With our recent HD Swap , I thought I would dig deeper to see what the new receiver has to offer. I saw the “demand” option and it said that it needed a broadband connection. (no problem)
Once I got it configured and working, I started surfing through what was available. There is a lot of stuff out there, but my first stop was The Cartoon Network and I just big what was on the top of the list and pressed record.
When I got up this morning, I took the time to see how the VOD did. What I got was a slight shocker, if you know me at all.
The demand recorded a episode of Ben 10 Alien Force: All that Glitters. The episode opens up with a girl knocking at the door to this creepy house and later it shows her walking the streets looking like a Zombie! Alright!
In addition to the above cartoon, I also dialed in some Discovery Channel, History Channel and some Clone Wars cartoons.
This time in the maddening, media-enabled relationship between the Star Trek reinventor and the Star Trek icon, it’s Abrams talking to Entertainment Weekly about Shatner talking to him, Abrams, via the William Shatner channel.
“I don’t know how my life has become a thing where William Shatner talks to me through YouTube,” Abrams tells the magazine, which scored a cover photo of the filmmaker’s new Trek stars, Zachary Quinto as the young Mr. Spock and Chris Pine as the young James T. Kirk.
Abrams was responding to a Shatner video posted last month in which Shatner said he was not in Abrams’ upcoming franchise reboot because “nobody asked me.”
Shatner himself was responding to an Abrams quote on AMCtv.com in which Abrams said he’d written a scene for Shatner, but that it didn’t work.
The two men have been addressing old classic Captain Kirk’s absence in the new Trek for much of the latest Stardate calendar. The problem is, for them, they’ve been doing it through media go-betweens, and not with each other.
Back in January, Shatner and Abrams traded quotes in USA Today: Shatner said he didn’t know why he wasn’t in the movie; Abrams said he wasn’t in the movie because Shatner’s Kirk died in Star Trek: Generations; Shatner said Abrams could think of something; Abrams said he couldn’t think of something that wouldn’t seem lame.
And on and on the dysfunctional dance goes: In the YouTube clip, Shatner said he wouldn’t have done a cameo anyway, a sentiment which Abrams, in EW, said he “totally appreciate[d],” even as the director added that “we did try” to land Shatner, an overture which Shatner, in his video, said didn’t happen.
“Maybe you wrote it, but it never presented itself to me,” Shatner said.
At least Abrams and Shatner, in the true spirit of Trek, have been civil. In EW, Abrams said he’s a “huge fan” of the 77-year-old actor; on YouTube, Shatner said the impresario behind Lost is a “wonderful guy,” and “the smartest writer-director.”
Abrams’ Shatner-less Star Trek is due out next summer. In EW, Leonard Nimoy, Shatner’s longtime bridgemate who does put in an appearance for Abrams as the elder Spock, said he regrets the unity-promoting movie won’t be out sooner.
For all the talk of a de facto strike — a shutdown caused by studio reluctance to schedule production beyond the expiration at midnight on Monday of a contract with the Screen Actors Guild — a number of high-profile projects are simply pushing ahead.
None have done so more boldly than “Terminator Salvation.” This huge production has tantalized Albuquerque with glimpses of weird military hardware, a blast site marked by the shards of a 7-Eleven sign, and a lot full of battered helicopters, even while establishing this desert city as a manufacturing center for big-budget films.
The guild has taken no strike vote. It was widely expected to delay that step until it learned the outcome of a vote by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, another actors’ union with overlapping membership, on a tentative agreement with terms that guild leaders have called inadequate. The vote results are expected to be released next week.
Set for release by Warner Brothers next Memorial Day weekend, the fourth installment in the “Terminator” series, this one directed by McG, began shooting in May. Principal photography is not set to wrap until well into August.
Solid acting and a pretty darn good story is all that was needed to wash away what you thought you witnesses from the Ang Lee’s version of this flick. I think that the screenwriters along with the director established a firm foothold for the Jade Giant in Marvel Studio’s new big screen universe. If the studio wishes to again bring the Hulk back to the box office, I am sure that they will be plenty of options to choose from.
I am sure that with the success of Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, most will be looking forward to Marvel Studio films hitting theaters in the coming years — the current list includes:
Iron Man 2 and Thor in 2010 Captain America and The Avengers in 2011
Marvel Studios is well on the path in creating what all comic book and film fans have wanted for years: Superhero movies that make sense, keep true to the story lines of the from "the day".
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–7-Eleven, Inc. has hulked up its stores – from green-colored Slurpee® drinks and Super Hero sandwiches to a renamed Incredible Gulp fountain drink and a new edition of THE INCREDIBLE HULK comic book, created by Marvel Comics and available exclusively at 7-Eleven® stores.
Not only is an incredible amount of Hulk merchandise appearing in participating stores across the country, but observant movie-goers just might catch a glimpse of a 7-Eleven storefront in the film.
J.J. Abrams
