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to the eyemachine news
archive. Here you will find a list of all the old news that
has appeared on the home page of eyemachine.
 Firstly,
thanks to Trevor for the following 3 news articles.
Apparently the leading contender for a Buffy spinoff over at
UPN is Willow, Centered [on] Alyson Hannigan's character. Faith
The Vampire Slayer was the leading contender, but since Eliza
Dushku jumped ship, this was their next best idea. UPN is apparently
hoping for [an autumn]l launch [in the US], with other assorted
Buffy regulars on board.
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 It
sounds like everyone and his brother has, at one point or another,
been up for the role of Superman. This week yet another name
is tossed around.The rumor states that 32-year old Angel star
David Boreanaz has been offered $30 million for a three-picture
deal to star as the Last Son of Krypton. Apparently this 'news'
broke in the Daily Express newspaper, which went on to quote
Boreanaz as saying, "It's going to be hard to be both Angel
and Superman."
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 Finally,
the guy that wrote Dog Soldiers, Neil Marshall, might have a
go at writing Alien 5...
Not surprisingly - considering
how closely "Dog Soldiers" resembles it - Marshall
would like to have a go at writing or directing one of the Aliens
sequels. He actually wrote a treatment for Alien 3, but it went
unused. He says he thinks the story could easily pass off for
the next movie. "They go back to the original planet from
the first film where they discover more eggs on the spacecraft
and so have to rescue the people back there", he says.
"You never know, it might be used for a future one".
But Marshall says the last
"Alien" movie deterred his interest in the series
temporarily. "They just lost the plot with Alien Resurrection",
he says. "But I'm fascinated with the mythology and character
of the Alien and part of me would love to do an Alien film one
day. Not an "Aliens vs
Predator" - that'll just be a smash-em up movie that'll
get the kids in. It'll have no great story - but a return to
the original".
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 You
may have been hearing reports that Blur's 4 date stint at the
London Astoria sold out within 2 hours of tickets going on sale
on Saturday 1st March. Its true that it did sell out fast, but
considering tickets went on sale at 9am and I bought my two,
along with a queue of other people, at around about 2:30pm,
I'd say that story was a load of crap. Expect a full review
of the gig on eyemachine.
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 Those
crazy Canadian pop punksters Sum*41 will be on a UK tour of
some of the larger venues in February 2003 on their 'Sum On
Your Face' tour:
February
(1) Manchester Evening News Arena
(2) Nottingham Arena
(3) Glasgow Braehead Arena
(6) Cardiff Arena
(7) Plymouth Pavilion
(8) Wembley Arena
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Happy Hallowe'en
everyone. Eyemachines had a bit of a facelift, mostly to accomodate
the store link and the new NewsLetter sign-up. This was all
done in a couple of days and I think its all ok, but if you
see any broken links or things missing or wrong, let me know
[contact@eyemachine.co.uk]
and I'll see to it that they're fixed.
 Well
its been a long time coming, but the acclaimed teen-angst drama
from the mid 90s 'My So-Called Life' which shot Clare Danes
and Jared Leto into stardom is finally coming to DVD, all 19
episodes of the uncompleted series. Click
here to check it out on amazon.com.
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 Linkin
Park have almost finished their new album, the follow up to
their highly successful debut 'Hybrid Theory', with a tentative
release date of early 2003. The album is being produced by Don
Gilmore, who produced their last album.
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 Three
nuggets of 'A' news today. First off isn't really news, but
seeing as the time is near it may aswell get mentioned. Their
'Inner-City Sumo' (hats off to Alan Partridge there) Tour kick
off on November 18th. Here are the dates:
November 2002
18 Glasgow Barrowland
19 Liverpool K2
21 Newcastle University
22 Manchester Academy
23 Sheffield Octagon
24 Birmingham Academy
26 Bristol Academy
27 Southampton Guildhall
28 Norwich U.E.A.
29 London Brixton Academy
Tickets are £14 everywhere, except London where it's £15.
I won't be able to make any of these dates unfortunately, but
if anyone does go and fancies writing a short review please
feel free. And send it to me obviously. Each reviewer will recieve
a packet of orange chewits.
Secondly, the new single 'Something's Going On' taken from the
'Hi-Fi Serious' album is released on November 18th, on 2 CD
singles and a lovely 7". B-sides will include "Rock",
"Human Condition", "Sorry, But" and a studio
version of David Lee Roth's "Just Like Paradise" CD1
will feature a video for "Something's Going On" and
CD2 will contain another tour movie "I Know What I Did
Last Summer".
And finally, you can check out the new video online by going
here. And there are some more behind the scenes 'making of the
video' goodies here.
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 Be
sure to check out the trailer for the new Wes Craven movie 'They'
starring Ethan Embry. Nice to see he's been typecast after Freaklinks.
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Just to let you know that eyemachine
won't be updated for about a week while I'm moving.
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Full R1 BTTF DVD Features |
 Over
at BTTF.com they have the full list of special features to appear
on the R1 release of the Back To The Future DVD box set. There
are, as was rumoured, considerably more features appearing on
this release than the others. This is a little bit unfair, but
it's probably worth getting the R1 release as opposed to the
R2. Even though the R2 has better packaging. Check
out the features here.
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American
teen-movie music emo-band, Tonic, return with their third
album, Head On Straight. Tonic are probably best known
for their song You Wanted More which featured in the movie
American Pie and on the soundtrack.
You can check out the new single Take Me As I Am by clicking
here. |
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 Feeder
have announced that they're off on a UK tour early next year.
Dates are as follows:
February
07 Dublin Ambassador
09 Belfast Limelight
11 Norwich UEA
12 Southampton Guildhall
13 Brighton Dome
16 Oxford Brookes University
18 Cambridge Corn Exchange
19 Nottingham Rock City
21 Manchester Apollo
22 Glasgow Barrowlands
23 Aberdeen Music Hall
25 Northumbria University
26 Leeds University
27 Liverpool Royal Court
March
01 Newport Centre
02 Birmingham Academy
05 Exeter University
06 Bristol Colston Hall
07 Brixton Academy
Tickets go on sale October 11. Expect a lot of sell out shows.
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Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen |
 The
microsite for the new Clive Barker's Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen
range of models from McFarlane Toys is up and running. Check
it out, they're pretty grusome.
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 An
image has appeared via AICN of what is apparantly Alan Cumming
in his Nightcrawler get-up for the forthcoming X². If it
is indeed a genuine pic then the makeup looks great, but what
the hell is going on with those trousers?! Check
out the pic via IGN here.
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Hey people, or more
realistically 'person'. Just though I'd put some news up. For
a start go to my about page
to find out what the hell is going on with eyemachine lately.
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Nirvana - None More Black |
Well check out the
sleeve design for the new Nirvana album. It's a best of compilation
titled Nirvana and is scheduled for release around about November
11th. The biggest selling point is that it will contain the
track 'You Know You're Right', the subject of much internet
news lately. I'm guessing most people have downloaded it by
now though anyway. Still, should be a pretty good collection
of their best stuff - hopefully stretching a little further
than just the singles from Nevermind.
Anyway, looks like the designer had an early start to his/her
weekend after knocking out this one. Click
here for the pic.
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Sunny Day Real Estate Reform |
Mid 90s emo geniuses,
Sunny Day Real Estate, have apparantly reformed under the name
The Fire Theft.
The band broke up just after their second album and drummer
Will Goldsmith and bassist Nate Mendel went to to join Foo Fighters.
The latest news states that they've finished 2 out of a total
15 songs for the album (finished as in mixed/engineered etc.,
not just 'written'). I'm still not sure they actually have a
record deal yet though. I don't know why they didn't just keep
the original name either. Maybe they just wanted to move on.
Click
here for more details.
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Just to let you
know that there will be some 'downtime' on the features for
a couple of weeks while I concentrate on a different project.
I'll try and update the news every day though, so check back
for that. Of course if anyone wants to write something for me
to stick up you're more than welcome.
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Lee And Green Steal Harvard |
Stealing Harvard
is about two guys trying to get the money to pay for the one's
niece to go to Harvard University, the only way they can raise
that amount is to steal it. So what? you may be thinking. But
when I tell you that Jason Lee and Tom Green star in it, your
interest may pick up. Click
here for the trailer.
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Batman Vs. Superman Shelved |
Hmm, well apparantly
Batman Vs. Superman, after all the rumours, has been shelved
for the time being as the director, Wolfgang Petersen, has decided
to direct the movie, Troy instead. It's late and I'm tired,
so click
here to read about it for yourselves.
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DJ Shadow has announced
a UK tour for this October. The venues and dates are:
October:
Birmingham Academy (17)
London Brixton Academy (18)
Oxford Brookes University (21)
Norwich UEA (22)
Leeds University (23)
Manchester Academy (26)
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Confusion has arrisen
over the apparant inclusion of a 'Blooper Reel' in the Special
Features list of a forthcoming Best Of You've Been Framed DVD.
The trailer for
Ecks Vs. Sever, the movie which the GBA game - from last year
- of the same name was based on, is now online. Check
it out by clicking here.
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Kevin Smith is once
again giving the public the chance to appear as an extra in
his new film, Jersey Girl. If you live in the Philadelphia area
why not go for it? Click
here for more details.
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The release of Die
Hard: Vendetta for the Gamecube in the US has been pushed back
from this Christmas to early next year. This is possibly due
to legal reasons and more development time. Click
here for more info on the game.
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According to Universal,
a third installment of American Pie could be in production early
next year. The movie would be dealing with the next turning
point in their lives. How many turning points do these people
need?
Seann William Scott has apparantly signed up to reprise his
role as Stifler. Other actors to come back include Jason Biggs,
Eugene Levy and Alyson Hannigan. Sources familiar with the script
have said that none of the other characters will be returning.
Seems a bit pointless then if you ask me. Expect music from
Third Eye Blind, Smashmouth and Blink 182.
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More rumours circulating
the casting of the forthcoming Batman Vs. Superman movie: Josh
Harnett (The Faculty, Black Hawk Down) is apparantly now being
considered for the role of Superman. Well he's certainly a better
choice than Jude Law, but there's still something not quite
right there.
Also, Colin Farrell (Minority Report) is supposed to have been
finalised for the role of Batman, although some sources still
say that Christian Bale was still up for the part. Personally
I say Batman - Ben Stiller and Superman - Ralph Macchio "But
we've got to save the Earth, Superman!" "Ah, bullshit,
man! I'm goin' home!"
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Jared Leto, who
played Jordan Catalano in cult teen series 'My So-Called Life'
and has been seen in movies such as Fight Club, American Psycho
and more recently, Panic Room has his own band called 30
Seconds To Mars.
They're a bit of a full-on hardcore emo type of offering, not
too dis-similar from Linkin Park and TRUSTcompany, and are actually
quite good, with a bit of an 80s influence. Their album should
be out the end of August, although when it's out in the UK is
anyone's guess at this point.
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The new Feeder single
'Come Back Around' is around on the net and we have an mp3 for
you to download. I know it's wrong, but you need to hear this
song, it's really very good. The file will be removed once the
single has been released, and I urge anyone downloading it to
do likewise and go and buy it for themselves, or at least wait
for the album.
[please note this mp3 has now been removed]
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Star Wars Episode
2: Attack Of The Clones DVD/VHS has been confirmed of a November
11th (UK) and November 12th (US) release date. Expect all the
sort of stuff that was on the Phantom Menace DVD, including
multiple commentaries, behind the scenes footage and delted
scenes. Click
here for a full listing.
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The Freddy Vs Jason
movie has been given teh go-ahead by New Line Cinema. Brad Renfro
(Ghost World) has already been signed.
Robert Englund is also reported to be on for the role of Freddy,
but so far Kane Hodder has not signed up for Jason - although
I read the he would.
Freddy Vs Jason will be directed by Ronny Yu (Bride Of Chucky)
and written by Todd Farmer (Jason X). Production will
begin early September in Vancouver.
T he film's story deals with how Freddy uses Jason to escape
from his banishment but eventually has to vanquish him. Then
it's up to the Elm Street kids to get rid of both characters.
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Ex-Helmet
frontman, Page Hamilton has returned with a new band, Gandhi.
They played a show at a small bar in Stamford, Connecticut,
on August 2, performing a mixture of new songs and old Helmet
tunes. New titles include 'Just Like Me', 'Money Shot' and 'Enemies'.
The band are expected to tour the US later this year.
Also, Helmet look set to reunite in 2003 for live dates, once
the various personnel have finished their current touring duties
with the likes of Tomahawk and Bush.
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Jhonen Vasquez has
a new book coming out at the start of August titled Everything
Can Be Beaten. Using the psuedonyms Mr. Chancre Scolex and Mr.
Crab Scrambly, Everything Can Be Beaten will no doubt be the
usual Vasquez affair of weird art and very dark humour. Click
here for the full story and look out for it!
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McFarlane Toys will
be producing the figures for the next two Matrix movies. The
figures will be released in conjuction with each of the movies'
releases, and will apparantly be tailored to the adult market.
Does this mean they'll swear, drink and get naked with each
other?
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Check out the trailer
for Fear
Dot Com. Yet another murder/suspense killer thriller, but
with an Internet angle. Also has Ethan Embry in it (although
I didn't notice him in the trailer), so it looks like his Freaky
Links series is getting him a little typecast here.
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A have introduced
a 'listening post' to their website called 'Listening Serious'.
There you will be able to some streaming new songs from A, including
three acoustic songs and a very excellent remix of some So Solid
Crew track - which reminds me of the good old 'Judgement Night'
soundtrack days. Check it out by clicking
here.
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The UK could soon
be set for a massive Jonny Briggs revival if recent reports
are anything to go by.
A report was released yesterday stating that a Jonny Briggs
special edition DVD boxset of the first series is on it's way.
"I kept hearing youngsters first of all humming the trombone
slide" said a BBC director, "and then bursting out
into the rest of the theme tune and thought there's got to be
something going on here".
And there might well be, especially with McFarlane Toys also
picking up the rights to produce a Jonny Briggs line of toys.
The line should comprise of a six figure set, each figure coming
with an accessory, such as Jonny with Razzle, Humphrey with
mushrooms and ginger beer and Rita with an Angora beret.
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Jane's Addiction Warm-Up Gig |
Jane's Addiction
are playing their Reading Festival warm-up show at the Kentish
Town Forum in London on Monday 19th August. Tickets are a whopping
£19.50.
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New eyemachine 'em*75' wallpaper now available in three sizes.
Click here.
Kurt Cobain's diaries
are to be published and available this November 11.
Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, are to be publishing
replicas of the diaries which totalled 23 books and 800 pages.
The replicas of the diaries will be purely that which was in
the originals with no editorial intrusion.
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Just got the first
eyemachine t-shirt this morning - very exciting. Look out for
the store soon, for now check out what I thought of the shirt
in the feature at the top of the Shorties list on the home page.
Or if you're way too lazy, click
here :)
The trailer for
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, the follow up to last
year's Philosopher's Stone, is up on apple.com if anyone really
cares. But although it's meant to be darker, it looks just like
the first one, and seems to be yet another simple vision of
the book on the screen - you may aswell read the books.
Click
here to view the trailer.
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Marvel are going
all out after the success of Toy Biz's Spider-Man toy range.
Having just released various figures of some of their more famous
characters, you will be able to pick up The Punisher model around
October.
The fully articulate and poseable model comes with a bar-room
backdrop complete with Spider-Man pinball machine, tortured
informant and lots of guns. The model is based on the recent
acclaimed Ennis and Brooks series. An Ultimate Spider-Man figure
is also expected in September. Click
here for the full story and a piccie.
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"A" have
been chosen to record 4 songs for the BBC Rock Show. The choice
of which song for one of these will be chosen by the fans.
Their site, a-communication.com,
will be taking a vote on the most popular song that the fans
want them to record. Vote
for it here.
The deadline for votes will be this Monday the
22nd July 2002 at 12 noon GMT
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The third instalment
of the Driver series of undercover car-based crime fighting,
will be appearing on the PC and all three of the major consoles
(PS2, Xbox and Gamecube). Hopefully this will give them enough
power to not repeat the mistake that was made with Driver 2.
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Building upon the
success of Marvel's Mangaverse series, the most well-received
title - Spider-Man - is getting it's own mini-series starting
October.
The series will be written by origianal creator Kaare Andrews
and penciled by newcomer, Scott Young. And be given that cel-shaded
look.
The story will build upon what was already established in the
first book, and introduce some manga versions of established
Spidey related characters.
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Anyone wondering,
like me, whether the UK version of the Back To The Future trilogy
DVD boxset includes the same features as the US version can
probably stop wondering now. It seems that the US version is
going to contain more than the international versions after
all.
"Bob [Gale] wanted to reiterate to fans that the international
versions of the boxed-set will not contain all of the bonus
materials that the domestic release will have." Click
here for the full story.
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Well it's not been
that long since it's release, but come November 1st, those of
you with R1 playable DVD players will be able to watch Spider-Man
from the comfort of your sofa - or beanbag.
There are two versions being released, a pan & scan (boo!
hiss!) and a widescreen. But also there will be a special collectors
version featuring a reprint of Amazing Fantasy #15, an exclusive
drawing by John Romitas Jr. and Snr., a collectible numbered
film cel and more. Click
here for the full story.
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Apparantly there
are plans to make a movie version of the PC game, Return To
Castle Wolfenstein.
Two visible problems though 1) people would be seeing lots of
repeating action as the hero continually dies, tries again,
dies etc. and eventually resorts to turning 'god mode' on. And
2) the title will baffle the non-video gaming public into thinking
that they've missed the first movie.
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A remake of David
Cronenberg's cult classic, Scanners, is in the early stages
of pre-production.
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| Aliens
Vs. Predator At Last? |
Paul Anderson (Resident
Evil) has been named as the guy to write and direct the seemingly
lost movie adaption of Aliens Vs. Predator.
Apparantly the plot will generally follow the plot of the latest
game Aliens Vs. Predator 2, where a bunch of scientsts start
hatching eggs on a distant planet to make it appealing to the
Predator's hunting instincts, so they can study them further.
Sounds difficult to mess up a title like this, but you can guarantee
someone will do it.
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Kerrang! has got
it's own radio station. At the moment it's only available in
the West Midlands, but you can also listen online. Just go to
kerrangradio.co.uk
to check it out.
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Korn have added
a new date to their forthcoming UK 'tour'. The full 'tour' is
now:
London Arena September 7 and 8
Glasgow SECC 11
Manchester Evening News Arena 12
With support from Puddle Of Mudd and Trust Company.
It's hardly a 'tour' though is it? 4 dates?! sort it out! Probably
worth seeing if you can afford it though, especially for my
current favourites, Trust Company.
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IGN have some initial
stills from the forthcoming Ghost Ship movie starring Gabriel
Byrne, and produced by Dark Castle films (Thirteen Ghosts, House
On Haunted Hill).
The film takes place in a remote region of the Bering Sea, where
a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger
liner thought lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard, the
crew must confront the ship's horrific past and face the ultimate
fight for their lives. Click
here to check out the pics.
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Miramax has formed a partnership
with LEGO to create the first LEGO based CGI movie.
Based on the Bionicle toy line, Bionicle: Mask Of Light is currently
being produced and should be out, straight to video, by September
2003. There are also plans for a second Bionicle movie
scheduled for 2004.
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| New
Prodigy Album in 2003 |
In a recent interview
with London-based alternative music station, XFM, Liam Howlett
revealed that the new Prodigy album - with a working title of
'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned' - should be released in
March 2003.
He went on to say "We’re gonna release a single that’ll
be the proper single to lead up to the album just before. That’s
when it’ll all start. Howlett said that he's only completed
five songs that he's happy with, with other songs not quite
right. He continued: "I’m not happy with them. I’m
a perfectionist and its gotta be right"
Current single, 'Baby's Got A Temper' might not feature, because
it is "more akin to something off the last album than the
new one", according to Liam.
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| Terminator
3 Trailer Online |
The teaser trailer
for the forthcoming Terminator
3: Rise Of The Machines is now up. If you're at home on
a 56k connection then I wouldn't really bother as nothing much
happens.
Ah, what the hell, check it out anyway!
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Eight Crazy Nights
is a new animated movie featuring Adam Sandler playing, well,
himself. IF you like his brand of 'big kid' humour then it'll
be one to check out. Click
here for the trailer.
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A Batman Vs. Superman
movie could be coming to the screen by 2004. No-one has been
cast yet, but it will be directed by Wolfgang Petersen (The
Perfect Storm, Das Boot).
The screenplay for Batman vs. Superman will be penned by Andrew
Kevin Walker (Se7en). The story chronicles what happens when
the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader come to blows over their
different crime-fighting philosophies.
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Just a quick bit
of news because I don't have too many details right now, but
there is a Battle Of The Planets comic coming
out this month (July) and I've been told that a new Thundercats
mini-series of comics will be out sometime soon too, pencilled
and (I assume) written by none other than J. Scott Campbell!
(Danger Girl). If thats not something to get excited about I
don't know what is.
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| New
Tortured Souls 2 Pics |
McFarlane Toys'
Tortured Souls 2 will be out pretty soon, and just to whet your
appetite they've taken some lovely new photographs of the final
painted sculptures. Click
here to check them out.
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Well it's been a
long time coming, but now the dream has become a reality. The
Back To The Future trilogy has finally come to DVD, and oddly
enough Australia is the first to get it.
If you have a chipped or region free player, then click
here to pre-order the box set now. It's due out August 21st
for the excellent price of £17.99. I've heard that the
US one will have a few more features, but if you can't wait
that long, then get this one now.
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24 is one of the
better TV series' of late. Thought provoking, twisty-turny and
extremely tension mounting.
If like me you get frustrated at not being able to catch the
next episode at 11pm on a Sunday night, then come August you'll
be able to watch them all in one go. Well, you probably would
have seen them all by then anyway.
24 is apparantly coming to DVD. Not much details as yet, but
here hoping it's a great boxset. Click
here to go pre-order it.
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Just stumbled across
these mini-versions of two of the larger Autobots from the new
Transformers Robots In Disguise toy range. Of course they're
not as good as the full sized ones, but if it's small and cute,
who's complaining? Click
here to check out Optimus Prime, and
here to check out Ultra Magnus.
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To coincide with
the release of the Dragon's Lair 3D game, AnJon Inc./Digital
Leisure are releasing 4 action figures of characters from the
game: Dirk, Daphne, Mordroc and Singe.
Anyone that knows me knows how much I love Dragon's Lair. And
although the modelling could have bit a shade better on these,
I'm looking forward to finally having my Dirk figure.
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| Battle
Of The Planets Returns |
July sees the return
of Battle Of The Planets, but in comic book form courtesy of
Top Cow, the people that bring us such titles as Witchblade,
The Darkness and Tomb Raider.
The title will be an ongoing series, written by Munier Sharrieff
of Battle Chasers fame, and pencilled by newcomer, Wilson Tortosa.
All covers, layouts and art direction is by Alex Ross and the
first issue will have 4 varying covers, all done by acclaimed
artists, J. Scott Campbell, Michael Turner, Marc Silvestri,
and Alex Ross.
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Well I heard the
rumours and it looks like Jackass: The Movie is official, with
a scheduled US release date of August 9th. The official site
has a link to a
trailer on Moviefone.com for you to check out. And
click here to view the movie poster.
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Well, just days
after Ethan Embry was announced as playing Nightcrawler in the
X-Men sequel, it turns out he's not.
Alan Cumming (Josie & The Pussycats, Goldeneye, Eyes Wide
Shut) has apparantly officially signed for the role. He also
seems like a good choice for the part of the blue-skinned German
acrobatic priest; and although I would have loved to have seen
Embry in the role, i'm sure Cumming will carry off the accent
better.
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Cornelius are to
return to the UK. Following on from their festival appearances
at Glastonbury, Witness and T In The Park, they are to play
a special show at the London Shepards Bush Empire on July 15th.
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We were all hoping
and praying that George Lucas might actually listen to Star
Wars fans for once in his hairy-faced life - but it seems that
he considers ignorance to be bliss once more as he reveals that
the original versions of the first star wars trilogy will most
likely not be appearing on the DVDs.
Click
here for more on the subject. There is also a link to an
online petition. I've never bothered with them before, but I
had to at least try on this subject.
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Tomahawk and ex-Faith
No More singer, Mike Patton will be featuring as vocalist on
the new ep from The Dillinger Escape Plan in August.
The singer told Kerrang!: "I have to take my hat off to
Dillinger Escape Plan. They toured with Mr Bungle a couple of
years ago. I was into the idea of a weird one-off collaboration.
Most music is wallpaper. Nobody is taking any chances because
they're too afraid of looking like pussies."
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There are some times
when you just wished you lived in the US. Weezer are off on
a short US tour, and the support bands are reason enough to
go see them. Dashboard Confessional have been confirmed for
the whole tour; The Strokes will be playing for a still-to-be-determined
section of the tour, and new band Sparta (made up from ex-members
of At The Drive In) will be opening for all shows. Dates are
as follows:
July:
07 - Denver, Red Rocks
09 - Minneapolis, Xcel Arena
14 - Toronto, Molson Ampitheater
15 - Cleveland, Blossom Music Center
20 - Hartford, Meadows Music Center
26 - Philadelphia, Tweeter Center
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Just some quick
music news:
Trent Reznor is once again to supply the music for id software.
NIN music will feature in the forthcoming 'Doom III'.
And Pitchshifter guitarist, Jim Davies, having been a long time
collaborator with them, has joined Prodigy fulltime. Davies
has not left Pitchshifter though and at the moment the two bands'
work doesn't clash.
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There's a 4-page
preview of the new Kevim Smith and Terry and Rachel Dodson mini-series
Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, and short interview
with Terry Dodson over at marvel.com. Check
it out here.
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Ex-Kerbdog members'
new band, Wilt, are heading off on a UK tour in June. Be sure
to catch their post-emo melodies at:
June:
06th - Cardiff, Barfly
07th - Bristol, Louisiana
08th - Tunbridge Wells, Forum
09th - Exeter, Cavern Club
11th - London, Underworld
15th - Dublin, Ambassador Theatre
21st - Northampton, Soundhaus
22nd - Chelmsford, Army & Navy
23rd - Leicester, Charlotte
24th - Brighton, Pressure Point
25th - Oxford, Zodiac
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Ethan Embry (Can't
Hardly Wait, Emprie Records, Freakylinks) has been cast to play
Nightcrawler in X², the sequel to 2000's X-Men. Also joining
him is newcomer Aaron Stanford who'll be playing British superfiend,
Pyro. We're big fans of Mr. Embry here; I just hope the German
accent won't be too cringeworthy.
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There are some details
on the deleted scenes to be included in the much anticipated
Back To The Future trilogy DVD boxset due out later this year
over at bttf.com.
There is also a pack shot of the Australian version of the set,
although it also states that the US version will most likely
include some features not found on the international versions.
Thank Christ for chipped DVD players.
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Check out the forthcoming
'Creepy
Tiki Mug Set' from Roman Dirge. A box set featuring two
Creepy Tiki Mugs, specially sculpted by Dirge and a 12-page
receipe book.
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To celebrate the
10th Anniversary of Spawn, a special microsite has been put
together at spawn.com that features a timeline, interview, wallpaper
and a gallery. Check
it out here.
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Well it appears
that the Back To The Future Trilogy DVD set has finally got
itself a release date, well, the R1 version has anyway. A Wal-Mart
release list was leaked to IGN and BTTF and a bunc of other
DVD titles are on the way:
October
10/02 The Scorpion King
10/15 Scooby Doo
10/22 E.T.
10/22 Mr. Deeds November
11/5 Spider-Man
11/12 Ice Age
11/19 Men in Black II
11/26 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
11/26 Spirit
December
12/3 Stuart Little 2
12/10 Lilo & Stitch
12/17 Back to the Future Trilogy
12/17 Spy Kids
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A new 2-part Hellboy
comic is coming soon from Dark Horse. 'The Third Wish' is said
to be Hellboy's weirdest journey yet. Check
out a preview here.
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Feeder singer/guitarist,
Grant Nicholas has said that the bands follow-up album to 'Echo
Park' will be a lot darker than the usual Feeder following the
tragic death of drummer John Lee.
The album which is scheduled for release towards the end of
this year or early next year is nearly half way to completion
with Ten backing tracks completed out of a possible 15, with
vocals to be added at a later date.
Feeder have also apparantly been working closely with ex-Skunk
Anansie drummer Mark Richardson. The band have been friendly
with the drummer since before Lee's death. But a final decision
has not yet been made on Lee's replacement
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Well it's still
another two days before anyone over here can officially play
Super Monkeyball on the Nintendo Gamecube. However, those in
the US can look forward to Super Monkeyball 2 appearing sometime
this Autumn. Check
out some screenshots here.
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Just two short pieces
of movie news:
Hawaii Five-O is to be made into a feature film by Dreamworks.
And Marvel along with Artisan are going to have another crack
at making a movie of The Punisher. As long as the make the opposite
of the Dolph Lundgren one they should have a hit on their hands.
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| Episode
II: The Music Video |
First debuted on
MTV, the Episode II music video is also available for online
fans at starwars.com
in QuickTime format.
Across the Stars is an original composition by John Williams,
crafted specifically for the music video. It takes a number
of major themes and melodies from throughout the Episode II
score and combines it into a single piece. The music video includes
documentary footage of the scoring session with Williams and
the London Symphony Orchestra as well as scenes from Attack
of the Clones.
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| Kevin
Smith To Write Spidey |
Writer
J. Michael Straczynski was on the verge of signing an exclusive,
multi-year contract with Marvel - a contract designed to allow
him to continue writing Spider-Man (and possibly on a more-frequent-than-monthly
basis), and work on other new projects starring other Marvel
characters.
Writer Kevin Smith will also agree to a multi-year exclusive
contract with Marvel, with both writers likely signing for two
years. Smith, Straczynski and Marvel have big plans, including
Smith taking over the regular writing chores of Amazing Spider-Man,
possibly in late 2002 or early 2003 [though Smith said, "If
they're smart, they won't hand the book over until they've got
a bunch of scripts from me"], and perhaps with artist Terry
Dodson attached. For more on this story, click
here.
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Some intersting
gossip about the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie here.
It seems The Hulk isn't going to transform between Bruce Banner
and The Hulk throughout, it'll be more of a slow transformation
as the movie progresses, showing us the final Hulk at the end...much
like The Fly.
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| Additional
Star Wars Scenes |
The original Star
Wars trilogy is probably going to get messed around with and
released on us once again thanks to the continuing onset of
George Lucas' insanity.
Click here for some news on plans for an additional Alderaan
scene in Star Wars showing the people's reactions to the Death
Star. God help us.
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The Hellboy movie,
based on Mike Mignola's comic book has been greenlit, with Ron
Perlman to play the title role. For more info, click
here.
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Red Dwarf is finally
going to be released on DVD. Each season is going to be released
individually, starting this November with season one.
Apparantly a Red Dwarf movie is being made, so they're getting
people to do DVD extras while they're all in one place. It's
good to know that the season one set will not be the remastered
version. For more on this news, click
here.
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Apparantly, Lucasarts
have re-entered an agreement with Totally Games and are going
to bring Secret Weapons Of The Lufftwaffe to the PC and next-gen
consoles.
Check
out the report on IGN, but they seem to be referring to
it as a new game? Am I the only one who remembers this title
from the old Amiga days?
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Now I remember reading
a couple of years ago that Liam Howlett said that Prodigy weren't
going to make any more albums because of the pressure, they
were only going to be a live band.
Well whaddya know, they've got a new album coming out. 'Always
Outnumbered, Never Outgunned' later this year via XL. Their
first single to be taken from the album, 'Baby's Got A Temper'
and is due for release during the summer.
In a recent interview, band leader Liam Howlett said: "There's
a certain humour in our music. It's not going to be a mad, aggressive
album. No one can do that better than Rage Against the Machine,
and now they're gone, so no one should be doing that."
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The trailer for
the next installment of Star Dudes - Episode 1: The Phantom
Dude, is up on theforce.net. Click
here to check out the trailer.
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Apparnatly, the
sequel to 'Dude, Where's My Car?' is currently being written,
titled 'Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?'
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Theres some Aliens
Vs. Predator movie gossip over on IGN.
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The R1 DVD of Black
Hawk Down will be released on June 11th. A Special Ediiton is
also being made but with no release date as yet.
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Check out these
new pics over on IGN from the new Terminator: Dawn Of Fate
game on PS2.
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There is a pic of
Ben Affleck and Jon Favreau in character as Matt Murdock and
Foggy Nelson in the forthcoming Daredevil movie over
at Ain't It Cool.
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Just seen on Film
2002 that the following films are planning to have the disasterous
remake treatment:
Westworld, with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Yul Brynner's role
as the psychotic cyborg.
The Wicker Man - this time set in America and with Nicholas
Cage in Edward Woodward's role.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
And Barbarella with Drew Barrymore as the title character.
Can things possibly get any worse? Tell you what, how about
making some NEW movies, huh?
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These have probably
been available for a while but I've only just noticed them and
thought I'd let you know.
If you've got a spare $1,000 burning a hole in your pocket,
then why not check out these, erm...questionable Beastie Boys
'dolls'.
They come in their own sardine tin and are clothed as they are
on the cover of the 'Hello Nasty' album. They also come with
a display stand for each and an extra outfit like in the 'Intergalactic'
vid. Check
them out anyway. It's nice to know that Grand Royal and
the Beasties aren't condoning the price though.
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In more Hollywood
remake news, the cult classic anime, Akira,
is the next in line to get the remake treatment. Why this
is isanyone's guess. I'll go out on a limb now and say that
it just won't work.
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| Mutants,
Monsters &Marvels |
A special interview
of Stan Lee, conducted by Kevin Smith entitled 'Mutants,
Monsters & Marvels' is to be released in the US about
the same timeas the theatrical release of Spider-Man.
During the course of a nearly two-hour interview, Lee answers
Smith's questions about the creation of Spider-Man, the history
of Marvel Comics and the experiences that helped Lee create
his legion of iconic comic book characters, ranging from the
Incredible Hulk to the X-Men.
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| Transformers:
The War Within |
Yes another Transformers
mini 6-part comic series is coming out way.
'The
War Within' is set prior to the Transformers arriving on
Earth and takes place on Cybertron just as Optimus Prime has
been appointed leader of the Autobots. Megatron has ruthless
plans to conquer the planet, but those plans go much deeper
and a war is fought underneath the surface of Cybertron to save
the planet and the universe.
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Paul Verhoeven,
director os such sci-fi classics as Robocop and Starship Troopers
is to direct 'Batavia's
Graveyard'.
This Film Four produced movie is about "the murderous aftermath
of the seventeenth century shipwreck of the Dutch East India
Company's flagship vessel, the Batavia." and will be an
adaption of the book by Mike Dash.
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IGN have a review
of the ultra-sexy Panasonic Q Gamecube. Check
out the review.
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I can't be bothered
to talk much about this news as it's just too awful to think
about. The
Italian Job is going to be remade. Set in LA, this 'high-octane'
hard-edged hesit movie is going to star Marky-Mark Wahlberg
as Charlie Croker. For Christ's sake will that guy ever learn?!
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| Pitchshifter
Single Details |
I'm feeling lethargic,
so here, I'll copy and paste from Kerrang:
"Pitchshifter will release their latest, limited-edition
single 'Eight Days' on April 15 via Mayan/Sanctuary. Says frontman
JS Clayden: "The songs about working. The UK has the longest
work hours and the shittest pay. I wrote it after September
11, after watching the news for hours on TV and dragging your
arse out of bed at 8am the following morning. It's pretty vitriolic.""
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Disney recently
announced
plans to make some changes to their Disney World resort
in Orlando, Florida, with the Back To The Future ride possibly
being affected:
"Many attractions involve technology that can be freshened
through new software at costs far lower than building an entire
new ride. For example, Gault said, the short film at Universal
Studios most popular attraction, the Back to the Future ride,
could someday be replaced with one from a more "relevant"
movie."
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John Conner will
be played by Nick Stahl, and rumours that Claire Forlani will
play the lead have been quashed as Sophia Bush will be playing
Kate Miller.
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| Highlander:
Immortal Edition |
$29.99
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The
cult classic Highlander has finally been given a decent
DVD. 'The Immortal Edition' features a new anamorphic
transfer, with Dolby Digital EX and DTS 6.1 sound.
Special Features include a commentary by the director
and two producers, plus three Queen music videos.
A limited edition of the DVD also features a bonus CD
containing the three Queen songs featured on the DVD. |
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Some very nice limited
edition Transformers lithos over at Dreamwave. Each is limited
to 1000 copies only, so best get them while you can.
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Check
this out for some Japanese weirdness, of which we're great
fans. Starts off as a Godzilla trailer, then turns into some
weird Pokemon type anime...you gotta love 'em.
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Theres a short interview
with Sam Raimi over on Ain't
It Cool, where he reveals that his next movie after Spider-Man
will be Evil Dead 4. Can't wait! There are some questions which
should be tackled in the forum
though. Like, is he going to be in England in the future? and
how come he didn't die after sleeping for 700 years? Stuff like
that.
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Box Car Racer is
the new band featuring Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker from Blink
182. They recently played a series of shows to premiere the
new band.
Also featuring guitarist David Kennedy and bassist Anthony Celestino,
Box Car Racer's sound was described by fans as more mature in
style and closer to Jimmy Eat World than Blink 182.
Personally, I thought this is direction Blink 182 would take
after hearing their emo-tinged TOYPAJ album.
Box Car Racer release their debut album in the US on May 21.
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Nutty Japanese speed-techo
punks, Mad Capsule Markets are gracing the UK with a series
of gigs in May:
Brighton Concorde 2 (20)
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (21)
University of London Union (22)
Birmingham Academy 2 (24)
Manchester Roadhouse (27)
Glasgow King Tut's (28)
You can probably expect more dates to be added to this list
too.
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Some new funky Head
Knockers (or 'Wobblers' as I like to call them) coming,
including Ash from Evil Dead, Spider-Man and The Green Goblin
from the Spider-Man movie and a couple of Nightmare Before Christmas
kids too.
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If you scroll to
the bottom of the page, you'll find a new link to the eyemachine
news archive. This is where I'll stick in all the old news stories
I remove from this column.
There's an interesting
little interview with Kevin Smiths punching-bag, Ben 'I'll kick
your f**king ass!' Affleck over on Access
Hollywood.
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There are some nifty
screenshots of the forthcoming Spider-Man
the movie game for the GBA over on IGN.
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There's a R1 SE
DVD of Paul Verhoeven's classic Starship Troopers coming from
Colombia Tristar on May 28th. The two-disc set includes a newly
remastered HD anamorphic transfer and the following features:
Remastered in High Definition and Anamorphic Video; Widescreen
Presentation; Commentary by Paul Verhoeven and Cast Members;
Commentary by Paul Verhoeven and Ed Neumeier; Isolated Score;
Cast and Crew Filmographies; Deleted Scenes; Documentary: "Death
from Above"; Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes; Screen Tests;
Scene Deconstructions by Paul Verhoeven; Special Effects Comparisons
for Eight Sequences
So pretty similar to the origianl apart from a new commentary
track and a couple of featurettes.
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If the recent Transformers
Generation 1 6-part comic series from Dreamwave wasn't enough,
they're producing a new ongoing series - Transformers Armada
- to coincide with the new toy line from Hasbro.
There are some preview
pics over at Newsarama to whet your appetite
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There are some shots
of Kevin
Smith on the set of Daredevil over at viewaskew, plus a
quick Q&A session with Kevin about the movie too.
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eyemachine,
ever ones to alert you to weird DVDs, would like to point
your attention to this - Thumbtanic. I can't even think
why someone would get this, but you shouldn't judge, should
you. Although I think judging is quite safe with this
one. |
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The
forthcoming Weezer album, Maladroit, will be released
in the US on May 14th - or so I've been told. |
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| Happy
Birthday NME, Love A |
A's London Forum
show (May 29th) will now be part of the NME's 50th Birthday
Celebrations. Strange this considering how much the NME criticise
them. Ah well.
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Ubi Soft® Entertainment,
one of the world’s leading video game publishers, announced
today a worldwide deal with 20th Century Fox to develop the
popular game Aliens vs. Predator for the first time ever on
the Game Boy® Advance hand-held video game system. Ubi Soft
has acquired the rights to develop Aliens vs. Predator until
2003.
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| eyemachine
update: Flameboy |
If you scroll down
a bit and look on the left of the [home] page you'll find a
link to the new Flameboy online comic strip.
In between reviews and general site maintenance, this will hopefully
be updated on a weekly basis, meaning there will be a new strip
each Tuesday evening.
Not much news over
the Easter weekend for obvious reasons, but I did (with the
help of Trevor) discover the joys of Sci-Fi Warehouse.
Be sure to check out the Super-Deformed
Star Wars Talkers; the Pre-School
Star Wars toys; Gorillaz
models and the Korn
models among many other excellent toys, such as Tron,
The
Muppets and Camberwick
Green.
London's Finsbury
Park will be getting it's very own little punk festival for
a day coutesy of Mean
Fiddler.
Deconstruction 2002 will take place on 3rd June, 2002 between
11.30am – 10pm featuring:
LAGWAGON; LOSTPROPHETS; MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES; ALL; H20; MIDTOWN;
THE MOVIELIFE; RANDY; TURBO AC’s
More acts are too be announced soon. Also public and professional
skate ramps, snowboarding, BMX and motocross. Competitions will
also be hosted throughout the day with featured appearances
from Kingsize Halfpipe with top international skaters and BMX-ers.
Tickets £17.50 Adv (subject to booking fee)
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Sega have announced
that it will releasing Game Boy Advance versions of Virtua Tennis
in late 2002; Crazy Taxi, Super Monkeyball and Phantasy Star
Collection in late 2003.
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Nintendo and Sega
have announced that the new version of F-Zero will be made for
both their Triforce arcade machines and the Gamecube. This from
IGN:
"The titles, tentatively dubbed F-Zero AC for Triforce
and F-Zero GC for GameCube, will be developed by Sega studio
Amusement Vision and Nintendo respectively. GCN owners will
then, using a Memory Card 59, be able to trade data and saves
between the two versions."
This sounds like a step in the right direction for not only
revamping the arcade business, but also somehow bringing the
industry together using the Memory Card 59 to carry on playing
wherever you are (well, where theres an arcade machine or Gamecube
anyway). Click
here for the full story
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| Disney
Sports On Gamecube |
Konami of America
has announced that it will be producing various sports titles
for the Nintendo Gamecube. Titles such as Disney Sports Soccer,
Disney Sports Basketball and Disney Sports Baseball
should be arriving later in the year. At least in the US anyway.
This sounds like just the sort of thing Nintendo are aiming
for with the Gamecube - fun, colourful titles - and being on
a Nintendo machine there's hope they won't come out looking
as cheap as half the Disney titles that graced the PlayStation.
There's no indication that these titles will be released here,
but if they are you can be guaranteed it'll be considerably
later.
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| Disney
Sports On Gamecube |
Konami of America
has announced that it will be producing various sports titles
for the Nintendo Gamecube. Titles such as Disney Sports Soccer,
Disney Sports Basketball and Disney Sports Baseball
should be arriving later in the year. At least in the US anyway.
This sounds like just the sort of thing Nintendo are aiming
for with the Gamecube - fun, colourful titles - and being on
a Nintendo machine there's hope they won't come out looking
as cheap as half the Disney titles that graced the PlayStation.
There's no indication that these titles will be released here,
but if they are you can be guaranteed it'll be considerably
later.
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There's an extensive
Q&A session with the saviour of comics, Brian Michael
Bendis over at Hero Realm. Just
click here for the interview.
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