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While we still have quite a few months to wait until it actually airs, the first promo for the Battlestar Galactica: Razor movie is out. Telling the story of the Pegasus, it will include the entire cast of BSG and happens before the events of Season 3 - setting up for the official beginning of Season 4.

Airing on Sci Fi in November, it looks like it’s going to be awesome - so if you haven’t grown tired of my ramblings and watched the promo already, check it out above (or higher quality at SciFi.com) for a taste of the beginning of the end.

So, what do you think? Are you excited for this movie, or do you just want to get back to the main plot where Season 3’s crazy finale left us hanging?

In their continuing censorship of all that is good (or all that is anything, for that matter), the Chinese have edited out parts of Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End with Chow Yun-fat because…well I can’t think of any reason besides them being racist against Asians, which is absurd. For some reason they decided he didn’t deserve to be in the movie:

According to local media, more than half of the scenes featuring Chow as a Singapore pirate, have been cut, including his recitation of a poem in Cantonese.

A spokesman for Disney said auds would see a Chinese version of the movie and there had been cuts, without elaborating.

China Film initially said it had made no cuts, then declined to comment on a Beijing News report that it had cut scenes involving too much violence and horror.

The worst is yet to come. As if the movie wasn’t confusing enough already, the edits supposedly make it even more difficult to follow. Do they actually think they’re doing a service here?

The Sims is a very boring game. What could possibly be less entertaining than doing all the mundane actions of everyday life, with the only reward being a bigger virtual house or a nicer virtual piece of furniture? For some reason I can’t begin to comprehend, the Sims is still the best selling PC game ever. And it’s about to get a lot worse.

Not to be outdone by anyone, the geniuses at 20th Century Fox have decided they want to create the worst video game movie ever and so have purchased the rights to make a live-action Sims film.

I’m not sure how they expect to translate such a dull game into a movie. I’m no movie executive, but I honestly can’t see how a two hour movie of people peeing, eating, and buying furniture is going to make any money at all.

Seriously, this is the worst idea for a video game movie ever, possibly even the worst idea for any movie ever. What the fuck is Fox thinking?

There was a time long ago when things were very different - Jared was fat and people actually paid for porn (I know, it’s absurd). Interestingly enough, those just happen to be related. Before he became famous for having huge pants, Jared had another job - renting porn to other students at his college. He had a large collection of pornography tapes, and would rent them to anyone who needed something to watch while they…studied. While now paying even a single dollar seems a bit much, back then his dollar a day rate brought people from all over. As long as they remembered to “Be Kind, Rewind,” and “Aim, don’t leave a stain,” everything was fine.

So what led him to abandon his honest pornography business for a life of lies about losing weight by eating a lot? Subway just happened to open up right under his dorm, and so then not only did he have a massive porn collection at his disposal, but his favorite thing, food, right where he lived. One thing led to another, and now his life is completely different. The moral of this story: Watch a lot of porn and don’t bother going anywhere, because good things (if that’s what it can be called) will come to you.

You may have played NewsBreaker before, where you destroy blocks and attempt to catch the falling news stories from MSNBC.com. Now, this game is coming to movie theaters where the audience will work together to play it. And as if a few loud, annoying movie goers who stand up in front of you, can’t seem to sit still, and generally disrupt your peaceful theater experience wasn’t bad enough, now the entire audience will be participating. The press release (found after the jump) explains:

“NewsBreaker Live combines live msnbc.com RSS newsfeeds, the movement of the audience as a human joystick, and the big screen as a game board to bust audiences out of their pre-movie doldrums with an interactive game that delivers real-time news headlines to kick start the moviegoing experience”

The audience will move as one to control the game and break the blocks, using “groundbreaking motion-sensor technology” they call “CrowdGaming.” The news headlines they try and catch will come in real-time from MSNBC.com, so not only are you trying to get points, but to “accumulate knowledge.”

While this does sound like it could be more interesting then the usual stream of repetitive advertisements and useless movie trivia (along with annoying songs in the background) that plasters most screens before the movie, it sounds like the kind of idea that might not actually work as well as it appears on paper (or in this case, on your screen). Even if the game actually picks up the crowd’s movements accurately, there will be groups of people who choose to play the much more entertaining game of ruining everyone’s fun by moving in the wrong direction and failing to catch anything.

[Via Kotaku]

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Warner Bros. has gotten the rights to another of Frank Miller’s graphic novels - Ronin. It is a story of a disgraced warrior from the 13th century, who returns to the technologically advanced 21st century New York. However, his greatest enemy, the demon Agat, has been reborn too.

How close will the movie follow the graphic novels though? Aside from thinning it down to fit in one movie, the director says it will stay pretty much the same: “The idea will be to stay close to the graphic novel. Ronin is very dense and very long so of course we are going to have to streamline the story to fit it within a movie time frame,” he said, adding that “We are condensing very little characters. We have to condense the plot a little bit because it goes back and forth a lot between different time periods and there’s not enough time in the movie. It would have to be a five hour film to get everything in, but in terms of characters, all of key ones are there.” So while a few plot lines may be sacrificed for the sake of time, the characters will be intact.

While there is nothing on when it will be released, the live action film will be directed by Sylvain White, who says that “Ronin is the best possible project I thought I could ever have.” It will be produced by Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler, with Craig Flores and Frank Miller executively producing. It will be shot in the same style as 300, and will most likely cost around the same amount ($65 million).

Apparently Lindsay Lohan has dropped out of the upcoming film The Best Time of Our Lives. There were disputes with the producers over her contract, and so she chose to leave. If I haven’t lost you already, you’re probably wondering why I’m telling you about some random movie you have no reason (I know of) to care about. Well, this is the movie that Lindsay Lohan and Keira Knightley were to appear together for a threesome in(The third participant being some guy you probably haven’t heard of).

Lohan’s departure puts the threesome in jeopardy. However, don’t give up so fast - personally I thought Lohan was the lesser of the two women involved, and without her it could actually be much better. I can think of many celebrities who are way more deserving of the assets Keira Knightley provides, and could make the scene much better. I hope her replacement will lead to a much hotter threesome, not to mention a better movie overall. But seriously, does anyone really care about that?

A recent survey of media and entertainment executives reveals that they see user created content as somewhat of a threat. Of those surveyed, 57 percent cited it as one of the top “issues” they currently face. Over 70 percent believe social media will only continue to grow, while 3 percent seem to be in denial and think it is nothing more than a fad. There is a simple solution to this though, which is creating quality content.

There are so many low quality films, movies, TV shows and games being pumped out that it doesn’t surprise me they are worried they can’t keep up with the users. There is so much new content made available every day completely free, and so when you’re being charged for what they do it better be good. They should be helping users create what they want - and some do, through contests an things like that. Not only do they get something out of that, but it can give the creator a much vaster array of resources. Let’s hope they realize that it’s not just being a big company that gets you recognized, but instead making something awesome whether you have a background or not.

Ever since the 300 trailer came out, people have been editing and splicing it with various other movies. So you don’t have to, I’ve weeded through many worthless and repetitive mashups to find the best. Here it is, the 300 trailer - re-cut.

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According to Variety, Zack Snyder will soon be teaming up with Warner Bros. to make a zombie film called Army of the Dead. While they have not yet decided if Snyder will be directing, Joby Harold, who wrote the upcoming film Awake, will be penning the script.

“I feel like there hasn’t been a zombie movie on the scale that we want to do it,” Snyder said, also saying that it will have the same epic quality of 300, and could possibly be filmed in a similar way. Set in the near, zombie infested future Las Vegas, the plot will center around a father attempting to protect and save his daughter. Zack Snyder has already proved he can work with zombies by directing the Dawn of the Dead remake, and considering how well done 300 was, I have high hopes for what this movie could be.

[Via Filmwad ]