Blockbuster 10 Most Terrifying Non Horror Movies
Scary doesn’t always mean ghosts, monsters and vampires, a survey from Blockbuster Inc. reveals just in time for Halloween. “The 10 Most Terrifying Non-Horror Movies,” created based on feedback from movie lovers, shows that sharks, an unhinged fan or a crazy eccentric can be just as chilling. The non-traditional Halloween movie list provides alternatives for film picks or even costume ideas this October 31.
“Jaws” leads the list, with close to one out of three respondents (29 percent) naming the movie starring a menacing great white shark as the scariest. Some unexpected frighteners on the list include a mom (”Mommie Dearest”), a family film (”Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”), a nurse (”Misery”) and a camping trip (”Deliverance”).
The Top 10 Most Terrifying Non-Horror Movies, according to the survey by
Blockbuster Inc., are:
1. Jaws
2. Misery
3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Deliverance
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Fatal Attraction
7. No Country For Old Men
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. Mommie Dearest
10. Dead Calm
About Blockbuster
Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI, BBI.B) is a leading global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment, with more than 7,100 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company may be accessed worldwide at Blockbuster.
Netflix to stream movies directly to new Vizio televisions
Netflix, Inc on Wednesday expanded further into the market for streaming movies directly to consumers with a new partnership with high-definition TV maker Vizio. Netflix said the arrangement involves new Vizio TVs that can be purchased later this year and will let Netflix subscribers access the company’s video catalog, which includes more than 100,000 DVD titles. Netflix made the annoucement in Las Vegas as the annual Consumer Electronics Show is getting underway. On Monday, Netflix announced an extension of a similar partnership the company has with TV maker LG Electronics.
Blue Ray Movies 50% Off
Another Blu-ray sale going on. Save 50% on selected Blu-ray movies until January 4th. So if you got a brand new Blu-ray player from Santa this is a nice opportunity to build your Blu-ray disc library. The selected Blu-ray titles on sale include Vexille, Firewall, 16 Blocks, Reservoir Dogs, Crash, Shinobi and Chungking Express.
Some of the offered Blu-ray movies sell for as low as $11.99. More details on Amazon.com.
Christmas Day Movies
Three of the four movies that opened Thursday drew more box-office receipts than any other film opening on Christmas Day, industry observers said. According to data compiled by Box Office Mojo, “Marley and Me” did the biggest Christmas business, drawing a $14.6 million gross. This surpassed “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” with $11.7 million, and “Bedtime Stories,” with more than $10.3 million. All three films eclipsed boxing biopic “Ali,” which opened with $10.2 million in gross receipts on Christmas in 2001. “Marley and Me,” starring Jennifer Aniston, is a 20th Century Fox production, while Paramount produced the Brad Pitt vehicle “Benjamin Button” and Buena Vista produced “Bedtime Stories” with Adam Sandler. Rounding out this year’s Christmas openers, Tom Cruise’s “Valkyrie” pulled down nearly $8.4 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
XStreamHD Successful Test
XStreamHD, an emerging leader in the delivery and distribution of Full High Definition (HD) entertainment to the home, has successfully tested its revolutionary transport system.
The unique transport system, tested on the AMC-16 satellite at 85 degrees west longitude, enables XStreamHD to deliver Full HD movies, music, and games directly to subscriber homes throughout North America.
“By unlocking existing FSS (Fixed Satellite Service) capacity, our service delivers Full HD (1080p) content to homes, independent of Internet or cable congestion,” said George Gonzalez, founder and CEO of XStreamHD. “Our advanced technology enables consumers to experience a new level of quality, convenience and service never before offered.”
This test of the XStreamHD unique transport system validates the ability of the network to deliver Full HD (1080p), Blu-ray quality video with up to 7.1 lossless channels of DTS Master Audio. The company will offer its customers unparalleled access to movies, HDTV, music and electronic games.
XStreamHD will be showcasing its unique transport system at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show January 8-11, 2009 in booth #21402 in South Hall 1.
About XStreamHD
XStreamHD is leading the HD revolution, setting a new standard for the delivery and distribution of Full HD entertainment throughout the home. XStreamHD provides the first-ever transport network to deliver high-definition movies and music directly to the home via satellite — offering Full HD (1080p) video and up to 7.1 channels of lossless audio. With XStreamHD, consumers can build a customized, unique, and unparalleled in-home entertainment network and enjoy the content they want most — including movies, music, electronic games, broadcast HDTV, and more — when it’s most convenient, anywhere in the home, and at the quality today’s home theaters were designed to support. XStreamHD is based in McLean, Virginia.
For more information, visit www.XStreamHD.com.
Movies in a Flash from AVT
AVT, Inc. (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), (Pink Sheets: AVTC), said today that its revolutionary new AVTi(TM) Media “Movies in a Flash” dispensing center is part of a significant change in the way consumers will watch movies.
A flier which carefully explains how AVT is part of the next generation in the evolution of the entertainment industry’s distribution network, and a recent, major Wall Street Journal story that explains how AVT’s next generation vending system is central to the new ways we’ll watch DVDs, are available at the Company’s web site: http://www.avtinconline.com.
“To put it simply, our dispensing center is capable of transferring high definition movies, plus music, games and books, to a user owned USB memory stick for home use,” said Shannon Illingworth, founder of AVT. “This will allow customers to choose from thousands of media downloads for their entertainment pleasure.”
“This is part of the Greening of America, because we reduce the use of gas, paper products, trash and defective goods, while also saving consumers time and reducing inventory control and other costs,” Mr. Illingworth said.
ABOUT AVT:
AVT, Inc. (Pink Sheets: AVTC) is a vending solutions provider based in Corona, California that has developed several significant vending machine technologies that yield a more efficient and reliable yet technically advanced system. This advanced technology provides methods for cashless payment, credit card and debit card use, dynamic advertising with remote tracking and inventory management. AVT has grown privately for five years and has a strong balance sheet with current revenues, inventory and assets. AVT currently serves more than 300 government and commercial vending accounts in Southern California.
New Home Theater and AUDIO/VIDEO Review Site Launches at HomeTheaterReview.com
BEVERLY HILLS, CA December 10, 2008 Leading home entertainment industry
publisher Jerry Del Colliano announced his latest venture today with the launch
of a comprehensive home theater review site at HomeTheaterReview.com. Del
Colliano has a proven record of building web properties; he is the founder of
AVRev.com, ModernHomeTheater.com and AVRevForum.com, which were sold to Internet
Brands Inc. in February 2008.
Del Colliano’s newest online home theater publication will review all of the
latest and most relevant LCD and plasma HDTVs, Blu-ray players, HDMI receivers,
audiophile-grade loudspeakers and thousands of other high-end audiophile and
home theater components. Each of the site’s 27 product section pages comes
complete with Wikipedia-style pages to which readers can sign on to suggest
edits and additions. Each review will have a robust social networking section,
enabling consumers to add their opinions to the depth of content.
The site also features sweepstakes for consumers and boasts a healthy email list
for both consumers and A/V dealers. The current giveaway is a $300 Sony Blu-ray
player and the 6-disc James Bond Blu-ray box set.
“HomeTheaterReview.com is designed to quickly become the definitive home theater
publication of any medium,” says publisher Jerry Del Colliano. “A consumer in
the market for a new HDTV can rely on the knowledge that we have reviewed any
and all products he or she would consider for purchase. Each review comes with
the type of advice you would expect from your most well-informed, tech-savvy
friends. Our reviewers aren’t issuing their reviews from some ivory tower.
HomeTheaterReview.com is designed to be social, allowing the most enthusiastic
home theater fans to not just read our reviews, but truly be a part of the site.
Our readers can make their voices heard right on the review page, edit
wiki-pages and interact with our editorial staff in ways they could never do
with any print magazine.”
The new publication’s editorial and sales staff is filled with seasoned
veterans, including managing editor Andrew Robinson (from AVRev.com), associate
editor Ken Taraszka M.D. (from AVRev.com), Adrienne Maxwell (former editor with
Home Theater magazine) and contributors such as Ken Kessler, Kevin Miller, Brian
Kahn, Krissy Rushing and many others. Christina Yuin, a 25-year veteran
saleswoman in the A/V business (Absolute Sound, Stereophile, AVI, Home Theater
and Sound & Vision) will be director of sales for HomeTheaterReview.com.
The site is best seen at http://hometheaterreview.com. Newsletter subscriptions
are free at http://hometheaterreview.com/subscribe.
10 Best Movies of 2008 from New Yorker Film Critic David Denby
Defiance: An inspirational story, told with a maximum of physical detail and a minimum of rhetoric, about the three Bielski brothers (including Daniel Craig), who kept twelve hundred Jews alive in the forest during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia.
Rachel Getting Married: Excruciating to get into, but, once you become accustomed to Ann Hathaway’s high-wire performance and the jiggling camera style, very rewarding.
The Class: a smart, cocky teacher in multi-ethnic Paris takes on a class of turbulent ninth-graders, who then come back at him hard. Essential.
The Wrestler: Blood, suffering, and nobility at the lowest rungs of professional wrestling, starring Mickey Rourke.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Woody Allen’s take on American girls living abroad in complicated Old Europe; sunshiny, art-loving, melancholy.
Wall-E: Apocalyptic dismay and social satire mixed into one; Pixar’s most ambitious animated film yet.
Milk: Buoyant biopic with Sean Penn’s body- and soul-transforming performance as the gay-rights leader Harvey Milk in seventies San Francisco.
Trouble The Water: An African-American woman remains in her New Orleans house during Katrina with a portable video camera; first chaos, and then reassertion of personal will.
Revolutionary Road: The ultimate suburban-despair-in-the-fifties movie, from the Richard Yates novel, with Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet fighting at full tilt.
I’ve Loved You So Long: Not a great film, but a great performance from Kristen Scott-Thomas as a woman who has committed a terrible crime and then returns to French bourgeois society.
World Premiere Of Spider-Man 3 Takes Place In Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - “Spider-Man 3,” the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise and based on the fictional Marvel Comics character, debuted with much fan-fare in Tokyo on Monday.
Thousands of Japanese fans stood waiting in the rain to catch a glimpse of film stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, who lighted up the stage at an open-air event before the premiere.
In the film, the superhero battles his own inner demons that are brought out by his blacker and more powerful suit. Two new villains, Sandman and Venom, also arrive in New York with overpowering abilities.
The film’s budget is reported to be $250 million, making it one of the most expensive movies in Hollywood. According to BBC reports, the visual effects proved to be the most costly.
John Dykstra, who won the Academy Award for Visual Effects for his work on “Spider-Man 2,” didn’t work in the recent sequel, with fellow supervisor Scott Stokdyk taking over the reins.
Tokyo has also opened a Spiderman-themed exhibition at the Roppongi Hills complex, according to DPA news agency.
“Spider-Man 3″ will be commercially released in multiple countries, including Japan, China and some European countries, starting May 1. It will be available for U.S. viewers beginning May 4.
The U.S. premiere will take place at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 30.
Harry Potter Movie Shortened To Avoid Grindhouse Failure
Harry Potter movie makers are trimming the next installment of the fantasy franchise, fearful it’s too long and will turn movie goers off.
Following the failure of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez double-bill Grindhouse, which is more than three hours long, studio bosses at Warner Bros have ordered director David Yates to cut the running time of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
Star Daniel Radcliffe insists the cuts are a positive thing, and fans will still be happy with the finished film.
He says, “People should be able to let that go. You can still read the book and the film is chock-full of stuff. The fans will be pleased.”
