Posted on
Jun 20 2008 4:01 AM
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Aziz
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Do you like video games? How about The Running Man? If your answer to both of these questions is yes, then you're in luck because a Gerard Butler fan site has provided a scan of the July issue of Empire magazine, which includes a sneak peek at the video game thriller, Game, starring Butler and Michael C. Hall (Dexter).
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John Lee Hancock will direct the big screen adaptation of Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" for 20th Century Fox. Here is how publisher W.W. Norton describes the book:
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school—such as, say, how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a football......
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I have to dig wayyy back into my childhood memories (most of which are gone due to things that happened in college) in order to remember playing the video game Joust. While several sequels have been released since the game first debuted back in 1982, I vaguely recall it being another one of those old school games in which the scenery never changes, and colors differentiate each level. But I could be wrong. Let's....
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Steven Spielberg is making a return to video games. Newsweek reports that the legendary director has teamed with Mario designer Shigeru Miyamoto to create a new action-puzzle simulator for the Nintendo Wii. Code-named PQRS, the new game “neatly blends the creativity of the building-blocks game Jenga with the charm of a Saturday-morning cartoon. It runs on top of a physics program that lets you manipulate blocks with the Wii remote as if it were an extension of your hand.” You had me at “Spielberg” and “Wii”.....
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A new Transformers television advertisement found it’s way online, and features a bunch of new footage and if you listen very carefully, you can even hear Bumblebee speak for the first time ever. Check out the new tv spot after the jump.....
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Olga Kurylenko (Paris je t'aime), Robert Knepper ("Prison Break"), Ulrich Thomsen (Festen) and Michael Offei (Casino Royale) have joined Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott in the Luc Besson-produced video game adaptation Hitman at 20th Century Fox.
Director Xavier Gens begins filming the thriller this week in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The movie also will be shot in South Africa, Istanbul, St. Petersburg and London.
Besson is producing through his Europa Corp., along with Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh. Daniel Alter is co-producer.
Olyphant will play Agent 47, a hitman who ends up being chased himself by Interpol and the Russian military. Scott plays the antagonist.
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New Line has bought the feature rights to Microsoft video game Gears of War. Stuart Beattie (Collateral) is writing the screenplay and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing via their Temple Hill. "Gears" has sold over three million units and is hugely popular on Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which allows players to compete against each other online. Though it was released in November and is available only for the Xbox 360 console, it quickly became the fourth bestselling game of 2006 in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
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