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Trading DVD2Blu Not So Lucrative

23 November 2009 3:41 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Warner Brothers has launched a new service that sounds fantastic on paper but turns out to be useless in practice. On DVD2Blu.com, for a low price, you can trade up your old DVD for the Blu-ray equivalent. Sounds good, right? Except you're limited to only 55 barebones releases to select from, and you have to pay additional shipping and tax to get it delivered to you in 5 weeks. It adds up to not being worth the effort.

A standard order of one title will set you back $7.95 + $4.95 in shipping, for a total of $12.90. Some of the newer/biger releases (Body of Lies, Speed Racer, Superman Returns) are $9.95 a piece, for a total of $14.90. Not including tax, depending on where you are. The website says that you get free shipping if your order is more than $25, but that number is obviously a con, since in order to pass $25, you'd have »

- Arya Ponto

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Upgrade Your Warner DVDs to Blu-ray for as Low as $7.95

17 November 2009 11:02 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Warner Home Video just announced a new program where you can upgrade several of your DVD titles to Blu-ray for as low as $7.95, and right now the price doesn't go any higher than $9.95. This is a similar program to the Red2Blu offer they made allowing customers to upgrade their HD DVD titles to Blu-ray, a program I actually took advantage of and loved it as a result.

The process to upgrade is simple. Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc. Consumers who place orders over $25 will receive free shipping. For a complete list of titles visit DVD2Blu.com, but I have included the most recent list of titles and prices directly below. 10,000 B.C. ($9.95) Rush Hour 3 ($9.95) Full Metal Jacket ($9.95) Pan's »

- Brad Brevet

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Warner Bros. Launches DVD to Blu-ray Upgrade Program

17 November 2009 10:57 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Warner Bros. has announced a DVD to Blu-ray upgrade program.  While the list doesn’t include all their titles, it’s at least a start.  According to WB, the process to upgrade is simple.  Consumers select the titles they want to upgrade on DVD2Blu.com, mail in their standard DVDs with pre-paid postage and a short time later receive copies of the same film on Blu-ray Disc.  If you mail in one DVD, it’s $7.95 plus shipping.  If you order more than $25, you’ll receive free shipping.

While some people haven’t been converted to Blu-ray, I’m all in.  I think the picture quality is amazing on Blu-ray and I definitely see a difference between DVD and the HD format.  All I can say is, if you have an 1080p TV, the format is absolutely worth the investment.  For a complete list of what WB is willing to »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Twitter Giveaway: Blockbuster’s ‘Top 10 Football Movies’ Prize Pack

1 October 2009 8:15 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

With football season currently underway, what better way to celebrate one of the Us’s favorite pastimes than with a collection of some of the greatest football movies ever made? Well, later today, you’ll get the chance to win them all, for free!

Thanks to Blockbuster’s online rental service, we’re going to be giving away a prize pack of their Top 10 Football Movies along with a free 30-day subscription to the service. The list, which is pretty impressive, includes Brian’s Song, Friday Night Lights, We Are Marshall, North Dallas Forty, The Longest Yard (1974), Remember the Titans, Everybody’s All-American, Invincible, Any Given Sunday, and The Program.

Later today, we will be tweeting a trivia question that has to do with one of these films. Retweet and respond with an answer the fastest, and you could win this prize pack! We won’t tell you which of »

- Matt Raub

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'Due Date' Recruits Jamie Foxx

30 September 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

The cast ensemble of "Due Date" is expanding with the addition of Jamie Foxx. The Ray Charles of 2004's drama "Ray" has signed on to join the already attached stars, Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis and Michelle Monaghan, for this forthcoming road-trip movie.

The 41-year-old will portray the longtime friend of Downey Jr.'s main character. It is explained that his character once dated the lead character's wife and secretly keeps in touch with her. This will be his first collaboration with the "Iron Man 2" star after they appeared together in the April-released "The Soloist".

"Due Date" centers on a hard-charging L.A. business executive whose wife is about to have their first child. While rushing to witness the birth of his child, the dad-to-be gets stuck in a snowstorm and is forced to hitch a ride with a laid-back college kid to make it. Described to be "a »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Writer sinks his teeth into The Passage

16 September 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

One of the many possible directing and/or producing projects that director Ridley Scott has in creative orbit around him is The Passage, a horror tale that puts a different spin on the vampire mythos. It's taken Fox 2000 two years to get from purchasing the screen rights to Jordan Ainsley's book (the pseudonym of Justin Cronin) of the same name to hiring a screenwriter to start adapting the book into screenplay format but it's finally happened.

The man who was hired for the job is screenwriter John Logan. He's worked with Scott before on Gladiator, for which Scott was nominated for an Oscar for Best Directing and the picture won both Best Actor (Russell Crowe) and Best Picture honors. Logan's one of Hollywood's A-list writers and has a very impressive resume of past work including credits on Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, Martin Scorsese's The Aviator and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. »

- Patrick Sauriol

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Weekly Poll Results: Best Football Movie

2 September 2009 9:15 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Last week's poll was a battle of pigskin pics, and Film Junk readers decided that the #1 football movie is the inspirational Rudy starring Sean Astin, followed very closely by Remember The Titans starring Denzel Washington. Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights placed third, which isn't bad, but I kind of expected it to get a few more votes, especially because of the popularity of the TV show. Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday and the original The Longest Yard rounded out the top 5. Brian's Song was way down at the bottom, although I'm guessing a lot of people simply haven't seen it? I hear it's a classic. Do you concur with these results? 1. Rudy -- 23.5% 2. Remember The Titans -- 21.2% 3. Friday Night Lights -- 14.2% 4. Any Given Sunday -- 13.3% 5. The Longest Yard (1974) -- 7.5% 6. Jerry Maguire -- 6.6% 7. The Program -- 5.8% 8. The Replacements -- 3.1% 9. We Are Marshall -- 2.7% 10. Brian's Song (1971) -- 2.2% For More Daily Movie Goodness, »

- Sean

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Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?

5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin' offerings from 1939 -- the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don't get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun. And while some of you agreed with us about 1984's greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other "greatest years". And we listened. That's what we do. So now, we've tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down to your »

- Chris Nashawaty

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Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?

5 August 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters, Bachelor Party, This is Spinal Tap, Footloose, and The Terminator. Movies that were the exact opposite of the highfalutin’ offerings from 1939 — the year critics always cite as the greatest Hollywood vintage of all time. Don’t get us wrong, there were some decent high-brow movies from 25 years ago, too, like Amadeus and The Killing Fields. But mostly we were talking about movies that were, you know, fun.

And while some of you agreed with us about 1984’s greatness, others were outraged. Apoplectic. Even concerned for our sanity. Some even made cases for other “greatest years”. And we listened. That’s what we do. So now, we’ve tallied up your nominees and narrowed it down »

- Chris Nashawaty

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Exclusive: Script review of Gladiator 2

20 July 2009 12:03 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

Released in 2000, Ridley Scott's Gladiator was the movie that made DreamWorks in the eyes of its peers. The film earned $457 million dollars worldwide at the box office and won five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor statues for its star, Russell Crowe, playing the part of the Roman general-come-gladiator Maximus. And you know what happens when a film is a hit with the masses, don'tcha kids? Sure, it's sequel time. But how do you make a sequel to Gladiator when the film's main star dies at the end of the first picture?

If you're the screenwriter being paid to solve the problem there are two solutions staring you in the face: you go with a new character as your hero or you find a way to resurrect Crowe's Maximus. In the immediate years following the critical and commercial success of Gladiator both ideas were tried out. In the first go, »

- Patrick Sauriol

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[DVD Review] Morning Light

18 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

The process of determining which sports will translate into great films has no real rhyme or reason. If you thought that only fast-paced sports like soccer or football could be made into sports (Goal!, Any Given Sunday), then you’d have a hard time explaining all the successful films based on baseball or golf (Field of Dreams, Caddyshack). What sports films of the past have taught us is that even films about running (Chariots of Fire) can be superb with the proper balance of plot, character and wit. Well, Disney certainly loves the promise that holds and has started cranking out sports movies as fast as possible. Up until this point however, most of them (Iron Will, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Remember the Titans) have been narrative based. For Morning Light Disney went ahead and made a Reality TV formatted film about sailing and, well, the results are mixed. »

- Lex Walker

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Gore Verbinski Might Not Direct Bioshock

1 June 2009 9:38 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Extremely popular video game franchises are having a tough time making it to the big screen. First it was Halo, and now Bioshock, which was put on hold last month in order to scale down the escalating budget, may be losing its director, Gore Verbinski. The filmmaker, whose credits include The Ring, The Weather Man and The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, recently spoke with The L.A. Times about the project: The bottom line is it has to shoot out of the States for budget reasons and my schedule may be prohibitive. There's a great script and a really interesting cast. It really comes down to the financial model now. Big movies are just not being shot in the States. I'm weighing whether I can physically go the U.K. or Australia or one of those other places with a tax rebate for a year-and-a-half. Bioshock takes place in the underwater city Rapture, »

- James Cook

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Universal Puts Bioshock Adaptation on Hold

25 April 2009 12:44 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Warner Bros. has put Bioshock, the Gore Verbinski-directed live action adaptation of the bestselling Take-Two Interactive video game, on the backburner. The film was in pre-production, but the studio has halted that effort--and let some production staff go--as Universal and Verbinski figure out a way to make the film at a more reasonable budget. According to the trades, the project was gearing up to shoot in Los Angeles, but that changed when the budget rose to the vicinity of $160 million. Universal and Verbinski are looking at alternatives like shooting in London as a way to pare costs. Studio sources said that the budget simply became untenable, but Universal sources said this is no different than when the studio delayed the start of the untitled Robin Hood film that Ridley Scott is now directing with Russell Crowe starring. Universal is making that film for $130 million, a much lower budget that in its first incarnation. »

- James Cook

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Monday Night Poll: Has Jamie Foxx Jumped the Shark?

20 April 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Not too long ago, it seemed as though his career knew no heights. Jamie Foxx established his comedy credentials in the early 90s with his work on the groundbreaking, star-making TV show In Living Color, showcased his dramatic acting ability with Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday in 1999, and really knocked it out of the park in 2004 with the 1-2 punch of Taylor Hackford's Ray, for which he won an Academy Award, and Michael Mann's Collateral, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

Ray made people sit up and take notice of Foxx's musical capabilities. Since then he's been busy with his music career, selling millions of CDs, and has also been hosting a comedy show on satellite radio. As far as his movie career, though, it's been more problematic. Only a handful have been released in the last five years -- Stealth, Jarhead, Miami Vice, »

- Peter Martin

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April Showers, Sean Penn

14 April 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

april showers, daily @ 11

A mischievous devil sent me these snaps of Sean Penn showering for Oliver Stone's U Turn (yes I'm liable to use pics if you send any) I assume this is a hint to discuss it, but I haven't seen the movie.

What, pray tell, is with the canted overhead shot of his body? And why does Sean appearing to be swallowing the water in both shots? Is he washing out his mouth after offending someone? He's never been one to hold his tongue so it's a definite possibility.

Or maybe it's just an odd shot because it's part of Oliver Stone's lost period. Some people feel he lost his way after JFK, but I'm inclined to believe that Nbk was even better and worked precisely because of its delirium, a filmmaker unhinged. But what's been going on since? U-Turn, Any Given Sunday, World Trade Center, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Gore Verbinski Ditches Pirates of the Caribbean for BioShock

8 April 2009 1:17 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

This isn't exactly new news, but considering we didn't know what Gore Verbinski would be directing next, it is at least news. Variety has confirmed that Verbinski has told Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not be directing the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Instead, Verbinski will be moving onto the live-action adaptation of the video game BioShock, which was first announced last May. Universal is developing this, with a script written by Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan of Any Given Sunday, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Aviator, and Sweeney Todd. "I had a fantastic time bringing Pirates to life, and I am eternally grateful to Jerry, Johnny and the rest of the creative and production team," Verbinski told Variety. "I'm looking forward to all of us crossing paths again in the future." Since At World's End hit in 2007, Verbinski has been working on »

- Alex Billington

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Win Being There, Pride & Glory, The Sidney Poitier Collection or Any Given Sunday!

3 February 2009 1:44 PM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Spout has a whole stack of DVDs that we're raring to send out to some lucky winners today. Here's what's stacked up on our desk: Being There, the comedy classic starring Peter Sellers as a simple gardener mistaken for a high-society intellectual. If you've never seen it you're missing out on one of the all-time great film performances. (Watch the trailer) Pride and Glory, with Edward Norton and Colin Farrell star as police officer friends set against each other in this gritty tale of intrigue and corruption. (Watch the trailer) The Sidney Poitier Collection: A four-disc set of some of the legendary actor's finest roles, i ... »

- Chris Thilk

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Win Being There, Pride & Glory, The Sidney Poitier Collection or Any Given Sunday!

3 February 2009 1:44 PM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Spout has a whole stack of DVDs that we're raring to send out to some lucky winners today. Here's what's stacked up on our desk: Being There, the comedy classic starring Peter Sellers as a simple gardener mistaken for a high-society intellectual. If you've never seen it you're missing out on one of the all-time great film performances. (Watch the trailer) Pride and Glory, with Edward Norton and Colin Farrell star as police officer friends set against each other in this gritty tale of intrigue and corruption. (Watch the trailer) The Sidney Poitier Collection: A four-disc set of some of the legendary actor's finest roles, i ... »

- Chris Thilk

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5 Football Movies for Football Haters

1 February 2009 2:35 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Football’s history with the movies has never been very good.

Sports movies are already tired and cliched to begin with, to the point where it could be lampooned with minimal effort. Football movies tend to be the genre’s most boring entries, though. Even the acclaimed ones like Rudy or Remember the Titans fall victim to the same predictability and misplaced sentimentality. Somehow, they’re always about an underdog who has to chase the impossible dream, being an inspiration for everyone else. Even more mind boggling that they can keep finding real life stories to turn into drecks. There were 3 of them in 2006 alone (Invincible, We Are Marshall, Gridiron Gang). Really, how many inspirational true stories can one sport have?

So for those of you who hate football and football movies, here’s a top five list of films that defy the usual tired approach to the genre. On this day of Superbowl, »

- Arya Ponto

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Aaron Eckhart is the most popular celebrity on Movie Jungle.

26 January 2009 6:10 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Aaron Eckhart has racked in the most hits this past week, due largely to the awards news surfacing lately for "The Dark Knight." Eckhart played Harvey Dent (a.k.a. 'Two Face') in the Christopher Nolan directed adaptation. Born on March 12th, 1968 in Cupertino, California, Eckhart has had a series of mediocre and unsuccessful films in the past including: "The Wicker Man" "Neverwas" "Suspect Zero" "Bill" "The Black Dahlia" "Paycheck" There are winners too though including "Any Given Sunday" and Neil Labute's "Possession." »

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