Posts Tagged ‘latest news’
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Inception Holds Off Salt For Second Weekend Victory
After opening to a strong $62 million last weekend the focus turned to how the legs would be for Inception. That has now been answered with the film displaying the result of great word-of-mouth and increased awareness. Inception came in first at the box office for the second straight weekend pulling in a very impressive $43.5 million. That makes out to be a drop of just 30%. It has now collected over $143 million and worldwide is over $225 million. Those are huge numbers for an original film a...
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The Line Drive 7/25
The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. For the first time the NFL is offering its own Fantasy Football service which can be found here. It includes some Madden 11 related integration using ratings for projections and a feed presented in Madden presumably of the league stats and/or standings. Added a new screenshot for Fight Night Champion to the gallery. Added five new screenshots for FIFA ...
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Comic-Con Trailer: Saw 3D
The Comic-Con panel for Saw 3D brought the debut of the trailer for the seventh and as announced final one in the series. The Saw franchise has made over $730 million worldwide and sold over 30 million DVDs, all the while being made on relatively low budgets making each one profitable despite some drops in box office take for the last few. There is understandable skepticism though, with many believing if Saw 3D is a hit that the studio will find an excuse to keep it going. The movie is slated ...
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Full Avengers Cast and Logo Revealed
At their Comic-Con panel tonight Marvel brought on stage the main cast members for The Avengers, in turn announcing Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye. Both had been rumored to have signed on but this was Marvel's way of making the announcement which acted as confirmation to those rumors. The teaser website has launched unveiling the logo for The Avengers. Nothing else to be found on the site yet outside the ability to follow for updates. Below is the full primary cast phot...
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Comic-Con Trailer: Dexter Season 5
During the Comic-Con panel for Dexter the first trailer for the fifth season of the series was unveiled. Rather than talk about what is shown, given that it would mean some huge spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen up through the fourth season, I'll just post the trailer below! Be warned though spoilers may appear in the comments. ...
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Expectations Going Into The Madden 11 Demo
With the Madden 11 demo set to release on Tuesday I thought it would be interesting to hear what your thoughts are going into it. Some outlets got to try out the demo early and it seems there just isn't a whole lot of enthusiasm towards the game this year. That matches up with the response coming out of E3. The demo is structured well and with five minute quarters provides an opportunity to actually get into the flow of the game. For some that should show off the benefits of the GameFlow fe...
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Mark Ruffalo Reportedly Signs On As The Hulk
It has only been 12 days since the news broke that Edward Norton would not be returning to play Bruce Banner (aka The Hulk) in The Avengers. Rumors quickly started stirring about who would take on the role. After a few days it became clear that Mark Ruffalo was the guy Marvel was targeting and it was just about hammering out the contract details. Word comes today that Ruffalo has agreed to play Hulk in The Avengers and also it would mean he has agreed to appear in future Marvel films (t...
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NBA 2K11 Historic Teams and Jordan Trailer
2K Sports has released the list of historic teams included in NBA 2K11 along with a quick teaser trailer featuring the cover athlete Michael Jordan. The list of historic teams may not be final with 2K possibly attempting to add more before the game has to be finalized or post-release as downloadable content. I've also added two full-size Jordan screenshots to the gallery. Continue on to check out the list of teams and the trailer and leave your thoughts in the comments! (more…)...
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