessions Of A Hollywood Stuntman

Stuntman Vic Armstrong spent a career taking blows in some of Hollywood’s most iconic roles. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, he describes what it was like to actually, physically, be Indiana Jones.


April 10, 2011
Entertainment

Hollywood User Interface Fakery At Its Finest

Most of the time the computer interfaces we see in Hollywood flicks are all sorts of ridiculous. They mix glam with hints of what we might expect in the future. Sometimes that’s Minority Report (real, see MIT), sometimes it’s this:


April 7, 2011
Entertainment

How Tron 3 Is Like The Empire Strikes Back And The Dark Knight

Tron 3 isn’t going to be like Tron 1 or Tron 2. No, Tron 3 is going to be like… The Dark Knight. Or maybe The Empire Strikes Back. Well, sorta. Here’s why!


March 9, 2011
Entertainment

Hollywood Wants To Turn Netflix Into A Cesspool Of Shitty Movies

It’s been obvious for a long time that Hollywood is not exactly BFF with Netflix, most obviously manifested in the rental windows that make subscribers wait a month for new moviesif not longer – as Hollywood tries to milk as much DVD revenue as possible before it all dries up.


March 3, 2011
Entertainment

Spielberg Could Direct Wikileaks movie

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Given the subject material, Speilberg wouldn’t be the first name on my director’s list for a Wikileaks film, but according to several news reports – it’s a good chance of happening now that Dreamworks (co-owned by the beard) has purchased the rights to two competing Wikileaks books that tells the inside story of Aussie Julian Assange’s role at the head of the whistle-blowing organisation and how the Wikileaks material was released to news organisations and online.