The rumored iPhone 5C became real today as Apple announced that it would replace the iPhone 5 starting on September 20th. The new model will come with polycarbonate plastic covers in multiple colors and will retail for $99 for the 16GB and $199 for 32GB.
Along with this, it was announced that the 4S would be free with a two year contract.
The phone will come already loaded with iOS 7 and will be available for pre-order on Friday, September 13th.
How about some more Loki? Who doesn’t want that? Here is a new poster for Thor: The Dark World featuring the mischief master front and center. Now we just need another Natalie Portman poster of her doing interpretive dance again and the set will be complete.
Also, if you live overseas, kingdom sounds better than world. Fact of the day.
Thor: The Dark World releases on November 8th.
Breaking Bad is still a few weeks away from ending, but you super fans can go ahead and pre-order the collector’s set now.
Releasing on November 26th, the set comes with all five seasons in a handy barrel along with a coaster, booklet and apron. Be warned that you will be paying a pretty penny for this set, though I think this won’t deter some Walter White lovers.
Pre-order the set here on Amazon.
Taking on Apple TV, Ouya and other Android based boxes at the same time is not an easy thing to do, but Sony is going for the win with the PS Vita TV. The small (6x10cm) box that will play PS Vita games, connect to the PS Network to play PSP and PS1 classics as well as connect to TV based services like Hulu and NicoNico Douga (in Japan). You can also use Sony’s great Twitter app.
The box has a slot for Vita games, memory cards, HDMI output, Ethernet ports and USB ports.
Not all Vita games will be available for play due to the various features the Vita utilizes like the touch screen, but over 100 Vita titles will be available.
The device can also be used to connect to the [amazon_link id=”B00CMQTVQO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Playstation 4[/amazon_link] for remote play when your console is not in the room with you. Am I the only one that thinks this is pure brilliance? If my PS4 is hooked up in my living room and I want to play it in my bedroom with my PS Vita TV in there I can just remote connect to the console? Nice.
PS Vita TV releases on November 14th in Japan for $100. A set that comes with a Dualshock 3 controller will cost $150. There is no worldwide release information.
http://youtu.be/rG5l78gbvpU
Sony has announced a new design for the PS Vita that is 15% lighter and 20% thinner than the existing model. It will come with 1GB of built-in memory and carry an extra hour of battery life.
The trade off here is that the screen will be a 5 inch LCD instead of the beautiful OLED screen that Vita owners have enjoyed since last year. For my money I would just buy the model with the OLED screen because of how crisp and clear everything looks.
The new Vita will also come in different colors including white, black, light blue, brown, pink and yellow. It will release in Japan on October 10th. No date was given for release in the west.
September started off on the weak side, but this is the beginning of the fall movie season and summer blockbusters are behind us. Riddick took the top spot with $18.6 million which is not a big take, though it will end up making money since Diesel funded the movie himself with the help of financial backers. It only cost $40 million to make and Universal is on the hook for marketing so we may still get another Riddick movie when all is said and done.
1. Riddick- $18.6 million/ $18.6 million
2. The Butler- $8.9/ $91.9
3. Instructions not Included- $8.1/ $21.3
4. We’re the Millers- $7.9/ $123.8
5. Planes- $4.2/ $79.2
6. One Direction- $4.1/ $23.9
7. Elysium- $3.1/ $85
8. Blue Jasmine- $2.6/ $25.4
9. Percy Jackson- $2.5/ $59.8
10. The World’s End- $2.3/ $21.7
It is through the pure love of the character, Richard B. Riddick, by actor Vin Diesel and writer/director David Twohy that this third film was even put to film. After 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick crashed very hard at the box office it was easy to think that the tales of the night seeing convict were at an end. Diesel and Twohy gathered up $38 million from various backers to help fund another movie, taking Riddick back to a smaller scale single story, instead of a bloated, world-saving adventure.
Good move, guys.
You may or may not remember that at the end of The Chronicles of Riddick he was assuming the throne of the Necromongers, having killed the Lord Marshal. If you don’t remember, just imagine the last fight at the end of David Lynch’s Dune with better special effects and Vin Diesel killing Sting and you should be good to go. Now, as leader, Riddick wants to go searching for his lost home world of Furya. Vaako (Karl Urban, in a brief appearance), gives Riddick a heading and when he reaches the planet he is betrayed by the Necromonger guards and left for dead on the wrong planet.
The first part of the movie is spent with Riddick doing his best Tom Hanks in Cast Away, getting back to his animal side and learning to survive in less than inviting conditions. Now where Hanks had to deal with learning to fish, make camp fires and talking to a ball with a face on it, Riddick has to reset a broken leg, domesticate a feral ocelot creature and fight against large reptilian creatures that hide in water and move across the planet with the rain.
When Riddick makes his way to an emergency beacon station and sends out a distress call, this calls two groups of mercenaries that are looking to collect on the bounty which is double if Riddick is brought back dead. This begins the Riddick fun of him beginning to take out guys one by one until they realize that they all have to work together to get off the planet as the rain comes and brings the creatures to their doorstep. Here is where it gets like Pitch Black with the game of survival and it works again because this is the Riddick character that everyone wants to see, not the destined leader of the Necromongers while saving a holy man’s family. He is a killer that occasionally does what he can for other people…provided they can help him in return.
The cast of mercenaries is mostly “who is that” and “I have seen them somewhere” except for the inclusion of ex-wrestler and recent Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista and Battlestar Galactica star and nerd goddess Katee Sackhoff, who I will go ahead and help out the movie’s box office right now, has her first nude scene. That sound you hear is a lot of BSG fans either getting in their car to go see the movie or hitting up Google at the same time.
Riddick is big, dumb action fun. You know, like 83% of Vin Diesel movies. The lines are eye-rolling and still illicit laughs even though you have something inside you asking “why the hell am I laughing?”. The action is good and is always a great thing to see Katee Sackhoff beat the shit out of people and that wasn’t even the movie I was paying to see. Diesel is clearly having fun playing Riddick again especially after the long wait between movies and how hard he had to work to get the movie off the ground. This is pure popcorn fare of the highest order and you will either have some fun watching Riddick chopping off heads and talking about going balls deep in someone or you will curse whoever asked you to go to the theater to see it.
For me, I had a good time with Riddick’s return and actually would not mind another flick with the character. Just remember to keep it small.
After a long wait including a six month release delay, we get to see the first trailer for the reboot of 1987’s Robocop. A lot of people will sh** all over this without even seeing it although I will just go ahead and admit that I am looking forward to it. Will it live up to the campy goodness of the original? No way. There is no Kurtwood Smith in sight, but I am not writing this version off. It has a great cast including Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, and Samuel L. Jackson. Also, if you have not watched The Killing on AMC, you do not know how good Joel Kinnaman is and I hope he can make this movie shine.
Robocop releases on February 7, 2014.
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Take a look at two new international posters for Thor: The Dark World featuring Natalie Portman looking like she is watching Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMA’s. The other poster gives a look at Christopher Eccleston’s Malekith who is in serious need of some moisturizing treatment for his face.
Thor: The Dark World releases on November 8th.
The prison is not looking like the safest place to be in the new poster for The Walking Dead. Rick and his group of survivors will bring in people from Woodbury while someone on the inside begins to sabotage their defenses. Also don’t forget that The Governor is still riding around somewhere and will be wanting his revenge.
The Walking Dead starts on October 13th.