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A little Thursday evening lagniappe for all you Twilight fans. The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie is due in theaters on November 20th of this year. Here’s a little taste to wet your sanguine appetites.

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Famed filmmaker Sam Raimi will be lending his multibillion-dollar experience to another multibillion-dollar empire, Blizzard Entertainment. More than three years ago, Blizzard announced that a World of Warcraft (WoW) movie was in the works, and although we later learned that it would be live-action, little else has been revealed. Late yesterday, Blizzard, Legendary Pictures, and Warner Bros. announced that Sam Raimi would be directing the “major motion picture based on Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning Warcraft universe.” To today’s youth, Raimi is probably best known for directing the Spider-Man movies, but he’s also responsible for cult classics Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, as well as this year’s horror flick, Drag Me to Hell. Of course, the mere fact that Uwe Boll will not be directing this movie is enough to please most fans as it is.

This is obviously something the nearly 12 million World of Warcraft subscribers will be eagerly waiting for, but it’ll be interesting to see if a Warcraft movie will appeal to non-WoW players. It’ll also be interesting to see how fans take to a live-action movie, since Blizzard’s cinematic trailers are always extremely good, and many gamers have clamored for a CGI Warcraft movie instead. We’ll have to wait awhile though, as Raimi won’t begin shooting Warcraft until he completes work on Spider-Man 4, which gets under way early next year. As such, don’t expect Warcraft until at least 2011.

A list of some of the actors and characters they will be portraying:

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Nokia has some seriously amazing people making their commercials these days; remember the epic “Fourth Screen” commercial? Recently, I found a commercial that’s been airing for the past few months for the N96, and they’re using old footage of martial arts icon Bruce Lee. During the ad, Lee is is playing ping pong with nunchucks (in addition to flashing his image on the phone itself).

Do they want the N96 to seem as legendary, or astonishingly capable as Lee was? Maybe. Is it an awe-inspiring video? Certainly.

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A lot of gamers would know Uwe Boll. He’s the guy who directed several movie adaptations for video games such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. He’s also the brains behind the new Far Cry movie.

Despite his long history in making movie adaptations of video games though, Boll doesn’t seem to be Blizzard’s prime choice for making the World of Warcraft movie. In fact, as MTV reports, they practically laughed at him when he offered to do so.

Boll recently got into contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard to make the movie. Boll relates the reply he got was a flat-out denial:

We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.

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Thank goodness Uwe Boll won’t get his hands on this popular game to make a movie. It’s been a good six or seven months, I’d say, since I pulled myself from the clutches of WoW (although I still have my level 70 toon just in case…), but still, if it was made into a movie, I’d prefer it be made into a good one. Blood Rayne was a serious letdown.

For all the Uwe Boll haters, the comment “not to you… especially not to you” has to be extremely humorous and rewarding. However, it is hard to dislike someone too much that doesn’t seem to mind putting that out there. I have to, at least, hand him that.

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I have one purpose and one purpose only for posting this movie trailer for Wargames 2 : The Dead Code.  It sucks and you have now been warned.  Here’s another once great title smashed to bits by a crappy follow-up that MGM should be ashamed and embarrassed to release.

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Just for yucks, here’s something funny to watch that’s safe for work and around the kiddies.

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Funny stuff. Good likeness.

After years of encouraging their fans to share “South Park,” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have set up a viable alternative to the mass YouTube-based distribution of popular clips from the hit show: They’re just going to give the whole thing away on SouthParkStudios.com.

“We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time, so we gave ourselves a legal alternative,” the duo quipped in a statement.

The site offers every “South Park” episode including the current one, which stays live for a week after its airdate and then goes dark for the rest of the month, at which point it is added to the site’s back catalog.

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South Park DIGITAL Studios Press Release

“SOUTH PARK” CREATORS TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE
AND COMEDY CENTRAL LAUNCH THE ALL-NEW SOUTHPARKSTUDIOS.COM

NEW SITE FEATURES FULL EPISODES AND CLIPS
FROM THE ENTIRE 12 SEASONS OF
THE EMMY AND PEABODY AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SERIES

NEW YORK, March 25, 2008 — South Park Digital Studios LLC, the joint venture between “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and COMEDY CENTRAL, a division of MTVN Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today the launch of the new southparkstudios.com, which will feature free, streaming, full-length episodes and clips from the entire 12 seasons of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning animated series. The site which rolled out a beta version last Wednesday has already received over three million page views, over two million video plays, and more than a million streams of full episodes.

“The ‘South Park’ phenomenon began as a viral video clip. Now it continues its digital and creative leadership with the launch of an extensive site devoted entirely to ‘South Park,’” said Doug Herzog, president, MTV Networks’ Entertainment Group. “Southparkstudios.com is a true representation of Matt and Trey’s vision and is the ultimate online destination for ‘South Park’ fans – allowing them full access to every ‘South Park’ episode ever created.”

When asked about the launch of the new site, Stone and Parker said, “We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time so we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”

Anne Garefino, General Manager of South Park Digital Studios, had this to say about the future of southparkstudios.com, “One goal in moving forward is to make every episode of ‘South Park’ available world-wide. Currently, full episodes are not available in the UK, Australia and a few other foreign territories but we’re not far off from making that happen. We have some contractual issues to sift through but we’re getting there.”

Southparkstudios.com will offer fans an all new “South Park” digital experience. The new site, which was designed by a creative team from “South Park” in conjunction with Schematic, a WWP Digital Company, invites fans to watch full episodes and clips of every “South Park” episode. Of all 169 episodes in the “South Park” Library, 168 are available today. Due to contractual obligations, all new episodes will be available as soon as possible after they premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL and remain available for seven days. These episodes will return to the site permanently 30 days after they premiere. Southparkstudios.com also features extensive video and behind-the-scenes information from all 12 seasons allowing users to see all their favorite “South Park” moments, comment on them and share them with friends.

In addition to the wealth of video content, southparkstudios.com worked with 65 Media to create the South Park Avatar Generator. Users can make themselves into a “South Park” character (Canadians included) with the Official Avatar Generator. They can pick from millions of combinations to create their perfect self portrait in the “South Park” world. To date 35,000 Avatars have been created.

“The interesting part of designing for ‘South Park’ is to remember that while it is a cartoon, it is not a show, or a site, for kids,” said Andrew Solmssen, General Manager and EVP, Schematic. “‘South Park’ wanted a site that was as clean and well designed as anything on the Web, so that it would showcase and put the proper emphasis on the show content.”

Toyota and Virgin are the launch sponsors for the new southparkstudios.com.