James Wortman Star Tours Gets 3D Facelift in 2011
If you’re any kind of Star Wars fan, no trip to Disneyland or Walt Disney World is complete without at least one visit to Star Tours, a flight simulator that…
Bruce Campbell Gets Expanded Role in Spidey 4
Since you apparently can’t have a Sam Raimi Spider-Man film without Bruce Campbell (and what self-respecting geek would want one?), the cult icon and star of Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy…
Sgt. West’s Giant Douche Club Band
Last night at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West pretty much brought to the surface everything that’s wrong with popular music—and pop culture, some would argue—by exhibiting a complete…
By the Numbers
A post-apocalyptic computer-animated action film pitting cute, ragdoll-like robots against evil, monstrous ones, Shane Acker’s 9 is all about spectacle. Produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov and based on…
DC Just Got More Entertaining
Not to be outdone by last week’s news that Disney is acquiring Marvel Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. announced on September 9 the creation of DC Entertainment, which will improve…
You Didn’t Think We’d Really Seen the Last of Rambo, Did You?
Harry Knowles over at Ain’t It Cool News reports that Sylvester Stallone is readying yet another Rambo movie called Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. Is this a good thing? Well,…
The Dark Knight Triumphant
Despite multiple successes in comic books, television and film, Batman has just never really been able to make that pivotal leap to video games. However, developer Rocksteady Studios clearly set…
The House of Mouse Acquires the House of Ideas: But What Does It Mean?
Geeks across the globe collectively gasped on the morning of August 31 when it was announced that Disney would be acquiring Marvel Entertainment—and its 5,000 characters—for approximately $4 billion. The…
Batman: Arkham Asylum Wins Guinness World Record
Okay, so Batman: Arkham Asylum is good. Really good. It’s so good, Guinness has proclaimed it the “Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever,” Kotaku reports. As of this writing, the…
The BioShock Movie May Have a Director
While I think a movie based on Take-Two Interactive’s BioShock is a terrible idea, at least Universal Pictures hasn’t tapped Uwe Boll to direct it. Variety reports that Juan Carlos…