May 2008 Archive
May 30: Fringe follows House, Dollhouse after 24 -- Fox schedules Fringe to follow House this fall, and Dollhouse to follow 24 next January.
May 30: Garbage? On Fox? The hell you say -- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is adding some garbage to the mix later this fall, and that's supposed to be some sort of compliment.
May 29: This is why we can't have nice things -- Old people who never grew up + old band reunion concerts = 1.5 metric tons of suck.
May 28: Dollhouse pre-fans have some spirit -- Fan websites, forums, and letter writing campaigns are not what a network is looking for when a show hits the bubble.
May 27: On gifting away the posessory credit -- Any director that wants the posessory credit can get it just by asking, but who needs to ask when the media and bloggers just give it away automatically?
May 27: New TV shows and movies released on DVD -- Rambo, Darfur Now, Lipstick Jungle, He-Man, Rawhide, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Invaders; other new movies TV shows recently released on DVD.
May 27: A Post By... -- There are a number of things I'd love to write about later today now that everyone is back home and recovering from the long weekend. It seems that Twitter's well earned reputation for failure is being looked after with the shutdown of the instant message gateway on Friday that was supposed to be back up on Saturday, but here we are heading into Tuesday and it's still dead. It's too bad they've established themselves so well (like a TiVo or Windows) that it's really not possible for a competitor to come in and challenge them immediately, because lord knows they could desperately use some competition.This may be petty and to a lot of people completely irrelevant and boring, but it's...
May 21: On odd and sucky TV promos -- Networks are responsible for making promos for new TV episodes, and they almost always suck. Why aren't the show's producers tasked with this instead?
May 20: New TV shows and movies released on DVD -- National Treasure 2, 24 Season 1 - Special edition, Bill Engvall, A Haunting, Jeff Corwin, Young Maverick; more recently released on DVD.
May 19: Stingy Hulu release sched may increase piracy -- Hulu has instituted an eight-day waiting period for the most recent episode of certain shows, such as House, and Battlestar Galactica.
May 19: Narnia sequel not so spectacular -- Narnia sequel falls well below expectations after another studio breaks the bank just because they can.
May 18: Journalism may be a relic in history -- In liberated Afghanistan, a journalist who "insulted Islam" has been sentenced to death. Unless you looked for it, you'd never even know how bad the world really is.
May 16: Movies, TV shows recently released -- Recently released movies, recently released TV shows -- Stargate Infinity, The Incredible Hulk, Two and a Half Men, Untraceable, The Great Debaters, Drawn Together; more..
May 14: Bones could learn a lot from House -- Bones used the last minute of its finale as the "twist", while House spent its entire episode (of two parts) to do the job. There simply is no comparing the two.
May 12: NBC says 4th place is the new 1st -- Jeff Zucker says ratings don't matter; Ben Silverman books new reality show with polar bears and flaming swords!
May 12: Jimmy Caan and Peter Jackson are awesome -- Lindsay Lohan has nothing on Jimmy Caan for being an awesome failure at life.
May 11: 'Pirate's' Verbinski to helm Bioshock for Universal -- Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski will adapt 2k Games 'Bioshock' into a feature film for Universal.
May 10: Nobody wants to see Speed Racer -- Early returns for Speed Racer look grim; this is a project that should have never been done in the first place.
May 08: Congress wants ID to buy M-rated games -- Ars reports that a bill has been introduced in the House to require ID in order to buy M-rated video games -- right after an FTC report says it's getting harder for minors to buy M-rated games.
May 07: GTA IV does $500 million first-week -- GTA IV does $500 million in sales during the first week, for a $100 million game production, plus at least $50 million marketing -- turns out it takes money to make money.
May 05: Top 5 posts for April 2008 -- Game violence, the future of television and streaming video, and the return of Battlestar Galactica.
May 05: Abrams gives bad vibes towards Trek sequel -- Abrams doesn't strike me as a person that understands this. Quite the opposite, J. J. Abrams was the safe bet that they knew wouldn't try to take Trek out of the box in that way, and his choice was in service of that philosophy and practically guarantees this won't be what people really want to see.
May 05: Blu-ray fails at life -- With the death of HD-DVD, Blu-ray sales remain flat after a 1st quarter collapse.
May 04: Iron Man cashes in $201+ million globally -- Fears that the release of GTA IV could threaten Marvel/Paramount's Iron Man were for naught; flick opened over $200 million globally for one of the largest releases ever.
May 02: Iron Man wins early praise -- Marvel's self-financed Iron Man looks to take off huge this weekend, perhaps their second-best performing movie ever.