GeekiN #116
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
This week, we’re packed to brim with news and discussion. You won’t want to miss it. For a full list of discussions, continue reading!
Discussion
Television
- Jeph Loeb has been appointed “Marvel Entertainment’s Executive Vice President, Head of Television”
- Being Human US being cast
Movies
- Peter Jackson in talks to direct The Hobbit after all?
- Robin Williams wants to be in a Batman movie
- Michael Fassbender cast to play Magneto and Alice Eve cast as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class
- Shyamalan set to direct “Taken with supernatural powers” next
- John Lasseter co-directing Cars 2
- Scream 4 begins shooting today
- Batman/Superman: Apocalypse confirmed with Summer Glau as Supergirl
Video Games
- Nintendo 3DS may or may not be not released this year, and will release before the end of March 2011
- Microsoft announces Xbox Live Gold Family Plan
- All Points Bulletin is an MMO launching with ads in their voice chat program.
- Star Wars The Old Republic has their (extremely limited) first closed beta
- Kinect playable demos available at The Microsoft Store. Scottsdale AZ, San Diego CA, Mission Viejo CA, Lone Tree CO
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 still coming, just slowly due to a small dev team
- Hulu coming to Playstation Network “Soon”?
Other
- Back to the Future trilogy to be released on Blu-Ray October 26
Geek Jerk Reaction: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Last Airbender
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Before it gets pointed out, Hulu Plus was announced today. $10 a month. iPhone, iPad, PS3, and Xbox 360.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/29/hulu-plus-announced-ipad-iphone-sony-and-more-on-board/
when geek by night coming back ??
also why is it that Scream 4 already hads posters if they havnt even started fliming , It just sounds weird. But anyways with the younger new cast members and with the old ones returning it sound like it will be a kick ass movie .
Geek By Night returns on August 18th.
Promotional posters were made for Scream 4 at least a couple months before shooting began. Wes Craven (the Director) was even giving away signed posters on his Twitter page. He would ask a Scream-related trivia question and whoever chimed in with the right answer first, won. Movie studios make posters like this all the time. They’re usually very simple and don’t feature actors because of course they haven’t been cast yet.
Just to remind you, Fassbender played a British soldier, not an American. Fassbender being cast in this X-Men movie makes me so happy, he’s a phenomenal actor, if you want to see how talented he is then check out a movie he did called Hunger, it’s a downer but it’s absolutely brilliant.
Sorry yeah. He played the guy that was introduced to the crew by Mike Myers’ character, right? I knew that. I have no idea why I said he was an American Soldier…
What about Robin Williams as a very dark Hugo Strange??
I am trying to keep a little hope for The Last Airbender. Here’s the thing, there are several factors that will help The Last Airbender in my opinion.
1. The Twilight movies do really well the first weekend but they always drop off quite a bit after that. I think The Last Airbender will have a little more staying power possibly.
2. Will yes the total budget was $280 million only $150 of that was for the actual movie. $130 million was for marketing which means I think like toys and ads and stuff like that. I think if the movie atlease gets close to $200 million that we could still possibly get the other movies just don’t spend so much in marketing next time. But also with that I think to contribute to the $280 million with be the sales from toys and such.
3. I think this movie will do well overseas. You can’t forget about the total world wide gross. As long as it does most of it here is the US if it makes up for it overseas I think there will still be a shot and seeing to more.
4. Lastly, obviously dvd sales. If this movie is good the dvd and more likely Blu-Ray sales will be outstanding.
Anyway those are just my thoughts. I may be way off base with all of the above but I really want to see the whole trilogy to trying to keep a little hope.
FYI, Beyond Good & Evil is not a Tim Schaefer game. It was created by Michel Ancel of Rayman fame.
BG&E was great fun, and I really hope they eventually get the sequel completely off the ground. The original plays kind of like modern Zelda games on the surface, except in a sci-fi setting. There were several stealth segments of the game tha tinvolved sneaking through a base to take photographs of different objectives, but there was also plenty of action as well. BG&E also had really good characters and a fun story.
There are definitely many reasons why it is fairly popular despite being a game that was somewhat hard to find when it was out, let alone nowadays. If you can find a copy and have the means to play it, Beyond Good & Evil is definitely worth checking out.
Guess I’m the only person in the world who loved Jim Carrey’s riddler.
I liked it for what it was, a campy version of The Riddler like Frank Gorshin. Out of the original 4 Batman movie I actually find Batman Forever the easiest to watch, it’s not the best, but it’s fun.