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'Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths' DVD details released, including the Spectre!

27 November 2009 4:46 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

In case you missed the preview on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Warner Premiere has offered up complete details including the announcement of an exclusive Spectre short for the special edition. Here's the release:

Burbank, CA (November 23, 2009) – To save our world and all those like it, Superman, Batman and their caped colleagues must go toe-to-toe with their evil mirror images in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the seventh entry in the successful ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming February 23, 2010 from Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation. The full-length animated film will be distributed by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def for $24.98 (Srp) and $29.99 (Srp), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (Srp). The film will also be available On Demand and Download.

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is an original story from award-winning »

- Robert Greenberger

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Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths Trailer

25 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Warner Home Entertainment’s newest animated effort featuring DC Comics Heroes and villains: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, arrives on DVD February 23rd, 2010.  The film features villains from the classic DC Crime Syndicate.  Check out an image and the trailer after the jump.

Created back when goatees marked your obvious ill intent, the Csa is made up of evil, alternate reality versions of Earth’s own heroes, who didn’t wear masks!  Though the Csa met it’s end in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, they none-the-less returned years later in a classic story arc by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.

Like Green Lantern: First Flight and Warner’s other recent DC Comics Home Entertainment entries, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, will carry a rating of PG-13, reminding us that Warner doesn’t just consider these super hero adventures as “strictly for kids”.  Though February seems far away, »

- Jonah

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Advert. Subvert. Gonzo (Fake) Commercials within Films

24 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

"Can't get enough, of the Stuff!"  From the mid-1920s whereupon the eventual Oscar winning film Wings featured a Hershey Chocolate Bar prominently in the story right on up to the use of M&Ms in Steven Spielberg's E.T. and beyond to the modern James Bond films or Castaway (FedEx) or The Great Yokai War (Kirin Beer) or perhaps the worst offender ever:  I, Robot, product placement is simply a large part of big expensive movies.  And many filmmakers have either parodied product placement (ahem, sorry:  Brand Integration) or even invented their own fictional consumer goods that only appear in their movies.  Unlike television, which (in large part) relies on advertising to fund the creation of shows, there are rarely full commercials used explicitly in a film (before the screening of the film is another story, unfortunately!).  But filmmakers love to offer ads for fake products or services or »

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Amazon Gold Box Deal - Firefly The Complete Series on Blu-ray

19 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »

Captain Tightpants in Blu

The last time this was a gold box deal it was $40. Most likely it will be $40 again this time.

Use this link for info only

“Firefly” - The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

List Price: $89.98

Price: $39.99 & this item ships for Free with Super Saver Shipping. Details

You Save: $49.99 (56%)

The other possibility is that it will be Serenity on Blu-ray for $9.99, but I am pretty confident it will be the box set.

Product Details Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), German (DTS 5.1), English (DTS-hd High Res Audio), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number of discs: 3 Rating: Nr (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008 Run Time: 665 minutes Asin: B001EN71CW Editorial Reviews Amazon.com As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, »

- Vactor

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Will Conrad joins 'Wolverine: Origin'

19 November 2009 11:19 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Artist Will Conrad has signed on to provide pencils on Marvel Comics' Wolverine: Origins. The Brazilian cartoonist made a name for himself working with Joss Whedon on his Serenity miniseries. He has also enjoyed a lengthy run on Marvel's Black Panther and helped Dark Horse Comics launch Kull. Conrad joins a long list of high-profile illustrators who have drawn Wolverine, including Frank Miller, Marc Silvestri and Steve Dillon. He will collaborate with writer Daniel Way on the project. "Sometimes the stars just align perfectly," said editor Jeanine Schaefer. "Will has been doing amazing work on Black Panther, so when the opportunity came (more) »

- By Mark Langshaw

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DVD Review – Terminator Tscc Season 2

17 November 2009 12:18 PM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Following on from the spectacular first season, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles Season 2 is out now on Blu-ray and DVD!

Starring Lena Headey (St. Trinians, The Brothers Grimm), Thomas Dekker (Heroes, A Nightmare on Elm Street), Summer Glau (Serenity, The 4400), Brian Austin Green and Richard T. Jones, season two picks up right where the first series left off!

The heart-racing action and technological weaponry is set to wow fans of the blockbuster Terminator franchise. The intense second season sees Sarah and her teenage son, John, relentlessly battling to save themselves and the world time and time again. Fugitives from the law, they must evade pursuers from the future – and the present – in today’s Los Angeles.

Picking up where Season 1 left off, Sarah Connor continues on her mission to bring down the Skynet Artificial Intelligence Network. Her son John is mankind’s only hope in the war against our »

- Craig Sharp

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'Star Trek' Gets Re-Energized on Blu-ray

16 November 2009 9:45 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Franchise reboots have become a go-to moneymaker for Hollywood in the past few decades. Find a popular, but overexposed series of films that has all but breathed its last breath. Add a new cast of pretty, bankable faces, updated and explosive special effects and a script that toes the line between tribute and parody, stir, and hope audiences will show up for the results. But nine times out of ten, a franchise reboot pales in comparison to the original and succeeds at little but making the audience long for the movies they initially loved. Thankfully, J.J. Abrams' reboot of the 'Star Trek' saga avoids all of these pitfalls and emerges as a smart, fun and original version of the world of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Star Trek starts from the very beginning as George Kirk is named captain of the Enterprise for 12 minutes before a tragic »

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Are Dollhouse Viral Sites Hinting at a Comic Book?

15 November 2009 7:42 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

As we all know, Fox did not order any more episodes of Dollhouse, and obviously they won’t be ordering a 3rd season of the Joss Whedon show.

But I can’t help but wonder if Joss Whedon might not continue with his world of Dollhouse in his favorite alternate medium, the comics?

He’s taken all his television series to comic form under the Dark Horse label: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel & Serenity. It’s his vent avenue of choice when he still has something to say about his pet projects but no television studio will let him vent it.

 

How did I come about pondering the idea of Dollhouse becoming a comic?  Besides Joss’s track record?

On November 9th, a viral website or two went live in support of Dollhouse.

There’s the creepy Rossum Corporation who is behind the processes that helped create the Dollhouse. It »

- Bruce Simmons

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Whacked-Out Trailer for 'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil'

14 November 2009 1:36 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I must admit, I only watched this trailer because it features Alan Tudyk of Firefly/Serenity fame, but it's actually a really good idea for a horror comedy, so simple that it's probably been done before. The movie is called Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, and Tudyk plays Tucker, one of two rednecks mistakenly thought to be horrible backwoods serial killers.

The reasons are understandable: Backwoods serial killers are used in horror movies all the time, and Tucker and Dale do carry around their fair share of tools and implements. But it's all an honest misunderstanding, even when a group of citybound college kids start accidentally dying in brutal ways.

Again, I'm sure something like this has been done before, but the one joke is funny for at least the duration of this trailer. I don't know for sure, but I think this is an American Film Market promo, because »

- Colin Boyd

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2012

13 November 2009 4:08 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

2012

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson

Running Time: 2 hrs 38 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 13, 2009

Plot: The world is about to end. Turns out the Mayans were right. A select few people are in on the ground work of saving the human race, while others, like Jackson Curtis (Cusack), are trying to desperately save their families from the mass destruction of the entire planet.

Who’S It For? This film doesn’t even allow you to turn off your brain. Just like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow there are enough head-scratching moments, if you want to laugh at the film. But If all you live for is special effects, I can’t stop you from seeing this.

Expectations: Who doesn’t love John Cusack? Not me. I don’t not love Cusack. Plus, I’m a »

- Jeff Bayer

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2012 Review

12 November 2009 10:53 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Short Version: If you’re looking for some wicked-cool visuals and destruction on a scale that even Emmerich has never put on screen before, then 2012 is for you. Plot and character development? Move along, nothing to see here.

Screen Rant reviews 2012

That picture right there? That’s why you go see 2012. Heck, lately that’s why you go see any Roland Emmerich film – destruction on a massive scale. The man has taken what Irwin Allen used to do and multiplied it by 100.

2012 actually starts in 2009 – well first it starts out in space, showing us a few different shots of our solar system and the planets lining up all in a row, with the sun at the end of that line. When we get to good old Earth, we’re in India where geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, the assassin from Serenity) is meeting a fellow scientist at the Institute of Astrophysics. »

- Vic Holtreman

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Preview: 2012

6 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying Independence Day was a big movie, with a place in cinematic history. Roland Emmerich has been the prince of diminishing returns since, but remains the current king of the global disaster movie. With next week’s 2012, he’s hoping to get his career back on track.

10,000 BC was universally panned, so he has decided to go back to what he does best. Namely, destroying contemporary landmarks, and killing a large percentage of the population. Emmerich loves himself a budget, and epic scale CGI, and judging from the trailer, he has used both liberally. There have been plenty of pre-release clips to encourage the hype. You can see a five minute clip in full HD here, some additional clips here, and some behind the scenes footage here.

As usual, however, there is a human story to be told. In this case, it »

- Barry Steele

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Angelina Jolie in New Teaser Trailer as Agent Salt

4 November 2009 5:42 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

I love salt, all types of salt really – Sea salt, table salt, rock salt and Evelyn Salt. Not familiar with that last one? She’s next summer’s female action spy played the ever so pouty-lipped Angelina Jolie. At one point, Tom Cruise was rumored to be attached to the Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Bone Collector) directed secret double agent yarn but ultimately, Noyce and company decided to go with a more feminine touch. Good move guys!

Jolie has proven time and again that she is the go-to woman in Hollywood for lead female action roles. Say what you want about the Tomb Raider movie, but as Lara Croft there can be no other woman playing the part. Same goes for her roles in Mr. and Mrs. Smith and last summer’s Wanted. In Salt, she appears to be just as convincing while playing a wrongly accused woman on the run. »

- Paul Young

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Tucker & Dale trailer

2 November 2009 1:55 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

After piloting Serenity and stealing scenes in other secondary roles, Alan Tudyk is taking on evil itself. Whether he realizes it or not. In the indie horror-comedy Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil, Tudyk and Tyler Labine ("Reaper") play a pair of hapless hillbillies who are mistakenly accused of being psycho killers by a group of college kids camping at the same lake where the hillbillies have just moved into a cursed cabin. The movie comes from writer-director Eli Craig -- check out the... »

- Dave Davis

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Joss Whedon Will Gladly Buy the Rights to 'Terminator'

2 November 2009 12:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

The rights to the Terminator franchise have only been up on the auction block for about as long as it takes Arnold Schwarzenegger to emerge naked from a time bubble, but a veteran Hollywood mogul has already expressed interest in taking the brand off the hands of the now-bankrupt Halcyon; and that vet is none other than Toy Story, Alien: Resurrection, and Titan A.E. screenwriter Joss Whedon (oh, and he created Buffy the Vampire Slayer and "Firefly"/Serenity, but I don't think anyone has ever heard of those).

Mr. Whedon took the time out of his busy schedule running his latest TV show, the Eliza Dushku starring "Dollhouse", to write an earnest letter to Halcyon making the case for why he's the right man for the job. And as with all things Whedon, his proposal has its fair share of the funny.

In it, he outlines the six possible directions he'd take the franchise, »

- Peter Hall

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Exclusive: Nathan Fillion Compares 'Greatest American Hero' To 'Firefly,' Campaigns For Reboot

28 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

"Castle" star Nathan Fillion is already a hero to many fans due to his place in Joss Whedon's over-too-soon "Firefly" universe, but could he be the "Greatest American Hero"?

When the actor dropped by Splash Page HQ, he shared some thoughts about his hopes for rebooting the classic early-'80s television series about a teacher who's given a suit that grants him superhero powers, only to lose the instruction manual. Comparing the award-winning series' demise to that of the much-loved "Firefly," Fillion explained why he's the perfect choice to star in a "Greatest American Hero" reboot.

"I think 'Greatest American Hero' is ripe for a comeback," Fillion told MTV News. "I know I'm Canadian, but I think I could put my hat in for that one."

"I just finished watching the DVD collection of it and thought it had some really great direction and I think it kind of »

- Rick Marshall

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New Clip and Interview with ‘V’ star Morena Baccarin

23 October 2009 9:41 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

In a couple of weeks ABC Television will air its remake of the 80s sci-fi hit V. Audiences are all crossing their fingers and hoping that this remake is much better than the past couple of attempts by television studios (Knight Rider, Bionic Woman). Right now, all hopes of success are resting on the shoulders of one vaguely known actress: Morena Baccarin. If you look at all of the marketing leading up to the November 3rd premiere one face sticks out looking down on the city on the bottom of a huge inter-galactic spaceship and it’s Anna (Baccarin).

 

For an actress that only has a handful of TV shows under her belt (Firefly, Stargate:sg-1) and two movies (Serenity, Stolen Lives), she sure does have a lot to live up to. She seems to be up to the challenge though and is handling all the press in stride. Recently, Christopher John Farley at Speakeasy, »

- Paul Young

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The Center Of The Whedonverse Is In The MTV Newsroom

22 October 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

It's a busy day in the MTV Newsroom today. At the moment, Tim Kash is sitting down for a chat with Alicia Keys (she says her new album The Element of Freedom will be a big, synthesizer-heavy departure from her past work). But there's another interview happening just around the corner: "Gossip Girl" and "Mercy" star Michelle Trachtenberg is here to talk about straddling two hit TV shows.

Trachtenberg is probably best known for playing Dawn on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a show created and produced by Joss Whedon. In the past few months, it seems as though we've had a regular rotation of alums from Whedon shows stop by to hang out and chat about their new projects. They are all members of a tightly-wound, closely-followed community known as the "Whedonverse," which represents the various projects that Whedon has worked on in his two-decade career.

For example, just a »

- Kyle Anderson

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Peeking Behind the Doors of Seismic Change: Televisionary Talks to "Endgame" Star Chiwetel Ejiofor

20 October 2009 11:50 AM, PDT | Televisionary | See recent Televisionary news »

Golden Globe nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor is perhaps best known for his work in such diverse films as American Gangster, Dirty Pretty Things, Serenity, Love Actually, Redbelt, and Kinky Boots. The British actor has made a career of playing deeply complex individuals, from cross-dresser Lola in Kinky Boots to Dirty Pretty Things' cab driver and former doctor Okwe. In PBS' gripping apartheid thriller Endgame, which airs Stateside this Sunday as part of the new season of Masterpiece Contemporary, Ejiofor, recently appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth, plays South African political figure Thabo Mbeki, a key player in secret negotiations between the African National Congress and the South African government that were brokered by Consolidated Goldfields. Remarkably these talks resulted in an end to apartheid in South Africa and Endgame, written by Paula Milne and directed by Pete Travis, dramatize the secret talks, which occurred at Mells Park, an estate in England. »

- Jace

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Joss Whedon + Glee = 2 Good 2 Be True?

19 October 2009 1:20 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »

Stop it, Fox. Stop making us so damn happy! Not only is Glee quickly becoming our favorite series on television this season—there, we said it!—but Fox just confirmed to us that the addictive new show has just tapped Joss Whedon to direct an upcoming episode.  Yes, that Joss Whedon. You know, the guy who created Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, Dr. Horrible and now Dollhouse (which returns Friday). He also has directed The Office twice, so it seems his taste in television does not suck. So how did these two great flavors come together? And more importantly, who is Joss going to kill once he gets onto the set of Glee? Here's what he just spilled... Joss posted on... »

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