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Box Office Breakdown: No Dilemma for The Green Hornet
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Disney, Fox Searchlight, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Weinstein Company, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Biopics, Drama, Family, Period, Remakes, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Sports, Thrillers, Box Office, Lists,
The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou, brought in a lot green for Sony this weekend. Although the film came nowhere near its $110 million budget, Hornet did earn enough ($33.5 million) to make it the second-best grosser ever during the MLK Jr. holiday frame. (Cloverfield earned $40.1 million over its first three days in 2008.)
Despite the combined comedic forces of Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, The Dilemma turned out to be more of a non-issue. The Universal entry -- which cost $70 million to produce -- failed to even crack the $20 million mark. That's the worst debut for Vaughn since 2007's Fred Claus and the worst open for James ever (if you don't count the films he only voiced).
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Gran Turismo 5 looks almost like real life
Posted by John Kilhefner Categories: Driving, PlayStation 3,
Video games have pushed the boundaries between fantasy and reality since their creation. Each year a game comes along that suceeds in blurring these lines even further - Grand Turismo 5 is one such game. The creators of GT5 even put together a side by side comparison of the actual Nürburgring track and the video game version, and the results are stunning. Check out the comparison video after the jump.
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In Theaters This Weekend: January 14, 2011
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Sony, Universal, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Documentary, Independent, Comedy, Lists, New Releases, Trailers,
- The Dilemma (PG-13): starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly (directed by Ron Howard)
- The Green Hornet (PG-13): starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz (directed by Michel Gondry)
- Barney's Version* (R): starring Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike (directed by Richard J. Lewis)
- Burning Palms* (R): starring Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell (directed by Christopher B. Landon)
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Sony sues PlayStation 3 fail0verflow hackers
Posted by Drea Avellan Categories: Culture, PlayStation 3, Sony,
However popular hacking or moding consoles has become, one thing remains true -- it's Illegal. A fact Sony is not willing to overlook. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA ) is suing 21 year-old hacker George Hotz (AKA "geohot") and more than 100 members of fail0verflow, who contributed to the release of the PlayStation 3's root key. However, this is not new to Sony. Last year Hotz published an exploit for the PlayStation 3, but it wasn't until this year that the hackers released a complete "jailbreak" of the system. "SCEA charged Hotz and the others with violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, plus breaches of California copyright law, breach of contract, and other violations. SCEA also asked the court for a temporary restraining order preventing the plaintiffs from posting any code, including the so-called Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm keys, encryption keys, dePKG firmware decrypter, or other tools." Restraining order? Ouch.
This restraining order has been set in motion to prevent Hotz to post the jail break information on this website. But we all know this never works, right?
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Box Office Breakdown: Weak Showing for Country Strong
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Disney, Fox Searchlight, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Weinstein Company, Action, Adaptation, Animation, Drama, Family, Music, Remakes, Sequels, Comedy, Sports, Thrillers, Box Office, Lists,
Gwyneth Paltrow's appearances on Glee, the Country Music Awards and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon couldn't help her film's performance at the box office.
Country Strong's first week in wide release strummed up less than $10 million over the past three days. The good news? The film only cost approximately $12 million to produce. In comparison, True Grit -- another film in its third week -- finally rode past Little Fockers for a first-place finish.
Meanwhile, Season of the Witch, the only other new entry in the Top Ten, fired up $10.6 million. That was enough to give the Nicolas Cage feature a third place debut.
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In Theaters This Weekend: January 7, 2011
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Sony, Action, Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Language, Independent, Music, Period, Comedy, Thrillers, New Releases, Trailers,
Here are a few selections in theaters this weekend:
- Country Strong** (PG-13): starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund (directed by Shana Feste)
- Season of the Witch (PG-13): starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Ulrich Thomsen (directed by Dominic Sena)
- Americatown* (NR): starring Jonathan Guggenheim, Cory Howard, Jon Stafford (directed by Kenneth Price)
- If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle* (NR): starring George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Mihai Constantin (directed by Florin Serban)
- No One Killed Jessica* (NR): starring Vidya Balan, Rani Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma (directed by Raj Kumar Gupta)
- Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune* (NR): (directed by Kenneth Bowser)
- The Time That Remains* (NR): starring Ali Suliman, Ella Suleiman, Saleh Bakri (directed by Ella Suleiman)
Hackers claim to have jailbroken the PS3
Posted by Patrick Lambert Categories: Culture, Mods/Hacks, PlayStation 3, Sony,
During the Chaos Communication Conference, a group of hackers claimed that they discovered the Sony Playstation 3 private key, which the device uses to verify code and run its DRM system, preventing users from running games that hasn't been approved by Sony. In a long talk, they described the process of how the system works, and what it took to break it down. Consoles running the latest firmware are currently unable to run homebrew games, but if the claims are true, this would give any user complete control over their system. While it doesn't mean much for the average user right now, it could lead to the ability to run Linux, or any other software on the console. In a nutshell, it seems the code which gives the device random numbers to generate the crypto needed, instead returns a predictable number, as illustrated above. Hit the jump for videos of the talk.
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Playstation Phone to be called ‘Xperia Play’
Posted by John Kilhefner Categories: Smartphones, Rumors, Video Games,
While 'PlayStation Phone' seemed to be the way to go for what is essentially a PlayStation phone, the device is most likely going to be branded 'Xperia Play' by Sony Ericcson.
This comes after learning of a number of .com, .net, and .org domain names registered as XperiaPlay by a PR agency known as Jung Relations, whose long list of clients includes Sony Ericcson.
Xperia Play is set to launch at MWC this February, but won't reach retail store shelves until April.
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Deal of the Day: $300 off Sony VAIO VPCEC3AFX 17-inch laptop
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Hot Deals, PC / Laptop,
Today’s Deal of the Day offers a notebook that can serve as a desktop replacement. The Sony VAIO VPCEC3AFX may have a ridiculous name, but it's a 17.3-inch 2.53 GHz Core i5-powered laptop with a 1080p display and built-in Blu-ray player with a 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics chip, and you get it at a 25% discount, saving you $300, with shipping included:
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In Theaters This Weekend: December 17, 2010
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Columbia Pictures, Disney, Fox Searchlight, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Biopics, Drama, Family, Horror, Independent, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Lists, New Releases, Trailers,
Here are a few selections in theaters this weekend:
- Black Swan** (R): starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel (directed by Darren Aronofsky)
- The Fighter** (R): starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams (directed by David O. Russell)
- How Do You Know (PG-13): starring Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Paul Rudd (directed by James L. Brooks, )
- TRON: Legacy (PG): starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde (directed by Joseph Kosinski)
- Yogi Bear (PG): starring Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Tom Cavanagh (directed by Eric Brevig)
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