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Yeah, I understand the limitation of being two hours. I would love to see Apollo 13 movie expanded as a miniseries like From the Earth to the Moon (great one!).

This isn't just a proof-of-concept, it was successfully beta-tested a few years ago - they even made a movie about it!

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"It could easily double the surviving body of lesser work - the pulp fiction and sitcoms of the day."

Worry that the TV networks will get their hands on this.

I hope the "pulp fiction" you speak of has nothing to do with Disney's Pulp Fiction (1994).

Frankly, I appreciate having more dramatic works enter the public domain ready for translation into 200 tongues.

It's a 1994 game.

Though the date you provided is eerily close to Everquest's release date -- Which should have been your first indication that maybe they had made a mistake.

Or, you could be using your computer to download the movie version of Rabbit-Proof Fence; then checking the online study guides for any important parts of the books that the movie skims over. And still have time to waste on Slashdot.

David Tennant already had part on the Dr. Who mini series "Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka" as the Caretaker.

Hasn't anyone noticed that he's played the Time Lord before in a 2003 BBC web-only Dr. Who special, The Scream of the Shalka? IMDB calls him the ninth doctor! He'd be returning to the role, if that video is canonical.

Some must have this file. Please seed that torrent up!

I am now older than the guy playing Dr Who :-

Agreed. He should have regenerated into Angelina Jolie and then I would not be so depressed about it by myself.

It's a strange little film about a Scottish undertaker/wannabe screenwriter (Tennant) who falls in love with an American tourist and travels to L.A. to find her.

Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo are all excellent, and there are a few very funny cameos by Johhny Depp. He appears in most of the film as his own poster for Dead Man, who Tennant talks to for inspiration (difficult to explain, something like this:- http://www.posterplanet.net/images/deadmangun.jpg)

Tennant is, in my opinion a good actor and while I'm not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I'm glad for his success. Maybe it will make this film easier to find?

Bacula and Blalok are great.

Blacula rules!

Oh, BACULA. Not so cool.

Now we can get the production quality of The StarLost. (For those that haven't seen the show, don't bother. For other starlost fans, I'm afraid it'll never fly again, even from the backup bridge.) (more)

Anyway ... I'd love to see this happen, particularly if T'Pol were in town during shooting. Would there be any way for 7 of 9 to make a Borg cross-over episode? (Seeing that the show has already jumped the shark, it could happen. Imagine them allowing the engineer to have sex, and in the first season, even.)

Come on up, Enterprise. Live long and prosper in the great white north.

Pinky and the Brain: 1995 to 1998

I think the game is going to fail, simply because it's not going to have an audience. My guess is that the target audience is going to be children; the game is probably going to be too easy for anyone who grew up with the show to enjoy it.

And barring the "third-person" line (which implies that the game will be 3D), it sounds a lot like the old Genesis/SNES title. I don't think I can think of any other franchises that made the jump from 16-bit to next-gen, and this doesn't seem like it's going to bode well for the game's fate.

In any case, though, I'm hoping that it's going to be a good game. The franchise deserves it, especially since this could very well be the last we ever see of either Animaniacs or Pinky and the Brain.

Pinky and the Brain: 1995 to 1998

I think the game is going to fail, simply because it's not going to have an audience. My guess is that the target audience is going to be children; the game is probably going to be too easy for anyone who grew up with the show to enjoy it.

And barring the "third-person" line (which implies that the game will be 3D), it sounds a lot like the old Genesis/SNES title. I don't think I can think of any other franchises that made the jump from 16-bit to next-gen, and this doesn't seem like it's going to bode well for the game's fate.

In any case, though, I'm hoping that it's going to be a good game. The franchise deserves it, especially since this could very well be the last we ever see of either Animaniacs or Pinky and the Brain.

Like a vernam cypher? That won't work, someone will just build a hydra, store it in an old mainframe, and retrieve it after Halle Berry shows her boobs to him.

A lot of "big name" actors consider voice work to be a nice cushy job, which is probably why they do it! No spending hours in makeup, no having their hair done, no messing about in silly costumes. Just sit down, do their lines and collect a big cheque. Half the time they don't even need to be there at the same time as the other actors so they can do it when they want in between other projects.

Its probably a good thing, people like Tom Baker seem to spend much of their lives doing voice overs for games, documentaries, adverts plus the odd animated film ( Magic Roundabout) and even a comedy series ( Little Britain).

To be honest, I don't see any reason why actors shouldn't go fot this easy money, everyone likes a bit of easy money!

"The thing is, if any movie producers/directors decided to distribute their works over the internet, they might not be able(allowed) to go on big screen anymore."

On the contrary; many directors have gotten their start by creating films which they've distributed online. My grandmother was in one such film that was an online sensation for a time (if you never caught it... trust me, you probably wouldn't want to see your own grandmother in it) and which opened a few (small) doors for the director. And, a few years back, BMW recruited Joe Carnahan, Tony Scott, and John Woo to direct some short films that were distributed on BMW's web site. This didn't hurt their careers. Online film distribution is a huge industry, and has been for quite a while. Just spend a few minutes browsing ifilm and you'll see what I mean.

Hollywood does get it right on occasion, see Tora! Tora! Tora! vs. Pearl Harbor.

Hollywood does get it right on occasion, see Tora! Tora! Tora! vs. Pearl Harbor.

Why the decision to go with an almost totally American leading cast)? Other big book to movie adaptations (Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings) did outstanding with a fully british, and very mixed (respectively) cast. Was this by design to win over American audiences, or studio pressure, or just because they were the best auditioned actors these right roles? and also, were they the 1st choice for the roles.

In an interview on The Connection on WBUR radio this week, Danny Boyle -- indie director of "Trainspotting" and other movies -- commented on this very point.

Basically, according to Boyle, there's a checklist of British-isms that are believed to cut into the marketability of a film when it is screened in the USA. The bigger the movie, &/or the more likely the producers intend to bring the movie to the American market, the more closely they need to adhere to this checklist. Every checked-box on the list is a compromise for the director -- a little movie like Boyle's Millions can get away with mostly ignoring it, but a high profile movie like Hitchhiker "has to" pay more attention to the list.

For better or worse, this checklist comes up all the time. Jokes based on references to "zebra crossings" and "Ford Prefect" will be lost on the vast majority of Americans, for example. (And it's not just the Hitchhikers movie: the green smiling mascot familiar to American readers of the books never showed up in the British editions [at least at first, not sure about later ones]; with the Harry Potter books and movies, some of the names & dialog were changed so that they'd be less alien to American kids.)

If the director has a lot of clout, or doesn't care about the American mass market, then they can get away with this, but with something as prominent as Hitchhiker, they'll feel like they "had" to Americanize it, whether or not fans of the original versions of the story agree with sanding down all the quirky bits that made the stories so fun to them in the past.

"Burn Hollywood, burn."

Meanwhile, Michael Crichton exec- or co- produces nearly all the movies based on his books, and still manages to "fuck them up"... at least completely retool them for visual effect and speed rather than suspense, intrigue, or intellectual merit. Sometimes he even changes the name. Heaven forbid the movie version of H2G2 be called "Running Around Space With A Book".

What you are suggesting reminds me of Freeze Frame, a somewhat interesting look at justified paranoia. The problem with going to all the trouble of recording your own data (biometrics, actions...etc) is that you are held responsible if someone ever sabotages it. So unless you have enough money for fort-knox security... forget about it.

The fact people have to spend all this money to protect their own credability in court is a clear sign of the times we live in and the lack of true democracy anywhere in the world. Maybe a hive society model would be better than all this pretend democracy?

Good Stingray.

Bad Stingray.

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Good Stingray.

Bad Stingray.

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Bad Stingray.

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I would gladly carry an Audrey Hepburn lookalike around with me. Especially This one

• You can't shoot just any location on the Earth with the big frickin "laser".
• There's already a base there, and there's a casino nearby operated by a crime syndicate.
• Everyone knows the north pole is the coldest, not the warmest. This part was just penguin FUD.
• There's no pr0n shop there, so good luck getting anyone to go there.

• You can't shoot just any location on the Earth with the big frickin "laser".
• There's already a base there, and there's a casino nearby operated by a crime syndicate.
• Everyone knows the north pole is the coldest, not the warmest. This part was just penguin FUD.
• There's no pr0n shop there, so good luck getting anyone to go there.

However, the space.com site has some unusual phrasing that makes me wonder whether this is a real site or a prank ... "Where the Sun shines and where it doesn't" ... "the sun's belly" ...

Of course on the Moon, the lunar overlords welcome you.

hot english chicks( saying "Ego one, Ego one, come in!" (Hey, I'm an American so "Eagle" spoken by really hot english chicks sounds like "ego")

No no, it's called a lightcycle you idiot!

Little girl: Are you a CEO of Streamcast Networks?

Michael Weiss: I am today.

Oh, wait. That's Michael T. Weiss

Dang. Ms. Parker

I mean, imagine if the time travel was the core of the show, and not just a Deus Ex Machina gimmick to pull a retcon out of a hat?

I think Scott Bakula has had enough of that already.

What's really bad is she gave her cherry to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005493/ :(

Watch 28 Days Later sometimes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259705/

Well, this movie has had a TLD for years

The .XXX TLD is probably the most useful one out of those listed.

Sheesh. Hollywood puts out a crappy action flick and now people are clamouring to give it its own domain.

The screenplay credit goes to both Puzo and Coppola: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/fullcredits#wr iters.

"You forget, these are government contracts. $14,000 hammers, and the whole mess." Back when I was a kid, I remember seeing a piece on "60 Minutes" about financial irregularities with the lead contractor that built the Shuttle, Rockwell International. Again, it was a long time ago but I remember that Rockwell was building F-16s for the Air Force on a fixed price per plane contract. Whenever there was an overrun, they would bill it to the Shuttle contract. The other one was that various people at the contractor were "consultants" for the James Bond movie "Moonraker". This involved various trips--on the Concorde--to London. All billed to the Shuttle contract.

I'm hoping they'll wheel out Freedom and Independence, the X-71s. :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Haven't you seen Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure?

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/

It's been done. Watch out for Walter Matthau and Jerry Stiller.

Next year, they should build a larger version for the outside of their dorm and act as a light&sound organ, like the control building at the top of Devil's Tower in Close Encounters.

Then they can use it to tell mom & dad they're homesick, and will they come pick them up for a short visit?

Next year, they should build a larger version for the outside of their dorm and act as a light&sound organ, like the control building at the top of Devil's Tower in Close Encounters.

Then they can use it to tell mom & dad they're homesick, and will they come pick them up for a short visit?

1) Send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to break the gamma ray in half...wait...

2) Make a gigantic lead planetary Dyson sphere

3) In the immortal words of David Levinson, "Uh, hide."

4) PANIC!!!

5) Seven words: Journey to the Center of the Earth.

6) Profit!!!

7) Seriously, did you just ask what we could do? Of course there's nothing we can do, you rhetorical-question-asking moron. We hope to Darwin that we can evolve.

8) Natalie Portman naked in hot grits. (If the world was about to end in a giant gamma ray bath, that is.)

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1) Send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to break the gamma ray in half...wait...

2) Make a gigantic lead planetary Dyson sphere

3) In the immortal words of David Levinson, "Uh, hide."

4) PANIC!!!

5) Seven words: Journey to the Center of the Earth.

6) Profit!!!

7) Seriously, did you just ask what we could do? Of course there's nothing we can do, you rhetorical-question-asking moron. We hope to Darwin that we can evolve.

8) Natalie Portman naked in hot grits. (If the world was about to end in a giant gamma ray bath, that is.)

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All I know about the Budapest subway I learned last week watching Kontroll at the Angelika. With the usual trains rumbling beneath my feet.

What was The Italian Job if not a mini cooper advertisement?

Wrong. In that case, the product was driven by the plot. The director wanted an indoor car-chase, and the mini-coop was the most plausible way to make it happen. There was no other car with the dimensions needed.

May as well call True Lies a Harrier advertisement...