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Single: Mr Hudson – “Anyone But Him” (Featuring Kanye West)
Mr Hudson is back with a new single off his upcoming album Straight No Chaser. It’s called “Anyone But Him” and features Kanye West. It’s the fourth single off the album, following “There Will Be Tears,” “Supernova,” and “White Lies.” Straight No Chaser was released in the UK back in October and is expected to drop stateside March 15. Listen below, download here.
[audio: Mr Hudson – Anyone But Him (Featuring Kanye West).mp3][Via KanyeBlog]
Avatar surpasses Titanic to become worldwide box office king
Few people in their lives strike gold twice. James Cameron is one of those people. After setting the box office record for highest grossing movie in 1997 with Titanic, Cameron did it again with Avatar this year. Although final figures will not be reported until Tuesday, rough estimates have been compiled. Having made $1,858,866,889, Avatar has officially trumped Titanic ($1,843,201,268) to become the highest grossing movie worldwide. Avatar still trails Titanic domestically with $554.9 million, behind Titanic‘s $600.7 million. And don’t forget about price inflation from ’97 to present day; Avatar still needs to sell about 50 million more tickets for it to match the domestic sales of Titanic. Internationally, though, it has bested Titanic $1.30 billion to $1.24 billion.
This can mean only one thing: 3D is here to stay.
[Via LA Times; image via LAmoviedriver]
Jack Bauer set to wield the Apple Tablet in upcoming episode
According to Rodney Charters, director of photography on 24, the show will try its best to somehow incorporate Apple’s still unannounced tablet device, pending Apple’s cooperation. Charters tweets: “Hmmmm looks like we may get an iSlate into Jacks hands for Ep 20 getting giddy with excitement” and later updated with: “Got a bit too excited probably more likely Episode 22 but Apple provided fingers crossed.”
As exciting as this proposition sounds, it all hinges upon the actual existence of such a tablet. We will know by tomorrow. Oh, and it better be announced. Because if it isn’t, you can be sure Jack will stationed outside the keynote doors waiting to interrogate Jobs (re-created for visual purposes above).
[Via Twitter page; Gizmodo]
Watch Lost’s Oceanic 815 crash in real time, 24-style
This has got to be one of the best well put together videos I’ve come across in quite some time. A rabid Lost fan took it upon himself to splice together various scenes from a number of seasons to create this ten minute collage that reveals all events (that we know of) that occuried immediately before and during the fateful crash of Oceanic flight 815. What makes it even more special is the split screen action, a la 24. This allows the viewer to follow all the crucial moments side-by-side with each other, in real time. Job well done, pyram1dhead. As we get closer to the Lost season premiere (it’s only one week away!), expect a “sequel of sorts” from pyram1dhead this weekend.
[Via SciFiWire]
House spin-off is still a possibility
For some time now rumors have swirled that House‘s Michael Weston (Lucas Douglas, the private detective who’s now lovey dovey with Cuddy) would star in a House spin-off series backed by Houseexecutive producers David Shore and Katie Jacobs. Time had passed and with no word about such a spin-off I had all but lost hope. But then this–FOX network president Kevin Reilly spoke with EW’s Ausiello and today reports that the spin-off idea is not dead. In fact, the concept of another show helmed by Shore and Jacobs is very well alive. Right now they have a “standing offer” to create a new FOX series for the 9PM time-slot. Says Reilly: “It could be a direct spin-off or a completely new show. Ideally, I would love David and Katie to have their own [two-hour block].” When asked about the Lucas Douglas spin-off idea Reilly noted, “…they kind of stuck their toe in the water and just didn’t feel like it worked. The [character] worked [on] House, but [he] didn’t really work as [his] own thing.” He also added, “They have really high standards. These are not guys who commercially are going to chase something just to announce they have a spin-off and then figure out the show later on. They’re probably the most thorough producers… I’ve ever worked with.”
A House spin-off or a completely new Shore-Jacobs show? I’d take either honestly. They make a great team and I believe a new project, House-related or not, would strike gold yet again for FOX. What say you?
[Via EW]
Gleeks, rejoice! (again!); NPH joins for Whedon-directed episode
The headline says it all, really. According to EW, Dr. Horrible himself, Neil Patrick Harris, is expected to join forces with Dr.H creator Joss Whedon for an upcoming episode of FOX’s hit show Glee. In fact this would be quite a reunion for NPH; not only will he team with Whedon but he’ll also work with Zachary Woodlee who helped choreograph the song-and-dance inspired 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. NPH is expected to both sing and dance in the role, no surprise here. The only road block is CBS allowing NPH to jump over to FOX for the shoot. EW’s Ausiello points out that HIMYM and Glee are both produced by 20th Century Fox, so there really shouldn’t be an issue. Glee returns with all new episodes April 13 on FOX.
[Via EW]
LittleBigPlanet to be brought into a 3D universe later this year
Get your Sackboy (or Sackgirl) ready! It’s been teased that Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet will be undergoing a 3D makeover just in time for the Playstation 3 firmware update that will enable 3D gameplay on all PS3s later this year. LBP joins SuperStarDust HD and Gran Turismo 5 as one of many games that will likely make the conversion to 3D formats. 3D effects will only add to the great depth and vastness that LBP already has to offer. In the behind-closed-doors demo of LBP in 3D it’s been reported that when Sackboy puts on 3D glass in-game the game environment itself transforms from 2D to 3D. Rad!
Catch your spouse snooping around red-fingered with iTrust app
Do you think your spouse is cheating on you? Do you have trust issues? Is your name Elin Woods? In any case, the iTrust app is for you! It works like this: You take a snapshot of your iPhone’s homescreen (holding down the home button + the power button), open the iTrust app, select the homescreen image you just took, and tap start. That’s it. Now when someone tries to go snooping on your phone he/she will get passed the lock screen to find a frozen image of your homescreen. The culprit will think the still image is actually the homescreen and will go about pressing various apps trying to pry into private text messages or emails. All the while the app is recording his/her every move. When you get back to your phone you can open iTrust and playback a log to see what exactly the culprit was trying to find. Neat, huh? Obviously there are many ways to bypass the iTrust mirage but the concept is interestingly sneaky, isn’t it? iTrust is available in the App Store for a buck. Full demo in the video above.
[Via Gizmodo]
Augment your reality: T-shirt edition
T-Post, a monthly magazine that packs a t-shirt with every issue, celebrates their 51st issue with an interactive tee that plays the classic game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with you. How does it work? With the aid of augmented reality tech, of course. All you have to do is put on the shirt, sit in front of a webcam, run T-Post’s webapp, and watch as a spooky hand flies out of the screen waiting to repeatedly play Rock-Paper-Scissors with you. See it in action for yourself in the video above.
PSP Go disassembled in stop-motion goodness
The fellas at TechRestore have just changed the game for product disassembly captured on video in the same way Google did it with unboxing. It’s called stop-motion folks, and it rocks. Watch as the PSP Go gets stripped and put back together again in under two minutes.
[Via Engadget]
HP talks HP Slate
Remember that mysterious tablet from HP that was breifly handled at the Microsoft keynote at this year’s CES? Well HP CTO Phil McKinney is here to go into a bit more detail about the origins of the HP Slate. At its core it’s a multitouch tablet that runs Window 7; it’s the “rich media experience” that promises to set it apart from the rest of the pack. It’s set to release sometime this year.
[Via Engadget]