Fox Schedules Full Run Of “Dollhouse” - First Season

So, keep watching and maybe we’ll get that second season….

Q&A With Amanda Tapping

Over at Josephmallozzi’s Weblog, they’ve got an extensive Q&A with Amanda Tapping.  An excerpt is below with a link to the entire interview.  Enjoy!

Given my position, I’ve always been uncomfortable referring to myself as a fan of a particular actor or actress.  Sure, there are performers whose work I admire and enjoy, but I would never go so far as to call myself “a fan”.  That said, I will say this: I am a fan of Amanda Tapping.  In fact, I’m a HUGE Amanda Tapping fan.  And I’m not the only one.  No, I’m not talking about all those Samantha Carter supporters out there.  I’m talking about pretty much anyone who has had the pleasure to work with Amanda over the years.  She’s immensely talented, ever-professional, and just plain delightful.

But enough of me talking about Amanda.  Let’s let Amanda talk about Amanda.  Here’s her Q&A.  At the risk of inundating her, I trimmed the initial 20+ pages of questions down to half that before sending them her way - so if you didn’t get your question answered, my apologies.

Over to Amanda…

Ngan writes: “1. What’s your take on Sam’s and Jack’s relationship? Dating, Engaged, Married?”

AT: Sleeping together…once he’s retired. Crazy, mad, passionate love. Way too much sexual tension for it not to pay off. Then, they’ll take it from there. Dating….Fishing….Dating…..

“2. Do you want to see an acknowledgement of their relationship in the next movie? If so, will there be one?”

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Price Increase For Blu-ray Movies On Netflix

This appeared on the Netflix Blog this morning…

Hi, Jessie Becker here, VP of Marketing, with a message for our members who have added Blu-ray access to their accounts. This message does not apply to you if you have not added Blu-ray access to your account.

The number of titles available for us to purchase on Blu-ray has increased significantly. Our Blu-ray selection has grown more than 60% in just 6 months to over 1,300 titles, and is continuing to expand quickly. Blu-ray adoption among our members has also grown – it’s now close to 10%. As we buy more, you are able to choose from a rapidly expanding selection of Blu-ray titles. And as you’ve probably heard, Blu-ray discs are substantially more expensive than standard definition DVDs – often as much as 30% more.

We’re committed to providing a high quality Blu-ray experience for our members who choose to add Blu-ray access, and in order to do that we need to adjust Blu-ray pricing. As a result, the monthly charge for Blu-ray access is increasing for most plans and will now vary by plan.

If you have added Blu-ray access to your account, this change will take effect on your next billing date on or after April 27, 2009. You will also receive an email from us letting you know the monthly charge for your plan. (Members who do not have Blu-ray access today and add it to their account in the future will see the new prices as of today.)

To avoid any confusion, here are the charges for each of the plans.

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‘GhostBusters’ Game Coming Soon To Your iPhone / iPod Touch

Sony Pictures Television just announced a bunch of upcoming mobile games for iPhone/iPod Touch and other mobile platforms, including Q*Bert, Angels & Demons, and Voltron. But the most notable release, if only because it makes the joke in our headline work, is an iPhone/Touch Ghostbusters game to be released in June.

According to the press release, the game allows players to “catch ghosts and save citizens from being slimed as you make your way through the big city.” The June release date, which coincides with the console Ghostbusters games, suggests that it will be similar in design to one of them — probably either the DS or Wii game.

Also potentially cool: Top Agent, a multiplayer James Bond game for iPhone to be released in August.

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NVIDIA Stays Ahead Of Graphics Game Business

NVIDIA is the name that most people think of when it comes to computer graphics, be it on the desktop or a notebook. After all, their rise to the top of the heap have been nothing short of phenomenal, and it was during their constant fight with ATi many years ago that kept the game interesting for bystanders to watch. Unfortunately for the latter, they somehow bungled up along the way, and it was defensive play all the way even until now where ATi plays catch up with NVIDIA in many ways. Still, it is nice to see ATi keep NVIDIA on their toes so that we consumers get the best from companies at all times. Today, NVIDIA has just introduced its most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro professional GPU solutions ever, which we’ll look at in greater detail right after the jump.

According to Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA, “Our mission with Quadro is to help customers solve the world’s most challenging visual computing problems. We learn every day from them and are humbled by their brilliance. The new lineup, with the flagship Quadro FX 5800, sets the stage for the next ten years of innovation.”

Prices start from less than $100 (!) upwards to standalone visual computing systems, and among the video cards in this new series include the following: Read more

Star Trek Sequel Announced - Already

Paramount Pictures is moving forward with development on a Star Trek sequel, hiring Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay. Lindelof produced the first film but has been brought on to reteam with Kurtzman and Orci, with whom he is currently co-scripting DreamWorks’ Cowboys and Aliens.  Kurtzman told Variety that they will wait to see what fan reaction is to the first film, which hits theaters on May 8th, before proceeding.

“Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,” he said. “With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have the opportunity to explore incredibly exciting things. We’ll be ambitious about what we’ll do.”

They are hoping to have a completed script by Christmas, which would likely mean a summer 2011 release. No decision has been made yet on whether JJ Abrams will return to direct, but he will at least produce.

Of course, the writing deal announcement doesn’t guarantee a green light. If the film somehow underperforms, the sequel won’t happen. It seems like Paramount thinks they have a huge hit in their hands. The studio is holding the film’s premiere more than a month before the film’s domestic release, which is certainly a vote of confidence.

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Sam Raimi Says Spider-Man 4 Script Here By Summer 09

Sam Raimi, who will direct Spider-Man 4, told SCI FI Wire that the film’s script, by David Lindsay-Abaire (Inkheart), should be ready by summer. "Right now, David Lindsay-Abaire is working on a draft of the new picture," Raimi said in an exclusive telephone interview on Monday. "And he’s hard at work, and hopefully we’ll see something in about three months."

Raimi said that the film has to make its previously announced May 6, 2011, release date. "We have to make the release date, and on all of these pictures, the Spider-Man films—and I’m sure it’s the same as with many of the other bigger-budgeted films—they have release dates far in advance of a screenplay," he said. "So it’s about getting it ready the best you can in time for the first day of production. That’s what we’ve always done, and that’s what we’ll try to do again."

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Marvel Digital Comics - Free Mondays (3/30/09)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection or a comic that’s in stores now.

How would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the school and work week? Here ‘ya go!

SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #2 (2008)
AVENGERS #189 (1963)
WAR OF KINGS #1
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #17
SKAAR: SON OF HULK #1 Find out what next week’s five free digital comics will be below!

DAREDEVIL #111 (1998)
SECRET INVASION: SPIDER-MAN - BRAND NEW DAY #1
MS. MARVEL #27 (2006)
SECRET INVASION: THOR #1
CLOAK AND DAGGER #1

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Megan Fox Tired of Being a Sex Symbol - No Really

Poor Megan Fox. We’ve misunderstood her all this time. It turns out that, despite looking like that and flaunting it at seemingly every opportunity, Fox doesn’t have any interest in being known for her looks anymore. No, no, she means it. Stop laughing.

“You can’t be [a sex symbol] 24 hours a day,” Fox told Empire. “I can’t be a professional celebrity or a professional sexpot. I can’t do that to myself. I just want to work and make the right choices, and study and develop as an actress.”

As admirable as that is, I have a hard time buying it. Why? Well, Fox went on to tell Empire, “I don’t want to be on the cover of every magazine that exists. I want to try not to do that. It’s my job to show people something different,” even though she posed suggestively on that very magazine’s cover for the interview.

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Skype For iPhone Now Available In U.S.

Engadget has a report on how Skype for the iPhone is doing so far…

It’s finally here, and even a few minutes early.  Skype for iPhone is now available in the US iTunes store, free of charge. We’ve heard great thing from the folks in Japan who’ve been fiddling with it for the last twelve hours, and so far it’s sounding pretty good for us, too, with only minor hiccups. Not sure if it’s a glitch, but despite what we heard earlier, we seem to be able to dial out while on 3G and not over WiFi (at least running OS 3.0 beta). Hit up the read link for quickest route to the app store page, and let us know what you think. Betcha wish you could ditch that AT&T voice plan now, huh?

Update: We’re getting reports the app is crashing for jailbroken iPhones — and possibly non-jailbroken ones as well. We just got our first denial when dialing out over 3G via a popup notification, but it only happened once and we were back to old habits one call later. We did experience a brief period where no sound was coming through, but that might have something to do with using OS 3.0 and was remedied by restarting the phone.

Update 2: So far, it looks like dialing over 3G’s only working for those with OS 3.0 beta, but unfortunately all of us in that situation are now suffering from frequent crashes and loss of audio. Things seem to be going smoothly for those running the latest non-beta firmware, but the calls only work over WiFi. That said, when using the app as intended (non-beta firmware over WiFi), audio quality was surprisingly good, far better than any third party apps we’ve used.

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