"Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be on apple's quicktime site. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/)"
Looks like it will: 'The "Star Trek: Nemesis' trailer will then launch online in conjunction with the official movie Web site. Both will go live at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, with the trailer in the QuickTime format (Courtesy of Apple -- please see link below [it just points to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/]). The trailer will be available in small, large and full-screen sizes (QuickTime Pro 5 required for full-screen viewing). Additional streaming formats will also be available soon. The movie Web site will be accessible via STARTREK.COM."
"So rip it and post it dude... Man... I have to think of everything..."
For what it's worth, the desktop wallpapers, AIM buddy icons, and screencaps from the screensaver are available here and the screensaver itself is available here.
"Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)"
According to this post, it will indeed air in front of Men in Black II.
And there's already a shot-by-shot breakdown online.
According to CNN, "[In Quebec, Canada,] Fox is believed to be demanding 70 percent of box office receipts for the first three weeks and insisting that 'Attack of the Clones' stay in the biggest hall for 12 weeks. The studio-theater revenue split is more commonly 70-30 in favor of the studio for only the first week, dropping to 60-40 the second week, 50-50 the third week and 40-60 by the fourth week." That's why most of Quebec's independent theater owners refused to book AotC in their theaters. If Fox's demands were similar here in the States, it may also explain why fewer theaters are showing it vs. Spider-Man... regardless of how Fox tries to spin (no pun intended) the numbers in their favor.
One film analysts told the Wall Street Journal last week that with the success of Spider-Man, the blockbuster bar has been raised. In fact, he said, this movie has changed Hollywood's perception of what a blockbuster is. That makes it interesting for George Lucas, next up at your local megaplex.
With all these comparisons between how Spider-Man has done at the box office vs. what Attack of the Clones will do at the box office next week, I thought I'd point out that in today's edition of Studio Briefing (under the "Spidey Keeps Climbing" headline), "...even George Lucas has conceded box-office supremacy to the Sam Raimi film. In an interview appearing in today's (Friday) Toronto Star, Lucas complained that the news media have 'turned it into a contest and it's not a contest. It's an art form.... This film (Episode 2) is going to come out and not do nearly what Spider-Man did.' He noted that his film will not be playing in as many theaters as Spider-Man, because 'I'm interested in a good presentation, so I'm insisting that the film be released in theaters with digital sound and good quality theaters.... So you don't look to us to break any records.'"
AotC got a C+, while Spider-Man got a B (different reviewer though).
AotC reviews have also been summarized at Studio Briefing (first headline under "Film"), although it mistakenly points out that Episodes IV-VI are the top-selling DVDs (instead of the top-REQUESTED DVDs) on Amazon.com, and listed at Rotten Tomatoes.
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People type with their thumbs on Blackberrys. I use my thumbs to type on a Palm i705 with mini-keyboard. I suppose with such a small laptop Sony thinks people will do the same thing.
And Slashdot back in late March mentioned a recent study that showed that "'...the use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands. The use of the thumb is a deviation from the use of the index finger...'"
Something I didn't realize until a few years ago at the San Diego Comiccon is that there's a real collector's market out there for the old Transformer toys, particularly if they're still mint and unopened, still in the box. Of course it's because most everyone actually actually played with their toys (a la the first Star Wars Kenner action figure line)...
Out here in Southern California, I've periodically noticed cars that have window cling-ons featuring the Decepticon logo. And a store chain called Hot Topic sells really nice shirts (not t-shirts) featuring Megatron (with a large Decepticon logo behind him).
There's also a new Transformer comic book that will be coming out in the summer that will feature the old Transformers in "updated versions."
And while you're at it, you might as well pick up The Transformers Movie on DVD.:)
With this news in mind, I wonder what the mood is going to be like at the 2002 William S. Paley TV Festival at the end of this month? (Futurama is one of the featured series, and Matt Groening, et al will be present that evening.)
I remember playing the first Wipeout for PS One back in 1995 or '96 and seeing ads for Red Bull. And that was before it was widely available out here in the States.
It's extremely annoying. I've submitted numerous news articles in the past to Slashdot that get rejected, only to see them (submitted by someone else) appear a day later. I've also seen news articles on Yahoo! News, et al, and have chosen not to submit them to Slashdot, thinking they wouldn't get approved, and sure enough, they do.
I just can't win. I wish there was more consistency between the mods. =P
Bottom line is, if enough snail-mail letters are sent to FOX (trust me on this, networks give snail-mail more weight than e-mails), there is a possibility that the show could be saved. It's worked in the past for the original Star Trek (thus its third season) as well as Roswell (thus its second season).
In the case of Roswell, fans sent thousands of bottles of tabasco sauce to The WB as a show of support. With The Tick, perhaps fans can instead send... spoons?
A bit off-topic, but I noticed quite a few Slashdot readers were commenting on the X-10 pop-under ads.
You can go here and click one of the links to either kill their ads for the next 1,000 days or until the year 2015. Whichever you prefer. I did it months ago and haven't seen an X-10 ad (until I booted into Mac OS X and realized I need to activate that cookie there as well).:)
The f-cked company I worked at had one in the R&D department, and a friend of mine was able to take it with him(!) when he cashed out and left for greener pastures. He has it on display in his house in the Hollywood Hills, using playing MP3s he's downloaded. So now it's pretty much eye- and ear-candy.
I'm still unsure of what to think about this new iMac. Obviously the specs are better and the price is much more affordable, but I've always liked how elegant that 20th Anniversary Mac looked. Of course, you get what you pay for, and considering how quickly computers depreciate in value, if I actually bought one of those Macs at that price years ago, I'd have had a heart attack by now.
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...to wear that Atari shirt with pride! Happy anniversary Atari!
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At 20.8MB, I'm really impressed with the quality of the compression.
Right... here.
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"Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be on apple's quicktime site. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/)"
Looks like it will: 'The "Star Trek: Nemesis' trailer will then launch online in conjunction with the official movie Web site. Both will go live at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, with the trailer in the QuickTime format (Courtesy of Apple -- please see link below [it just points to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/]). The trailer will be available in small, large and full-screen sizes (QuickTime Pro 5 required for full-screen viewing). Additional streaming formats will also be available soon. The movie Web site will be accessible via STARTREK.COM."
"So rip it and post it dude... Man... I have to think of everything..."
For what it's worth, the desktop wallpapers, AIM buddy icons, and screencaps from the screensaver are available here and the screensaver itself is available here.
"I've got a 3" DVD of it that was given away at Tulsa."
It's actually a 3" CD-ROM, not a DVD.
Forgot to add that trailer screenshots are already up right... here.
"Hopefully it'll get placed in front of some of the movies coming in the next few weeks (maybe MiB2?)" According to this post, it will indeed air in front of Men in Black II. And there's already a shot-by-shot breakdown online.
According to CNN, "[In Quebec, Canada,] Fox is believed to be demanding 70 percent of box office receipts for the first three weeks and insisting that 'Attack of the Clones' stay in the biggest hall for 12 weeks. The studio-theater revenue split is more commonly 70-30 in favor of the studio for only the first week, dropping to 60-40 the second week, 50-50 the third week and 40-60 by the fourth week." That's why most of Quebec's independent theater owners refused to book AotC in their theaters. If Fox's demands were similar here in the States, it may also explain why fewer theaters are showing it vs. Spider-Man... regardless of how Fox tries to spin (no pun intended) the numbers in their favor.
Right... here. A bit bulkier than a GameBoy Advance, but imagine the looks you could get at next week's E3 convention!!!
One film analysts told the Wall Street Journal last week that with the success of Spider-Man, the blockbuster bar has been raised. In fact, he said, this movie has changed Hollywood's perception of what a blockbuster is. That makes it interesting for George Lucas, next up at your local megaplex.
... This film (Episode 2) is going to come out and not do nearly what Spider-Man did.' He noted that his film will not be playing in as many theaters as Spider-Man, because 'I'm interested in a good presentation, so I'm insisting that the film be released in theaters with digital sound and good quality theaters. ... So you don't look to us to break any records.'"
With all these comparisons between how Spider-Man has done at the box office vs. what Attack of the Clones will do at the box office next week, I thought I'd point out that in today's edition of Studio Briefing (under the "Spidey Keeps Climbing" headline), "...even George Lucas has conceded box-office supremacy to the Sam Raimi film. In an interview appearing in today's (Friday) Toronto Star, Lucas complained that the news media have 'turned it into a contest and it's not a contest. It's an art form.
AotC got a C+, while Spider-Man got a B (different reviewer though).
AotC reviews have also been summarized at Studio Briefing (first headline under "Film"), although it mistakenly points out that Episodes IV-VI are the top-selling DVDs (instead of the top-REQUESTED DVDs) on Amazon.com, and listed at Rotten Tomatoes.
People type with their thumbs on Blackberrys. I use my thumbs to type on a Palm i705 with mini-keyboard. I suppose with such a small laptop Sony thinks people will do the same thing.
And Slashdot back in late March mentioned a recent study that showed that "'...the use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands. The use of the thumb is a deviation from the use of the index finger...'"
Something I didn't realize until a few years ago at the San Diego Comiccon is that there's a real collector's market out there for the old Transformer toys, particularly if they're still mint and unopened, still in the box. Of course it's because most everyone actually actually played with their toys (a la the first Star Wars Kenner action figure line)...
Out here in Southern California, I've periodically noticed cars that have window cling-ons featuring the Decepticon logo. And a store chain called Hot Topic sells really nice shirts (not t-shirts) featuring Megatron (with a large Decepticon logo behind him). There's also a new Transformer comic book that will be coming out in the summer that will feature the old Transformers in "updated versions." And while you're at it, you might as well pick up The Transformers Movie on DVD. :)
Anywhere it wants, of course. :(
With this news in mind, I wonder what the mood is going to be like at the 2002 William S. Paley TV Festival at the end of this month? (Futurama is one of the featured series, and Matt Groening, et al will be present that evening.)
I remember playing the first Wipeout for PS One back in 1995 or '96 and seeing ads for Red Bull. And that was before it was widely available out here in the States.
It's extremely annoying. I've submitted numerous news articles in the past to Slashdot that get rejected, only to see them (submitted by someone else) appear a day later. I've also seen news articles on Yahoo! News, et al, and have chosen not to submit them to Slashdot, thinking they wouldn't get approved, and sure enough, they do. I just can't win. I wish there was more consistency between the mods. =P
This is FOX... the same network that initially cancelled Family Guy, only to bring it back after they received a lot of letters. From what I recall, FOX didn't initially know they had a gem with Malcolm in the Middle either.
Bottom line is, if enough snail-mail letters are sent to FOX (trust me on this, networks give snail-mail more weight than e-mails), there is a possibility that the show could be saved. It's worked in the past for the original Star Trek (thus its third season) as well as Roswell (thus its second season).
In the case of Roswell, fans sent thousands of bottles of tabasco sauce to The WB as a show of support. With The Tick, perhaps fans can instead send... spoons?
A bit off-topic, but I noticed quite a few Slashdot readers were commenting on the X-10 pop-under ads. You can go here and click one of the links to either kill their ads for the next 1,000 days or until the year 2015. Whichever you prefer. I did it months ago and haven't seen an X-10 ad (until I booted into Mac OS X and realized I need to activate that cookie there as well). :)
Almost five years ago.
It was the 20th Anniversary Mac.
And the retail price was $10,000.00.
The f-cked company I worked at had one in the R&D department, and a friend of mine was able to take it with him(!) when he cashed out and left for greener pastures. He has it on display in his house in the Hollywood Hills, using playing MP3s he's downloaded. So now it's pretty much eye- and ear-candy.
I'm still unsure of what to think about this new iMac. Obviously the specs are better and the price is much more affordable, but I've always liked how elegant that 20th Anniversary Mac looked. Of course, you get what you pay for, and considering how quickly computers depreciate in value, if I actually bought one of those Macs at that price years ago, I'd have had a heart attack by now.
Damn, that was quick! :)