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DVD BoxSet Blow Out Sale
For all those DVD buffs out there, Amazon.com has a wicked sale going on right now for DVD boxsets: Sex and the City - The Complete Series (Collector’s Giftset) List Price: $299.98, Our Price: $99.99
You Save: $199.99 (67%), Red Dwarf Complete Collection (18DVD) (1989) List Price: $249.98, Our Price:$137.49, You Save: $112.49 (45%), and more.

Ebert’s Best of 2008
Roger Ebert listed his Best of 2008 top 20. Unfortunately they are not in any sort of order.
Ballast
The Band’s Visit
Che
Chop Shop
The Dark Knight
Doubt
The Fall
Frost/Nixon
Frozen Friver
Happy-Go-Lucky
Iron Man
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Shotgun Stories
Slumdog Millionaire
Synecdoche, New York
W.
Wall-E

Sin City 2: Penned and Ready to Shoot
IGN has verified that Frank Miller, being done with the Spirit, is now underway for the second installment of the Sin City lineage films.
I loved the first film so much. Maybe it’s because I’m a comic nerd and read the books and realized just how beautifully it translated to film as it mimicked the pages almost flawlessly. So I have high hopes for this next film. Shooting is to begin April 2009.

3D Dreamworks Films May Charge $5 more
Variety has reported that the 3D race is on for theater goers. At a local conference for 3D films, some points were brought up that need to be addressed:
* Despite the growth in the number of 3D screens in America, they consistently generate twice the audience and three times the amount of revenue of 2D screens
* The 3D screens playing Bolt, Meet the Robinsons, and Chicken Little outperformed their 2D counterparts by 2.5 to 1.
* For Dreamworks Animation, the cost of making a film into 3D is an extra $15 million

One of the more noteworthy quotes is from Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks. Katzenberg says 3D is “a premium experience and has the consumer paying a premium price.” Katzenberg stated that Dreamworks will start charging $5 extra for their 3D films starting with Monsters vs. Aliens in 2009.

I don’t know about you guys but charging $15 for a movie is beyond my idea of fun.

Twilight Franchise Axes Director
DeadlineHollywoodDaily has posted that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has been taken off the future Twilight franchise films. Supposedly, Hardwicke was “difficult” and “irrational” during the making of the film. One contact also explains that “Summit didn’t like her. They’re saying the [director of photography] Elliot Davis is the one responsible for the film’s sumptuous visual look, that the editor Nancy Richardson had to save the film in post-production, and Summit thought Hardwicke’s [CAA] agent Beth Swofford was alternately ineffectual and hysterical.”

New Harry Potter Footage
If you missed it, no worries. ABC ran 5 sneak peeks of the upcoming Half Blood Prince last night on television.

The Story

Love Is In The Air

Meet Prof Slughorn

The Story of Tom Riddle

Comedy

Fables To BE Piloted
More news from ABC and this time it might blow your mind! If you’re not a comic book fan, you might not have heard about this outstanding series from Vertigo Comics. Though, if you haven’t read it yet, I HIGHLY recommend that you do so….soon.
Fables has been green lit to be made in to a pilot for ABC. Slash Film quotes the series as being “Created and written by Bill Willingham in 2002, the series has won fourteen Eisner Awards. Based in a world where fairy tale characters have been forced out of their homes by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary, and now live in a hidden community in New York City known as Fabletown. I have yet to pick up Fables, but I’m a big fan of DC’s Vertigo brand comics. Eleven Volumes of the series have been released in trade paperback form (available for around $10 each on Amazon).
Slash Film goes on to say that the creators of Six Degrees, Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner, are penning the hour-long pilot. “The show is being setup in a way that would allow any fairy tale character to show up for any given episode, with the main story revolving around Big Bad Wolf and Snow White. David Semel (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek, Roswell, Angel, American Dreams, House, Heroes, The Cleaner and My Own Worst Enemy.) has been hired to direct.”